The July 2020 Announcements mentions that baptism can be held in an “inflatable pool” as long as it touches the ground. The pool must not be “on a terrace, flat roof, balcony, etc.”.
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Baptism during Covid - pool must tough the ground?
by jwfacts inthe july 2020 announcements mentions that baptism can be held in an “inflatable pool” as long as it touches the ground.
the pool must not be “on a terrace, flat roof, balcony, etc.”.
has anyone ever noticed that as a requirement?.
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What if the Christian version of the End of the World came an hour from now?
by Terry inthe next thing i knew, i was knee deep in conversation with a seminary student covering two thousand years of religious history.
damn, how did that happen?i won’t bore you with lavish details.
in fact, i only mention the incident for one reason.i'm no smarter than anybody - but i've had way too much practice chatting with eager christian seminary students.i posed a couple of questions i’d never done before which seemed to stop this fella dead in his tracks.
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You are now able to save all of them by simply asking me to spare them. But, John---you have to die in place of them. Okay? What is your answer?”
Insert; Except John, you won't get a resurrection like Jesus. You'll be dead forever. With that in mind will you still die for those 4 billion infants, children, mothers, fathers, and grandparents who never heard of Jesus.
I wonder what reply John would have given under these circumstances? Would he still die for all those people if no resurrection was available for him anymore?
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Since We Are In 2020 What Do You Miss?
by minimus ini miss listening and dancing to live music on a weekend night.. i miss going into a crowded mall store to window shop.. i miss going out into public and not having to wear a mask.. i miss seeing people freely mingle on a busy street or sidewalk.. what a difference a year makes!.
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WTWizard Once Biden and Harris become president and vice president (and we know it won't be long before Harris is in full charge), I expect this to happen so fast that no one will be able to do anything about it.
In the United States the President does not have absolute power. The Constitution was formed with a System called “Separation of Powers”
In ruling a democratic country is provides a system of “checks and balances”
If Harris becomes President and wants to legislate a law saying every citizen has to wear a masks, or every citizen has to get the flu shot, she cannot use her executive power to enforce such law.
Such law has to go through Congress first to be approved. Congress has a total of 535 members and divided into two houses. The Senate and the House of Represent ivies. Each house is divided between Republicans and Democrats. Both have to agree to new legislation. Which is very hard to do because each member of congress wants to keep his job and will vote to satisfy his constituents.
So if the majority of people don’t want to be forced to take a flu shot or wear a mask, they call their Congressman and let him know if he doesn’t want to be voted out next term, then they better say NO to the suggested new law suggested by the President.
If Congress says NO, then the bill won’t go through.
Also the Federal government cannot impose Federal law into the individual States without a legal fight. That is why President Trump could not independently sent the national guard or the military into Portland to stop the riots and crime without the invitation of the governor and mayors. Unless there is a world war or a dangerous terrorist threat like a nuclear threat, in which case the President can use executive privilege, his powers are very limited within the Republic.
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Why is it that all the Presidential Candidates are not addressing the most dangerous problem we face?
by pistolpete inon january 13th, 2018, an emergency warning appeared on phone screens across hawaii, alerting everyone: .
ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii.
seek immediate shelter.
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Mr.Finkelstein
I think we have another one on the forumMr F--Why are you heavily inclined to use ad hominem arguments??
Were you in the Watchtower organization for many years?
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Why is it that all the Presidential Candidates are not addressing the most dangerous problem we face?
by pistolpete inon january 13th, 2018, an emergency warning appeared on phone screens across hawaii, alerting everyone: .
ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii.
seek immediate shelter.
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resolute Bandicoot
Tulsi Gabbard was ousted out of the Presidential Race by her own party.... because she would have been better suited to the other party and she did not score high enough on the psychopathy index to be a good politician.
Unfortunately I agree with your assessment, especially;
she did not score high enough on the psychopathy index to be a good politician.
We need another political party that's in the middle of Republican and Democratic.
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Why is it that all the Presidential Candidates are not addressing the most dangerous problem we face?
by pistolpete inon january 13th, 2018, an emergency warning appeared on phone screens across hawaii, alerting everyone: .
ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii.
seek immediate shelter.
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On January 13th, 2018, an emergency warning appeared on phone screens across Hawaii, alerting everyone:
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
“The ensuing 38 minutes were fraught with panic and terror, as families were forced to make excruciating decisions about who to call and where to go. Such emotional triage is the stuff of apocalypse-themed blockbusters, but rarely is it real life. When the ballistic missile never arrived and the panic subsided, there was one element of truth to the false alert:
it wasn’t a drill. It was simply a monumental mistake.”
Tulsi Gabbard who was running for President and lives in Hawaii discussed in an interview how it felt when the alert said;
YOU HAVE 38 MINUTES BEFORE DETONATION!
There was only time to do ONE thing and one thing only,-------hug the ones you love ---and cry real hard!
This was the main reason Tulsi Gabbard was running for President. She saw a nuclear threat as the most dangerous problem that not only Americans face, but the whole world of mankind. Here are some interviews where she points this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcx2cazikU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4YgvBGJR9k
But nobody seems to care. Everyone is more interested in Trump’s “Grab her by the Pus**” expose. Free healthcare for illegal immigrants, Green New Deal and get rid of cars, planes, refrigerated air, BLM, allow citizens to riot and burn down cities, Defund the police, get rid of Social Security and Medicare and let the government decide what medical treatment you should get, give a universal income to every citizen including illegal immigrants of between $1000-$2000 every month.
And let’s not forget---confiscate all guns by forced buy back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vEnTjs2RV0
Tulsi Gabbard was ousted out of the Presidential Race by her own party.
When this happened, I felt like all our Candidates running for the most powerful office in the USA were no different than the Governing Body of Jehovah’s witnesses. They were in the race for the power and not really about helping the people.
In the meantime, if you keep up with what is happening, Not in the USA or the UK but around the world in places like North Korea, India, Pakistan, China, Israel, Russia, and many small terrorist groups that are trying hard to get a hold of nuclear materials to build a dirty bomb, You will come to the realization that peace is hanging on a very thin string.
According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the worldwide total inventory of nuclear weapons as of 2019 stood at 13,865
Three states that have conducted overt nuclear tests, and are possibly still doing it, are India, Pakistan, and North Korea. And there is not a single thing the USA, Russia, or China can do about it.
It would take only10 Nukes, in strategic places to bring down the entire world economy, the medical infrastructure, and disrupt the weather system of the entire planet for several years.
100 Nukes would kill about 5-6 billion humans on the planet within a year. Some instantly, others more slowly from radiation poisoning, starvation, sickness, anarchy, etc. The survivors would have to start everything all over again.
They would have to figure out how electricity works, heating and cooling, how to make automobiles, start from scratch and learn how to create vaccines, xray machines, blood pressure medicine, pacemakers, airplanes.
But first, for the next several hundred years they would have to focus on just one thing,-------SURVIVE!
Then after several hundred years, maybe thousands of years, they would have to build the infrastructure to make things like laboratories, engineering plants, telephones, computers, hospitals, fill them with doctors.
But by then all the knowledge of doctors, engineers, scientist, mechanics would be dead and long forgotten.
It would take centuries, perhaps millenniums to get back technological wise to where we are today.
Right now we are in a little Pandemic that has killed so far 772, 681 people world wide, mostly elderly and those with an underline health condition, and yet it has brought the whole world to a standstill. For a while there was no toilet paper, meat was scarce, groceries shelves were empty, guns and ammunition was sold out in just about every gun shop because people were scared and ready to kill their neighbor.
Imagine what a small nuclear war would cause in your area. A war started by someone crazy enough to push the button regardless of the consequences, like Kim Jong-un
A reminder that a nuclear threat is still very real regardless if we believe it or not.
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“The Asiatic Mind” — Watchtower 1956
by slimboyfat insearching instances of the word “simplify” in watchtower literature, i stumbled across this.. the asiatic mind finds it difficult to accept new ways, to simplify and to make advantageous changes.
they fear conversion and dislike others’ offering them help.
many continually live in a realm of unreality and refuse to face modern facts of life.
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The Asiatic mind finds it difficult to accept new ways, to simplify and to make advantageous changes. They fear conversion and dislike others’ offering them help. Many continually live in a realm of unreality and refuse to face modern facts of life.
Yea, " - Many continually live in a realm of unreality and refuse to face- the real facts of life.
Watchtower Nov 2020 campaign quote;
Jesus will accomplish much more than any human ruler ever could. He will be assisted by 144,000 corulers, who are chosen from among mankind.
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Worldwide Campaign Nov 2020
by Listener inthanks petra and atlantis for sending the latest letter regarding the watchtowers plan for a worldwide campaign in november this year.
i am wondering what they are planning to achieve from this campaign, particularly their focus on sending the watchtower 2020 no.
2, titled "what is god's kingdom" to politicians, governments (and tribal leaders) around the world.. it would appear that this is their answer to governments who have put them in the spot light for their bad policies, particularly their handling of child abuse.
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Now Watchtower wants to go after the governments to incite them
Didn't they do this with RUSSIA!
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Worldwide Campaign Nov 2020
by Listener inthanks petra and atlantis for sending the latest letter regarding the watchtowers plan for a worldwide campaign in november this year.
i am wondering what they are planning to achieve from this campaign, particularly their focus on sending the watchtower 2020 no.
2, titled "what is god's kingdom" to politicians, governments (and tribal leaders) around the world.. it would appear that this is their answer to governments who have put them in the spot light for their bad policies, particularly their handling of child abuse.
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waton
Bc: Then let wt call that campaign:
" Make Watchtower great again "OK--that's funny.
You forgot the Red Hat
Just remove the name; "America" and replace with the name----WATCHTOWER.
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Worldwide Campaign Nov 2020
by Listener inthanks petra and atlantis for sending the latest letter regarding the watchtowers plan for a worldwide campaign in november this year.
i am wondering what they are planning to achieve from this campaign, particularly their focus on sending the watchtower 2020 no.
2, titled "what is god's kingdom" to politicians, governments (and tribal leaders) around the world.. it would appear that this is their answer to governments who have put them in the spot light for their bad policies, particularly their handling of child abuse.
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TIME FOR ACTION! The world needs better rulers and a better form of government. And that is what our Creator has promised! God has set up a Kingdom, or government, that will replace all human rule, and “it alone will stand forever.” (Daniel 2:44) This is the Kingdom for which millions have been praying. (Matthew 6:9, 10)...
This message in printed form and instructions to distribute to government officials is proof that the leaders of the Watchtower are just as indoctrinated as the rank and file. They really believe that the "Deity" Jehovah did set up a Kingdom in 1914 and we are in the last of the last days.
This explains why they do all the crazy things that they do that make absolutely no sense. They really believe with all their heart, mind, and soul, that they "Are The Chosen Ones" and the Great Tribulation is just about to start.
In another 5 years more rank and file will wake up, and more old true believers will die off. Leaving the Organization even smaller and weaker than today.
