Listener, yes, and they used to have sub-editors who went through articles with a fine-toothed comb.
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BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!
by BoogerMan in"hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of euros match.
" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news.
why don't german police just use guns?.
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JW s were here today with convention invite
by enoughisenough ini thought i would tell this story: 2 gals and a guy came by with invitation to convention.
i am in the yard.
the gals get out and are wearing pants.
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NotFormer
Is a convention invitation extended to people outside the organisation? I thought it was a JW only thing (or is it the assemblies that are exclusive?). Do they go door to door handing out invitations?
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BTW folks, remember that the Good Samaritan story isn't about showing kindness to strangers, its true message is about sacrificing your resources to ensure the health and wellbeing of the GB. 🙄
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Deep study
by road to nowhere inwifes friend had to go home to deep study the sunday article.
does that mean not skimming headings?
the last deep thing i remember was babylon book and it was a perfect fit except none of it came true.
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I'll agree with you, Seabreeze. I've been exposed to various end times interpretations, which inevitably involve interpreting Revelation, over the years. Preterist, historicist, dispensational, pre-trib/mid-trib/post-trib rapture, amillenial, post millennial and so on. They all make interesting points and all of them come with flaws, usually to do with what's interpreted as literal or figurative, as you point out.
As a young bloke, I tried, many times, to read You Can Live Forever In Paradise On Earth, even in the context of "Well, it's something to read". It was disjointed and all over the place. A dog's breakfast of inconsistencies and weird parallels. It also didn't pick up on points that it could have made.
To be fair, I found the Seventh Day Adventist interpretation equally confusing. I suppose that that should be expected since the two eschatologies grew from the same root.
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BBC poor grammar - but FUNNY!
by BoogerMan in"hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of euros match.
" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news.
why don't german police just use guns?.
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How is journalism done these days? From the prevalence of dumb, easily spotted mistakes, I'd guess that it's voice to text with very little checking. It probably doesn't help that a lot of "helpful" programs with autocorrect will change things while and after writing.
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Coming soon: Governing Body Update #4
by ukpimo inthe upcoming governing body update, set to be released on friday this week, will feature a bearded samuel herd.. jwtalk website revealed the leak, so this thread will be used to speculate the content of the update and discuss the actual contents after its release..
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As is my wont*, I did a name search in the ASIC** business names registry. This was the result:
0 results found for "beard approval"
Vidiot, my interest piqued, I then did a similar search in Canada and got this result:
0 results for “beard approval”. Please try a different term
That mighty corporation, Beard Approval Inc., Ltd., or Corp. is yet to be incorporated! (Your band will need a legal structure; even God's-only-true-religion™ has one)
* Stoopid autocorrect tried to edit this to won't 🙄
**Australian Securities and Investments Commission
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The whole picture has elements that look wrong. Is it AI generated?
Although the art department used to produce dumb pictures of people working in the fields of the Pair-a-dice Erf, while children frolicked with wild animals, at least they could get human and animal proportions right.
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Assembly Attendence
by Riley ini am in western canada.
we use to have our assembly in saskatoon.
our assembly has moved to medicine hat.
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Riley - “…the moving of assemblies might be more of a shell game to mask any decline…”
"This.
"They do the same thing with congregations."
Trying to prove that their chess pieces are still all on the board. They're not losing the numbers game at all.
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Blondie's "highlights" from the May 2024 Study WT Paragraphs 1-10
by blondie ini have not read a wt for many years, but a comment on jwn prompted me to check out this one study article #19. i was stunned, they addressed many observations i have made in the "comments you will not hear" over the years.
this segment will contain comments on the section called what we do not know paragraphs 1 through 10. i will post what we do know” in another original post covering paragraphs 11 through 17”.
1) definition of "king of the south" and "king of the north.
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"Actually the 144,000 will do the judging as their job in heaven is to be kings and priest and kings judge."
I'm getting the feeling that the GB are shuffling towards a position where the 144,000 are nothing special, and the FDS (the GB) are everything.
What they're going to do with the memorial if they do that will be interesting. I've suggested that the memorial will become an event transmitted to every Kingdom Hall, whereby the world's JWs watch the GB partake. Sort of like the high priest performing the annual sacrifice on Israel's behalf.
I feel sorry for the faithful JWs. Their leaders call them sheep, and so they are, being led wherever those leaders take them. It's a pity that those leaders are wolves.
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My guess for August WatchTower: GB claims we're in beginning stages of Great Tribulation due to World governments turning on JW's
by WingCommander inthe september watchtower has already been released and is being discussed over on reddit.
some highlights: .
1. more hitting the flock on total reliance and obedience to god's representatives on earth today, the f&ds (the governing body, of course).
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"Vidiot,,but what if the Borg does not prevail in the courts??
"I mean,, they have to reinvent & rewrite their stuff again."
Perhaps they already have. The August Watchtower is being awaited with bated breath...