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  Possible announcement in October....

  by Skinnedsheep in

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  2. friends

  pure speculation for several reasons.. "friends, it has been 100 momentous years since christ arrived as king.

  in the last 100 years a great shout of praise has gone up to jehovah.

  technology has greatly changed the way people live and communicate and jehovah has made sure that his organization is on the forefront of these changes.

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  leaving_quietly

  we can now say with all confidence that the work of preaching the good news to the entire inhabited earth has been accomplished.

  Meh. They already said this.

  *** w95 9/1 pp. 17-18 par. 17 Christian Witnesses for Divine Sovereignty ***
  Still, that first-century preaching work was merely a foretaste of what would be accomplished during the last days. Looking forward especially to our time, Jesus said: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14; Mark 13:10) Has this prophecy been fulfilled? Indeed, it has.
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  2014-06-01 Coordinator of the body of elders ---NEWS BOE---

  by WatchTower87 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

  no virus ;-).

  pdf : http://adf.ly/pkuhp.

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  leaving_quietly

  It is legit. My elder father-in-law mentioned it to my wife the other day. I wasn't present. My wife told me. I had to act as if I didn't know about it.
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  JW.ORG signs to be put on all Kingdom Halls! New directive.

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i have been told that all kingdom halls are to have a large jw.org sign placed prominently out the front..... can anyone confirm this?.

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  leaving_quietly

  i wish I knew how to upload a picture....so you will have to take my word for it all....

  Use tinypic.com to upload your image anonymously, then use the image button above with a link to the tinypic URL.
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  New Tract for August 2014 - Scan

  by BluesBrother in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if someone has done this before , i apologise but this was new to me.....struck me as strange that nowadays, the answers to life's problems are found on the internet .

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  leaving_quietly

  Oh, my... what a HUGE spin here!

  I was immediately struck by the "New World Translation" next to the verses. It actually caused me to look closer. I mean, why put that out there unless it says something different in other translations, right? Well, it actually DOES!

  First, they make it seem like all one verse, but it's not. They combined two separate verses into one, with all the verses in between being taken out. Thus, context is in question.

  Next, they make it sound like the verse is actually talking about the Bible. It ISN'T! Psalm 119:160 in the NWT reads this way:

  "The very essence of your word is truth, And all your righteous judgments endure forever."

  Other translations read:

  "All your words are true"

  "The sum of your word is truth"

  "The very essence of your words is truth"

  The Hebrew Interlinear at biblehub.com reads:

  "[from] the beginning Your word [is] true"

  Sneaky, sneaky, once again.
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  Where does the Governing Body say "old light" comes from?

  by matt2414 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the governing body claims they've received "new light" from jehovah every time they change their doctrine.

  so where did the "old light" come from that's being replaced?

  if the old light is incorrect, could it have come from god?

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  leaving_quietly

  Any who dare to open this "can of worms" will see their favourite elders "suddenly" morph into Pharisees with big stones in hand...

  
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  International conventions - Seattle

  by Lynnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just found out from my jw mom that the congregations located in the suburbs north of seattle.

  will be renting buses to shuttle people back and forth to the international convention at husky.

  stadium.

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  leaving_quietly

  i thought the "beavers" were your neighbours to the north?

  Nope. South. Oregon Beavers. http://www.osubeavers.com/

  How many here are actually going to be at this conv?

  I will (sadly)
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  What has the WTS EVER "predicted" that has actually come true?

  by integ in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  you'd think they could point to something right?

  obviously we're the one true religion".. i can't fathom how anyone of any intelligence would be willing to join up with this org after doing even rudimentary research.. for years they have taught that it's wrong to seek advanced education or to plan for a "worldly" future by trusting in this system of things and then this past sunday the watchtower article rips on people for not planning for the future in regard to their elderly relatives.

  maybe if they hadn't been teaching for 100 yr's that the end was "just around the corner" and telling us we'd better believe that fact...or else, we would have planned better for a future that you said without reservation would not even occur.. what mind blowing prediction can they point to that would convince someone "oh yeah..these guys have it right"...?.

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  If you read the Bible alone, you will fall out of the "truth". True!
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  International conventions - Seattle

  by Lynnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just found out from my jw mom that the congregations located in the suburbs north of seattle.

  will be renting buses to shuttle people back and forth to the international convention at husky.

  stadium.

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  @ADCMC... also, there are no downtown hotels on the official lodging list. None. Not a single one. I was looking at that list a couple of weeks ago just to see. That part of the email is pure bull****. The most expensive room costs $124 per night for a four person occupancy. Most range from $79 to $119, with the bulk at the lower end of that range.

  About the only thing that MIGHT be true is that Husky Stadium has never been rented out, that is, the NEWLY RENOVATED Husky Stadium, and only because it was completed last summer. Well, duh!
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  International conventions - Seattle

  by Lynnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just found out from my jw mom that the congregations located in the suburbs north of seattle.

  will be renting buses to shuttle people back and forth to the international convention at husky.

  stadium.

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  leaving_quietly

  Our cong. is doing the same thing. The bus system from where we are is spotty, so it makes sense. But the rental is pretty spendy. Can't recall the exact cost, but I was surprised when it was talked about months ago. The cong. isn't fleecing. The money is going directly to the bus company. But the fact that WTBTS put an International Convention in Seattle in an OUTDOOR STADIUM kinda makes one wonder what they were thinking. The weather could be nice in July, but it could also be miserable. We'll just have to wait and see and hope for the best.
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  COBE cannot be 80 or more

  by fader77 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a new letter no longer allows an elder to be cobe if hes 80 or more.

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  leaving_quietly

  Thanks, Fader77. This is actually quite outrageous. The COBE isn't really all that special of a position. This person schedules Service Meeting parts, maybe public talks (though that's usually delegated to someone else), handles scheduling meetings, and is basically a point of correspondance for the branch. This is absolutely ludicrous. The GB is in a much, much more responsible position, yet they can be on the GB? That makes no sense. Also, they got rid of the title "Presiding Overseer" because it seemed to give too much authority to one elder on the body. This was emphasized when it went to Coordinator of the Body of Elders. This change makes it seems like this one position DOES actually have more authority.

  This religion is getting weirder by the second.