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  Watchtower attempts 997 mind trick segue to 1914

  by Darth FayDehr in

  1. watchtower
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  fancy a mind trick?

  here’s 2 for the price of 1; if you only want watchtower’s trick, skip to the next paragraph.

  you may need to write this down or use a calculator:.

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  Darth FayDehr

  Hey Girl Next Door, you've been inspired with Nu-lite!!! Can you share your 2 dates that you used?
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  Watchtower attempts 997 mind trick segue to 1914

  by Darth FayDehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  fancy a mind trick?

  here’s 2 for the price of 1; if you only want watchtower’s trick, skip to the next paragraph.

  you may need to write this down or use a calculator:.

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  Darth FayDehr

  Commercial idea: "Evi-dent", the toothpaste so white, it's brighter than "new light"! (*disclaimer: not ALL dentists agree with our research)
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  Watchtower attempts 997 mind trick segue to 1914

  by Darth FayDehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  fancy a mind trick?

  here’s 2 for the price of 1; if you only want watchtower’s trick, skip to the next paragraph.

  you may need to write this down or use a calculator:.

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  Darth FayDehr

  Fancy a mind trick? Here’s 2 for the price of 1; if you only want Watchtower’s trick, skip to the next paragraph. You may need to write this down or use a calculator:

  Think of any date in the last 1000 years

  Swap the digits around anyway you like to come up with an earlier date

  (For example, the year 1432 can be swapper around to the earlier date 1234)

  Now subtract the earlier date from your original date (1432 – 1234 = 198)

  Now keep adding the individual digits together until you end up with a single digit

  For example: add 1 + 9 + 8, and then repeat until you have a single digit [1 to 9]

  Now convert the number to a letter of the alphabet (1=A, 2=B, 3=C, and so on)

  Think of any Bible book beginning with that letter.

  Now take the last letter of that Bible book, and convert back to a number.

  Open that Bible book, and turn to that chapter number, where you will be instructed to write down a specific name. (I’ve predicted the name that you will write down, at the end of this article)

  OK, now you’ve experienced a mind trick we can move onto Watchtower’s…

  In October 2018, Watchtower released a new book commentary on the Bible book of Ezekiel, entitled “Pure Worship”. Chapter 6, "The End Is Now Upon You", and paragraph 13 (under the sub-heading "Look, It Is Coming!"), makes the claim that the 607 BCE date for the destruction of Jerusalem can be calculated from a prophetic enactment recorded in Ezekiel 4:4-6, where Ezekiel is to lie on his on his left side for 390 days and on his right side for 40 days. Each day represented a year.

  The Watchtower publication assumes: "The 390 years of Israel’s error evidently began in 997 B.C.E., the year that the 12-tribe kingdom was divided into two parts." As regards the 40 days, rather than following consecutively, the publication offers a further assumption whereby the two time-spans run in parallel: "The 40 years of Judah’s sin likely began in 647 B.C.E". Rather than modestly acknowledge the uncertainty of that viewpoint, the publication proceeds to invoke divine sanction of it’s interpretation, concluding: “Thus, both time periods would end in 607 B.C.E., the exact year in which Jerusalem fell and was destroyed, just as Jehovah had foretold.*”

  Any reader who picks up on the use of “evidently”, “likely” and “thus” – instead of verifiable factual references – might be inclined to calm their queries by the presence of an asterisked footnote (*), referring the reader to a 1988 Watchtower publication (revised in 2015) entitled Insight on the Scriptures; vol.1 p.462 “Chronology: From 997 B.C.E. to desolation of Jerusalem”. Anyone curious enough to read that reference will soon encounter the following admission on page 463:

  “The chart is not intended to be viewed as an absolute chronology but, rather, as a suggested presentation of the reigns of the two kingdoms.”

  Yes, the writers of that “Bible Encyclopedia”, as Watchtower likes to describe it (w89 3/15 p.10), were very well aware of their own existing research into the difficulties of verifying exact dates for that time period using the Bible. In their 1963 Bible research book “All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial” (revised in 1990) it too admits (on page 285, par.7) under the heading “Measuring Events in the Stream of Time”:

  “From 607 B.C.E. to 997 B.C.E. The calculation for this period backward from the fall of Jerusalem to the time of the division of the kingdom after Solomon’s death presents many difficulties.”

  It would seem, then, that like the simple trick at the beginning of this post, Watchtower is using forced numbers and relying on the reader’s psychological bias. The forced number in this case is 997 BCE. Starting with this forced number, adding 390 years would appear to support Watchtower’s unique claim that Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 BCE. From that date, they then take the reader on further mental gymnastics to arrive at…1914 CE and 1919 CE – dates that have become a vulnerable Jenga block, holding up the organizations claim that it’s Governing Body are God’s only appointed channel to mankind; remove that 1914 block, and the rest come tumbling down. Of course, living in the information age as we do, one only has to invest a few minutes researching Rehoboam – the son of Solomon, whose kingship marked the beginning of the split-kingdom – to realize that 997 is a fictional date invented by Watchtower with absolutely no historical, archaeological, or even Biblical support.

  In summary, if the reader of this new book was doing so to be entertained by a mathematical trick, then they might consider it good value. If, on the other hand, the reader was hoping to find scholarly insight into a fascinating Bible book, then they may find themselves disappointed by deceptive use of the words “evidently”, “likely” and “thus”.

  Oh, that name that you were instructed to write down at the beginning? It’s Maʹher-shalʹal-hash-baz – the longest name in Bible. At least that’s something Watchtower printed correctly…
  
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  JW detained in Putin's Russia ... accused of extremism

  by mikeflood in

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  from bbc news "five jw's from the kirov region detained with about $ 7,500 accused of funding and organizing meetings....they found literature...and two hand granades and a landmine".

  the russians are such idiots planting evidence....and quarrelling with the neutral and sheepish jw land...and of course inflamating their persecution complex.

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  This incident opens a wider topic that I believe could be a huge topic, if properly investigated.

  I recommended "a money laundering investigation", and provided an example in Watchtower's own literature of their policy of getting money out of a country: "In one suitcase, soldiers found a large sum of money. It had been withdrawn from the Society’s bank account two days earlier, as it was feared that perhaps the account would be frozen." (yb97 p. 121) An investigation WOULD reveal money being funnelled back to USA; where else would Watchtower want it to go but to themselves? Does $7,500 in case meet the requirements for money laundering? Yes it does. Here's a link to the current EU law on money laundering: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1434973778537&uri=CELEX:32015L0849 - for example point (6):

  The use of large cash payments is highly vulnerable to money laundering and terrorist financing. In order to increase vigilance and mitigate the risks posed by such cash payments, persons trading in goods should be covered by this Directive to the extent that they make or receive cash payments of EUR 10 000 or more. Member States should be able to adopt lower thresholds

  Any group - religious or not - collecting "contributions" for a cause, avoiding paying tax on the "income" and avoiding producing accounts, who are then covertly handing over those collected funds to a banned organization outside the national borders of the country SHOULD - I repeat SHOULD - be investigated for money laundering.

  I encourage the lawful and reasonable investigation into Watchtower's finances, which by their own declaration in court is over $1 billion, and by their own internal accounts video meeting is estimated at raking in over $2 billion annually - TAX FREE!

  
  
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  JW detained in Putin's Russia ... accused of extremism

  by mikeflood in

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  from bbc news "five jw's from the kirov region detained with about $ 7,500 accused of funding and organizing meetings....they found literature...and two hand granades and a landmine".

  the russians are such idiots planting evidence....and quarrelling with the neutral and sheepish jw land...and of course inflamating their persecution complex.

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  Hi Finkelstein. You maybe onto something. Or, are you getting confused with this clip about Brother Maynard, from Monty Python? https://youtu.be/xOrgLj9lOwk
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  JW detained in Putin's Russia ... accused of extremism

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  from bbc news "five jw's from the kirov region detained with about $ 7,500 accused of funding and organizing meetings....they found literature...and two hand granades and a landmine".

  the russians are such idiots planting evidence....and quarrelling with the neutral and sheepish jw land...and of course inflamating their persecution complex.

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  Hi Orphan row. About the money... WTBT$ move money like pros - it's freely admitted in their own literature. For example: "In one suitcase, soldiers found a large sum of money. It had been withdrawn from the Society’s bank account two days earlier, as it was feared that perhaps the account would be frozen." (yb97 p. 121) There are other accounts printed. Russia has the halls, but contributions ARE illegally flowing back to this banned USA religion.
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  JW detained in Putin's Russia ... accused of extremism

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  from bbc news "five jw's from the kirov region detained with about $ 7,500 accused of funding and organizing meetings....they found literature...and two hand granades and a landmine".

  the russians are such idiots planting evidence....and quarrelling with the neutral and sheepish jw land...and of course inflamating their persecution complex.

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  Darth FayDehr

  So, Russia finds 5 JDubs funnelling $7,500 in funds back to Warwick USA. Instead of doing JWs a public service by launching a MONEY LAUNDERING investigation, adding serious expose to the world media, we are sold the story of JWs concealing "a landmine and 2 hand grenades". Really? How believable? What a pathetic missed opportunity. It plays into the GB's hands, underscoring the "persecution complex" prophecies, and COMPLETELY DISCREDITS the legitimate story of a cult funnelling funds illegally back to the USA. Hard-core JDubs will be salivating over this as they raid Wallmart to buy their food prep supplies ready for barricading themselves into their bunkers. (Head in my hands, muttering my disbelief)
  
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  1914 and 1919 immortalized in new Ezekiel book. Prepare for 2019 100th anniversary fanfare...

  by Darth FayDehr in

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  1914 and 1919 immortalized in new Ezekiel book. Prepare for 2019 100th anniversary fanfare...

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  Ezekiel book: New light,old heresy?

  by Darth FayDehr in

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  so, a new book on ezekiel.

  an opportunity for the borg to distance itself from wacky ideas of times past?

  er...no....if only this might inspire some sincere jdub to go to the internet archive and actually read this stuff: https://archive.org/details/thefinishedmystery.

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  So, a new book on Ezekiel. An opportunity for the Borg to distance itself from wacky ideas of times past? Er...no....If only this might inspire some sincere JDub to go to the internet archive and actually read this stuff: https://archive.org/details/TheFinishedMystery