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  My sister passed away this evening

  by smiddy3 in

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  it was only about two months ago she was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was a non smoker .. she was never a jw and she never held it against me that i was for 33 years.. we had a good relationship even though we lived in different states about 2000 miles apart,.. tears are rolling down my cheeks as i type this .

  r.i.p.

  sylvia .

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  Very sorry for your loss of such a good sister smiddy. I wish you comfort and peace.
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  JWResearch

  by Tigris in

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  so what’s up with the jwresearch .

  info site?

  i noticed it was down last thursday, and then came back up.

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  I wonder if they had copyright problems? When I google "JWRESEARCH" all the hits seem to be associated with some consulting firm.
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  Leaders or liars

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  i was a thriving regular pioneer, doing all thr things wholeheartedly, had 16 bible studies, 7 attending meetings regularly, 11 magazine routes and 100's of rv's.

  you can imagine i was always runnin out of literature and always a good list of books to order every month.

  (not bragging,just stating facts.all this is wasted anyway).

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  Bobcat

  Zindag,

  Sounds a lot like Ezekiel 34:2-3.
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  William Redding

  by Bobcat in

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  2. beliefs

  is anyone familiar with this person and his possible relationship with ctr or the wt?.

  if you are wondering why i ask, take a look here and scroll down one page and start reading a little.. i could not find any mention of him in the wt online library.

  i wonder if this is something barbara anderson would be familiar with?.

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  Thank you Vienne!

  Rub, I believe that was William's brother, Otis, singing about "gentle times on the dock of the bay."
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  William Redding

  by Bobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is anyone familiar with this person and his possible relationship with ctr or the wt?.

  if you are wondering why i ask, take a look here and scroll down one page and start reading a little.. i could not find any mention of him in the wt online library.

  i wonder if this is something barbara anderson would be familiar with?.

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  Thank you very much OC, for all that research.
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  William Redding

  by Bobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is anyone familiar with this person and his possible relationship with ctr or the wt?.

  if you are wondering why i ask, take a look here and scroll down one page and start reading a little.. i could not find any mention of him in the wt online library.

  i wonder if this is something barbara anderson would be familiar with?.

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  Hi Vidqun,

  If you are referring to the end of the "Gentile Times," I agree. I am of the opinion that they end at Rev 11:15 and the 7th trumpet. (That is, still future. And that they started at Gen 11:1-9. Compare Deut 32:7-8) Curiously, the WT also believes they end at Rev 11:15. But they have a rather skewed view of when the 7th trumpet takes place. Rev 11:14 has the 3rd woe - i.e. the 7th trumpet - coming after the 5th and 6th trumpet. But the WT interprets the 5th & 6th to be post 1914, but the 7th to be at 1914. Go figure?!)

  But I was curious if William Redding gained his viewpoint from associating with the Russellites or if it was the other way around, or if the ideas he expressed were something more widely thought of at the time.
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  William Redding

  by Bobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is anyone familiar with this person and his possible relationship with ctr or the wt?.

  if you are wondering why i ask, take a look here and scroll down one page and start reading a little.. i could not find any mention of him in the wt online library.

  i wonder if this is something barbara anderson would be familiar with?.

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  Is anyone familiar with this person and his possible relationship with CTR or the WT?

  If you are wondering why I ask, take a look here and scroll down one page and start reading a little.

  I could not find any mention of him in the WT Online Library. I wonder if this is something Barbara Anderson would be familiar with?
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  "The sun will be darkened, & the moon will not give its light." How do events like this affect superstitious humans?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the gospel of matthew's homily on the signs connected with the imagined return of christ, features an element of the sign that seems to really scare superstitious people.. matthew 24:29 reads: "immediately after the distress of those days "'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;".

  in the nineteenth century such an even occurred twice in the 19th century and apparently became part of charlie russell's conviction that the end of the world was nigh, charlie, of course, was a 'man of faith' accepting the bible as true and not willing to search for alternative explanation for such events.

  if charlie r. had been the sort of person that continually asks why, his life and ours may have taken a different course.. i cannot quote where in his mass of writings he cites those 19th c events (its a long time since i've bothered to be interested in his writings), but mention them he did, and saw these events as proof of the imminent return of jesus christ.. so let's look at these two 19th c.natural occurrences, and compare them to another occurrence some 1400 years ago.. the 19th c events occurred in 1814-16 and again circa, 1883. the reason for the sun and moon being darkened was volcanic activity, easy for us to appreciate, but more difficult for religiously superstitious people.. the wikipedia encyclopedia notes the 1814-16 event: quote.

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  See this post and included links (on another site) that interprets Mt 24:29 and its counterpart in Luke (Luke 21:25-26) within the time frame that Jesus gave: He said that the events he referred to (in Mt 24:29) would occur "immediately after the tribulation of those days" and that "all these things" would occur before 'this generation passes away.' (Mt 24:34)

  One of the links also attempts to fit the "time and times and half a time" of Dan 12:7 to these events.
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  What are your favorite musical scores in film?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  hi guys!.

  this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.

  here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .

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  Solomon Vandy:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N18afUuOKc
  
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  Noah 'warning the people'

  by KW13 in

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  2. friends

  am i imagining this?at the kingdom hall we were told many times that noah warned the others about the coming flood and was ridiculed but actually there is no evidence of this in the bible!there is however evidence to the contrary.

  matthew 24:37-39.

  37 as it was in the days of noah, so it will be at the coming of the son of man.

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  Here (from another forum) is some reference material I amassed on the subject, some of which poster careful alluded to.