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TheWonderofYou
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In Germany, the Watchtower logo must be removed from all kingdom halls
by processor inaccording to german april issue of our kingdom ministry, the watchtower logo must be removed from all kingdom halls:.
it sais that the watchtower logo - a stylised watchtower or a watchtower with a bible - is used by the watchtower society.
thus, it should not be used by congregations or private persons, neither on kingdom halls, stationary or anything else.
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Song 146 - You did it for me
by Listener inthe watchtower 1970 4/1 emphasis the principle that singing at the kingdom hall is part of worship to god and is one of the most beautiful ways they can show this worship to him.. of all the ways in which we can worship and praise jehovah god—by prayer, by public talks, by our field ministry and by our exemplary conduct—one of the most beautiful of them is this literal singing of songs to jehovah’s praise....and, above all, let us pay more than usual attention to the words.
it is by the words that we worship jehovah god, bringing praise to him.
as an introduction to song 146, jw org states -jesus considers any act of love and support for his anointed brothers as though it were done for him.
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TheWonderofYou
Yes, Jesus speaks of a reward for the help you offered to his missionaries.
Albeit he says what would be sufficient for a reward (repayment):
- its enough that you comfort the missionaries .....(but not if they suffer persecution for dumb errors of doctrine and organizational direction)
- its enough that you receive the missionaries .....(but not that you donate all your savings and voluntary time to build expensive mansions or Headquarters.)
- its enough that you give them a cup of cold water (not monthly payings for lifelihoods in bethel)
Jesus speaks of acts of help done.... in case of need.... to every prophet .....and every righteous brother .....and every little disciple ....not of a blind obidience..... to a dozen self-anointed.... prophets, a dozen righteous brothers, a dozen little ones who form a clique and call themselves "steward"
Dont let you cheat that there are some closer to him brothers, that are stewards.
JW want to read "Whoever works fulltime for my steward because he is a stewardbrother, will receive a jackpot steward's award", what is certainly a possibilty but not the main purpose of his words.
Many have been layed off by the stewardbrother, what will be their stewards's reward?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010:40-42
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TheWonderofYou
It's called 'the-elephant-in-the-room'.
Little big "IBSA" was relocated outside the town, so sad
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TheWonderofYou
Thanks I have never seen how impressive and state-of-the art designed the London bethel is. I like the IBSA appartments in the new built Green Court, the pictures give me impression how typcial bethel apparment might look like today.
I dont really understand why it might be necessary to leave a city-location like this. Of course printery and warehouse dont fit into a Ridgeway neighbourhood with mansion and always need better traffic connection for the huge trucks, but how much printing is done today, how much traffic of trucks will be there, isnt it always more and more less traffic because of the digital revolution? And wouldnt there be at least enough place enough for the IBSA property and some fine appartments behind the watchtower house at Ridgeway on the green field?
Everything leads me to the conclusion that a concentrated headquarter is the main goal, because it is seen as even better investment than the todays old houses. And everything on one single spot would have the advantage, that a single compound could ( like the Warwick HQ ) later been better and easily to resell to any big company as HQ. (gain in value)
Or is everything only a competition with Warwick? Who will have the more beautiful bethel? I dont understand why in London a second bethel is necessary at all, if we have already one in Warwick, Patterson, Wallkill,....
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Latest from Australian Royal Commission
by gerry injust received this update.
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8e90fa1e64ebb08847cc04916&id=fcec86ae2b&e=0670c7af59.
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Major Doctrinal Changes Must Be On The Way
by notsurewheretogo inthe statement in the article "who is leading gods people today?
" in the feb 17th study edition of the wt is very interesting.. it states: ""the g.b.
is neither inspired nor infallible" ..we can err .in doctrinal matters....".
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TheWonderofYou
Doesnt "we can err" sound more likely like a lousy "Pardon" as to all past errors than already for potential future ones?
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What Comes After the Watchtower Collapse?
by schnell ini was going to put this in my thread about pyramid schemes, but i thought it's discreet enough to warrant its own.
1) there are many faithful jws.
2) there are many men and women who could take control and fill the void if the watchtower collapses.
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TheWonderofYou
After Collapse blazes new research trails in both archaeology and the study of social change, demonstrating that the archaeological record often offers more clues to the “dark ages” that precede regeneration than do text-based studies. It opens up a new window on the past by shifting the focus away from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to their often more telling fall and rise.
Perhaps relevant in the society's rebirth. So we will have to wait for the actual fall to learn more about how it worked out and what we will have to learn form it.
https://www.amazon.com/After-Collapse-Regeneration-Complex-Societies/dp/0816529361
This is a special organisation, people meant it had gods blessing. It will be a time of looking for a new purpose. The money will rule the process of finding new leaders. There will be hearings and even many Ex-JW, connected with this forum as well and others will be asked to play a role in the process to save the beaten and shattered bible publishing and printing society.
The Society will arrange member participation in the investments and pay out annual reward for the new to find teaching and publishing sectors, christian life style, fashion, edcuation in setup of natural preserves with endangered species in animal arks and glossy print marketing to promote all this e.g. At least its a prestigious printing house.
Further the JW-Bethels will become a sample society for future economical cities on earth and on Mars, where closed little societies will have to live in harmony and produce everything for themselves and autarkic all services inhouse fully autartic included of course.
It will become the best cult ever, if we accomplish to fire the GB...and fast.
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so let me get this straight.. the borg moves into their new corporate country club....
by nowwhat? inwith their luxurious lakeside condos.
takes all the congregations funds promising new kingdom halls.
but instead starts selling off kingdom halls ..then makes faithful old brothers and sisters drive 20-30 miles to another one, and .kicks out half the bethelites for only only tech savy college educated ones.can barely afford to send out printed publications anymore.
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Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012
by MeanMrMustard ina couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).
i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.
herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.
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Its absolutely disturbing and incomprehensibly for me that old literature is adapted to newer understanding solely to serve with updated but old references that sound similar like the newer intonation or language. Is all literature of JW a "living" encyclopedia that extinguishes old thoughts.?
The project is astonishing and valuable.
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Do Orthodox Jews reject blood transfusions ? because of the scriptures, they strictly believe ?
by smiddy inthis thought occured to me that orthodox jews take the bible/old testament scriptures very seriously regarding the blood issue raised in scripture .. and this is certainly borne out in regard to the bleeding of animals before eating them ,kosher food.. the orthodox jews are far more stricter than jehovah`s witnesses in this application / interpretation of scripture ,and i am curious as to how they interpret and understand these scriptures.. how do they view blood transfusions in the medical world.?.
and is it only the orthodox jews that are expected to only eat kosher food ?
how about the ordinary believing jew with their religion.do they also only eat kosher food ?
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TheWonderofYou
Rabbi Steinsaltz speaking about
"The value of human life".
"Life's value: Ethical dilemmas 1+2"
"Man's responsibilty to heal"
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar".[1] He has devoted his life to making the Talmud accessible to all Jews.[2] Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud[3] has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin_Steinsaltz)
Comment by Adin Steinsaltz about cults that sacrifice their children, in his post "Cult trangress basic universal belief"
When parents sacrifice their children, or kill them indirectly, there is something deeply wrong with the group. For both rational and emotional reasons, a deed like this is shatters our basic, universal belief system; a person who commits such a deed can be forgiven only in a clear case of insanity. See Deuteronomy 12:31.
In the comments section I found some comments about Watchtower and JWs
https://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/2009/04/02/cults-transgress-basic-universal-beliefs/7671
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The value of human life
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/3406561/jewish/The-Value-of-Human-Life.htm
Ethical dilemmas 1+2
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/3406638/jewish/Lifes-Value-Ethical-Dilemmas.htm
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/3406563/jewish/Mans-Responsibility-to-Heal.htm