Happy New Year.
Jesus and today's Jews also celebrate new year from 9 th - 11 September.
It's a big festival called Rish ha Shannah.
The festival is about trumpets and rapture. About a new beginning And the coming of the lord
TheWonderofYou
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Happy Ethiopian New Year
by SonoftheTrinity innever giving up the ethiopian orthodox faith and its joyous holidays for a publishing company gone bonkers.
i love everything about being orthodox christian.
my wife can stay or leave..
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Amway founder dead at 92
by neat blue dog inhttps://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/09/06/amway-founder-magic-owner-richard-devos-dies-age-92/.
i've heard people say amway was a little culty for a business, and reminded them of jws in some ways.
i'm not familiar with amway myself, can anybody here elaborate?.
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TheWonderofYou
Certainly this scheme will survive. I had two encounters. In both cases I was suddenly invited in private homes, where I got a lot of upbuilding information about successful and happy life.
One person had a good job and a beautiful loft. The other lived in a little one and told me of his big house at a lake he has built in Hungary where it was cheaper. They wanted to appear sucessful.
Both guys were rhetoric genius . It was an experience like, if you not begin to work for a Amway you are completely ignoring reality of life. It was really hard to say okay, I got it, thanks. Can we talk about something else? It was really hard to say goodby, eithout looking stupid, if I not joined or wanted further contact. He gave me his card. I was jobless and looked for a job.
This happened after JW and gladly I read about Amway in an info at the commercial chamber,.that it was a certain business scheme.
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Interpretation often takes you away from truth
by Ireneus inyesterday, my classmate was giving an example from her homeland on how people can give various interpretations which have nothing to do with truth.
though studying in the us, she was closely monitoring what was happening in kerala (a small southern state of india), her birth place.
last month saw unprecedent heavy rains wreaking widespread havoc in this small state with huge population (which is much more than australia’s population).
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TheWonderofYou
Do you mean that for 45 million pilgrims there is only one temple in Sabarimala?
Pilgrims
A prayer for Ayya.
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/a-prayer-for-ayya/236222
I dont understand how it can be "attractive" for women to fight for their right to go to exactly this one temple,
that is overcrowded under the deluge and in a desastrous state.
Garbage—empty bottles, plastic packets, leftovers and what have you—is routinely dumped into the river. However, the main source of contamination is the "overflow from latrines" that line the steep terrain along the riverbanks. Even at the sanctum sanctorum, the sewerage drains into a part of the hillock and gets washed downstream into the Njunangar rivulet that joins the Pampa.
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Australia Yahoo news
by gabcol ini just found this on yahoo news australia : .
a jehovah’s witness girl may be forced to receive a blood transfusion against her will this weekend when she gives birth in melbourne.. mercy hospital victoria was granted supreme court authority on friday to give the girl blood as a “last resort” if she suffers a postpartum haemorrhage when induced into labour on sunday afternoon.
the 17-year-old first-time mother is considered to be at increased risk of haemorrhaging because she is of “small stature” and the baby is large, meaning she may have a long labour, an assisted birth or an emergency caesarean.. jehovah’s witnesses forbid followers from receiving blood transfusions or blood products.. the risk to the baby from the mother refusing blood is considered low.. view photos.
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TheWonderofYou
Any news about today?
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Who wrote the Bible?
by Ireneus inthe wordings suggest much of the bible is written by false friends of god.
to mention a few:.
1) god planted a special tree to pay the way for suffering and death into the lives of his children.. 2) god protected cain who murdered his innocent brother out of sheer jealousy.
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TheWonderofYou
Many stories in the bible are simply the salt in the soup. What they believed in ancient time - the notion of God and universe - was a reflection to own experiences and accoglomeration of existing ideas - can't be our notion.
When a gospel writer wrote down the oral traditions or ranscripted an existing written story about Jesus in which e.g. Jesus once mentioned Noahs flood and compared that time with the end time in the future, this wasconly the salt in the soup of this comparison but not factual history.
Jesus used a hyperbole like Brother Lett when he spoke of paintbrushes that's it. A good story needs a hyperbole that is not true at all but arouses attention to the speaker
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Did the jw's leadership ever apologize for 1975?
by dugout intalking to my friend who's an elder, when i asked him did the leadership ever attempt to apologize for the 1975 prediction fiasco he said they did.
and he was going to show me.
i'm still waiting..................................................tic toc did they???
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TheWonderofYou
The official chanel about information of JW " WOL " admits that there were "perhaps" + "exaggerated" + " ecpectations"
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101993009#h=72:0-72:714
In the years following 1966, many of Jehovah’s Witnesses acted in harmony with the spirit of that counsel. However, other statements were published on this subject, and some were likely more definite than advisable. This was acknowledged in The Watchtower of March 15, 1980 (page 17). But Jehovah’s Witnesses were also cautioned to concentrate mainly on doing Jehovah’s will and not to be swept up by dates and expectations of an early salvation.*
This is referring to a W from 1980 where
Wt 1980: "
There were statements made then, and thereafter, stressing that this was only a possibility. Unfortunately, however, along with such cautionary information, there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility.
It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones and contributed to a buildup of the expectation already initiated."
This is it, the regret of 1980. That was it. But now we live in a time in which this is forgotten and they teach a lie namely that only the "WEAK ONES" followed the extremist course and sold their homes and so forth, that the wise would have been cautionary, while the Watchtower itself produced DUPLICITY.!
The comments about Franz show that there they talked with 2 tongues, once they gave advise not to believe in a fast salvation, then they created a hype. This is unexcusable for Mr. Franz.
At the convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, F. W. Franz gave the concluding talk. He began by saying: “Just before I got on the platform a young man came to me and said, ‘Say, what does this 1975 mean?’” Brother Franz then referred to the many questions that had arisen as to whether the material in the new book meant that by 1975 Armageddon would be finished, and Satan would be bound. He stated, in essence: ‘It could. But we are not saying. All things are possible with God. But we are not saying. And don’t any of you be specific in saying anything that is going to happen between now and 1975. But the big point of it all is this, dear friends: Time is short. Time is running out, no question about that.’
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Broadcasting august, clown Lett about painting the K-hall
by Gorbatchov indid you see the performance of stephen lett on august broadcasting?.
the illustration of painting the kingdom hall?.
used for explaining that you have to listen to elders even when they are totaly wrong?.
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TheWonderofYou
bethsarim: What a totally beyond ridiculous illustration about painting a KH with a 2'' paintbrush.
Hyperbole:
Lett used as he called it a "hyperbole" to illustrate thje point how important it is to fullheartedly support and respect the elders in the congregation. Being obidient to those who are taking the lead ..... Should we not also be obidient to the government, who is taking the lead among the state? should they not report only to the WT legal desk but also to the authorities?
Dont JW always use HYPERBOLE Propaganda to market the product?
Armaggedon is such imminent and big or something else is absolutly true or very certain ...only to say later oh it was only a hyper-bold and scare-monger to bring seekers in or to make the printing press run? 1975, 1984, 1914, United Nations - first praise followed by animosity.
God said to Abram: kill your son to show obidience, to say later: wait it was only a hyper-bole to illu-strate you the point. You wouldnt really be able to do that, would you? haha.
God like Lett use hyper to show a point. then they shame for the hyperbole and blame one else.
Lession: Look behind the Hyper
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Branch Co-ordinators letter re the Australian Royal Commission
by stuckinarut2 inthis letter was posted on the aust and nz facebook group this week.. it is self explanatory!
wow.... it seems to be their attempt at controlling the situation after the arc fallout.. .
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TheWonderofYou
No doubt it will be much better if the Commission receives this information from the branch, rather than from apostate opposers.
WT acknowledges that relibale information is given by apostates to the authorities, the reliability is not questioned, however it would look better if such relibalbe information came from itself. Further anyone from outside given such information is seen as opposer, as if one would necessarily oppose WT only by information. What is about an enlightened publicity who might be as well interested, people who want to inform or moderate? If such people received leaked reliable information about the WT. Are they necessarily opposers ?
Slogan of today?
"comply with both their thinking and ours, where they do not compromise Scriptural standards."
...... why not
"comply with their governmental requirements by god given authority and ours consequently following this wise cesaraian laws according our conscience and clear scriptural advice to respect state law by providing if necessary witnesses from 4 eyes in such cases or if not available by corresponding and adopting proposad governmental procedures.
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Is the blood doctrine idolatrous?
by Fred Franztone ini'm not a god-fearing individual, but when i was still a believer, many suns ago, it occurred to me that the blood doctrine had an idolatrous foundation; it was one of the initial anti-wt thoughts in my mind that eventually led to me leaving the religion and ultimately (and somewhat ironically) to atheism.. the bible says that one should 'abstain from blood', and putting aside whether this is a mistranslation of bloodshed (which i've never bought), the wt are quite picky about which commandments they follow; they don't observe the sabbath, and they've even provided justifications for lying, so why the preoccupation with the blood commandment?
and why is it so serious a matter that it's a disfellowship-worthy offence?
the justification i was always given by elders was that blood is sacred, it's a symbol of life, and whilst the commandment to abstain from blood clearly meant that one shouldn't eat it, it's not unreasonable on the surface to extrapolate it to include transfusions (although some would disagree).. the problem with this reasoning of course is that by abstaining from blood transfusions, death from massive blood-loss is a possibility, unlike with abstaining from eating it.
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TheWonderofYou
The number of misused guinea pigs with whom blood substitutes have been tested is large. This happened for a purpose. The only true God who supports scientific progress mostly in this single discipline of biology and medicine uses guinea women an men in the bloodless cult to increase his idol praise. Idolatry yes - for the god who is behind the bloodless industry.
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Another JW "friend" bites the dust
by TerryWalstrom injust got word one of my favorite friends died a year ago!
only now have i heard about it.
he remained a devout jehovah's witness--so--he could not/would not speak to me.
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