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  New K.Hall Design, Mansfield

  by BluesBrother in

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  not mansfield u k , but mansfield in u s a - it doesn't look much, does it?

  in fact even the uber dubs on j w talk are not impressed (that must be a first!

  this thread of theirs is publicly readable:.

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  soulless and butt-ugly is what it is, a perfect reflection of its designers.
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  Breaking news - from reliable insider source - GB member Sanderson to wed

  by sir82 in

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  not only that, but apparently it is to a transgender female.. new light wt article regarding "born that way" transgenders as a "conscience matter" to be released in the august 15 wt.. more details here..

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  "April Fool" leg-pulling, correct?
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  The Watchtower Society’s 607 BCE Foundation Exposed

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

  the governing body and its watchtower society claims that in 1919 it was appointed by jehovah god and jesus christ to represent all of their earthly kingdom interests, to be their unique voice and sole representative towards all people on earth.

  the watchtower’s authority lives or dies with that claim..

  the society’s critical date of 1919 is calculated from the dates of events in the 6th century bce.

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  Doug,

  Thanks once again for another impressive piece of scholarship! Your work and jwstudies.com deserve wider recognition. If I recall correctly, you never were a JW; if so, the extent of your interest in this sort of specialized research is even more remarkable.
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  Circuit Overseer Guidelines (tg-E) October 2015

  by wifibandit in

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  circuit overseer guidelines (tg-e) october 2015. http://bit.ly/1utgizt.

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  "For example, if a brother is so extremely overweight that others would be distracted if he had a part on the program, good judgment would need to be used in deciding whether to give him an assignment, even though he might otherwise be qualified"

  Hmm....Are there any of the Magnificent Seven to whom this might apply?

  
  
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  Catholic encyclopedia misquote

  by alcyone in

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  i do not know if this misquote has been discussed here already.. new catholic encyclopedia says this about jw:.

  "judge" rutherford introduced important changes in the witnesses' creed and transformed the congregational structure of the sect as it was under "pastor" russell into a rigid theocracy.

  the third leader, "brother" nathan h. knorr, gradually replaced the offensive convert-making tactics of the rutherford era by suave manners that have gained the witnesses their current reputation as one of the best-behaved groups in the world.

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  Overall, it seems a fair statement if necessarily generalized for brevity.
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  New Light - Two Sticks in Ezekiel - July 2016 Watchtower

  by Listener in

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  ezekiel 37:15-17 prophesies about two sticks being joined together to become 1. one stick represented the two tribe kingdom of judah and the other stick represented the 10 tribe of israel (ephraim).

  the article explains how the coming together of these two sticks meant the reuniting of these tribes in 537 bce.the modern day fulfillment was previously taught to mean that the anointed had once again come together in unity in these last days.the july watchtower now explains that one stick, the stick of judah, represents the anointed and the other stick, the stick of ephraim, represents the other sheep.

  they further explain that since 1919 god's people have gradually reunited to become one flock.they are now saying that the other sheep are represented by 10 tribes of israel.

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  "I wonder if jw's are on the long and winding road to "all partaking"...."

  Freddo, I think you're on to something. Just let this this year's partakers come in with yet another year-on-year increase and Bingo! New Light!! No more fretting about who does and who doesn't ... wiped away with a stroke of Splane's magic pen!
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  The memorial songs sucked.

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i don't know who the idiots are that write, or approve these songs, ( the creative team of lett and tomo??

  ) but they suck!!

  there is a line in the first song ( # 147 ) that blatantly contradicts the wtbts dogma of the heavenly calling being an invitation as opposed to a sure thing.

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  Neither "immortality" nor "resurrection" were mentioned. How does a talk purported to be about the significance of Jesus sacrifice fail to mention these elements? A truly wasted opportunity; most of the time was spent urging the crowd to let the "emblems" pass them by.
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  New Memorial Songs Were Very Good, IMO

  by RubaDub in

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  i guess we can agree to differ, but i personally found the new memorial songs (147, 149) to be very good, at least from a musical perspective.

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  To each his own, of course, but I thought they were awful. Brevity was their only virtue.
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  How Should Anointed Christians View Themselves?

  by jwdoctrine in

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  2. bible

  in this coming sunday's study article :”we want to go with you” and paragraph 5 we read :.

  “those who partake of the emblems at the memorial should carefully consider the warning found at1 corinthians 11:27-29.

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  The agenda of these articles seems quite transparent: to stifle the inclination to partake, so as to reverse the embarrassing increases in partakers of recent years.
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  JW Broadcasting: How to make memorial bread

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  i don't believe it, but it is on jw broadcasting: how to make memorial bread.. it is just like the 24/kitchen broadcasting.. http://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodministry/pub-jwbrd_201603_2_video.

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  Gorby, I'm repeating this from an earlier similar thread, but it bears mention here: According to an interesting article in the Italian ex-jw website Geova.org, the scriptures suggest that the bread passed around at the last supper was not the unleavened matzoh of the Jewish Passover (azuma in Greek) but rather the common everyday generic leavened loaf (arton) . This is true in all three Gospel references to the Last Supper of Matthew 26:26, Mark 14:22 and Luke 22:19. It's the same word employed in Matthew 4:4 when Satan urged Jesus to turn stones into bread (arton) and Matt. 7:9 when God would never give a child asking for bread a stone. Moreover there's no reference to the use of wine, in the Exodus Passover. There's no mention in the Gospels of the traditional lamb and bitter greens in the Last Supper either.