The International Standard Version surpasses all WT understanding.
It renders Phil 4:7 much more clearly "Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in union with the Messiah Jesus."
Posts by Splash
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26David Schafer's Mistake
by Hold Me-Thrill Me inthanks cappytan for posting the thread "jehovah's people as a whole can never be corrupted".
it's a sad example of how low in simple reading skills the present gb and their helpers are.
david schafer referred to philippians 4:7 on jw broadcasting.
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Old Witnessy Pics
by snugglebunny inso what have you got?.
i'll start.. 1958 aboard steamship arosa star, english and german jw's bound for new york for 8 day assembly at yankee stadium.. .
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Splash
Great pics wifibandit.
What strikes me is how little has changed at the conventions in the last 60-70 years.
Still have men walking around with "silence" and "find your seat" signs.
Still have a volunteers desk.
Baptism much the same.
People sitting on the floor or on steps for lunch.
A multicultural dress wearing welcome party for the press.
The layout, signage and advertising is just the same.
Queues for the ladies toilets.
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Question about this pic of JWs from the 1940s ....
by Wild_Thing inwhy is no one else singing???
it's so strange!
was she doing a solo or what?.
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We have some singers like that in my hall. Out of time and out of tune. It's probably even the wrong song.
The second one is brilliant - he'll never be allowed to baptise again!
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Did God have a man to man talk with Adam?
by James Mixon ini wonder did god instruct adam about the no, no's in procreation and sex.. look adam i know you may feel a little odd, looking at the other animals.
having fun.
so i giving you a mate, but don't do like the birds, horses and .
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Where is that WT reference that suggests Adam may have tried it on with the animals before Eve was created?
I've seen it once but can't locate it again!
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Three elders show up "to encourage me" after 10 years!
by Wasanelder Once in"hey brother wasa, come on back to the meetings.
" (after 10 years) so i respond that the situation with pedophiles is out of hand.
they tell me "we" elders have received tons of training on the subject, its not like it was 10 years ago.
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Tell them you'd need to be rebaptised, because it's a totally different religion compared to 10 years ago. -
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UK Branch visit 2015
by tamagotchi inanyone know anything about it?
apparently it's going to be broadcast live nationally to all the congregations this saturday
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A week after the private broadcast it will be available on jw tv.
If not, I can make the audio available.
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Quote where the WT said leave the research to us?
by notsurewheretogo inhas anyone got the quote from the societies publication where they advise to leave the research to them?.
i know in the september 2007 km they warned about independent study groups but i'm sure there was a quote from the 50's or 60's where they told the rank publisher to leave the research to the gb?.
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This? *** w67 6/1 p. 338 par. 12 Move Ahead with Jehovah’s Organization ***
in Jehovah’s organization it is not necessary to spend a lot of time and energy in research, for there are brothers in the organization who are assigned to do that very thing, to help you who do not have so much time for this -
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“We are not done yet!” – Candace Conti reacts to appeal court decision
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/we-are-not-done-yet-candace-reacts-to-appeal-court-decision.
candace conti (pictured in her interview with abc) has spoken out for the first time about the appeal court decision.
as current and former jehovahs witnesses digest the news that watchtowers appeal against the candace conti verdict has faltered, albeit with the punitive element of the judgment reversed, candace has reacted for the first time by telling me: we are not done yet.. news spread on monday that the state appeals court in san francisco had upheld the $2.8 million compensatory damages in the original june 2012 verdict, but overturned the $8.6 million punitive award against watchtower.. the court decided that, though watchtower had neglected its responsibility to supervise known pedophile jonathan kendrick in field ministry, a church-sponsored activity, the organization had no duty to warn parents in the congregation that a pedophile was in their midst or report him to authorities.. an insightful report by investigative reporter trey bundy has suggested that the court reached its decision because the precedent set by the conti verdict might be too burdensome to enforce.. the burden would be considerable because the precedent could require a church to intervene whenever it has reason to believe that a congregation member is capable of doing harm, and the scope of that duty could not be limited with any precision, the judges wrote.. candaces attorney rick simons responded by pointedly telling bundy: they think in public policy terms that theres too much risk in broadening the churchs responsibility and liability so that it burdens what churches do.
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*** w94 8/15 p. 11 par. 4 This Good News Must Be Preached First ***
"in countries such as the United States and Canada, religion’s coffers are being drained by the high costs of litigation and judgments against clergy, resulting from their licentious conduct with children and adults"JW's are just another religion.
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1975 failed prediction?
by Garrett inheyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
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"This generation"?
I've never heard anything so unexplainable or unreasonable as the 'latest truth' definition of "this generation".
It is so ridiculous and untenable that it will, for certain, be rewritten again.
Then again.
Then again.
The good thing about jw's is that they have so many different versions of 'truth', there's one for everybody.
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1975 failed prediction?
by Garrett inheyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
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Splash
A few links to audio recordings of 1970's convention talks where 1975 was highlighted.
What would you be expecting to happen after listening to the following convention statements between 1968 and 1975, year after year? These comments were all bellowed from the platforms, sometimes by the GB themselves, to packed arenas...
"It almost seems as though Jehovah has provided meat in due season because he has held up before all of us a new goal, a new year, something to reach out for and it just seems it's given us so much more energy and power in this final burst of speed to the finish line. And that's the year 1975."
"There's only 8 years until '75. How little time there is left"
"We're going to listen to [the Societies] agonizing entreaties "Brothers get in" because they know what's coming. And it's coming fast and don't wait until '75. The door's going to be shut before then."
"As one brother put it, 'Stay alive 'til '75'"
"Not really a full 83 months remains, so let's be faithful and confident and we will be alive beyond the war of Babylon; we will be alive beyond the war of Armageddon" (spoken in Nov 1968, so 83 months later would be Oct 1975)
"What are you going to do with China, how are you going to get into China, how will you have reached all those people there, how are we ever going to reach them by 1975?"
"There are a dozen inexorable forces at work right now that are converging together inside of this decade that will spell disaster for this system of things, and there is nothing that no human can do to prevent it"
"We had that advice about 1975, Not changing a thing! Not changing a thing!... We have stronger reason to see that the middle 70's are going to see the complete change in earths affairs"
"Now our enquiries around the world of the brothers as to what they're expecting to occur between now and the end of 1975 has revealed that some are very sanguine about matters in the near future, and they're expecting the great tribulation to occur, and the destruction of Babylon the Great, and the annihilation of all the political systems of this world, and then the binding Satan and his demons and their abyssing, to occur before this year is ended, this year 1975"