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  2015 Convention Releases

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-convention-releases-2015/.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7cyswlvwg.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmuamqiv4k.

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  So there's a new Greatest Man book as well. Very polished.

  In 324 pages they only make one reference to 1914.
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  2015 Convention Releases

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-convention-releases-2015/.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7cyswlvwg.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmuamqiv4k.

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  I'm interested in the Caleb video, smashing a vase while playing with his plane.

  The lesson he gets from his father is that you mustn't lie because Jehovah doesn't want you to lie.
  The lesson should be that you don't lie because it's a moral issue - deceiving people is wrong.

  This will train kids to be told what is right and wrong, instead of train them to work out for themselves what is right and wrong.

  Reminds me of that illustration where a mother asks her little one where is Jehovah and he points upwards.
  One day they get visitors so she shows off her party trick and, in the kitchen, asks her little one where Jehovah is.
  He runs into the living room and points at the ceiling fan.

  Children should be trained to become independent, responsible adults, not dependents.
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  New Light! The Evil Slave Class no longer exists!

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  quote from the watchtower, march 15, 2015, page 23:.

  in the illustration of the faithful and discreet slave, jesus spoke of an evil slave who beat his fellow slaves.

  jesus was not there foretelling that an evil slave class would arise.

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  They actually disappeared in the July 2013 WT.

  There aren't any 'classes' relating the the slave anymore.
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  So where is that "Donate" button on JW dot-org anyway?

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i cannot find where you donate to them on their website, as was shown on their may 2015 broadcast.

  don't worry, lol, i do not wish to donate!!

  but am curious as to all the ways and how's they want you to donate to them online.

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  Splash

  Alternatively you can go to their dedicated donation website

  www.jwgift.org/Welcome.aspx
  
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  So where is that "Donate" button on JW dot-org anyway?

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i cannot find where you donate to them on their website, as was shown on their may 2015 broadcast.

  don't worry, lol, i do not wish to donate!!

  but am curious as to all the ways and how's they want you to donate to them online.

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  Splash

  You need to click the LOG IN button first, then you have access to My Donations.
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  The 1919 issue

  by confused in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am not a regular visitor to this site, every now and then then i get twisted up about something i come back lol.

  i am sure this has been discussed many times so a link to another thread would be great or if someone has the patience to explain again please?

  i have read the july 15 2013 wt many times but i simply don't understand the significance of 1919 from the bible.

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  Splash

  I think it was related to the parts of three days that Jesus spent in the grave, a day for a year after 1914...
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  New video telling the R&F to be generous

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bro sanderson has a 7 minute video up on their streaming website called "be willing to open your hand".. in it he tells us not to be "tight fisted" or "stingy" and later "regardless of how much we have or how little we have, we'll find something within our power to be able to do".

  we have the responsibility to imitate jehovah's generosity.. there's a bit about giving to one another when we see the need, which is nice, then he drops in how 20 years ago the canada branch committee asked the bethel family for donations to the disaster relief fund, and promptly raised over $10,000.

  i think that's pretty good going for those under a vow of poverty.. "the generous person will prosper" he says, then illustrates this using a made up story.

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  Thanks for the link bandit
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  Br. Lett's Slight of Hand

  by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  nice try brother lett.

  you moved the cups around the table and thought we would not see the slight of hand you were handing us.

  you begged for money but you have failed to show yourself capable of handling the monies already provided .

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  Splash

  I've just watched Lett's body language at the 27:30 minute mark of his donation plea.

  When talking about selling just one significant property in NYC he says
  "In actuality, the sale of property in NYC is basically only financing the construction of world headquarters in Warwick"

  As he knowingly speaks this obvious deception, he cannot stop himself from exaggeratedly shaking his head from side to side as if to say "LIES, LIES, LIES".

  Body language is bitch.
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  Suffering: the result of Adamic sin?

  by confused in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am currently having a study with a pioneer couple to try to reactivate me and get me back into the congregation.

  they have asked me to really think about the provision of the ransom sacrifice.

  in doing so i have gone back to basics and have already hit a few questions i am thinking of raising.

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  When A&E sinned, what did God do to their bodies so that they would no longer live forever.
  What did God change in their DNA to make them susceptible to illness and death?

  It seems to me that if God had not interfered with them, the act of eating the fruit was not in itself the cause of their subsequent demise, rather God must have changed them as a punishment.

  And I like your point about Satan. Even if his spiritual body cannot suffer illness, why does he have to eventually be destroyed.
  If Gods law dictates that sin = death, why has he not yet died?
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  In depth research reveals....

  by Deltawave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something i have noticed over the years is how much harder it is to research the history of the watchtower society from its own literature.

  people have thrown away old publications in place of the watchtower library.

  i beleive soon the watchtower library disk will be discontinued in place of the online library.

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  Splash

  There are online resources with all the old literature scans on them.

  The Society will change their history a different way, however.

  Instead of just refreshing existing publications, they will discontinue the old ones and bring out new ones.
  This makes it even harder to find rewritten history.

  Once the WT Library is discontinued most JW's will use the online version as you say.
  Then the online versions can be updated, replaced or even the availability removed by increasing the furthest year available from, say 2000 to 2010.

  They have lots of options.