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  Photoshop Op...

  by oppostate in

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  2. humour

  wouldn't it be great to see the big 8, wel the big 8 in the jw world not the national leaders big 8, ehem.. if they would all grow a beard for the next business meeting in october, where the nu-lite(r) is that beards are ok for men.. could someone photoshop one of the prevalent new smiley photos of the gb and put a few weeks of whisker growth on them?.

  just wondering what it would look like.

  not duck dynasty length, perhaps, but nicely trimmed full beards, or maybe goatees.. what do you think it would look like?

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  Loesch looks great. It really suits him !!

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  A few thoughts on the District, um, Regional... sigh....

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't even know what the bloody event is called anymore.

  i think it's still a district convention until it goes to two days, isn't it?

  my convention program leaflet just says "convention of jehovah's witnesses", seemingly intentionally avoiding the change in wording.

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  Going back to Pauls words about the three heavens, traditionally the jews regarded these as

  1. The air and atmosphere, eg where birds fly
  2. The universe, stars and planets
  3. The heavenly abode of God

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  A few thoughts on the District, um, Regional... sigh....

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't even know what the bloody event is called anymore.

  i think it's still a district convention until it goes to two days, isn't it?

  my convention program leaflet just says "convention of jehovah's witnesses", seemingly intentionally avoiding the change in wording.

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  Thanks for the recap Apognophos.

  Actually the 'three paradises' thing is 40 years old, but rarely repeated and very little known.
  Maybe the link to Paul's 'third heaven' is new.

  *** Mans Salvation (1975) chap. 6 p. 90 The Promise of a Spiritual Paradise ***

  "Since these promises were made to different kinds of persons, the first to a non-Christian and the second to a victorious Christian, two different paradises must here be meant, the first an earthly one, the second a heavenly one. Jehovah’s “Servant” has to do with both.
  2 Each of those paradises was future at the time of Jesus’ mention of them. Also, they were to be enjoyed only after the death of the individual and his resurrection from the dead in God’s due time. But there is a paradise that is being enjoyed by those who are now living on the earth. Since mankind’s earthly environment is more and more being polluted and the surface of the earth is no paradise today, the paradise at present being enjoyed on earth by true Christian worshipers of Jehovah must be a figurative one, a spiritual paradise"
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  Complete list of how "The Watchtower" make money

  by usualusername in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been reading this forum for umpteen years and have heard of so many ways that the watchtower is making money.. .

  would you mind contributing to help me compile a list?.

  to start:.

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  KHAA - Kingdom Hall Assistance Arrangement

  TOAA - Travelling Overseer's Assistance Arrangement (which goes towards all their iPads)

  Monthly contributions to the local assembly halls

  Monthly contributions to the District Convention funds
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  The March 1, 1952 Watchtower says, "Go back... and Die!"

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "those who are acquainted with the situation in the congregation should never say hello or goodbye to him.

  he is not welcome in our midst, we avoid him.

  such an individual has no place in the clean organization or congregation of god.

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  CAN SAY "HELLO" TO A DISFELLOWSHIPPED MEMBER?
  1970 NO - WT 6/1/70 p.352
  1972 NO - Organization for Kingdom Preaching..., 1972, p.172
  1974 YES - WT 8/1/74 pp.464,465
  1974 YES - WT 74 8/1 p. 471 par. 21 - 22
  1981 NO - WT 9/15/81 p.25
  2013 jw.org Feb 2013 - Shunning is bullying:
  2013 NO - WT 6/15/2013 p.28

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  Atlanta Int Convention 2014:The Big Party. Does this look like WT believes Armageddon is coming "soon"?

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=potrr2qxhue.

  .. if armageddon is "imminent", why is wt focused on sight-seeing, entertainment, travel, etc.

  instead of preaching and saving people??.

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  Ah, seen it now, thanks!!

  Showed my other half. She looked at me as if to say "Is this for real?"

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  Atlanta Int Convention 2014:The Big Party. Does this look like WT believes Armageddon is coming "soon"?

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=potrr2qxhue.

  .. if armageddon is "imminent", why is wt focused on sight-seeing, entertainment, travel, etc.

  instead of preaching and saving people??.

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  I'm so bummed that I missed it

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  Heads Up: If you are an older JW, WT has no further use for you!

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wt is retiring district overseers, has sent older jws serving at bethel packing despite years of faithful service, and as of june 1, 2014, has announced that any elder that has reached 80 years of age is no longer valued or wanted as a cobe.

  in wt land it would appear that older people have little or no value, and wt sees no reason to use them in any meaningful capacity.

  i wonder how this makes older ones feel after devoting their lives to wt's interests while shelving their own hopes and dreams?.

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  *** w82 8/1 p. 14 par. 8 God’s Gift of Work for His Servants ***
  Recent scientific studies confirm the Scriptural truth that man was made to work. They have shown that the majority of elderly persons in good health do not want to retire, that retirement more often brings boredom instead of happiness.

  *** g88 2/8 p. 31 Is There a Secret to Long Life? ***
  One comment is outstanding in the aforementioned National Geographic article: “In none of the three communities [studied for longevity] is there any forced retirement age, and the elderly are not shelved, as occurs in most of our industrialized societies.”

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  1975 end prediction

  by FL_Panthers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone have the article written by the wt saying that the end would come in 1975?.

  how did people back then come to this year?

  i need this information becuase i was told, this was never literally written by the wt in any publication.. thanks.

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  Just chip in another little thought.
  If 1975 chronology wasn't taught, why the back-peddling and new thoughts on the date Eve was created, in a 1976 WT?

  HOW LONG AFTER ADAM WAS CREATED WAS EVE CREATED?

  A SHORT TIME - w68 5/1 p. 271 par. 4 Making Wise Use of the Remaining Time
  "it is logical that he would create Eve soon after Adam, perhaps just a few weeks or months later in the same year,"

  WE DON'T KNOW - w76 7/15 p. 437 par. 25 Keeping a Balanced View of Time
  "We do not know whether it was a brief time such as a month or a few months, a year or even more."

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  Jason Cobb on the new tithing arrangement (this is good!)

  by Rufus T. Firefly in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://jtv-podcast.tumblr.com/post/87641202438/the-wheat-and-the-weeds-updates-on-the.

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  Interesting audio.

  Firstly, this 'anonymous' survey requires that you turn in your donation slip to individual elders - No anonymity.

  Secondly, "The elders have decided to forward our bank saving to the society, which we have saved for our remodel".

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