Reading Awake and Watchtower indeed would qualify a person for a university degree - from Tasmania’s University of Lower Crackpot. I’m sure that after completing that course of study, they would happily award you a Bachelor of Stupidity!
Rivergang
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FOND FAREWELL TO THE BI-MONTHLY AWAKE!
by steve2 inwith the jw congregations about to be informed that the ubiquitous awake!
magazine is to be issued just once a month from january 2006, now is an apt time for interested parties to share brief memories and/or impressions about the bi-monthly awake!
magazines, whether poignant, hard-hitting or humorous.
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The Saddest Thing About Tony Morris's Removal
by NotFormer ini've mentioned before how i've wondered how tony morris must have felt when he was sacked.
yes, i know he's a rehensible human being who got served a healthy dose of karma, or, if you like, divine judgement.
to go from having all there is to have within the world he lived in, to where he is now; that's a long fall.
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Rivergang
I’ve said it before, and will say it again - one hell of a lot of commentary, with precious little in the way of facts to work off.
(I.e. Those bloody inconvenient details known as “facts”).
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Rivergang
That Pan-Babylonialism is 24 Carat pseudoscience comes as no surprise!
Also during the same “Free Home Bible Study” phase, I remember being assured that all the world’s major languages originated in the ancient city of Babylon. To put matters very diplomatically, this is simply not the case!
Little about the religion of Babylon was exactly original, either. Most of it had been inherited from the earlier Sumerian civilisation.
Hardly the birthplace of either the world’s languages or its religions!
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How can Babylon the Great be the WORLD of false religion?
by BoogerMan in(revelation 17:5) “babylon the great, the mother of the prostitutes (plural!
) and of the disgusting things of the earth.”.
btg is spotlighted as being the principal "disgusting thing" which affects christians & christianity, with other lesser "prostitutes" in the background... (revelation 18:4) “get out of her, my people, (christians) if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.".
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Rivergang
During the "Free Home Bible Study" phase of my Indoctrination into the JWs, I recall being assured that "all the world's false religions" could in fact be traced to the ancient city of Babylon.
There was indeed a school of thought called "Pan-Babylonialism", which had a certain following around the turn of the 20th Century. However, that idea has long since been discarded - almost to the point of being considered pseudoscience. There is also Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons, which advances similar ideas, but which was soundly debunked even during Hislop's own lifetime (circa. the mid-19th Century). Just the same, the JWs used to treat that work of Alexander Hislop as having almost the final say on the matter!
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A talk about 1975 from 1972
by Nostromo ineverybody knows the famous "stay alive still 75" audio clip but here is a clip from 1972 with english subtitles.
harold mouritz was the branch committee member in finland when he gave this talk.
later he became the coordinator of the australian branch.
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Rivergang
It isn't just what was written in their literature which condemns them over 1975.
What was said from the platform is just as damning (as demonstrated here).
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W.W 2 - 1940's Australia Bethel helps out war effort!!
by Witness 007 inaustralia bethel had from 1938 began to make big money!
they employed many brothers.
they opened a saw mill, bakery, 20 kingdom farms, and an engineering company.
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Rivergang
That surplus paper certainly got put to good use!
One of their business enterprises involved the printing of what now would be described as “soft” pornography - with the intended clientele being members of the armed forces.
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W.W 2 - 1940's Australia Bethel helps out war effort!!
by Witness 007 inaustralia bethel had from 1938 began to make big money!
they employed many brothers.
they opened a saw mill, bakery, 20 kingdom farms, and an engineering company.
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Rivergang
Oh yes…… the “Kingdom Farm” in the Brisbane suburb of Oxley. Right adjacent to the military airfield at Archerfield. Canteens operated for servicemen and all that.
Bloody Hell!
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Jeffrey Jackson: Too much excitement got in the way for the ''false dates''
by RULES & REGULATIONS inannual meeting 2019—talks and 2020 year textthe governing body members are nothing but a bunch of weasels.
here is a talk by jeffrey jackson on how the governing body ''the slave class'' has remained spiritually awake over 100 years and alerted its members.. he looks back on the ''faithful and discreet slaves'' false dates over the 100 years: '' but at times, we look back over 100 years, and there were times they got excited about a certain year or time, and the end didn't come at that time.''.
he makes the comparison between the ''slave class ( who disappointed others when the end didn't come ) to a barking watchdog ( who in his enthusiasm barks at nothing in the middle of the night and wakes up the owner).
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Rivergang
That would be one of the very few times they have taken any responsibility whatsoever for those debacles. Previously, the “rank and file” got the blame for “reading too much in” to what the WTS had said.
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Are Atheists Hypocritical in Celebrating Christmas?
by Sea Breeze inrichard dawkins revealed that he celebrates christmas on radio four's today programme.. here is is quoted as saying: .
'i am perfectly happy on christmas day to say merry christmas to everybody,' dawkins said.
'i might sing christmas carols - once i was privileged to be invited to kings college, cambridge, for their christmas carols and loved it.
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Rivergang
When it is all said and done, for most people in this part of the world, Christmas is just another excuse to get on the booze.
ie. Engage in practices which predate Christianity by a long shot.
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Holy barbasol Batman! Beards are now allowed!
by nowwhat? inlatest gb update.
only took them 20 years to see beards are acceptable in society.
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Rivergang
Talk about man-made rules.
Even in countries such as Papua New Guinea, in which beards are completely acceptable, the JWs maintained this prohibition.