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  JW refugees and politics

  by Anders Andersen in

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  in the netherlands, an action going on to get two brothers from sierra leone a residence permit.. the men fled the horrible civil war in their country when 14 and 11 years old.

  without parents.. they have now lived in the netherlands more than half of their lives.

  they are well educated, have nothing in sierra leone and everything in the netherlands.

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  George One Time

  I happen to know them, however they are actually from Nigeria, so Sierra Leone is a foreign country for them, like they say in the article.
  
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  Do you recognize?

  by Gorbatchov in

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  gorby has had a personal paradigm shift lately.. from one point to an other i "feel" and "think" different about the jw subject.. - no more interest in doctrine.

  - no more interest in things that happen 100 years ago into an religion.. - no more taking statements too serious.

  it doesn't matter me at all what a generation doctrine change is all about, it doesn't matter me at all that brother elder said "blablabla boe!".

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  Since I have to stay in, because of my relatives, I do still care about it. I am looking for opportunities to wake them up. So I try to keep up with the developments and give them tidy bits of information.
  
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  CLAM Video: Aug 22-28 2016 – “Jehovah Will Care for Our Needs”

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

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  this video showed a married brother with three children living in a nice domicile and working full time.

  his employer demands that he change his working pattern such that it conflicts with his being able to attend wt meetings at the weekend.

  the brother decides not to yield to his employer’s demand and is thus dismissed.. the brother seeks for work very actively over a significant period but without any alternative being found.

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  In this video too, a job offered was far away and thus refused. Why not show our beloved brothers and sisters that sometimes it is useful to be flexible and move to a place close to the job? That might not be possible for everyone, but for many it is.

  I know a brother who was a farmer. He told me that he was frowned upon in the congregation, because he had to work at different times. You had to work part-time at an office in order to be a good witness... However he concluded that they did eat after all!
  
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  to lie or to deceive (w 12/2016, par 18, 19)

  by George One Time in

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  2. bible

  why not use a biblical example, like jacob when deceiving his father isaac?

  jehovah himself seems to have no problem with deceiving.

  or 1 kings 22:19-22 "who will deceive ahab?

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  Why not use a biblical example, like Jacob when deceiving his father Isaac? Jehovah himself seems to have no problem with deceiving. Or 1 Kings 22:19-22 "Who will deceive Ahab?" Oh, did I mention the GB?
  

  W 12/16 Set free by Undeserved Kindness
  

  Are we determined to avoid both lying and deception? (See paragraph 19)

  19 For instance, a man tells his boss or fellow workers that he cannot be at work the next day or that he must leave early because he has a “medical” appointment. In fact, his “medical” appointment is merely a brief stop at a pharmacy or a quick visit to the doctor’s office to pay a bill. His real reason for not being at work is so that he can get a head start on a trip or so that he can take his family to the beach. There may have been a grain of truth in his mentioning a “medical” appointment, but would you say that he was being honest? Or was he being deceptive? You may know of similar instances of deliberate deception. Perhaps this is done to avoid punishment or to profit at others’ expense. Even if no outright lie is told, what of God’s direction: “You must not deceive”? Think, too, of Romans 6:19, which says: “Present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.”
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  Changes & Clarifications on our belief. DOMINO EFFECT blamed for late coming into print

  by TheWonderofYou in

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  in the august broadcast bro splane explains this point deeper.. when the brothers are sitting together and joyfully speaking about clarification of jw belief, they often encounter and deal with that "domino-effect" when one scripture has effects on others.

  so all changes are carefully considered before they come into print, one after the other but late.. lately he mentions the "godfathers" brother jaracz , barr as good examples of reading the bible progressivly, they were very progressive at there time.

  what ever this could mean he did not explain it?.

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  Domino? House of Cards!
  
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  Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?

  by notjustyet in

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  while i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.

  for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.

  i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?

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  George One Time

  So the interesting question is: Did Jehovah God himself choose the decimal numeral system? (His son will reign for a thousand years etc.) Or did he adapt himself to a system that humans invented?

  Without a television at home ( to protect us children from bad influences), I read all the old Awake magazines. And yes, it was helpful eventually - to wake me up.
  
  

  *** g71 2/8 p. 11 What the “New Math” Teaches Your Child ***
  Different Numeral Systems
  The decimal system is called a base-ten numeral system. But any other numeral base can be used. Babylonians used a complex base-sixty system and the Mayas of Yucatán calculated in base twenty. Today computers use the base-two system. “New math” courses familiarize young children with different numeral systems. The purpose of this is to help them gain a better understanding of the familiar decimal system, and of arithmetic in general.
  The base-five system is perhaps the easiest one to learn, and it may be taught to your fourth or fifth grader. In this system, which uses only the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, each position has a value five times greater than the position to the right. Thus in the number 324, the first numeral represents itself, or 4. The second numeral, instead of representing 2 tens as in the decimal system, represents 2 fives. And the third numeral, instead of representing 3 hundreds, represents 3 twenty-fives. So 324 in the base-five numeral system is really 89 in the base-ten system!
  This same pattern is followed in every numeral system. Thus in the base-six system each position has a value six times greater than the position to the right. And in the base-eight system each position has a value eight times greater than the position to the right. Note the value of the number 324 in the numeral systems below as compared with its value in the decimal system.
  324 in base five = 75 + 10 + 4 or 89
  324 in base six = 108 + 12 + 4 or 124
  324 in base eight = 192 + 16 + 4 or 212
  
  
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  Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
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  while i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.

  for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.

  i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?

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  My favorite:

  (2 Chronicles 25:11, 12) 11 And Am·a·zi′ah, for his part, took courage and proceeded to lead his own people and go to the Valley of Salt; and he went striking down the sons of Se′ir, ten thousand [of them]. 12 And there were ten thousand that the sons of Judah captured alive. So they brought them to the top of the crag, and proceeded to throw them from the top of the crag; and they, one and all, burst apart.
  

  Not only round, but exaggerated too. Can you imagine such a number of bodies lying on the bottom?
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  jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

  by blondie in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

  "i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

  here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

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  Is is just me or do I hear the same public talks over and over again?
  
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  Little talk about blood fractions

  by wannaexit in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  it appears that watchtower is distancing itself from the blood fractions.

  the new "blood card" doesn't mention them and any mention of blood in the watchtower ignores fractions.

  i wander if they are going back to their hard stance.

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  George One Time

  I don't think so. It is just that so many witnesses get problems in hospital for not accepting blood fractions. So it is now included automaticly that you do accept these, unless a person states explicitly that he or she doesn't want blood fractions.
  
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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

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  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  George One Time

  As a teenager I placed a the 'Life - How was it created' book with another teen. When I came back he asked me: "What it meant by the expression 'peace between animals'"? It was one of those times I started to doubt my convictions.