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The Watchtower is NOT a false prophet
by The Quiet One in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
regarding what some have said here about the wt being a false prophet.. i would like to make my point regarding the wt not being a false prophet... so please, if you can be patient enough to read this, at least try to understand what i am getting at.. a false prophet is one who, according to deuteronomy, makes a false prediction of the future and claims that the prediction came from god, or in other words claiming that 'god has said he will do a certain thing at a certain time' etc.. for example, hypothetically speaking, if someone had claimed: "god will bring about the end of the world in 2010", they would have been proven to be a false prophet, obviously.

but, as an example, imagine a man who claimed the position of a prophet of god, (as moses did, because although he was not the type of prophet that predicted the future.. he was still a prophet or spokesman for god) and that he had publicised worldwide, according to his interpretation of a (for example) prophecy found in the book of isaiah, that the world would end in 2010.. and he had also stated that he was not saying that god will end the world in that year.. but only that there was biblical evidence that god might do so.

that would clearly have been a mistake.
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Attention Lurkers- the Paradise Resort Bus
by stuckinamovement in
1. jw
2. friends
imagine boarding a bus with your family for a long anticipated vacation.

the destination is a place that is promised to be beautiful warm and sunny.

as you are boarding the bus you are given a ticket stub with several paragraph's of fine print.
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Is There (Was There Ever) an Anglo American Dual World Power?
by BluesBrother in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if you live in the u s a or the united kingdom, this is how the wt society views your government, your nation :-.

yes, as an ugly, evil terrifying beast !

this is based on the book of revelation chapter 13 , quoted as follows in the revelation climax book.
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A new type of shiraz
by ozziepost in
1. social
2. physical
well-known amongst friends and acquaintances for my love of a shiraz, ive been given something new to try for christmas.

its a shiraz viognier, produced by the method of co-fermentation of red shiraz grapes mixed with white viognier grapes.

they are mixed before the wine is made when the addition of white grapes at this stage is thought to preserve the brightness of the red pigments during fermentation, as well as altering the development of some of the flavour compounds.. a typical shiraz viognier wine will contain between two and seven percent of the white variety.
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Are the Creative days 7000 years long?
by Steve J in
1. watchtower
2. bible
where does the idea that the creative days of the genesis account were 7,000 years long come from?.

genesis doesn't suggest that they were specific time periods, but shows that one "day" extended into others.

i feel that the clue is in the words; "and there was an evening and there was a morning, a first day.
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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?
by Black Man in
1. jw
2. friends
i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
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Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie
by Farkel in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.

he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.

up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.
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Copyright Law & Posting
by Amazing in
1. jw
2. friends
because we deal with many comments about what the watchtower society publishes,

and what various book authors say that may support a point we are making, it may be good to consider some points about copyright.

some things we can do, and some things may get us into trouble: .
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My Life In the Watchtower
by Number 6 in
1. jw
2. experiences
it is choice of name i was never happy with.

so to re-introduce myself i chose number 6, after the main character in that superb 60's sci fi series "the prisoner".

six of one, half a dozen of the other i suppose.
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Frenchy, Please...
by Seven in
1. jw
2. friends
don't make me beg!

i am in need of a poetry fix!!.

it's going on a week now since eve's choice.