Posts by Anna Marina

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"extremism" -- What specifically did Russia ban Jehovah's Witnesses for?

by Pallbearer in

russia's reason for banning jehovah's witnesses is said to be due to extremism.

but what exactly does that mean, or refer to?

specifically, what practice (or practices) of jehovah's witnesses does russia consider to be extreme?

Anna Marina

If I remember correctly Joseph Rutherford got put in prison because of the Finished Mystery. A book that explained every verse of the Bible prophecies of Revelation and Ezekiel. By1920 he had been released and was helpfully explaining that the world had legally ended.

Without any cost, absolutely free for $6.50 (you are just paying for the handling and paper cost (at a bargain wholesale rate)) he was now distributing Studies in the Scriptures. With them, your Bible would become a new book to you. Hmm wonder what the title was?

Just a stab in the dark, maybe Russia still understands the concept of blasphemy and suspects it can negatively impact the population.

Communication becomes tricky when you mess with semantics.

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Is There (Was There Ever) an Anglo American Dual World Power?

by BluesBrother in

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.

Anna Marina

If you look at education there are links between the establishment of places like Harvard and Yale.

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Do you think “Eventually” the Whole World will become Socialist?

by pistolpete in

when i say; “socialist” i don’t mean everyone is equal.

instead i am referring to “leaders” being rich and powerful, whereas the ordinary citizen being poor, and powerless.. i was surprise that the majority of the world is run by socialist government.

the last few countries that are not socialist are the united states and parts of europe.

Anna Marina

Communism with a king (maybe I don't know). But not Socialist. You can't vote for Communism. It comes about via history. You have to hit a specific date/time period and boom, you are in power. I think WT has banked on it. Wrong date but nothing a bit of spin wont cure.

Same old 3-staged theory of progress/pyramidiot ideas from August Comte and Saint Simon.

Saint-Simon had consistently appealed to monarchial authority from his first petitions to Napoleon until his last appeal for a New Christianity to the leaders of the Holy Alliance.

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Should Social Media Silence Conservative Views?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i find it very disturbing that media outlets as well as facebook, instagram, google and others decide that a point of view is not acceptable simply because they don’t share an opinion.

perhaps it is at least right now but i think it’s very wrong.

what’s your view?

Anna Marina

When describing WT methods to a Liberal in the UK, I was informed that WT is just like the Labour Party. It gags those who go off message.

WT's authority rests on dodgey maths. WT does not own numbers. Computers run on numbers - if you don't let the programmers add up, you wont get much in the way of updates. And no the computer does not program itself.

(Isaiah 40:15) . . .Look! The nations are as a drop from a bucket; and as the film of dust on the scales they have been accounted. . .

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What useful piece of literature have the JW produced?

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

seeing on another post here about former jws throwing away literature.

i am curious as to the various opinions on there value.. for me i have been inactive for 3 years almost 4. i still have alot of books and of course all their bibles ever produced (except a few from the 1800s.).

in my opinion i think there are four books the jws produced that are useful:.

Anna Marina

As DesirousOfChange said the literature is useful for exposing them as false prophets. It also shows they are birlliant at psychology, semantics and social engineering.

The Watchtower staff who put this media content together are very, very clever.

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November campaign

by Brainfloss in

has there been any topics about the november watchtower campaign— what is gods kingdom?

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Anna Marina

It's encouraging.

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Circuit overseers wives.

by stan livedeath in

or..as i remember the title..circuit servants wives.

but then i left 40+ years ago.. any recollections of those females that led such an unnatural existence?.

those that i recall seemed such aloof creatures..

Anna Marina

The same man who checks out whether she empties the bins at the KH.

In days of yore some men used to look for women who could lift pigs. Ment she'd be ok with farm work.

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Russian brother gets suspended jail sentence. - perfect example of how misinformed the jdub's are

by nowwhat? in

on november 24, 2020, the petropavlovsk-kamchatskiy city court of the kamchatka territory convicted brother sergey ledenyov.

he was given a two-year suspended prison sentence with three years of probation.

he does not need to go to prison at this time.. on the final day of hearings, sergey boldly explained what it means to be one of jehovah’s witnesses.

Anna Marina

He is sadly mistaken about his own identity. Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah - they could be described as Jehovah's Witnesses because they were of the house of Jacob and Isaiah was addressing the house of Jacob. But Sergey is apostate to Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah because of the 1914 doctrine which contradicts the words of these 3 prophets/Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Circuit overseers wives.

by stan livedeath in

or..as i remember the title..circuit servants wives.

but then i left 40+ years ago.. any recollections of those females that led such an unnatural existence?.

those that i recall seemed such aloof creatures..

Anna Marina

A special pio had been married to a bro who trained the COs. She was familiar with the life and since her husband had died was no longer having to trudge round the circuits.

Whenever a CO and wife visited our cong, what she did was provide them with a private room in her home and left them alone. No talking nothing. She knew they needed to be quiet and that's what she did for them. She gave them a place to rest.

She is a kind sister, hopelessly misguided. But kind. But not to me of course because I disagree with WT doctrine for sound scriptural reasons.

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Watchtower's Art Department strange and hidden images

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

watchtower examination has a youtube video about subliminal images drawn by the watchtower's art department.

i'm not a professional artist but i see too many strange and hidden images in this drawing.

i have boxed four examples of hidden images.

Anna Marina

I can't see anything in that picture but I'm wondering -

[start ideal WT answer]

is the brother in yellow showing the householder a scripture and the brother in green is his getting out his scripture scroll to follow along with the scripture the other brother is reading?

In those days they only had the Bible. Maybe the brother is showing the householder the scroll of Isaiah. He's perhaps got the gospel of Matthew, Mark and Luke in his bag. But no Watchtowers.

In those days the Bible acted like tracts and magazines. But today we have the Watchtower.

[end ideal WT answer}

I think that is the hidden message. Or one of them.