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  If a year is really 365 1/4 days why 360 days to calculate 1914

  by blondie in

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  doesn't that throw off the date?.

  *** w51 6/15 p. 383 questions from readers ***.

  in establishing the length of the seven times of the gentiles, a time or year of 360 days is used, to give 2,520 days, which become 2,520 years when ezekiel 4:6 is applied.

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  Biblical Year to work out prophecy...Lunar Year to do the maths...perfect sense to me....NOT.
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  Does Jehovah Intervene - JW Teaching

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have been a jw my whole life and i have never been able to get a clear answer on this question.

  jw's do not believe that jehovah will intervene if someone is sick, dying or stopping a car crash.

  they feel that jehovah is letting "this world" play out before he solves all of these problems.

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  When I was in, on the same day, a brother got let off from being charged for drink driving by a judge whilst a sister got raped.

  The brother exclaimed that Jehoover had softened the judges heart and intervened since he needs his driving license to do the preaching work.

  When I asked the brother why didn't Jehoover help the poor sister who was raped....he shrugged...Jehoover only knows he said.

  I was disgusted.
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  CEDARS (Again) Is it really about religious beliefs?

  by Listener in

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  2. friends

  john cedars has posted his latest blog "the trouble with apostates (and why it shouldn't put you off becoming one)".

  i acknowledge that he is entitled to his opionin just as we are ours but i am disappointed in some of his comments.. at this stage i'll try to be objective about it.

  he is defending his own position after all.. what bothers me most is his comments about athiests and christians which he seems to identify as being in conflict with each other.

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  Poor Lloyd is fighting on two fronts...TTATT and still-ins AND exjws as he has ruffled a few feathers.

  I liked his site prior to him exposing who he was as they were very much neutral and informative but now since he has DA himself all his articles have a "tone" that doesn't sit right with me.

  The fact he has admitted that mental illness/depression affects him I really think for his own best interests and his families that he takes a break, no good can come from his recent barney with those nutjobs called Mike/Kim.

  I sent Cedars an email a while ago saying he needs to walk away and enjoy his family and his life.
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  Literature being discontinued, including Isaiah's Prophecy and Reasoning book

  by Richard_I in

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  2. friends

  congregations get an annual letter that tells what can be ordered for literature (it's mainly a list of audio cds/dvds for the deaf), but this time it included publications that will be discontinued, and this included the isaiah's prophecy book and the reasoning book, and i think i saw the draw close to jehovah book.

  i meant to take a picture of the letter but forgot.

  the branch is only going to give what they have on stock, when that stock depletes that's it, you won't be able to order those publications anymore.. this is in canada so i don't know if this is worldwide..

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  god that fucking isaiah book. every. single. chapter. had the same fulfillment. it was a goddamn broken record.

  The bloody bookstudy doing BOTH books on it was a nightmare...
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  Finally heard a Dub defend overlapping generations

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  2. beliefs

  since the overlapping generations doctrine was introduced, i have found the jws i know to be uncharacteristically silent on the subject.

  i can't remember hearing a single dub try to defend this idiocy.

  but that all ended recently.

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  You should maybe point out to this uber-sister that when Freedy boy died in 1992 ALL the current members of the GB were assistants AND the WT said that ALL assistants were then other sheep...so the time line given by Splane doesn't add up as not ONE of the current GB was anointed in 1992 and therefore CANNOT overlap with the first generation.
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  So ... Russia and Nato at war? Should we be worried?

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  it seems unbelievable but turkey (a nato member state) shooting down a russian jet fighter on their syrian border seems to be "meh" news and no one is too bothered about it too much.. the world seems a bit upside down right now.

  i don't think a lot of countries really know who the hell they are fighting and who is and isn't on their side in it all and really what is going on.. smaller incidents than this have led to major conflicts in the past but hopefully calm heads will prevail.

  china shot down a us spy plane years ago and the world survived and forgot about it so things will move on i'm sure.. i'm guessing the price turkey pays for their gas supply from russia will be going up soon though.. man, that republican primary is sucking all the news attention from the room.

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  The issue is we still don't know the facts as the two stories from Russia & Turkey are miles apart at the moment...was they in Turkey's airspace or not? Did 10 warnings over 5 minutes occur? Etc etc...

  You can't trust any media outlet so everything else is mere speculation....NATO have come out in support of Turkey though.
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  Possible reason for cancellation of book study in homes.

  by Amelia Ashton in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this was posted on fb.. so guys, i'm gonna share something with you all that i think you should know.

  i've only told two people about this (one being john cedars) for fear of getting this guy into trouble, but it's very telling and will reaffirm your "ttatt faith!

  a couple of weeks ago, i had to have an "ability to protect" assessment by a gentleman from a company that also investigates child protection policies etc.

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  Gas (petrol) prices? Don't remember that being the main reason.

  Main reason was that simply people are busier...especially with work to provide for the family and for most of the developing lands, where the growth is and where the vast majority of JW's are, it meant they were busting their guts working AND going to two midweek meetings so they canned the book study.

  That's what I remember as the main reason as to why the bookstudy got stopped.
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  Damn Satan at it again tampering with evidence!

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jeepers...we all know that humans have only been on this planet for 6,000 years...stupid scientists getting confused again...must be that satan bloke who goes round fiddling with all the evidence that humans have been on this planet longer than 6,000 years!.

  http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-can-t-explain-who-made-these-huge-8-000-year-old-glyphs-in-kazakhstan?.

  back in 2007, a series of huge, mysterious geoglyphs were discovered in the grasslands, or steppes, of kazakhstan.

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  Jeepers...we all know that humans have only been on this planet for 6,000 years...stupid scientists getting confused again...must be that Satan bloke who goes round fiddling with all the evidence that humans have been on this planet longer than 6,000 years!

  http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-can-t-explain-who-made-these-huge-8-000-year-old-glyphs-in-kazakhstan?

  Back in 2007, a series of huge, mysterious geoglyphs were discovered in the grasslands, or steppes, of Kazakhstan. Formed by human-made mounds, divots, and trenches, the structures create giant images that can be seen from the sky, including shapes that look like crop circles, squares, and swastikas. Archaeologists estimate they were created around 8,000 years ago, but have no idea who built them, or why.

  Now NASA has taken the first photos of the Steppe Geoglyphs from space, and has admitted that its scientists are no closer to solving the mystery. But they're going to keep investigating, because the answer could reshape our understanding of early humanity.

  The glyphs were first discovered by amateur archaeologist Dmitriy Dey back in 2007 using Google Earth, and about 260 of them have been found since. But what makes them interesting enough for NASA to get involved is the fact that they were made so long ago - the Nazca Lines in Peru, by comparison, were only built around 1,500 years ago.

  And as far as we're aware, the only humans living in this region of Kazakhstan back then were nomadic Stone Age tribes, whom researchers don't think were sophisticated enough to build anything like this.

  "The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects – like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs – has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organisation as one that predates settled and civilised societies," Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist at the University of Winnipeg, told Ralph Blumenthal from The New York Times.

  So far, we don't have a lot to go on. Serious investigation into the shapes has only really just started, with the glyphs formally being described at an archaeology conference last year for the first time - before that there were some concerns the whole thing was a hoax due to how remarkable the structures are. And it's only the last two weeks that NASA has gotten involved.

  They're now using satellites from one of their contractors, DigitalGlobe, to take images of some of the most iconic structures from space, and they've also instructed the astronauts on board the International Space Station to start taking photos of the region.

  "I’ve never seen anything like this; I found it remarkable," said Compton J. Tucker, a NASA scientist who provided the images. He added that NASA was "proceeding to map the entire region".

  Another thing that makes the glyphs so fascinating is their sheer size - they're so large that they're unable to be seen properly from the ground, but it's hard to imagine a civilisation 8,000 years ago contemplating the surface of the Earth from the air.

  One of the largest structures is the Ushtogay Square, which is almost 250,000 metres in area, with each of its sides as long as an aircraft carrier.

  Another structure, called the Bestamskoe Ring, is a circle made up of dozens of smaller circles. There's also the Turgai Swastika, which looks kind of like a three-armed swastika (and yes, as we all learned from The Da Vinci Code, the swastika was popular way before the Nazis started using it).

  Right now there's no clear indication whether these structures were created for art, communication, or perhaps some sort of ritual. So far the two structures that have been dug into show no sign of any buried remains.

  But hopefully with NASA and its impressive satellite technology coming on board, and other archaeologists getting involved, we might have some more clues to go on soon.
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  Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

  thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

  i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

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  notsurewheretogo

  Sorry I should offer some explanation. But can I point out I have actually been gone for two years. It's not like I was just messing around. It was for a reason.

  I joined three years ago and think we are in the same country and I enjoyed your posts and then you did indeed disappear for a while...but now you are back!
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  Construction Halts & other cutbacks - Here's what I think happened

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  to get to the point straight away i think the crane accident that occurred at warwick was a significant catalyst that has caused the org.

  to change its plans suddenly.. list of assumptions, not all of them are validated.

  - there was a serious crane accident that occurred at warwick approx.

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  notsurewheretogo

  Any more details on the crane accident 5 months ago? I never knew this...