CubanGringo

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  N.H. Barbour As the "Evil Slave" Quote From "Blood on the Altar"

  by jacobm in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i think the book blood on the altar, may have a misquote (or maybe it is just me reading it wrong).. p. 41, para.

  "pastor russell took the place of mr. barbour who became unfaithful and upon whom was fulfilled the prophecies of matt.

  the book give the reference of the zion's watchtower july 15th, 1879, p. 8 (http://jv.somet.dk/tekster/wt_1879_07_01.pdf).

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  CubanGringo

  Am I wrong in remembering this being applied by Russell to his ex wife? I have a vague recollection of that occurring.
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  Literature carts are the cruisiest way to preach ever - photo attached

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  it was a perfect spring day, and a jazz band were playing in the mall near my work.

  in front of the band, two watchtower literature carts stood in solidarity.

  i could not work out who were the jws attending them.

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  CubanGringo

  Paranoia Agent: looks to me like it's in the mall at North Sydney.

  I pass a similar setup about once or twice per week at the exit of the North Ryde train station. Quite often there are 4 of them and, to ensure they don't look too much like it's just a 'get together' they sometimes split into two groups. If there are only 3 witnesses then they cluster in a small group, stand with coffee in hand and, probably, judge us all for being wordly and trudging off to work instead of supping at the table of Jah.
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  Why does the Society allow women to speak in the congregations?

  by Badfish in

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  2. beliefs

  i know this sounds sexist, but you know what?

  the bible is sexist.. in order to establish that birthdays cannot be celebrated, the society references two obscure passages that mentions someone getting killed at a birthday celebration.

  however, nowhere in the scriptures does it say that birthdays are wrong.. but then, when the bible is very clear about something such as this:.

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  CubanGringo

  Interesting question and one I've been pondering recently. I'd been reading some of the content related to Malawi and the organisation's determination to be 'no part of the world' (or, at least the organisation was happy for others to take the hard stance while they stood by and cheered.) The determination to take such a hard and literal stance seemed odd and inconsistent - I thought back to the sisters doing the 'convivial chat' routine and, while they could suggest we are but onlookers, the whole thing was designed to teach - brudders and sisters were supposed to pick up lessons and so there's no reason to play games with language: if you're up there on the stage and covering methods of improving the ministry then you are teaching. What the society was doing was playing loose with the intent of God.

  While I, like yourself, have never felt it's actually appropriate that this constraint is applied, like yourself: if it's in there and part of the inspired scripture base then the JWs really should take it as literally and apply as strongly as they do other scriptures.