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Time, times and half a time - nerd time
by Anony Mous in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, the famous 607 calculation to 1914 involves the above prophecy.

the common explanation is that time is one unit, times is an unsubstantiated number of units.. to prove you can make it say any date, we must write it as a formula:.

date = t + nt + 0.5t where n >= 2. so simplified:.
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That's all there ever was to being a Jehovah's Witness
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
jehovah's witnesses weren't jehovah's witnesses until 1931.until that year the people who had been hard-headed followers of end times false prophecies by william miller and seventh day adventists, more or less settled into following charisma-ballyhoo preaching by folks like "pastor" c.t.

russell.what was it that attracts these people?

it is a thin veneer of pious bible interpretation as a means of prepping for the end of the world.yep.
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How do you find reddit
by joe134cd in
1. jw
2. experiences
just curious but how do the people off this forum find reddit.

for myself i find reddit to be sadly lacking in the jw world.

i just don't find the depth there e.g one sentence replies, trying to be funny.
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Greenlees, Chapman and Chitty
by Libby in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
so after being rudely awakened by a cat fight outside (it's 3am here in the uk) and then proceeding to go outside to rescue my cats from the neighbourhood tom....... i'm now laying wide awake trying to make sense of jw "truth".

(it's all my mind does these days, the lights gone on and won't turn off).

anyway i found myself reading about the gb and came across these fellows , greenlees, chapman and chitty.
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Beroean Pickets
by joe134cd in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hi i've been reading a web sight called borean pickets.

http://meletivivlon.com/2015/05/09/may-tv-broadcast-on-tv-jw-org/.

although the guy writes some real thought provoking stuff, i sort of don't know what to make of it.
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Watchtower And Taxes
by Bangalore in
1. watchtower
2. bible
*** w94 11/15 pp.

"in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

" so said 18th-century american statesman and inventor benjamin franklin.
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Dearest Tec... re the Rich Man and Lazarus..
by AGuest in
1. jw
2. friends
the greatest of love and peace to you, dear one!.

thank you for your kind patience.

his request to have lazarus dip the "tip" of his finger in "water" and "cool" his "tongue," tells us: there is no water in the world of the dead.
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Luke 23:43 the NWT
by Ade in
1. watchtower
2. bible
luke 23:43 - and jesus said to him, "positively i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.

nwt places comma here , giving a totally different meaning to the verse.

now the average jw uses this to back their doctrine and it seems in itself virtually impossible to reason with them on it.
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mutant toothed chickens
by peacefulpete in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
perhaps you say the story buried deep in todays paper describing the observed mandibular tooth growth in a strain of mutant chickens.

for decades scientists have been able to coax chicken embryos into forming teeth by overlaying epidemal tissue from repiltes or mice onto the forming jaws of a chicken embryo.

the grafted tissue was not the source of the teeth but was by some unknown mechanism triggering the chickens dormant recessive tooth genes to awake.
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Circuit Accounts Servants Confesses how the SCAM WORKS!!
by JT in
1. jw
2. friends
yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?