Posts by TheOldHippie

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@ RAYMOND FRANTZ

by The Searcher in

hi raymond, do you have any further info/copy of the anouncement asking for money?.

thanks..

Ethos said: ''the GB have never claimed to have any special ability'' Some WT quotes..

by punkofnice in

(wt 1957 june 15 p. 370) .

watchtower 1957 june 15 p.370 "it is vital that werespond to the directions of the "slave" as we would to the voice of god.

" (wt 1964 june 15 p. 365) .

A bit interesting, that 3 of the quotes were from Russel's era, 3 from Rutherford's, then there were 8 quotes from 1941 thru 1980, and only 2 are taken from the 32 years since 1980. So it seems you have to dig really deep into the history to find them quotes, and that lately not much has been said ..............

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Rare find: WTS endorsed 4-page pamphlet, The Broadcaster. Bet you never heard of it before now!

by AndersonsInfo in

jw
friends

http://www.watchtowerdocuments.com/documents/1920-1949.html.

to see twenty issues of the rarest of the rare wts endorsed pamphlets (or brochures), click on the link above and then scroll down the column on the left of the page to the date 1924 - 1925 where you will find listed the words, .

the broadcaster - wts endorsed-must read *new*.

TheOldHippie

They are regularly for sale at ebay - not very rare at all, quite common in fact.

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New Light - FDS not appointed over Jesus' belonging just yet

by leaving_quietly in

from http://www.jw.org/en/news/events-activities/annual-meeting-report-2012/.

when does jesus appoint the slave over all his belongings?.

in those verses, jesus is referring to his coming as judge during the great tribulation.matthew 24:30; 25:31, 32.. jesus appointment of the slave over his belongings, then, must also be a future event.

TheOldHippie

The ransom directly for the GC as well and not sort of "thru" the 144,000.

Being inside the Temple.

Perhaps partaking of the emblems.

Long list of possibilities, and they pointed to next year's annual meeting as important.

For my part, I find the change as to FDS very satisfying, as it has done away with a series of inconsistencies. More and more things are pushed into the future. Mainstreaming. But I liked it.

The one telling he loved the new light - really had a big mouth ............... literally.

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Some Interesting Numbers to Compare With 20,000 Baptisms Each Month

by LostGeneration in

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friends

blondie's comments on the wt this last sunday brought this to my attention.

the b0rg brags that 20,000 get dunked each month.

compare that to the following numbers from this site: http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/greatc.html#birdatrate.

TheOldHippie

"By the way, the death rate for witnesses is grossly exagerated. The people dying of old age now on average were born in 1944. To calculate a proper death percentage for witnesses, you would need to consider what percentage of the population JW's were in 1944, a much, much smaller number."

Quite simply totally utterly wrong! The death rate of around 1 % is calculated based on the present population (or size of the group you are considering) and is the added sum of the death expectancy for each age (0 years of age + 1 year of age + 2 years of age ... etc.) which amounts to approx. 1 %. If the JW death rate is any different from 1 %, my guess is that it would be slightly higher, because of the high death rate in Africa and Latin America.

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Ok Watchtower: will you be sending a DO to the funerals in Nigeria?

by Aussie Oz in

obviously you 'cared' about whitney's death, a horrible tragedy, enough to rally the troops and send a district overseer no less, to give the funeral talk.. do you care enough about the 20 poor jw's that died in that tragic truck cum bus accident in nigeria?

who will you be sending to the funerals?

what demonstration of the great brotherly love will you do for them?.

TheOldHippie

Perhaps a terrible tragedy like this is not the ideal topic for neither bad jokes nor easy critisism? Many children have lost their parents, many parents have lost their children, families have been wiped out - they should not be the object of sarcasm.

TOH

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Annual meeting. Greek scholars please help!

by DATA-DOG in

below is a statement from gb member gerrit losch.

notice what is said about the fds.

is this true?

TheOldHippie

1. There are quite a few amateurs here, partly stating themselves that they have only a very vague insight into the NT Greek - but that does not seem to stop them from having very clear opinions as to why the statement of Loesch simply HAS to be wrong.

2. Perhaps - just perhaps - it would be better to wait until we can see the whole argument as part of a WT article within a couple of months, and not just as an incomplete sentence within very short and scanty minutes?

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JW ORG duplicity? : Baptismal question.

by Splash in

on jw.org there's a section which asks the rhetorical question "are you christians?"..

( http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/are-jehovahs-witnesses-christians/ ).

it has a number of points to explain why jw's are christians, and the third point reads:.

TheOldHippie

I think you are mixing up the baptism and the response you give after the baptismal talk. When you are baptised shortly afterwards, immersed in water, it is in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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January 2013 Watchtower. Interesting comment re 6000 years

by alanv in

just had a quick read through the new 16 page edition of the watchtower, and noticed an article about able who was adam's son.

the article said in part.

abel speaks to you today.

TheOldHippie

The rapidity of it all after the Flood really is the problem, Phizzy. Life's distribution after the Flood. Mankind's growth after the Flood, so that already 200 years later nations and cities are mentioned.

If saying the Flood was devastatingly huge, enormous, never seen anything like it, massive results all over the world - but not covering all of the Earth, the problem would be solved.

Millions of years prior to Adam doesn't matter, as long as it all narrowed down to a handfull of people and animals 4,200 years ago.

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January 2013 Watchtower. Interesting comment re 6000 years

by alanv in

just had a quick read through the new 16 page edition of the watchtower, and noticed an article about able who was adam's son.

the article said in part.

abel speaks to you today.

TheOldHippie

Quite a few years ago there was a question not about Neanderthals but about other human-like fossils, and the comment was that if these were human, then they belonged to a branch of the human family that since then has disappeared. I guess the Neandethals would be regarded much the same way, they were human, people, but of a branch or race that has disappeared. Search a bit in the WTLibrary and you will find the quote.