Posts by TheOldHippie

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WATCHTOWER LIBRARY 2015

by adamluis in

we have ours.

i have attached pic.

waiting for my copy.

It is not like a magazine from 1994 is now changed because of a new understanding of a topic. As for books, the electronic version corresponds to the latest paper version. As for magazines, there have been a couple of changes, but in those instances, they were typos that were detected early and so the translated issues already had the changes (because they back in the old days were issued four-five months after the US originals).

If they really had wanted to change old versions, then why do you still find in the Ezechiel commentary book in the elctronic version that the prwaching work will be completed before the end of the 20th century? So changes are only made where there are changed printed versions.

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Money Grab started in India

by cognitivedizzy in

jw
friends

i don't know how the fellow who made the resolution from stage to send 80% of the congregation funds to the indian branch as an outright donation made it with a straight face.

and all the sheeples nodded like they understood the shit he were spewing.

i'm so mad at this cult .

TheOldHippie

"theoldhippie link please, for your assertion."

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/growing-foreign-funds-to-religious-organisations-ngos-makes-government-take-notice/1/128748.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-crackdown-on-ngos-receiving-foreign-funding-prompts-us-criticism/2015/05/06/f65ec68a-f3f2-11e4-bca5-21b51bbdf93e_story.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/06/11/indian-organizations-banned-from-receiving-foreign-funds/

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/foreign-contribution-regulation-act-new-crackdown-on-ngo-foreign-funds/

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Money Grab started in India

by cognitivedizzy in

jw
friends

i don't know how the fellow who made the resolution from stage to send 80% of the congregation funds to the indian branch as an outright donation made it with a straight face.

and all the sheeples nodded like they understood the shit he were spewing.

i'm so mad at this cult .

TheOldHippie

This affects many organisations in India. It has been made unlawful for any organisation in India to receive funds from abroad. They are all on their own. So the aim of the anger should be the higher powers in Delhi, not in Brooklyn.

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New Word Coined In April 2016 WT!

by Naoscillator in

and the word is... .

canaanitelike!.

here it is in context, just in case you're curious about how to use this new word.. article: being faithful leads to god's approval.

TheOldHippie

Try googling Canaanitelike and you'll be amazed at how many times the word has been used BEFORE the supposedly new word appeared in the WT.

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Spanish defenders of the Watchtower? (Or other languages!)

by slimboyfat in

are there any unofficial watchtower defenders publishing in spanish?

i'm doing a survey and i think i've got most of those writing in english covered.

then there's gerard gertoux and a few others in french, furuli from norway, matteo pierro in italian, johannes wrobel and others in german.

TheOldHippie

Has nothing to do with Spanish - but in both German and English Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig writes interesting books on his field of research, which is molecular biology of both plants and animals. He is now retired, but was a professor at the well known Max Planck Institute. His book on the supposed evolution of the long-necked giraffe is well worth reading, and he recently has a book published on dog species or breeding as well. That one is also downloadable free of charge from his website. His books are available from Amazon. He has small, nice phrases interwoven in his texts from time to time, as in his book on giraffes, in the acknowledgments section, where he gives thanks to those who have inspired and helped him, and towards the end writes that the greatest thanks go to the Creator of such marvelous creatures as the giraffes. He was interviewed in Awake some years ago, in a special issue on creation.

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The Elders are Coming Help!

by LaurenM in

so the elders keep bugging me and pestering me about having a meeting with them to "introduce me to my new congregation" for some reason (do any ex elders know what that even means??).

i keep postponing and making excuses and they are getting more and more aggressive.

i finally agreed for them to come over today, but really don't want to..should i hide from them again?

TheOldHippie

Funny thread.

Perhaps they are nice, caring persons just wanting to drop by and say hello and see if they can be of any help or support - and here "half USA" is online trying to scare the shit out of each other 'cause some man eating monsters are coming.

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The Exodus confirmed..

by Crazyguy in

for those of you that don't research this stuff i will give a little back story.

we all know about the moses exodus, but history and archeology didn't seem to confirm this event.

the only exodus out of egypt ever recorded was that of a group of asiatic tribes that had taken over egypt for a bit over 100 years called the hyksos and the followers of the pharaoh akhenaten who perpetuated a monotheistic idea of worshiping only one deity the aten.

TheOldHippie

It is way more interesting to read the books and web site of David Rohl and associates, dealing with "The New Chronology". What you refer to, seems to be a spin off from that.

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What were Satan and his demons "doing" up in heaven, before being "cast down" in 1914?

by Dunedain in

i was just thinking about how the wts has been spouting off for years that satan and his demons were cast down to the vicinity of the earth in 1914, but really, when you think about it, what was the difference before 1914 or after 1914?.

its not like satan and his demons did not have access to the earth.

satan and his demons always were messing with earth.

TheOldHippie

"Nothing happened in 1914."

No. No war or anything. Just another quiet year.

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Why does the Watchtower leadership slap its own defenders in the face?

by slimboyfat in

take the case of rolf furuli.

i don't think there has been a specific thread on the hebrew verbs u-turn in the nwt, and how the society has responded to the work of perhaps their brightest and ablest defender in their history.

so here goes.. rolf furuli has defended jws on multiple fronts in many different settings, on issues ranging from chronology, mental health, doctrines, bible translation and the blood issue.

TheOldHippie

I wonder what Jason BeDuhn would have to say on the Greek text, considering his praise for the NWT in "Truth in Translation".

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What were Satan and his demons "doing" up in heaven, before being "cast down" in 1914?

by Dunedain in

i was just thinking about how the wts has been spouting off for years that satan and his demons were cast down to the vicinity of the earth in 1914, but really, when you think about it, what was the difference before 1914 or after 1914?.

its not like satan and his demons did not have access to the earth.

satan and his demons always were messing with earth.

TheOldHippie

"They must have been so boooooored all those millions of years "

Remember, though, that time only exists when matter does. So when there is no matter, no "stuff", there is no time, just an eternal "now". Before creation of matter started, there was no time, and so therefore one is wrong in stating that Jesus was with his Father for countless billions of years before they started creating the Universe - before the Universe there was no time. For someone outside of the Universe, outside of matter, it all happened at one moment, one "now", but the results would take action in time ahead of that "now".

So how can you be bored if all you have is "now"?