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  JWTV May Broadcast is up. hosted by an old burnt hot dog

  by Dreamerdude in

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  what's up with jw parents taking their minor children to such desolate places?

  like the english family that took their little kids to the jungles of ecuador, and the australians that took their little ones to norfolk island where hardly anyone lives, and they are the only children in a congregation of 11 publishers?

  is this a new form of child abuse?

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  TheOldHippie

  " It was a god forsaken shit hole of a town."

  Yes, the world outside of the US borders is a terrible place - how happy I am for you that you have the wonderful, safe, abundant, clean Great Trump USA in which to live.
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  Why did Jehovah want to kill Moses?

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

  on the way, at a place where they spent the night, the lord met him and tried to kill him.

  but zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched moses' feet with it, and said, "truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!

  it was then she said, "a bridegroom of blood by circumcision.

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  TheOldHippie

  Not quite ignored, it is quoted in Insight, saying

  Scholars have offered many interpretations of this passage, some of these being incorporated into modern Bible translations. (See CC, JB, Kx, La, NE, RS, as well as the German Zürcher Bibel, the Spanish Bover-Cantera and the French Crampon, Lienart, and Segond versions.) Such interpretations attempt to settle questions as to whether it was Moses’ or the child’s life that was threatened, whether Zipporah touched the feet of Moses or the feet of the child or the feet of the angel with the foreskin. They also venture opinions as to why Zipporah said (and to whom she said), “You are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

  It seems that it was the child’s life that was in danger in view of what the law of circumcision states at Genesis 17:14; that Zipporah circumcised the child because she realized what was needed to set matters right; that she cast the foreskin at the feet of the angel who was threatening the child’s life to demonstrate her compliance with Jehovah’s law; that Zipporah addressed Jehovah through his representative angel when she exclaimed, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me,” doing so to show her acceptance of a wifely position in the circumcision covenant with Jehovah as the husband.—See Jer 31:32.

  But there is no way of Scripturally settling such questions with certainty. The literal reading of the ancient Hebrew in this passage is veiled in the idioms used nearly 3,500 years ago. This is why literal translations (NW, Ro, Yg) and others (AS, KJ, Da, Dy, JP, Mo, Le), including the ancient Greek Septuagint, are not clear on these matters.
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  JWTV May Broadcast is up. hosted by an old burnt hot dog

  by Dreamerdude in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what's up with jw parents taking their minor children to such desolate places?

  like the english family that took their little kids to the jungles of ecuador, and the australians that took their little ones to norfolk island where hardly anyone lives, and they are the only children in a congregation of 11 publishers?

  is this a new form of child abuse?

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  TheOldHippie

  When other people take their children with them to spend a year sailing around the world, live for some years among highland people of the Andes, live in China to broaden their view - it is regarded an excellent thing and lots of other people sigh, thinking/saying "why didn't WE do that"? Why is it a bad thing in Your eyes? We often have planned or thought of setting off and living somewhere else for months/years, but never have gotten as far as really doing it. Wish it were me, wish it were my parents.
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  Are JWs now encouraged to volunteer?

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i retired i volunteered for several community service programs, including working with the local food bank.

  every fourth thursday of each month i help out in distributing food to needy families at the local veterans building.

  i've been helping out for five years now.

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  TheOldHippie

  Me too, Faye - so then we are 2.
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  Official Watchtower representative at Government / Religion meeting in Austria

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  part 3 of maybe not so relevant information, but nice to know and opening my eyes during the past years, were this pictures of an official watchtower representative attending a meeting between the austrian government and the country's main religions.

  i don't know who the representative is, no names, no face, i cut and past it from some website.

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  TheOldHippie

  So what? A Meeting between some government institution and representatives of religious groups, what's the problem? Does that have to be some conspiracy-thing? The government perhaps wants to discuss some planned changes in legislation towards religious groups and wishes the opinion of the named groups. Perhaps they want to know how the climate can be better between them and the groups. Perhaps they want to know whether the groups want to be involved in some charity work towards refugges - who knows? Two pictures, so what?
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  No historical evidence for bronze age men living to 500yrs old?

  by purrpurr in

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  2. beliefs

  the bible tells us that noah etc lived to 500yrs old as did many other characters who lived apparently to incredible years.. yet archaeological research tells us from looking at skeletons that have been dug up that the average lifespan was very short.

  if a man got to the age of 50 they would have considered that quite an achievement.

  when i was in i always wondered about this?

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  TheOldHippie

  Could not a man whose body was far more perfect than ours, be estimated by researchers today to have died at the age of 40, whereas in reality he was 736? How would the bones of a close-to-perfect man, Bible style, age - and would not his body be judged by today's researchers based on how bone decay and structure is today?
  
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  How does Life expectancy by Country affect JW growth?

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  here's something i haven't considered before.

  below are the average life expectancies by country (male and female combined), which i found at:.

  http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/life-expectancy-country.html.

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  TheOldHippie

  I am sorry to have to tell you that you are making one HUGE mistake in saying that when life expectancy in Malawi is 60, it means there are close to no people there 60 or older. The main difference is summed up in two words, my friend: Child mortality. Life expectancy at birth varies a lot, as your tabulation shows, but if you had looked at it once they have reached the age of say 20, it evens out. There are lots of old people in African countries, but the figures above are influenced by the terrible death rate of children.

  Also, that a population is ageing, as in Japan and other countries, has nothing to do with people living longer, but has to do with the number of children born. Fewer children born = ageing population. People living longer does not influence the ageing of a population. People DO live longer, but it is two mechanisms that do not influence each other.
  
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  Can you image sitting there hearing this (Spanish)

  by fulano in

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  2. experiences

  gerrit losch giving a talk in so-called spanish in the dominican republic.

  first begging for donations ...and than this.

  brothers and sisters travelling hours and hours to hear this reading, he obviously doesnt speak spanish, just knows how to read it.

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  TheOldHippie

  I don't think his Spanish is bad, and his opening comments when he is talking freely and not has to follow the script, is rather good. I wonder how some of you guys would have made it if you should deliver a talk in a language which you have learnt and is not your native one.

  The first one to comment says it is the same talk he gave in Mexico two years ago and possibly the only one he knows in Spanish ..............
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.

  it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.

  a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.

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  TheOldHippie

  By the way, they had damned good cameras 250 million years ago!
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  Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.

  it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.

  a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.

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  TheOldHippie

  Before conscious life arrived, life and Earth must have been strange .......... C G Jung wrote much on this, how the Earth and life - land animals, birds, fish, ocean animals - existed in a strange way, yet unknown, yet undiscovered, before the dawn of consciousness.

  I am not a Creationist, but I believe in a Creator, and then after Creation of "Grundtypen", "Basic Units", they adapted within their boundaries, and natural processes took place as were/are inherent in them. Doesn't destroy my confidence in a Creator and Creation.