Posts by prologos

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Funny grammar error in German Watchtower

by processor in

they seem to have laid off their proofreaders.

in the new 03/2016 study watchtower there is a picture description:a mature young person does not act like a friend of god at the kingdom hall but a friend of the world at school.

the german issue saysein reifer junger mensch verhalt sich im konigreichssaal nicht wie ein freund jehovas und in der schule wie ein freund der welt.

prologos

My mother tongue is French , TheFadingAlbatros, and it shows, you version came in at 27 words, mais precise, versus 23* for prologos. and 22 for the processor versions,

I still think Prologos' version has merit, for it puts the positive where it is intended (the Hall), and the negative where it belongs, (the school) in wt 's eyes. :---does nicht act as a friend of the world in school.--" nyet.

prologos, take that for shameless self promotion: Eigenlob stinkt, Freundenlob hinkt, Fremdenlob singt.

* the extra word was "junger", so Prologos is 22 too, la racine de la langue de Moliere would add 5 more.

added: a stronger expression still would have been to use "niemals" instead of "nicht"

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new religious wave of young? 90 baptized at assembly

by prologos in

isis has it's young warriors, jw?

last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio.

internet savvy population.

prologos

Jehovah's Witnesses were gassed at Auschwitz., The Guardian. it might have happened, but not because they were devotees, rather such individuals, were caught up as members of another group. I can think of one lady from my youth, who could have been a witness, married to a jew, and who refused to divorce him according to the demands of the Nazi race laws, both had to wear the yellow Star of David in the 1930s and were gone by 1945. gone.

About this story of 90, mostly --46 boys, 44 girls baptized, family, or an "organized" wave could have be factor, we will not have heard the last of it. The sources have never lied to me.

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new religious wave of young? 90 baptized at assembly

by prologos in

isis has it's young warriors, jw?

last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio.

internet savvy population.

prologos

what's the big deal about naming a country? Is it a country with two congregations? it is a personal thing, preserving a small measure of anonymity.

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new religious wave of young? 90 baptized at assembly

by prologos in

isis has it's young warriors, jw?

last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio.

internet savvy population.

prologos

There are always a few gems who will head off to the library

Yeah, my comment was not about the depth of knowledge or devotion even, in that long line trying getting into the change room. -- what libraries?

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new religious wave of young? 90 baptized at assembly

by prologos in

isis has it's young warriors, jw?

last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio.

internet savvy population.

prologos

I'd rather not be specific, but the info is authentic, first hand, by contrast in our summer assembly of the same size there were only ~ 9 -- 10% candidates, at 1 day only one, before even none.

I see the youth with their screen addiction falling prey to these irrational messages removed from reality, A report from germany lately was that the youth is losing*** touch with natural reality, they see the electronics as the field of life.

***I mis-spelled. "loo"-sing

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new religious wave of young? 90 baptized at assembly

by prologos in

isis has it's young warriors, jw?

last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio.

internet savvy population.

prologos

ISIS has it's young warriors, Jw? Last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio. internet savvy population. A population dumbed down to reality by the screen and mouse coming?

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Could trends and group think be evidence of a form of telepathy?

by EndofMysteries in

i was thinking the other day about trends.

think back over the decades and how generally the majority of people will feel or like or dislike the same things.

people comment how awful and ugly things that trended in the past were.

prologos

I am thinking of the murmurations of birds, quasi instant mutual flight maneuvers. I was part of a mob in 1953 , Brick in hand ready to attack Russian tanks, moving like those birds, carried along, little me, without personal control over my actions. Not that I think that some magical field had netted all of us, but it is a eerie memory, to be avoided, or to be sought? Coded logic gave some good analogies, but is there a build-in mega-mechanism that promotes these higher orders, make them inevitable, an addictive, inevitable process?

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Anointed Directing the Anointed?

by compound complex in

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] resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.

revelation: its grand climax at hand!, pages, 124, 125, paragraph 17..

prologos

Beth Sarim, where does it even say the 144 000 of revelation are exclusively anointed ? Rev.7 says they are sealed out of the 12 tribes. Rev 14 does not say anointed either. male virgins perhaps?

anointed directing the Governing body coming in two batches, not all overlapping.

1) those that died before 1918, preferably by the axe of Rev 20.

2) those that died since, and will be dying, (overlappees and overlappers) until Armageddon.-- the bad news?

This miserable performance of heaven to earth communication, will again try to remedy past errors by carrying on into paradise. the New World will just be the same, only more of it.-- what rhymes with it?

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Anointed Directing the Anointed?

by compound complex in

[.

] resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.

revelation: its grand climax at hand!, pages, 124, 125, paragraph 17..

prologos

Lieu:--"We gotta try to remember, the entire JW sect was based on the foundation that Russell, Rutherford, etc could for tell the "rapture".--

good observation, and now? their prediction makes a farce out of the anointed generation, overlapping or not. because : when is the rapture of the last anointed supposed to happen? just before the mother of all tribulations, the finish,-- Arm-a - geddon. What is the trouble with that? well, is the fall of Jerusalem, in it's second fulfillment, not the end of this system and not included in that which jesus foretold would happen before this generation would pass? but wt writers say this generation of anointed will pass well before the end, the beginning of the new. that's why it is guaranteed, it ain't true.

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Anointed Directing the Anointed?

by compound complex in

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] resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.

revelation: its grand climax at hand!, pages, 124, 125, paragraph 17..

prologos

2. Goats are used for the Day of Atonement(Yom Kippur), they represent forgiveness of and the taking away of sin.

Goat meat is really delicious, whereas Lamb is iffy . but goats butt, you could find yourself bumped so: wt has Other Sheep, why not Other Goats? In the Churches, the OS are the Gentile Anointed , since Cornelius,-- in wt, it is the non-Anointed which came to new light only in 1935,.-- Peter Paul and Mary on the other hand have been whispering to Brooklyn, directing since 1918.