Posts by markweatherill

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2022 convention stand-outs, clift notes, comments?? the good, the bad, the ugly...

by enoughisenough in

here is the thing: i tried several times to watch the convention...i just couldn't seem to forge ahead with it.

the reason i wanted to was to be able to engage in conversation about it with some of my old friends that communicate by phone that don't know i have disassociated.

i want to be able to slip in seeds of doubt, but at the same time i have to seem a bit current...) so i welcome to know any take outs, commentary, good or bad, or the video plots, etc.

markweatherill

The story of 'Antoinette' is interesting. In 'JW Thoughts' (Wally's) youtube video on the Saturday morning, there's a clip where the little girl goes on to have a Zoom call with a Russian couple.

I had a look this morning at that video on the org website, and they seem to have edited it down. The Zoom call is now much shorter. It still looks as fake and scripted as anything, but the viewer doesn't get a chance for thoughts like that to crystallise before we're on to the next segment.

Happy to be corrected if that isn't what happened but otherwise I'm happy the original still exists in some form!

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Do you think the brothers who wrote watchtower articles are living in real world?

by Longlivetherenegades in

do you think the brothers who wrote watchtower articles are living in real world?........

david splane........ powerful by faith convention 2021 video.

please i got an excerpt of this from another video but the response by david splane is not included.

markweatherill

'Live in the real world? What, when there's this lovely fantasy world prepared for us?'

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

markweatherill

Well, the 'attic warming party' didn't bring in much in the way of superchats as far as I could see, even by dragging the livestream out to what LE referred to as its 'bitter end'. Yes, a bit disappointing. Perhaps the grand opening of the new media centre will do better.

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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang

by Sea Breeze in

a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.

wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.

that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.

markweatherill

The secularist has limitless faith that Nothing Exploded into Everything.

I can't help reading that in the voice of Kent Hovind.

It's on a par with 'they believe their great granddaddy was a rock!'

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GIVE AN EXAMPLE of the best writing you've ever read

by Terry in

is there one line of prose or poetry that stopped you dead in your tracks and haunted your mind for days on end?

is there a line, a paragraph or a book that feeds your soul and there is no end to its craving?

share it with all of us.

markweatherill

I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When sorrow walked with me.

-Robert Browning Hamilton

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

markweatherill

Relentlessly pursuing a girl with a camcorder is a big red flag in the real world.

I wonder if the footage still exists, or are the tapes worn out from endless freeze-framing and replaying during 'alone time' sessions.

Now I see just how much superhuman restraint such a one would show in refusing to record his judicial committee, eh.

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New Translation Record as 13 Bibles Are Released in One Weekend

by Wonderment in

new translation record as 13 bibles are released in one weekend:.

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/new-translation-record-as-13-bibles-are-released-in-one-weekend/.

markweatherill

merely translated the American-English version of the NWT into these 13 languages.

This inspired me to look at one of the existing versions of the NWT, I picked the Zulu language as one not too obscure.

Just running it through Google Translate, I was not expecting to see this at John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

I checked Tagalog and Welsh, and they do seem to have the doctrinal '...a god'.

A glitch in Google Translate, or a glitch in the Zulu translation committee?

By the way, the Welsh translation hub, or whatever they call it, is an impressive property.

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Is WT Influencing Dubs To Check On Other Dubs' Activities Via ZOOM And Otherwise?

by HiddlesWife in

the reason for my question is because one pimo has noticed that there are some pimis--particularly spimis--who have remarked that they "are not going to contact nor associate with the friends who are delinquent on zoom and/or at in-person kh meetings, conventions, and assemblies".

i've noticed this as well: a few ppimis and pimqs who were very close to me and my exdub family members are hearing from them less and less lately than before last year's rc and this year's rc.

so, is the above a thing nowadays?

markweatherill

Is it just me, or is it acronym central in here! I daren't ask for a list; it might look too much like the '100 genders' list.

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JW Science Quote (1-22)

by TD in

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this week's installment in the science quotes of "celebrated jw scholars" concerns one of their perennial claims.

based on a literal reading of genesis 1:30, jehovah's witnesses believe and teach that all animals were orginally designed to be vegetarians and that the restoration prophecies of isaiah foretell a return to this state.

this has been stated many times in jw literature:.. .

markweatherill

The 2022 convention makes it worthwhile to revisit this excellent thread, what with exhorting members to 'just imagine' many aspects of the paradise to come.

We surely need the writing dept to come up with some speculation, of the 'evidently' and 'likely' variety, of just how the carnivores will be reverted to their presumed previous forms, and whether, in the new system, a tiger might look like a striped cow or something. It only sounds ridiculous to those who are not rightly disposed!

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Did they read this today at the meeting?

by Jerryh in

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markweatherill

The beginning of this article unnacountably made me think of the final scene in Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'.

I think it's very true that the rank and file will just let the details (difficult to rationalise as they are) wash over them, and just be reminded that (1) they're all slaves (2) it's the real life last days.

Nobody will be thinking 'Oh come on, King of the North! Make your mind up which superpower you want to be, you're holding up the Lord's day, and tell Gog he better settle on an identity too!'