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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

  by minimus in

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  good pick?

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  helpful to president biden?

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  Jensus

  I just received my DNA results from Ancestry.com
  

  My Mother was German

  Mine are there, too. Maybe we are related.
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  Thanking Jehovah God for Sports

  by Sea Breeze in

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  serena william's thanks jehovah god for allowing her to participate in sports.

  how nice.

  my jw parents followed the rules and thought they were doing jehovahs will by denying me participation in sports.

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  Jensus

  I also heard the quote: „ For physical training is beneficial for a little, but godly devotion is beneficial for all things, as it holds promise of the life now and the life that is to come.“

  I note that this rendering is more negative than other translations that state physical training is good but godly devotion is better.
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  Is Serena's Williams a JW baptized that is

  by blondie in

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  (can't insert edit in title husband a jw?).

  i just read that serena said both of them were jws.

  but this wouldn't be the first time means 1) supports her beliefs and does them 2) supports her beliefs and doesn't interfered with but no where does it say he is a baptized witness.

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  Jensus

  She was holding the Olympic Torch at the ceremony. Is this not a pagan thing to do?
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

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  Jensus

  
  Is that as compared to PRE pandemic/defund the police/BLM riot levels? Or as compared to the more recent 'defund the cops' period levels? (diogenessister)

  Interesting that you mention this since it seems to be religious pattern in the Bible Student's world. In a German issue of the Present Truth magazine of the LHMM of P.S.L. Johnson they state (translated):

  “Our earlier experiences in the tribulation period were social inequalities, disobedience to authority, strife in the relations between capital and labor, class hatred abounded, deep-seated discontent prevailed, agitations and demonstrations for radical change continued, the poor were malnourished and cried out for bread, the underprivileged demanded money and various “civil rights” from the rich. For years these signs of impending catastrophe have become increasingly evident in the present order of things and more and more “men languish in fear and expectation of the things that are coming upon the world” (Luke 21:26). On this day we witness further outbreaks of trouble. We can name the following: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, defund the police movement (in the USA a movement to take funding away from the police - translator's note), the Covid-19 pandemic is causing great financial disasters, socialist idealism is rife in the world of politics, the governments of the world are in a bankrupt state, the hatred of many factions towards the Christian world continues."

  I notice here that the word “civil rights” has been put in quotation marks. In the following list there is not a word about racism and discrimination, but the Trump vocabulary is used: Antifa (=anti-fascism) as a difficulty (in the concentration camp, by the way, the Bible Students secessionists also got the purple angle), “Black Lives Matter” is a problem and Covid 19 is not described as a health disaster but as a financial one. “Socialist idealism in the world of politics” is denounced. Interestingly, Russell still recommended socialism in Volume IV of Studies in the Scriptures and distinguished it from communism.

  But what can one expect from an institution which, even in a convervative religious environment, clings to the old in a splintering off of a special community.

  (You find the original document here: https://www.bibelstandarte.de/gw/gw99.pdf)
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  What the watchtower demands from you

  by Ron.W. in

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  perhaps you considering joining the wt cult - here is a concise list of why you should not.. what the watchtower demands of you:.

  1.complete obedience to them.. 2. be willing to lose your life for zany blood teachings.. 3.put other cult members before your real family.. 4.refusal to let you leave their religion when the penny drops it's a cult.. 6.accept that they can backtrack and change any of their flip flop teachings at any time.. 7. you can't change your mind about their teachings without harsh discipline,.

  8. insistence that you humbly and quickly apologise for your mistakes and errors.. 9.gladly accept they will never be apologising for any of their mistakes or errors of judgement.. 10.accept that even ones who follow and believe in the bible, but not the governing body are worthy of destruction.. please feel free to add more..

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  Jensus

  I cannot imagine anyone with a clear mind joining this cult today. Everything that somehow could have been viewed as making any sense at all has been crumbling down.
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

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  Jensus

  Biden wasn’t just losing due to his age, it was his record and the state of the country that was keeping him down

  As President Joe Biden runs for reelection, here’s how the U.S. has fared during his time in office:
  

  • The economy added 15.2 million jobs. The number is now nearly 6 million higher than before the pandemic.

  • The unemployment rate dropped back and has stayed lower, longer than at any time during the previous administration.

  • The U.S. economy has expanded each year under Biden and is expected to continue to grow this year, although the first quarter estimate for this year was below expectations.

  • The number of people receiving food stamps has decreased by more than 1 million.

  • The S&P 500 has increased 32.9%.

  • Crude oil production is up 14.2%; imports are up 10.8%.

  • Violent crime has gone down. The latest figures from large cities show an 8.6% drop in murders.
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

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  Jensus

  Oh, before launching three separate comments the censor deleted two of my comments. #freespeechsoimportanttotrumpists

  Ah, and since the reason for Biden's withdrawal has never been given the speculation that he was not able is just - well - not so coherent. It is just copy paste. Please add that Biden should refund the Republicans now.
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  Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??

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  Jensus

  An interesting choice between a sincere prosecutor and a multiple convicted felon.
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  Visited the Russell gravesite yesterday

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  wife and i visited the russell gravesite in allegheny (pittsburgh) pennsylvania yesterday.

  i’ll post photos if i can get them to upload on the hotel wifi..

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  Jensus

  To me it is still fascinating how these early BS started and what evolved out of them. I have a general interest in that time period, too.
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  Separate Identity, vol 3

  by vienne in

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  some of you have read the first two volumes of schulz and de vienne's separate identity series recounting the watch tower's early years.

  uncle b is working steadily on volume three, the last in the series despite declining health.

  a few rough draft paragraphs of chapter three are up on his blog.

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  Jensus

  Great work! Looking forward to the complete release.