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  Jesus is Yahweh......Titles applied to YHWH and Jesus in Old and N.T.......credit to Bill Cetnar

  by krismalone in

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  Yes, Jehovah was called Lord. Jesus was called Lord. And there are sith Lords. But they are not all the same person.

  Lords are subject to Kings.
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  Police and Fire Department Officials in Guatemala Benefit From Bible-Based Workshops

  by TheFadingAlbatros in

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  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/guatemala/police-and-fire-department-officials-in-guatemala-benefit-from-bible-based-workshops/.

  i am surprised that a government authority is calling on a religious organization to give their police and fire department officials instructions to behave in a better way with the guatemalan population.

  the organization of jehovah's witnesses is well known to separate families (shunning) and have in the past protected numerous pedophiles within their organization ( maybe they are still doing it now somewhere in secret, who knows ?

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  "organization of Jehovah's Witnesses is well known to separate families (shunning) and have in the past protected numerous pedophiles within their organization"

  It's not as simple as you make it. Shunning is only done when disfellowshipped. So JWs are not known to separate families, but the dfd one is.

  And about protecting pedophiles... Your statement is so general and without definition. I just can not take such inaccuracy. No pedophile has been protected within the organization.

  You don't define pedophile, protected, numerous or how it is done within the organization.

  So you need to get it right first.
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  Jesus is Yahweh......Titles applied to YHWH and Jesus in Old and N.T.......credit to Bill Cetnar

  by krismalone in

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  The whole premise of the diagram is based on his one dimensional logical and it fails.
  

  I had argued with Bill back in the 80s over this and how his diagram is put together from out of context texts.
  

  Jehovah is called Judge

  Jesus is said to Judge.

  So what? Does not mean they are the same person.

  Judge Judy is a Judge. Is she God?

  Jehovah is called Rock. Jesus is called Rock. Duane Johnson is called Rock. There is your trinity.
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  November 2019 Watchtower Study....Exaggeration at its finest

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  the watchtower—study edition | november 2019. lessons we can learn from the book of leviticus.

  16 satan and his world have done much to make the work of that faithful slave challenging, even impossible, to carry out from a human standpoint.

  despite two world wars, relentless persecution, global economic crises, and unjust treatment, the faithful and discreet slave has continued to provide spiritual food for christ’s followers on earth.

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  the faithful and discreet slave has continued to provide spiritual food for Christ’s followers on earth"

  But do we need it? Can life continue good without it?
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  So how are they going to proclaim peace and security when in the last days the kings of the North and the South are to be engaged in battle?

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  1 Thess 5:3 is not a prophesy. There is no cry of peace and security.They get that wrong. But they need mile markers to point to scripture for the future.
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  ALJ denies refund to tax-exempt to Watchtower

  by Rattigan350 in

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  https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8bdcae82-b20f-4ac4-9c04-4b1cf1191aab.

  alj denies refund to tax-exempt religious organization .

  finding that a tax-exempt religious organization failed to meet the requirements of the statute providing for exemptions from the motor fuel tax for exempt organizations, a new york state administrative law judge has upheld the department of taxation and finance’s denial of a refund.

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  https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8bdcae82-b20f-4ac4-9c04-4b1cf1191aab

  ALJ denies refund to tax-exempt religious organization

  Finding that a tax-exempt religious organization failed to meet the requirements of the statute providing for exemptions from the motor fuel tax for exempt organizations, a New York State Administrative Law Judge has upheld the Department of Taxation and Finance’s denial of a refund. Matter of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., DTA Nos. 827916 & 828547 (N.Y.S. Div. of Tax App., Sept. 26, 2019).

  Facts. Petitioner Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (“Watchtower”) is a New York not-for-profit corporation exempt from sales and use taxes under Tax Law § 1116(a)(4). Its purposes are religious and charitable, and it supports the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses by, among other activities, printing and distributing religious material, supporting religious education, and building and owning facilities where religious activities are performed.

  Construction of Watchtower’s world headquarters in Warwick, New York, began in 2013 and concluded in 2017. The construction site presented unique challenges, since it was small but occupied by many workers and pieces of equipment working under a tight deadline. At the site, approximately 108 pieces of equipment owned by Watchtower were fueled with diesel motor fuel, which was transfered first into fuel tanks, primarily a 4,500 gallon tank carried on a fuel truck. For most of the project, Watchtower dispensed the diesel from its fuel tanks into a smaller 600 gallon tank that could easily navigate the construction site and was used to deliver fuel to the various pieces of equipment on site. Each tank was equipped with a diesel nozzle that was capable of fueling the equipment used by Watchtower. Although the nozzles were too large to fuel most on-road vehicles such as passenger cars and trucks, they could be used to fuel buses and tractor trailers. Watchtower did not permit any of the fuel to be used for on-road vehicles, and implemented policies and security procedures—such as securing all tanks and nozzles with keys kept in a secure location, limiting access to the keys, and hiring security guards—to prevent the fuel tanks from being used to fuel anything other than its off-road construction vehicles.

  The Law and the Dispute. Article 13-A of the Tax Law imposes tax on petroleum products sold or used in the State, which is passed through to the purchaser by the seller as part of the selling price. Tax Law § 301-b(h) provides an exemption for non-highway diesel motor fuel, known as “dyed diesel,” sold to nonprofit organizations, if the fuel is delivered to the premises of the exempt organization, used exclusively for exempt activities, and consumed other than on State highways. The statute also explicitly provides that the exemption does not apply “to a sale of non-highway diesel motor fuel which involves a delivery at a filling station or into a repository which is equipped with a hose or other apparatus by which such non-highway . . . fuel can be dispensed into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle.” While all other requirements of the statute were met, the disputed issue was whether Watchtower’s acceptance of the dyed diesel into fuel trucks and tanks equipped with nozzles disqualified it from receiving the exemption.

  The Determination. The ALJ denied the refund. He rejected the argument made by Watchtower that the statute should be interpreted to allow the exemption because the dyed diesel was not permitted to be dispensed into vehicles other than construction vehicles, and had not been actually used for other purposes, finding that tax exemptions are to be strictly and narrowly construed, with a presumption against the taxpayer and in favor of the taxing authority. The ALJ held that the statute does not “look to whether the exempt organization permits dyed diesel to be dispensed into motor vehicles but whether the repository . . . can fuel a motor vehicle.” (Emphasis added.)

  Watchtower had argued that the strict interpretation made the exemption impossible because there are no fuel nozzles in existence capable of filling exempt road building machinery but not ordinary motor vehicles, so there was no way for Watchtower to comply with the statutory requirement. However, the ALJ found that Watchtower could have qualified for the exemption if, instead of accepting delivery into intermediary repositories and then fueling its equipment, it had directed its supplier to directly fuel the construction vehicles.

  ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS

  It is a familiar principle that tax exemptions are strictly and narrowly construed, so any party seeking an expansive definition of an exemption will have an uphill battle. Some taxpayers have argued that an exemption should not be interpreted so narrowly that the intended purpose is thwarted, but that argument does not seem to have been raised here, and the determination does not discuss any legislative history, or delve into the reasons why the exemption was crafted with the specific language governing the nature of the equipment rather than the actual use made of the product. It is always important to closely examine the exact requirements of an exemption statute in structuring a transaction in which a party hopes to take advantage of any tax exemption.
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  WTS No longer "welcoming" people to Brooklyn

  by blondie in

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  https://www.6sqft.com/welcome-sign-will-soon-replace-the-iconic-watchtower-sign-in-brooklyn-heights/.

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  Blonde, the sign and the buildings made JWs proud. There were postcards made of the buildings in NYC.

  Many people took trips to Brooklyn Bethel and worked there.
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  January 2020 Watchtower - Dogma being force-fed yet again as "truth"!

  by The Fall Guy in

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  if the wording & context of a scripture is dismissed at the outset, then every statement and assumption which follows is implicititly false.

  in the very first study article, the gibbering body continues to indoctrinate the sheeple to accept that over 500 people met jesus on the mountain - despite the blatant fact that 1 corinthians 15:6 says absolutely nothing about the 500 people being anywhere near galilee!

  (matthew 28:16-20) however, the 11 disciples went to galʹi·lee to the mountain where jesus had arranged for them (the 11 disciples) to meet.

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  Smiddy said"Followers of Jesus Christ , Christians , are to be witnesses of Jesus ,not Jehovah according to the NWT of the Bible ."

  Rutherford put the name Jehovah's Witnesses on the followers because of Isaiah 43 so nicely put it.

  Also he compared the anointed at that time to the Israelites in their relationship to Jehovah.
  
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  January 2020 Watchtower - Dogma being force-fed yet again as "truth"!

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if the wording & context of a scripture is dismissed at the outset, then every statement and assumption which follows is implicititly false.

  in the very first study article, the gibbering body continues to indoctrinate the sheeple to accept that over 500 people met jesus on the mountain - despite the blatant fact that 1 corinthians 15:6 says absolutely nothing about the 500 people being anywhere near galilee!

  (matthew 28:16-20) however, the 11 disciples went to galʹi·lee to the mountain where jesus had arranged for them (the 11 disciples) to meet.

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  Blonde. Why do you print out the Watchtowers when they are in PDFs?

  And when Jesus said eat my flesh and drink my blood, he later explained it and also at the memorial.

  Father, son and Holy spirit had no explanation.

  Conybeare had some articles saying that.

  There are plenty of websites stating it was added.
  
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  Boys pre-teen sexuality / erections.? Why ? If only for procreation ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  this has been a bug bear my whole life i think and not really sure how to address it as nobody else ever seems to do so.. and it relates to the question if god really created humans .

  he did a shithouse job in this regard.. i can`t speak for females this is entirely a male thing.

  from my perspective.. male adolescents at a very ,very young age , babies , get erections periodically and it has nothing to do with sexual fantasies ,because they don`t even have an awareness of sex between a male and a female at this time.. and it is second inbuilt nature to masturbate to relieve, get rid of the erection .

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  The problem is that he made human reproduction to be automated like the animals.

  Ovulation and Menstruation are every 28 days. Eggs should only be released when the woman wants to get pregnant. However it is possible that the other parts would not work if they weren't in continuous function.

  Ejaculation is also automated after stimulation, rather than just when he wants it to.

  As for erections, that is just a signal from the brain to a muscle that controls a valve that lets blood out. That i all automated too without age being a factor.