Why does it need to say in the Bible that Christians should engage in such activities before they do that?
Rattigan350
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Museums the new way to make money?
by raymond frantz inthe organisation is now creating museums in 35 countries, is that their new way of making money?
nowhere does the bible say that christians should engage to such activity but is it possible the watchtower is now making it a priority for :.
a. look like they have something to offer to the community.
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Stress of Going to a Summer Convention
by LostintheFog1999 inspotted this picture on a friend's page, he was highlighting the mental health issue.
however,we thought the magazine on stress was deliberately placed in the summer months because for any jw going to a convention, paying high season hotel rates for themselves or their whole family to stay near the convention centre, fighting coworkers and managers to get the time off work, travelling expenses, buying their own meals for the family, buying new shiny suits and dresses to impress (particularly if you have teenage girls who are looking for their prince), and more.... by the time they come home again and straight away back to work, their nerves will be so frazzled that their stress levels will have sky rocketed!.
as brother elder says to them, "don't worry.
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Rattigan350
The governing body decided one new public issue of Watchtower?
Was there a dispute that was brought to them for them to decide this?
It was more like a case of someone made a suggestion and the GB members agreed with it.
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander inthis has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
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Rattigan350
I think that the problem is that there is a governing body at all.
In the overview of Acts 15 it says "Letter from the governing body in Jerusalem".
There was an issue with some teaching that one must be circumcised to be saved.
Paul and Barnabas disputed them.
Those two and others went to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
Vs 6 "So the apostles and the elders gathered together to look into this matter."
It does not list names other than Peter and James. There was no set board or body of brothers on this 'governing body'.
It doesn't sound like Paul was even on this group of apostles and older men.
In the account there is little focus on the Apostles and older men. Just the issue, and the discussion and the result. And the result was more freedom and not duty to the law.
And it sounds like a one time thing.
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Jehovah's Witnesses get honorable mention today by PA. Rep. Mark Rozzi 😉
by was a new boy inwhich politician will offer a jehovah's witness shredding event?
jehovah's witnesses get honorable mention today by pa. rep. mark rozzi @ 1:12:34 .
pa. special house session -- february 24, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6btqtw4hk.
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Rattigan350
Rozzi pauses like for hours. Did he learn that from the Theocratic Ministry School.
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Another interesting comment made by a PIMI JW
by joe134cd ini thought i’d shear this with you good people.
the cognitive dissonance is just breath taking.
i over heard this comment at a relatives family dinner the other night.
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Rattigan350
"This to me was always a man-made rule!"
Of course it is a man made rule, but not created by the men in the WTBTS.
Look at the table below. The occupations most like JWs are in the middle column, the clean shaven column. Except for pastor. But then I don't see how a physician or people who work with food can wear beards as I'm afraid of shavings falling down into food or on the operating room.
https://www.realmenrealstyle.com/facial-hair-perception/
Professions associated with beards Professions associated with clean-shaven Professions associated with both/neither Professor Lawyer Physician Engineer Colonel Managing director Artist Politician Factory Worker Pastor Diplomat Farmer Psychologist Salesman Bank Clerk -
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander inthis has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
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Rattigan350
Why would poor health cause him to step down from the GB? It's not like they do anything but have a meeting and work in an office.
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Rattigan350
Why the hate against Lett and Herd? It is Loesch that is bad.
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How to debunk the 1914 calculus ONLY using JW publications?
by psyco ini remember having read somewhere, but i cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using only jw publications, like "insight on the scriptures" (chronologies) for example.. do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?.
thanks..
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Rattigan350
What is so difficult about this? Nathan told David that his offspring would rule on Jehovah's throne forever, leading to Jesus on the throne. Jesus never became king on the throne so that tells us that something must have happened to prevent the prophesy from failing. This is why those who do not believe Dan 4 means anything bigger than to Babylon are wrong because if it is not real, it is calling Nathan false.
Daniel was told that the kingdom was put on pause for 7 times or 2520 years in the tree dream. This is not a JW interpretation or even a Russell thing. That interpretation preceded them.
That kingdom was put on pause when the kings in the line of David lost their sovereignty. It was not about the destruction of Jerusalem. Nathan didn't say the destruction of Jerusalem was anything. People don't think about it was Nathan's prophecy that started it all, because they are too focused on what the Watchtowers have said over the years because they were focusing on those men.
2 Chron 36:3 ", the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land 100 silver talents and a gold talent. Furthermore, the king of Egypt made Je·hoʹa·haz’ brother E·liʹa·kim king over Judah". Sounds like they lost their sovereignty.
2 Kings 24:2 "Then Jehovah began to send against him marauder bands of Chal·deʹans, Syrians, Moʹab·ites, and Amʹmon·ites. He kept sending them against Judah to destroy it. 3 Surely it was by the order of Jehovah that this happened to Judah,". Think about it, if the kings were still sitting on Jehovah's Throne, why would Jehovah send enemies against his own king on his thrown.
Dan 1:1 "In the third year of the kingship of King Je·hoiʹa·kima of Judah, King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it" That is when Daniel was taken to Babylon. Daniel 9:2 " in the first year of his (Darius) reign I, Daniel, discerned by the books the number of years mentioned in the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet to fulfill the desolation of Jerusalem, namely, 70 years". Daniel knew the end of the 70 because he knew the beginning of it because he was there.
If Jerusalem was destroyed in 587, Zedekiah reigned for 11 years ending in 587 then so he started 598, Jehoiachin was for 3 months, and before him, Jehoiakim was king for 11 years which would be around 609-610. The 3rd year according to Daniel would be around 607. 607 - 70 = 537. 607 - 2520 = 1914 but the pause of the kingdom could have started at the beginning of Jehoiakim in 610 as 2 Chron 36:3 says. 610-2520 years = 1911. I say around because we don't need to be like Russell declaring Oct 1, 1914 as special. We don't need exact dates. The war in heaven occurred and satan was cast out. That sounds like a good time to start WWI. While in the past QfR said the war's starting in August before October, was the devil's preparing; but I think that is rationalizing. It could have been a year or 2 before.
It was Nelson Barbour in 1881 that added the 20 years because he thought 587 would lead to a 50 year desolation. But he, like so many others like Carl Oloff Jonsson, can't see the forest because they are looking too closely at the trees. They keep thinking of destruction of Jerusalem when that didn't have the meaning.
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How to debunk the 1914 calculus ONLY using JW publications?
by psyco ini remember having read somewhere, but i cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using only jw publications, like "insight on the scriptures" (chronologies) for example.. do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?.
thanks..
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Rattigan350
"Leading scholars including biblical historians, archaeologists, chronologists etc endorse 586 BCE and not 587 BCE."
Does it matter? It has always been stated that Jerusalem was destroyed 586/587 because one date can't be pointed to.
"WT scholars have traditionally provided simple and compelling evidence based on the recognition of the 70 years of Jewish Exile and the fact that Judah was desolate for 70 years proved beyond doubt that the only possible date for the Fall of Jerusalem was 607 BCE."
There are no WT scholars. It is Nelson Barbour that moved the destruction 20 years back because he thought the 70 years was from the destruction, when it was not.
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How to debunk the 1914 calculus ONLY using JW publications?
by psyco ini remember having read somewhere, but i cannot find it anymore, that it is possible to debunk the 1914 calculus using only jw publications, like "insight on the scriptures" (chronologies) for example.. do you have any sources about that to suggest to me?.
thanks..
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Rattigan350
"So you already have a new chronology? Just need to lose 20 years somewhere I suppose"
Um, It is not new chronology. That is the original chronology. It is Nelson Barbour that added the 20 years because he thought that 587 would make it a 50 year desolation. But he did not understand that the 70 years ran from when Daniel was taken (that's how Daniel knew when they would end, because he knew when they began) not when Jerusalem was destroyed.