Blondie, I'm surprised that the Society hasn't figured out the creative days. The creative days in Gen 1 are 24 hours long. However the time covered in creation within those creative days was millions of years. Like a TV episode is an hour long, but the time covered within that episode can be years. (Unless it is the show 24)
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"How Long Would Jesus' Reign Be?"
by BoogerMan insimple enough question for a jw to answer, because the org has told them for over 100 years that, .
a) jesus would reign for 1000 years, and.
b) that his reign began in 1914 when he became king.
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Regional Convention Attendance
by XBEHERE inelder friend of mine texted me asking what my rc attendance was 2 weeks ago (family and i streamed it since wife is not well).
he told me that his rc in the jersey city assembly hall last weekend was low.
co told them that around 2600 were the total from 16+ congs that were assigned.
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Remember how in 2020 they put cardboard cutouts of people in the stands in baseball and other sports.
They should do that at the assemblies so it looks like more are there and the seats are saved.
That's one way to save seats. Put cutouts of your family in the seats.
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Anyone know what this sculpture is of the "torture stake?"
by charity7 inhey guys!
i'm new on this site and am a non jw here married to a jw.
my husband's family are active members and they daily post articles on facebook from jw.org which i know is meant for me to see and read.
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They could have flayed him and hung him like this
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I'm now turned off by this site
by purrpurr inin one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.
in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.
i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.
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I'm not turned off from this site as much as the Reddit site.
There are just too many kids on there complaining about the meetings. They are the ones that need to be at the meetings.
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The GB is not and has not been protecting sexual predators. There is no Ann Frank going on here where they are hidden in the attics of Kingdom Halls or homes.
2006,2012 the seriousness of viewing abhorrent forms of pornography is clearly emphasized???
So the non-abhorrent forms are ok?
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Anyone know what this sculpture is of the "torture stake?"
by charity7 inhey guys!
i'm new on this site and am a non jw here married to a jw.
my husband's family are active members and they daily post articles on facebook from jw.org which i know is meant for me to see and read.
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"In John 20:25, the number of nails is not clear, but in all English Scriptures, including NW, there is a plural number of nails, so it is natural to think that the nails were done separately in both hands rather than gathering hands on pillars."
I think that it was a single pole with one hand placed on one side and a nail through it and the other hand placed on the other side with a nail through it, which is easier than one nail through both hands. Thus nails plural in his hands. That is easier than a cross beam as there has to be nails to go through that. They would want to conserve resources.
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Very Interesting Post...
by XBEHERE inand then, for two years…..nothing happened.until they pretended everything was normal and sent everyone back to the hamster wheel.
back to meetings, back to d2d, back to assemblies & conventions.
everyone, get back on the hamster wheel, and don’t you dare complain or try to get out of it by using zoom.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/14fhe4y/exercise_patience_classic_gaslighting_from_wt/ .
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2 Timothy 1-5 "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here"
The things that he listed are so general but yet so specific that it has no meaning. There is no reference point.
"For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal"
Were people in his time not lovers of themselves? Were they not lovers of money? Were they not boastful? Haughty? Blasphemers? Were people in Paul's day obedient to parents? Thankful? Loyal, etc?
He would have to set that baseline for there to be comparisons of any future time.
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Very Interesting Post...
by XBEHERE inand then, for two years…..nothing happened.until they pretended everything was normal and sent everyone back to the hamster wheel.
back to meetings, back to d2d, back to assemblies & conventions.
everyone, get back on the hamster wheel, and don’t you dare complain or try to get out of it by using zoom.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/14fhe4y/exercise_patience_classic_gaslighting_from_wt/ .
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I thought that JWs should be immune from covid as they are neutral and covid was created by the democrats to get Trump out of office. So it is surprising that a greater proportion of JWs got the covid and died than those in the world.
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Rainbow 🌈 Law Makers will turn on Religion NOT the UN
by JohnTron7 init should be starting to become more clear to people what i've stated for years on this site.
the threat against religion that becomes pivotal will come from lgbtq politicians forcing through " hate crime" bills aimed at religions.
in the past i have had a " maybe" statement from only one commenter.
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The UN won't be that which attacks religion.
It would go against their charter.
The Purposes of the United Nations are:
- To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
- To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
- To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
- To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
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Anyone know what this sculpture is of the "torture stake?"
by charity7 inhey guys!
i'm new on this site and am a non jw here married to a jw.
my husband's family are active members and they daily post articles on facebook from jw.org which i know is meant for me to see and read.
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The issue is that back in the 1920s Carey Barber and the other directors decided to move from the stauros as cross to the stauros as stake. Which is fine with me. But they because dogmatic about it just to separate them from other religions. I don't see that as Christian.
But I don't think of it as a doctrinal issue. The Romans used both the cross beam and non-cross beams in their executions. Which was used with Jesus? Since no drawings were provided by the eyewitnesses, we don't know.
But what we do know is that which prefigured this, the copper serpent, was on what was called a signal pole. It had to have some method to suspend the object. So a cross piece just does that.
What is significant is 2 Kings 18:5 "He also crushed the copper serpent that Moses had made; for down to that time the people of Israel had been making sacrificial smoke to it and it used to be called the copper serpent-idol."
The object that prefigured Jesus' death (Nu 21:4-9, Joh 3:13-15), was wrongly used as an idol. What I am against is the continual display of the cross as it has become an idol, and people don't realize that.