Posts by Justnowout

in 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.

oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.

but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.

Justnowout

It only counts as observed from Jerusalem

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Watchtower encouraging members to go and preach in Israel

by wannaexit in

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an odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.

it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.

the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.

Justnowout

Negative to this being announced in the USA. I wonder why not here but just accross the way in Canada it was read

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Elders, apostasy and disfellowshipping issue's - thoughts please

by FeelingFree in

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ok so... when i was talking to my mil about why i no longer wanted to be a witness she kept trying to convience me that i needed to speak to the elders.

i said from the word go i didn't feel the need to as my mind was already made up and no one could change it.

i also said if the elders new all my reasons for leaving they would view me as an apostate and i would get disfellowshipped.

Justnowout

They will DF you. They will do it without hesitation. They will try to 'reason' with you first, meaning try to convince you to see it their way, but if they fail they will DF you.

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New songs coming

by kneehighmiah in

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heard from an inside source that there are 3 new songs coming to the songbook.

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Justnowout

Lol half the sheep use digital pups. It would be easy to slip them in and simply advise people to download a new one. Maybe a test to see how effective it can be to update publications.

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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users

by Londo111 in

from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.

it seems that the wts legal dept.

has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.

Justnowout

@l3g, your hearing from an elder. This has never been mentioned or hinted at, although thetr is a km school comming up in 2015.

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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users

by Londo111 in

from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.

it seems that the wts legal dept.

has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.

Justnowout

Sigh... Londo..... So far this all still fantasy.

there has always been snippits of info that comes via CO, however its impossible to do it large scale. There always has been things in print for elders to refer back to. they wont count on people taking notes and remembering things. Its not practicle. Also the CO only shows up twice a year. You would have many congregations behind the curve all the time! It just dosent add up. Also the remark about the branch not being involved in DF'ings is silly. They never were. It has always been local elders with zero input from the CO, btw.

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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users

by Londo111 in

from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.

it seems that the wts legal dept.

has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.

Justnowout

Sorry londo, absolutly no word about this to local elders so far. I would chalk this up to roumou mill fodder