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  Commenting At The Meetings---Did You Enjoy It?

  by minimus in

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  was that important for you?

  most people, i believe, forced themselves to give an answer.

  i knew many elders and servants over the years being counseled because they rarely answered.. funny thing....my mom who is 88 cries if she doesn't give a comment.

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  no comment
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  is it just me?? the district convention at nassau coliseum was crazy

  by dugout in

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  number one- fact-it was dangerously overcrowed.

  ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one.

  or they just didnt care.

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  @ Vidiot: Shirley, you broke the first rule of JW Fight Club

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  What is that? Leading with a left jab? Or hitting a dude in a wheelchair?
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  is it just me?? the district convention at nassau coliseum was crazy

  by dugout in

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  number one- fact-it was dangerously overcrowed.

  ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one.

  or they just didnt care.

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  I hate getting fisted at an assembly
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  is it just me?? the district convention at nassau coliseum was crazy

  by dugout in

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  number one- fact-it was dangerously overcrowed.

  ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one.

  or they just didnt care.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  I heard from eyewitnessess that their were actual fist fights at the gates for seats.

  @ Londo: Somehow this experience isn't going to end up in the publications...

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  Watchtower, January 1, 2015, life story article:

  Keep On Seeking the Kingdom and an Assembly Seat First - as told by Jon A.Torial

  "Nothing will deter me from dining at Jehovah's table. After quitting my job to attend the assembly at Naussau, I arrived 4 hours early to be the first in line when the doors opened promptly at 7 am. My love for Jehovah and his provisions are the most important thing in my life. Right before the doors opened, Br. Richard Cranium cut in front of me. Ardor immediately came up into my nose, and righteous indignation rose up, and despite this man being my spiritual brother, he was presumptuously running ahead of me.

  I dropped my book bag holding the most recent Watchtower study articles entitled, "Serving Jehovah in the Most Loving Organization On Earth" and "Brotherly Love- a hallmark of true Christianity", and I cold cocked Br. Dick with a vicious left jab followed by a crushing right uppercut, which caught him squarely under the chin. I went low considering Br. Dick was in a wheelchair at the time. Br. Dick exploded from his chair (I knew he was faking his disability in order to Pioneer while on government disability assistance), and he lunged for my throat. I stopped Br. Dick while in mid-air with a crushing roundhouse kick followed by a chokehold. Br. Dick was unconscious within 10 seconds, or as I like to view it, "spiritually drowsy". While two attendants were reviving him, I rushed the line of my brothers, knocked an older sister out of my way, trampled an infant in a stroller, and got the best seat in the auditorium. I know Jehovah appreciates my dedication and focus and that nothing will stop me from gaining knowledge about the peaceful Paradise Earth to come, where all of our brothers will live in peace and harmony."
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  What did Russell mean by this statement?

  by LogCon in

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  speaking of dwight moody and his associates, pastor russell wrote:.

  it is our thought that the lord used these men, and through their ministry the fore-ordained number was completed at the fore-ordained time, 1881. .

  why 1881?.

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  Finkelstein:The real honest Truth of the matter was Russell instituted the anointed heavenly class as a attainable reward for spreading

  his version of the Gospel for those who helped him distributing his literature door to door.

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  And Rutherford invented the "Earthly Class", the "great crowd" of non-anointed who'll live on a paradise earth, for the very same reason.

  (this, of course, because he had no other way to deal with the fact that the WT organization was growing beyond 144,000 members and there was no where to put everyone else in god's plan. Poof ! We'll just invent a paradise home where all the 'extras' will live). Problem solved.
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  What did Russell mean by this statement?

  by LogCon in

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  speaking of dwight moody and his associates, pastor russell wrote:.

  it is our thought that the lord used these men, and through their ministry the fore-ordained number was completed at the fore-ordained time, 1881. .

  why 1881?.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  *** jv chap. 28 pp. 631-632 Testing and Sifting From Within ***

  Using Bible chronology that had first been laid out by Christopher Bowen of England, they thought that 6,000 years of human history had ended in 1873, that thereafter they were in the seventh thousand-year period of human history, and that they had surely approached the dawn of the foretold Millennium. The series of books known as Millennial Dawn (and later called Studies in the Scriptures), which were penned by C.　T.　Russell, drew attention to the implications of this according to what the Bible Students understood from the Scriptures.

  Something else that was seen as a possible time indicator involved the arrangement that God instituted in ancient Israel for a Jubilee, a year of release, every 50th year. This came after a series of seven 7-year periods, each of which ended with a sabbath year. During the Jubilee year, Hebrew slaves were freed and hereditary land possessions that had been sold were restored. (Lev. 25:8-10) Calculations based on this cycle of years led to the conclusion that perhaps a greater Jubilee for all the earth had begun in the autumn of 1874,　that evidently the Lord had returned in that year and was invisibly present, and that "the times of restitution of all things" had arrived.

  — Acts 3:19-21,　KJ.

  Based on the premise that events of the first century might find parallels in related events later, they also concluded that if Jesus’ baptism and anointing in the autumn of 29　C.E. paralleled the beginning of an invisible presence in 1874, then his riding into Jerusalem as King in the spring of 33　C.E. would point to the spring of 1878 as the time when he would assume his power as heavenly King. They also thought they would be given their heavenly reward at that time. When that did not occur, they concluded that since Jesus’ anointed followers were to share with him in the Kingdom, the resurrection to spirit life of those already sleeping in death began then. It was also reasoned that the end of God’s special favor to natural Israel down to 36　C.E. might point to 1881 as the time when the special opportunity to become part of spiritual Israel would close.
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  God Says Scripture is Enough

  by Perry in

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  from the 2013 new world translation 2 tim.

  all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, so that the man of god may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.. .

  as jw's we must have read that scripture a thousand times.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  But, Shirley, are you running ahead of Jehovah

  I know, it's awesome that my skills allow me to outrun Jehovah™, right? For an explanation of how I can do this, please see my book.

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  P.S.- Jehovah™ has a slow chariot; I have shoes with wings on them. You do the math.
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  God Says Scripture is Enough

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from the 2013 new world translation 2 tim.

  all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, so that the man of god may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.. .

  as jw's we must have read that scripture a thousand times.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  I can leap tall buildings in a single bound, tear a phone book in half with my bare hands and turn lead into gold. I wrote a book about all my talents.

  If you want proof that what I'm saying is true ("unalterable facts" you might say), just read my book...it's all in there.
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  Seventeen-and-a-half glorious minutes with the irrepressible Mr Lett

  by rory-ks in

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  can't...tear...my...eyes...away.... .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8db7m5mzq.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  @ Oubliette: He is clearly dumber than a box of rocks

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  "box of rocks" here: Hey ! What's with the insults, Oubliette?? Clearly I am smarter than this dude. I demand an apology on behalf of all rocks and the boxes they are contained within immediately! How dare you stoop so low as to compare us with this guy.
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  Bizarro world conclusion to the 2014 International Convention Public Bible Discourse

  by rory-ks in

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  it was entitled earth's new ruler - who really qualifies?

  given by brother mark neumeyer*, "who has been a full-time servant for nearly 35 years, and is a helper of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  " it was his second talk of the convention.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  "If you are not one of Jehovah's Witnesses, you are our guest...and we love you"*

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  * dislaimer:

  Unless you choose not to become a Jehovah's Witness. In that case, we happily anticipate your demise and god killing you at Armageddon. You are buzzard bait.