The fact that their selling the tools makes it obvious to me that they do not plan on doing much building and if they do it will be small scale and by outside contractors. With a net increase of 20k new members there's no reason to build anytime soon.
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Liquidation sale of RBC assets
by Darkknight757 ingot this very interesting email last night and i thought i'd share it.. this is from the local rbc.. "in harmony with our new ldc form we have been asked by the branch to liquidate all current assets of used tools and materials once owned by the rbc.
you are invited to visit the equipment trailers to acquire items being liquidated by the rbc asset team, these items will be offered on a first come bases with voluntary donation.
if you see any item you like please be in position to take it with you at that time, after you return to your congregation then you will make a donation of cash or check in the congregation contribution box designated for the support of the worldwide work.
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My letter to Bethel about the flood
by Cornbread ini've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.
it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.
that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.
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Crazyguy
Going along with girlnextdoor there are e two older flood stories the one she listed and that of Atrahasis both written way before the Hebrews wrote their story. The Noah story is almost a complete rip off with only minor changes. Names of the characters and that it was a global flood instead of a more local one. Even the lineage of Adam through to Noah is just a language change. The names are different from the Sumerian kings list but the translation or meaning of each name is the same.
Just about everything in the book of Genesis is a rip off of older Sumerian writings.
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"the Kingdom work is expanding at an accelerated pace"
by Londo111 inif recent intel is true, there is only a .23% increase worldwide in 2015. .
notice what is increasing is not the average publisher count, according to the above watchtower quote to spin the bethel downsizing, but the work.
"the little one will become a thousand and the small one a mighty nation.
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Can you prove that WT policy of shunning is unscriptual? Will soon be discussing with somebody, give me all your ammo!
by EndofMysteries inwill soon be discussing w/ somebody still in about that.
i want to make sure i am not missing anything good.
so any scriptures, articles whether wt articles or secular about effects of shunning, etc, or your arguments against how wt interprets their scriptures, etc.
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Matthew chapter 5 Jesus no to shunning, then the Wt likes to use 1john chapter 2 I think to not talk to anyone that doesn't share the same message etc but if one backs up in the chapter you'll see the message is Christ. You can go on and show in the first chapter of Galatians that one is cursed if not preaching Christ and 1corithians chapter 15 show exactly in detail what the good news of the kingdom is. Christ died was ressurected etc.. So not to shun unless one is denying Christ except Jesus says other wise and says to just treat Unbelievers as men of the nations Matthew 15 I believe. -
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Seems odd that the Bible never mentions Pryamids?
by dropoffyourkeylee indoesn't it seem strange that the bible never mentions the pyramids?
how could someone go to egypt at that time and not even so much as mention the huge monuments?
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There was only two mass Exodus from Egypt in recorded history out side the Bible. Josephus wrote that 1 St.century bce historian by the name of Manetho wrote that the high priest of Akenaten the king who started monotheism. This high priest rose up maybe after Akenaten died and with the help of the Hykos and his army attacked the Egyptions. He later changed his name to Moses. He and his followers we're expelled from Egypt. Manetho also stated that the Hykos after being expelled from Avaris went to Jerusalem. The Bible story and the Jewish practice of pass over etc could have come from one if not both of these events.
And on another note, The city of Pithom may have been built by bricks and not stone, but not burnt bricks, the Egyptians didn't use burnt bricks.
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No more printing of WT and Awake in my country.. Shit just got real
by cognitivedizzy inguys .
a letter was just read in out kh stating that all printing of wt and awake is ceased for the coming year and we will just place tracts on fs, countries which were cared by our branch will be cared by other countries...along with this they read the new fs form and stuff about reporting links of videos wtf..lol.
i can't tell which country perhaps that will give away a lot, any one with a similar information.
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A time to recognize
by BrokenBonz init's my time to recognize the faults that i've made.
in my case, i was inattentive, uncaring, selfish, and aloof.
it has brought me to this time in my life the waking call of my errors.
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Raining before the Flood?
by GrownMidget ini remember at my teen years when i was studying with a brother that he said to me that there was no rain before the flood.
instead there was this mist that you have.
never before or after this have i heard something like this.
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Lets also remember that god made a covenant with Noah to save him and his family. Nowhere was there a provision to save anyone else. In the book of Peter where it says that Noah was a preacher that's complete bunk. Also after the flood god wants Noah to sacrifice animals to him because he likes the sweet smell, so how many animals went extinct?. And last but not least god regrets killing man and even though he knows man will be evil again he says he will never kill mankind off this way, So what was the point of doing it in the first place. -
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Now you don't even have to go to the Kingdom Hall - ALL meetings to be recorded & available on jw.org (if you have a password)
by sir82 inlatest boe letter:.
october 22, 2015. to all bodies of eldersre: use of jw stream.
dear brothers:we are writing to inform you that arrangements are being made for video recordings ofcongregation meetings, circuit assemblies, and conventions to be uploaded to jw stream (accessibleat http://stream.jw.org) in various languages.
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2 John 10
by What Now? injust looking for some rebuttals to 2 john 10, specifically when it comes to shunning family.
we essentially admitted to our families that we do not want to raise our kids as witnesses and do not believe what jehovah's witnesses teach.
predictably, they use 2 john 10 to justify shunning us, specifically the portion of the verse where it says "if anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him".. since we are apostates (according to the jw definition), and no longer "bring this teaching", would our family be correct in interpreting this verse to mean that they should shun us?.
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Galations chapter 1 and 1corithians chapter 15 make it plain that the teaching or good news is all about Christ, they are the apostates