minimus The Integrity song was a favorite too - It always reminded me of this classic :
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What Was Your Favorite Kingdom Song?
by minimus infunny but for whatever reason, i can't stop singing walking in integrity from the old songbook!
it's in my head and in my opinion it was one of the few songs i really liked..
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Are jehovahs witnesses blood guilty for teaching and preaching false doctrine?
by atomant inlm curious to know how others feel about this subject.for me its blatently obvious the gb make things up as time passes by and the sheep bow down with blind obedience without questioning.lts like the blind leading the blind..
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Blood Guilty ? .......................according to whose standard of measure?
According to their OWN ! Yes !
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"It is the victims right to approach authorities" The weak excuse used by the society
by stuckinarut2 inwe have seen that the society falls back on the line "it is the victims right to approach the authorities" during all the abuse claims.. they use this excuse to try and defend the passive lack of action in failing to report suspected cases of abuse.. a comparison came to mind:.
if we came across a person lying in the street who says they were hit by a car, would we say "it is your absolute right to call the paramedics and police"?.
or would we take the initiative and call those authorities ourselves to help the person?.
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Does the Torah endorse genocide?
by AFRIKANMAN inhttp://www.jpost.com/not-just-news/ask-the-rabbi-does-the-torah-endorse-genocide-473646.
this obligation not only demands to “never forget” amalek’s crime but also requires that the israelites “expunge amalek’s remembrance from under heaven.” .
if, after the holocaust, jews adopted a mandate to never forget, then perhaps no biblical commandment discomfits modern jews more than the decree to exterminate the nation of amalek.this obligation not only demands to “never forget” amalek’s crime – a ruthless attack on the weary israelites following the exodus – but also requires that the israelites “expunge amalek’s remembrance from under heaven.”.
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http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Ask-the-Rabbi-Does-the-Torah-endorse-genocide-473646
This obligation not only demands to “never forget” Amalek’s crime but also requires that the Israelites “expunge Amalek’s remembrance from under heaven.”
If, after the Holocaust, Jews adopted a mandate to never forget, then perhaps no biblical commandment discomfits modern Jews more than the decree to exterminate the nation of Amalek.
This obligation not only demands to “never forget” Amalek’s crime – a ruthless attack on the weary Israelites following the Exodus – but also requires that the Israelites “expunge Amalek’s remembrance from under heaven.”The Bible takes this imperative quite seriously, as evidenced by King Saul losing his throne for warring with Amalek yet sparing their king and animals. The Talmud asserts that Saul had ethical misgivings in fulfilling the commandment: “Did their children and animals also sin?” he wondered. Yet the Sages dismissed his claim because of his own shortcoming, noting that Saul would later not hesitate to kill the women, children and animals of Nob because the city had aided his rival, David.
Nonetheless, the qualms articulated in the Talmud prove that moderns are not the first to have misgivings over the biblical imperative.
In fact, Louis Feldman has shown that similar qualms are displayed in the first-century writings of Philo and Josephus.
Feldman accentuates the challenge by noting that while there are several parallel quests in other ancient cultures to exterminate enemies of a given time, not one of them demands the destruction of a people and their descendants for eternity. This eternal vengeance seemingly goes against the notion of biblical justice. As the halachist Rabbi Avraham Bornstein asked, “The seed of Amalek is punished for the sins of their fathers. But the Torah itself writes, ‘Fathers shall not be put to death for children, neither shall children be killed for their fathers.’” Many commentators throughout the centuries have sought to provide apologetic yet genuinely held explanations for this commandment. As Prof. Avi Sagi has documented, Jewish exegetes never relied on divine fiat as a moral validation for this command. They believed this commandment could stand on moral grounds and therefore tried to explain God’s decree.
Many commentators, such as Abravanel, sought to justify Amalek’s destruction because of its historical wickedness in utterly violating just war standards. They pointed to Amalek’s vicious attack on the weak Israelites who, after the Exodus, posed no threat to it. Accordingly, the harshness of its punishment would serve as a moral protest and deterrent to such evil deeds.
Others, like Nahmanides, asserted that Amalek poses a constant challenge to God’s dominion over this world, following in the footsteps of its ancestor Esau.
A different strand of interpreters, including rabbis Samson Raphael Hirsch and Tzadok of Lublin, understood the passages more symbolically. They perceived the Amalekite-Israelite battle as a figurative representation of the eternal struggle between good and evil. Yet as Rabbi Ya’acov Medan has noted, these interpretations justify the eternal commandment by neutralizing the moral qualms of the bloodshed it would entail.
Some contemporary writers, however, have noted that the threat of actual warfare has long been defused in the halachic tradition. For starters, some commentators believe that the commandment is applicable only in the messianic era. More significantly, many point to the tradition that Sennacherib mixed various peoples and thereby eternally prevented any ability to identify an ethnic Amalekite.
Some ultra-nationalists have countered that in a tribute to Jewish sovereignty delivered 11 years after the Holocaust, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik applied the Amalek decree to any nation, such as Nazi Germany, which sets out to eliminate the Jewish people. Yet in an overlooked interview with Stanley Boylan, Soloveitchik clarified that this was inapplicable to innocent offspring or spouses. This approach draws from the writings of Maimonides, who suggested that the commandment to kill Amalek was contingent on their refusal to repent. Maimonides drew from certain midrashim that indicated that an ethnic Amalekite could even convert. Indeed, the Talmud asserts that descendants of Haman studied Torah in Bnei Brak! The moral apologetics and halachic argumentation go a long way in neutralizing the fundamentalism that might grow from this commandment. Nonetheless, it still presents ethical challenges to even the greatest of sages. Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein once recalled how in a stage of adolescent doubt regarding these types of moral challenges, he gained strength from reading that the great talmudist Reb Chaim Soloveitchik would regularly arise early to see if a woman had abandoned her unwanted child on his doorstep. Lichtenstein concluded that if Reb Chaim, with his deep moral care for a baby, managed to “live deeply with the totality of Halacha,” including that of killing Amalekite children, then so could he. Not through less ethical sensitivity, but through an even greater faith in a beneficent God.■ The author directs the Tikvah Overseas Students Institute and is a presidential doctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University Law School. Facebook.com/RabbiShlomoBrody
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Extra-Ordinary Meetings taking place at Kingdom Halls at this hour....???
by AFRIKANMAN inin south africa there are meetings taking place at the kh's at this time involving video hookup as well......anyone know anything or is similar occurring in your neck of the woods this week-end ??
all involved not just the elite elders ..
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2+2=5 = I chose to spell it like that .......................because its an Extra meeting [to have to attend] and probably very Ordinary -
It was about a 3 hour affair country-wide* in South Africa...[smacks of a zone visit by Proxy? ]
* Is Country-wide a permitted way of spelling ? It wont cause a grammatical Tsunami?
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Extra-Ordinary Meetings taking place at Kingdom Halls at this hour....???
by AFRIKANMAN inin south africa there are meetings taking place at the kh's at this time involving video hookup as well......anyone know anything or is similar occurring in your neck of the woods this week-end ??
all involved not just the elite elders ..
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In South Africa there are meetings taking place at the KH's at this time involving Video hookup as well......Anyone know anything or is similar occurring in your neck of the woods this week-end ?? All involved not just the Elite Elders .
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A movie: "I ran away from Jehovah's Witnesses"
by sp74bb innov 13, 2016.. http://www.vanityfair.it/news/storie/16/11/13/testimoni-di-geova-storia-x-factor.
google translator:.
when sara told her parents that he no longer wanted to be a jehovah's witness, the father replied that he preferred the dead.
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Nathan Natas 6 hours ago
A "pronoun poisoning" sign need to be posted here.
What is it you are suggesting? Que?
While it’s more common for English speaking learners of Spanish to confuse of forget the genders of Spanish nouns, native Spanish speakers often get confused when it comes to words like him, her, because the Spanish pronoun “su” represents both the masculine and the feminine.
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i really hate all these "what if" posts
by nowwhat? inall these hypothetical questions about the organization's demise or what if god did this or that don't do anyone any good.
personal experiences.
info and insight about your congregation, circuit, area and the watchtower itself is what we need.
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What if...................somebody posts a rant about the "What If " Posts here ................does it mean Armageddon is a lot nearer now ?
I absolutely agree with you nowwhat? it gets us no where quickly
Or the ...." My French poodle is starting to Meow .....does that mean I am demon possessed ?" ...posts
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Worshiping a piece of stone
by FedUpJW intoday one of the members of the local congregation who is somewhat limited intellectually was showing off a small bit of cut granite stone.
as he did so he made sure to let everyone know that it was given to him by the congregation service overseer who just completed his second or third round of bragging rights slave labor at warwick.
he mentioned that, "brother _______ gave this to me as a piece of reality from warwick.
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Its written in the Stone !
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Is it Okay for a JW to be a Storm Chaser?
by Iamallcool ini am thinking about chasing storms for fun.
i know it is very dangerous.
i just think it will be very cool to have a new exciting hobby.
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I beg to differ - We get a helluva lot of "twisters" on JW. Org ! Like overlapping generations Twister - a Cat 5 event !