AFRIKANMAN
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UK JWs go up 72 places in latest 2017 Charity 250 Index (2nd highest climbers)
by darkspilver ini'm not really sure what this charity 250 index is trying to do.
partly because i'd expect a few big household name charities to be on it at the top.
i've copied the table below - see positions 19 (up from 70) and 130 (up from 202).
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"jesus never said the spiritual food would be perfect"
by nowwhat? inoh so it's jesus fault the spiritual food hasn't been perfect!
we your governing body are just responsible for serving it!
think about this people, they are saying it was jesus who told us the end was going to come in 1975. then before the 1914 generation passed away no later than the 1990's.
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AFRIKANMAN
If you were personally to revert back to any one of these numerous "nu-lights" that were taught about the Generation you would be df-ed for apostasy !
"This Generation"
The Watchtower of February 15, 2008, (pages 23-25), offered an updated explanation regarding "this generation," as mentioned by Jesus at Matthew 24:34. But this was not a "new" understanding, as it returned to the interpretation of 81 years earlier, in the 1927 Watchtower, February 15, page 62.
The changing explanations over the years of "this generation":
C.T. Russell taught that "this generation" referred to people in general, who were living at a significant time in history. (Battle of Armageddon, pages 603-605)
J.F. Rutherford changed this in 1927to apply only to the members of the "new creation," the anointed. "Some members of the new creation will be on the earth at the time of Armageddon." (W27, 2/15, p 62)
In 1942, "this generation" was no longer identified with just the anointed. (W42, 7/1, p 204, par. 43)
In 1949 it was more clearly explained that it "had its modern counterpart in our generation from A.D. 1914 forward. This generation is the one that sees the Son of man coming with the clouds of heaven as foretold by Daniel." It was expected that the generation of 1914 would be on hand to witness the end of this system. (W49, 7/15, p 215, par. 19)
By 1995 time for "this generation" had run out and the explanation needed to be updated. Therefore, "this generation" became "the wayward people who make up this contemporary 'wicked and adulterous generation,'" but no longer limited to any particular date. (w95 11/1 p. 15 par. 21)
Then in 2008, we were told: "As a class, these anointed ones make up the modern-day 'generation' of contemporaries that will not pass away 'until all these things occur.'" (W08, 2/15, p 23-25)
This explanation was a return to the one offered in 1927, which had already been discredited.
The April 15, 2010 Watchtower adds the following "increased light": "[The word 'generation'] usually refers to people of varying ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period; it is not excessively long; and it has an end...[Jesus] evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation. That generation had a beginning, and it surely will have an end."So.......will the true apostates please stand up ! -
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The Catholic Register: Russian Catholic official criticizes court ban on Jehovah's Witnesses
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/25028-russian-catholic-official-criticizes-court-ban-on-jehovah-s-witnesses.
russian catholic official criticizes court ban on jehovah's witnesses.
by jonathan luxmoore, catholic news service.
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AFRIKANMAN
If any other religious group anywhere in the world had to ask JW to assist in a letter-writing campaign would the JW agree ? Not a damn !
So.....be damned !
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Bethelites are Employees
by berrygerry inbethel seems to have legal fires happening everywhere.
https://www.newera.com.na/2017/04/28/church-loses-labour-case/.
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AFRIKANMAN
JW relies on the precedent set by this case to escape paying the required compensations -
http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZALAC/2015/31.html
They will apply Caesars law rigidly when it suits them and then cry to the whole world when I does not - But NEVER to the benefit of the sheep themselves !
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Bethelites are Employees
by berrygerry inbethel seems to have legal fires happening everywhere.
https://www.newera.com.na/2017/04/28/church-loses-labour-case/.
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AFRIKANMAN
You guys are so fast picking up the news ! Cant even beat you from the African continent itself ! .....lol
The matter of what constitutes a Labour / work relationship is well documented in the Namibian and South African labour statutes and so this guise WT has been using of Vows of Poverty is proving to be shite !
Onward and Forward !!
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Serena Williams
by TweetieBird indo you think serena will get df'd now that she has a bun in the oven?
or was she ever baptized, in that case she would just be marked, right?.
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AFRIKANMAN
So what ! So now she is knocked-up ...! Let her be.....live her life and enjoy being a Mama - lest we start to resemble vultures waiting for the kill so we can pounce on our favorite past-time here .................
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Next time you hear a JW say, "we're the most persecuted religion on earth, proving Jesus' prophecy...."
by kpop inplease show them this.... easter 2017, christians ‘most persecuted group in the world’.
during the last calendar year, some 90,000 christians were killed for their faith across the globe, making christians by far the most persecuted group in the world, according to a study from the turin-based center for studies on new religions (cesnur).. while tens of thousands of christians are killed for their faith, introvigne said, they are just the tip of the iceberg and much persecution takes place on a daily basis that never makes news.. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/04/16/easter-2017-christians-most-persecuted-group-in-the-world/.
dear jw's, it's all about being a christian that is important, not being a jw!!.
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AFRIKANMAN
blondie - Pre-xactly ! Forum 18 shows other groups under the cosh too.
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The Trump Connection
by Coded Logic ini'm a little dumb struck to see that donald trump's first cross word against russia are in support of the jws.. http://fox-news24.com/trump-warns-russia-over-jehovahs-witnesses-ban-and-urges-members-to-seek-asylum-in-the-us/.
is this because trump genuinely values freedom of religion?
or is it because his son in law jared kushner has financial dealings with the jws?
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AFRIKANMAN
Has that report been validated?
Well - all the same. So Trump supports the JW and thus a worldly politician and also a major part of the Beast etc supports God's "True Ch." on earth today and so now Satan is giving indirect succor to the JW . Org! Oh dear .............
So any day soon F 15's will be giving air support to the Celestial Chariot ................
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Voting
by confused inhi guys,.
i have been told that a while ago there was a watchtower article that said that voting, (i'm in uk) is down to individual conscience.
i always thought it was a judicial matter.
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AFRIKANMAN
If the press or a govt. agency had to ask JW leadership if they disfellowship members for accepting Blood the answer would be NO ! [But back home you would be shunned all the same and an announcement would be made that YOU no longer consider yourself a JW !
Same with voting ......this covers the JW Org ass where Voting is compulsory - eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting.
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Serena Williams Pregnant
by wisdomfrombelow innow that she has announced that she is 20 weeks pregnant and not married, what is her status in the cult?
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AFRIKANMAN
Why bash her at all ? We often moan on this forum about how restrictive life in the Cult is/was and how we missed out on opportunities in life eg Higher Ed / sport etc etc . and then when we encounter someone who followed their own head we get pissed off !
Sour grapes maybe /
