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Good ol' dress, grooming and entertainment
by comment inwhen did the phrase "dress, grooming and entertainment" become such a mantra for the watchtower society?.
this may just be my impression, but in the late 1970's and early 1980's, there didn't seem to be a part on every district convention and circuit assembly program about "dress, grooming and entertainment.
" but in the 1990's, there sure was.. even as a faithful witness, i started to find this emphasis a little embarrassing.. i mean, couldn't there be something more important to worry about?
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My brief WT article with almost all WT buzzwords
by comment infine counsel--how does it benefit us today?.
1. fine, wholesome counsel has a happifying effect.
it educates and benefits the great crowd of overcomers, whose steadfast reliance on jehovah and the spiritual food from his organization truly is a cause for rejoicing.. 2. too, suchlike ones manifest their support for god's arrangement by regularly assembling at christian meetings and submissively acknowledging the headship of spirit-appointed elders.
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All-time classic phrase from WT literature re: 607
by comment infrom the book "let your kingdom come" (1981), appendix to chapter 14, page 186:.
"business tablets: thousands of contemporary neo-babylonian cuneiform tablets have been found that record simple business transactions, stating the year of the babylonian king when the transaction occurred.
tablets of this sort have been found for all the years of reign for the known neo-babylonian kings in the accepted chronology of the period.".
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JW shunned after refusing transfusion for daughter
by comment ini found this while surfing around this morning:.
http://www.canada.com/calgary/story.asp?id={fde11d22-c569-45a5-a315-f8620681162b}.
gives a pretty good sense of what can happen if you go against the society.. comment
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Style of assembly/convention speakers
by comment inwhat precisely are the instructions that are given to assembly or convention speakers about the manner in which they are to deliver their talks, especially the manuscript ones?.
the reason i ask is that i was always irked by the strident, hectoring tone of the speakers at these events.. you'd have brother mild-mannered from your home congregation on the platform, someone you knew gave talks at the kingdom hall in a (relatively) low-key "i'm a normal person" voice, but get him up there at the doers of god's divine godly fear kingdom district convention and he'd be snapping out those long boring rhetorical questions and thrashing his hands around like some dictator wannabe.. it made me think that if you wanted to turn people on to the organization, the district convention sure wasn't the place to start.. comment
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Allow No Place for the WTS! (Pt. 2)
by comment in9 what is often the motive of those who praise the society or those taking the lead?
is it not often that some application of scripture benefits them personally?
rather than just leaving well enough alone, they want everybody else to change.
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Allow No Place for the WTS! (Pt. 1)
by comment inallow no place for the watchtower society!.
let the sun not set with you in a provoked state, neither allow place for the watchtower society.. a vicious wild beast is on the prowl.
he has an insatiable desire to devour regular people living their lives.
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Philosophical wisdom from the FDS
by comment inlisten to this powerful condemnation of the inane worldly philosophers, socrates and plato, appearing in the april 15, 1956 watchtower article "they are without excuse":.
"who can read their works without being struck with the empty-headedness of their reasonings, as well as with the stupidity of their nonsense when speaking about god?".
the overwhelming intellectual power of such analysis from god's chosen channel is manifest in that the very same words could be applied to our beloved faithful and discreet slave!.
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Condemned in Their Own Words
by comment inhere is an excerpt from the study article entitled "peace, security and the 'image of the beast'" in the october 1, 1985 issue of the watchtower.
(note: the organizations referred to in paragraph 10 are satan's political system and the united nations.).
10 did you notice something else about the beast?