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Disturbing paragraph in Dec 15, 2005 Watchtower
by yaddayadda inin the 2nd study article, page 29, paragraph 17.
"a similar shocking end will come to the symbolic harlot who has the name "babylon the grat.
" the harlot represents the false religions of satan's world, which have their origin in the ancient city of babylon.
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What will be the next big 'new light'?
by yaddayadda init's been a while since the watchtower overlords made any serious doctrinal changes.
wts 'new light' seems to be somewhat cyclical, around every ten years or so.
it's been just over 10 years since the 1995 'this generation' change.
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'according to houses' distributive not consecutive
by yaddayadda in.
ray franz says that the greek word translated as 'house to house', (kat' oikon or kat' oikous) in the nwt is in the distributive, which the society says supports their 'door to door' policy, but that in order for it to support the idea of literally going door to door that this greek word should be in the consecutive sense.
however franz doesn't offer any supporting research on this.. it seems to me that a 'distributive' sense could indeed suggest that the disciples would have gone to every house in a town or village, just not necessarily consecutively, ie, methodically in a door-to-door fashion.. does anyone know of any further instances in the bible that can validate franz's point here?
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Freemasonry coincidences?
by yaddayadda in"who controls the past controls the present.
who controls the.
present controls the future.
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Did any of you head off to University after leaving the org
by yaddayadda inone of my biggest regrets is not getting a degree, due to the jw brain-washing against higher education.
i feel a strong sense of never having reached my academic potential and having been restricted in many ways by this.
i was a high achiever at high school + some teachers were bemused that i never went on to varsity.
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7th day adventists
by yaddayadda incan anyone direct me to a good website or thread on here that talks about any spin-off groups after they officially accepted the trinity doctrine, in the early 1980's i think, in order to join the world council of churches.
was there any fragmentation in the 7th day adventists when this happened?
any help would be appreciated.
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JW Boycott Feb 06
by yaddayadda in.
how about every lurker on here and all others spreading the news that unhappy jw's worldwide are to do a general boycott of all jw related activities (meetings, fs, etc) in for the entire month of february 2006. would be interesting to see what happens to the us average publishers for that month.. power to the people!
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JW's will never be spiritually devastated
by yaddayadda in.
i recall reading over the years comments from time to time in the publications in relation to the above, that jehovah will never allow his organisation to be destroyed.. can anyone recall any specific quotes?
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Why don't elders drop off the mags?
by yaddayadda inwhy is it that there is no arrangement for 'faders' and those who stop going to meetings to at least keep getting the magazines.
why don't the local elders or pioneers even bother to drop them in our letterboxes?
it amazes me how much time is devoted to methodically cold-calling with magazines in the door-to-door work, but no methodical arrangement exists for inactive ones.
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Apostles = GB
by yaddayadda inw01 1/15 overseers
and ministerial servants theocratically appointed .
14 while bodies of elders share with traveling overseers in recommending brothers to serve as elders and ministerial servants, the actual appointments are made according to the pattern set in the first century.