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According to the WTS, who are fulfilling Jesus' prediction that there will be many false prophets in the last days?
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the bible predicts that there will be many false prophets in the last days.

here are some examples:.

matthew 24:11: "many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
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2010 District Convention - Some Thoughts on the Sunday Afternoon Session
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
out of a sense of morbid curiosity, i recently attended the sunday afternoon session of the district convention.

the session consisted of a drama and the infamous "remain in the secret place of the most high" talk.

overall, i got a sense that the wts is in damage control mode because the end hasn't come yet.
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Witnesses "can't take the heat"
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. jw
2. friends
have you ever heard a witness say something like "why do apostates have to keep talking about the wts/jw faith?

why don't they just go on with their lives?

if they've found something better, why don't they just focus on that instead of us?
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The Reason Why the Society Changed the Meaning of "Generation"...again
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this has been discussed...and discussed...and discussed some more on this board.

but i thought i'd go ahead and put down my thoughts on why the wts changed the meaning of "generation" again in 2010, after changing it in 2008. in short, i think the 2008 "new light" caused many jws to doubt that the end is imminent, so the wts tweaked the meaning of "generation" to re-kindle the zeal in the flock.

a bit more explanation follows below.. for the sake of completeness, here is a list of the society's various meanings of "generation" over the last few decades:.
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Why the Society needs to have an interpretation for every prophecy
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the "prophetic" books of the bible contain lots of wild imagery and vague predictions.

for example, daniel describes various periods of 1260, 1290, 1335, and 2300 days.

revelation contains discussions of a variety of wild beasts, trumpet blasts, etc.
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Doesn't the WTS say that blood can't carry oxygen for the first 24 hours after a transfusion?
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. medical
some jws have told me that blood transfusions cannot save lives in the case of catastrophic bleeding (for example, resulting from an auto accident) because blood cannot carry oxygen for 24 hours after it has been transfused.

is this in print in wt publications?

it must be, because i've heard it on multiple occasions from different jws.. i find it very hard to believe that such a statement is true.
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UK Prime Minister: the 1914 generation "has left us"
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. jw
2. friends
today the last surviving british soldier who fought in world war i died at the age of 111. see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32141785/ns/world_news-europe/.. prime minister gordon brown stated: "the noblest of all the generations has left us, but they will never be forgotten.

we say today with still greater force, we will remember them.".

when i bring up the "1914 generation" as an example of failed watchtower prophecy, some jws respond that the generation is not gone yet.
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If there was no global flood - does this mean that the Bible is not inspired?
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. bible
do you agree that if there was no global flood, then the bible is not inspired?

here are my thoughts.. it is pretty obvious that there was no global flood 4,000 years ago.

) that there were one or more large local floods in mesopotamia around the time of noah.
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Recording a Judicial Committee Hearing
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was reading the thread about hoboken's jc meeting and started thinking about the rule prohibiting recording devices in such meetings.

has anyone on the board tried to challenge this rule?.

on its face, the rule is absurd.
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Was Michael Jackson reproved in 1983 and DF/DA in 1989?
by Olin Moyles Ghost in
1. jw
2. friends
there seems to be quite a bit of conflicting information about michael jackson's jw status as a young man.

it's clear that he was raised a witness and that he was a practicing witness (a publisher) in the 1970s and early 1980s.

but there's some uncertainty about (1) whether he was baptized, and (2) whether and when he was df/da.. i was looking around on yahoo answers and found the following question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=aqerwd.lhqkco.59fnqahbrty6ix;_ylv=3?qid=20090628174024aafwsky&show=7.