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"No more than 40 years"
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in another corner of the internet someone stated that witnesses are proclaiming that this system will be no more than 40 years now... that "gog of magog" will start the great tribulation.

can anyone confirm this latest "prediction"?.
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JW.ORG logo on EVERYTHING
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
fine line between idolotry and branding... just sayin.... .

i'm just seeing a lot of home-made or print on demand site items with jw.org logos pasted all over.

as an art director, i laugh, because it's hideous.
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"It's not religious..." Wait... What???
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my friend, mike works as a massage therapist, and there is a woman at the shop that is super-jw-woman and is constantly hounding him with things.. today, he's messaging me and he tells me that she was trying to push a brochure or something on him.

he said he'd really rather not read a religious pamphlet.. so... she says, "it's not religious... it's from god.".

isn't that kinda what religious means?
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Just ordered this
by dynamiterose77 in
1. social
2. entertainment
i just ordered this book.

(ok... it's not linking, it's called "i'm perfect, you're doomed: tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing" by kyria abrahams).

i came across it when trying to explain to a coworker about the end of the world images that would be in watchtowers when i was growing up and why they gave me horrible nightmares.
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Interesting read about "Visions" and the brain
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
years and years ago, i had read something in a book that clinically examined joan of arc and gave a hypothesis regarding her visions, using her own descriptions of the episodes and using what she experienced as symptoms.

i can't remember if they had said it was epilepsy or a brain tumor.. i saw this article today and it got me thinking again.

i also started thinking about how in the past, gb has talked about visions/divine inspiration/whatever... russell even endorsed a woman's book where she supposedly spoke to a "fallen angel".. kinda made me wonder....
5
Is it my imagination...
by dynamiterose77 in
1. social
2. humour
or are the beasts in this photoshop alteration familiar... and very funny.. http://boingboing.net/2014/05/12/hardy-boys-no-199-the-hard.html.
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A Mansion for the Resurrected, in Kensington
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i was roving around the internet looking for articles about a completely different topic, when i came across this one.. i found it very interesting.. here's a quote.. "in a 1920 book called "millions now living will never die" he'd predicted that biblical leaders like abraham, isaac and jacob would be resurrected in 1925 and become "the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth.".

while this didn't occur, rutherford still chose to be prepared for the return of the patriarchs.

he moved into the newly built house in kensington around 1930, calling it beth sarim (house of the princes).
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Books!
by dynamiterose77 in
1. social
2. entertainment
i feel like i wasn't allowed to read a lot of books when i was younger, a lot of which i'm discovering are positivly phenomenal.. i was allowed to read edgar allan poe, who remains my all time favorite writer.

but, i've discovered the joys of stephen king, anne rice, joyce carrol oats, neil gaiman, george r. martin, david sedaris... and so so so many more.. i'm currently getting through "the shining" so i can move on to "doctor sleep".

i'm interested to see if anyone else that discovered the many joys of "worldly" literature, jumped immediately into what they weren't allowed to read... and what was your favorite?.