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  What other alternatives for the meaning of Babylon the Great ?

  by enoughisenough in

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  2. beliefs

  i thought the reasoning sound as to the wt explaination of babylon the great, ( world empire of false religion ) but have any of you knowledge of other plausible explainations?

  or knowledge of other sources that are in agreement with wt?

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  slimboyfat

  Rome, I think, is the main one (built on seven hills, among other things)
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Psychopaths always point to others as worse than themselves. Reminds me of Ian Brady claiming Tony Blair was worse than him as if that somehow excused his own crimes. It’s mind bending logic.

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/ian-brady-words-petty-criminal-compared-tony-blair/
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Hess tried to broker a peace deal. I personally don’t think he should have spent his whole life in jail. He probably tried to do some good. The others obviously deserved their fate, or if anything, got off lightly, as in the case of Speer.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  I’m not in favour of giving him any just cause to feel aggrieved. This whole sorry situation is so completely of his own doing and the result of his own moral bankruptcy, it’s better to leave it that way so the issue is crystal clear for any new onlookers.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  slimboyfat

  Not to get over biblical, but straining the gnat and gulping the camel springs to mind.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Tony Cain! Aaaaaaah!
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  Meeting attendance

  by Benavidez in

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  2. experiences

  i was wondering what your guys' meeting attendance was like.

  our meetings here is like 50/50 with zoom and in person.

  the spanish has it a little "better" with it being like 30% zoom attendance with most attending in person.. i've heard of congregations in other states having attendance where most (even elders and ms) attend meeting only via zoom and even have their cameras off.

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  slimboyfat

  Was about 60/40 KH versus Zoom, increased to around 70/30 following the letter telling JWs to get back to the KH.
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  Dumb 'experiences' you were told as a JW

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this one stands out in my mind.

  it was reported that 'a brother', unnamed of course, was out in field service and was set upon by a pack of vicious dogs.

  he made it back to the car and was injured quite badly with his arms, hands and leg bleeding heavily.

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  The leaflet in the kangaroo pouch was a classic.

  One I heard that was a variation on a theme: while in the hairdressers a sister was told, by someone who worked there who, in hindsight, must have been a “demonic”, or a possessed person, that because Jehovah killed the demons’ children (the Nephilim) in the flood, the demons are now determined to snatch as many youngsters away from the truth as possible so they will die at Armageddon. Why at a hairdressers? I’ve no idea. I think this might have been an idea about the demons targeting young JWs, made in a talk at some point, that was grossly embellished and set in a conversation in a public place.
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  A look at Robert Alter’s translation: The Hebrew Bible

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a look at robert alter’s translation: the hebrew biblethree volumes labeled as, "the five books of moses"; "the writings"; and "prophets.

  "verse numbers appear in the margins.

  my take: some view this as a plus, since this allows for continuous, undistracted reading.

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  I’ve got a copy of this version now and use it regularly. 👍
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Kim he keeps calling you a liar but also refuses to identify a single lie. In fact he himself confirmed the things you said in his own livestream. When challenged, he says that he has no obligation to share what he considers lies, and acts as if it’s some sort of imposition to even ask what he is talking about. He is a pure chancer. (I don’t know if that phrase translates outside Scotland: roughly it means he is somebody who overreaches themselves, pretending to be something they are not, thinking they can get away with it if they act convincingly.)

  Kim he has publicly called you a liar so often, and with no evidence whatsoever, it makes me wonder isn’t he himself vulnerable to a charge of libel at this point? Perhaps it wouldn’t be worth pursuing legally, but it should be pointed out that the one guilty of making false accusations here is LE himself.