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Is a Press release being prepared re the recent child abuse settlements?
by yaddayadda injust wondering?
it may be a bit premature, depending on how done and dusted the settlement is, but presumably someone (danny haszard??
) is preparing something for reuters etc.
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Is the WTS saying Armageddon is 'delaying' - Matt 24:45-47?
by yaddayadda inyes, it appears they are.
there seems to be a trend lately for the watchtower society to increasingly refer to habakkuk 2:3 and indicate that we are now in a period of 'delay' before armageddon.
for the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it keeps panting on to the end, and it will not tell a lie.
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What is driving change at WTS? What is the GB? Has it failed the flock?
by yaddayadda ini have been wondering a lot about this lately.
what drives changes to policy and interpretations?
what processes are in place, if any?
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2007 District Convention to hammer apostates?
by yaddayadda inthis years "follow the christ" dc looks like it is going to be focused on avoiding all those evil apostates and their falsehoods, judging by some of the dc talks listed on the back of the june 2007 awake!
do not follow false teachers .
do not follow false stories .
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Why do the GB members live so long?
by yaddayadda indon't know if it's my imagination but a lot of these gb old boys seem to have a knack for living a really long time.
i think freddy franz was 99 when he died?
barber has just croaked at 102 (or 101?).
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When do the 'new heavens' at 2 Peter 3: 13 begin? Society twisting it
by yaddayadda inquote from a 1993 watchtower article: .
*** w93 1/1 9 rejoicing in our grand creator *** .
"2 we can rejoice, however, that our grand creator has the permanent solution.
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What was the memorial like last nite (Southern Hemisphere)?
by yaddayadda inmy country had theirs last nite.
any new points in the talk or anything interesting you care to report?
(doubt it)
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WTS's two 'classes' of Christians is completely artificial
by yaddayadda inplease read the below excerpt from a 1996 questions from readers on the difference between the little flock and other sheep.
the article makes it very clear that both classes receive the holy spirit and there is absolutely no discernible difference whatsoever between the 'anointed' and the 'other sheep'.
the society is well aware there is no practical difference at all between these two so-called 'classes' of jw christians.
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Mennonites, Waldenses, etc, didn't use the name 'Jehovah'.
by yaddayadda inmy understanding is that the society suggests that various christian groups that popped up here and there during the christian era, such as the waldenses, etc, likely contained 'wheat-like' christians, ie, anointed ones with the heavenly calling.
the basis for assuming this is because these groups taught certain similar doctrines that jw's do today that makes them stand out from broader christendom (anti-trinity, etc).
the argument is that these groups read the bible for themselves, saw that the big churches had some things wrong, but were soon persecuted and crushed by the powerful false religious 'weeds'.
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How many Christians were there in the 1st century?
by yaddayadda injust been reading former long-time brooklyn bethelite tom cabeen's very encouraging article entitled "where is the body of christ?".
(can be found at http://divinetruth.homestead.com/bodyofchrist.pdf) .
in his article, tom says: "when john received the revelation around the end of the first century, there were hundreds of thousands of christians, even by conservative estimates.