Topics Started by NanaR
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Looking for GDA's earlier than 1983
by cultswatter inthe gda is short for grand discouragement article.. you know... the wt articles that try to make the partakers stop partaking or else!...
i have a theory that 1982/83 was the year when the replacements (now called the additions) were toooooo excessive and the wt had to start writing feedback articles to reduce the number or partakers.
i know there was a gda in the 1983 wt but what about years before that.
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My Son, The Church, My Son in Law, and Iraq
by Amazing inmy son-in-law has received his orders to go to iraq.
he will leave soon.
i would go in his place, as he is like a son to me, but i am too old and not in good health, and the military will not take me.
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A Crag in the desert ????
by KAYTEE inin a watchtower question and answer session a few years ago.
isaiah 32 v 1-3 came up.
at that time there was 8 elders in the congregation, this was roughly my answer -.
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If (a very big if) I were Catholic, I would be very proud...
by Alpaca ini am not one to cut religion any slack, but after the pope's appeal to heal the wounds of catholic youths who were victims of abuse by catholic priests, i could not help but compare his appeal with the pathetic, cowardly stance the gb has taken with the r&f in the borg.. this is notwithstanding blondie's post about the pope's complicity in the abuse cover-up.. the difference is that the borg leadership refuses to realize that they are fallible.
they cling to the view that they are somehow above reproach, taint, and fault.
they are truly pathetic.. just my take on things.. cheers to all,.
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Memorial 2007, Part 1: Downplaying Jesus' Sacrifice
by Sacchiel infrom my blog: astonishingrealizations.blogspot.commemorial 2007, part 1: downplaying jesus' sacrifice "how are we going to treat the father from now on?".
that was the biggest question at the memorial i attended on april 2, 2007. only by the grace of god did i not go berserk.
i had prepared myself not to interfere in the proceedings, out of respect to my family and friends there.. .
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Still on the WT site???
by 5thGeneration ini remember everyone talking about this a year or so back and it's still on their site.. been a decade since the change i think!.
they still haven't removed it!
thought it was funny.. http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/article_07.htm.
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Timing in heaven?
by Doug Mason inare you asking whether or not heaven exists outside the laws of time?
or are you asking if our measurements of time applicable to the heavenly realm?
i have a difficult time grasping the concept of time :) so maybe there there is a watchmaker somewhere around to answer your question :)
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New Podcasts
by NanaR inhey friends:.
check out jeff schwehm's two most recent podcasts:.
http://catholicxjw.blogspot.com/2008/06/welcome-home-catholic-conference.html -- interview with tom cabeen.
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Beyond their control
by NanaR ini have been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between jesus and those who are "born again" by the spirit.
it occurred to me that this is the only relationship in the jw religion where the "organization" or the fds does not intervene (see recent threads regarding jesus as mediator only of those in the new covenant according to jw doctrine).. since the number of those partaking of the emblems at the memorial has remained basically unchanged over the last 20 years (increased some years, decreased others, but no steady movement in either direction), i was wondering what the future might hold with regard to jw doctrine regarding the heavenly class.. i read another thread that indicated some congregations have taken steps to decide who is "truly" anointed.. if the sealing stopped in 1935 except for replacements for unfaithful ones, why does the number "wobble" instead of decreasing?
people born in 1920 (15 in 1935) are now 86 years old if still living; and we know that not all of the anointed were young folks in 1935. so, faithful or unfaithful, they are passing away.
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Looking for a Kingdom Ministry
by Junction-Guy indo any of you have that kingdom ministry from last year?
i believe in december.
in that particular issue they were telling the jw's not to send their disaster relief checks with "hurricane katrina" on them, but rather make the checks out payable to the "worldwide work" i would love to get my hands on a copy of this?