If they were smart which I kinda doubt they would make everyone there put on plastic gloves when the emblems are passed.
I'd like to see that just for a laugh
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Will you attend the Memorial 2020 ? - Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
by bats in the belfry in... or rather listen to the advice on their jw news website:.
show love to others.
while we all know the importance of attending christian meetings and participating in the public ministry, if you are sick, it is best to stay home to avoid infecting others.
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Can we really talk about BEAUTY?
by Terry incan we really talk about beauty?
(first, a necessary preamble.
bear with me, please.
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I agree with that, one just has to look at some of the most beautiful woman ....
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Ask current Jehovah's Witnesses if they KNOW what happened in 1954 (SHOCKING)
by Terry in(referred to below: watchtower bible and tract society presidents: russell, rutherford, knorr, franz )did you know that from 1879 until 1954 ... ... the writings of c.t.russell, j.f.rutherford, nathan knorr, and the watchtower's own charter... ... agreed ... that jesus christ was to be worshiped?this fact has been cleverly and dramatically hidden by manipulation of older quotations.
______________________________________________________________________pastor charles taze russell answers the question for us.
see below zion’s watch tower 1898 jul 15 p.216“question: the fact that our lord received worship is claimed by some to be an evidence that while on earth he was god the father disguised in a body of flesh and not really a man.
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Well written Terry
I think the most relevant explanation to the Rutherford qestion was this....
Clearly and forcefully J.F.Rutherford had taken a small group of Adventist bible students enamoured of Pastor Russell's chronology and pyramidology and compacted them into a mind-control cult obsessed with proper behavior and adherence to rules, regulations and quirky interpretations from a central authority.
Rutherford wanted complete control over people minds, thoughts and behavior and I think from him the foundation of a highly controlling religoius cult was formulated.
Yes follow me for I am the anointed one, I am the FDSL, god channels his spirit directly to me, through me one achieves righteousness in the eyes of god.
What Rutherford created was a religoius publishing house that used alluring tactics of fear, exploiting people's ignorance of secular knowledge and about what the bible really says, all endeavored to exploit people for labor and money.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread
by Simon inthis topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
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If you live in a highly populated city that is known to have a lot of travelers particularity from Asia it would make good sense to wash your hands when you get home from doing things outdoors, such as working out of home, shopping whatever, until the known transmission of the virus is noted to be controlled. It will eventually due the travel restrictions being enforced.
Be safe and keep cool, its not the end of the world.
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What is the benefit of God's Kingdom?
by Half banana inwhat is the benefit of god's kingdom?.
the watchtower said when it started out in 1879 that god's kingdom had already arrived in heaven in 1874 and that its work would be complete by 1914. .
with heroic slogans of "destroying the kings of the earth" and "all enemies of christ the king" etc by 1914, "god fearing" humankind was to have been restored to prelapsarian innocence and the earth to a global edenic paradise.
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Well there would be a lot of benefits if it were real, but all the nice possibilities thought out by the bible writers were unfortunately fictional mythology.
The ancients asked for help to their specific worshiped gods they didn't have the knowledge of the world in which we lived so they had no others choice.
In other words they created their gods and also created ideas for help from those gods. ie sickness, war and strife and death.
In many ways the humans who lived in that era were much like the people living today
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Partially yes but more so realizing the lies and corruption and what those lies and corruption were doing to people.
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Quotes from 3/8/2020 WT study
by neat blue dog inhere's just a few random observations from tomorrow's wt study:.
jesus’ command to make disciples was not limited to christians living in the first century.
jesus concluded his instructions to his followers with the words: “i am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.” (matt.
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The corrupt false prophets that created the Watchtower Corporation and JWorg. only make other corrupt false prophets , apostasy and sin isn't related to righteousness
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Ask current Jehovah's Witnesses if they KNOW what happened in 1954 (SHOCKING)
by Terry in(referred to below: watchtower bible and tract society presidents: russell, rutherford, knorr, franz )did you know that from 1879 until 1954 ... ... the writings of c.t.russell, j.f.rutherford, nathan knorr, and the watchtower's own charter... ... agreed ... that jesus christ was to be worshiped?this fact has been cleverly and dramatically hidden by manipulation of older quotations.
______________________________________________________________________pastor charles taze russell answers the question for us.
see below zion’s watch tower 1898 jul 15 p.216“question: the fact that our lord received worship is claimed by some to be an evidence that while on earth he was god the father disguised in a body of flesh and not really a man.
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Yes excellent work on that Terry.
One thing the WTS has always tried to do particularly when Rutherford took over the organization is distinctively separate from Christendom's practice of worshiping Jesus.
Christendom got it wrong we have it right.
The WTS men essentially placed themselves between Jesus and mankind, salvation through Jesus comes through them, not Jesus individually to mankind, righteousness in the eyes of god can only be achieved through them.
So you can see they strategically placed themselves in a position of power over all mankind.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Fulfilling Matthew 24:14? by Former C.O Ron Frye
by chrisjoel in"and this good news of the kingdom will.
be preached in all the inhabited earth for a. witness to all the nations; and then the end.
bible are more familiar to jehovah's witnesses than the.
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Lets speak the truth and say the preaching work designated by the WTS had everything to do with proliferating the literature the WTS published.
The established American government made that all possible without controls, regulation or taxation.
They essentially went about marketing the gospel of Jesus in their own unique and self serving way
Sure it was a tainted commercialized version of the Gospel of Jesus but it worked, there are a lot of people who never read the bible carefully and the WTS leaders accepted and self assumed that.
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JW's - your hierarchy perverts the Bible so much, why?
by The Fall Guy in(revelation 5:10) - and you made them to the god of us kingdom and priests, and they are reigning upon the earth.
(nwt kindom interlinear).
(revelation 5:10) .
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Why is because the leaders and directors of the WTS were strategically endeavored to sell and proliferate literature and build a semblance of power around themselves.
Identifying themselves as the Faithful Discrete Slave, the anointed ones etc. (1919)
But in reality they were commercialized false prophets full of lies, corruption and sin.
Many times power and money have made men corrupt toward their own self serving means.