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The Watchtower, the faithful and discreet slave indeed!
by dgp inhow many of you think that this is true of the watchtower, as the (self-appointed) faithful and discreet slave?.
24no one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other.
you cannot slave for god and for riches.".
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Will the relatively increasing number of non-American, non-white witnesses have an effect on the Watchtower?
by dgp inon another thread ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/post/edit/12/4103481) i asked what the watchtower corporate ladder would be like, and whether brothers from non-english speaking countries could conceivably make it to the governing body.. as a result of the answers i got, i thought that, if i understand things correctly, most witnesses around the world basically live in three countries: the united states, mexico and brazil.
since real growth is happening mostly in brazil and mexico, rather than the us, i would expect that, sooner or later, the relative weight of brothers from those two countries would need to show.. whoever manages the watchtower in either sao paulo or mexico city (which are ranked eighth and ninth largest metropolitan areas in the world, according to the wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_urban_areas_by_population) has much more real weight than the branch overseers in several european countries (according to the same source, moscow is the largest metropolitan area in europe, and it has seven million fewer people than either sao paulo or mexico city).. what do you guys think?
can you speculate whether this will have an effect?.
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Does anyone know what the Watchtower's corporate ladder would be like?
by dgp ini was wondering if anyone knows how a brother would make his way up to the governing body.
in my (worldly) opinion, there has to be something like a corporate ladder to climb.
does anyone know what the "procedure" would be?.
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Literacy and eternal salvation
by dgp inchristianity began (or so goes the claim) as a group of mostly illiterate and poor fishermen.
most people were illiterate at the time.
so, the god of that religion, then, did not require that you be literate in order to be saved.
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What is Awake! supposed to be good for?
by dgp init is clear to me that the watchtower is a mix of official daily and official organ.
what gets published there is not only the "truth", but also the law.
what is the awake!
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Do JW's analyze people to determine how to get you to join?
by dgp inwhen i was reading one of steven hassan's books, i learned that moonies analyze people's personalities and define them as doers, thinkers, and two other categories that escape me now.
mr. hassan says that people do not join cults; rather, they are recruited into them.
the moonies, for example, do analyze who you are and how best they can get you in.
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How come all married JW's on Facebook are together in the picture, always smiling, always looking at something in the distance?
by dgp injust wondering.
is this "the theocratic look" or something?.
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According to the Bible (New World Translation), a generation dies away in forty years
by dgp ini was reading "the heathens guide to world religions" (http://www.amazon.com/heathens-guide-world-religions-secular/dp/097315084x/ref=sr_1_1?ie=utf8&s=books&qid=1309714972&sr=8-1) and found an interesting thing.. i am sure all of you know that the israelites supposedly had to wander in the desert for 40 years, because of their "wickedness" that resulted in jehovah's angry decision that "none of them would enter the promised land".
this is the text, from deuteronomy 1, 36-40:.
34 all the while jehovah heard the voice of your words.
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Jo Jo Billingsley
by dgp injo jo billingsley was one of lynyrd skynyrd's "honkettes".
i thought she was incredibly gorgeous and hot as hell.
i think her grace shows wonderfully in the you tube video i'm embedding below.
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No need to know Hebrew and Greek for Bible Translation, according to the Watchtower's Branch Organization Manual revised 2003
by dgp ini copied this from page 153 of the branch organization manual, effective: december 15, 1977, revised: february 2003. .
it is not necessary for bible translators to know.
by using this file, such scriptures will be ren-.