Posts by NewYork44M

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The Gentile times have ended; their kings have had their day.

by Londo111 in

dear jw,.

on october 2, 1914a hundred years ago todaycharles t. russell announced, the gentile times have ended; their kings have had their day.

for almost 40 years, among other predictions for that year, 1914 had been looked to as the end of armageddon, false religion, and all governments, and the beginning of paradise on earth and the resurrection.

NewYork44M

You should include Barbara Anderson's website:

http://ad1914.com/

It is a great single focused site on the topic of 1914-2014 the end of an error.

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Attention Governing Body: October 2, 2014 is only 940 days away...

by Alfred in

in 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.

oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.

but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.

NewYork44M

Funny how time flies. 100 years of failed predictions. Ouch!

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AD1914.com Coming Soon!!

by ABibleStudent in

i visited the jehovah's witness report website today.

i read the following article:.

on october 1st 2014, barbara anderson will join in and participate in the launch of a new website ad1914.com.

NewYork44M

I took a look and was very impressed. Congratulations on an excellent piece of work.

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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users

by Londo111 in

from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.

it seems that the wts legal dept.

has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.

NewYork44M

joe134cd

There was an elder in my cong who went around sending invites to all the young ones on face book. So he could go through their friends list and do a special needs talk on how wicked it was that they didn't identify themselves as JWS. I know I was one of them.

If that is their strategy it will backfire bigtime, as you clearly identified. The fact that you are here suggest that the elder's activity did more harm than good.

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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users

by Londo111 in

from an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.

it seems that the wts legal dept.

has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.

NewYork44M

Rumors say a lot, not in what they say, but in what they don't say. I think the society has every reason to be scared about the ubiquity of apostate information. Entering into cyberspace with jw.org shows that they understand the power of the internet, and if they understand they have to be scared sh*&less.

If there is any truth to these rumors, it appears to emanate from the paranoia of an organization that knows their time is limited.

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1000 studies

by sporece in

today i was playing racquetball with a pioneer ( i have not attended the kh in seven years but i'm not df ) he's pretty cool and has no problem in .

associating with me at the gym and told me about the jw.org website and how so far more than a 1000 studies have been started due to the people going to that website.. is it true...did anyone hear the same or is it bullshit that i got?.

.

NewYork44M

Perhaps world wide - if so that is a pretty lame number. In any event how many of these studies convert to baptized contributing publishers?

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If a parrot spoke to Eve instead of a serpent??

by jam in

jw
friends

would that change your view on the account???

that's.

plausible.. .

NewYork44M

Does this parrot wear an eye patch? I think this variation of parrot instead of snake would add a bit of humor to the episode. And, humor is a good thing.

If the parrot was part of the episode would that mean that parrots would lose their wings? Didn't the snake lose his/her legs in this transaction that changed human history?

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