Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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Old article worth a read

by carla in

here is a link to an older article about jw's & mind control.

it appears to be from the time period when jw's were about 5 million and still had that extra meeting during the week.

i have no idea about the website in general, only found the article doing some research.

I looked through the article. It dates to abt 1998 and the organization is in Texas USA. Clearly an ex JW contributed to much of the content. Frankly the site looks kind of cultish itself, mystical mysteries etc.

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Aid to Bible Understanding - can you help summarise any useful sections?

by Fernando in

randall watters presents the fascinating backstory of the "aid book", and the brouhaha surrounding it, in this article:.

"the watchtower bible and tract society: the critical years 1975-1997".

so far it seems the project to research and write the "aid to bible understanding" revealed serious doctrinal and institutional flaws that the gb wanted to preserve nonetheless.. it seems what ray franz and his team were learning, and were largely blocked from presenting:.

dropoffyourkeylee

I agree with SBFs comment that the major and most lasting effect of the Aid book research was the elder arrangement and governing body.

The Insight Volumes are undoubtedly simply a rework of the Aid Book. Many parts of Insight are taken word for word from the Aid Book. What they did was take the Aid book, put in some pictures, enlarge the text, and change the wording only in the places where the text didn't support WT doctrine. there may have been some entirely new content, but not much.

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question from readers: with all the animal sacrifices, wouldnt the temple smell worse than a stockyard?

by nowwhat? in

with all the cattle, sheep and others wouldn't they be shitting and peeing all over the place?

along with the gallons and gallons of blood being drained and then the flesh being burned as well.

wouldn't the stench be unbearable?.

dropoffyourkeylee

That's why they burned incense all the time

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Serena Williams engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian

by ttdtt in

wonder if tony or splaine will be invited to the wedding :).

i am sure it will be at her kingdom hall to praise her great dod jehober.. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/entertainment/serena-williams-engaged-alexis-ohanian/index.html.

dropoffyourkeylee

I don't believe she has been an active JW for a long time. I say good for her, she is just one of many successful people who have a JW past. She's moving on in her life without the JW constraints.

Stick it in your eye Watchtower.

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watchtower lapel pins

by wannaexit in

jw
friends

i've been noticing lots of these pins on lapels.

i could almost understand the jwdotorg pin because the new mantra is to go to the website.

but why on earth are they sporting a building?

dropoffyourkeylee

I doubt the wt organization officially endorses the lapel pin. It's probably a private enterprise.

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New KH being built near where I live

by A Believer in

there are two kingdom halls in two parts of the county i live in.

one is smaller and their are already about to begin work to replace with a new one.. just posting because i noticed posts saying their wasn't new khs being built.

and i learned this today from someone..

dropoffyourkeylee

I would be interested in photos of the construction, as well as the finished buildings, A-B.

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Digging for Spiritual Gems

by George One Time in

week starting december 26, 2016.

(isaiah 17:1) 17 the pronouncement against damascus: “look!

damascus removed from being a city, and she has become a heap, a decaying ruin.. .

dropoffyourkeylee

Incidentally, does anyone remember a WT book called 'Gems from the Mine'? I used to have a reprint of it. It was an early version of the WT Index, I believe, dating to about 1909 or so.

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Watchtower April, 2017 Overview

by Listener in

i'll start with the first study article.. this study article deals with vows made to jehovah.

three main vows are discussed.. 1) your dedication to jehovah.

we are told that it is not possible to claim that our baptism was not valid .

dropoffyourkeylee

A huge flaw in the WT reasoning is concerning the age of the ones getting baptized. A person has to be a certain legal age for a contract (including marriage) to be binding. Yet they hold the baptism of a minor over his or her head for the rest of their lives. It is atrocious and against all moral sense.

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A history of global living conditions in 5 charts

by Simon in

great article with charts showing how the world is getting better, despite the attempts of the news and certain religious groups to say it ain't so (or try and make it not).. https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts/.

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dropoffyourkeylee

The graph for 'Freedom' contains a word 'anocracy' which was new to me:

The index measures political regimes on a spectrum from +10 for full democracies to -10 for full autocracies; regimes that fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum are called anocracies.

I don't recall seeing that word before.

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2017 Yearbook - Still Waiting

by berrygerry in

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t06777k65p11e53/20160521e.pdf?dl=0.

may 21, 2016. we are pleased to inform you that electronic versions of the annual items for 2017 will be made available for download on jw.org beginning in october of this year.

this includes examining the scriptures daily—2017 and the 2017 yearbook of jehovah’s witnesses.

dropoffyourkeylee

This might be the year they introduce the overlapping yearbook