Do we know for sure that this story about Ft Lauderdale isn't perhaps the same place as the Palm Coast purchase recently which is a bit north of Ft. Lauderdale? You know how rumours spread, and facts get distorted. We know the Palm Coast story is true from news reports, but so far nothing that I have seen about Ft. Lauderdale.
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New Bethel Facility - Fort Lauderdale Remote Translation Office (RTO)
by daniel-p inhey all, it's been a long time since i've posted anything here.
this may be of interest to some people, or not.
and i'm not sure if this has been announced in the congregations, even, because thankfully i have not attended any meetings in quite some time.
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Is the Watchtower Intentionally Trying to Force People to Leave the Organization?
by kneehighmiah inthe leaks from the new november watchtower are alarming.
they will disturb even longtime jws who haven't surrendered all rational thought.
it's become so cult like its scary.
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The WT writers (or whoever it is that decides what the subject matter will be) are always reactionary. So what this article tells me is that there a lot of JWs who associate with their DFd children and relatives, go to weddings etc at other churches, take blood, donate blood, don't hold a family study night, etc. The articles are written because the writers perceive there being a problem. A lot of people deep down simply don't agree with the WT.
But the tone of the 11/14 WT comes across as harsh, at least to me. An interested thinking person who is exploring jw.org for the first time who may read the Nov 14 WT would no doubt be disillusioned quickly.
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Read rare, historic letters about the draft from WT attorney, Hayden Covington, written to a young JW man.
by AndersonsInfo infor those who are interested in this subject, especially researchers and historians, i posted on my website extremely rare material dealing with one man's struggle to avoid being drafted into the us military for religious reasons.. this is a huge downloadable collection of correspondence between richard rawe, his draft board and government officials after he was ordered to report for military duty.
richard saved every letter and even the envelopes from the time he was called up for military duty when he was 18 in 1952 until 1960 when he was 26 and too old to be drafted.. what makes this collection unique and special is that there are many, many important private letters from watchtower attorney, hayden covington to richard containing instructions and advice.
this is historical material that allows us to peer into the legal mind of covington with regards to the draft situation during that time period.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Excellent, I will definitely read all of these
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"Jehovah may be frowning" - Ohio newspaper sticks it to JWs over assembly hall
by sir82 inhttp://www.theharrison-press.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5918:jehovah-may-be-frowning&catid=79:columns&itemid=141.
brief summary:.
the jws, backed by county commissioners, contend they have a legal right to build an assembly hall in the jedd.
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dropoffyourkeylee
This assembly hall was first proposed in 2011, and the congregations around were told it was their responsibility to pay for it (8 million dollars). They then passed pledge cards around and each congregation promised to contribute through a separate contribution box. Interestingly, although the local congregation dutifully put in about 300-400 each and every month, as of May 1 the special box was taken away and no accounting was done as to how much they had contributed, and no promise made that the past contributions would be put toward the SW Ohio assembly hall project.
I presume they have already bought the property (or else why the lawsuit), and have been spending some of the money fighting a lawsuit over the right to build. Go figure. Now maybe they will start to build something. Meanwhile the two existing assembly halls which are due for replacement (one in Indianapolis and one in London Ohio) are still unsold. The one in London is probably unsaleable, as it is in a location desirable to no one.
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why did they have to butcher the kingdom melodies?
by purrpurr inits not like there was anything wrong with them was there?
i used to love the old ones.
these new ones feel like the equivalent of a deflated balloon.. does anyone have the answer?.
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The pink songbook is the earliest I remember. The songs were similar in many ways to the hymns in the Protestant US churches, which was the heartland from which the JWs came. The songs were good ones, piano accompaniment was well suited to leading a congregation of amateur singers, and the songs written in four part harmony made harmonizing easy for more advanced singers.
The last two songbooks haved moved away from the church- sound, probably intentionally. The WT is not alone in this, as contemporary Christian music has done the same.
The WT has also changed many of the songs to be more palatable to other cultures (less marching, militaristic wording, suggestive wording ( ie Shulamite maiden), KJ- isms (Calvary), and definitely no more molesting.!
Overall, I really dislike the new book ,except one song (he will call) .
my two cents,
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Poignant Statistics Summary for Comment at This Sunday WT Study! (Aug. 3, 2014)
by SAHS inthe watchtower study to be considered this sunday, august 3, 2014 (using the magazine dated may 15, 2014), titled are you moving ahead with jehovahs organization?, in paragraph seven (on pages 27-28), talks about the number of people baptized in recent years:.
7 where do those making up the great crowd come from?
they are being brought together because of what jesus foretold as part of the sign of his presence.
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The difficulty with these statistics is that the ' number baptized' and the increase in number of 'publishers' do not measure the same thing. However, over time you would expect the two figures to move in the same direction and at a similar magnitude, after accounting for natural deaths. What is apparent is that there are a lot of people who 1) start publishing, 2) get baptized, 3) quit publishing. Since the time period between 2) and 3) varies a lot (over ten years in my case) it requires a lot of years data to support a trend.
The percent of baptized / publishers has dropped to about a quarter of what it used to be back in the heydays of 70's thru early 90's. This is even more indicative of decline.
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Florida' s Gold Coast-- Latest WatchTower REAL ESTATE
by rip van winkle inhttp://gotoby.com/news/article/2245/watchtower-buys-former-faa-training-facility-in-palm-coast-for-$7025000.
watchtower buys former faa training facility in palm coast for $7,025,000the facility was owned by embry riddle and had been leased to the faa.
watchtower plans to use the facility in much the same manner as did the faa.by toby tobinadd a comment palm coast, fl june 30, 2014 watchtower, an entity ofjehovahs witnesses, purchased the former faa training facility in palm coast from embry riddle aeronautical university for $7,025,000.
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I spent the evening with some uber JWs last night and they knew about this Florida purchase. It will be for the training schools, elder school, ministerial training, etc. with housing on site.
Interesting too, in the same conversation came up plans for an 'assisted living' retirement type home for retired full timers like DOs, COs, missionaries. This facility will be in Puerto Rico, according to the discussion I heard.
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Why Are People Anti-Semitic?
by minimus ini seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.
are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..
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I think it is part of a broader discussion , what is prejudice, why arecertain groups the targets is prejudice, and why have Jews always been the victims of prejudice? A couple of things come to mind:
a minority
have different beliefs about something the majority holds dear
Are seemingly prosperous which elicits jealousy
will not integrate (especially marry) with the majority
maintains uniqueness - language, foods, religious, has their own holidays
Have some difference in appearance, either skin color or clothing or conspicuous activites
Jews meet most of these, and come to think of it so do JWs. I have wondered if Rutherford was deliberatel trying to get the JWs ostracized by all his anti-social changes in the 20's and 30's
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The only place where JWs are explicitly mentioned in the Bible?!
by Pinku inif they say to you, he is in the desert, do not go out there;.
if they say, he is in the inner rooms, do not believe it.
(mathew 24:26).
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I no longer have print copies of the Studies, but the location on the CD Rom shows the quote on page 320 of volume 3 of Studies in the Scriptures:
"Why, When and by Whom
was the Great Pyramid Built?
This question has been much discussed of late years,
from both scientific and Scriptural standpoints. For thousands
of years no satisfactory answer to the question was
discovered. The old theory that it was built as a vault or
tomb for an Egyptian king is unworthy of credence; for, as
we shall see, it required more than the wisdom of the present
day, to say nothing of that of Egypt four thousand years
ago, to design such a structure. Besides, it contains nothing
in the way of casket, mummy or inscription. It was not until
we had come into the time called in Daniel's prophecy "the
Time of the End," when knowledge should be increased,
and the wise should understand God's plan (Dan. 12:4,9,10),
that the secrets of the Great Pyramid began to be
understood, and our questions began to have a reasonable
answer.
The first work of importance on the subject, proving that
the Great Pyramid possessed scientific features, was by Mr.
John Taylor, of England, A.D. 1859, since which time the
attention of many able minds has been given to the further
study of the testimony of this wonderful "Witness"; especiallyC320
since Prof. Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland,
visited it, for several months made its peculiarities a
study and gave to the world the remarkable facts of its construction
and measurements, and his conclusions therefrom.
To his scholarly and scientific work, "Our
Inheritance in the Great Pyramid," we are mainly indebted
for the data made use of in this chapter. Our illustrations
are copies of a few of the twenty-five plates with which the
latest edition of that work is embellished.
A few years after Prof. Smyth's return, came the suggestion
that the Great Pyramid is Jehovah's "Witness," and
that it is as important a witness to divine truth as to natural
science. This was a new thought to Prof. Smyth, as well as
to others. The suggestion came from a young Scotsman,
Robert Menzies, who, when studying the scientific teachings
of the Great Pyramid, discovered that prophetic and
chronological teachings coexist in it."I believe this it he first instance of the exact word's :Jehovah's Witness" appearing in WT literature.
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The only place where JWs are explicitly mentioned in the Bible?!
by Pinku inif they say to you, he is in the desert, do not go out there;.
if they say, he is in the inner rooms, do not believe it.
(mathew 24:26).
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I remember when reading the Studies in the Scriptures, I was surprised to see that the first time the word 'Jehovah's Witness' appeared in WT literature is was referring to the Great Pyramid. I think it was in Volume 3 of the Studies.