D J, are therediffering views on this Among Jews, Orthoodox, Reformed, etc?
i attended a Bat Mitzah once and found it quite interesting
dropoffyourkeylee
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Asking a Jew about the Name "Jehovah"
by David_Jay injehovah's witnesses...that's the trademark of the religion, the use of the name "jehovah.
" if there is anything jws and non-jws can agree on is that this one thing sets them apart from everybody else.. i have only had witnesses come to my door less than five times since i left in the 1990s.
i guess they don't work the territory i live in often, or perhaps after that first time (which was still after the year 2000) they have marked the words "jew who knows a lot" or something in their notes on my address.
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Southern California USA Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses On High Alert
by JW GoneBad incircuit overseers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers and rank & file are stressed out over an ex-jw (kevin) who has visited nearly 20 congregations (orange county) and has high-jacked the opening prayers and done some effective witnessing before he is escorted to the back door.
and everything is caught on video!.
kevin is also visiting numerous jw cart locations from the los angeles area to orange county and giving a most effective wiitness at each location and they're all on video.
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dropoffyourkeylee
This must be the Kevinly class
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C.T. Russell (the Faithful and Wise Servant) was identified by God as being 'the man in linen, the man with the writer's inkhorn' through an unsuspecting -- get this -- Sign Painter!
by ScenicViewer ini was just now looking up one of the old references to c.t.
russell being the faithful and discreet slave, of mt.
24:45, in the finished mystery.
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LOL, The Finished Mystery must have been really stupid. And to think that is the book which got Rutherford and associates put in jail.
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Please track baptisms with attendance numbers at 2017 Regional Conventions here. (U.S. locations) Thx
by Gayle ini always like to hear baptism with attendance numbers at rcs.
observe if the bigger amount baptized are jw children?.
convention.
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dropoffyourkeylee
These figures are an interesting metric which I find interesting. The last few years, the ratio of baptisms to attendees has been running 0.3% to 0.6%, and the numbers so far are in that range as well.
Please keep posting
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Completing the Scan of All WT Publications - Bibles List
by ILoveTTATT2 ini am working with paul grundy from jwfacts and with the administrator of avoidjw.org, and they are ok with me doing the work that i am doing right now, which is to try and complete, as much as possible, the availability of everything the wt has ever published, in pdf format.therefore, i will start listing in this thread what i have not been able to find anywhere online.
please let me know where i can find the pdf's for the following:(now, i know that there are multiple versions of these and that there are some that seem the same but they are not.
i am looking for the wt published versions of these publications.
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dropoffyourkeylee
The 1972 Bible In Living English is currently available on the JW's own tablet, I believe.
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Please track baptisms with attendance numbers at 2017 Regional Conventions here. (U.S. locations) Thx
by Gayle ini always like to hear baptism with attendance numbers at rcs.
observe if the bigger amount baptized are jw children?.
convention.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Aren't there more assemblies than this in the US? I'm a bit, (OK, more than a bit) out of touch, but surely there are more than 12 this year.
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Russell's aleged freemasonry on JWfacts.com
by NikL inpaul has written an interesting piece on jwfacts.com .
https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/blog/russell-not-a-freemason.php.
anyway, it jogged my memory and reminded me of something i thought i would pass on to you.back in the late 80s i had the opportunity to chat with ray franz on the phone and i asked him about this very thing.he didn't say yes or no to russel's masonic connection but what he said was something like, "he is buried in the masonic section of the cemetery so draw your own conclusion.
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I have no reason at all to think Russell lied when he stated: "I have never been a Mason." (Sermon: The Temple of God)
I'm glad someone finally located this quote, as I had remembered reading it before. WT bibliophiles are sometimes only aware of what was published by the WT society officially, and are not much interested in other books which were produced individually by different Bible Students. A couple of really interesting ones were 'What Pastor Russell Said' and 'Pastor Russell's Sermons'. In one of those books I remember reading the Pastor Russell stated he was not a Mason. Whether those books are still being reprinted or not I do not know.
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Russell's aleged freemasonry on JWfacts.com
by NikL inpaul has written an interesting piece on jwfacts.com .
https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/blog/russell-not-a-freemason.php.
anyway, it jogged my memory and reminded me of something i thought i would pass on to you.back in the late 80s i had the opportunity to chat with ray franz on the phone and i asked him about this very thing.he didn't say yes or no to russel's masonic connection but what he said was something like, "he is buried in the masonic section of the cemetery so draw your own conclusion.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I'm surprised no one has brought up in this discussion the underlying anti-Masonic rhetoric in the northeast US (particularly upstate New York) during the 1800's. The Wikipedia article would be a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party
Maybe this doesn't have a direct connection to Russell, but it provides some context to the historical environment in which he lived.
The point being that there have been many people over the years who have had (and still do have) a deep suspicion of the 'secrecy' of the FreeMasons.
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JW Flag Salute Cases in Florida
by Kenneson ini was doing research on a certain topic this afternoon at the state library, and ran across a jehovah's witness related article that i would like to share.
it's from "citrus, sawmills, critters, crackers: life in early lutz and central pasco county" by elizabeth ruiegler macmanus and susan a. macmanus (tampa: university of tampa press, 1998), pages 351-353. lutz is located near tarpon springs, florida.
the heading of this article is :"importance of schooling.".
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I stand corrected. MacMillan's book Faith on the March says that he was married in 1902, but after that there is no mention of his wife that I could find.
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JW Flag Salute Cases in Florida
by Kenneson ini was doing research on a certain topic this afternoon at the state library, and ran across a jehovah's witness related article that i would like to share.
it's from "citrus, sawmills, critters, crackers: life in early lutz and central pasco county" by elizabeth ruiegler macmanus and susan a. macmanus (tampa: university of tampa press, 1998), pages 351-353. lutz is located near tarpon springs, florida.
the heading of this article is :"importance of schooling.".
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dropoffyourkeylee
I've never heard or seen that AH MacMillan was ever married. So I have to question the news article in the OP that states that a Mary MacMillan who was teaching school in the 1940's was his wife. He would have been over 70 by then as well. It's possible, I suppose, but I find it doubtful.