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Muddy Waters
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TECHNOLOGY and COMMUNICATION: a look back at Watchtower merchandizing
by Terry inthousands of people in america were the beneficiaries of new inventions in technology in the 1870's.. the typewriter, the telephone, and the light bulb transformed something we may have never considered before.. communication was ramped up seemingly without limit for the first time in human history!.
pastor russell's customers were simple folks frightened by monumental changes.. what did these rapid changes really mean?.
pastor russell distilled everything down to the notion everything was understandable as signs of the end.. ____________________________.
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WT Library
by MsTruthSeeker2014 indoes anyone have the link to dl the wt library?
i was looking for some mag from the 1900s and see that the jw org site only goes back to 2000.
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Muddy Waters
Awesome! ty
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NOT on JW.org: Huffington Post interview with Director of new movie about Jehovahs' Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
by Balaamsass2 indanielle tumminio become a fan .
episcopal priest, life coach, and author of 'god and harry potter at yale'.
email.
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Muddy Waters
Awesome! Will be looking forward to this! Thank you!
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Of Pain, Growth, Change, and Moving Forward
by SnarlingRaven in"did you not in your discontentment make supplication to the great void, and to the darkness, to bring forth the mighty storm that lays waste to all that stales and stagnates?
did you not climb the treacherous mountain to witness the melting of snow?
do not peals of blinding light illuminate your face?
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Muddy Waters
Love it. Wonderful, soulful, dramatic and poignant. Thank you.
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A picture of a WT dream
by Sour Grapes inpeople stay jehovah's witnesses for several reasons.
the foremost is because they are taught that they could cheat death and not have to die or even better yet not have to get old.
the second is they can see their dead relatives again , who have a direct pass to paradise, and that we must obey to get there to see them in the resurrection.
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Muddy Waters
And why does Jesus have a damn white beard!?? If a person is perfect, he's supposed to never grow old, right??
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How did you feel when you got baptised? Seriously....
by stuckinarut2 inso recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
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Muddy Waters
Brujadelsol, you said something which was very similar to the way I felt. Because the baptism happened so fast! It was so anti-climatic compared to all the great build up towards it. Afterward I couldn't help feeling like I had been in some sort of assembly line process. I blamed myself for not being spiritual enough or taking time to pray, etc.
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A picture of a WT dream
by Sour Grapes inpeople stay jehovah's witnesses for several reasons.
the foremost is because they are taught that they could cheat death and not have to die or even better yet not have to get old.
the second is they can see their dead relatives again , who have a direct pass to paradise, and that we must obey to get there to see them in the resurrection.
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Muddy Waters
Is this is something new in this picture, too? -- they are showing people with HOBBIES!! There are people sailing, fishing, and even setting up a tripod for photography.
If you see a JW doing any of that stuff today, you'd wonder at their (low) spiritual condition and how much time they might be spending in these terrible time-wasting, refuse-like pursuits!
Bah!
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Two pet peeves of mine
by Sour Grapes inthere are two things that just drive me crazy.
one is that the art work in the watchtower is treated like they are actual still photo's taken thousands of years ago.
your will hear comments about look at the smiles on their faces or the sadnees or happiness in their eyes, or notice the reaction of the crowd, etc.
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Muddy Waters
Yes, and they carry clubs, too! Even modern day revilers! You can surely see this is evidence of their Satanic thinking. Headbands. Snarls. Raised fists, or clubs, lol. with maybe a drunk person lying on the ground, usually female. And maybe a Ouija board.
Do you see? Do you see how real this picture is? Do you see how it perfectly represents reality? Do you see from this picture that this is the way things are?
Geez. What goons. Goons running a pretty good scam, though. :(
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Examining the Watchtower daily
by kairos in...i mean scriptures.. .
wow, how did i miss this.. open up you examining the scriptures daily ( "daily text" ).
the booklet is about 80% watchtower comments.
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Muddy Waters
And Magnum, not just the bible, but any declared "book of wisdom". I would have liked to have spent that time taking a look also at Jung, Taoism, I Ching, bhadgad Vita (or whatever it's called)' Bhuddism, the Koran, Islam, native beliefs, Wicca, the whole lot of human wisdoms and knowledge and stupidities too. But I just don't have the energy or inclination any more. Now I just want to enjoy my grandchildren and live my life, what is left of it! :)
- Muddy gal
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Two pet peeves of mine
by Sour Grapes inthere are two things that just drive me crazy.
one is that the art work in the watchtower is treated like they are actual still photo's taken thousands of years ago.
your will hear comments about look at the smiles on their faces or the sadnees or happiness in their eyes, or notice the reaction of the crowd, etc.
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Muddy Waters
"... And we can see from this picture on page (whatever), that worldly people always wear headbands when they want to riot or incite a riot."
*cracking up* !!
Guess what?!? I have taken to wearing headbands now, lol, and I love them! Bwhahahaha!!