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  Father's Day is tomorrow (in the US). Why is it wrong?

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  i did an examination of the one single article ever to address father's day since it's tomorrow here in the us.

  the article covers both mother's day and father's day.

  hope it's informative.. examination of “mother and father worship unscriptural”, the only article ever to address father’s day in any publication printed by the watchtower bible and tract society.

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  Prince's birthday declared "Prince Day" today, June 7, 2016 by State of Minnesota

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  http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/entertainment/prince-birthday/index.html.

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  Drama at the RC

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  i sat through part 1 of the drama yesterday.

  i thought they did a fairly decent job with it, except for the weird questions asked up front by an ancient guy asking "how do you know jehovah's witnesses have the truth?

  " that has absolutely nothing to do with how he was convinced jesus was the messiah.

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  Things that make you go "hmmm"

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  got a phone call last week, but i didn't recognize the number, so i didn't answer.

  no voice mail was left.

  or so i thought.

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  "New" publications

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  looks like two "new" publications are available on their website.

  i put "new" in quotation marks because these appear to simply be the introduction in their rnwt in one and the appendices, maps, charts, etc.

  publications named "an introduction to god's word" and "a study guide for god's word".

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  OMG... what happened in a bar today

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  so, i'm sitting in a bar, having a drink.

  the bar participates in taptv, an online trivia thing.

  the question that came up was, "what did jehovah's witnesses call themselves before 1931".

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  Today's WT Study based on a theme that adds words not found in the original Greek.

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  2. bible

  today's wt study, from the december 15, 2014, is based on mark 7:14, which says:.

  so calling the crowd to him again, he said to them: listen to me, all of you, and understand the meaning.

  the two words at the end, "the meaning", are not found in the greek.

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  Unity: the theme for the monthly TV program

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  there's been numerous discussions about the singing cart thing in this month's video.

  i decided to watch at least a portion of the rest of the program though because sometimes things are said that are interesting to pick up on.

  this one started off on the topic of unity, and, unbelievably, herd talked about brainwashing and how we like to have our brains cleaned.

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  Rev 17:9 - Thoughts?

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  rev 17:9 describes something about the "woman", the harlot, babylon the great:.

  here is where the intelligence that has wisdom comes in: the seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top.

  and there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does arrive he must remain a short while.. i was dreaming about this verse last night, so i thought i'd look it up.

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  How about a Bible API?

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  since we post quite a few scriptures on this site, it would be useful if they could pop-up the verse(s) when the link is clicked.. a couple of possibilities i found:.

  http://reftagger.com/.

  http://labs.bible.org/netbibletagger.