I was there for four years, 1965-1969; I live just 60 miles from there now; and I haven't had the slightest interest in going back for a visit.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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Pop, things have changed and is changing.
by jam inthis past weekend my jw daughter and family came.
to visit.
this daughter not like my other daughter keeps in.
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Yes, trying to talk people back into the organization is the main theme of the current Special Day assemblies; they've been pushing this notion hard since the Memorial.
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Anyone wanna leave any choice comments? Brooklyn sells...
by Botzwana inhttp://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/39314#more-39314.
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you can leave comments in the bottom..
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Phizzy, it's not the bottom of the market in that location --- the area is highly prized -- one ot the most desirable in the entire city -- and pretty well immune to the vagaries of the general market.
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"Wondrous expansion is now taking place!" - the reality...
by cedars ini've uploaded a new article to my blog on jwsurvey.org.
it can be found at the following link:.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/under-the-microscope-the-watch-tower-societys-claims-to-divine-direction-part-1.
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Brilliant, Cedars... and YOU TOO Londo111!!
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Alteration in the German Watchtower about spousal physical abuse
by slimboyfat ini noticed that the german edition of the study watchtower for today didn't include the phrase about the husband "hitting" the sister.
instead it just says that he became ferociously angry, which need not imply physical abuse.
i wonder if the german translator altered it off his own back or was instructed, and how other language editions compare.
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As I said in an erlier "Steve and Selma" thread, I don't recall the details, but I believe there was an instance in which the Italian translation committee was taken to task over their translated version of an English text.
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Tomorrow's Watchtower Study: Steve hits Selma in North America... not South America
by Alfred ini started a thread a few days ago that probably went unnoticed for the most part (under "scandals & cover-ups") regarding steve hitting selma in tomorrow's wt study... i just wanted to recap it here for those who may have missed it.... the spanish version changes the story completely.... if you've read that paragraph 12 it basically says that steve hit selma as she tried to prove a point.
selma then feels sorry for herself.. in the spanish version steve merely gets furious with her and she gets sad.. by the way, i just looked up the italian version... .
selma ricorda una lezione che imparo dalla sorella che le conduceva lo studio.
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I don't recall the details, but I believe there was an instance in which the Italian translation committee was taken to task over their translated version of an English text.
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Today is the Tomorrow I Dreaded Yesterday
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Bro. Lett (Governing Body) borrowed illustration from an outspoken WT critic
by fugue inwe're discussing this over on jwr:.
http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12805.
a jdub has posted a video of a talk that stephen lett, a member of the governing body, just gave at a special assembly day in iowa.
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The GB trade in eccentricities; they apparently believe it humanizes them; it's all affectation, style in lieu of substance.
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Is this $h!t Written for Idiots?
by Yan Bibiyan inlike the warning given to.
it comes from god through.
"...they obeyed the warning that god had sent by means of angels".
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" the GRAND PREACHING WORK takes precedence over and above ALL things..." except, of course, a 10:00 am donut and coffee at the local Starbucks.
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Cedar's 'Why The Watch Tower Society Is Already In Decline"
by Dogpatch inwhy the watch tower society is already in decline.
good article, cedars.. http://www.freeminds.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3236:why-the-watch-tower-society-is-already-in-decline&catid=31:governing-body&itemid=346.
it's also on the front page of freeminds.org.
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Here's a minority opinion of Knorr: Hardly a spiritual visionary, he was a pragmatist who harbored his own doubts about foundational doctines, notably 1914 --- Ray was on the money when he quoted NHK as syaing: "1914? I don't know; we'll wait and see," or something to that effect, lots of folks I know heard him voice such sentiments informally, in social settings; that's an attitude many, if not most of the Bethel family shared -- myself included.
He was, as Randy and others descirbed, mean-spirited and vindictive, but he was willing to overlook someone's misgivings about doctrine or chronology, etc. as long as they didn't publicize or promote them outside of Bethel's precincts, especially if he favored the person, or considered him of too much usefulness to sacrifice on the altar of orhodoxy.
His -- and Freddy's -- opposition to the Governing Body arrangement was also an open secret at Bethel -- he said more than once at the breakfast table, that the changeovert to the GB would occur "over my dead body;" prophetic words indeed.