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  EXPERTS ONLY! A Pop Quiz on (current) Watchtower teaching

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.

  1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.

  2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.

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  konceptual99

  You ready to put us out of our misery yet Terry?
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  Are we heading for III World War?

  by abiather in

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  the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!

  some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.

  when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!

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  Putin is a brinksman.  He loves to puff his chest out.  His posturing is just as much for the Russian people as it is for the West.

  It is a precarious situation in Ukraine but the economic impact and subsequent internal unrest that full blown Russian involvement in Ukraine would threaten is a massive hold on Putin.  Don't underestimate how used the Russians have got to Western goods, a consumer driven society and financial growth.  Sure, the wealth is not distributed anywhere near equally, corruption and crony-ism is widespread in politics but few want to go back to queuing for bread.
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  Noah preached 100-120 years and no followers. What the hell was he preaching?

  by James Mixon in

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  let me see if i have this straight.

  we are to believe noah preached over a 100 years with 0 effect.. the bible records that lamech, noah's father had sons and daughter's but the number is not included.

  to have a plural number of brothers and sisters, there would be at least four siblings, two brothers and two sisters.. my folks had 6 kids and 90 years later there are over 100 family members.. some say based on what's written in gen.6:3, noah preached anywhere between 100-120 years.

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  He wasn't much of a righteous man. According to the last discussion of Noah in the WT he was far too busy making sure his plans for the Ark were good to take any notice of the women being dragged around by their hair. 
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  2014 increase in Memorial Partakers to 14,121

  by jwfacts in

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  i have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .

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  Wow - more partakers now than there was in 1960.

  I note the rise in the years preceding 1975 as well.

  Of course there are a number of whack jobs and fakes partaking now but come on!
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  New LDC Meeting KH Video

  by wifibandit in

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  been away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!

  (pixel, thank you!

  ) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.

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  The letter to the BoE in the UK regarding the change to the RBC to the LDC is 100% clear.

  It says (I paraphrase) that having one meeting less a week means halls and assembly halls can be used more efficiently.  It says that they will be looking to bring some congregations that have their own hall into the same hall and selling the spare one.

  This letter should still be on the notice board in any UK hall.  It's still on ours.
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  Regarding Dates---Have The Witnesses Ever Been Correct On Any Of Them?

  by minimus in

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  i can't think of any chronology that has not been changed.

  even their "absolute" dates are suspect.

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  None of this matters.  It's the fact that they have been "watching" that placates Witnesses when challenged with this. I have mentioned this to a few friends as well as my wife.  I have asked them to name one date or event that was predicted that came true.

  1914 is the classic but they all have to admit that the expectation of what would actually happen was wrong.

  Regardless, they just say that the fact that the F&DS were looking for something is proof enough.  Who else is doing the witnessing?  What other religion has the growth of the Witnesses?  Who has a worldwide, united brotherhood like the Witnesses?  Who is talking about God's kingdom like the Witnesses?  

  Cognative dissonance is a mighty, mighty, mighty strong force.
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  Do Jehovah's Witnesses Shun?

  by lurkernomore in

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  just checked the faq on jw.org as i wanted to show a df'd friend of ours how dishonest they were being about thier shunning policy.. well don't you know they've only gone and got honest about shunning df'd ones:.

  'we do not automatically disfellowship someone who commits a serious sin.

  if, however, a baptized witness makes a practice of breaking the bibles moral code and does not repent, he or she will be shunned or disfellowshipped.

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  it still does not make clear that children not living at home should be shunned as rigorously as anyone else. It fails to mention the links between modern day shunning of children and Israelite parents bringing their children forward to be stoned.  it does not bring out the fact that a man who slept with his mother (step?) was reinstated within about 6 months according to the Bible yet some are left out in the cold for years.
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  "the Walking Dead" special tract campaign in August!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i obviously have an active imagination.... i can just see the parallels between "the walking dead" and the masses of witnesses hyped up during the august campaign!.

  big crowds of slow walking witnesses with no logical brain function, moving en-mass towards non-witnesses....with only one combined thought "must leave tract".....as they mumble to each other......dragging feet......like zombies..... when one person in the community accepts a tract, they are then the target of every witness who smells their 'interest' and is swamped with more and more visits...big crowds pile on top of them, stripping away at their very individuality and being....until they become one of them!.

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  I think it's safe to say stuck that there each year will bring a number of tract campaigns:

  - memorial

  - convention

  - a.n. other in August to push the service year peak

  
  
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  I was shy on my first JW.ORG Video, I am so happy sharing God's Organization with you!

  by JWCart1975 in

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  jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!

  repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!

  you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!

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  What a feeeeeeling, to go wheeeeeeeeeling......
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  Prank call to Governing Body member Anthony Morris III gets through

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  alert..............alert.....breaking news .......... john cedars of jwsurvey has pranked called governing body member anthony morris iii at bethel .

  over 2 minutes of pranking .

  as i type he is editing the recording into a video .

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  He's just a guy, they all are, same as us, same as any pop-star or CEO or road-sweeper

  My tactic for minimising the status of anyone else....

  Imagine them taking a dump.