Posts by konceptual99

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TV.JW.Org - WTF is Wrong With This Guy? - CAPTION THEM

by passwordprotected in

jw
friends

i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.

and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .

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konceptual99

Have to say - 2 months is remarkable to get a studio together. But then again when you have a mass of free labour to call upon, no tendering or other commercial processes associated with a typical project then perhaps it's not such an acheivement.

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TV.JW.Org - WTF is Wrong With This Guy? - CAPTION THEM

by passwordprotected in

jw
friends

i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.

and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .

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konceptual99

Nice Middle Atlantic racks as well. Those ain't cheap.

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TV.JW.Org - WTF is Wrong With This Guy? - CAPTION THEM

by passwordprotected in

jw
friends

i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.

and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .

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konceptual99

Letts is a buffoon. I was intrigued to note that he seems to have very short legs. Does he have a disability? Either way he didn't pay for a well tailored suit.

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can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?

by Chris Tann in

so it's rumored started by one member that there is a new pioneer rank called basic pioneer, announced at annual meeting.

can anyone verify this is true?

everything else presented at the meeting has been verified except this.

konceptual99

Any update on this? As far as I can tell from trawling contacts and JW friendly sites is that there is absolutely no basis for any claim of a 10 hour, "basic pioneer" status. There is also no basis for a claim about bethelites being able to do missionary service after 5 years.

Does anyone have any proper, verified info on these claims?

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Is the AGM today?

by hamsterbait in

jw
friends

anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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konceptual99

Has anyone established if this 10 hour and bethel missionary thing is true? From what I can make out it was not discussed at the AGM so sounds like speculation.

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Is the AGM today?

by hamsterbait in

jw
friends

anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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konceptual99

So far, although dub land will be exploding with excitement, all they have done on the "new light" side of things is to admit there is yet more they actually know less about.

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Is the AGM today?

by hamsterbait in

jw
friends

anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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konceptual99

Sorry. It's the poor editing on iPad. Hopefully a bit easier now.

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Is the AGM today?

by hamsterbait in

jw
friends

anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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konceptual99

Just for the record... so all know what the insight book did say....

Identification of Gog. The lands and peoples mentioned in the prophecy relating to Gog are known from the Bible and to some extent from secular history. But efforts to identify Gog with some historically known earthly ruler have not been successful. Most frequently suggested is Gyges, king of Lydia in western Asia Minor, called Guggu in the records of Assyrian monarch Ashurbanipal. ( AncientRecords of Assyria and Babylonia, by D. Luckenbill, 1927, Vol. II, pp. 297, 351, 352) Gyges, however, had died decades before the writing of Ezekiel’s prophecy. Hence, such identification is unacceptable. Additionally, the prophecy itself places Gog’s attack in “the final part of the years,” “in the final part of the days.” ( Eze 38:8, 16 ; compare Isa 2:2; Jer 30:24; 2Ti 3:1 .) For these reasons, the name Gog is evidently cryptic or symbolic, not being that of any known human king or leader.

The evidence points to a fulfillment in what is elsewhere called “the time of the end.” ( Da 11:35; 12:9 ; compare Re 12:12 .) Bible scholars and commentators generally recognize the prophecy as relating to the time of the Messianic Kingdom. As an example, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge comments: “Gog appears as the leader of the last hostile attack of the world-powers upon the kingdom of God.” (Edited by S. Jackson, 1956, Vol. V, p. 14) No fulfillment on natural Israel is known. The fulfillment in “the final part of the days” logically is with regard to spiritual Israel, the Christian congregation ( Ro 2:28, 29; Ga 6:16 ), described by the apostle Paul as children of, and directed by, the “Jerusalem above.” ( Ga 4:26 ) These points aid in arriving at the identification of Gog.

Further aid is found in the book of Revelation. Prophetic visions there foretold a great increase in persecution against the Christian congregation on the part of the symbolic dragon, Satan the Devil. This was to follow his being cast down, with his demons, from the heavens to the region of the earth, an act accomplished by the Kingdom of God through Christ at the time of Jesus’ beginning to exercise kingly authority. ( Re 12:5-10, 13-17 ) The massing of earthly nations against God, his Son, and God’s faithful servants on earth figures prominently in these visions, as does also the total defeat and desolation of such enemy forces. ( Re 16:13-16; 17:12-14; 19:11-21 ) The feasting by birds on the corpses of such enemies of Christ’s Kingdom rule likewise finds a correspondency here.—Compare Eze 39:4, 17-20 with Re 19:21 .

The central figure, or leader, of the earth-wide assault against the Messianic Kingdom and its subjects, according to Revelation, is Satan the Devil. He is the only person in the Biblical record who can be said to fulfill adequately the description and role assigned to ‘Gog of Magog’ in the prophecy given to Ezekiel. The prophecy in Ezekiel concerning Gog therefore points to a vicious, earth-wide assault on God’s people, an assault engineered and led by the abased Satan the Devil. This attack is what triggers the complete wiping out of such Satanic forces by means of God’s awesome power.— Eze 38:18-22 .