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  Proper understanding of the Mediator & New Covenant

  by Crazyguy in

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  mediator and the new covenant.

  the society has taught that only the 144,000 are to par-take of the emblems and jesus only mediates and died for them.

  "he is the mediator between his heavenly father, jehovah god, and the nation of spiritual israel, which is limited to only 144,000 members.

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  waton

  A beautiful mild flowery, day, evening among the palms here,

  The canard of wt is that the spiritual israel is 144 ooo. that is like saying the nation of Israel in the Law covenant was composed of the tribes of Levi and Judah. the priests and the kings. Read Rev 7, the original 144 chapter, read it please again, again if you have too: The 144 k come OUT OF the twelve tribes, they are not the only Israel. They are at best 2/12 fraction. at best, or worst.

  New covenant is for forgiveness of sins, all embracing, kingdom covenant: to come. ( if there really was a talking snake.
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  World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

  by jp1692 in

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  the world's oldest person has died in italy at the age of 117, reports say.. emma morano was born on 29 november 1899 in the piedmont region of italy.

  she was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living.. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39610937.

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  she hadn't left her 2 room apartment in over 20 years.

  Pete Z: but may be she had all the amenities in it, a lift to set her doen into her bath? The main thing is a healthy mind, which often goes with a functioning body.

  Look at Hawking, a mind trapped in that body, not pleasant to look at, but trying to soar, correcting past dead end thinking, theories even.
  
  
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  I am a Living Time Machine

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

  everywhere you found telephone booths!

  a call was a nickle.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

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  My brain is cluttered with old stickers.

  Terry, do not call it that: clutter. I have started to just write one line notes on things that happened, what I do not normally remember during day to day activities. . an amazing chain of unrelated events, just to reflect on of what happened on the journey.

  That journey is your legacy, it does good to reflect on that. it is a moving experience as moving gets more and more difficult.

  yesterday's random entry: Event at x construction company, a one ton facing stone, being lifted to the 10st floor broke loose and smashed down, 8 feet from me, through a ready to pour floor forming and collapsing the whole section right beside me. My comment to the foreman: "Just wait until the rest come down' soon,-- soon like at Armageddon" ha ha, that was 47 years ago, prior to 1975. thank you wt.
  
  
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  World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

  by jp1692 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the world's oldest person has died in italy at the age of 117, reports say.. emma morano was born on 29 november 1899 in the piedmont region of italy.

  she was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living.. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39610937.

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  Loch Ness Monster --- comment: and Methuselah, that's why it is wise to have a culture that keeps accurate records, and celebrates birthdays, Those candles actually would mark time to failed wt prophecies. " Millions now living will never die" Emma was 18 when that was the wt slogan worldwide, for years.

  To put her accomplishment in perspective, if you are a normal healthy senior, in your late 80s, you would have to live another 30 years in good care, with good finances (perhaps not with alot of big sudden money). Have a loving family. There was news, just across the Alps that a crowbar was used by a grandson to get at his grandfather's inheritance money, and not to pry open a treasure chest either.

  Thanks to all her caregivers in her behalf.

  PS: wish we had a couple of millions of these Emmas and Jeannes around, then that 1918 wt prophecy would come true, and true without wt going into the overlapping mode.

  These 2 ladies probably partook of the Emblems bsw. at least the bread.
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  World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117

  by jp1692 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the world's oldest person has died in italy at the age of 117, reports say.. emma morano was born on 29 november 1899 in the piedmont region of italy.

  she was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living.. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39610937.

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  that is an amazing achievement, even for the care takers. There must be something to being a lady, live in that latitude, (the french record holder lived in the general region too) The genetic make up of the southern Europeans. wish I could live that long too.
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  When did the Iron Age start according to the Bible? You'll be surprised!

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. bible

  read this over at reddit so the credit goes to the person over there but in genesis 4:22 it's say one of the offspring of adam knew how to work with iron roughly 130 years after the creation of man.

  now historians and scientists say man didn't figure out how to use iron until about 1100 bc, man we're we wrong!

  it's also interesting that cain is building a city when there like 10 people on the planet and nimrod goes on to build the tower of babel only about 100 year after the flood.

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  Adam knew how to make fire...

  HTBWC: "God looked with favor on Abel's sacrifices of fatty carrion". fat implies easy combustion, given later bible examples, so the look of Jah might imply self-combustion, and a source of fire like lightning strikes, volcanism, catching a match from the flaming swords, and Prometheus lurking in the background.
  
  
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  Memorial Bread-Break a piece off or eat whole?

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

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  question for some of the old-timers in the congregation.

  did those who professed to be of the anointed and partook of the bread, did they break off a piece of the bread and then eat it; or did they take the whole piece and eat it?

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  waton

  never realized that parrots could partake. Who am I to judge them?

  NN: there is a true story of a chicken or rooster in an open window style kh (there they are really wind-holes. ) snatching the bread from the plate, and proceeding to partake. it suffered capital punishment for the disrespect, and was eaten as a passover dinner.

  Jws are ever ready to judge. going for the jugular
  
  
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  0) did God (the father) or its atheistic equivalent have a prehuman/preBigBang existence? and other TMELY questions.

  by prologos in

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  if you like to think of the big question and can imagine to remove one of the 3 similar space dimensions to put in time as a substitute, a picture should emerge that you can work with.

  1)working into the past from the big bang creation or random event, (like in "100 abb" or "-100 bb"} , as an atheist, was there a start- up vaccuum oscillation, the casimir effect gone viral,or similar random event , or.

  21) so, better keep moving!

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  Brokeback Watchtower. got tired trying to watch all that grandstanding, what was the gist of the comments? in your own words?
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  Single Sisters Over A Certain Age Group Getting A Bad Rap

  by HiddlesWife in

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  i'm new here; one of my relatives was a member on this forum a few years ago and told me about it.

  anyways, as a sister who has been in the org since childhood and now in her late 40's (plus as a woman of color), i have noticed that a number of brothers have an ageist attitude.

  they are very accepting of young women under 26 and rejecting women over that age, particularly those in their 30's and over.. is this an unspoken mindset from wthq (specifically from bethel), or is it that quite a number of males (sorry, i'm not sexist here) have this type of mentality?

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  Only in the Kingdom Hall do they imagine they have "power".🙄 In the world when a man has $$$ of course women will want them...She will overlook how unattractive he is.

  LHG: yeah, that explains while they close their eyes when kissing and turn out the light.

  being married to a person you loath must be a hard way to earn your money/keep.
  
  
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  Single Sisters Over A Certain Age Group Getting A Bad Rap

  by HiddlesWife in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm new here; one of my relatives was a member on this forum a few years ago and told me about it.

  anyways, as a sister who has been in the org since childhood and now in her late 40's (plus as a woman of color), i have noticed that a number of brothers have an ageist attitude.

  they are very accepting of young women under 26 and rejecting women over that age, particularly those in their 30's and over.. is this an unspoken mindset from wthq (specifically from bethel), or is it that quite a number of males (sorry, i'm not sexist here) have this type of mentality?

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  waton

  perhaps many a husband would be upset if they thought that the hour long procedure of their wife to get ready for the meeting is a ritual to become attractive to the males there. and one study showed that ladies, when having to make a snap decision will pick the rugged unkempt speciman over the well groomed.

  There are many unattached attractive and intelligent elderly sisters here, giving glasses to the remaining single brothers is not going enhance their chances.

  TD: heights? never was afraid of it, vertical beings welcome.