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  Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

  and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

  ) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

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  waton

  so, what we can tell from nature, that there is free will. even to cause ill for others
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  I don't get it - Marriage in WT world

  by menrov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in wt world, a marriage is only seen (considered) as legal if it is registered in the municipality (or similar governmental organisation).

  now, if you look at the scriptures, there was no requirement to have a marriage legally registered in order to be considered married.

  is it not strange that the wt subjects themselves to and adopts an worldly arrangement setup but governments rules by satan when it comes to a marital status?.

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  waton

  Marriage prospects are a major draw of wt inc and other religions.

  In some countries, certain people can not get married, even if they in de facto are. so wt inc makes such unions possible by using the "declaration of faithfulness " arrangement.

  Marriage registration is the simplest of the complicated legal hoops wt inc requires is its members to jump through.
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  Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

  and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

  ) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

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  waton

  There is no creator that is the point.

  Ss: while we know that energy is uncreated, eternal, the "father"principal and our struggle to create things argue for some kind of agency at work. , beyond our wildest dreams. comprehension.

  The latest wt backtrack was when they almost endorsed the male lyons habit of killing the cubs fathered by his departed predecessor, to sire his own --

  as somehow ok, almost like David their pet persona in action.
  
  
  
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  My old Congregation is now a book study group of old people!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i was in a yugoslav ethnic congregation of about 200 people in australia we had alot of refugee witnesses come in from the balkans war.

  in the late 1990's we were thriving!

  today the young ones have all left "the truth.

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  There are no more book study groups. At the zoom meetings perhaps 20 out of 150 participate. Amalgamating more "congregations' into one.

  soon it will be the "Wyndham" group of the "Melbourne" congregation. again. and

  The old are a dangerous bunch because they are the elephants with a goofy but good memory.

  The elegant elephants in the room.
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  Was It Designed? (My head hurts)

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.

  and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?

  ) is a seabird that feeds on fish.

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  waton

  The ultimate act of creative genius, would be a making of a system where everything designs itself and drives itself to maximum efficiency in it's niche, without further tinkering.

  Wt and others severely underestimate a possible creator.

  Even the natural laws might be the once that are left over from all the others that did not work well in their universes.

  give credit where credit is due, dont get stuck in arguing about the method. the messy details.
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  Tonight's Meeting

  by Studyover in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  during tonight's meeting the brother seemed to read out something along the lines of "you may be helping a poor sister who you think may be struggling, but in turn that sister may be getting financial assistance from the government.

  it is always best to stick to jehovah's arrangement in these matters so that help can get to those who most need it, including the worldwide work".

  i think it may have been an article about social media platforms initially and how they should be avoided and then this was mentioned.

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  waton

  wt, from GB down to elders hate it when they are not in absolute control./power. and power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  The most danger to the sheep, the shepherds, the local owners. harbingers of shearing fleecing and slaughter
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  Worldwide Campaign Nov 2020

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thanks petra and atlantis for sending the latest letter regarding the watchtowers plan for a worldwide campaign in november this year.

  i am wondering what they are planning to achieve from this campaign, particularly their focus on sending the watchtower 2020 no.

  2, titled "what is god's kingdom" to politicians, governments (and tribal leaders) around the world.. it would appear that this is their answer to governments who have put them in the spot light for their bad policies, particularly their handling of child abuse.

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  waton

  is about them being overthrown in the near future,

  Listener: , an euphemism for the killing of billions of innocents, again, at the next planned "end of the world" a change from their 1918 campaign, " Millions now living will never die" subtitle of the wt November 2020 campaign: now:

  m[B]illions* soon dying will never live again!

  * it was only millions in 1918, we did not reach 2 billions until 1928 so, repeat:

  it is final: Billions soon dying will never live.
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  “The Asiatic Mind” — Watchtower 1956

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  searching instances of the word “simplify” in watchtower literature, i stumbled across this.. the asiatic mind finds it difficult to accept new ways, to simplify and to make advantageous changes.

  they fear conversion and dislike others’ offering them help.

  many continually live in a realm of unreality and refuse to face modern facts of life.

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  waton

  The Prince of Wales and Repulse were invulnerable to Japanese planes because asiatic eyes could not properly aim.
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  “The Asiatic Mind” — Watchtower 1956

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  searching instances of the word “simplify” in watchtower literature, i stumbled across this.. the asiatic mind finds it difficult to accept new ways, to simplify and to make advantageous changes.

  they fear conversion and dislike others’ offering them help.

  many continually live in a realm of unreality and refuse to face modern facts of life.

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  waton

  was probably written by an assistant professor of the Awake / wt university in Brooklyn, or a contributor that was a frustrated missionary "serving" outside the Philippines or Japan.
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  Worldwide Campaign Nov 2020

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thanks petra and atlantis for sending the latest letter regarding the watchtowers plan for a worldwide campaign in november this year.

  i am wondering what they are planning to achieve from this campaign, particularly their focus on sending the watchtower 2020 no.

  2, titled "what is god's kingdom" to politicians, governments (and tribal leaders) around the world.. it would appear that this is their answer to governments who have put them in the spot light for their bad policies, particularly their handling of child abuse.

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  waton

  You forgot the Red Hat

  pp, its more like the aluminium foil kind, mailing a 9 month old magazine to presidents, ? and all other "superior authorities", not in the " Let God be true book?

  Talking of trump [pets] that campaign could become one of the 7 in the next ":revelation mystery " book edition. .