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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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  waton

  if you care/can turn to page 426 of the "Proclaimers" book' " The World has ended"

  "Millions now living will never die" "-- nie sterben" in german. In the left corner photo, on the floor, among the wood shavings, "hobelspaene". you can see a wooden C lamp, that in 1918 already was an antique. In 1946 I traded two of these identical ones for my tobacco- rations. I still have them. Ready to show all comers. Theses clamps survived the end of the world that came (invisibly, symbolically, wt style, ), but nobody noticed. and are noe the two silent witnesses to the authenticity of photos like that. ) I also have a desk that I made that served as a cramped quarters study base for a Member of the GB.
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  Do You Love the Sea and Mountains?

  by compound complex in

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  waton

  While the coast is shrouded in mist, and the waves are almost too boisterous for beginner surfing in the winter, there is a lot of sunshine on the pacific coast, on a yearly basis. The Ocean is blue only under a blue sky, and seeing snow capped mountains, in the distance, year round , adds so much to the beauty. ( on a clear day you can see forever)

  Having been conceived to the distant sound of the white noise of the ever crashing waves, like mating salmons, i am ever attracted to the water's edge, not sprinkled with amber, like in my Old World youth, but really grateful i can watch the sunset in salt water in June from my house each summer.

  Pacific coast? do not miss the great Oregon Shadow on August 21, 2017 ~ 9 am.
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  So, any comments from the Memorial?

  by NewYork44M in

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  perhaps i missed the comments, but i did not see a lot of comments from, or about, the memorial.

  it happened last night, right?.

  in years past the jwn board was hot with comments.

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  waton

  great comment Perry. Jeremiah 31: 31-34. alluded to be Jesus: : New Covenant, no more teaching "know Jehovah, each one will know. "their sins I will remember no more," not at all what the memorial talk had: I will remember them (sins and resulting imperfection) for a thousand years, and you work off that debt.
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  Potential New Article for JWFacts: Iglesia Ni Cristo

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  paul has allowed me to write up two articles for jwfacts: iglesia ni cristo, and why russell was not a mason.here is my iglesia ni cristo article.

  “we believe that there is only one true god, the father, and no one else besides him”.

  thus, faith alone is not enough.. about baptism.

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  waton

  INC are strict tithers, not forking money over could be a disfellowshipping offence? Have the greatest public auditorium in the Philippines, (North Manila). have the most prolific Mormon-Utah- temple like churches all over the place ( I mistook them for a breakaway mormon sect). Vote in block, great political power.
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  So, any comments from the Memorial?

  by NewYork44M in

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  perhaps i missed the comments, but i did not see a lot of comments from, or about, the memorial.

  it happened last night, right?.

  in years past the jwn board was hot with comments.

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  waton

  This years talk, if adhering to the outline, did not stress the New Covenant at all, or the unrelated Kingdom Covenant that was affirmed by Jesus after the party had left the venue.

  It felt like a new celebration, linking it as little as possible to what actually happened at the last supper.

  Jesus being the Key man, not the Catholic Peter with the keys to paradise.

  Work hard for wt to get into paradise.
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  Why does Jehovah choose certain people to rule with him in heaven?

  by iWant2Learn in

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  in other words, what good works have the 144000 done to be secured a place in heaven?

  i am told they have already been chosen.

  does that mean that jehovah also knows our future?

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  waton

  Revelation 20 limits those ruling for a thousand years to those killed by the axe.

  from "fiddler on the roof" : why not choose somebody else for a change?
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  Memorial - from disgusted to feeling sorry

  by UBM101 in

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  i went with my husband tonight for the first time.

  it was pretty appalling how they lied about the 144k and everyone else.

  then passing the wine and bread for nothing.

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  waton

  mentioned twice: . show by works that you are worthy of the ransom.
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  You will be with me in Paradise

  by AmyWatson916 in

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  i'm reading a book called, "what to do when they knock".

  it points out that on page 36 of the 2014 "what does the bible really teach?

  " book jesus promises the criminal, "you will be with me in paradise.

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  waton

  It is not just nonsense, it is old nonsense, like the old teacher that thinks he can stop the genius from doing advanced math on the black board. Old nonsense like a talking snake taking control of the universe.
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  Were the apostles of the 'Anointed class' when they partook?

  by why144000 in

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  according to john 20:22 the apostles did not receive the holy spirit until after jesus was resurrected.

  wouldn't this make them part of 'the other sheep' when they partook of the bread and wine?.

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  waton

  and the sly switch from the New Covenant (the emblems), forgiveness of sins, for all, to the

  Kingdom Covenant. exclusive partakers.
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  Were the apostles of the 'Anointed class' when they partook?

  by why144000 in

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  according to john 20:22 the apostles did not receive the holy spirit until after jesus was resurrected.

  wouldn't this make them part of 'the other sheep' when they partook of the bread and wine?.

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  waton

  This was prior to the Lord's supper, but he still partook.

  Aroq: --which proves that partaking, and potentially aspiring to become part of the anointed does not guarantee a good outcome, or gives you a sterling personality. Judas never became one of the anointed nor of the GC.

  Nobody of that first century non-overlapping generation could be part of the Great Crowd, which comes "out of the Great Tribulation" that is scheduled to happen " in the Lord's day", not later than 2075. Judas too had an earthly hope, squirreled away money to be comfortable when it was supposed to happen,-- in his lifetime.