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  Did the ransom sacrifice even work?

  by Sharpie in

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  2. beliefs

  shower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.

  as per doctrine.

  is still alive in heaven right now correct?

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  I think I once had a jacket made from noahide.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Didn't Evans make an attempt at having translators work for free translating his first book?

  Well, he certainly got his money's worth. Others have explained that he made life difficult for the translators, which is peak Lloyd Evans: find the cheapest way to do something, then make an effort to reduce the quality even more. Hmm, I'm not feeling too confident about the odds of his legal issues working out for him...
  
  
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  2022-July-S-147-Announcements-English and German!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2022-july-s-147-announcements and reminders .

  in english and german.. .

  https://www.filemail.com/d/vzdsfllhgxpkdmc.

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  We have received reports that personal slideshows and videos presented before or after some wedding talks have not been dignified and, in a few cases, were outlandish.

  LOL, someone hosted a stag party.

  Oh, wait, this is a JW publication. Someone probably said something rude, like "golly!"
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  It's not as if belonging to a religion that had strict moral rules regarding sex made any difference to Evans in the first place.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  WingCommander: OMG, Hemorrhoid Evans is going to write at least 2 MORE long-winded, gas-bag books about HIMSELF?

  Apparently he is going to revise the first one? He could get away with it, because no one wants to read either book, much less compare them to see what he changed. And if he's going to revise the first one, why bother writing the second one? Oh, wait-- he's not going to try to crowdfund a second autobiography, is he? lol

  Maybe he can title it The Unrepentant Reprobate.
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  January 6th hearings...

  by Queequeg in

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  what's your take on the january 6th hearings?.

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  smiddy3: Don`t all politicians do that ?

  Yes, it's a standard of behavior here as well. It shouldn't even matter, but in the USA we give way too much blame/credit to the President, who really is supposed to be something of a figurehead, a representative of the nation as a whole when dealing with foreign powers. Our government was designed to put most of the power into congress, but we place too much of our attention on the President.

  The media will talk about the President's budget and budget proposals all the time, but it's congress that produces the actual budget and votes to pass it (with the President able to veto it, under some conditions- but even then, congress will be tasked with revising the budget and voting again). Congress writes laws and votes to pass them, then the President signs them to make them official (same thing here regarding the veto). And so on.

  This is where the use of executive orders has become a growing problem for decades now. Giving the President a way to circumvent congress was meant for only very rare circumstances, but presidents regularly use them now and it has given them way too much power. It's a step in a very dangerous direction for what is supposed to be a representative government, when those representatives are so easy to bypass.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Jehalapeno: Just because you prefer shorter videos does not mean there's not an audience interested in longer videos.

  I didn't mean to imply that no one watches long videos on YouTube. But it's very difficult on an audience if your upload schedule is frequent and your videos are long. Some of the channels I enjoy will post 40-90 minute videos, but do so on a relatively long schedule.

  I am sure there is an audience that can watch content for hours each day from one or two creators, but that would make them the exception that proves the rule, in my mind.
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  Is the light getting brighter on this?

  by Longlivetherenegades in

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  2. bible

  can you identify or show the difference in the group of words labelled a and b. a. last part of that last day.... year 1967 .

  b. shortly before the last day of the last days..... year 2020 .

  is the light getting brighter or going into darkness?

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  Maybe they are trying to channel Winston Churchill.

  Churchill: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

  Lett: "As Churchill said, this isn't the end. But it's close! It's more like the middle of the end of the end, leaning strongly towards the end of the end of the end. This is what we call 'overlapping endings.'"
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  He might want to get that lawyer to skim his next writing project. Wouldn't want to commit libel, or anything...
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  Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

  "for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

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  The JW message always resonates during times when there is a lot of uncertainty, fear, and stress. Economic concerns, political strife, and a war that could escalate any day are going to make people very anxious. And when someone points out how "the Bible predicted these exacts times," they find an audience that is suddenly very receptive.

  That gives them the time to assimilate that person, who doesn't realize the trap has closed around them until it's too late.

  Edit to add: I guess for the period from 2016 to 2021, the political uncertainty in the USA and the pandemic that followed made a big difference.