Richard_I
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666, Revelation, and preterism
by Richard_I inon reddit, there's a post about how 666 is mistranslated as 616 in revelation (thread).
666 and 616 are both correct.
if you read into revelations, very little is presented as actual prophecy- it's an analogous tale to describe the roman empire during their persecution of christianity.. 666 and 616 come from the hebrew tradition of converting words into numerical values.
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2014 Annual Meeting not being streamed worldwide?
by Richard_I ini haven't heard a peep about the 2014 annual meeting being shown worldwide (or at least across north america) like it was last year.
they made a big deal with the am last year, congs had to get the projectors and screens for the showing, and we were told in advance of the time and location to attend.
but i have heard absolutely nothing this year, at least here in canada.
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The GB's weekly meetings
by Richard_I inevery wednesday the gb meet and discuss who the hell knows what.
but i was wondering, is it just them or are the committee helpers and the laywers invited as well?
that's gotta be around 20-25 people altogether.
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What do DO's do when not visiting assemblies?
by Richard_I inlet's say they attend a dozen circuit assemblies.
that's only 12 weeks they spend with a congregation.
what about the rest of the year?
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Something the WT will never admit regarding jw.org
by Richard_I inwe all know how much the jws higher education and how they look down on those getting a post-secondary diploma or degree.
but think about all the work needed to make jw.org:.
web programmersdatabase programmersnetwork programmersgeneral it (administration, maintenance, etc.
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Dumb line in Bible Study presentation in July 2013 KM
by Richard_I inin the july 2013 km for the presentation to start a study, this is the recommended presentation: "almost everyone prays at one time or another.
even atheists have prayed when in trouble.
do you think that god listens to all prayers?".
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Canada Yearbook Stats [1973-2012]
by Richard_I inafter seeing the uk yearbook stats thread i decided to compile canada's yearbook stats.
i was able to get the stats from 1973 to 2012. so here they are in a table below along with some colourful graphs.
note that the avg.
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Watchtower IPs and Wikipedia
by Richard_I ini had some free time and decided to look up some of the watchtower's ip addresses on wikipedia, see if maybe someone from bethel is editing jw articles or blood-related articles, similar to how scientology ip addresses kept editing scientology-related articles.
the only ip addresses i could find that belong to the watchtower are in the 208.74.140.0 to 208.74.143.255 range.. well, nothing really showed.
the edits are likely by some young guys who just felt like fixing stuff on wikipedia related to their interests, and none of the edits were related to jws.
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"Dates (Calendar)" from Publications Index 1986-2012 [HUGE TEXT LIST WARNING, 56K WARNING]
by Richard_I in[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng /> </o:officedocumentsettings> </xml><![endif].
323, alexander the great dies.
1, herod the great dies.
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are they already working on the new buildings at warwick, ny?
by Richard_I ini noticed on the news part of jw.org, they mentioned this comment:.
"there were power outages at the branch office facilities in patterson and wallkill, new york, and these facilities ran temporarily on generator power; however, the warwick facility is still operating on generator power.
the storm also disrupted telecommunications services at these facilities.".