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  Juneteenth being celebrated by JWs

  by Anony Mous in

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  so today i saw a group of jws i know, we were sitting down to eat at a public place and i guess they (mom and daughter) were performing at an event with their sports team… for juneteenth.. they (the entire team) happened to sit next to us for some fast food and i recognized them and said hi, hoping to make them uncomfortable.

  they actually said hi and introduced themselves to my family, i’ve seen them before (they go to the same school as one of my kids) and they usually ignore me.

  i know for a fact they and their family still goes, the family patriarch is an elder etc.

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  The remarkable thing about a JW celebrating Juneteenth is that the JW's disapprove of all holidays, no matter how secular or innocuous.
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  Zechariah 12:10 Corruption in the NWT

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  here's a question for those who still support watchtower on this forum.

  why did watchtower leave out the word "me" in zech.

  zechariah 12:10 reads like this: .

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  While I consistently been a word-for-word translation guy through most of my life... maybe in the end, it's the thought that counts.

  I'd agree with the latter thought.

  Translation is not a simple word for word substitution; not even in closely related modern languages that share many cognates.

  
  
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  Babylon The Great

  by EisMe in

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  babylon the great: a prophetic warning.

  babylon the great is not just a city—it is the system that governs the world economy.

  this was god's first judgment against economic babylon, but it would not be his last.. the three parts of babylon's economy.

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  #1 Sounds like something ElsMe would come up with. Judea was hardly the richest province in the Empire.

  #4 Wrong. Jerusalem was/is surrounded by mountains, but does not sit on them.
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  Those Who Ascend To Heaven - As Revealed By YHWH

  by EisMe in

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  2. bible

  martyrs ascend to heaven, the 144,000 are preserved.

  many believers wonder about who truly ascends to heaven after death.

  some hold that all believers go to heaven, while others believe only the 144,000 ascend.

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  The distinction matters.

  Παιχνίδια με τις λέξεις....(2 Τιμόθεον 2:14)

  «Μαθητής» είναι ένας γενικός όρος. «Χριστιανός» είναι ένας συγκεκριμένος όρος για έναν μαθητή του Χριστού.
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  Why Bother?

  by LostintheFog1999 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we who actually look at wt history know that they just changed 1874 to 1914 without a fanfare.

  setting up the potential for changing any dates to new dates because "holy spirit" told them to do so.. which makes me ask, why do we bother to watch what they do?

  i mean, we don't care having escaped their greedy little claws.

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  There's no reason to bother. The JW organization today is not at all what most xJWs remember.

  Thirty years ago though, doctrinal debates were huge on the internet and JWs were consistently trounced on public forums
  
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  Why do they want to kill all the White People?

  by liam in

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  the hatred against whites is escalating to an unprecedented degree.

  in south africa, they are calling for complete genocide of white people.

  for some reason they are targeting all the white farmers.. i’m so glad trump noticed.

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  Earnest would obviously know much more about it than me, but living in an arid climate myself, I have a couple observations

  Drought recovery is gauged in reservoir capacity vegetation health and soil moisture levels and not by seasonal flooding, which is actually a common problem in drought stricken areas. (Because excessively dry soil doesn't hold onto the water like it should)

  In a similar vein, measuring agricultural output in dollars, is not necessarily accurate, as high food prices typically go hand in hand with drought. (If there is another way to reconcile the apparent contradiction between the two articles, I'm not sure what it would be.)
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  Why do they want to kill all the White People?

  by liam in

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  2. current

  the hatred against whites is escalating to an unprecedented degree.

  in south africa, they are calling for complete genocide of white people.

  for some reason they are targeting all the white farmers.. i’m so glad trump noticed.

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  I thought they were experiencing significant drought (?)

  South African Agriculture Faces Severe Decline Amid Economic Contraction – Agribook Digital
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  What was really going on with Abel? Does anyone find the story of Cain and Abel screwed up.

  by liam in

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  2. beliefs

  ever wonder about the story of cain and abel?

  why did jehovah like abel's sacrifice more than cain's?

  maybe there's a subtle reason why jehovah likes animal sacrifices.

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  Skill in the art of butchery at a time when animals were ostensibly not on the menu screams "Plot hole"
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  Babylon The Great

  by EisMe in

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  babylon the great: a prophetic warning.

  babylon the great is not just a city—it is the system that governs the world economy.

  this was god's first judgment against economic babylon, but it would not be his last.. the three parts of babylon's economy.

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  National Personification (The anthropomorphic personification of a state or its inhabitants)

  

  Lady Columbia

  
  

  The goddess Helvetia

  

  The goddess Dea Roma.

  Just like Columbia, Helvetia, and many more represent countries today, a goddess sitting on seven hills was a stock symbol of Rome in the first century which everybody would instantly recognize
  
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  Biden vs Trump in stopping the Houthis from targeting commercial shipping at the Red Sea.

  by liam in

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  2. current

  the houthis began attacking ships in the red sea around november 2023, shortly after the start of the israel-hamas war.

  their attacks included hijacking commercial vessels and launching missile and drone strikes against various ships.

  when kamala ran for the next president of the usa, she made the comment that there were no americans soldiers fighting anywhere n the world.

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  Interesting.

  The basic story is perfectly true, but the video is typical YouTube fare. --Five different HSM units (That I counted) assigned to five different carrier strike groups, three of which aren't actually in the Middle East