TheOldHippie
JoinedTopics Started by TheOldHippie
-
3
"Changes in Daniel's prophecy book" revisited
by TheOldHippie in.
i was trying to sum up the changes made in the different versions of the book, and just to make sure, i checked with the 2004 cd-rom to see that page 102 really said "hundred years" in stead of "thousand years" as for the period during which babylon had not been conquered.. but, the cd-version of the book - which ought to be the latest updated version - says "thousand years" .......... so please enlighten me, what is it to be, the first version reads "thousand", but has this been changed to "hundred" in later versions, but then back again into "thousand" in the final version?
-
13
No Annual World Report?
by TheOldHippie in.
opened the january 1st wt yesterday, and - oops!
no annual world report, just the same type of study articles that are usually featured in the january 1st issues, but no mentioning of countries or figures.. are the figues saved for the yearbooks only?
-
18
Serena Williams - a good role model
by TheOldHippie in.
serena's dress at a london show yesterday night.
not quite a kh dress ...............
-
2
Once again - a "ghost" story to make you start wondering ....
by TheOldHippie ina television program on the "supernatural" told how a family had bought a rural house thru an agency, and was disturbed by music; the stereo equipment, radio and cassette player would turn on constantly, and although they turned it off, it would turn itself on again etc.
also, they smelled cigars and perfume, and an area in the living room was frequently cold.
the television crew contacts a psychic, and tell him nothing about the case, but he agrees to come to the house.
-
1
Carey Barber new CIA-boss?
by TheOldHippie in.
i found this picture of cia's new boss, porter gross, and man, is he a gb-carey barber look-alike!.
-
1
Them Irish liberals ...............
by TheOldHippie in'doctors should make transfusion dilemma decisions'
doctors can go against parents wishes to grant life-saving blood transfusions to children, it was claimed today.. .
brendan o'farrell, chairman of the jehovah's witnesses dublin hospital liaison committee, said a court's permission was not necessary to give essential blood products to children whose parents forbid it on religious grounds.. .
-
38
On the fading of 1914 ............
by TheOldHippie inforgetful as i am, i just forgot the title of the new brochure issued at this summer's conventions, but it is something like "keep on the watch", and it deals with the imminent return of christ, the signs of our times, and the need for being on the watch, being prepared for the "any day now" return.. the signs of our times are mentioned, but not earthquakes, so they are "out" again, it seems.
but, the first pages make out the basis for the belief in our days being the last ones, the final ones, and 607 is mentioned, 539 and 537 - but not 1914, not the "seven times" or "2520 years".. do you remember 1995, when the "generation change" came?
in summer, the "knowledge" book was issued, and it also dealt with the signs etc., but for the first time, there was no mention of the then "present truth" that some alive in 1914 would still be alive and witness the return.
-
8
Just a bit "funny" as to religious persecution
by TheOldHippie inforum18, which - similar to amnesty and other groups - does a great job in directing the public's attention to acts of religious and other types of discrimination, persecution etc., and which frequently reports on persecution against jws in central asian counties such as turkmenistan etc., has the above three lines as its slogan.. it just makes me wonder ....... "the right to change one's belief or religion", "the right to join together and express one's belief".
well, one of the groups forum18 reports on as being persecuted, does not exactly tolerate free expression of thought, does not exactly tolerate "inofficial" gatherings, does not exactly give its members the right of changing their membership status or beliefs etc.
....... so let us make full use of the world's resources, but totally deny it the right of investigating ourselves .....
-
26
Danish accuser admits it was all just lies!
by TheOldHippie inthe danish newspaper which has told so many stories about youths being molested in denmark by jws recently, today brings the story that the woman who came forth with the most sensational ones of these stories, how she and others were molested by groups of elders during baptismal preparations etc.
- to the police has admitted it was all nothing but lies.. i just wonder if silentlambs and the danish posters here will be as quick to bring these news and the translation out to the people just as quickly as they did when the original story was given by the newspaper?.
it is very boring to say "what did i tell you?
-
23
Forced taxation of branch overseer in Sweden ............
by TheOldHippie inthe branch overseer in sweden has received a forced or increased income taxation by the authorities.
they have estimated his personal income to the equivallent of 24,000$, which he has not declared.
they have estimated this amount based upon the value of free living quarters, food and car.