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  2025**04**April**21**Announcement!

  by Atlantis in

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  2025**04**april**21**announcement.

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  https://app.filemail.com/d/qpxvufhubdjrdoy .

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  Jensus

  What do you mean by „muck work“? This is about teaching AI about this non-public information. Just upload a document to ChatGPT or Perplexity and let it give a summary and it is part of the universe.
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  Jephthah's Daughter

  by cantleave in

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  i have read somewhere that jephthah's daughter did not really go into temple service but was a victim of ritual sacrifice.

  the bible says that after weeping over her virginity that the maidens would visit her annually.

  how could they visit her if she was killed?.

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  Jensus

  I was wondering how Russell in the old days explained this. In the Reprints, I have not found it in the Index keywords. Nevertheless, there was a first mention in the Sep 1st, 1901 issue

  WHAT WAS JEPHTHAH'S VOW?

  
  Question.--What attitude are we to assume toward the account of Jephthah's reckless vow which brought death to his daughter? Is there any redeeming feature in the incident?
  
  Answer.--We are to accept the scriptural statement that Jephthah was amongst the faithful--acceptable to God. As such he must also be acceptable to us. In respect to his offering his daughter in sacrifice our conclusion must be that the divine arrangement then and now differs materially. We may say, however, that as Abraham was about to offer his son Isaac, not willingly, but through obedience to what he understood to be the divine will, so did Jephthah with his daughter; and he was not hindered by an angel from the Lord. I do not know if the lamentation has any significance.
  
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  Answer.--A totally different view of this matter is possible, and we merely suggest it; namely, that the vow was one of full devotion to the Lord--one of chastity and sanctity--seclusion from society, deadness to the world as a priestess. The daughter's request for time for lamentation, and the subsequent annual celebration by the virgins, would agree well with this view. The chief objection to this view is the statement respecting "a burnt offering," and this seems almost insurmountable."

  It was taken up again in Oct 15th, 1901:

  JEPHTHAH'S VOW – A BETTER TRANSLATION. In our September first issue we answered a question respecting Jephthah's daughter. Since then Brother C. J. Peterson calls to our attention the following item from the Appendix of the Emphatic Diaglott. "The original, Judges 11:30, when properly translated, reads thus: 'And it shall be that whoever comes forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace, from the children of Ammon, shall surely be Jehovah's, and I will offer to him a burnt offering.' The vow contains two parts: (1) That person who would meet him on his return should be Jehovah's, and be dedicated forever to his service, as Hannah devoted Samuel before he was born. (1 Sam. 1:11.) (2) That Jephthah himself would offer a burnt offering to Jehovah. "Human sacrifices were prohibited by the Law (Deut. 12:30); and the priests would not offer them. Such a vow would have been impious, and could not have been performed. It may be safely concluded that Jephthah's daughter was devoted to perpetual virginity; and with this idea agrees the statements that 'she went to bewail her virginity;' that the women went four times in every year to mourn or talk with (not for) her; that Jephthah did according to his vow, and that 'she knew no man.'" We are glad that our attention is called to this evidently better translation, which clears away the difficulty, and shows that the burnt-offering was one thing, and the devotion of the daughter another thing. We are to remember, too, the testimony of the entire Old Testament, to the effect that prior to our Lord's birth all the women of Israel coveted earnestly the great blessing and privilege of being possibly the mother of Messiah, or amongst his forebears. We are to remember, also, the exultant language of the Virgin Mary when finally it was announced to her that she had won this long-sought prize: "Henceforth all shall call me blessed" – all shall recognize me as the one who has attained this blessed privilege of being the mother of Messiah."

  The Photodrama of Creation included later:

  "Jephthah’s daughter was not sacrificed in death as a fulfilment of her father’s vow. She merely took the vow of perpetual virginity and figuratively became dead to the world after spending a brief season with her virgin friends. The Bible is simple and reasonable when understood.—Judges 11:30-40. The overthrow of the Midianites by Gideon’s band and Jephthah’s dedication of his daughter to the Lord in perpetual virginity, belong to the period of the Judges, of whom Joshua was first.—Acts 13:19, 20.

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  2025**04**April**21**Announcement!

  by Atlantis in

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  2025**04**april**21**announcement.

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  https://app.filemail.com/d/qpxvufhubdjrdoy .

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  Jensus

  I would assume the older writings are already there since the Bible Students have everything online and so is the WT Library. Maybe Rutherford's writings are missing. I am thinking of the internal letters.
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  2025**04**April**21**Announcement!

  by Atlantis in

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  2025**04**april**21**announcement.

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  https://app.filemail.com/d/qpxvufhubdjrdoy .

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  Jensus

  Thank you. Have you ever considered to upload all those documents especially internal BOE letters to AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini et. al? It would be a blow to the Watchtower if AI would be trained with all this internal knowledge.
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  Memorial attendance

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  curious.

  what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?

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  Jensus

  How do you partake when attending via Zoom?
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  Narcissist challenges culture ingrained with the concept of “saving face” to perform humiliating retreat

  by slimboyfat in

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  oh yeah, this is going to end well.

  hold on to your seats, folks, we’re on the front row of history for, as the chinese might say, “interesting times”.

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rgkkl7v8lo.

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  Jensus

  China does nothing green? They are world leaders in green technologies driven by the fact that they are being hit hard from air pollution.
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  Special Talk just prior to the Memorial

  by Acluetofindtheuser in

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  is the sunday special talk prior to the memorial just an introduction of a new outline for the sunday public talks?.

  is it an attempt to get the faders back to the meetings?

  they present in a way like some new light is going to be presented at the special talk..

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  Jensus

  that no one on the earth gets to see God and Christ. They're such liars.

  But it is true. No one on earth gets to see God and Christ. If you see it differently, it does not make you a liar but someone who believes differently.
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  What "message" does the J.W Org. have to offer that will attract new members ?

  by Phizzy in

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  the message they have been pushing for 150 years or so is "the end is near !"..

  in the educated, civilised world, people think " yea ?

  maybe because of economic meltdown exacerbated by climate change, but not from some intervention by a non-existent god".. "would you like a free bible study ?

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  Jensus

  They are a real estate company now, but to keep the system going they need a base of volunteers.

  I expect them to open a new specific date to have some short-term momentum and would assume 2034, 120 years from 1914.

  Especially, in times of crisis, people are vulnerable for conspiracies and strange cults. We see it all around, also in the western world.
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  Analysis of the Property Ownership Model of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by Paul Bonanno in

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  analysis of the property ownership model of jehovah’s witnesses.

  jehovah’s witnesses have developed a structured and financially efficient model for acquiring, building, and managing properties worldwide.

  their approach maximizes resources contributed by members while ensuring that ownership and financial control remain centralized within the organization.

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  Jensus

  I heard that McDonald's is not making their main profit from burgers and fries but from real estate. It seems the Watchtower has copied their business model. As far as I know they also charge license fees from the branch offices to transfer money.
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  bomb for jehova italy

  by andr in

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  italy meets another bomb in front of the kingdom hall, after having caused a scandal on tv, now it is also dangerous to go to the hall.

  here is the image of the press release.

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  Jensus

  It's two years old news.