this is the main series playlist:.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=plynx0om_bmgbfmnapjr_v5fe9_pf8sqa1.
this is the accompanying video appendix:.
I wish this whole topic would end.
There is no issue. It is so simple.
Captivity ended in 537. Started 70 years prior in 607. 607 was not the destruction of Jerusalem. When the captivity started is when the gentile times started. Gentile times did not start at Zedekiah, but 20 years earlier at the first invasion. They ran from 607-1914.
Stop trying to battle the WTS on every issue as this 607 as the destruction was a Nelson Barbour creation. But the gentile times predated even him.
This whole thing about race is ridiculous. Zimmerman was a latino. One minority against another? That is not what racism is.
But the blacks don't even learn a lesson from this. If their race is not to be profiled, why are they out with hoodies and protesting and causing problems?
I don't have a problem with blacks. Saw many of them at the District convention. If Trayvon was at the DC or meetings or in field service or in family worship, he would never have had this problem. Worldly Blacks have always had an image problem, which is why Bill Cosby has said the things he said about them.
seems that over recent months that jw's were being forbade to participate due to interaction with mentally deseased apostates.
has this been softened?
i have a reason for asking.. i use the word "current" because it seems the watchtower "use by" dates are getting shorter all the time.
Why do you care about the WTS stance on anything?
the bible says that the personal name of god is jehovah/yahweh/jah etc.thing is,we don't know it's correct pronounciation (or the pronounciation of any hebrew name).the name jehovah as we know it today means "he causes to become".someone who causes something to become is just called "creator" or "maker".right?he gave that name to his self so that people or the angels could call him by a name.also,how was he called before the creation of the anything?how can some people claim to be his friends if they don't know his actual name?discuss.
Do you expect people on here would know the answer to that question?
thanks atlantis for posting a link to download the new book - i had a quick browse.... .
the book starts off with the now traditional 'letter from the governing body', it goes through the usual stuff re how wonderful the magazines are, how countless people write in to praise the articles etc etc, but it signs off: "with much love and every good wish...".
good wishes eh?
I am so sick of Bible stories and characters. I thought we were not supposed to exalt and worship people. These are normal people doing their thing, nothing special about them.
I mean the story of Hannah. What's the big deal? She prayed intensely. She did something one day of her life and it is recorded and honored forever. Many others did many more things for God and we never hear a peep about that.
And this drama about Esther. She did nothing.
if so then what are they afraid of?.
i haven't been to a single solitary meeting, conventions or a$$emby since 2010 but i do recall they would announce a discouraging of recording the sessions..
They don't discourage the reocrding of them. They are broadcast on low power FM to pick up with recorders.
They discourage the distribution of them.
The reason is because people will listen to them from the recordings and not attend their own and then they won't donate.
Just like what the RIAA was afraid of with Napster. Music sharing hurt their revenue. WTS thinks assembly sharing hurts their revenue.
jesus said: .
verily i say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall blaspheme against the holy ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
(mark 3:28-29).
Seeing as how sin leads to death; all have died; all have sinned and none have come back from sin excepting Jesus.
All sin has not been forgiven as all are still dead.
hi all, came across this website, ran by steve searles.
i believe he comes from carlisle, england.. it contains all sorts of "goodies" - talks, dramas, district conventions, old watchtower publications, videos etc.
he charges a "membership fee" for folks to download ripped off youtube videos etc.
He has changed URLs over the years.
i was thinking about all the accounts in the bible that indicate god kills children as a punishment or teaching experience.
1. kills all of egypts firstborn sons, who were innocent kids who did nothing to him or his people, who had no control over the decisions pharoah made.
how many times have you read that account or thought about it without realizing the devastating pain dealt to all those parents, and remembered those were innocent kids?.
Because it is more cost effective than waiting until they become adults.
Seriously, what is the problem? Isn't it better that they die as children before they get too much life going?
alright.
so i got a sendspace and uploaded the whole thing except for the songs and morning music.. the link to all the mp3's is here!
for some reason it starts with the last talk first but they're all numbered and titled according to the convention so it should'nt be too hard i hope.. do with them what you please, upload them to youtube, send them to friends & family, or just see how far you can stomach some of the "fine spiritual food that the faithful and discreet slave has prepared for us this year".. some key talks you might wanna listen to are 12 symposium: the truth sets us free, 16 believe inspired truth, not inspired error, 20 symposium: reject what is false!
What I noticed is that the convention has nothing to do with the theme.
No teaching about God's word being truth.
It is all about conduct.
The obligatory: Marry only in the Lord and don't associate with disfellowshipped family members, talks. Same things from the Needs of the circuit parts. Like,why do they care except that such things won't help people stay in the congregation and a solid congregation is what they want.
Scripted demonstrations on studying and internet interruptions, and commenting at meetings.
That one about the progressing of the organization in the last few years from the literature changes is just lies. Why can't they just say that revenue is down and expenses are up so they are cutting back, instead of stating that with the cuts they can do more translating, etc. They are so fearful to where it becomes dishonest.
