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  WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was really puzzled when i opened this edition of the wt magazine at the above “study”.

  what on earth has this picture at the top of page 13 got to do with christian watchfulness?

  i wasn’t making a connection at all.

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  freddo
  .... Where else can she go at her age?

  ... into a catholic nursing home
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  Looking For WTS Quotes

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for practical reasons (a study next week).

  i'm looking for wts quotes that claim.

  the religion of jehovah's witnesses is the only true religion.

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  Vanderhoven7
  Also quotes that indicate that
  Only JWs will survive Armageddon

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/salvation-only-for-jehovahs-witnesses.php
  
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  August 12, 2016 BOE Re: Obtaining Video Equipment for Displaying Spiritual Programs

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  august 12, 2016 to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: obtaining video equipment for displaying spiritual programs.

  spiritual_programs_video_equipment_kits-e.

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  Nice spiritual car (for field service) in this letter from the society (page 6 in Spiritual_Programs_Video_Equipment_Kits-E.pdf).

  
  
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  New Publication (2014) "God Kingdom Rules" -- When Is It Studied At The Kingdom Hall?

  by Littleleslie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just wanted to know, when do the jws begin to study the 2014 publication called: "god's kingdom rule" at the local kingdom halls?

  (i heard it was going to be sometime in the month of september of 2016, this month.).

  ll.

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  fastJehu

  It is not a letter.

  It is the september meeting workbook

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-meeting-workbook/september-2016-mwb/

  They have this meeting workbook instead of the kingdom ministry.

  So the meeting workbooks tells the JWs, that in this week (in september) they have to study the book God`s Kingdom Rules (kr) ch. 1 par. 1–10
  
  
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  25 YEARS of compiled yearbook statistics

  by 88JM in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello again folks - as promised in my last thread here, i've been working on turning yearbook statistics into excel spreadsheets.. coincidentally, today is my 25th birthday (spare a thought for a fader).. i've now updated the spreadsheet with yearbook data all the way back to 1988 (the year i was born), therefore it now contains 25 years of statistics.. there were a lot of countries changing around and for some it was possible to create a continuation of data.

  some are a simple change of name like south-west africa to namibia.

  others, for example - in 1993 with czechoslovakia splitting into two countries (czech republic and slovakia) i have added an extra row that provides a continuation of the data, combining czech republic and slovakia back together as if they were still one country.

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  88JM
  I've been working on this a bit more and I can now say that I have collated 35 years of yearbook statistics, including the latest figures from 2015 in the current yearbook.

  Thanks a lot for your hard work.
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  'Strange' Australian Melbourne Baptisms

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not seen this before, or at least haven't registered it before.

  maybe it's just a traditional style?.

  i mean it's basically a glorified cattle trough?

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  It's a new form of "cheap sheep dip."
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  Reason's why it is so difficult to leave

  by Truthexplorer in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  1. concerns about the effects it would have on yours and your family's social life.. 2. fear of being shunned.

  3. the stress it will cause.

  4. the thought of feeling isolated.

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  Truthexplorer
  These are the thoughts that run through my mind constantly. The only way I can think of making a clean break is if we as a family moved home to another area and just fade. That is the only solution I can think off.

  This worked well for me.

  If this move gives you and your familiy "freedom" - got for it.

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
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  Why ex-JW's so knowledgeable when it comes to the Bible?

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  over the years here on this site i have found over half of the folks can hold their own with any minister.. why when we leave the borg we become proficient on any subject on the bible.. why did we go down that road?

  my intention was to get close to jehovah (searching the bible), but i. guess i found lucifer.

  i'am ask all the time, how did you go from a true believer to calling the bible a book.

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  James Mixon
  Why when we leave the borg we become proficient on any subject on the Bible.
  Why did we go down that road? ...

  I'm a born in. After leaving the religion deep in my brain there was this little question:
  "What - if they still have the truth?"

  So I went "down that road". And I learned all about Russel, Rutherford, the history and all the man-made rules and doctrines. Now I'm free and I know, they don't have the truth.
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  What the Org Teaches #7 Birthdays

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  #7 birthdays.

  what the org teaches: .

  "the bible never refers to a servant of god celebrating a birthday.

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  Another event in a bad light:

  (2 Samuel 4:5-7) 5 And the sons of Rimʹmon the Be·erʹoth·ite, Reʹchab and Baʹa·nah, proceeded to go and come to the house of Ish-boʹsheth about when the day had heated up, as he was taking his NOONDAY SIESTA. 6 And here they came into the middle of the house as men fetching wheat, and then struck him in the abdomen; and Reʹchab and Baʹa·nah his brother themselves escaped detection. 7 When they went into the house, he was lying upon his couch in his inner bedroom, and then they struck him so that they put him to death, after which they removed his head and took his head and walked on the road to the Arʹa·bah all night long.

  J.W.'s should be forbidden from carrying out such an "bad light" practice.
  
  
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  Jehovah loves "even rounded numbers" or could this be a way to disprove the inspiration of the Bible?

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while i am not able to recall them all at this time, i remember so many instances that when a number was quoted in the bible, especially large numbers, they were all "rounded up" to the nearest hundred or thousand.

  for instance the angel killed 185,000 syrians, not 184,879. sampson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, not 961. and on and on on the even rounded numbers.

  i would guess that it could be agues that these numbers were correct but is that realistic?

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  notjustyet
  We know the Jws believe that each bible writer was inspired to write down the words in their book as it was somehow bestowed upon them via holy spirit.

  Sure?

  So why Luke made a mistake?

  *** it-2 p. 130 Judas ***
  Luke’s presentation of this incident evidently is not in strict chronological order, for Judas had definitely left by the time Christ commended the group for having stuck with him; that would not fit Judas, nor would he have been taken into the “covenant . . . for a kingdom.”—Lu 22:19-30.

  (Luke 1:3) 3 I resolved also, because I have traced all things from the start with accuracy, to write them in logical order to you, most excellent The·ophʹi·lus,

  So JWs believe, that the logical order is inspired, but not the chronological order.
  So happy to be awake. :-)