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In the 1970's it was common for Bethelites to order Bible commentaries like Matthew Henry's and Barnes' Notes on the NT and various Bible translations. Later, they also allowed orders for Jay Green's

I liked your KH building experience. We've all had that experience when we would have made different decisions if we were in charge, and then we are glad we weren't. But I can't seem to fit your

Bingo. It’s the pure nastiness of one, not to mention the pure dodo-headedness of another. These annoy far more than the posts themselves, though sometimes the two are hard to unravel. After

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Idiot opposers are like people standing outside a gym trying to convince people that they don't need to go to the gym or that they're in the wrong gym and ought to go to their gym. At some point, your message is received and accepted or rejected. Failure to get the point when it's been rejected is just idiocy.  It also undermines your own argument. It also suggests that these people want or need your help. Look up the word "officious" in the dictionary and you will find a really good definition of the persistent and pestilent sorts of opposers.

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8 hours ago, César Chávez said:

2 Kings 21:2

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.  He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. 

Verse suggests he was bad (evil) already with 12 years of age. At what age does someone become "despicable" (fake) JW or ex-JW ? :)) 

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I would imagine someone could create a universal apostate-chatbot parsing internet posts and regurgitating responses from the respective apostate phrase-bank.

I think some are actually chatbots.

It makes sense that evil is parasitic of good as apostates never generate novelty since their existence is defined by the existence of those they oppose.

Paradoxically, these would cease to exist should they succeed, and yet those are the impulses of the apostate - these are nihilistic in spirit and direction. These are like those who realize none would mourn their passing so they want to create a monument to their passing in creating as big a crater as possible in this world.

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2 hours ago, xero said:

Paradoxically, these would cease to exist should they succeed, and yet those are the impulses of the apostate - these are nihilistic in spirit and direction.

Really. I wonder what your definition of "apostate" is; someone who rejects the Wt, or someone who rejects God and Christ.  Or, do you meld the two together which defines the person leaving the organization as unable to lead a moral or religious life?  

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19 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. . . . He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,

Verse suggests he was bad (evil) already with 12 years of age.

I don't think it suggests that. It's a review of his reign of 55 years. He could have done evil in only a few of those years and the verse would make just as much sense. Or perhaps a king could remain good for most of his reign but it's the reputation he made before the end of his life that counts here. Solomon, ironically, is credited with these verses:

(Ecclesiastes 7:1, 2) . . .A good name is better than good oil, and the day of death is better than the day of birth. 2 Better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, for that is the end of every man, and the living should take it to heart.

It's an interesting topic however, because "a boy" was not considered to necessarily know the difference between good and bad:

(Isaiah 7:15, 16) 15 He will eat butter and honey by the time that he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good. 16 For before the boy knows how to reject the bad and choose the good, the land of the two kings whom you dread will be completely abandoned.

 

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On 4/19/2021 at 6:16 AM, xero said:

I would imagine someone could create a universal apostate-chatbot parsing internet posts and regurgitating responses from the respective apostate phrase-bank.

I think some are actually chatbots.

It makes sense that evil is parasitic of good as apostates never generate novelty since their existence is defined by the existence of those they oppose.

Paradoxically, these would cease to exist should they succeed, and yet those are the impulses of the apostate - these are nihilistic in spirit and direction. These are like those who realize none would mourn their passing so they want to create a monument to their passing in creating as big a crater as possible in this world.

I would imagine someone could create a universal JW - chatbot parsing internet posts and regurgitating responses from the respective JW phrase-bank.

I think some JWs are actually chatbots.

It makes sense that JWs never generate novelty since their existence is defined by the existence of those they oppose. And we know JWs oppose truth. 

JWs as such will cease to exist when the True Anointed remnant 'stand up' for God and Christ before Armageddon. 

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37 minutes ago, JW Insider said:

I don't think it suggests that. It's a review of his reign of 55 years. He could have done evil in only a few of those years and the verse would make just as much sense. Or perhaps a king could remain good for most of his reign but it's the reputation he made before the end of his life that counts here. Solomon, ironically, is credited with these verses:

(Ecclesiastes 7:1, 2) . . .A good name is better than good oil, and the day of death is better than the day of birth. 2 Better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, for that is the end of every man, and the living should take it to heart.

It's an interesting topic however, because "a boy" was not considered to necessarily know the difference between good and bad:

(Isaiah 7:15, 16) 15 He will eat butter and honey by the time that he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good. 16 For before the boy knows how to reject the bad and choose the good, the land of the two kings whom you dread will be completely abandoned.

 

Exactly, you have to think of it like I do when I see the "mostly peaceful protests". It doesn't matter if its "mostly peaceful" when your business has been looted or burned to the ground. On the whole, his reign was a failure.

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