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Below is the official caption for the photo from Getty Images:
With the Kremlin (L) and St.Basil's Cathedral (R) in the background Interior Ministry troops cordon one of the entrances to the Red Square in Moscow, on December 10, 2011, during an authorized opposition protest against the alleging mass fraud in the December 4 parliamentary polls. Tens of thousands of election protesters turned out today in Moscow and other major cities across Russia in open defiance to strongman Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule.
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Adele - Hello (Mormon Missionary Parody)
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According to CDN Calc website Akamai (Watchtower's CDN provider) charges $0.15 per GB transferred. This means that a usual JW Broadcasting monthly episode costs them about 12 cents. Multiply that by several hundred thousands and you get as much as $100,000 per month in CDN costs for a single JWB episode. Even if they somehow negotiated lower prices, it would still be in tens of thousands of dollars ballpark.
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MOVE AHEAD WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION
SERVING WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION
is now:
MOVE AHEAD WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION
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The following link is to a PDF file found on the Penn Law Legal Scholarship Repository website.
" The Penn Law Legal Scholarship Repository is the institutional repository of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Its purpose is to collect and preserve the scholarly output of Penn Law. "
http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/
Please share any thoughts you have on the reasoning used in this document.
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: Religious Shunning and the free exercise clauseIf you don't trust my link, which would be fair enough, simply Google the following search term as I write it:
'religious shunning tax exempt'
It should be the very first page that comes up.
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The Watchtower teaches that the Great tribulation begins with the fall of Babylon the Great.
But while reading Revelation chapter 16:12, we learn that the sixth angel pour out his bowl on the Euphrates and then verse 16 says "And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon."
And verses 17 to 21 are talking about Babylon the Great. Verse 19 says that "Babylon the Great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath".
It seems that the fall of Babylon the Great comes after Armageddon.
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"Suppose you were offered a job to distribute nutritious bread to people in your community. You would neither be paid for your work nor be reimbursed for your expenses. What is more, you would soon discover that most people did not want the bread and that some would even hate you for distributing it. How long would you continue to work at such a job? Feeling disheartened by the people’s negative response, you would probably not have the inner strength to continue for very long. Yet, many of us have persevered in the ministry year after year at our own expense and despite the scorn and ridicule of thankless ones. Does that not give evidence that God’s spirit is at work in us?" - page 31, para 14
What about the part where if you don't distribute the bread or if you don't report enough time spent distributing bread the boss will end your life.
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Didn't God nullify all of Adam's work when he confused the languages at the Tower of Babel?
and who named all the animals AFTER the Flood of Noah's Day?
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If he was on earth and a perfect human, why didn't he write a text himself that outlined everything perfectly, that way it couldn't get muddled by human interpretation. Everything would be more direct and clear and there would be so much less confusion.
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“Happy is the one who keeps in expectation and who arrives at the 1,335 days!" - Daniel 12:12
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What is our current understanding of the start and end date for these days?
What is it exactly that will make one "happy"?
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31 minutes ago, Anke Adolphi said:
Of sure Jehovah is watching the worldwide weather... but HE is doing not much ! Look back to the 26. Dec. 2004, the biggest Disaster, Earthquake & Tsunami in Indian Ocean ! Nearly 230,000 humans died ;-( Bible says, we will get alot of different Catastrophes worldwide, so we have to live with that... sad but true ! To make speculations will bring nothings... Jehovah does make no differences among the humans, bec. also Brothers & Sisters often between all the dead people ;-(
Are you saying "sand" is more important than "230,000 human lives" in order for "Jehovah's Hand" to intervene?
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Above is the video link for the referenced Tacloban story.
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The devastated kingdom hall in Tacloban, Philippinnes: 22 Witnesses died in this Typhoon
I can see where they may not like Travis Brooks claims above.
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At the 34:00 mark I decided to post a question:
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At the 34:00 mark in the video below Travis Brooks claims "Jehovah's Hand" caused a miracle:
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We all know he "can".... question here is if he does actually control current weather patterns.
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In the NWT, every time the Greek word "proskuneo" is used in reference to God, it is translated as "worship" (Rev 5:14, 7:11, 11:16, 19:4, Jn 4:20, etc.). Every time "proskuneo" is used in reference to Jesus, it is translated as "obeisance" (Mt 14:33, 28:9, 28:17, Lk 24:52, Heb 1:6, etc.), even though it is the same word in the Greek (see Gr-Engl Interlinear).
Especially compare the Greek word "prosekunhsan" used with reference to God in Rev 5:14, 7:11, 11:16, and 19:4 and used with reference to Christ in Mt 14:33, 28:9, and 28:17. What is the reason for this inconsistency? If the NWT was consistent in translating "proskuneo" as "worship", how would the verses above referring to Christ read?
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Jesus said: “Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matt. 24:36)
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Re: Simplified Advance Decision Document
2016-04-01_Simplified_Advance_Decision_Document[1].pdf
Guidelines for Supporting Those with Medical Needs
2016-Guidelines-Medical-Needs-S-139-E_Bi[1].pdf
Advance Decision to Refuse Specified Medical Treatment
2016-Medical-Directive-dpa-E_Bi.pdf
Does God Test People with Evil Things?
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Is it not a contradiction when the Bible says that God cannot test his servants with bad things, but Jehovah tested Abraham's faith by asking him to kill sacrifice his son?
Or how about the example of Job. Was he not "tested" by Satan with very "evil things" which God himself took a wager on with Satan?
“with evil things God cannot be tried, nor does he himself try anyone.” (James 1:13)