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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from John Houston in Costs of Downloading from JW.org   
    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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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Public Talk #2   
    WILL YOU BE A SURVIVOR OF THE LAST DAYS?
    Old Outline: PB_002-E.pdf
    New Outline: PB002-E.pdf
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Public Talk #3 - MOVE AHEAD WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION   
    MOVE AHEAD WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION
    New Outline: PB003-E.pdf
    Old Outline:  PB_003-E.pdf
     
     
    SERVING WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION
    No. 3-E 9/07 is now:
    MOVE AHEAD WITH JEHOVAH’S UNIFIED ORGANIZATION
    No. 3-E 9/15
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from peaches60 in 2016 Medical Documents   
    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
     
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Armageddon and the fall of Babylon the Great.   
    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.
    How do you explain that?
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Why didn't Jesus write a book of the Bible?   
    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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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Naming the Animals   
    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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    Jack Ryan reacted to Queen Esther in Daily text, for Friday, April 1. 2016   
    He was raised up.—Matt. 28:6.
    Not many days after Jesus died, the apostle Peter faced a formidable and hostile group of men. They were powerful Jewish religious leaders—the very ones who had orchestrated Jesus’ death. The men demanded an explanation. Peter had healed a man who had been lame from birth, and they wanted to know by what power or in whose name Peter had done this. The apostle courageously answered: “In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you executed on a stake but whom God raised up from the dead, by means of him this man stands here healthy in front of you.” (Acts 4:5-10) Earlier, Peter had fearfully denied Jesus three times. (Mark 14:66-72) What accounted for his courage now that he was before the religious leaders? Holy spirit played a vital role, but so did Peter’s certainty that Jesus had been resurrected. w14 11/15 1:1, 2
     
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Worship or Obeisance? Translating the Greek word "proskuneo"   
    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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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from Noble Berean in Faithful and Discreet Slave   
    recently changed to:
     
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in Circuit Overseer Guidelines (tg-E)   
    Circuit Overseer Guidelines (tg-E) October 2015.pdf
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in NOTICE OF UPCOMING CIRCUIT ASSEMBLIES (S-317-E)   
    S-317-E.pdf
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in What's the difference between 'works' and 'fruits'?   
    Jesus's quote "You know a tree by it's fruit"
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from lentaylor71 in What was Jesus doing for the first 30 years of his life?   
    30 years is a long time in the life of a human yet little is written about this time frame,l wonder why?
     
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from Giannis Diamantis in 'Pay Attention to Yourselves and to All the Flock' - ks-91E   
    pay-attention-to-yourselves-and-all-the-flock-1991.pdf

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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from Giannis Diamantis in 'Make Sure of All Things Hold Fast to What is Fine' - 1965   
    1965_Make_Sure_of_All_Things.pdf

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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from John Houston in TO APPLICANTS FOR THE SCHOOL FOR KINGDOM EVANGELIZERS   
    2016-3-20-BOE-G-14-E-.pdf

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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from Giannis Diamantis in Why was Matthew 17:21 removed from the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures?   
    This came up on another thread:
     
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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from Γιαννης Διαμαντιδης in Geoffrey Jackson   
    According to local newspaper Geoffrey Jackson was 57 when he married his second wife Loraini aged 30 in Jan 2013.
    Geoffrey William Jackson, 57, Loraini Rokoloma Michell Sikivou, 30, Brooklyn, N.Y.
    (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/l...
    According to JW.ORG (https://www.jw.org/en/publicat...
    Fact 1: Jehovah has blessed me with another beautiful wife, Loraini Sikivou. Loraini and Jenny had worked together at Bethel in Fiji, and Loraini too was a translator.
    Fact 2: Sadly, my dear wife Jenny was not there with me. She had died in 2009, after fighting cancer for ten years. We were married for 35 years.
    Fact 3: In 2003, Jenny and I were transferred from the Translation Department in Fiji to Translation Services in Patterson, New York.
    Fact 4: Then, in 1996, we were assigned to the Fiji branch, where we helped with the translation work being done in the Fijian, Kiribati, Nauruan, Rotuman, and Tuvaluan languages.
    The facts gathered from the article in JW.ORG, Jenny and Loraini would have worked together sometime in 1996 to 2003 before moving to NY. In that case, Geoffrey Jackson would have been introduced to Loraini between the age of 13 to 20 when working with Jenny as a translator.
    Hmmmm.....
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    Jack Ryan reacted to aurorita22 in Predicando..   
    Una mañana dando a conocer el nombre de Jehová como hace 45 años...

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    Jack Ryan got a reaction from Edvan Guerra Magalhaes Magalhaes in Leo K. Greenlees   
    Governing Body member Leo K. Greenlees was forced to resign and leave Bethel in late 1984. He entered the Toronto, Canada Bethel in 1936, eventually becoming treasurer of the Canadian branch and of the IBSA of Canada. In 1964 he went to Brooklyn Bethel, and in 1965 was elected as a director of the Society's New York corporation. As a director Greenlees automatically became a "governing body" member when that body was formally instituted in 1971. He often spoke at Gilead graduations, and was the concluding speaker for the day at the Watchtower Centennial business meeting at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1984. A 1982 Watchtower mentions him as being on the Teaching Committee of the Governing Body. Greenlees' last mention in Watchtower publications is in the December 1, 1984 Watchtower where he is said to have passed out diplomas at the September Gilead graduation.
    In late 1984, Greenlees was allegedly convicted by the rest of the Governing Body of molesting a ten year old boy. My information is that the boy's parents had complained to the Society and it took action. Greenlees was a friend of the family and often visited them. After leaving Bethel Greenlees served as a Special Pioneer and eventually an elder in the "Downtown" congregation in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died in the late 1980s.
    Interestingly, the boy who Greenlees molested applied for Bethel service a few years later, around 1991, and was rejected. Watchtower leaders apparently feared that other Bethelites would tell him the 'rumors' about Greenlees, not knowing that he was Greenlees' victim, and cause the young man to know that justice had not been done. He might then have confirmed the rumors.
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