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Micah 5:5
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@Jay Witness You don't believe God's Holy Spirit fills the newly dedicated branch or KH after the prayer?
"Wherever two or three of you are gathered...."
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The only problem I can foresee with this is when we subsequently sell a branch to another religion. I personally believe that whenever a building is dedicated (such as the temple was) then it should not be used for ANY other purpose going forward in perpetuity.
I cannot imagine Solomon thinking that one day he would sell the temple to the Chinese who would refurbish it into gentrified condos.
I think we should come up with a different term for "dedication" of buildings that one day we will allow to be sold.
Will Warwick eventually be sold to Apple?
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That question was tackled a couple years ago on jw-archive.org
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Reunión anual del 2015: Parte 3. Mejoras en nuestra comprensión de la Biblia
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Reunión anual del 2015: Parte 2. Texto del año 2016
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Reunión anual del 2015: Parte 1. Vida y ministerio cristianos
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La producción de grabaciones de audio en Camerún: Retos y satisfacciones
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Audio Recording in Cameroon—Challenges and Joys
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Se encuentra disponible la nueva Guía para los testigos de Jehová 2016. De momento se encuentra sólo en Inglés y se espera que este pronto en nuestro idioma.
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Tema: "Seamos Leales a Nuestro Rey Cristo".
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July 2016 OCLAM videos
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@Jay Witness This topic was really started in this thread:
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@Jay Witness Here is the official response from Watchtower at the time (1968)
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Michio Kaku says that God could be a mathematician: "The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God."
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Some people ask the question "Of what good is math?" What is the relationship between math and physics? Well, sometimes math leads. Sometimes physics leads. Sometimes they come together because, of course, there's a use for the mathematics. For example, in the 1600s Isaac Newton asked a simple question: if an apple falls then does the moon also fall? That is perhaps one of the greatest questions ever asked by a member of Homo sapiens since the six million years since we parted ways with the apes. If an apple falls, does the moon also fall?
Isaac Newton said yes, the moon falls because of the Inverse Square Law. So does an apple. He had a unified theory of the heavens, but he didn't have the mathematics to solve the falling moon problem. So what did he do? He invented calculus. So calculus is a direct consequence of solving the falling moon problem. In fact, when you learn calculus for the first time, what is the first thing you do? The first thing you do with calculus is you calculate the motion of falling bodies, which is exactly how Newton calculated the falling moon, which opened up celestial mechanics.
So here is a situation where math and physics were almost conjoined like Siamese twins, born together for a very practical question, how do you calculate the motion of celestial bodies? Then here comes Einstein asking a different question and that is, what is the nature and origin of gravity? Einstein said that gravity is nothing but the byproduct of curved space. So why am I sitting in this chair? A normal person would say I'm sitting in this chair because gravity pulls me to the ground, but Einstein said no, no, no, there is no such thing as gravitational pull; the earth has curved the space over my head and around my body, so space is pushing me into my chair. So to summarize Einstein's theory, gravity does not pull; space pushes. But, you see, the pushing of the fabric of space and time requires differential calculus. That is the language of curved surfaces, differential calculus, which you learn in fourth year calculus.
So again, here is a situation where math and physics were very closely combined, but this time math came first. The theory of curved surfaces came first. Einstein took that theory of curved surfaces and then imported it into physics.
Now we have string theory. It turns out that 100 years ago math and physics parted ways. In fact, when Einstein proposed special relativity in 1905, that was also around the time of the birth of topology, the topology of hyper-dimensional objects, spheres in 10, 11, 12, 26, whatever dimension you want, so physics and mathematics parted ways. Math went into hyperspace and mathematicians said to themselves, aha, finally we have found an area of mathematics that has no physical application whatsoever. Mathematicians pride themselves on being useless. They love being useless. It's a badge of courage being useless, and they said the most useless thing of all is a theory of differential topology and higher dimensions.
Well, physics plotted along for many decades. We worked out atomic bombs. We worked out stars. We worked out laser beams, but recently we discovered string theory, and string theory exists in 10 and 11 dimensional hyperspace. Not only that, but these dimensions are super. They're super symmetric. A new kind of numbers that mathematicians never talked about evolved within string theory. That's how we call it "super string theory." Well, the mathematicians were floored. They were shocked because all of a sudden out of physics came new mathematics, super numbers, super topology, super differential geometry.
All of a sudden we had super symmetric theories coming out of physics that then revolutionized mathematics, and so the goal of physics we believe is to find an equation perhaps no more than one inch long which will allow us to unify all the forces of nature and allow us to read the mind of God. And what is the key to that one inch equation? Super symmetry, a symmetry that comes out of physics, not mathematics, and has shocked the world of mathematics. But you see, all this is pure mathematics and so the final resolution could be that God is a mathematician. And when you read the mind of God, we actually have a candidate for the mind of God. The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God.
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Seems as if everyone is selling this pins nowadays.
We used to be discouraged from identifying ourselves with Watchtower pins or logos in the past.
How do you feel about our modern wearing of pins?
What would be the arguments for / against such displaying of logos?
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Kann man Gott gefallen, auch wenn der Teufel uns Probleme bereiten will?
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Can we please God even though Satan tries to cause us problems?
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The Office of the Secretary of State for the Integration of People with Disabilities in Haiti gave the Christian Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Haiti an Accessibility Award, recognizing their efforts to assist those with disabilities.
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"Buy a car get an AR"
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I remember seeing one where you got a rifle if you opened a checking account at a bank.