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A photo from Stanley Theatre:

 

I think I may have helped to make the title understandable.... Maybe someone else has a better idea?

This would depend on the purpose of the massage. 
If you are a licensed masseur then I'm sure no one would object. (or maybe a chiropractor) 
However, if, as I suspect, you are asking with the purpose of gratifying your desire to touch her because she is a female and your girlfriend than I suspect you would not be allowed to.
Others can weigh in if they wish. And I'm sure some countries and customs are very strict about touching at all.

Anyone have the new Watchtower Library cd available in English? thanks

I think I may have helped to make the title understandable.... Maybe someone else has a better idea?

I think I may have helped to make the title understandable.... Maybe someone else has a better idea?

Look for opportunities in your life to imitate Jehovah and forgive others.
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The Bible calls them “mighty ones of old times, the men of fame. What do we know about them?
 
 
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Enhance your Bible reading by using the study notes and media gallery.
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@Queen Esther  In post a photo you can include as much text and replies as you want. 
It was the Gallery that is not designed for long articles.
Please don't ever discourage people from discussing topics even if you post them yourself. If you think there is a problem just ask me to take a look.

@Queen Esther  In post a photo you can include as much text and replies as you want. 
It was the Gallery that is not designed for long articles.
Please don't ever discourage people from discussing topics even if you post them yourself. If you think there is a problem just ask me to take a look.

BELARUS (BELARUS), another state of Russia, also joins the group of nations that ask to PROHIBIT JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
Petition to the Commissioner of Belarus for the religions and nationalities Leonid Gulyako demanding a State expert religious teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses came to the website change.org. This is reported by sekty.by. Its author pointed to someone Maxim Arsentiev.
According to the petition, the Jehovah's Witnesses in Belarus did not pass a doctrinal examination by a religious expert, which is mandatory for state registration of religious organizations or associations.
"Until the results of the examination with respect to the organization, demanding the suspension of the activities of all local religious organizations and the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Belarus, so that the prohibition of illegal recruitment activities and dissemination of religious literature, "- the authors affirm.
However, they refer to the experience of Russia, where the activities of the SI were recently banned. "All of us, as citizens, can not allow the illegal propaganda work in the territory of our homeland obsessive followers of a religious organization, doctrine and ideology that has never been studied in detail are not recognized experts and scientists (not is specified - Krynica.info) for its danger to the physical and mental health of the citizens of the Republic of Belarus, as well as for their social life ", says the petition.
He also reported that in the summer activists have already sent in the Office of the Commissioner for religions and letter of nationalities with the requirement to conduct the examination of the status of Jehovah's Witnesses in connection with the celebration of the Annual Congress of the territory of Belarus. Then the test was rejected, which indicates that there was no reason, since the organization of the congress of Jehovah's Witnesses was legal.
Another attempt to ban the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses was commented on by Krynica.info by one of the believers, the blogger Anton Chivchalov.
"Jehovah's Witnesses operate legally and officially in all countries of the European Union, and in the Republic of Belarus they registered in 1994. All these years they cooperate closely with the authorities of the country at all levels, for example, all literature The obligatory state censorship passes into the country The religious association of the SI in the Republic of Belarus pays all taxes and rights conscientiously Anyone can visit any event of the Jehovah's Witnesses and make sure that they are peaceful and respectful persons of the Both the Belarusian and the
Russian experts know that, unfortunately, the authorities of the Russian Federation decided to follow the path of North Korea, Afghanistan and several other countries, where freedom of religion is severely restricted.
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has already been examined by the European Court of Human Rights. Belarus will not tread the same rake, but will continue to respect the rights and freedoms of its citizens, as is usual in Europe and, in general, in a civilized world, "said the source.
https://krynica.info/ru/2017/12/07/v-belarusi-trebuyut-priostanovit-deyatelnost-svidetelejj-iegovy/

Almost 2000 viewers, but no comment??

It's pretty simple. The Watchtower merely relies on secular dating to get all dates during this period.
To get any date up to and prior to the destruction of Jerusalem, they merely take the secular date and add 20 years:
587+20=607 605+20=625 609+20=629 In effect, this would have to have gone all the way back to Adam, if there had been an unambiguous timeline going all the way back. In fact, it averages out to something similar when comparing to Bishop Ussher's numbers which put Adam's creation at 4004 BCE and we effectively add 22 years to that (4004+22=4026).
For any date after and including the destruction of Babylon in 539, the Watchtower relies completely on this secular date. They merely take the secular date and add 0 years:
539+0=539 There is an exception made for the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus, but only so that we can make the 70 weeks of years fit an interpretation that is easier to explain.
*** it-1 p. 182 Artaxerxes ***
Artaxerxes Longimanus, the son of Xerxes I, is the king referred to at Ezra 7:1-28 and Nehemiah 2:1-18; 13:6. Whereas most reference works give his accession year as 465 B.C.E., there is sound reason for placing it in 475 B.C.E.—See PERSIA, PERSIANS (The Reigns of Xerxes and of Artaxerxes). At this point, with Artaxerxes, we are moving back from the secular dating by 10 years, not 20, but that was after accepting the secular dating as exactly correct in 539. The reason is always to make our interpretations work.
The embarrassing part of all of this is that we have absolutely no idea at what point between 607 and 539, for example, that we have actually added the 20 years that we needed. We just say that it's in there somewhere, and maybe someday maybe some evidence will turn up for it.
Remember that the WT had to add 20 years to the Neo-Babylonian calendar to push the destruction of Jerusalem far enough back so that 2,520 years would end in 1914. In effect, then, the WT must add 20 years to every secular date. The WT is forced to break not just one line of evidence for 587, but at least half-a-dozen lines of evidence, plus the evidence derived from LITERALLY!! ALL of more than 10,000 clay tablets and literally ALL the evidence from Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian sources in the relevant time period.
if you look too closely at this, be prepared to become ashamed or become [academically] dishonest. It's just my opinion, but I see no other choices.

In 626 BCE, Nabopolassar (Nebuchadnezzar's father) took the Babylonian throne from the Assyrian ruler, Sin-šarra-iškun. Yes, Nabop. began a new era of Babylonian rule BUT he didn't gain hegemony over parts of Babylonia and the predominant power Assyria for some years. There were some Babylonian cities/states that were still loyal to Assyria - it was, politically, a messy time with each side trying to wrest control from the other, bringing in support from other sympathetic nations. Eventually, Nabop. prevailed and, with the help of the Medes, trashed Assyria's capital Nineveh in 612 BCE. Aššur-uballit (the new Assyrian king) went west and made Harran the new Assyrian capital. Long story short, Nabop. conquered Harran in 610/609 BCE and took its spoils. Aššur-uballit tried to take it back a few months later in the summer of 609 BCE but failed. The Assyrian kingdom was finished.
So, if one wants to take the 70 years' period of nations' servitude literally (rather than as a rounded or figurative number), one could reasonably argue that Babylonian domination over the nations began in 609 BCE and ended with the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE.
The point about how long the exiles were 'at Babylon' is that Jeremiah's letter at Jer. 29 is specifically addressed to the vast number of Jews who had been deported in 597 BCE with King Jehoiachin and the royal family (the second recorded siege of Jerusalem in the Bible - the first one, of course, being the one mentioned at Dan. 1:1). Jer. 29:10 says that when the 70 year period was completed, God would turn his attention to these exiles and make good on his promise to bring them back home ... only, if we use WT time, those exiles would have been taken in 617 BCE. So, assuming a 537 BCE return (just for the sake of argument), it would mean the majority of the total number of exiles (from all the deportations) would be 'at Babylon' for 80 - not 70 - years. It doesn't fit.
 

Ants  drinking  blue  liquid  candy....  (Time lapse)
Watch  the  body,  its  getting  more & more  blue,  from  the  blue  liquid,  haha  funny


Exactly  like  this.......    The  color  always  going  into  the  body !  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2nY3uVAXU
Queen  of  Honey  Ants  drinking  Honey      sweet....
Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers that are gorged with food by workers to the point that their abdomens swell enormously. Other ants then extract nourishment from them.

Mass of ants behaving as a fluid.....
 
The bizarre physics of fire ants....
Fire ants use their claws to grip diverse surfaces, including each other. As a result of their mutual adhesion and large numbers, ant colonies flow like inanimate fluids. This film shows how ants behave similarly to the spreading of drops, the capillary rise of menisci, and gravity-driven flow down a wall. By emulating the flow of fluids, ant colonies can remain united under stressful conditions.
My experiment on Colored Ants, showing all the 'set up'. Ants were fed with colored sugar drops; their abdomen show the colors they gulped. The experiment was set on a 1-meter high wall of my compound, at Mysore, India.

Millions of people are searching for happiness. This goal is attainable.
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Watch closely — because you might not see it again.
The Watchtower sign, a Brooklyn waterfront icon for 70 years, was taken down on Wednesday from atop the former JehovahÂ’s Witnesses building at 30 Columbia St.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is moving to upstate Warwick. The nonprofit sold five Dumbo buildings last year for $340 million to a joint venture of Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK, which plans to turn the properties into an office complex called Panorama.
The letters are each 15 feet tall and weigh up to 860 pounds. A sign named for a future office tenant will eventually replace them. The old letters will be reinstalled at the societyÂ’s new headquarters.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/06/iconic-brooklyn-sign-taken-down-after-70-years/
 
I was there on the last day to see these letters come down. It was a sad moment. 
Eerily, after being all over Manhattan this week I saw ZERO JW's witnessing in the streets or subways. 
The silence is deafening.

Watch closely — because you might not see it again.
The Watchtower sign, a Brooklyn waterfront icon for 70 years, was taken down on Wednesday from atop the former JehovahÂ’s Witnesses building at 30 Columbia St.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is moving to upstate Warwick. The nonprofit sold five Dumbo buildings last year for $340 million to a joint venture of Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK, which plans to turn the properties into an office complex called Panorama.
The letters are each 15 feet tall and weigh up to 860 pounds. A sign named for a future office tenant will eventually replace them. The old letters will be reinstalled at the societyÂ’s new headquarters.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/06/iconic-brooklyn-sign-taken-down-after-70-years/
 
I was there on the last day to see these letters come down. It was a sad moment. 
Eerily, after being all over Manhattan this week I saw ZERO JW's witnessing in the streets or subways. 
The silence is deafening.

Watch closely — because you might not see it again.
The Watchtower sign, a Brooklyn waterfront icon for 70 years, was taken down on Wednesday from atop the former JehovahÂ’s Witnesses building at 30 Columbia St.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is moving to upstate Warwick. The nonprofit sold five Dumbo buildings last year for $340 million to a joint venture of Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK, which plans to turn the properties into an office complex called Panorama.
The letters are each 15 feet tall and weigh up to 860 pounds. A sign named for a future office tenant will eventually replace them. The old letters will be reinstalled at the societyÂ’s new headquarters.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/06/iconic-brooklyn-sign-taken-down-after-70-years/
 
I was there on the last day to see these letters come down. It was a sad moment. 
Eerily, after being all over Manhattan this week I saw ZERO JW's witnessing in the streets or subways. 
The silence is deafening.

Luxury sports car maker Lamborghini has presented Pope Francis with a brand-new, special edition Huracán that will be auctioned off, with the proceeds donated to charity.

Ahhh! So that's what I need. A wife as editor. Actually she cuts it down to ZERO lines when she catches me looking at this site while sitting at a convention. Between talks of course.
LOL. Of course, this brother should have told me he might be in trouble. He had written a commentary on Ecclesiastes that was really good and had also given a version of it as a non-outline talk in several congregations. The portion on marriage was so good that I have used it myself for wedding talks even in the last few years. (Nobody ties it to this poor brother anymore.) Fortunately my wife had the sense to balance the portion of the talk he gave with that of another brother from Writing who remained on good terms with the Writing Department until his death just a couple years ago.