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    Melinda Mills reacted to Evacuated in The last photo of Hachikō, the dog who waited for his master's return each day for 9 years until he too passed away.   
    There is a comparison in Ps.89:37, but the term "faithful" is not being used here specifically as a simile. It is being used as an adjective.
    The moon (and its faithful adherence to its course), is being used as a simile to emphasise the reliabilty of Jehovah's covenant with David. The modern day perception of the indiosyncrasies of planetary movement are irrelevant to the point being made.
  2. Confused
    Melinda Mills reacted to Queen Esther in Will Satan be dead when he is in the abyss for one thousand years?   
    Satan and his demons become soon trapped for 1000 years!
    After that time, truly becoming EVEN smarter, they will be released for a very short time to once again take a huge part of humanity, JW, into final death.
    These people decide also for death - but then for Eternal !!
    (sorry for my not perfect English... ---)
     
  3. Haha
    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Foreigner in News from Netherlands: JW's(NL) CALL ON MEMBERS TO COOPERATE IN INVESTIGATIONS   
    What is the board?
     
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    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Queen Esther in Will Satan be dead when he is in the abyss for one thousand years?   
    No he will not be dead. His powers will be taken away until the thousand years are ended. Rev 20.
     
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    Melinda Mills reacted to Evacuated in Paradise   
    Oh dear.This bit of "foot in mouth" syndrome calls into question.................................................something? It's probably not worth looking at the rest.  😕
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    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Joan Kennedy in Paradise   
    Looks like Jack never knew the Bible or what he is about. 
     
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    Melinda Mills reacted to James Thomas Rook Jr. in SEARS files for bankruptcy   
    I was once talking to my wife at a restaurant about the disadvantages, physically, of growing old, and a waitress servicing the table, who was listening, asked me "Don't you wish you could be young, again?"
    I looked up at her and grinned "If I become young again, do I have to NOT KNOW what I have learned over the years?
    She replied  "Of course!"
    I replied "No, thank you,"
    I can take aspirin for my aches and pains.
    There is no such thing as a "smart pill".
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    Melinda Mills reacted to Judith Sweeney in Is it Time for Jehovah's Witnesses to Apologize? Part 1   
    These "Wolves in Sheeps Clothing" that abuse children came INTO the truth...as Wolves do...To..abuse children.  They just bided their time...waiting.   A "True" Christian of course, would never do such a thing.  Sign of the Times.   Jehovah IS "Cleaning Up"!   Trust in Jehovah with all your heart.   His "eyes" are everywhere.   He is not a God to be Mocked.
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    Melinda Mills reacted to John Houston in Shocking redaction of newly released Japanese Bible   
    Why did you run Japanese through google translation? You know you would get a very different English SENSE than what they are actually reading, right? What the Japan Bible says is the same as our English Bible says. You fudge it by running it through the translator. Wow! Needed something did you. I like hearing you on most things, but you are reaching now. I'm blind and can see this clearly. Try something else. Don't waste your time here.
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    Melinda Mills reacted to JW Insider in WTS Writing Department (Brooklyn) 1976 - 1982   
    @BillyTheKid46, You seem to spend an inordinate amount of energy trying to provoke persons into fighting with you. It is as though you have a NEED to fight. I have seen this from you (and yours) for quite a while now. In a recent thread about Brother Morris visiting a liquor store, I agreed with you completely that the post was irrelevant and irreverent and it tried to make something scandalous out of a potentially innocent activity without 100 percent proof. (And I thought your pun was good, too. See page 4 of that topic.) You and Melinda Mills spoke about the Venezuelan economic issues under Maduro. You helped to clarify the picture that Melinda posted, the one with worthless money in the gutter, when you provided a link to the explanatory SNOPES article. I mentioned that I appreciated that same SNOPES link you provided because it gave details about how and when those pictures came about, and I quoted verbatim from your link. 
    Then you inexplicably decided to reject the explanation from your own link, and claim that I was somehow attacking the vision that your mother had told you about in the 1960's. What made this so odd was that I had already agreed that the picture was related to that same expectation. My own mother referenced that point from Ezekiel 7:19, as did Melinda's.
    You said:
    BTK: "What was fasinating to me, My mother pointed it out to me in the '60s as a devout JW that would happen, and it sure the hell did. There is no photoshop on that. It's not a tale." To which I responded, that in spite of the propaganda use that was presented in SNOPES that, Yes. . . :
    JWI: "It was still related to Maduro, and is still related to money becoming worthless. It is still supportive of the idea that people will be throwing their money (even their gold) in the streets, because money is of no value as a savior in the day of Jehovah's fury. It shows how bad things can get." To which you responded:
    BTK: "I understand you are trying desperately to delegitimize my mother’s vision. Do that with your own mother, lay off mine." I didn't bother to respond, after which you added:
    BTK: "Its unfortunate someone like JWinsider decided to insult and denigrate a relative, and James thinking it’s funny to do just that, makes them the biggest AH’s in this forum." I'm sure that a few people didn't realize that you had made up the whole thing about someone "denigrating a relative" just to provoke a fight in the same way worldly people do when they hurl insults about each other's mother, and call each other "AH," which has been used as an abbreviation for a**hole. When you provoke and the other party doesn't respond in kind, I'm sure it can be frustrating. But please don't bring these same worldly attitudes and posturings into every topic. You end up discrediting yourself instead of your target.
    "A slave of the Lord does not need to fight." (2 Tim 2:24)
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    Melinda Mills reacted to JOHN BUTLER in Paradise   
    Jack I think you are cracking up man. I dislike the GB and it's JW Org too but I'm not looking to turn against God or His written word.
    Matthew 6:9-13 New International Version (NIV)
    9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
    “‘Our Father in heaven,
    hallowed be your name,
    10 your kingdom come,
    your will be done,
        on earth as it is in heaven.
    9 “You must pray, then, this way:+
    “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name+ be sanctified.*+ 10 Let your Kingdom+ come. Let your will+ take place, as in heaven, also on earth.+
    Luke 11:2-4 King James Version (KJV)
    2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
    I think that is proof that Jesus said to pray for God's will to be done here on this Earth.
    God's will is surely to restore all things to the perfection that He created. 
    If you add to that the scripture about the 'resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous' then it brings it all together a bit. 
    As for 'the Jewish people', you know that as a nation they lost God's blessing and the guidance of His holy spirit way back when they murdered Jesus. They lost their chance of being the anointed or heavenly class. But you know all that anyway, you are just desperately looking for some reason to hate the JW Org more. 
    Chill out Jack. 
     
     
  12. Haha
    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Foreigner in WTS Writing Department (Brooklyn) 1976 - 1982   
    Quite a nice letter. 
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    Melinda Mills reacted to Evacuated in JW Zimbabwe: Tragedy As Minor’s Leg Rots Off, Hangs On To Dear Life As Parents Refuse Blood Transfusion Due To Religious Beliefs [UPDATED]   
    As will the pathetically underskilled medical "professionals" and health administrators of that country, and small minded writers of this counter productive and emotively ignorant article.
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    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Queen Esther in Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records is ready to commit a new world record for the number of letters written   
    Love it!  Exactly what they are doing.
    Jesus said "All authority has been given me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and o the holy spirit". Matthew 28:1819.
    Jehovah is the one who gave Jesus that authority. This authority has been passed on to us when Jesus said: "Go..."  So they are really defying Jehovah God.
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    Melinda Mills reacted to Evacuated in Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records is ready to commit a new world record for the number of letters written   
    No record can be set that Jehovah has not already broken.
    "Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, cannot contain you" 1Kings 8:27.
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    Melinda Mills got a reaction from JW Insider in WTS Writing Department (Brooklyn) 1976 - 1982   
    Quite a nice letter. 
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    Melinda Mills reacted to JOHN BUTLER in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    Oh dear what a way to waste time. You lot must have more spare time than me  but I'm retired.
    This stupid conversation leaves behind all the serious problems within the JW Org. 
    Maybe that is people's plan though.
    Whilst i have a good laugh at all you so called intelligent folks talking such rubbish, i still think on more important matters. 
    I hope you are all having a good day, as long as you are not hurting others. 
    Someone please start a sensible topic for or against the GB  / JW Org. 
    Meanwhile I'll go on my ebay page whilst listening to Joe Cocker.  
     
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    Melinda Mills reacted to Anna in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    Actually, all the reasons you have stated for why, and the manner in which AM purchased alcohol is speculation and cannot be proven.
    As for Sophia's ice cream; do you think Sophia will never have any ice cream again in her life? Obviously she will, as will real children.
     
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    Melinda Mills reacted to Srecko Sostar in How to abstain from blood   
    haha, this reminds on old one - better to be live dog than dead lion. But dog will never be a lion, he will have dog's life :))) and that is ok so far as you consider yourself what you are - a dog, but problems can come at the moment when dog consider self to be a lion (with or without leg .... of course it would be easier with all legs)   
  20. Confused
    Melinda Mills reacted to James Thomas Rook Jr. in How to abstain from blood   
    That is why the Red Cross will not let vegetarians be blood donors .... FIRST ... you have to blood OWNERS.
  21. Haha
    Melinda Mills reacted to James Thomas Rook Jr. in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    Being as tall as I am,  living in the future is no picnic.
    Keep getting hit by flying cars.
  22. Haha
    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Foreigner in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    Who is living in May 12, 2019 already? Snopes?  
     
     
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    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Foreigner in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    (Replying to Outta Here.)
    Thanks for the observation.  It is being used loosely.
    Yes, agree it is not about the value of money per se. However,  readers of the Bible will still recall the statement "They will throw their silver into the streets..." and if and when this happens, they will say that they read it in the Bible.   We can't deny that the Bible said that.  As BillyThe Kid reminisced, "What was fascinating to me, My mother pointed it out to me in the '60s as a devout JW that would happen, and it sure the hell did. There is no photoshop on that. It's not a tale."   My mother used to quote it a lot as well.
    For other students who look deep into the Bible for guidance and more insight, they will understand it more fully.
    *** rr chap. 6 p. 70 par. 18 “The End Is Now Upon You” ***
    Do you discern a lesson for us in this part of Ezekiel’s prophecy? It is about the need to set the right priorities. Consider this: Only after the inhabitants of Jerusalem understood that the end of their city and their life was upon them and that material goods could not save them, only after that did they drastically change their priorities. They threw their possessions away and began to “seek a vision from a prophet”—but their change came too late. (Ezek. 7:26) In contrast, we are already fully aware that the end of this wicked world is upon us. Therefore, our faith in God’s promises has moved us to set the right priorities in life. As a result, we are busy pursuing spiritual riches, which have lasting value and will never be thrown “into the streets.”—Read Matthew 6:19-21, 24
    Material goods is money's worth, so it has a connection still. Some people have money in the bank, some have it in land and other possessions. All can be changed into money.
     *** w88 9/15 p. 13 par. 14 Listen—Jehovah’s Watchman Speaks! ***
    14 Jehovah and his executional forces cannot be bribed. (Read Ezekiel 7:19.) Bribery could not save the “concealed place,” the Most Holy, from being profaned as Chaldean “robbers” seized sacred utensils and left the temple in ruins. Jehovah ‘caused the pride of the strong ones to cease’ when King Zedekiah was captured and chief ones of the Levitical priesthood were killed. (2 Kings 25:4-7, 18-21) No, sinners in besieged Jerusalem could not escape adversity by bribery when God ‘judged them’ as covenant breakers. Similarly, during the imminent desecration of things Christendom holds sacred, she will not be able to bribe her way out of the execution of divine judgment upon her. It will then be too late to listen to Jehovah’s “watchman.”—Ezekiel 7:20-27.
    This is a more direct and valid application. 
    Good speech writers and politicians use Jesus' parables loosely in their speeches every day.  But we don't think they are trying to get close to God or really seeking to do his will.
     
  24. Haha
    Melinda Mills reacted to TrueTomHarley in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    I haven’t actually made any comment about this. However, since I am being drawn into it anyway, let me clarify this nonsense once and for all. 
    This photo is not from Venezuela at all, but it is in one of the southern US states & is in fact a falled bank heist on the part of @Top Cat O'Malighan. His getaway car was hit broadside by @Vic Vomidog, flying at an unusual rate of speed because some Bethel hotshot and been spied with a can of beer, a special meeting of the Apostate Society had been called so as to see how to spin it, he was the Keynote speaker, and he was running late.
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    Melinda Mills got a reaction from Anna in ANTHONY MORRIS AT THE LIQUOR STORE   
    (Replying to Outta Here.)
    Thanks for the observation.  It is being used loosely.
    Yes, agree it is not about the value of money per se. However,  readers of the Bible will still recall the statement "They will throw their silver into the streets..." and if and when this happens, they will say that they read it in the Bible.   We can't deny that the Bible said that.  As BillyThe Kid reminisced, "What was fascinating to me, My mother pointed it out to me in the '60s as a devout JW that would happen, and it sure the hell did. There is no photoshop on that. It's not a tale."   My mother used to quote it a lot as well.
    For other students who look deep into the Bible for guidance and more insight, they will understand it more fully.
    *** rr chap. 6 p. 70 par. 18 “The End Is Now Upon You” ***
    Do you discern a lesson for us in this part of Ezekiel’s prophecy? It is about the need to set the right priorities. Consider this: Only after the inhabitants of Jerusalem understood that the end of their city and their life was upon them and that material goods could not save them, only after that did they drastically change their priorities. They threw their possessions away and began to “seek a vision from a prophet”—but their change came too late. (Ezek. 7:26) In contrast, we are already fully aware that the end of this wicked world is upon us. Therefore, our faith in God’s promises has moved us to set the right priorities in life. As a result, we are busy pursuing spiritual riches, which have lasting value and will never be thrown “into the streets.”—Read Matthew 6:19-21, 24
    Material goods is money's worth, so it has a connection still. Some people have money in the bank, some have it in land and other possessions. All can be changed into money.
     *** w88 9/15 p. 13 par. 14 Listen—Jehovah’s Watchman Speaks! ***
    14 Jehovah and his executional forces cannot be bribed. (Read Ezekiel 7:19.) Bribery could not save the “concealed place,” the Most Holy, from being profaned as Chaldean “robbers” seized sacred utensils and left the temple in ruins. Jehovah ‘caused the pride of the strong ones to cease’ when King Zedekiah was captured and chief ones of the Levitical priesthood were killed. (2 Kings 25:4-7, 18-21) No, sinners in besieged Jerusalem could not escape adversity by bribery when God ‘judged them’ as covenant breakers. Similarly, during the imminent desecration of things Christendom holds sacred, she will not be able to bribe her way out of the execution of divine judgment upon her. It will then be too late to listen to Jehovah’s “watchman.”—Ezekiel 7:20-27.
    This is a more direct and valid application. 
    Good speech writers and politicians use Jesus' parables loosely in their speeches every day.  But we don't think they are trying to get close to God or really seeking to do his will.
     
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