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    Matt 24:14 Fulfilled?

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    5 hours ago, Eoin Joyce said:

    First, he said that only 3 countries in the world have no Jehovahs Witnesses now: Somalia, North Korea, Afghanistan. Can anyone verify or corroborate this?

    That may be true, but I have mentioned on this forum a few months ago the issue with countries with extremely large populations such as India and China with over 1.3. billion each totaling aprox. 36% of the world's population where for all intents and purposes no one has even heard of Jehovah's Witnesses, and many, particularly in India don't even know what a Bible is. My question was, would Jehovah discard nearly 3 billion people because they have not heard the Good News of the Kingdom?  And if not, how long would it take for those 3 billion (bear in mind the extreme poverty and ignorance in some parts of these countries) to be made sufficiently aware in order to make an informed choice?

    Phony Jehovah's Witnesses sent to witness Russian Supreme Court proceedings

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    5 hours ago, JW Insider said:

    Could just be an interpretation or two on top of a mix-up, but it seemed quite possible to me that the idea was to show that JWs are corrupting the youth. This is a really old-school technique, since it was used on Socrates.

    The article said that much of the day was spent discussing the JW view of blood transfusions. This argument has more negative effect when people view how the doctrine affects young people.

    To me it seems like the whole idea, whatever it was, got screwed up too easily for it to have been a true "plan" so I think it was more than likely a mix up, as is typical for disorganized societies. As for the blood transfusions....I don't know...perhaps you are right, but I tend to think of blood transfusions being more of a problem with dependent children rather than young adults who surely have the right to decide for themselves what they want as regards the blood issue.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

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    2 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

    ..this site being the exact opposite, with APOSTATES in the lesser role, UNLESS it is a sophisticated GOOD COP BAD COP apostate site, which in my deepest pits of despair I have sometimes WONDERED!!

    It seems that the Librarian, or whoever is running this forum, is doing a good job of keeping just enough relatively reasonable apostates/opposers posting here to raise just enough "controversy" to stop the discussions from becoming not discussions, but infantile naive statements akin to unicorns eating rainbows and pooping butterflies, and at the same time not allowing this forum to be overun by apostates/opposers (which would happen very quickly, as has on many forums) turning it into a mere cesspool of cynicism, negativity and unreasonable arguments, where any reasonable person would not be able to get a word in edgeways. Well done The Librarian.

    Why doesn't the Society translate and provide the Russian Court Transcripts for us?

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    5 hours ago, The Librarian said:

    @Eoin Joyce I would personally prefer @bruceq 's work on the transcript because we can discuss and ask questions on the content rather than just read it.

    https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/tags/russian supreme court transcript/

    Enjoy!

    Nice work @bruceq by the way....

    These are not transcripts though....they are summaries. Something tells me the court will never make the transcripts available to the public. This is not Australia, this is Russia. @James Thomas Rook Jr.

    I could be wrong of course...

    Children Love Caleb and Sophia ????

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    4 hours ago, JW Insider said:

    It has always been my experience that Eoin is one of most careful to avoid actually attacking the messenger. It has been my experience that he makes the forum a pleasure because he deals with the subject matter rather than the personalities.

    You both! :)@JW Insider @Eoin Joyce

    4 hours ago, JW Insider said:

    because I didn't want anyone to think I was calling them a dog.

    I like dogs :D

    Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

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    4 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

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    You need to sit down, clear your minds, and CAREFULLY consider the next statement, which is ALWAYS true, whether one of Jehovah's Witnesses ... or in the world at large:

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    ... People who do not believe in any god have sacrificed their lives for JUSTICE, as best they could manage it, knowing that when they died, they would be gone ... FOREVER.

    NEVER criticize men who have that kind of sense of honor, and self-directed obligation !

    The reason YOU live in peace, is that such men have "stood on the wall", and "fought in the mud", and endured unspeakable horror, ... so that you can sleep warm in your beds at night.

    In the ways that we can ... how can we do any less?

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    And your point JTR?

    Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

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    13 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

    This RT.com article discusses the U.S. 1917 Espionage Act: Russia is mad about the U.S. striking Syria and likens the strike to when it entered World War I. The article includes the line:

    "The government cracked down on domestic dissent by introducing the Espionage Act (June 1917), Sedition Act (May 1918) and Alien Act (October 1918)."

    This Act was famously used against Jehovah's Witnesses, sending leaders to prison. Today, Russia's own Extremism Law threatens to do the same.

    Okay, I know it's naive, and the following is tongue-in-cheek, but could this play out?

    Putin: "Yesterday, it is St. Petersburg! Now it is Syria! What a screwy world! What do I care if the Jehovahs want to preach? Get this case out of my hair! I've got things to do! Tell the House Church to go to hell!"

     

    Or he could take it out on us since in his eyes we are a US religion...

    Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

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    3 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

    The institutional credibility gap of such things is ALWAYS more than offset by the institutional gullibility fill.

    When education is openly and continuously disparaged, as it has been in the Truth for over 50 years, the Brothers and Sisters lose their critical thinking skills, and every year get more and more ignorant ... and this is the result.

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    You are right in part about the critical thinking skills, but that is no fault of the organization I feel, I don't think the organization discourages critical thinking, on the contrary. You don't necessarily have to go to college to "get an education", you can educate yourself quite well by being inquisitive and by reading a lot, and that's up to each individual. I believe in these particular instances the gullibility comes from being too trusting of the brothers and wishing these things were true. It's like they are already living in paradise, but in the present world it's more like La La land. It's note worthy though that many people in the world lack critical thinking also. You only have to go and read the comments after some news article and the "logic" is amazing. It's like the whole of mankind is either infantile, or cynical to the extreme, there seems to be no happy medium and  common sense any more.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

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    14 hours ago, Eoin Joyce said:

    US post office with Christmas mail,

    Here it is. And the caption says "Mail in the USA. All these are letters to Russian officials in defense of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia". Don't worry about the privacy of that person, their Instagram account is public. The sad thing is this person was repeatedly informed that these are not our letters by a large number of the friends in the comments. She deleted all the comments and disabled further commenting. The even sadder thing is I have a feeling she is stubbornly keeping her post there because it has over 1500 likes, (which shows how many were duped) and all her other posts have barely 40, so she must be very proud of it! This picture was shared like wildfire by many others on all the social media as our letters to Russia ...... :S:SqqwCbSQGiII.jpg

     

    Jehovah’s Witnesses Mobilize Global Response to Threat of Ban in Russia

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    4 hours ago, JW Insider said:

    You think that's funny?  ...Yes, I do, too.

    Actually my original response (up there about Santa and Mt Everest and pushing the envelope) was going to be part of a dumb joke which I realized wasn't going to be very funny or easily understood. So I thought better of it, and only left a portion of my response, which makes even less sense on its own. Carry on. Nothing to see here.

    Awww you should have! This feed, including "bible speaks" defense rhetoric was getting my funny juices flowing (hence the memes) I probably would have enjoyed it. But you're probably right about the easily understood part. You know I received my first negative like on here? (Oh, I dont have the crying smiley I was going to insert here) And I thought it was a pretty good comment. Perhaps I should have liked it myself. :D:D

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