It's in the last article near the end:
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DESPERATELY SEEKING: EASTERN N CAROLINA: (1) I've been away from "the truth" for over two years now after being raised and spending most of my adult life in the org. It would be great to met some from my old circuit who left and now see the JW religion for what it is. If you were in a congregation east of Rocky Mount we might know each other. Bob http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=40608&site=3
(2) HAWAII, MISSOURI, KANSAS: I posted this months ago, but since there are so many new people here, I thought I'd try again. I'm curious if any of you were in the following (Jehovahs Witnesses) congregations: McCully, Honolulu Hawaii - late 70's Diamond Head, Honolulu Hawaii - late 70's, early 80's and then late 80's again later Bowling Green, Bowling Green Missouri - early 80's through late 80's Linwood, Wichita Kansas - late 80's and early 90's Let me know if you were there or know of anyone there! Thanks! Andi [email protected]
(3) CENTRAL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: I'm looking for a long lost (JW) friend I can't forget. His name is Mike Miranda. We attended pioneer school together in 1991. We had an instant connection but I was immediately engaged & married so our friendship was never allowed to flourish. He was to attend my wedding in June 1992 but never showed. Although choosing not to take pictures with every family member I had, my friendship with Mike was important enough to plan to take wedding pics w/ him if he came. I was very bummed he didn't.
The summer of 1992 was the last time we saw each other & spoke at the District Convention in Fresno, CA. A month or two later police called my parents home looking for me for questioning. Mike's truck had been found abandoned. Foulplay was suspected. They had found letters from me in his room and wanted to question me on my possible knowledge of where he was.
I never found out the outcome. Months later, even up to a year, I heard accounts saying the some towns people had thought they saw him. I have no idea if he is dead or if he was recovered in any way.
At the time he was 18-19 years old. He lived w/ an abusive psycotic JW mother and younger siblings. Although a dire situation he felt the need to help his younger siblings. Mike....if you are out there anywhere, PLEASE contact me. I think about you all of the time. Or if anyone has any information I would greatly appreciate putting my mind to rest. My email is [email protected]. Mike would be about 28-29 years old now. I have on many occasions thought of doing a more extensive search for him. Thought I would try this first just in case. Thank you! Shauna (Titterington) Collins [email protected]
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=40583&site=3
NEW FINDING ON JESUS BOX: When repairs were done to the recently found ossuary bone box believed to be that of James, brother to Jesus Christ, those doing the repairs found an incised star-circle and minute flecks of red paint on the back of the box. These were common decorations on ossuaries dating between 50-70 A.D. For other news about the box see: http://www.msnbc.com/news/835340.asp?cp1=1
ARCHAELOGISTS EXAMINE ROSWELL SITE FOR ET EVIDENCE: On November 22 the SCI FI cable channel will air "The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence," with what network representatives are calling a "smoking gun." It's going to raise a lot of questions afterwards," said Thomas Vitale, a senior vice president of programming. Many believe that at Roswell, New Mexico (USA) on July 3, 1947 a spaceship crashed in an empty field with several aliens on board who witnesses say were taken away by military personnel never to be seen again. Until the airing believers and debunkers will just have to wait, said Bill Doleman, the principal investigator with the University of New Mexico archeology team.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20021116/sc_nm/life_ufo_dc
SAY MULTIPLE SCHLEROSIS DOCTORS HAVE BEEN TREATING WRONG DISEASE: Three neurologists say in the latest edition of New Scientist the conventional wisdom about MS is based on a different condition altogether, explaining why no cure has been found for the disease.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_708684.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NICE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES (JWs), members of the Governing Body of the Watchtower Society (WTS) over them, including currently alleged pedophile Ted Jarasz, and local WTS elders cover up child molestation, let JW pedophiles go door-to-door as proved at http://www.silentlambs.org or phone toll-free 1 877-WT-ABUSE, also had a secret 10 year liason with the UN, misteach about things like holidays etc. To begin here's a UK WTS elder handcuffed for prison because a pedophile:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2123000/2123546.stmIn fact Pat Garza has openly alleged she was raped by WTS Governing Body member Ted Jarasz (nicknamed "the Boss" at Bethel) in Los Angeles when he was a JW District Overseer. Leaks state 23,000+ JW pedophiles are on file at WTS Bethel headquarters in Brooklyn, New York (USA), most unrevealed to police despite Romans 13:1. Jarasz has not denied it and stayed silent. Sources also allege WTS Governing Body member Leo Greenlees in the 1980s was a pedophile:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=5466&site=3
In October 2002 five WTS Gov Body members were offically alleged as pedophiles and summoned for a judicial hearing by silentlambs.org. Ministerial Servant/Elder pedophiles so far convicted by regular courts include Gregory Blackstone at Hollis, New Hampshire; Larry Baker at Augusta, Maine; Tim Gardner at Richmond, Missouri; Manual Beliz at Othello, WA; others in the UK, France, Norway, Australia etc
Members are told report on each other although the Bible condemns busy-bodying. Nor are regular JWs allowed to read Judicial Committee "sin files" on themselves, many not knowing they exist often with misinformation and kept at Brooklyn's Bethel headquarters even if destroyed locally after seven years. Page 232 in the Insight book shows a picture of the Pay Attention To Yourselves And All The Flock book that elders have but do not allow non-elders to read. Page 302 in the Daniel book and pages 88 and 651 in the Proclaimers book show photos of the Knights Templar swords and the cross-with-crown-and-wreath used by Masons who sometimes use "Theocratic Warfare" tactics to change members' personalities on early WTS literature. Not surprisingly with the pedophile and other scandals, many good JWs have also complained of visual and electronic spying and harassment from criminal elders but claimed from demons, including physical harassment! Some old WT books also have the winged sun god Ra on front covers - never a Christian symbol.WTS Awake and Watchtower magazines and elders say God opposes the UN but, until exposed, in 1991-2001 WTS was secretly a formal UN associate (Non-Governmental Organization) not just to use the UN's library as proved if you read the Nov 22, 1998 Awake magazine and use Search at the top at jehovahs-witness.org with "UN" or "U.N." Besides, the U.N. does not even require a group to become an official associate group in order to get a card to use its library! After this was publicized on the internet the official U.N. ties were cut but not all unofficial ties:http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=34436&site=3Christ said families would be split by those doing right and those doing wrong but WTS has formal Judicial Committees destroying families via numerous formal renderings of disfellowshipment (severe shunning). 1 Cor 6:1 only says judge "trivial" things as in business, James 2:4-13 calls judging harmful, and Paul says the "majority" (2 Cor 2:6) followed his advice to shun a wrongdoer, meaning a Minority chose not to and yet he nowhere condemns them. Acts 15:20 says abstain from blood but 1 Sam 14:32-5 says Saul's army ate unBLED meat to not starve and no verses show God not forgiving them. Christ says God also forgave David's eating temple holy bread and that God wants Mercy Not Sacrifice. (Mt 12) The May 22, 1994 Awake tells of 26 JW kids who died without transfusions, and by common sense in massive bleeding as in car wrecks blood expanders won't save lives http://www.ajwrb.org. About 3 JWs die daily earthwide from the unscriptural policy! (Blood On The Altar by David Reed) Yet most normal identical twins transfuse whole blood to each other through a shared placenta and childrens' whole blood is sometimes found in mothers years after birth. WTS says Christ was likely born about Oct 2, so why ignore counting back 9 months for normal conception or genetic-level birth means he was born in late December? Why insist Christmas is from the pagan Saturnalia when John 10:22-3 says Christ also celebrated the Festival of Dedication or Lights, i.e. Hannukah, which first began Dec 25 but has varied since because lunar-based? Job 1:3, 3:1-3 show Job's kids celebrated birthdays if you read all 3 verses to see day of birth is meant. At Luke 2 angels themselves celebrated Christ's birth. Santa is from Saint Nicholas, an actual red-robed Christian gift-giving elder of the Middle Ages, not a wizard or pagan god. The word Easter may as easily be from the Anglo-Saxon word eastern (Christianity came from East of England) as from the goddess Eastre, the eggs as likely from the Jewish passover egg as from paganry, common sense saying early Christians more likely using eggs and rabbits to symbolize the hope for new life by resurrection than as vesiges of pagan fertility or sex rites!
Halloween came from All Hallows (Holy Ones/Saints) Evening when parents had children dress as saints to encourage them to be good, the normally harmless pranks coming from Ireland where maybe taken from pagans even as wedding rings, names of days, months, some Christian names in the Bible like Apollos and Jason possibly also came from pagans. Why does WTS call compromises holidays that attacked and replaced paganisms especially since Colossians 2:16 says let none judge you about a holiday or Sabbaths? WTS calls a cross a repugnant murder weapon but Paul said boast in it as a symbol of resurrection over death. (Ga 6:14, 1Cor 1:17-18) They say it was a stake but human remains and inscriptions show archaeologists the stauros was a cross not stake, Dr F Zugibe's research shows suffocation would be in minutes if on a stake but in hours if on outstretched cross per Lu 23:44 and Mat 27:45-6, and the word stauros can mean not just stake but cross.
There are countless views on the trinity concept, with almost only the United Pentecostals and a few related groups praying straight to and teaching Jesus is God Almighty (Jehovah) Himself-- the modalism view. Yet WTS says the Trinity is believing Father, Son, Spirit are one "identical" person and falsely say most all Protestant and Catholic churches teach that. The fact is that most all Protestant and Catholic groups accept the trinity idea as being three totally different entities or persons, always from when time started forming one "Godship" just as Romans 1:20 says. (Read It) One illustration is that the Son and Spirit share inherited age, power, knowledge from God remindful of how an acorn may be only one day old but also by its genes share the oak tree's age, capacity and information! Three different entities but one in age, power and knowledge who have always formed one God Almighty or Godship.
Many Jehovah's Witnesses staying JWs are cutting time and money given the WTS which is declared "apostate" for causing divisions besides having endangered children, having the secret U.N. liason etc. By Nov 2002 1223+ exJWs had registered for in-person meetings, http://exjw.meetup.com
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