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  FAITH is another word for OPINION

  by Terry in

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  2. beliefs

  i strive to understand things by standing in a different spot and looking again.

  i like to recontextualize things everybody seems to accept automatically and comfortably.. why?

  to be able to see it for the first time, again.. .

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  FAITH=the fat surrounding and weighing down the sinewy bands of human thought -better known as critical thinking.!
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  We love to be dazzled by the bullshit: The Magic of the Watch Tower Society

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is an implicit pact between the magician and the audience.. .

  i should now like to discuss this pact and use the bond between performer and audience as the premise of something else i will reveal at the end.. .

  shall we continue?.

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  An intelligent analogy/parralel Terry! Thanks for the info. on magic.

  FAITH-"The purposeful suspension of critical thinking ." Bill Maher
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  A Mormon becomes a JW in the Feb 2013 Watchtower...

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  glancing through the feb 2013 "public" watchtower edition, an interesting article appears on page 8.. here is the pdf download link.... http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=20130201&output=html&pub=wp&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

  it's interesting how, in the story, the young man's jw aunt and uncle switch him from mormonism to the jw faith using third-party material (the nov 8, 1995 awake!

  article), and he ends up becoming a jw after confirming on the official mormon website that the claims in the awake!

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  MOR-JWs_MON. Next= OIN-OIN-LUIS-TED.
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  New Financial Arrangements

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  dear friends.

  i never was a dub.

  i am not a qualified lawyer or accountant.

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  The current thrust of the WTBS is foreign- language congregational set-up in the US. In countries where the first lang. isn't Eng. there is a concerted move to preach in the vernacular. English speakers are unceremoniously being thrown into native lang. congregations. Eng. speaking congregations are being disbanded. The printing dept. is being decentralizedand set up in many parts of a country dpending on which region speaks which lang- Africa, China,India and the far East and a few island nations. It appears the "growth" in their numbers is mainly coming from these areas of the globe. Does this involve investment opportunities too?
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  Australian Government publishes on official web site the current Jehovah's Witnesses "Handling of Child Abuse" confidential letter to all bodies of elders (October 1, 2012)

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the current jehovah's witnesses official child abuse handling procedure letter to all bodies of elders (october 1, 2012) has been placed into public domain by the australian (victoria) government "inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious oganisations".. official government web site link to letter:.

  http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/fcdc/inquiries/57th/child_abuse_inquiry/submissions/steven_unthank_supp_a_appendix_1.pdf.

  short link:.

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  Will it possible to have the letters mentioned in para.1,viz. 1992;1993;1995;1997;1998;2002;2004;2006;2010 posted here- if someone on the forum has access to them?

  Thankyou in anticipation.
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  oh cr@p!! its my turn for "an elder called and wants to arrange a shepherding call" thread. Moral support please.

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is coming and the elder wanted to set up a visit.

  it's not like i wasn't warned.

  there was a thread that talked about the push to call on inactive ones.. thanks to the heads up here, i knew the motive for the call.. i don't think i even know that eld.

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  Strange , I got a call from an elder in the company of his CO a few days ago at work. Wanted to know if I was around to have coffee. Never has invited me for coffee in the years I have known him.Told him I was at the office. Said that since there were meetings on Wed and Sun he hoped to see me there. I responded with a noncomittal grunt. Didn't mention the CO was with him though. His voice sounded kinda highpitched as if he knew I knew what he was about, but just had to do his job. Funny how these geezers can't keep an even voice when trying their "Cloak and Stagger"stuff.
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  Elders attempted to catch me out

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey all,.

  i had two elders just "drop in" yesterday...walked around the back of my house and all....rude....i happened to be home, and opened the door.... one is doing spring cleaning at his house, and so in general chit chat, they spoke of how we all dont need to keep the bound volumes or older mags anymore, as everything we need is on the website or cd rom.... i just casually said, "yes, but its nice to have the originals so we can see the original wording and info".

  one of them snapped his neck spinning so quick, frothed at the mouth and said "what do you mean changes?...nothing changes!!".

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  Get a Rottweiler and pick up dead CO's/elders from your backyard next time.
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  CONGREGATION FLEECING RESULTS?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how much did your congregation and its bank account get taken for?

  share your horror story!.

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  Attende cong after 5 months. No pledges made as yet. CO coming in a few weeks . guess thats when the coin is dropped.
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  C'mon Analysts- The game is on! Let's play.

  by Hairtrigger in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as has been established on this forum many times over, the wtbs/ gb /fds is aping the policies of the catholic church in almost every detail.

  the catholic church owns prime property all around the world given its supreme standing in the dark ages and after.

  does the wbts have a bigger game plan in mind ?

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  Real Estates experts and bankers had already bugun predicting the housing collapse from early 2006. By mid 2006 loud whispers of the Impending recession had started to filter out of Wall Street. The real estate crash began to be felt acutely around the beginning of 2008.
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  untitled

  by venting in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some of my musings.

  the last time the do was at our hall he talked about the borians.

  the ones who checked the scriptures carefuly to see if these things were so.

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  Punkofnice,

  Thanks for sequencing those excerpts. However, when I try a copy transfer on MSWord only a partial copy appears. Any advice ?

  Anyone?