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  A Holiday Gift to JWD, from Scully & Friends

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
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  i have been working on this little project for quite some time, and it's finally ready to share with all of you... just in time for the holidays!.

  this project entailed converting scans of hard copies of public talk outlines into pdf format and then compiling all of them into zip folders.

  there are over 150 documents in total, complete with update notices from brooklyn.

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  Scully,

  Yes, those BOE letters are the same as onacruse's. In fact, he got the CD from me originally. I downloaded them when dirtclod.com was still active. (So there, WTS!! )

  Thanks for the link, Scully.

  I think I only visited dirtclod.com once or twice before it shut down and hadn't then realized the value of saving as much as possible on my local hard disks. So, thanks for your foresight!

  By the way, if anyone's interested, I use -- and can highly recommend -- a program called HTTrack to save whole web sites to my PC. It's invaluable.
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  A Holiday Gift to JWD, from Scully & Friends

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been working on this little project for quite some time, and it's finally ready to share with all of you... just in time for the holidays!.

  this project entailed converting scans of hard copies of public talk outlines into pdf format and then compiling all of them into zip folders.

  there are over 150 documents in total, complete with update notices from brooklyn.

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  AlphaOmega,

  Thanks for the new link.

  Scully,

  Thanks for Volume 4. Superb.

  Are your BOE letters the same as onacruse's? (If you know!)

  Is there a link to download them, or would you prefer us to pm you our email addresses?

  onacruse,

  How do we get hold of this CD? Are the contents downloadable from somewhere ... ?

  Many thanks to everyone for your hard work.
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  WHATEVER BECAME............

  by Dansk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of wingman & the letter campaign?.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/144313/2597136/post.ashx#2597136.

  did it work for anyone?.

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  Ian,

  No rumblings from family members?

  Especially not from family members!

  It's hard enough to get them to talk to me at all, even about about 'essential family business,' never mind about anything JW-related ... <sigh>
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  A Holiday Gift to JWD, from Scully & Friends

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been working on this little project for quite some time, and it's finally ready to share with all of you... just in time for the holidays!.

  this project entailed converting scans of hard copies of public talk outlines into pdf format and then compiling all of them into zip folders.

  there are over 150 documents in total, complete with update notices from brooklyn.

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  AlphaOmega,

  Outlines for talks 153, 154, 155, 156, 164 & 168 are here http://www.sendspace.com/file/9yogay

  Thanks, but I tried downloading it and got a message that the file is not available.

  Any idea what's the problem?

  Scully,

  Many thanks, excellent quality.
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  WHATEVER BECAME............

  by Dansk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of wingman & the letter campaign?.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/144313/2597136/post.ashx#2597136.

  did it work for anyone?.

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  A few weeks ago (I don't remember exactly when) I sent out around 50 to all the elders whose home addresses I knew, in all the congregations around here. I also sent it to all my JW family members.

  However, as I sent it anonymously, I have not received any feedback!
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  Is There ANYTHING Good About The Jehovah's Witness Religion?

  by minimus in

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  ....anything at all??

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  Blondie,

  You don't know the jws I know, min. I know jws who speed, drink and drive, get around the inspection sticker, fudge on their taxes, cheat on their spouses, sold drugs in the KH.
  
  I know jws that stole from the contributions, kept the money for the worldwide work instead of putting it in the contribution box, failed to pay employment taxes for their jw employees, molested children, broke into witness homes and trashed them.

  Thank Baal we weren't all in Brooklyn Heights ...
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  The NORCO Jehovah's Witness Circut Assembly 2007 Expenses

  by BBOARD in

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  just wanted to share this with fellow jwd members.

  i went to the norco circut assembly and these are the recent $ numbers quoted ... .

  as of 4/14/2007 (the first of two circut assemblies) we had $10,260,22 (a surplus) .

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  Perhaps the high costs of circuit assemblies is mainly due to the massive increase in insurance premiums.

  After all, aren't WT now paying their child abuse settlements out of the KHAA?

  Just a thought ...
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  Faith vs. Reason- Watchtower "apostate" quote+refutation by atheist author

  by nvrgnbk in

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  please read.

  it mentions the watchtower and has some interesting things to say about it.. thoughts in captivity.

  faith versus reason in religion.

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  A similar conclusion was reached by a 2001 Harvard University study by Bruce Sacerdote and Edward Glaeser titled "Education and Religion" (available for download here). This study found that, in general, increased education causes individuals to "sort into less fervent religions" and "decrease[s] belief in the returns to religious activity". The study found a strong negative correlation between higher education and beliefs that miracles occur, that heaven and hell exist, that the Devil is an actual being and that the Bible is literally true. More educated people were significantly less likely to believe all these things.

  The above link is no longer valid; if anyone's interested, the paper is now available from:

  http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/glaeser/files/Ed_and_Rel.pdf

  Good find, nvr, thanks.

  Actually, the entire site, Ebon Musings, contains many excellent articles on atheism and evolution.
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  How do we know that Ted Jaracz is in charge?

  by inkling in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on this board it is stated matter-of-factly that theodore jaracz is the gb member holding.

  the real power over doctrinal direction and such, i was just wondering how we know this.

  to be the case.. [inkling].

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  For the record, Mildred Barr died around the end of 2004.

  She and Jack were both very gentle, sincere people, though Jack did have the tendency to be the proverbial limp fist inside the velvet glove ...
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  Vasectomy Horror Stories- Have Any? Or Normal Vasectomy Stories ?

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  well, i know you all pretty well now after 9 months of being on board , so i feel o.k.

  to approach this subject.

  this subject is a pretty touchy one for most of us men, especially those of us that have been put under the " knife" , and got to the point where we did not want any more children.

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  I had mine done about 18 years ago: absolutely no problems, in and out in under an hour, no pain (I drove home afterwards), the scars healed within a couple of days. After a while (3 months? I don't remember now) I sent in a sample for testing and was told I still had about 5% sperm; repeated test (after 6 months?), got the all clear to discontinue other birth control methods.

  Having said that, my jaw hit the floor when I walked in to the small operating theatre -- it turned out the surgeon was an old school friend I'd lost touch with! Funnily enough, I think I coped with the embarassment better than he did! So while he was fiddling with my balls we had a very pleasant time reminiscing over old times!

  If anyone's thinking of getting snipped, personally, I'd unreservedly recommend it.