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Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000 plus plus plus...
by Quotes incourt file no.
superior court of justice.
watchtower bible and tract society of .
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Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000 plus plus plus...
by Quotes incourt file no.
superior court of justice.
watchtower bible and tract society of .
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richard
There is absolutely nothing on those CD-ROMs that was not peddled from door to door.
No entirely: 'Our Kingdom Ministry' is on the CD's
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Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000 plus plus plus...
by Quotes incourt file no.
superior court of justice.
watchtower bible and tract society of .
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richard
Was Raymond Franz ever sued by the WTS for quoting from the Society's literature? And when I say 'quoting', I mean the massive amount of text he took from WTS' publications and confidential memo's which were reproduced in CoC and ICoCF.
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Guess what I saw today...
by mrsjones5 ina jw parking a hummer at a kingdom hall.
this is nothing unusual at this hall.
when i drive by in the mornings to take the hubby to work, i often see lexus, bmws, mercedes, caddies, audis, etc.
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richard
Next time, put an Awake!-article on the wasting of natural resources behind the Hummer's windshield wipers.
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WTS Emergency Meeting
by doinmypart inthe disaster relief committee at patterson organized 3 meetings this past memorial day, monday september 5, 2005. the meetings were held in lake charles, louisiana; bossier city, louisiana; and ball, louisiana.
over 1,200 elders were in attendance from louisiana, missouri, arkansas, and texas.
i took horrible notes, but want to share a few things.. the elder opening the meeting emphasized the importance of confidentiality.
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richard
Quote from the WTS Emergency Meeting:
The brother said Red Cross gets money for every person they shelter so they didn't want JWs leaving the shelter.
Can this be verified?
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Brainwashing/Mind control
by Evanescence indo you think the jehovah's witnesses used any brainwashing or mind control techniques on their members?.
what brainwashing techniques do you think they used?.
what do you think works best on jw's to get them out of the mind control?
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richard
Among behavioral scientists, the existence of "brainwashing" and "mind control" is highly controversial. For starters, check this link
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Government slaps ban on three missionary organizations--Tajikstan
by Atlantis in.
http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/09/ennews05092005a1.html .
http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/09/ennews05092005a1.html .
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richard
This whole region is rather hostile towards foreign religions. For a continuous update, see http://www.forum18.org/index.php
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Anyone think that the 'Secret Subcultures' will bust up the Borg?
by AK - Jeff ini mean there seem to be several fairly well rooted sub-groups operating within the ranks of the witnesses now.
many under the continuing premise that it is the 'truth'.
i know of a couple.
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richard
There is also another process going on which I would call the development of ''paper membership": people profess to be Jehovah's Witnesses but they are not or hardly involved in any service activities. They may also be (covertly) critical on some or many of the WTS' teachings and practices but prefer to remain associated since they feel this is their social environment which provides a sense of community. They feel they have nothing to gain by being openly critical since disfellowshipment will cut them off from their community. This group must be quite substantial, since the annual amount of baptisms considerably exceeds the increase of publishers.
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Remarkable Survey
by richard ini don't know if this has been posted earlier.
i found some interesting figures on the jws in the us, based on a research project - american religious identification survey 2001 - by the city university of new york.
the data are based on a telephone survey among 50,000 households.
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richard
I don't know if this has been posted earlier.
I found some interesting figures on the JWs in the US, based on a research project - American Religious Identification Survey 2001 - by the City University of New York. The data are based on a telephone survey among 50,000 households. The basic question was 'what is your religion'? This was compared with data obtained from a similar survey conducted in 1990.
This sample gave the following results on the amount of JWs in the US. The figures between brackets are those published by the WTS)
1990: 1,381,000 (WTS yb 1991: 952,312)
2001: 1,331,000 (WTS yb 2002: 1,101,334)(The WTS figures are highpoints plus pioneers)
Taking for granted that some of the difference between the CUNY and WTS data may be explained by sampling error, it's obvious that more people consider themselves JWs than as indicated by the Society. Further, it seems that the more than 15% increase in the 1990-2001 decade, as noted by the Society, might be questionable.
A second observation from the CUNY research was: "Some groups such as Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses appear to attract a large number of converts ("in-switchers"), but also nearly as large a number of apostates ("out-switchers").
The complete report can be seen/downloaded at http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_studies/aris.pdf - See particularly 'Exhibit 7
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Texas KH advertizing free pastoral counseling!
by rebel8 incame across this accidentally.
jws listed in a mental health directory as providing free pastoral counseling!
http://www.fortworthgov.org/health/or/mental2001.asp
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richard
This is a press release from the WTS, October 2000:
"The Governing Body, which currently numbers 13 members, will continue to focus on Bible doctrine, evangelizing, and pastoral care. In 1999 more than 14 million attended the services of Jehovah's Witnesses".
From: http://www.jw-media.org/region/global/english/releases/events/001007.htm