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  A Solid Post

  by metatron in

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  over at channelc, tom cabeen put together as excellent a summary of the organization's evolution, as i've ever seen.. www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index.cgi.

  he suggests that the whole theology of vindication came from rutherford himself, getting thrown in prison.. .

  in addition, i note that channelc seems to have a recent influx of long term witnesses concerned about the bible.

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  I read that, all the main posts anyway, and yeah that is a very solid post, interesting stuff seriously talked about.
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  In need of an ISO image file of the 2003 WT CD

  by nicolaou in

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  if you have one on your hard drive or webspace and you're willing to share please pm me - confidentiality assured.

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  i've got the iso of wtlib2003, but it would need uploading somewhere. it's 353mb.
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  How long since you been out in service?

  by freedom96 in

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  it must be about 13 years since i went out in service.

  about 15 years since i went out a couple times a month, and about 18 years since i went at least once a week.. i just can't imagine going from door to door anymore.

  but to think that we all did it for quite awhile.

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  8-9 years since filed service. but this month is 10 years since I was baptized, ha hah ah, the most important day of my life!
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  Elders Wives

  by Octavia in

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  ever wonder how some of those brothers wrote such elloquent talks?

  i just found out ( puternut told me) their wives wrote them for them.

  that must be why they always clapped so loud for their husbands!

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  Never ever in my life heard anything like that, and I was raised a JW. My mom certainly never helped my dad with any talk, to this day my dad spends most of his free time preparing talks and studying. I cannot imagine any other Elder who would let their wife write a talk for them. Period.
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  A proud brother writes. letter to Bill Bowen.

  by avengers in

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  2. child-abuse

  "so william bowen, what did you get disfellowshipped for?

  i can't believe.

  the false information you are giving about jehovah's witnessess.

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  A very ignorrant letter there, when reading it you can almost predict what he's going to say because every word if it is what JW's are fed.

  Sure there SOME people who go overboard and do things the wrong way. But it is the same in EVERY religion,
  whether it is Catholic, Mormon, etc..

  SO JW's are just like every other religion.

  like how millions are donated each year to the people in need every year like in Africa and several other third world countries, how in natural disasters Witnesses help EVERYONE with cleanup letting starngers stay in there home, contributing money.

  If this is the case, why is it never in the world media, and if it is, why doesn't the guy cite some facts & figures...

  There is no other religion in the world who will do that enless they expect to make money.

  The other day I was with my grandma, who is a devout Roman Catholic, she asked me if JW's gave money to charity, I told her 'no'... She went on to explain how at church, they collect both for the church, and for charities, and send the money to people like Oxfam & Red Cross. This seems to contradict the letter writer who states...

  I use to be catholic.

  Maybe he just didn't give to charity when he was there.

  Every religion reguires you to pay them money in order for you to stay in there church. The Mormon religion reguires 20% of the
  household income.

  I think the Mormons are the only one who 'require' a set figure aren't they?

  If your a Catholic and you do not pay the church, they look down on you and do not help anymore.

  As my grandma told me yesterday, if you're a catholic, you can do what you want, go to church when you want, and give when you want. With JW's, if you give to Charity and they know about it, they will look down on you as if you are doing wrong.

  The Witness organization is the only religion that does not require to pay money, and you get treated the same.

  They don't require a set amount of money, rather they require you to submit your will and control and ultimately your life, to follow their ritualistic rules of 3 meetings a week, that they call 5, field service, counting hours spent on doors, giving talks, contributing for magazines, not celebrating anything, not letting your kids celebrate anything etc, esentially isolating you from all that is normal and all that allows you to live a functional life on planet earth today. These are all REQUIRED. To not do all these things would cause one to be looked down and maybe eventually thrown out. JW's are the only religion that DO require all these life controlling factors.

  The Catholic religions new bible lies. They took out Jehovah's name and replaced it with lord. There new bible is completly different from the Old King James version.

  That's no surprise, the KJV was never the best translation anyway, but to say it lies? I wonder what he is talking about, because removing a name isn't a lie, it's just editing for some twisted reason (the same when JW's do it for their agenda).

  They changed everything. I use to be catholic.

  Used to be a Catholic and now a JW, just like my mom. My grandma would say you are brainwashed.

  I learned to speak and read Hebrew just so I can compare all the bibles of today to the original hewbrew bible that is in your public
  libary. I choose to be a Jehovah's Witness because there bible was the most accurate to the original manuscript.

  If you learned to read Hebrew, why would you want to read ANY English translation? Personally I doubt anyone who claims they can read and understand Hebrew well enough to compare Bibles. I would like to see them do it line by line, and translate it to me without an English bible there, to see if they really understand, or if they just recognise a few words and names.

  There where no changes between the two except the New Translation was worded so everyone could understand.

  This is a standard JW programmed sentence.

  Anyways all your filthy talk about Witnesses are completly uncalled for.

  I think the evidence on Bill Bowen's site makes it 'called for'.

  I'm sure you won't put this letter on your website."

  Is it published there? I haven't checked, but it's published here, and here it will get far more viewers responses!

  viva
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  72% Voter Turnout in Iraq

  by Elsewhere in

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  the voter turnout for the 2004 us presidential election was 60.7% (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a10492-2005jan14.html).

  despite being threatened by terrorists, iraq's voter turnout was much greater than the last us voter turnout!

  i'd say it was a far greater success than expected!

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  72% Voter Turnout in Iraq

  As if you believe that. What a joke. LOL
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  An age old mystery has been solved,

  by embeth2525 in

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  when i was a teenager, my father built a wall in the hallway of our house so that he would not have to have anything to to with me.

  i had to do dishes in the bathroom sink and cook on a hotplate.

  i never knew why he did this.

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  that is insane
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  Women are the weaker sex

  by stillajwexelder in

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  2. beliefs

  this proves the bible and the wtbts wrong.

  the scripture says women are the weaker sex - wll as most men will surely admit t this is a load of crap - women are incredibly strong.

  they bear children and keep going when they have a headache etc.

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  LOL
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  i get Df'D today

  by NoAnswers in

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  2. friends

  hey guys this is my first post just wanted to say i get df`d today .. its a bummer ......the 16 th i had my judicial commite.

  if anyone can give me some good vibe il apreciate it.... i been shunned my all my fam.... thank god i have my wife to support me (df`d also ) .

  hope to hear from you

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  congratulations, you made it!
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  JW's UNDERGROUND

  by kwintestal in

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  2. friends

  as a kid i remember hearing about other parts of the world where the preaching work is banned and it had to be done "underground".

  i always pictured people in suits and dresses going through tunnels in peoples basements and knocking on doors.

  i wished we could preach underground.. kwin

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  I always pictured them meeting in secret in someones house with boxes of literature and deciding how to distribute it.