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Canada's Numbers Declining-Worries Bethel
by Had Enough inman it's good to be home, relaxed and de-stressing right now!
how many times today, i just wanted to say aaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhh!!!!
at my circuit's one-day assembly.
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DECEPTIVE JW ELDERS - CASE#6
by Amazing indeceptive jw elders case#6 .
jw elders can be, and often are, deceptive in how they smear the names and events concerning former jws, especially where alleged apostasy is involved.. when i moved to a particular congregation, i was at first very impressed with the good camaraderie and the help we were given in getting settled.
the congregation was far more outgoing and often held events at a public park where they gathered to enjoy barbecue, swimming, sports, etc.
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Hi Amazing:
I am sure Jehovah revealed it to the brothers. Remember! Jehovah keeps his organization clean! :)
I don't know how they did it. I live near Georgetown, there were a few bethelites assigned to my congregation. I heard from one of them that Frank was caught stuffing apostate literature under other's door in bethel. Probably somebody saw him doing it.
Frank Toth was prominent in the Canadian Bethel.
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Canada's Numbers Declining-Worries Bethel
by Had Enough inman it's good to be home, relaxed and de-stressing right now!
how many times today, i just wanted to say aaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhh!!!!
at my circuit's one-day assembly.
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Here is the most detailed JW statistics I ever seen so far in electronic format from 1881-1996
Microsoft Excel 97 Format http://www.geocities.com/notebookdealer/Jwstat.xls
Microsoft Access 97 Format http://www.geocities.com/notebookdealer/jwstats.mdb
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DECEPTIVE JW ELDERS - CASE#6
by Amazing indeceptive jw elders case#6 .
jw elders can be, and often are, deceptive in how they smear the names and events concerning former jws, especially where alleged apostasy is involved.. when i moved to a particular congregation, i was at first very impressed with the good camaraderie and the help we were given in getting settled.
the congregation was far more outgoing and often held events at a public park where they gathered to enjoy barbecue, swimming, sports, etc.
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Hi Moxy
Frank Toth was dissfellowshiped from the Canadian Bethel for apostacy around 1995. He spent many years in Brooklyn Bethel. He was one of the Governing Body's drivers. He was well respected among the brothers. He was distributing apostate literature to fellow bethelites. He sliped pages into rooms (under the doors). I heared he appared on TV a couple of times and took active role in organizing apostate groups in Canada.
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Will You Make Room for Pioneering?
by TMS inregardless of scriptural implications, creating special categories of service such as colporteur, pioneer, special pioneer, etc.
was a brilliant move.. the prestige, status and few little perks associated with those committing to being full-time workers is miniscule compensation for their sacrifice of time, lifestyle, income and educational opportunities.. yes, the hour requirements have dropped on several occasions.
how many on the board know that the regular pioneer requirement was once 150 hours a month, then 1200 hours a year, than 1000, now 90-vacation/assembly time?.
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Fred,
You wrote: "People don't have to pioneer if they don't want to."
Many elder's children would disagree with you.
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Best Bumper Stickers I've seen.....
by LDH injesus, save me from your followers!.
i do work for food!
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apostate
There is more here: http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/stickers.html
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TONI BRAXTON - EXJW
by apostate intime magazine.
july 15, 1996 volume 148, no.
toni's secret world .
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TIME Magazine
July 15, 1996 Volume 148, No. 4TONI'S SECRET WORLD
HOW DID A SHY MINISTER'S KID BECOME ONE OF THE SULTRIEST SINGERS AROUND? TONI BRAXTON TELLS ALLCHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY
Even she admits it. "singers are a dime a dozen," says Toni Braxton. "And record companies have a dollar." So what makes vocalist Braxton, just 28 years old, so special? Why is her new album, Secrets, only her second, fighting it out for the top slot on the Billboard charts with such heavyweights as thrash-metal veterans Metallica?
Her looks are often what people focus on. It's hard not to. Her eyes are sloped, inviting, penetrating. At 5 ft. 2 in., she's small but also lithe, with a tiny waist and a size-2 build. And in person she also turns out to be one of those energetic sorts who seem much taller. "I'm a happy person by nature. I'm spunky," she says. "And don't let me eat presweetened cereal, or it's over." But she also confides: "I'm kind of private, but not aloof. I just like being by myself; I don't open up a lot of times to people."
Except in her music. Her first album, Toni Braxton, produced by R.-and-B. hitmakers Antonio ("L.A.") Reid and Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, swam against the tide. While other R.-and-B. singers were getting louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend.
Listeners were drawn to these songs because they were about things they had gone through; Braxton sang them because they were about things she had gone through. Says Braxton: "Most of the things that I write or sing about are based on true stories in my life." For example, when she was in college (she attended several schools, including Bowie State College in Bowie, Maryland, but never finished), her then best friend took up with her then boyfriend. Says Braxton, laughing: "After I released the song Best Friend, I heard through acquaintances that this ex-boyfriend wanted publishing rights."
Her new CD, on which she works once again with producer-writers L.A. and Babyface, is somewhat more kinetic than her first. On such songs as Come on Over Here, the rhythms are forceful, dynamic, danceable; these are the kinds of songs you can expect to hear booming out of car windows for the rest of the summer. The best tracks, however, are the midtempo songs, such as Let It Flow (which was also on the Waiting to Exhale sound track) and Why Should I Care. These numbers are poignant, melodic and lovely at points, but Braxton's lush contralto gives them substance and meaning. "The things I sing about, women can identify with," she says. "Although they're sad love songs, I always sound determined. I always try to portray it like everything's going to be O.K.; I'm still strong."
Braxton herself is an intriguing mix of strength and vulnerability, of pop-star outgoingness and old-school reserve. The oldest of six kids, Braxton grew up in the small town of Severn, Maryland, where, she says, her father was a minister in search of a religion: "We went through everything, from being Jehovah's Witnesses to being United Methodists," she recalls.
For one long stretch during her formative grade school years, the family belonged to what she describes as the "very strict" Apostolic Church. As a member, says Braxton, she had to wear long dresses, hats and other modest garb, something that made her stand out, uncomfortably, among her schoolmates. Also setting her apart was the fact that she wasn't allowed to listen to the type of secular music that she now specializes in. But as she neared the end of high school, her father loosened up the rules--and Braxton bought her first pair of pants. "They were Levi's," she says. "I'll never forget. Straight-legged Levi's. From there I got to wear nail polish--like a very pale pink." She even threw a pool party senior year--although the only music she was permitted to play was gospel.
Today Braxton, with her frankly sexual (though never explicit) songs, seems to be making up for lost time. The first single released from Secrets, You're Makin Me High, deals with masturbation. Another song bears the blunt title Find Me a Man. Her parents, she says, are proud of her music, and her father, in church, prays for her albums to climb the charts. Three of her sisters, Towanda, Trina and Tamar, have their own vocal group, the Braxtons (Toni was once a member but went solo). Braxton, however, isn't completely fulfilled. Although she is "dating," she says she is still looking for "that special someone." She says, "What good is having all this success if you don't have someone to share it with?" It's a plaintive query, but one gets the feeling that Braxton will be O.K. She's wearing the pants now. -
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"1975" in 1969 TIME magazine article
by Tallyman intried putting this up last night, but it didn't take.. .
dug this mag out of some attic boxes, and thought some here might find it interesting.. .
the time journalist makes some keen observations.. .
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Another Time Magazin article
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JW Bible vs KJV and why ?
by Camay ini was doing some research on the diffrent kinds.
of bible and the scholars who translated them.
below are a few interesting links..i hope .
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I was upset when once I researched on the subject of apostates. I started with the Watchtower's Bible Concordance. I looked up the word "apostate" (it appears about 10 times in the NW translation)and compared those verses with the KJ and other(inclouding foreign language)Bibles.
I learned that all the other Bibles use the word hypocrates instead. As I recall Jesus did not have problems with those who lost their faith, but he was very upset with those who were hypocrates.
These con artist changed the Bible verses witch originaly were writen to condemn them to use them against us.
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607-1914 being phased out?
by Moxy inyears ago, when i first figured out the problems with the 607 chronology, i began to think that the society was mentioning the 7 times link to 1914 less and less in recent pubs.
after all, the knowledge book gave it less space than the live forever book, and the fluffy require brochure doesnt mention it all.
could it be, i wondered, that they are gradually phasing this teaching out?
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If Jerusalem wasn't destroyed in 607 B.C.E., than the last days did not start in 1914. If the last days did not started in 1914 they were not appointed to be God's Faithful and Descreet Slave in 1919.
If they can't even tell when they been appointed to be God's Faithful and Descreet Slave than they have a trouble communicating with God.
The Bible doesn't say anything about blood transfusion or organ transplant ban. They are responsible for man slaughtering.
