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  10 Longstanding Problems that I have with the WT Society: A Summary

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a problem with this.

  do they know what the right thing is?

  this must mean that college is worse today than it was years ago, but is now okay to attend?

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  WT a Member of International Federation of Religions and Minority Philosoph

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i found an active web site: http://www.religion.qc.ca/fiches/fiche134.htm which indicates that the watchtower society is/was a member of the international federation of the religions and minority philosophies.

  this website is in french.

  if you use google to navigate to it, google will translate into english for you.. this is an association founded in switzerland and france on october 7, 1992, and is directed against the association's anti-sects.

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  861,000 Left WT since 2000

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following is a summary of peak publishers vs. amount of people baptized since the 6 million mark was hit.. peak publishers.

  here is what the average publisher numbers look like.. average publishers.

  something happened to 526,989 avg.

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  WT 2-1-05 2004 Service Year Report

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here is some analysis that you won't hear anybody say at the wt study on march 13, 2005 when the 2004 service year report is discussed.. usa.

  in 1993 there were 926,914 peak publishers.

  in 2004 there are 1,019,696 peak publishers.

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  WT-1-1-05 Study Article-New Light?

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i noticed in the article that was studied on sunday february 13, 2005 an interesting point.

  at least interesting to me.. paragraph 15 states in part: " they acknowlege that riches can make life comfortable, but they know the wealth does nothing for their everlasting future".

  please note the use of the term everlasting future (like after a ressurection), and not everlasting life are used.

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  Research on the validity of 1914

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here are a few facts that i have recently discovered by doing some research.. the watchtower society uses the date of 539 b.c.e as the date that cyrus took over babylon.

  they use the term "absolute date" to define this as an unquestionable point in time.

  to do this they had to ignore 586 b.c.e which is the real date for the destruction of jerusalem.. therefore, if jerusalem never lay desolate for 70 years, when does this desolation and fulfillment of this prophecy take place?

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  Re-post of validity of 1914 date

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  something went wrong the first time.

  here are a few facts that i have recently discovered by doing some research.

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  Information on Validity of 1914 Date

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  here are a few facts that i have recently discovered by doing some research.

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  1,200,000 Publishers left between 1993-2002

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i have been bothered for some time by the sneaking suspicion that the publisher increases published annually are never realized in a tangible way.

  therefore, i sat down and studied a 10 year period of what has been published by the society to see if i could get a warm and fuzzy feeling about these increases.

  after hours i have realized the following:

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  How to respond to any JW about The Watchtower being an NGO

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i prepared the following in abrief essay form from my research on the subject.. please read it through.

  it will take a few minutes.i believe it is comprehensive enough for use with almost anyone.. if any one wants it in word ot pdf format, i can email it you.. a matter of reason.

  the issue of being disturbed by the watchtower society becoming associated with the united nations as a non-governmental organization (ngo) is not a matter of faith, but a matter of reason.. .

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