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Flier on "Day and Week of Christ's Death" to be mailed out to Kingdom Halls this week!
by CharlieSmith1975 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the tricky thing about a mass mailing to all the kingdom halls is that mail is often not delivered to the kingdom hall but to a po box.

it is super easy to get all the addresses to hundreds of kingdom halls across the country and even have those addresses printed out for you as labels!

but when i did that before i got about a third of them back.
Village Idiot

CharlieSmith 1975, I suggest the same thing that others here are - keep it very short. One topic, preferably the one on the organization's self glorification including one quote from Russell and one from Rutherford about how they claimed their literature was more important than the Bible and another on about how there was more proof of the date 1925 being the end than Noah had proof of the flood.
Whatever you send should be no more than a single page with a minimum of words from you. Make the quotes take up most of the sheet.
Ignore the issue of the correct week of Christ's death - nobody cares.
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The best reasonable, rational, intelligent discussion on religion I've ever seen
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
Village Idiot

"I'm the one who is finding and pointing out the moral high ground and you're not. You CAN'T find any moral high ground in the situation of a tsunami (as an atheist) because natural occurances don't happen with any thought to morality."
There is no "moral high ground" in a tsunami or any other natural disaster.
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Flier on "Day and Week of Christ's Death" to be mailed out to Kingdom Halls this week!
by CharlieSmith1975 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the tricky thing about a mass mailing to all the kingdom halls is that mail is often not delivered to the kingdom hall but to a po box.

it is super easy to get all the addresses to hundreds of kingdom halls across the country and even have those addresses printed out for you as labels!

but when i did that before i got about a third of them back.
Village Idiot

I once did a mass mailing to the apartment complex where I live where most of the tenants are or were JWs. It included an advertisement for the books Crisis of Conscience and The Gentile Times Reconsidered. It got the whole neighborhood (124 apartments) in an uproar.
That's why the Witnesses keep an eye on me 20 years later.
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Caleb & Sophia video Getting Big Coverage
by freemindfade in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
wow, i am kind of surprised the amount of attention this appalling video is getting from the media.

not surprised because it is appalling but that something that i grew up with was encapsulated in a cartoon and is exposing the witnesses publicly for mind control.. www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.
Village Idiot

Don't mean to be a nitpick but there's a typo in the last word of the 4th paragraph.
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The best reasonable, rational, intelligent discussion on religion I've ever seen
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
Village Idiot

myelaine: "I'm the one who is finding and pointing out the moral high ground and you're not."
I may have missed the post where you answered but I previously asked why such 'redemption' requires a premature death. I take it, that from your point of view, some of those people would turn 'evil' and thus offend God by becoming unredeemable.
A little bit of logic here. Can't some of those victims be unredeemed at that moment but redeemed in the future?
Never mind, I do not have the mind of 'God' and am thus guilty of presumptuousness.
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Caleb & Sophia video Getting Big Coverage
by freemindfade in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
wow, i am kind of surprised the amount of attention this appalling video is getting from the media.

not surprised because it is appalling but that something that i grew up with was encapsulated in a cartoon and is exposing the witnesses publicly for mind control.. www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.
Village Idiot

WTBTS: "You can be sure he did not fall asleep again"
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Seriously now, all he had to do was to stay away from the window.
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The best reasonable, rational, intelligent discussion on religion I've ever seen
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
Village Idiot

@ myelaine:
"I'd like to remind you of the fact that we are discussing actual people and they deserve to be discussed with dignity. I think it's vulgar the way you bring them into the conversation like some kind of offence to you that God has to answer for."
That statement could be considered ironic.
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The best reasonable, rational, intelligent discussion on religion I've ever seen
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
Village Idiot

@ myelaine: "you're a deist..."
As I stated on one of my posts "I speak as an atheist." I just wanted to bring up to cofty that there's a variety of theisms.
From what I understand of some Deists simply believe that a god created the universe and then left it alone to evolve on its own. Such a god could be considered sort of a cosmic scientist who created this universe as an experiment to see the results but otherwise is absent as far as the affairs of men are concerned. Also, a Deist does not necessarily believe in immortality of the soul.
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The best reasonable, rational, intelligent discussion on religion I've ever seen
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
Village Idiot

@ myelain:
"being "able" to die of old age isn't a guarantee for a good life, or a righteous life. It's a fact that some wax worse and worse as time goes by."
So babies are killed so that they don't grow up to be major sinners?
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"Whilst the bible is important, the Watchtower is God's main way of communicating with people today"
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yes, i'm not kidding!.

this gem was stated today in the talk!

(shortly before i walked out).
Village Idiot

@ millie210: "But I hadnt seen it in print anywhere...is that just me?"
https://archive.org/stream/VindicationVolume3ByJudgeRutherford/1932-VINDICATION-3#page/n191/mode/2up
Second paragraph under "For busy people".