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  It must be of concern to the GB with all the information that is been leaked now

  by joe134cd in

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  i was just watching cedars prank call to tomo3.

  by the way lloyd very well done and totally funny.

  but on a more serious note (and i think what must be of concern to the gb) are the amount of leaks that must be occurring at a senior level or at least by a person who has access to sensitive information.

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  Village Idiot

  In my opinion t's best not to mention this too much because they might read it and be provoked into starting a witch hunt in Bethel.
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  Man is designed to be God-oriented, shows new scientific study!

  by abiather in

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  meditation slows age-related loss of grey matter in the brain, finds a new study.

  (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150205142951.htm) (see also http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/health/can-meditation-really-slow-aging/index.html).

  when we eat certain type of food, it shows how it affects our body.

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  cofty: "Faith is for lazy people. It is a substitute for thinking."

  There are scientists who are both rational in their respective fields but nonetheless have faith in a god. A good example is John Cook who's the administrator for skepticalscience.com, a website dedicated to proving man made global warming. He is an evangelical Christian who nonetheless says that religion and science should remain separate.

  I was surprised when I heard about him but I know that some people could compartmentalize their minds containing both rational and irrational thoughts in the same brain.

  I've run into other educated professionals who are similar in holding both faith and science in the same mind. 

  By the way, I am an atheist not a believer. 
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  Everyday expressions used by JWs that are NOT in the bible...

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  reading another thread made me realise that there are numerous expressions used as everyday witness terminology, that is not in the bible.... such as:.

  governing body.

  paradise earth.

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  Village Idiot

  "This system of things."

  "The new order." 
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  2014 Watchtower Library CD (very discreetly) changed the Insight article on Faithful and Discreet Slave

  by Gilgamesh in

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  the updated article on the "fds" makes several changes although it still lists the article/entry as if it had come from the 1988 edition of insight on the scriptures, vol.

  (1co 3:2, 5; 4:1, 2; compare mt 4:4.

  at the same time the individual members making up such composite body, or the domestics making up the house of god (mt 24:45; heb 3:6; eph 2:19), would also be recipients of the food dispensed.

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  Village Idiot

  They did the same thing with the Watchtower article that stated the end would come by the year 2,000. The bound volume version changed the word 2,000 to before our "lifetime".
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  The Adventures of JWCart and "I-Am-The-Cart" TWITTER, SOON! I will up-build you till you return to our Loving Organization!

  by JWCart1975 in

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  i talked with my pusher, puller i mean, she's really pissed off i opened up a twitter account she's threatening to drive her car over my frame if i misbehave and more, so much for my point of view.

  after much deliberation, we decided she could count her field service minutes only if people see my pretty logo (jw.org), finally she took me off the roof-rack and returned me to my right place, passenger side.

  in the passenger's seat of our car, i smile at the homeless people walking the streets, "can we pull over and talk to them, can you buy them something to eat?

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  With all respect why would you adopt such a name? Amusing as the cart thing is it is it's too trivial a subject for a name.

  Anyways, welcome to the forum. 
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  Mom says, "CO says there's only 15 years left!"

  by Separation of Powers in

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  2. beliefs

  i don't typically hear from my mom often, but i tell you, over the past couple of weeks, i have heard from her several times.

  you heard the comment about "our way of worship will be altered" and thank you for your posts by the way....but yesterday, she calls and is asking about the kids and then, in typical jw fashion mind you, says:.

  "you know, you should really get back to meetings.

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  I was in my teenage years during the 1975 fiasco. I was not much of a '75 person, more of a 1914+generation believer but I still took it somewhat seriously.

  Two things about '75 stood out.

  First was the mid-week meeting. They were reading from the kingdom ministry paper. It was the part where they said that there where "reports of brothers selling their homes and spending the remaining time available pioneering".

  Then there was Freddie the chronological voodoo priest. I went to a meeting at the forum stadium in Inglewood, California (where they played basketball) where Freddie gave a talk on 1975. There was a packed audience with seats at the floor of the court (10,000?).

  It was a long talk where he started with the creation of the universe, went through human history - a la Bible - and climaxed at 1975 which he explained in detail. And there was a detail about '75 that I never hear mentioned amongst the 'Apostate' community. It was the "Adam and Eve gap".

  The Adam and Eve gap was the time period between the creation of Adam and the creation of Eve. It was only when Adam were both together that the 6,000 year period began and it would affect the beginning of the Millennium - the last 1,000 year of God's final 'creative day of 7,000. That Adam and Eve gap could have been months or years (actually up to 130 years before Seth's birth minus the amount of time it took for Cain and Abel to grow until one killed the other). 

  Freddie explained in meticulous detail how the Adam and Eve gap could affect the 'Great Tribulation. Based on his explanation the tribulation could actually start within several months to several years after October of 1975. On a bizarre note, even though that gap could have lasted for decades Freddie said that it would not. The reason? If Adam had no Eve for several decades he would have been tempted into bestiality. Yes, that was his phrasing. I actually recorded that but I don't know what happened to the recording cassette. 

  This was the type of reasoning that kept me from wearing orthopedic braces to correct my scoliosis. To this day I walk with a crooked back. 
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  Can we be deleted as an appointed man, or disfellowshipped without meeting in a committee?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  so, i am genuinely wondering if the above is possible nowdays?.

  with the changes in the power structure of co's, the changes in gb directives re never questioning "jehovah's appointed channel etc", i wonder if "disciplne can be given out in absence?.

  i know that several elders in our cong have little "discussions" about my apparant slackening off, and would love to take action against me... they have tried to chat with me but that has been shot down.. so i wonder if they could just make a decision without me being present for it?

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  I was df'd in absentia. Not even an invitation. At least you're no longer stuck in a rut.
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  Who Is Engineering the Re-branding of Jehovahs Witnesses

  by millie210 in

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  2. beliefs

  is it an outside source?.

  an inside job?

  maybe the younger gb "helpers"?.

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  millie, I found something interesting at http://www.silentlambs.org/Denmarklawsuit.htm. 

  "The Jehovah’s Witness Public Relations Official, J. R. Brown actually suggested to media that the reason members were disfellowshipped was due to possible sexual sins or theft.  As a result of these comments, Joe and Barbara Anderson filed a $20 million dollar lawsuit for slander and the reversal of the disfellowshipping decree." 

  It makes me think that they had PR men all along. Still, I believe that the changes in the Watchtower came from another PR, one that specializes in this kind of stuff. The Governing Body must have been desperate in seeking and following advice.

  By the way, can you provide a link to the Mormon version of Caleb and Sophia? 
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  Who Is Engineering the Re-branding of Jehovahs Witnesses

  by millie210 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it an outside source?.

  an inside job?

  maybe the younger gb "helpers"?.

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  Village Idiot

  I have nothing verifiable but I'm sure that it is a 'worldly' PR agency. The Governing Body simply do not have the imagination to come up with these things.

  For instance, members of the GB were using humor in their assembly talks. I doubt they thought of that themselves, quite the contrary they must feel embarrassed, especially the ones that are no good at it, but go long with it. And their subordinate 'helpers' convincing them to crack jokes and get the GB to actually go along with it? No way.

  Too many things are happening all at once. It's a well thought out and organized plan. It's outside help I'm sure. 
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  Magic in Watchtower World..Sparlock the Warrior Wizard Toy..VS..The Singing WBT$ Literature "Cart with a Heart"..

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in watchtower world... magic is evil.....from satan!

  the wbt$ video "become jehovahs friend"... is about caleb and his sparlock warrior wizard toy... the lesson is "magic is evil"... .

  in the wbt$ video 'if you could see what i see"... your taken though the day of a wbt$ literature "cart with a heart"... it has a home... it thinks..it can see..it hears..it sings..it can feel!!...

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  Village Idiot