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  Has anyone heard any Watchtower PR spin or censorship advisory announcement at the kingdom hall regarding the child abuse story on NPR?

  by Island Man in

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  i remember some years ago when barbara did an expose of the child abuse issue on one of the networks, watchtower used the elders to inform the congregations not to view the program that was to be aired.

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  after this recent expose on npr, has there been any official watchtower release read as an announcement at the kingdom hall?.

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  Village Idiot

  "The WT even took out a huge ad in some of the biggest newspapers, saying the victim is just lying and none of it was true."

  Sounds like a possible case of libel.
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  Scan Of Telegram To Hitler

  by Bangalore in

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  2. beliefs

  scan of telegram to hitler.. .

  bangalore.

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  Village Idiot

  I seem to recall that the Society previously sent an amiable telegram friendly to Hitler in response to his initial treatment of the German Witnesses. It was when Hitler failed to respond that they sent that nasty telegram to him.
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  Neanderthal man

  by scary21 in

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  2. friends

  my ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).

  he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.

  i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .

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  Perry, carrots share genes with humans. Chimpanzees share 98% of our genes.

  That percentage you mentioned, irrespective of its numeric value, is sufficient to establish a marked difference. The percentage that you cite is not quite that much, it's actually 99.7%.

  As far as genetic differences amongst modern Homo Sapiens we have diversified a lot, more so than the small population of Neandertals who were genetically bottle-necked and somewhat inbred.
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  Neanderthal man

  by scary21 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).

  he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.

  i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .

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  Village Idiot

  Perry:

  "Would someone like to tell this man he is not human to his face, but only a cousin to a human because his head happens to be shaped very much like a "neanderthal"? If so, Don King would like to talk to you."

  Perry, if that man has Homo Sapient genes then he's not a Neandertal. Neandertals had a distinctly different gene pool. Besides, that man does not have an "occipital bun" in the rear of his skull like Neandertals do.

  As TD brought out, Neandertals had a chinless, highly protruding jaw that would have been very distinctive.

  He seems more like Homo Sapiens Idaltu, a progenitor of modern Homo Sapiens
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  How many deaths does the Bible record?

  by LogCon in

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  num 11:1. .

  num 11:33. .

  num 14:35-45.

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  Village Idiot

  Why not number anyone and everyone who is considered worthy of death? That's 7 billion in our modern world.
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  Maybe the Governing Body is the Beast with 10 horns.

  by SonoftheTrinity in

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  2. bible

  enforced clean shavenness the mark of the beast.

  the love of many becoming cold..... any other ideas as to why or why not?.

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  Village Idiot

  There is someone else on this forum who believes that the Watchtower is prophesied in the Bible. As Searcher said that is paying them more importance than what they deserve. You're basically comparing a midget to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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  Caleb's Mother Is A Thief!

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the definition of theft under the theft act 1968 is a person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with intention to permanently deprive the other of it.

  (england & wales).

  i was a cop (mainly a detective) for 30 years and thought of this after mentioning the sparlock video during the jw fs visit today.

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  Joe Grundy: "Worldly Old Bill goes back to Caleb's mum and arrests her (quite lawfully)."

  I don't think that the authorities will take the practice of citizen's arrest too well regardless of what the law has to say. Nice story though.
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  Ex-JW Guilty of Plotting Terrorism

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  according to radio news earlier today he was raised as a jw but was told to leave home when he was disfellowshipped and turned to the mosque for support.. a teenager who was on his way to behead a british soldier with a 12in knife when he was arrested, has been found guilty of preparing a terrorist act.. brusthom ziamani, 19, was also carrying a hammer and an "islamic flag" when he was arrested in london in august 2014......

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  Village Idiot

  People that young are especially ripe for conversion to any religion. He must have had a real sh1tty life, thanks to his parents, before he made that decision.
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  You will never grow old in this current system of things... - Awake, May 22, 1969 p. 15

  by cappytan in

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  2. beliefs

  check this out.

  got this bound volume from my dad.. .

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  Village Idiot

  Cappytan: "I'm not getting rid of this until my wife is completely awake."

  If you do decide to get rid of it I'm willing to accept it.

  Unfortunately I have no audio recordings of it but I remember a talk in 1974 where Fred Franz, then vice president of the Watchtower, gave a talk explicitly stating that the end would happen within a few months or years after 1975.

  There were many thousands in attendance at that talk.
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  CO has been coming to my door. Would like 1 or 2 solid and easy arguments.

  by The Laser Viking in

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  2. beliefs

  i am 6th generation.

  i have been out for a few years.. back story on the situation:.

  i had a co come by while going door-to-door in the neighborhood.

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  Village Idiot

  Tell him that they have had 3 major 1914 doctrines that they have changed when history proved them wrong.

  1. The "end times" were from 1799 - 1914 with Armageddon referring to a social collapse spanning 40 years from 1874 - 1914 and the Millennium starting on 1914. They had this doctrine from the 1870s to shortly after 1914.
  2. When that doctrine failed they said that the end times were from 1914 until the lifespan of the generation living then.
  3. When that generation almost died out they said that the generation referred to something else. Something incomprehensible.

  Keep it brief and simple.