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  Blank WT and AW Covers for you to title, everybodys invited!

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  ok, have fun!

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  I just stumped our PO!!!

  by The Last Nephilim in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have never seen this guy stumped on a bible topic or point before, but history was made today!!!

  he and a soon-to-be elder were doing a shepherding call on my wife and i because we've missed weeks worth of meetings and had no service time for dec. he went through the usual lectures about how we're cutting off jehovah by missing meetings (because we all know god won't lift a finger for those who don't go to meetings, right?

  ) he gave some good illustrations- the guy really is a good teacher, it's just what he's teaching that's questionable.

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  i checked google books to see if any of it was available to read online..

  of course not. ( although many older pubs are)

  here's what info it has on the Kingdom Interlinear

  i was surprised to see real names credited

  By Brooke Foss Westcott , Fenton John Anthony Hort, New World Bible Translation Committee

  Published 1969 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York]
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  New case in France

  by chasson in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  an ex-jw has killed herself in the parking lot of a kingdown hall.

  after an investigation of the police, they have found that at the age of 15, she has suffer of sexual abuse by a jw from 1986 to 1989. this man could face a trial and 5 other witness for non denonciation of the crime to the police.. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/depeches/societe/20080110.fap9581/un_temoin_de_jehovah_mis_en_examen_pour_viol_sur_mineur.html.

  "un temoin de jehovah mis en examen pour viol sur mineure de 15 ans.

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  candidlynuts

  Oh ..thank you

  i see judicial and automatically associate it with jws.
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  studies in the scripture

  by candidlynuts in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been reading some of the old jw books that are available on google books.. this has probably been shown before but i just seen it and thought i'd share.. .

  this is pages 7 and 8 of studies in the scriptures volume 1.. i think anyone who is working towards baptism as a jw should have to read these older texts..just so they can recognize.

  centuries of education supression and focus on sales.

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  candidlynuts

  I've been reading some of the old jw books that are available on google books.

  this has probably been shown before but i just seen it and thought i'd share.

  this is pages 7 and 8 of studies in the scriptures volume 1.

  i think ANYONE who is working towards baptism as a jw should have to read these older texts..just so they can recognize

  centuries of education supression and focus on SALES

  Studies in tbe Scriptures,
  Christian people are becoming more and more awake
  to the fact that a great tidal wave of unbelief is sweeping
  over Christendom; — not the blasphemous kind
  voiced by Thomas Paine and Robert Ingersoll, but the
  cultured kind represented in the scholarship of our
  day, which makes the danger all the more insidious.

  sound familiar?

  
  Not only are the great Colleges and Seminaries undermining
  the faith of the better educated, but the
  Common School books, and especially those used in
  the High Schools, are similarly inculcating a distrust
  in the Bible, a contradiction of its teachings. For a
  college graduate of to-day to declare his faith in the
  inspiration of the Scriptures would bring upon him the
  scorn of his companions—a scorn which few would
  court, or could endure. At very best, a few will be
  found to claim that they believe that Jesus and his
  Apostles were sincere, though they blundered in quoting
  from the Old Testament as inspired.
  Such a belief in Jesus and his Apostles is no belief
  at all; for if present-day "higher critics" are wise enough
  to know when and where our Lord and his Apostles
  erred in their quotations from the Old Testament,
  then these wise men of our day are our proper guides, —
  more inspired than Jesus and his Apostles.
  Our Society, realizing the need, is seeking to do all
  in its power to stem the tide and lift up the Lord'3 "
  standard for the people." It has prepared six sets
  of Bible Studies (of which this volume is one) for
  Christian people of all denominations to use in lending
  a helping hand to all perplexed inquirers with whom
  they may, by God's providence, come in contact.

  the following part sounds so much like encyclopedia salesmen...

  These are supplied at bare cost, and can be had direct
  from the Society's warerooms or of its colporteurs,
  who are gradually reaching forth these helping hands
  far and near. These valuable "studies" are supplied
  at little more than two cents each;—15 of them well
  bound in a cloth case, embossed 1n gold, for 35 cents.
  The thought is this: As a Christian man or woman
  you have cnildren or relatives or neighbors or friends
  open to your influence—perhaps, indeed, asking your
  counsel—asking, "How do we know that there is a
  God?" or, "What proofs have we that the Bible is
  inspired?" It is no longer wise to call these silly questions,
  nor to ask, "Are you an infidel?"
  However competent you might be to prepare answers
  to these and a score of other questions, you may
  not have the needed time and opportunity to do so.
  How convenient then to step to your book-case, take
  down the proper study on the subject, and to say to
  the inquirer, Sit down and read that short study,
  and the whole matter of your question will be fully
  and satisfactorily settled; and if your doubts ever
  again arise come over and read the same afresh.
  Possibly you may be a member of an Epworth
  League or Christian Endeavor Society, or of a Baptist
  Young People's Union, and may be called on for an
  essay on some Scripture topic. How convenient to
  select one among these numerous studies (covering
  almost every topic) and to find therein the appropriate
  Scriptures cited. Ministers use them thus when composing
  special sermons and addresses.
  Ministers who have large libraries touching every
  conceivable religious topic—many volumes costing $6
  to $8 per volume—may not feel their need of these "
  Bible Studies," but to others they are almost indispensable.
  Indeed, in addition to the price feature,
  which brings them within the reach of everybody—six
  volumes of over 3,000 pages for $2.00—the usual price
  of one such volume—they are written in pure, but
  simple English, whereas the "scholarly works" are
  replete with technical terms and only for the few.
  We invite Christian people of all denominations to
  join us in our work of extending these "helping hands"
  to the rising generation. A single friend or relative
  helped—rescued from doubt or unbelief—would repay
  the cost of these lessons a thousand times.
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  New case in France

  by chasson in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  an ex-jw has killed herself in the parking lot of a kingdown hall.

  after an investigation of the police, they have found that at the age of 15, she has suffer of sexual abuse by a jw from 1986 to 1989. this man could face a trial and 5 other witness for non denonciation of the crime to the police.. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/depeches/societe/20080110.fap9581/un_temoin_de_jehovah_mis_en_examen_pour_viol_sur_mineur.html.

  "un temoin de jehovah mis en examen pour viol sur mineure de 15 ans.

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  candidlynuts

  she killed herself in the parking lot after a judicial meeting?

  the 5 arrested.. the elders ?

  keep us informed chasson. thanks
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  Woman injured in crash off Bay Shore pier dies

  by VanillaMocha73 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  woman injured in crash off bay shore pier dies.

  "the women knew each other through a jehovah's witness community in central islip, where both were members, officials and friends said.

  "police withheld halvorsen's identity for four days because no next of kin could be located.

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  What a sad story, 2 older sisters out driving and having an accident..

  i agree about their children, probably disfellowshipped, it took the religious community 4 days to find someone kin to her, cynic in me says to find someone else to pay for the funeral, for sure the religion they gave their lives and their children up for wont.
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  oooooh

  by Hortensia in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  goody!

  we won't have to wait so long to see this one disappear over the horizon (to be followed by more predictions.

  ) that's just three months away!

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  just be warned..if Hortensia gets more than ONE pm....

  its PMS!
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  I Have a Commercial Janitorial Service - And Proud of It !

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i hope well.

  this is a subject i've been wanting to approach for awhile as i've noticed on the board at times there have been wisecracks about janitors who were jehovah's witnesses .

  now , hey, i'm real, have a good sense of humor, and can take a joke like anyone, be the brunt of a good joke, hell, i laugh at myself when i work alone at nights- just to keep entertained !

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  Look down on you? No way! I know how ones service hours had to be good enough to suit the local elders cleaning service , to be an "OWNER" as a jw one would have had to be a pretty darn good witness.

  i think the reason some of us joke about it and have some sarcasm when we talk about janitors and window cleaners etc , is because these "janitors" were the men who gave us marital advice and stood as judges and its not that "janitors" are uneducated its that "janitors" do not have psychological, domestic abuse , sexual abuse, marital counseling training and yet as witnesses we would have to take their word as god's word and try harder to please people who couldnt be pleased .
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  My Bethel Experience

  by horrible life in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  attention 50+ year old ex-bethelites .

  i posted this on the bethelite thread also.

  about 1976, give or take a year, i went on a bethel tour, with several witnesses from all over tu!sa.

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  candidlynuts

  thats why so many young witness kids do a lot more sexually than some worldly kids

  they know they will get the same punishment for something as innocent as a closed door as they will for fullout sex.

  there's no middle ground so if you're gonna sin , may as well do as much as you can .
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  And When I Die...

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "there'll be one more child in this world to carry on...to carry on.

  " - blood sweat and tears.

  amazing.

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  i hope there is a god to face after death.. cuz i sure as heck want some answers from HIM/HER/IT, right after i kick his/her/it's ass for letting the watchtower take my family away in HIS name

  as it is..i'm pretty sure we're just worm bait