it's amazing what you can do on the internet: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1569807090.
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there is something theraputic elfing people who shun you.i reccomend it highly
i had to go hunting for pics online of people from my old hall but i found them and i elfed them good baby!
the most self righteous of them (an inlaw) gave me the best laugh i've had in months.
all i needed was a version of the program where you could shoot paintballs at the elf as it danced..but maybe i'm a lil aggressive LOL
just wanted to share this with fellow jwd members.
i went to the norco circut assembly and these are the recent $ numbers quoted ... .
as of 4/14/2007 (the first of two circut assemblies) we had $10,260,22 (a surplus) .
well like the kingdom halls once the original mortgage is paid it is probably then " leased" to the watchtower society and money is sent to them for the property. also like kingdom halls, every few years it will have to be renovated and they then "borrow" from the society and pay the mortgage to them yet again plus lease payment... so i guess there expenses are real enough , the racket is pretty well streamlined thruout the whole organization
there is so much money/ property etc going to brooklynn it definitely stinks but unless the government wises up and does a full on investigation /audit or until some former member is wealthy enough to pay for a private forensic accountant/ investigator to do some real digging we wont know who is profiting and we just gotta believe that unlike "worldly" religions, no one is profiting from the billions of dollars flooding in from all over the world.
http://books.google.com/.
on the link above you can put in any subject and get a list of books.. above the list are 3 tabs "all books" "limited preview" and "full view".
a pretty large database of articles and books to browse .
put this in search line:
inpublisher:"Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York"
there are 345 titles.
guess how many have a limited preview? 0
guess how many you can view fully? 0
http://books.google.com/.
on the link above you can put in any subject and get a list of books.. above the list are 3 tabs "all books" "limited preview" and "full view".
a pretty large database of articles and books to browse .
those links dont work for some reason, they go to a "jehovahs-witness.com/ref addy.
anyway, i did go to the google books link and put in charles taze russell and yep studies in scripture is available for full view as well as some of his other works..
thanks GG!
http://books.google.com/.
on the link above you can put in any subject and get a list of books.. above the list are 3 tabs "all books" "limited preview" and "full view".
a pretty large database of articles and books to browse .
GG...the link didnt work for me
http://books.google.com/.
on the link above you can put in any subject and get a list of books.. above the list are 3 tabs "all books" "limited preview" and "full view".
a pretty large database of articles and books to browse .
on the link above you can put in any subject and get a list of books.. above the list are 3 tabs "all books" "limited preview" and "full view"
a pretty large database of articles and books to browse .
i put in "jehovah's witness" and 926 hits for limited preview where you can read some pages and 658 hits of full view where you can read it all.
also got a lot of hits putting in " watchtower society" "shunning jehovah's witness"
some of you with better search skills than me might find this a pretty helpful resource.
has wt ever explained wtf does go to heaven?
we have no soul...but are souls...and spirit nephesh and pneuma or what ever is breath....like breath of life.....so what goes to heaven?
btw it is so funny about that resurrection scripture that we dont weep overmuch like the nations do "who have no hope" because almost all other religions have a heavenly hope and a strong one.
maybe they step on the backs of every person who's been rejected by their families at the watchtowers requirements.
that oughta be enough bodies to pile up to heaven..where did the watchtower used to say heaven was? the pleiades?
believe everything the governing body says, reject anyone who disagrees and watch the annointed go to heaven cuz they are spirit directed by god himself.....
here's the quote ....
The constellation of the seven stars forming the Pleiades appears to be the crowning center around which the known systems of the planets revolve.... It has been suggested, and with much weight, that one of the stars of that group is the dwelling place of Jehovah and the place of the highest heavens;....
The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man. But the greatness in size of other stars or planets is small when compared to the Pleiades in importance, because the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne of God.
J. F. Rutherford, Reconciliation, 1928, p. 14.
this is an idea that really freaked me out when i was still "in".
i asked it several times in groups of friends, and i would get two reactions: confusion/not understanding, and silence/looking at the ground.
if you die, and your body disinegrates, and the soul doesnt live on; in fact, nothing lives on, then what is resurrected?
god remembers you and you magically rise from the ground even if you were creamated or buried at sea.
(how's that for an answer?)
btw welcome!! i enjoyed your other thread.
the report is out!.
http://www.watchtowernews.org/2007report.pdf.
cooking the books with 3% increase??.
ok there was 1,431,761,554 hours spent in the ministry
there were 298,304 baptized
Assuming no children it would be 4800 hours per person baptized.
Assuming that 20% are children of existing witnesses that would give around > 6000 hours per peron baptized.
Assuming 4 dours per hour of witnessing that means a total of 5,727,046,216 houses were called on to get those 298,304 people.
Considering the total population of the earth is around 6.5 billion those numbers are either complete bullshit or the average witness visits the same house on average 100 times a year, which again is bullshit. (In actual fact considering their are only 16 million that would imply a much higher number, but I keep the numbers low considering many people put hours in doing other things than knocking on doors).
ty sick of lies..
numbers take on a different meaning when looked at in a different perspective.
the report is out!.
http://www.watchtowernews.org/2007report.pdf.
cooking the books with 3% increase??.
ok there was 1,431,761,554 hours spent in the ministry
there were 298,304 baptized
i'm sure a good percentage of those were children of current members but assuming NONE were , how many hours does it take to get one person baptized? ( i dont have a caluculator or a brain)
