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  Teddy Hero Worship Continues -- Sept 15 Study Edition Bio on Melita Jaracz

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  very weird article, you can read it here if you can tolerate such nonsense:.

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20150915/melita-jaracz-blessing-in-life/.

  basically teddy was a super, duper spiritual giant who went undercover behind the iron curtain, sorta james bond like.

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  Something about the timeline in this story doesn't jive?

  In 1955, I wanted to attend the “Triumphant Kingdom” assemblies in New York City, U.S.A., and Nuremberg, Germany.

  Ted was at the convention in Nuremberg, Germany, and we spent some time together. A romance blossomed. Following that convention, Ted returned to Australia and I went back to Vancouver, but we kept in touch by letter.

  After some five years in Australia, Ted returned to the United States and then came to pioneer in Vancouver. I was happy to see how much my family liked him.

  We were married on December 10, 1956.
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  Teddy Hero Worship Continues -- Sept 15 Study Edition Bio on Melita Jaracz

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  very weird article, you can read it here if you can tolerate such nonsense:.

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20150915/melita-jaracz-blessing-in-life/.

  basically teddy was a super, duper spiritual giant who went undercover behind the iron curtain, sorta james bond like.

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  Awwwwwww look at all the worldly trophies she won for hair competitions.

  One has a person holding up a laurel wreath.

  I know my dad would have probably smashed that one.

  Oh, and why the F was she competing in hairdressing competitions?

  Shouldn't she have been out selling even more Watchtowers?

  History states that in Ancient Greece, beginning in 776 BC, wreaths of laurel leaves crowned victors of athletic competitions of the ancient Olympic games. Wreaths of bay laurels were also awarded at the Ancient Greek Pythian Games which were held at Delphi in honor of Apollo (every four years from the 6th century BC). According to Greek Mythology, Apollo, the Olympian God and son of Zeus, was in love with a nymph named Daphne. As the tale continues, Daphne fled from Apollo, asking the river God for help; she turned into a Bay Laurel tree just as Apollo approached her. Apollo embraced the tree, cut off a branch to wear as a wreath and declared the plant sacred. Thus, this myth spurred the presentation of the laurel wreaths, in honor of Apollo, to the victors of these games. History carried onward this infamous crown of leaves…

  
  

  
  
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  Apost8News: "Return to Jehovah" Official Literature Release Video - 2015 Convention Lowlight

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  again, thanks to wifibandit and pixel for their work behind the scenes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzviu3jfko.

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  It only just dawned on me now that the whole premise of this brochure is

  leaving the Watchtower printing company = leaving Jehovah.

  The indoctrination and brainwashing is deep!
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  Apost8News: "Return to Jehovah" Official Literature Release Video - 2015 Convention Lowlight

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  again, thanks to wifibandit and pixel for their work behind the scenes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzviu3jfko.

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  16:40

  I think you would agree, Jehovah is very pleased with that video.

  It represents and reflects his personality.

  I was just talking to him and he told me how pleased he was.

  30:30

  When your inactive, when you know you left Jehovah God,

  Not always have they gone into great immoral behavior, they just left Jehovah and hurt him.

  Darn inactive people who do they think they are, hurtin Jehovah ?? Bullies!

  Yeah, I listened to the whole thing more tolerable than Lett.
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  The "Ice Cream Video" - is it real?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the "don't buy ice cream give us the money video" that is the subject of other threads.. i am not very good with computer stuff - would someone tell me where it is to be found on jworg please?

  i can't find it.. thanks..

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  w1962 5/1 278 How May I Contribute? Jehovah’s witnesses have never gone begging for finances.It's easier to brainwash a child than an adult.charlatans
  
  
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  May tv.jw.org program

  by zophar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.

  we need money!.

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.

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  Imagine the resurrection occurs.

  Now imagine Samson, Joshua, Jehu, maybe Elijah or Job or David meeting this JW leader .

  I don't think they would they would get along.
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  May tv.jw.org program

  by zophar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the may broadcast on tv.jw.org.

  we need money!.

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwb_201505_1_video.

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  Through most of the Watchtower's history the GB has been a mysterious group of men.

  R&F JW's have glorious ideas about them; intelligent, scholarly, wise, spirit directed, respected ect.

  Most R&F JW's have never met or heard them speak.
  

  Watchtower would have been smart to keep it that way.
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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  Thank you,

  Sparrowdown
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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  Felt I needed to add yet another casualty to your list, so sad.

  My brother in law committed suicide last Friday night. (the JW memorial)

  He was never baptized but studied. I would describe him as a JW wannabe.
  He never felt good enough to be one, also he just couldn't make sense out of all the convoluted JW doctrines.

  He had lots of other issues for sure, but I'm sure the shunning by the JW side of the family absolutely played a role.

  RIP Robert
  
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  Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of JW murders from my old congregation, first time interview with Freeman brothers.

  by moomanchu in

  1. social
  2. current

  one of the most shocking crimes in the lehigh valley's history.read more from wfmz.com at: http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-lehighvalley/conversation-with-convicted-killer-bryan-freeman/31472504connect with us... facebook/69wfmz or @69news.

  wfmz channel 69 is doing several interviews with killers and other stuff through out this week... here is the first interview http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-lehighvalley/conversation-with-convicted-killer-bryan-freeman/31472504.

  i remember sitting behind the family at the meeting just days before they were killed.. it was also weird that their house was only a block or two from the allentown south, kingdom hall.. can't believe this was 20 years ago..

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  Bryan went back to being a JW......... seriously??

  2nd installment in the series today:

  http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/oneonone-with-convicted-killer-bryan-freeman/31480030

  Jaccii: "You grow up in a Jehovah's Witness home, and then you end up being a neo-Nazi. How did that happen?"

  Bryan: "I guess it was more circumstances than anything else at the time. I had rejected my parents' beliefs and was trying to find something I could identify with."

  Jaccii: "Do you still identify with all of the neo-Nazi movement?"

  Bryan: "No. I had to move on."

  Bryan said his grandfather visited him in prison often over the years and helped him return to the Jehovah's Witness faith.

  He knew he'd eventually have to face the rest of his family.

  "Basically, I just apologized for everything that happened and I just told them I had wished that I had found a better way and that things would be different, and that I was going to make every effort to try to be a better person," Bryan said.

  Bryan's family did forgive him and visits him regularly, but he has no contact with his aunt, Valerie Freeman, who found the bodies of his parents and little brother.