Happy, where is that photo of in your avator? It looks so beautiful there. That my dear is often referred to as "the most beautiful island on earth" (the larger island in the background not the little tiny one in the foreground). It is Bora Bora.
Happy Guy :)
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What you Canadians can do to help us 'liberal' Americans!
by Xander in.
from yahoo news:fri nov 5, 4:45 am et .
the canadian website "marry an american" is reaching out to help weary liberal americans who can no longer tolerate their president, asking canadians to marry someone from south of the border(marryanamerican.ca ) .
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Urgent Plea from Jehovah by One of His Anointed (sacred secret revealed)
by Brownboy inin all of my postings i have sounded out a message of warning to all of those that cared to listen.
we are at the point where a warning is in the form of a solemn plea.
i am revealing to you a secret that most everyone has always asked.
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Happy Guy :)
Rest assured that Jehovah has taken His message to the full extent and to those that need it.
Brownboy quit talking to us an d wasting precious time. Get to those doctors and save them with your words.
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What you Canadians can do to help us 'liberal' Americans!
by Xander in.
from yahoo news:fri nov 5, 4:45 am et .
the canadian website "marry an american" is reaching out to help weary liberal americans who can no longer tolerate their president, asking canadians to marry someone from south of the border(marryanamerican.ca ) .
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Happy Guy :)
As for iiz2cool: he makes great red current wine.
Can you mix it with Canadian Beer....you know our staple food .
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Happy Guy :)
Rofl....my son plays STEAM games. He'll get a laugh out of this.
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Urgent Plea from Jehovah by One of His Anointed (sacred secret revealed)
by Brownboy inin all of my postings i have sounded out a message of warning to all of those that cared to listen.
we are at the point where a warning is in the form of a solemn plea.
i am revealing to you a secret that most everyone has always asked.
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Brownboy this is a very important message you are delivering to us here at JWD. But you are forgetting so many others who need to hear it. Especially the doctors at the hospital working in the emergency ward. They deserve to hear these words too BB. Go tell them.
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Studying the new "Keep on the Watch!" brochure - The Illustrations
by ozziepost indubs now are using their newly released "keep on the watch!
" brochure to "invite" the lapsed, the recently interested, the unsuspecting to commit themselves to "god's earthly organisation".
the trouble is that the writing department have used this glossy brochure to misrepresent the 'real' truth.
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Happy Guy :)
Like so much else in the WTS publications it looks nice but it's not real! It's all a fake. it's an illusion. It's just deception.
Congratulations for looking past the BS Ozzie. I conclude WT carefully constructs this crap to disengage people's common sense and they are very effective at it. Who do we know behaves like that ? Thieves, fraudsters, insane cult leaders ? If we Judged the by their own standards we would conclude their sophisticated deceptions are from none other than Satan the Devil.
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It's Candidly-nuts Birthday!!!!!!!
by kls inyes come one come all and wish our loved bird a ,,,,,,,,,,,, .
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happy - birthday ,,,,,,,,you crazy bird
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Happy Guy :)
Happy Birthday C.N.
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Fairfield Assembly Hall (California) Dedication Program
by ezekiel3 inthis is information from the dedication program bill of the fairfield assembly hall in california.
i have attached a scan from it to show you what the last taj-ma-"hall" looks like.
my initial post on this topic is at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/71710/1.ashx .
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Happy Guy :)
Although the project was supposedly paid for in cash from donations, circuits (groups of about 20 congregations) attending the Assembly day.
God forbid that WT in New York should be asked to dip into their billions to pay for it ?
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1914 generation?
by JH in.
if 1914 has any signification whatsoever, wouldn't we find at least 1 person who was attending meetings in 1914 and still going to the hall today?
are there any left?.
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I think this question may have been asked and answered more than once on JWD.
With regard to your question I assume you are talking in referrence to WT publications and predictions since you mention "going to the hall".
The fact is that WT has changed their story many times on this date for obvious reasons.
With regard to the context of your question you would be referring to the WT claim that the generation that witnessed the events of 1914 would also witness Armageddon. At one time WT estimated that this generation would have been at least 10-13 years old (to understand the significance of the events of 1914). That would put that generations age between 100 and 103 today (i.e. born in 1901-1904).
Whether or not there is still one person left attending meetings would be irrelevent since WT claim was that "the generation (that witnessed the events of 1914)". That clearly implies many people since one individual does not make "a generation". There would have to be many of this generation still alive and attending meetings. You can draw your own conclusions about the reliability of WT claims of 1914 and it's Armageddon significance.
On another note, there have been a number of posters here at JWD who are experiencing older witnesses being squeezed out. I wonder if this indicates a move by WT to eliminate the older ones who can witness to the younger ones the fact that these previous WT doctrines have been morphing. I also wonder if having the older ones around is a daily reminder to the general rank and file that perhaps WT is wrong and not "the truth".
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Awake! Watching the World "Studies on Sex Abuse by Priests"
by ezekiel3 infrom awake!
november 22, 2004 "watching the world" pg 29:.
"two long-awaited studies have found that the [u.s.] roman catholic church suffered an epidemic of child sexual abuse that involved at least 4 percent of priests over 52 years and peaked with the ordination class of 1970, in which one of every 10 priests was eventually accused of abuse," reports the new york times.
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Ya well I guess they didn't want to run the other story:
Inside sources reveal 23,720 reported/unreported child molesters on file at Jehovah?s Witness headquarters in New York
In the spring of 2002, I was contacted by three different sources who claimed to have connected with people inside the headquarters of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, located in Patterson , New York . These insiders provided my contacts with a computer data base number of 23,720 child molesters on file there. The files labeled as the ?specialized shepherding arrangement? is a front for reporting child molesters to home office. Patterson is the location for the Service and Legal Departments of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, now calling itself the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses of New York, and it is in these two departments where these highly confidential files are kept. It is interesting to note the ramifications of this extraordinary number.
When a pedophile is revealed within a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, the Body of Elders appoints two of their number to investigate the allegation to see if there is any substance to the charge. If the claim is established upon investigation, then the local Body of Elders appoints two of their number to call Watchtower's Legal Department to report the matter. The Legal Department representative then fills out a computerized form using a question and answer format over the telephone.
All details of the matter are recorded, including the date of birth of the pedophile; what occurred; the age of the victim; where, when, and how many times the victim was touched, etc.. These details are then put into a computer at home office for permanent record and can be recalled by those authorized at any time if there is a future infraction. At the end of a one to two hour interview, the spokesman in Legal then puts an in-house Watchtower attorney on the phone to determine if the State where the congregation is located is a reporting State. If it is, then the attorney will encourage the elders to request that parents, caregivers for the victim report the matter. If they do not want to do this, then the elders are required to do so. What if the molestation occurred in one of the thirty-six non-reporting States? Then the attorney will say, "Brothers your obligation has been fulfilled you are to remain neutral on reporting to law enforcement." At this point, in most cases, the matter is not reported.
The original brother will then list Body of Elders' letters discussing child molestation that the elders must review. He also gives instructions that if any new matters develop as to the accused, that is, if this person molests more children, the elders are to use the date of the first report as a reference point or the child molester's date of birth. This then means Watchtower's Legal Department can easily pull up the case on computer and add the new molestation information for the data base.
The number of 23,720 is significant, to say the least. If we apply this to the entire worldwide organization, then the figure would be one Jehovah?s Witness out of two hundred and sixty is a child molester on file at their headquarters. Do you think Catholics have such a high ratio of pedophile priests among their priesthood? If we applied a similar ratio to the number of Catholics in the USA at 60,000,000, it would mean there are 1,428,571 Catholic child molesters in this country. It would appear unrealistic to believe this type of ratio could exist in the Catholic Church. Yet with Jehovah?s Witnesses the ratio could be far worse when you consider that many Jehovah?s Witness child molesters may not be reported to Watchtower Legal. If two elders who investigate an allegation are not able to establish the matter at the mouth of "two eye witnesses" will the ?specialized shepherding arrangement? see anything recorded at Patterson , New York ? Please note in the letter to all Body of Elders in England , dated June 1, 2001 , this comment:
"There are, however, many other situations that are connected with the abuse of a child. For example, there may be just one eyewitness, and the brother denies the allegation. (Deuteronomy 19:15; John 8:17) Then again, a young child might be abused by someone who himself is a minor, perhaps in his pre- or early-teens. In these and similar cases no entry will be made on the Child Protection List. Rather, information should be kept in a sealed envelope in the congregation's confidential file as described below. When such individuals move, the Congregation Service Committee should write a letter addressed to the Society's Legal Department seeking advice as to whether to communicate the details to the new congregation."
This appears to indicate that the local congregations keep the information and only if the accused molester moves would any consideration be given to check with Watchtower Legal or even alerting the new congregation. Are these individuals considered part of the 23,720 molesters on file?
If not, then the logical conclusions would be that there are far more accused child molesters than the 23,720 on file who have either confessed or been convicted at the mouth of "two eye witnesses." Taking into account the number of 93,000+ congregations worldwide, a conservative estimate would mean one child molester for every four congregations, based on the 23,720 figure.
Do you think Jehovah's Witnesses have a problem with child molesters? How many unreported child molesters are operating within the organization and are yet to be revealed? This number will only grow and continue to expose children to danger since Watchtower's policy of keeping molester's names confidential has created a "pedophile paradise." Why do Jehovah's Witnesses keep a data base of child molesters that in large part is never reported to police? The protection of money not children is the basic reason. The purpose of the data base is to monitor and prevent persons Jehovah's Witnesses have determined to be child moelsters in their membership from serving in official capacity in the congregation. This in turn protects Watchtower Inc. from facing litigation for negligance for putting molesters in a leadership positions which could cost the organization money in the courts. The protection of children remains the lowest priority as this data base remains confidential from the congregation and many of the people that are kept on file will continue to molest children with the protection of "church" confidentiality.
One can only wonder how the FBI would react if they knew that such files of criminal activity exist, and that the majority of molestation accusations are not reported to the authorities for investigation. Finally, how easily could the American justice system handle prosecution of several thousand Jehovah's Witness pedophiles? These questions, as well as others, will become a factor when the ?Christian Congregation of Jehovah?s Witnesses? is forced to reveal how many of the alleged 23,720 criminals are being protected by Watchtower policies.
