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  2004 Numbers are on WT web site it looks like.

  by garybuss in

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  http://www.watchtower.org/statistics/worldwide_report.htm.

  can anyone confirm this is what it looks like?

  i may be delivering old news.

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  melmac

  So they haven`t included increase/decrease figures... that would be VERY embarrasssing for them!
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  How do you think the society would react if...

  by truth_about_the_truth in

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  as an active witness, you won the lottery and offered to contribute a large portion of that to the worldwide work?.

  - take the money and cover up your "wrongdoing"?.

  - take the money and df you?.

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  melmac

  He'd have to donate ALL of the money, lest he finishes like Ananias and Sapphire:

  Acts 5:1-2 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
  3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
  4 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
  5-6 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
  9-10 And Then SAPPHIRA CAME INTO THE CHURCH Peter Said: the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straight
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  Keep Your Eyes On The Pies...

  by Englishman in

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  this is fun!.

  go into this site, scroll down and click on: "some day my prince will come".

  http://www.oitc.com/disney/downloads.html listen carefully for a minute or so..... then go into this site, scroll down and click on to song 222: http://www.l-and-a.com.au/comm/addons/midi.html listen carefully for a minute or so.... any comments?.

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  melmac

  If you take the teachings of Seventh Day Adventists circa 1870 and those of Charles Taze Russell... er... well... never mind!
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  DNA - belief destuction

  by donkey in

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  the single largest reason to decimate my belief in jw?s and all biblical faith occurred when i discovered some facts about our cells.

  specifically a part of the cell called mitochondria.

  mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because their primary purpose is to manufacture adenosine triphosphate (atp), which is used as a source of energy that the cell uses.. as humans one inherits one?s mitochondria only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed mitochondrial eve.

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  melmac

  There's also the fact that the embryo FIRST develops as a female, and only after hormonal changes becomes a male. It God created woman from man's ribs, it should be the opposite: our embryo would first be male, then, if that was the case, become female...
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  What causes most JW's to lose the ability to reason?

  by XBEHERE in

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  take a look at this wt excerpt from another thread that i copied and pasted:.

  *** g93 3/22 why so many false alarms?

  jehovah?s witnesses, in their eagerness for jesus?

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  melmac

  LOL at Gary. I never really noticed how fabricated the "Questions from Readers" are until now that I have finished reading CoC.

  Who, as a JDub, would question anything, anyway?

  Fear is the key!!!
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  Can a JW be a professional boxer? Yes.

  by Leolaia in

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  bobby vanzie

  alias: viper.

  category: lightweight.

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  melmac

  Well, he seems to be a very honest guy. Let`s hope he sees reason before it`s too late.
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  car chase by elders at age 11

  by ashtheflash in

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  hello there i would like to tell a story that will shock you.

  this is how it all started... my sister at 19 was planning to marry a brother into the kingdom hall, she was not yet baptized so she was trying to keep her marriage plans a secret.

  a couple of weeks from her marriage the elders of the congretation found out and contacted my mother whom we were still living with.

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  melmac

  I'm so glad you escaped the baddies!
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  Anyone like me where you still believe in MOST of their doctrines?

  by inquirer in

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  like i don't like that un involvment, record keeping.

  i don't know what to think about the paedophile stuff, because you could accuse the catholic church of that too.

  but apart from those things i still believe that god's name is jehovah, his son is jesus, no trinity, and he died on a torture stake... i love reading the new world translation, i believe it's the best one, but i love reading other translations too!

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  melmac

  MAIDEN! MAIDEN!

  I think we definitely need an Iron Maiden Post!
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  JW young people...on the move...to where?

  by Gill in

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  my experience as a jw teenager was total repression and control from my parents and i know that the majority of my friends at that age in the congregations suffered the same.. now...what's happening?!.

  i come home and find a regular full time pioneer smooching with my non jw son on the sofa.. i"m reliably told that jw youngsters are in the local pub after each meeting and have to be thrown out at chuck out time.. they seem to behave in a far worse way that some non bible believing youngsters that i know.. are they finally feeling their feet and the wtbts due a huge exodus in the next few years?.

  i'm slightly embarrassed at the behaviour of some of these youngsters when i'm told what they've been seen getting up to.. or am i just getting old?

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  melmac

  This thread is really fun!
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  JWD 2004 Annual Report

  by seattleniceguy in

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  well, it's been one year since i first came to this lovely board, and i have to say, it's been a lot of good times.

  thanks to everyone for keeping the homefires lit.. it was also encouraging to see so many new ones.

  i'm happy to report that for the 2004 jwd service year (ends dec 14), we had spectacular growth.

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  melmac

  We are increasing even in the face of persecution!