I don't ever recall seeing the price printed on the magazines. Is my memory faulty or is that just wrong?
Fangorn
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Do Individual JWs Pay For The Publications They Distribute?
by Joe Grundy inexcuse my ignorance, and i've read on boards about the us not selling/inviting contributions issue, but do individuals jws in effect pay for the publications they give out?
if so, is that only for their magazines or for hardback books as well?
how is this organised, please?.
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May 28--Four years since Dateline's JW sex abuse program aired. Results?
by AndersonsInfo insunday, may 28, 2006, is the fourth anniversary from when a threshold was crossed into uncharted waters.
on may 28, 2002, the u.s. television news program, dateline, publicized to millions of viewers the facts about watchtower's deceitful child abuse policies which protect pedophiles who target and molest jws' vulnerable children.
subsequently, this subject caught the interest of media throughout the world who, through careful investigation, substantiated the allegations made on dateline.
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Fangorn
Sorry, but I just don't know of a shred of evidence to support the statement that tens of thousands have left the organization because of the exposure of this issue. If you have such evidence I would love to see it.
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Fangorn
Certianly not. There has been some good stuff and some bad stuff, just like most of life. I don't take it too seriously and I'm not about to let angst dominate my life.
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Special Talk 4/30/06
by TooBad TooSad inmy wife asked me if i was going to the special talk this sunday?
i told her no and she said "how could i miss the special talk?
" i asked her what was so special about it?
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Fangorn
I can't ever remember a "Special Talk" being in any way special, usually it was deadly dull. The only thing remotely special about it is the fact that the same talk is given in every congregation on that particular day, barring assemblies and such.
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Do Some JW Elders Secretly Consider It Possible That They Are Wrong?
by West70 ini recently heard this "experience" from a now "christian" former jw, which has not previously been publicly communicated.
this jw then moved back to their home area (no jw relatives), and simply continued living their already-in-progress non-jw life.
inevitably, this exjw christian started bumping into their jw former associates.
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Fangorn
There's a considerable number of Elders that go way beyond thinking it might be possible that they are wrong. Perhaps not on everything but on many things. They typically justify their position by believing that they can do more good than harm by staying where they are and usually there is also some kind of relationship issue keeping them in place. Almost invariably some fairly fancy footwork is involved in being in this position, I would think it would be enormously tiring after a while.
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The Hebrews and Stoning
by Clam init seems from the bible that stoning was common punishment at one time, although i use punishment in the loosest sense of the word.
if within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
deuteronomy 22:23-24 nab).
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Fangorn
Friend of mine saw it up close and personal in the Middle East. Said it was about the nastiest thing he ever saw.
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How many left of 144,000?
by annalice ini just saw a feb 1, 2006 watchtower.
there were 8,524 memorial partakers.
isn't that a bit high?
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Fangorn
I've been told that the "powers that be" at Bethel think that only 300 - 400 of the 8500 partakers are legitimate. They figure the rest are either misled or nut cases.
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The Hebrews and Stoning
by Clam init seems from the bible that stoning was common punishment at one time, although i use punishment in the loosest sense of the word.
if within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
deuteronomy 22:23-24 nab).
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Fangorn
I always found it interesting that while there are many things in the Bible that seem to require stoning as a punishment that are very, very few accounts of someone actually being stoned. I wonder if it was simply not recorded or if in practice it was not very much enforced?
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lyman swingle... tape recording... death.... farkel
by Cygnus inresponding to an old post of mine regarding jw funerals, farkel wrote:.
"but here is the problem: i have a tape recording of governing body member lyman swingle's funeral.
it was five-odd minutes of bible discussion about the hope of the resurrection for second class wt citizens and immortality in heaven for first-class wt citizens, and a full forty minutes of eulogy and anecdotes about swingle.".
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Fangorn
Yep, the usual practice is to lope through the eulogy at a high rate and then go straight to the commercial. I have heard a very few that deviated from the outline and did much better but it is rare.
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WTS requesting insurance checks? Verification?
by EscapedLifer1 ini have read comments on several threads about the wts policy on asking folks whose homes have been repaired/rebuilt by jw volunteers to sign over their insurance checks to the wts?.
is there any kind of paper proof of this policy anywhere?
any further details would be kindly appreciated!!.
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Fangorn
Doubtfully I appreciate the information. It's good to get the straight story.