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Harry Potter and JWs?
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
what's the jw line on harry potter?

i took my kiddies last night to see it.

i knew if i didn't take them on the first day of its release i'd be turned in as a deliquent parent!
Scans of 11/22/98 Awake! on UN wanted?
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
edited...please delete post
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Article on Soul by former Gilead graduate
by CatholicGuy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a rather interesting article on the issue of "soul" and "eternal punishment" by a former bethelite/gilead graduate.

you will need adobe acrobat reader to read the file.. http://home.att.net/~kguin/mt1028_soul.pdf.

not my webpage but a favorite:.
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Book: A People for His Name by Timothy White
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
one of the best histories of jehovah's witnesses is the book _a people for his name_ by timothy white, published by vantage press in 1967. the book had a very small printing and as far as i know was never republished.

at the time of its writing the author was a jw in good standing.

m. james penton gives white high marks in _apocalypse delayed_.
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Reference to 2 Maccabees in Hebrews 11?
by CatholicGuy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hebrews chapter 11 is well-known for its description of the "heroes of faith.

" after speaking of the most notable figures from the old testament it says:.

"women received their dead by resurrection; but other men were tortured because they would not accept release by some ransom, in order that they might attain a better resurrection.
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One JW response to WT/UN
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been able to maintain contact with a jw friend--even though i've been out of the organization for over 20 years.

i brought up the un subject with him and got this interesting reply.

my friend is an elder now and former bethelite:.
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Re: the WT's "library card" defense
by CatholicGuy in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
we've seen internet copies of paul gillies letter and the translation of the letter sent to beroea.

does anyone have a hard copy of a letter from the society in english that can be scanned in?

it would seem that someone at the un could comment on the society's characterization that they never understood their membership as a ngo to be anything more than allowance to use the un library.
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Where is "the Judge" buried?
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
one of "judge" rutherford's last wishes was to be buried at his beloved "beth-sarim," the house that was built in san diego to house the "princes" that would rule the earth after armageddon.

the local authorities would not permit his burial there and the jws started quite a campaign in _consolation_ (later _awake!_) to have his wishes fulfilled.

witnesses even circulated petitions door to door (a lot of the "kingdom preaching" hours in 1942 was time spent circulating petitions to submit to authorities to allow the judge's burial at beth-sarim.
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Ex-Witnesses in Oregon?
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
i voluntarily disassociated from the jws in 1980. i was actively involved in ministry to jws and ex-jws for the next 10 years.

the past 10 years or so i've moved on with my life and lost touch with much of what was happening with the watch tower society and ex-witnesses.

of course, growing up in the witnesses leaves its imprint on you.
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WT printing Bibles for Thailand Bible Society
by CatholicGuy in
1. jw
2. friends
maybe this is public knowledge already...i don't know.

back about 10 years ago my best friend worked for a christian book store.

he used to order foreign bibles for the store and one evening i was thumbing through a thai bible on the shelf and was dumbstruck.