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  WTS and Porn

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  2. friends

  transcript of wts letter:.

  christian congregation of jehovahs witnesses

  june 7,2006. to all bodies of elders.

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  truthsetsonefree

  Legalism at its finest.
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  Society goes nuts--yet another "special" campaign for September!

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  in an earlier post here http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/114651/1.ashx i noted the society's "special campaign" for september, an "awake" magazine dedicated to the topic of evolution vs. creation.

  there is a "special campaign" to highlight that magazine all month.. got a call from our po last night.

  there is going to be yet another "special campaign" in september -- a new "kingdom news" tract.

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  Alright sir82, you beat me to it. You keep doing that! Anyway, here is a quote from the announcement:

  After announcing the tract and holding it up for all to see, the announcement states: "Why is this message valuable? Kingdom News No. 37 states: "Are you distressed about crimes committed in the name of religion? Do the warfare, terrorism, and corruption perpetrated by those who claim to serve God offend your sense of justice? Why does religion seem to be at the root of so many problems? The fault lies, not with all religion, but with false religion.""

  This announcement will be made the week of September 18th. The campaign runs from October 16th-Nov 12th.
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  Revelation-Its Grand Climax at Hand!

  by XBEHERE in

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  2. friends

  july km confirms that this is the next book for consideration at bookstudies starting next year.

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  YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! That is pathetic. Thank God I don't conduct anymore. That will be so humiliaing. I mean the seven LAST plagues in the 1920's. Their PR Department sucks bigtime.
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  Behind the Scenes: An Elders Point of View

  by WTLies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been a member of this fourm for quite sometime although i rarely post.

  i do however, have my story posted on shauns' site http://jwfiles.com/jws-leaving/william.htm i also wrote and article for that site comparing the prophecies of 1925 and 1975. http://jwfiles.com/1925-1975.htm just a little background on me: i served as an elder in philadelphia.

  i was the cong sec.

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  This is why many Assembly Overseers state that there is a deficit for THIS convention. And Yes, I can confirm that congregations are asked to make up the difference. Additionally, the congregations pay each month into the circuit funds a set amount per publisher. Usually somewhere around $0.50-0.75.
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  WBTS CASH to CONDOS "DUMBO" developments

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the site of four planned towers, for 1,600 jehovah's witnesses, in hip, happening dumbo.

  side by side

  new york times, united states - 7 hours ago .

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  WHAT IN THE WORLD are they doing still pitching this project? For all the people who are just getting by so they can "preach the good news," you would think they would give something back. To somebody. All they can come up with is 'we preach to you?' We 'don't rob from you?' Meanwhile they just knock on doors trying to convince people to give up their entire lives to "Jehovah." Isn't that robbery? How many people have lost their health, families, jobs, and even lives because of being converted to this religion? What about funneling some of this money to the poor and needy? Why not follow what it says in James right out of the NWT?:

  (James 2:14-17) 14

  Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it? 15 If a brother or a sister is in a naked state and lacking the food sufficient for the day, 16 yet a certain one of YOU says to them: "Go in peace, keep warm and well fed," but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it? 17 Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.

  I know all of this has been said before, but seeing an article like this just makes me sick. I looked at the "Letters from the GB" in the Yearbooks to see if they ever expressed any kind of love for the people on whose backs they are getting 'the good news preached.' All I could find in the past few years is one small statement in 2000 that they love us dearly. Most letters are like this excerpt from 2003 where the commendation is for MORE AND MORE WORK DONE!:

  *** yb03 p. 3 A Letter From the Governing Body ***

  WHAT a delight it is to write to you! We commend you for the love and self-sacrifice that you continue to display. You will see from the pages of this Yearbook that much good has been accomplished during the past service year. Once again, we have spent more than a billion hours in the preaching and teaching work, directly encouraging people to draw close to Jehovah. Is it not an honor to be fellow workers with our glorious God and heavenly Father?—1 Cor. 3:9.

  As we look to the work ahead, we are confident that you will continue to imitate the zeal and faith of God’s servants, as described in the Bible record.....

  Similarly, many of you dear brothers and sisters have taken advantage of opportunities that have opened up to you. During the past service year, on the average, 798,938 have been able to arrange their affairs so as to share in some form of the pioneer ministry. Some of you have traveled to the ends of the earth in order to serve as missionaries. You are zealously spreading the good news and building up congregations. Others of you have learned another tongue so that you can help foreign-speaking people who live nearby. Still others have arranged their affairs to work unassigned territory or to serve where the need is greater. Some have even found that a large door to activity has opened at school, on the job, or in other situations where an effective witness could be given, such as by telephone. Experiences from around the world testify that God’s people, young and old, are eagerly seeking and finding opportunities to impart knowledge of the truth to people everywhere.
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  Watchtower assaults it’s youth – fear/guilt/baptism and career July 1, 2006

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if we imagined for one moment that the majority of youths get baptized, then the july 1, 2006 wt paints a very different picture.

  there must be a serious problem in the organization for the society to write so strong an article.

  july 1, 2006 wt youths, make it your choice to serve jehovah.

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  Children are just too susceptible to deceitful men like the GB. Their own writings tell it best:

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  g97 10/22 p. 6 Why Children Make Good Warriors ***

  Children may sometimes see themselves as fighters for social justice, religious beliefs, or cultural identities. In Peru, for example, children who have been forced to join guerrilla bands undergo long periods of political indoctrination. Frequently, however, that is not needed. Said Brian Milne, a social anthropologist who studied child soldiers in Southeast Asia: "Kids don’t have a doctrine or ideology. They are merely sucked up by one side or another and put to work."

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  g02 2/22 p. 28 Watching the World ***

  Child

  Soldiers

  "More than 300,000 children—some as young as 7—are fighting as soldiers in 41 countries around the world," said an Associated Press dispatch. Most are between the ages of 15 and 18. "Besides being used as front-line fighters, children are used to detect land mines and also as spies, porters and sex slaves, according to the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers." Drugs are often administered to make children fearless. Those who refuse drugs are killed, said a 14-year-old rebel soldier in Sierra Leone. Regarding his fighting in 1999 when he was 15, a North African youth reported: "They put all the 15- and 16-year-olds in the front line while the army retreated. I was with 40 other kids. I was fighting for 24 hours. When I saw that only three of my friends were alive, I ran back." The Coalition’s report stated that governments recruit children because of "their very qualities as children—they can be cheap, expendable and easier to condition into fearless killing and unthinking obedience."

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  g99 4/8 pp. 3-4 Children in Crisis ***

  The following is a sample of the effects of the brainwashing that has been done on thousands of child soldiers in Africa. This chilling conversation took place between a social worker and a boy soldier who was apparently trying to preserve what was left of his innocence:

  "Did

  you kill? ‘No.’

  Did

  you have a gun? ‘Yes.’

  Did

  you aim the gun? ‘Yes.’

  Did

  you fire it? ‘Yes.’

  What

  happened? ‘They just fell down.’"
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  Keep the pressure on

  by truthsetsonefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this is to remind everyone that wt can be reached from the jwtruth site.

  there are now three email addresses there all of which work.

  i say lets bombard wt with email.

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  truthsetsonefree

  This is to remind everyone that WT can be reached from the JWTruth site. There are now three email addresses there all of which work. I say lets bombard WT with email. Remind them of how damaging their control is to people. Remember that there are Bethelites reading these emails who may very well be getting disillusioned with WT themselves. Lets keep the heat on them.
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  Circuit Overseers Are On a Pledge Drive

  by Severus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses will be experiencing a special treat during their co (circuit overseer) visit this season: a bona-fide pledge drive.. during the thursday night meeting the normal co talk will instead be a video entitled:.

  building kingdom halls advances true worship.

  this 30-minute advances video is well produced and explains the watchtower society's program to build simplified kingdom halls in third-world and poor countries were materials and funds are scarce.. interviews and footage focus on south america, africa and eastern europe.

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  i'm 100% sure the wt will only lend these poor jw's money , then charge , them interest. on a morgage for them to pay back . for the building of the hall. can anyone say!!!!!!!REAL ESTATE SCAM...................................

  That is exactly what is happening. I just saw this video. It states that the friends pass a resolution on how much they can afford to pay back for their new Hall. Amazing.
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  RECORDINGS WILL BE NEEDED: 2006 "Deliverance at Hand!" District Conventions

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  anyone here going to record and eventually post the recordings of the dah assembly?

  hey wt?

  praise the internet b!!

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  To add to that thought, if you use an mp3 player/recorder with FM tuner you can burn files to CD and upload them.
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  Palm Software to Measure Your Spirituallity?

  by OpenFireGlass in

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  gets interesting at the 4th screenshot.... http://bpsoftwa.website12.com/smsscreenshots.html.

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  truthsetsonefree

  AH HELL NO!!!! I USE TO LOAD MY TREO WITH JUNK LIKE THESE. I SENT THEM TO GEHENA.

  NOW I READ APOSTA INFO FROM JWD AT THE MEETINGS

  PRAISE THE INTERNET!

  Ditto