Yes very nice of them.
I notice too, that it states
'' average age 33''
average years since baptism 17.9''
They could have said instead that the average age that they got baptised was 15. That's quite young isn't it.
ThomasCovenant
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Tribute to GB in Feb 1st public Watchtower
by dozy infrom the gilead graduation.......... one graduate read a touching letter of appreciation from the class.
in part, it.
stated to the governing body: as a class, we have observed firsthand how you have lovingly.
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Do you believe that Armstrong was really on the moon?
by Newborn inwe had a discussion at lunch today.
some are sure he wasn't and some sure that he was.. i want to believe that he was there.. just interesting to hear what you think?.
/newborn.
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ThomasCovenant
No. Definitely not. Do you think I'm stupid.
I believe that it was a very well put together hoax for the purposes of getting one up on the ruskies and chinks and not losing face to the rest of the world.
I realize that it was very very difficult to pull off but so successful was it, that Nasa decided to pull the wool over everyone's eyes once again four month later when they pretended that Pete Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12) also landed on the moon.
Just over a year later (Apollo 14) Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell also didn't land on the moon.
The level of secrecy involved in perpetuating the hoax was so good that as a matter of pride Nasa decided once more to not send David Scott and James Irwin (Apollo 15) to the moon just six months later.
Nine months on and flushed with the success of not getting caught out, once more Nasa didn't send John Young and Charles Duke (Apollo 16) to walk on the moon.
Just for the hell of it and as a big 'up yours' to the world they finally decided that Eugene Cernan and Harrison Scmitt (Apollo 17) would be the last people to not walk on the moon.
After three and a half years of these stage setups and pretend 'moonwalks' they, Nasa, finally realized that it would become more and more difficult to keep a tight lid on the level of deceit involved especially after word leaked out that Hollywood were going to make that damn film Capricorn One.
How any sane person can believe otherwise beats me.
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Why don't JWs celebrate Thanksgiving
by levicolemagic inmy first post here.
i wrote this little article about why jws don't celebrate thanksgiving.. check it out here: http://hubpages.com/hub/what-jehovahs-witnesses-believe.
let me know what you think of it.. god bless.
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ThomasCovenant
Put it this way.
I don't know of any Witnesses in the UK that would have a turkey dinner get together on any day in November. Why not? Is it because no one else here celebrates something called Thanksgiving?
So why would any Witness in the USA have a turkey dinner get together any time around the 4th Thursday in November? Is it because everyone else there celebrates something called Thanksgiving?
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Sayings of Everlasting Life heard "Nowhere Else" but in JW Organization?
by InterestedOne ini just finished reading the 9/15/2010 wt study edition article for nov 8-14, and the last few sentences of paragraph 7 on page 18 jumped out at me.
referring to the "one association" which i assume means the jw organization, the author says "... where else can we turn?
nowhere else can we hear the sayings of everlasting life.
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Swiss TV Program My reaction to the TV forum participants
by Nick! inswiss tv program my reaction to the tv forum participants.
this afternoon, william heinzer, the journalist who, together with florence, were responsible for the swiss tv program called me and confirmed that, although this program on jehovahs witnesses has been the one which had the highest number of interventions in the tv forum, they had to withdraw the forum, because of the atrocious allegations made against myself and my two kids, fulvio and amanda.. i planned to copy and publish on my site, a selection of the jw and ex.jw posts, just to show the low moral of these people, who pretend to worship the true god.
even ex-jw, whom i know pretty well, and who were expelled for immorality, but still believe the jw are jehovahs only people, have spit their venom against us.
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ThomasCovenant
Thank you
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Sayings of Everlasting Life heard "Nowhere Else" but in JW Organization?
by InterestedOne ini just finished reading the 9/15/2010 wt study edition article for nov 8-14, and the last few sentences of paragraph 7 on page 18 jumped out at me.
referring to the "one association" which i assume means the jw organization, the author says "... where else can we turn?
nowhere else can we hear the sayings of everlasting life.
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ThomasCovenant
Hi ''Interested One''
Thanks for joining and posting such well thought out comments and questions. You seem to me to be like the child seeing 'the emperors new clothes'. It'll get worse as you're only scratching the surface. What seems sad is that your female friend will eventually no longer be your friend. She has two persons inside her.
1)The friend that you have come to like and associate with
2)The JW who will struggle to cope with the cognitive dissonance that you will bring her.
And thanks Black Sheep for that 1943 Watchtower article.
You have to laugh otherwise you'd cry at the stupidity of it.
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Swiss TV Program w/Andersons and Bowen on the Internet although in French
by AndersonsInfo ini just received the email below from an xjw in quebec.
we were wondering if we would get to see the program, a jw expose', we were interviewed for last spring and now everyone can see it all on the internet.
it aired on swiss tv yesterday.
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ThomasCovenant
Thank you to all involved.
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A chance at the big prize - just because they ate too much!
by THE GLADIATOR inthis jw teaching that those who die at armageddon will not be resurrected but those who die before armageddon will be resurrected, always seemed unfair to me.. many have given up waiting for god to get his finger out and cleanse the earth of sinners like me.
they have concluded that the awe inspiring day of jehovah - armageddon no less - is a hoax.
dreamed up by john, high on something hallucinogenic and presented as a divine revelation.
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ThomasCovenant
I used to think the same thing. Die one minute before the Big A starts and hey presto! you wake up in the future. If it happened to me I would definitely believe, no problem, no doubt. I'll sign up for the 1000 years. And beyond.
However, die one minute after the start of the Big A and I'm sorry but you're buggered. You had your fair chance. The evidence was irrefutable and beyond doubt and you rejected my people. Now eff off.
Are there any interesting quotes to back up this or am I imagining it.
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Video of Public Talk
by Pig infor those interested in jehovahs witnesses or those wanting to return to the kindom hall, this video is to give you a realistic look at what goes on at the meetings.
enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxmjm0muvvs.
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ThomasCovenant
Very good thank you
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This is scary we are to put the GB in the same place as Jesus according to the Dec 15 WT
by life is to short ini do not know how to scan the wt if someone can it would be great but i wrote it out verbatim .
i think what the wt says speaks for its self.
am i missing something and or reading something into what they are saying.
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I think this has been discussed before and I made the same comment. Read it in 1st person.
This would be the way a Governing Body member would be dictating it to his secretary/ note taker ready and prior to publication.
Paragraph 19 Among those "gifts in men" are US, who act in a representative way for the entire Christian congregation. (Acts 15:2,6) In fact, YOUR attitude toward US is a major factor that will determine how YOU will be judged during the coming great tribulation. (Matt. 25:34-40) Thus, one aspect of the way YOU gain a blessing is by giving YOUR loyal support to US.
That's a bit clearer I think.