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  Sunday Notes at the District Convention – An emotional plea to “young ones”

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  continue following me john 21:19. much of the program was similar to the previous two days.

  the fact that jesus has appeared in almost every talk title suggests that the society is once again morphing its tactics to persuade more persons that they arent an old testament cult but an alternative christian denomination.. i repeat my previous assertion that there is a manipulative intelligence at work here.

  no ordinary person could possible have such foresight and such knowledge of human behavior to think and write the things these watchtower writers do.

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  How about a report on the number of baptisms?
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  Sister-in-law attempts suicide

  by golf2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my sister-in-law tried to take her life this afternoon.

  it still remains to be seen if she makes it through or not.

  though a witness, she's had many bad experiences in life.

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  Not making light of your situation, but "Jeho's happy People" rarely are....
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  Our Watchtower Study On obedience & submission

  by dark angle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday we have a study of the watchtower about obedience and submission.

  this study arose a lot of questions and heightened emotions in me and the interested retired judge sitting besides me.

  we came accross the 9th pharagraph, page 28 of the april 1, 2007, where it says that: "it is easy to obey when everything is clear and we agree, but we will show that we are trully submissive if we yeild even when we do not personally understand the direction provided.

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  This was easily the most bizzare WT study that I can remember.

  In one article they managed to link the Elders to Christ, the GB to Jehovah and the R&F as a bunch of stupid degenerates.
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  Did You Personally Know of Sex Offenders In The Congregation?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i knew of 1 person that should've been reported to the authorities for fooling around with his sisters when he was an older teen and they were much younger.

  it was hushed up by the elders, as this was considered a very prominent family.

  the allegations were made probably 20 years ago, well before i was ever in that hall.

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  Our congo "reaches out" to prisoners in the local PMITA prison (lifer prison) and includes them on the congo member directory.

  Three are child rapists.
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  very weird Sunday morning phone call

  by Cellist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this morning i was lying in bed, contemplating getting up, when the phone rang.

  i briefly considered not answering it, but my grandfather has been ill and i thought i'd better answer.

  what happened next has left me feeling like i'm in the twilight zone.

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  LOL Gary!

  Why not? works for radical Muslims!
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  Some outrageous counsel I received once ...

  by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was reading an earlier thread about ridiculous counsel and i just had to share this one with everyone.. you know how sometimes around christmas time merchandisers would package their products in a more "festive" wrapper?

  the largest bread company here does that every year.

  well one yuletide season (when i was about 7 years old), i was helping myself to a couple slices of bread and my aunt saw me.

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  The next time an apologist on this board accuses me of embellishing personal experiences, I will send them to this thread.

  This is crazy stuff folks!
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  Dog fighting: What do you think of it?

  by UnConfused in

  1. social
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  for me the concept of pitting animals together to fight, maim and rip the flesh off one another is beyond cruel and inhumane.

  what do you think of dog fighting at all - does anyone out there condone or enjoy that type of "entertainment"?

  football player michael vick in being investigated for dog fighting.

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  Stupid, violent, ignorant people need pastimes too.
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  Why 6 Billion People Deserve to Die in Armageddon

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah is such a righteous, merciful, loving god -- slow to anger, overflowing with loving kindness and blessing.

  yet it somehow bothers many of you that he will shortly execute his judgment on mankind and wipe out 99.9% of the world's population, as if that somehow is supposed to conflict with his loving qualities.

  personally, i have no idea why many of you feel this way.

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  MinisterAmos

  Nice cut work
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  Truly disgusting plead for cash in KM School this week

  by MinisterAmos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wish i had posted this earlier so you guys could have gone to school this week to check it out, but the km school was a long winded plea plea for cash donations, reminding us that "jehovah will be grateful".. how i wanted to raise my hand and ask if the great need was related to paying off the child molestors or ask what happened to the$100s of millions from the property sale, or ask why they needed money after kicking out all the bethelites (two booted bethel couples in the congo).

  anyway you guys missed a good laugh.

  if anyone wants i'll post the km magazine.

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  After waiting for the wife to go to bed so that I could sneak a scan it dawns upon me that my KM rag is not in English.

  That's pretty damn stupid of me!

  One figure I remember from the plea for cash is that the Worldwide Ministry costs $110 Mil per year to run (also from the 2005 YB) and that most of the Assemblies are run at a deficit.

  I know for a fact that the latter is pure BS. The Assemblies have been a cash cow for the WTBS back since the 19 Teen days of the photo-drama which was the fore-runner of the Assembly.
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  Truly disgusting plead for cash in KM School this week

  by MinisterAmos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wish i had posted this earlier so you guys could have gone to school this week to check it out, but the km school was a long winded plea plea for cash donations, reminding us that "jehovah will be grateful".. how i wanted to raise my hand and ask if the great need was related to paying off the child molestors or ask what happened to the$100s of millions from the property sale, or ask why they needed money after kicking out all the bethelites (two booted bethel couples in the congo).

  anyway you guys missed a good laugh.

  if anyone wants i'll post the km magazine.

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  MinisterAmos

  I wish I had posted this earlier so you guys could have gone to school this week to check it out, but the KM school was a long winded plea plea for cash donations, reminding us that "Jehovah will be grateful".

  How I wanted to raise my hand and ask if the great need was related to paying off the child molestors or ask what happened to the$100s of millions from the property sale, or ask why they needed money after kicking out all the Bethelites (two booted Bethel couples in the congo)

  Anyway you guys missed a good laugh. If anyone wants I'll post the KM magazine.