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  6/15 WT- GB More Powerful than Worldwide Anointed- Don't Judge Partaking

  by flipper in

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  more of the latest from the june 15th " witness only " watchtower.

  under the article " the faithful steward and it's governing body " there were some very telling quotes which could indicate how the wt society is tightening the control of it's members - and trying to justify more partaking of the emblems at the memorial since the numbers partaking have gone up from about 8,000 to 10,000 since they no longer feel that the sealing of the anointed ended in 1935.. so first off, notice this quote indicating the importance of elevating the governing body over the rest of the anointed around the earth.

  paragraph 16 it states , " are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths ?

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  Yay- now the WTBTS can have its cake and eat it too.
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  Did being raised a JW retard your career or cost you BIG $$$?

  by The Berean in

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  i was offered a journalism scholarship at ohio state ... mom made me turn it down cause "armageddonwas near"... ended up a janitor!

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  Very cool story Freeman.

  So you made the choice to take the NASA job then?? Very nice.

  Hah- I could use your help- I am trying to get a bunch of Landsat images online and am having trouble... I am really computer-skills-impaired...

  -K
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  The WT asks: Was the Flood of Noah's Day Really Global?

  by undercover in

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  the subject of the day at watchower.org is about noah's flood.. a direct link to the article is here: http://www.watchtower.org/e/20080601/article_01.htm.

  in the article highlighted this comment is made:.

  geologists studying the landscape of the northwestern united states believe that as many as 100 ancient catastrophic floods once washed over the area.

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  Hah! Yes, Leolaia, having the presupposition of science is a major hinderance to the study of geology!!

  It is so bizzare that the JWs take that quote NOT to mean that having a religious slant to your expectations could make your conclusions bunk!

  -K
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  so why do we do this???

  by oompa in

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  why?........is it therapy or revenge?....or wanting to save others from the real truth?..what else is there?...........i feel all three...and why do i so want to help others...does not evryone have a right to their own belief?.......oompa.

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  I take being on this forum as a form of mild therapy. I enjoy the stories and anecdotes about everyone's life as a JW.

  Reading everything here puts a positive spin on having been a JW, it allows me to have a laugh at my (our) expense.

  -K
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  Did being raised a JW retard your career or cost you BIG $$$?

  by The Berean in

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  i was offered a journalism scholarship at ohio state ... mom made me turn it down cause "armageddonwas near"... ended up a janitor!

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  Yes and yes, I think.

  In high school I excelled at science and math. At that point I wished I could have gone on to major in chemistry in college... buuuut I was "encouraged" to pursue a "practical" career that could be gotten in a short time at the local comunity college.

  So I sold out and went to community college and got an AA in Early Childhood Education! Woohoo! Something that totally wasted my talents and skills!!

  After 2 years as a preschool teacher I said, enough of this, went back to the same community college, got all of the transferable units I could and went to an actual university.

  BUT the JW mindset was still with me and though I was interested in Botany I sold out yet again and got another "practical" degree in Forestry. Cause, you know, you can easily get a job right after you graduate with a BS, blah blah blah, trying to justify my appaling persistence in not doing what I REALLY wanted to do- which was to go to school and do science for the thrill and enjoyment of doing science.

  Well, as I was finishing my BS in Forestry my advisor told me about the cool science of Dendrochronology and I was so turned on by my study of it for my senior project that I found the best schools in this discipline and applied to all of them for graduate school! I had my pick of schools and am extremely happy with the work I am doing now. I should graduate in a year and am very satisfied with what I have (finally) chosen.

  If I had not been a JW I would have gone straight into a "hard science", graduated right on time, and probably gotten a PhD like, 5 years ago. I could have been making the big bucks as a professor or in industry. But I guess that's what we all tell ourselves. :P

  I am ok with where I am right now- having taken this path I would never have had all the experiences I have, have traveled so much for fun or have met my husband I have.

  I guess what is important is to make the most of where you are right now in life. Always be moving forward and improving your lot in life somehow, always try to make other's lives better and more interesting and enjoy what is around you.

  I sound so cheesy!!!

  -K
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  The WT asks: Was the Flood of Noah's Day Really Global?

  by undercover in

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  2. bible

  the subject of the day at watchower.org is about noah's flood.. a direct link to the article is here: http://www.watchtower.org/e/20080601/article_01.htm.

  in the article highlighted this comment is made:.

  geologists studying the landscape of the northwestern united states believe that as many as 100 ancient catastrophic floods once washed over the area.

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  Similar findings have led other scientists to believe that a global flood is a distinct possibility.

  I don't believe it. This is an outright lie.
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  The WT asks: Was the Flood of Noah's Day Really Global?

  by undercover in

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  2. bible

  the subject of the day at watchower.org is about noah's flood.. a direct link to the article is here: http://www.watchtower.org/e/20080601/article_01.htm.

  in the article highlighted this comment is made:.

  geologists studying the landscape of the northwestern united states believe that as many as 100 ancient catastrophic floods once washed over the area.

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  Holy crap... bleh.

  Geologists studying the landscape of the northwestern United States believe that as many as 100 ancient catastrophic floods once washed over the area. One such flood is said to have roared through the region with a wall of water 2,000 feet high, traveling at 65 miles an hour—a flood of 500 cubic miles of water, weighing more than two trillion tons. Similar findings have led other scientists to believe that a global flood is a distinct possibility.

  One of the geologists that researches the Missoula Floods (which is what the quote is speaking of) is on my graduate committee and would split his sides knowing that work on those floods is being used to back up JW flood stories... Look them up to see why the above quote is total crap. They were glacial and they know the EXACT mechanism that caused them. Absolutely no possible way they could be related in any sense to a "global flood". They are called glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and they happen all over the world where there are (or were) large glacially-dammed lakes. Creationist hacks have long yearned to claim them as "global flood water deposits" or some such rot.

  This advisor is a really cool guy with a big interest in the history of science and the intersection of religion (particularly fundies) and science. He wanted to have a History of Science seminar one year but couldn't get enough students to take it... I said I would!

  Anyhoo, it is actually great to read that the JWs still take the flood as literal so that when eventually they have to eat their words (as they did on the age of the earth and universe) we have archived proof that they are flip-floppers!

  -K
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  Puke alert! There is another JWN - I left a comment

  by AK - Jeff in

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  likely that they will not allow it to be published to the site.

  [pending approval it says.].

  here was the comment i left there.. are you aware that another site uses the same initials?

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  Hah! BUT: you can get the Study Edition WT (mp3 only unfortunately) under the column titled "Articals" (sic)...
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  Pro-JW letter to the editor in local paper

  by Shepherd Book in

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  this letter to the editor appeared in today's paper: http://www.monticellotimes.com/articles/2009/04/16/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/851witness.txt.

  this is basically a response to the article that was published about me and my family (which, frustratingly, has already been archived).

  in it, i claimed to shunned by almost all friends and family and to have been neither df'd nor da'd (both of these claims are true, by the way).

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  mmm. I wrote a comment under the title "Interesting."

  Witnesses are a group that penalizes their members for "thought crime". Who in their right mind would want to be a member of such an organization. Well... we all did at one point. So glad i am no longer squirming under their thumb...

  -K
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  Family Worship Night Rule.....

  by sweet pea in

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  i have it on good authority that at the recent circuit assembly it was announced from the platform that there had been reports of groups of families and friends getting together to study on family worship night and that this was not to continue as fwn is for families only and not for other brothers and sisters to get involved in.. oh, and if you live alone, then you have to study on your own, you alone are your family, you are not to join anyone else's fwn (although i'm sure they didn't mean you couldn't join your blood family's fwn....).

  the level of control never ceases to amaze me...... .

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  Family Worship Night rules!

  What? oh.