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  Letter from society

  by TweetieBird in

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  after the wt study yesterday, the conductor read a letter from the society about the subscriptions.

  i knew that they had cancelled the subscriptions to the magazines, but now they have discontinued almost all forms of subscriptions, i.e.

  watchtower/awake on tape, large print wt, etc.

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  I like how Flip interprits the WT situation. No sacred, religious descriptions of the WT cult, just corporate/businesslike terms used. The org is just that, a corporation. It uses the cult of the jehovahs witnesses to maintain it's corporate solvency, thats all it does. I stopped thinking of the cult in religious terms awhile ago. Now, to me, everything they say or do is decided in a board room, with lawyer suits hanging around influencing ALL decisions.

  If the wtbts is trouble, it's due to shrinking of the cult of the jehovahs witnesses. Thats where the orgs paycheck comes from. The org will have to file for bankruptcy if it's "paycheck" is hit too hard.

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  AMBER ALERT for JW Children\blood tran?

  by CornerStone in

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  i heard somthing on the radio and wanted to throw this out.

  here in california an amber alert was just issued for a young girl who has a mother that was just released from custidy.

  she apparently has the child and the mother is thought to be delusional,( she thinks god is giving her orders and stuff, kinda like the gb :) ).. i know the amber alert is state wide but it may also be nation wide, i don't know.. but here's the rub, the alert was issued on what is a domestic problem, not a criminal situation.

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  Hello All,

  I heard somthing on the radio and wanted to throw this out. Here in California an Amber Alert was just issued for a young girl who has a mother that was just released from custidy. She apparently has the child and the mother is thought to be delusional,( She thinks God is giving her orders and stuff, kinda like the GB :) ).

  I know the Amber Alert is state wide but it may also be nation wide, I don't know.

  But here's the rub, the alert was issued on what is a domestic problem, not a criminal situation. Whomever issued the alert felt the safety of the child was in jepordy.

  Question: Could an Amber ALert be issued on a JW child in need of a blood transfusion who is being "hidden" from non-JW family members?

  The reason being the childs life is in danger. What do you think?

  Sorry I don't have more information on this, it's the morning and I'm still half asleep. :)

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  NEVER MEET ALONE WITH A SISTER!!!

  by minimus in

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  do you know why the society says this?

  regardless of whether the meeting is for the purpose of shepherding, sharing bible advice,or simply giving encouragement, "she could develop romantic feelings for the elder.it is possible for an elder to develop improper feelings for a sister he is comforting or counseling.

  it is especially important never to meet with a sister alone when the sister being assisted has been a victim of abuse, suffers from depression,or for any other reason is in a delicate emotional state.a woman in such an emotional may be more vulnerable and may be prone to develop improper feelings toward an elder meeting with her.

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  I'm an elder.

  No I'm not.
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  WERE YOU TREATED POORLY IN THE CONGREGATION?

  by minimus in

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  when you were associated in the congregation, were you treated in a way that made you feel like you were a 2nd class citizen?

  how were you regarded?

  were you the brunt of criticism or were you pretty much well-liked?

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  Well liked as a slave, getting dirty underneath peoples cars, clearing lawns, helping the disabled.

  But treated like pond scum when trying to be a MS. Spiritualy weak you know. Asked too many questions. Made too many grey heads "ponder" my qualifications.

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  SceniCruiser to Borg Protest

  by Francois in

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  so far, it looks like three from the board:.

  larc.

  dantheman.

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  Hello Mindchild,

  a place for the cold beer, etc. while you drive.

  .......uugh, you mean the cold beer for everone ELSE, while you drive, right?

  CornerStone

  Edited by - CornerStone on 16 August 2002 10:25:7
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  Bill Bowen in the Paducah Sun

  by Kenneson in

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  the announcement of bill bowen's disfellowshiping was made--but a bit prematurely.

  the story is in the paducah sun at:.

  http://www.paducahsun.com/ .

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  WOW!!!

  Of the "handful" of men I admire, Bill is one of them.

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  Spy on CM using internet technology!

  by CornerStone in

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  feeling a bit devious about now and wanted to throw this out.

  i heard on the radio about a new camera that could be 'connected' to a wireless hub and accessed through the internet.

  just imagine going to ones' commitee meeting with a camera already installed in the room or in a bookbag or in a fake hollowed-out bible .

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  Hello all,

  Feeling a bit devious about now and wanted to throw this out.

  I heard on the radio about a new camera that could be 'connected' to a wireless hub and accessed through the internet.

  Just imagine going to ones' commitee meeting with a camera already installed in the room or in a bookbag or in a fake hollowed-out bible , new world translation of course . The wireless hub could be in a nearby vehical connected to the web via a cell phone.

  Now, the WHOLE WORLD can see a JW kangaroo-court-judical-commitee meeting in action.

  I guess sound can be recorded and added later or somthing.

  Or mabey, he he, get one of those webaccessable cell phones where you can take video and insert it in your jacket, camera lens replacing a button of course, and reccord the entire event to your web page.

  Ahh, there are SO many possibilities. I might be tempted to do somthing if I'm ever called before a CM, but then, I would not go out of contempt for that cult!

  Gotta be careful of the recording laws though.

  Deviousness....now......subsiding.......slowly....................................................................

  CornerStone

  Edited by - CornerStone on 14 August 2002 21:7:23

  Edited by - CornerStone on 14 August 2002 21:8:32
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  A classic case of WT dishonesty.

  by caspian in

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  the following piece of misleading wt thinking was emailed to me recently by a close friend see what you think.

  the following words are plaguerised from another person, but i did feel they should be posted.

  ""under the title "is it wrong to pronounce gods name?

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  I feel that all issues of Apuke! should be used to line pigeon coops, but why should we insult innocent pigeons?

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  The Apostle witnesses mind control at work...

  by TheApostleAK in

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  about 2 weeks ago one of my old pioneer buddies came over for a visit (he's the only jw who doesn't shun me).

  i got talking about the whole naos in revelation 7:15 thing and we both started to have a debate over this.. i got out my copy of vines and showed him what it had to say about the greek word naos and he accepted it (i've shown this to 3 elders and they wont even look at the book!).

  i ask him if the word naos equals the temple sanctuary which signifies heaven in revelation, where are the great crowd serving in???

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  It is a VERY difficult thing for a believing JW to try to seperate the WTBTS from God and Jesus of the historic Christian faith.

  The problem is the perception of interdependency between the two. To a JW, one cannot exist without the other. No Jehovah, no WTBTS. No Jesus, no FDS. And vis-a-versa.

  The answer is (sadly) to have a tramatic event "sever" that perception, ( like rape, molestation, betrayal, deprogramming, etc.). Or a more "surgical" approach like bits of education on the org so as to limit their influence, ( way more demanding requiring a LOT of love ).

  Of course, my favorite approach would be a world wide educational campaign on radio, T.V., and the internet warning all about the trap that the watchtower printing company is using to get people to join the cult of the jehovah's witnesses as free labor to maintain their corporate solvency.

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  $$$Watchtower$$$ just MHO

  by CC Ryder in

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  i've read alot of great posts that contain experiences, opinions, and facts that show what the wts has as an ageneda.

  my own experiences and observations are as follows:.

  mind conrol: the wts weapon of choice to keep their ranks within their grasp so as not to influence the rest.

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  When I think of how to best describe the org to non-JW's in one breath it goes somthing like this:

  "The WBTS is a publishing company that uses the Cult of the Jehovah's Witnesses to maintain their corporate solvency."

  I try never to associate religious terms with the org. I just use 'worldly' terms that have to do with $$$MONEY$$$ and !!!POWER!!!.

  After all, that IS what the org is all about.

  CornerStone