Posts by JW_Researcher

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Penton Article (1979) Available

by JW_Researcher in

i pulled a penton article from 1979 id be happy to e-mail to anyone that could use it in research:.

jehovah's witnesses and the secular state: a historical analysis of doctrine .

18 pages 1.22 mb..

JW_Researcher

I pulled a Penton article from 1979 I’d be happy to e-mail to anyone that could use it in research:

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular State: A Historical Analysis of Doctrine

18 pages 1.22 MB.

PM me if interested.

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The Point of this Site?

by Samael in

jw
friends

forgive me if i sound rude or this question has been answered elsewhere, as i am a neophyte and discovered your site through google in my religious studies.

from reading the various posts it seems that this site serves nothing more than an iconoclastic purpose.

was your experience as jw's so traumatic that now you can but put forth such effort to daemonize the religion?

A NEW Flock book has been released, with notes by a Presiding Overseer

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

for several years there has been available a pay attention to yourselves and to the flock book in pdf and html format.

this book has proven to be extremely valuable in exposing the morally questionable activities of the watchtower society.

now we have a new version that is even more valuable because it contains the hand-written notes of a presiding overseer, some notes as recent as late 2005. these notes are frequently dictated to elders by a circuit overseer or district overseer in order to avoid liability (the wts can deny every giving such instructions).

JW_Researcher

Thank you. Already one of the marginal notes is of use to me. Man, this guy liked to underline. Thanks again

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Can someone post the May KM?

by TheListener in

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friends

anyone with the may 2006 us km, can you please post scans of it or get it to reexamine.org?

JW_Researcher

BTTT

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For those of you who went to Bethel, how was the food?

by TresHappy in

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friends

how were the doomsday dumplings?.

seriously, was the food good?

i used to hear it was awesome; somehow i don't believe that!

JW_Researcher

the damn Watchtman duties had some benefits. Since you had the keys to all the offices, you also had the key to the kitchen...during a run, I would grab me some govement cheese and sneak back out like a rat.

I used to have most of my watchman shifts at 360 ...the only cheese there was what the rats ...and I mean big rats.... would leave behind.

There were still "worldy" tenants on some of the floors ...a cosmetic company, etc....it was spooky some of the time....but it got one out of a meeting. :-)

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Ethnographic Study of Jehovah's Witnesses

by JW_Researcher in

a chapter in this book:

the cultural experience: ethnography in complex society

david w. mccurdy, james p. spradley, and dianna j. shandy

JW_Researcher

I've sent this study to a handful of people who requested it and am more than happy to do so.

However, more than one person has requested the study but not supplied an e-mail address to which I can send the study.

Unless you can instruct me on how to send it to you via this site (a feat I don't think is possible...but might be?) I'll need a regular e-mail.

Set up a Yahoo, Hotmail, or other web-based free account if you're worried about privacy.

Best regards.

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I've become so numb

by LtCmd.Lore in

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friends

i just got this song by linkin park, and it basicaly sings everything i've wanted to tell my parents for years!

if you've heard it before you'll probaly agree with me.

so i decide to share the lyrics with you:

JW_Researcher

You can hear this song at http://www.linkinpark.com/index.php

About half way down the left hand side....hit "play" and then keep hitting the "next" button until the song "numb" displays and plays.

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Rutherford and William Jennings Bryan

by VM44 in

does anyone know where it mentioned that rutherford was involved in william jennings bryan's presidential campaign(s)?

also, i recall reading that rutherford said bryan was god's choice as president for the usa!

if that was so, then it is very strange that bryan was never elected president!.

JW_Researcher

Penton mentions on page 47 that Rutherford was attracted to Bryan's "populist ideals" and footnotes to page 348 that Rutherford actually campaigned for Bryan.

Apocalypse Delayed.

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