Bill Covert

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  Spiritual Paradise? Jehovah's Witness cons JW seniors out of life savings.

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  3/28/2024 central california coast.

  found guilty of $1.2 million scam targeting seniors.

  ex-insurance agent brett e. lovett convicted of fraud, elder abuse, grand theft, and money laundering".

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  The church policy that covers fraud is 1Cor.6: 1-6. The victims are prohibited from using the courts to get justice. Go to court be shunned!

  This is a ingrained issue with in the JW Church Isa.1:23 and their traveling men. There was a Wt. on 1Pet.5:2, it spoke of "simony" as a sin that traveling sell the word of God. This is why there multiple victims!
  

  All my troubles stem from a swindler Ray Dale from the San Diego area. He had a 20+ year career defrauding widows and seniors. I emailed a JW attorney asked if he knew Ray Dale he said he was one of many San Diego attorney's who knew him.

  If what I heard was true this attorney was disfellowshipped for representing a JW in court. From the same source Ray Dale also screwed the San Diego attorney James McCabe parents.

  Last I seen of J. McCabe was a TV interview at the conclusion of the Candace Conti molestation. He did not look so very explaining the court loss.
  
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  Alternative Military Service is Now OK

  by Sea Breeze in

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  2. beliefs

  but i wonder: how many jw's went to prison during the years that the wt did not allow them to perform community service as an alternative to military service?.

  anyone care to take a stab at the numbers?.

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  Bill Covert

  That is correct.

  I can't remember the name but there was guy in Redding [done moved away] who did alternative community service at a hospital, got disfellowshiped for it.
  
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  Alternative Military Service is Now OK

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  but i wonder: how many jw's went to prison during the years that the wt did not allow them to perform community service as an alternative to military service?.

  anyone care to take a stab at the numbers?.

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  In my case the Redding Calif. Selectivity Service Board issued me a order to report to the LA CA. Charity Organization, for alternative community service, 1966 I believe. The letter I got back from Bethel was that would be a compromise of christian conscience.
  
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  Alternative Military Service is Now OK

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  but i wonder: how many jw's went to prison during the years that the wt did not allow them to perform community service as an alternative to military service?.

  anyone care to take a stab at the numbers?.

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  Count me in. I got a fine, the judge position that prison was a government expense, the fine was government income.

  Does have one up side, no jury duty.
  
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  Is the Governing Body Apostate?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  mark jones writes:.

  actually, it was “love for jehovah” and a desire to “remain loyal to him” that made me leave the jehovah’s witness “religion”.. gradually, it became very clear to me that the organization does not represent jehovah.

  if anything, it had become apostate.

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  It took the ARC to bring a platform for the poster WOZZA to finally get people to listen to his point that Deut. 22:25-27 showed the "two witness rule" to be the work of an apostate.

  I have been citing the 2013 RNWT revision of Lev.5:1 and the Sept.1 1987 Wt. article "A Time to speak When?" as being the work of an apostate. As it is a blatant deception to fabricate a "Gestapo informant policy" for the purpose of ferreting out apostates. I maintain that starting in about 1984 the church brought in four policies of "new light";1 the obedience to the Organization mantra, 2 emergence of a here to for new enemy the "apostate", 3 the shunning policy, 4 the need of a policy to ferret out any hidden enemies of the church by creating a Gestapo informant policy.

  These four policies marked the journey of the "faithful slave" following the "delay of the master" in 1975 into the present GB Matt. 24: 48-51. The only thing I got out of that was providing Barbara Anderson the insight for her essay "Flawed Decrees Conceal Criminals". After that I got hung out to dry and twist in the wind like Randall Waters.

  Two weeks ago I got my personal invitation to the Memorial in the mail, it had a return address on the envelope. I sent them back a letter suggesting that the Redding elders who concealed a court case of the swindler central to my saga, [swindling another local widow] see their insurance providers and take out 'personal liability policies'. I own 4 real estate parcels 7.5 acres separating the local Indian Casino 40+ acre property cut off from a major freeway interchange. A month ago I was asked for a price of what I would take. Due to my age, the condition of my house and how far out the development plans are, the price is not that of a "gold mine" but rather a "copper mine". That goes thru the church the church has a hell of a problem.

  So is the GB apostate? Both Deut. 22: 25-27 and Lev.5:1 would give a resounding YES!

  But who listens to the Bible, Proverbs 1:20.
  
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  Weirdest Jesus I’ve seen yet…

  by stuckinlimbo in

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  I got my personal invitation mailed to me.
  
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  Progress on the NWT Study Bible

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the society has been working on the nwt study bible since the revised nwt was released in 2013. so far they done the nt up to philemon.

  that makes about 17% of the entire bible including the hebrew/aramaic scriptures.

  at that rate the study edition of the whole nwt will be completed sometime around the year 2077. .

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  I received my personal invitation to the memorial in the mail Saturday. I just finished typing out a reply, the same one I have been sending to the publishers homes since 2004, of which was highlighted in the 2013 summer talk on "Human Apostates".

  The kicker here is that currently the local Indian Casino wants to purchase my four real estate properties that has their 40+acre development cut off from freeway interchange. If that happens then I become the smartest man in the room.

  It has been 35 years I have been arguing the article "A Time to Speak When?" Sept. 1 1987 Wt. as to how it relates to a $4,250,000 unregistered securities fraud. And how that connects with church shunning policy.

  Hopefully this is put up or shut up time for me.
  
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  1970's Russell Pyramid Photo!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1970's photo of the russell pyramid.

  the picture was sent to us by a former bethelite who was also the person who took the picture.

  of course, the pyramid is not there anymore.. .

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  Russel had a Haberdashery shop. His wife had the money.
  
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  1970's Russell Pyramid Photo!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  1970's photo of the russell pyramid.

  the picture was sent to us by a former bethelite who was also the person who took the picture.

  of course, the pyramid is not there anymore.. .

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  I went to KM school in 1969, in Pittsburgh [Schroder and Davis instructors] . Was taken on a tour of the pyramid and shown Russel's haberdashery shop [building still standing].
  
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  Hailstone message AND everyone will be saved? Questions

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve not been paying close attention to watchtower developments, but talking to a jw yesterday it occurred to me the society (yes, still use that term - old school) have been sending out mixed messages in recent years.

  from what i gather, a few years ago the gb announced that during the great tribulation jws would be required to preach a “hailstone message of judgement” which involved telling people it was too late for them to repent and they were definitely going to be destroyed.

  there were hints that this could be very soon, “any day now” preaching could stop and the hailstone message come in, kind of thing.

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  Hailstone message, hard hitting waters of truth. My recollection goes the the "Babylon the Great" book. Fred Franz and co. made "hailstone messages" a major part of the 1975, great tribulation build up. Providing evidence of God's backing of the church. These "hard hitting waters of truth messages" were aimed a Babylon the Great aka as Catholic and Orthodox churches. They were goads, sharp sticks to poke in the eyes of false religion. There were special campaigns to distribute these messages.

  Those "hard hitting waters of truth" messages have born fruit. The Russian Orthodox Church has instituted pay backs on innocent people now that Communism has fallen [King of the North down the tube] and Putin has elevated the Orthodox Church.

  A couple of weeks ago the JW church in Mariupol Ukraine was in the news raided by the police.

  Well done Fred Franz.