I still have my "YOUR WORD Is a Lamp to My Foot" book published in 1967. On page 220 is RECORD OF CHRISTIAN BAPTISM and it shows that I was baptised on January 30, 1971 at a Circuit Assembly in Nashua, N.H. I was 15 years old and didn't believe a word of it in my heart. I was a precocious little ba$tard and had read most of the Watchtower and Awake bound volumes from 1958 onward, most of Studies in the Scriptures, The Photo Drama of Creation book ( it was my own personal My Book of Bible Stories....my mother would encourage me to show people the 'good' people and the 'bad' people in the pictures) and The Harp of God as well as listening to many of Judge Rutherfords speeches on phonograph. So at a very young age I knew that something was remiss in this religion. At any rate, my mother kept putting the emotional pressure on me (she was an expert at mind screwing and emotional blackmail) to get baptised because Armageddon was coming in 1975 and I would die because I would be of age and not baptised. Wanting to know what was the right thing (I had no father or male figure that I could pour my heart out to) , I approached the Congreation Servant and the Bible Study Servant with my findings. The admonition of the Bible Study Servant was 'just stop reading those old books....they will only confuse you.' The Congregation Servant took things a step further. He said 'stop reading those old books. Everything you need to know is written in the "Jehovahs Witnesses in the Divine Purpose" book , "All Scripture is Inspired of God and Beneficial" book, the Bible and current Watchtower and Awake magazines. Study those, get baptised and keep busy in Jehovahs service. Armageddon will be here in just a few years and all this will be behind us.' My mother is long dead, the Bible Study Servant is long dead (he died in 1975.......) and I believe that the Congregation Servant is on his last legs. The 'invisible Armageddon' must have come in 1975 but I just seemed to miss it. However, TTATT is still TTATT.
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What Assembly were you baptized at...
by vilot ini was baptized at the 1976 "sacret secret" dc at inglewood ca there must have been 50,000 people there..
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HOW will YOU end?
by Terry ina couple of years back, a friend of mine who is a former baptist preacher (dub horn) began.
visiting a rehabilitation hospital.
the irony of this was not lost on me.
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Terry, the last paragraph of your post was so honest and beautiful that I am at a loss for words....................
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Does Bethel have any woman Medical Doctors?
by VM44 inthe watchtower does not usually place women in positions of authority.. so, does anyone know if there have been any female medical doctors (any type, md, do or chiro) that worked at bethel recently?.
the only one that i know of was dr mae j work, but she was at bethel over 70 years ago!.
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Apparently Brooklyn had a woman chiropractor at one time:
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/105169/1/Real-
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Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly
by Chris Tann innasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.
the debate.
for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.
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RELIGIOUS PEOPLE OFTEN LOOK TO SCIENTISTS TO PROVE THEIR FABLES AND FANTASIES.
SCIENTISTS NEVER LOOK TO RELIGIOUS PEOPLE TO PROVE THEIR FACTS AND FINDINGS.-sparky1
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Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly
by Chris Tann innasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.
the debate.
for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.
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Chris: the Hebrew word chug as describing the earth.....the word denotes a sphere not a circle.
I would like to refer you to my comments on this post before you make such a BOLD statement:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/186896/3/A-Sphere-
( I agree with Apognophos and the research he has done. A circle is a circle. Period. Nothing more and nothing less.)
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FDS & G.B. TEACHING DESTROYED
by The Searcher incredit to vidqun for the direction given.. the watchtower november 15th qfr http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20141115/ blows the selection process/timing/individuals clean out of the water!.
simply put, ask any witness these questions:.
who is represented by the 'two witnesses' in revelation chapter 7?
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Some of the 'days' were 'overlapping' and of a 'prophetic' nature. When examined through the 'eyes' of 'reliable Bible chronology' it can be confidently proclaimed that the 1260 days did indeed begin in late 1914! We can not know the exact day when Judge Rutherford and his cronies recieved their sentence from the Presiding Judge in this case. We do know however that it was only a matter of 'days' and not 'months or years' before this prophecy reached its fulfillment. How confident we can be in Jehovah the Great Timekeeper!
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Why do self-righteous hypocritical people ...
by hoser inwhy is it that people who display self-righteous hypocritical behaviour are so blind as not to see what kind of people they really are?.
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To paraphrase Thomas Szasz: It is because they are 'colossally conceited'.
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Gerrit Losch's "I DO NOT ANSWER TO WATCHTOWER"
by Newly Enlightened inin gerrit losch's public statement to the superior copurt of california.
http://www.watchtower.exposed/?p=364.
documents: https://www.dropbox.com/s/49zyexvagn7ux7j/losch%20public%20statement.jpg?dl=0.
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I possibly have some 'new light' to shed on Gerrit Losch's declaration and his use of so-called 'theocratic warfare'. In the declaration he claims that he was never employed by the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. This could be 'technically' true but an obfuscation of reality just the same. I still have my Bethel 'induction' letter (invitation) and my Bethel discharge letter. The invitation letter came from the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Inc and the discharge letter came from the Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. So when Gerrit Losch was invited to serve at Bethel he may have been invited by the Pennsylvania corporation. In the future, perhaps when the Watchtower Society is sued, the lawyers involved should sue EVERY single corporation and legal entity that has the name of Watchtower connected to it and that way no one from the Governing Body can use 'weasel words' in regards to their association with any Watchtower corporation.
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Why do "Awake" vloumes only start at 1970 on computer disk?...interesting!
by Witness 007 inyet watchtowers go way back to 1950's....i picked up three awake volumes 1967-1969 i was struck by the poor science {aluminium is posion}, demon articles and anti-organ transplant articles.
also much was said about 1975 being the end of the system and "the generation.
" it feels like fred franz was writting alot of these which now is plain embarrasing and better left un-published.. .
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WHY? This is why:
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Montreal Gazette: 'Homosexuals like you in tight pants,' JW leader says
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://montrealgazette.com/life/turning-the-page-homosexuals-like-you-in-tight-pants-jehovahs-witness-leader-says-reportsturning the page: 'homosexuals like you in tight pants,' jehovah's witness leader says reportsjillian page, montreal gazette more from jillian page, montreal gazette.
published on: november 12, 2014 last updated: november 12, 2014 11:33 pm est.
skin-tight pants are a no-no in public, church leader says,.
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I feel sorry for Anthony Morris's worldly parents. They must be embarrassed beyond description to have such an "asshat" for a son. As the old saying goes: "You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose and you can even pick your ass but you can't pick your relatives."
