i was doing a little websurfing... not hurtin' nobody... mindin' my own bidness... and found myself at the wts official website.
over on the righthand side i noticed a "search" button.
hmmm.
"expelling is ...analogous to the powers of capital punishment,"
Heeeere goes another letter to France and to Russia...
thanks guys!!!!!
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
publishing committee report .
a report from the publishing committee on making the best use of contributed funds.. five years ago because of construction in the united states and throughout the world on k. h. and a. h. and branches the needs were greater than the available funds putting quite a strain on the resources.. the design build committee limited any building projects to only those absolutely necessary.
this resulted in saving millions of dollars just the first year.. the operations committee with the help of a new integrated computer system was able to make some significant changes.
>Well, we live in exciting times and we will have to wait on Jehovah as to what the future holds for all of us and up here at Bethel as well.<
For you, WATCHTOWER, the future holds LAWSUITS!!!!
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
is the society guilty of issuing false prophecies and thus be condemned as a false prophet?.
this question has been grappled with for a long time and many fine arguments have been put forward to indicate that there is merit to this accusation; however, i feel that it may not be accurate or encompassing enough.. it is interesting to note that whereas the hebrew scriptures warned mainly about the existence of false prophets and methods of identifying them (deut 18:20-23), the greek scriptures and, in particular jesus christ, described more than just false prophets.
(mt 24:11).
uhhhh....excuse me...excuse me...EXCUSE MEEEE <bang bang bang>
Jesus said that no one gets salvation except through him, the Christ.
The Borg says, no one gets salvation except through them.
Yes they DO claim to be nothing else than the CHRSIT personally, or at least equal to Him, same difference.
And like Avengers says---the definition of true and false is..left up to Bill Clinton...?
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
my younger sister ran up to me in the yard, tears running down her cheeks.
"it's mum .. come quick" she pleaded.
i ran inside and there was mum spread out on the bed, pills and empty tablet bottles all around her.
(((( unclebruce ))))
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
just thought some of you might like this, especially if you were there when all the "don't put up jehovah's witness websites" warnings were sprayed at us: http://www.angelfire.com/ky/proclaimer/.
it contains at least one reproduction of a society's letter concerning the net.... ============================.
the watchtower, april 15, 1928, p. 126 "as every one knows, there are mistakes in the bible "
You guys.....right click on the picture, look very very carefully at its title under 'properties'.
especially the letters occurring right before .jpeg...
home2.inet.tele.dk/carloc/billeder/idiots.jpg
HINT HINT
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
((((Carlos))))
first post.
not df, so a bit nervous.
thought i would check in from lurking.
Ray Franz's second book is good, In Search of Christian Freedom; as well as Apocolypse Delayed and Gentile Times Revisited.
Just take things slow, take a lot of deep breaths. There are many of us here on the board that are still 'in' or 'around' the org, as well as those that are 'out', so there are many here who can sympathize.
Welcome to the board.
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
did you believe that 1975 would see the beginning of the millennium?.
if not, why not?.
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No we can't. A genology is completely different from a chronolgy, and although sometimes they can be interchanged, apparently the Biblical Jewish ones cannot. Someone being 'the son of' someone else could mean anything from a son to a great-grandson, and let's not forget 'brother-in-law' marriage, which pre-dated the Mosaic law. Which means somebody's son may not be their son at all.
I think 'the gentile times revisited' and/or 'apocolypse delayed' goes into that in a very nice way. It sure opened my eyes.
See, this is where the Watchtower shows itself to be completely unfit to so much as guide a sled dog team. The scriptures clearly state in two if not more places, not to add or take away from the message that is there. But NO; in an effort to sell more books, the Watchtower substituted the genealogy for a chronolgy, and got itself in tons of trouble, even still today.
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
a simple question for serious jw's:.
according to this sunday's newspaper suppliment a common snail travels at 24 inches/hour (60cm/hr).
i've got snails in my garden and i've just crunched some math on my super scientific pocket calculator.
I've been saying and I keep saying
that it's one thing to do the 'critical thinking' about a worldwide, multi/cross-cultural legends/myths global/local flood;
and quite another to do the critical thinking about the biblical multi translated version. Jesus no speaka da Englis. Doesn't the account, in Hebrew, specifically state 'inhabited earth'. Wasn't the purpose of the flood, in the account, to get rid of destructive people? So a flood that only covered the 'inhabited earth' would be more than sufficient.
And as far as any survivors were concerned, 'the world' as far as they could see would be covered with water.
If there's one thing I walked away from the JW's with, it is: Not to take a stand on something that doesn't need a stand taken on. Blood transfusions, shunning/disfellowshipping, rape resistance, dumb stuff like this (especially with regard to children) needs a stand taken on.
But does the controversy of a flood that cover 1/16, 1/8, 1/104 of the earth surface deserve all the resources that have been devoted to it?
Just my 1/2 cent worth.
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
ummm...question re my mothers status...she got dfd 3 months ago and expected to be shunned.
indeed, i told her she would be shunned.. but she reckons that everyone is being real nice, talking to her in the street, etc, has there been a change of policy?.
ive been out a long time and would have expected shunning.. shes starting to think of me as a false prophet.
it's very simple. click on
members;
AlanF;
posts icon (not thread);
then count. You can do this for anybody, including me.
Actually I use it to keep track of how close I am coming to my posting limits.
if someone will email the article to me, I will put it on the study articles forum. Thanks!!!
If anybody really cares, click on my threads, and you will see that AlanF, Farkel, Amazing and that whole gang almost NEVER post to my threads. So, no, no 'cahoots' here. The only 'special' group I'm with right now is the Las Vegas January group, which is a short-term thing. Maybe....
((( everyone)))
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
the following press release was issued by the united nations department of public information on december 20 and 21, 2001. the release dealt with new ngos who became "associated" with dpi just like the way the watchtower as an ngo became "associated" with dpi in 1992.. .
http://www.un.org/news/press/docs/2001/ngo440.doc.htm.
i like the part about the 251 organizations who were "disassociated".
>During the year the DPI has instituted a review process for the first time, in order to better measure the effectiveness of its liaison activities with associated NGOs.<
Yeah, I'll just bet they did!!!! 1500 NGO's screaming in the UN's ear about letting a cult into association was bound to result in some action.
In 1975 a crack team of publishers was sentenced to death by a judicial commiteee. They promptly escaped from the cult and now live life on the run. If you have a problem ... and if you can find them ... maybe you can contact the A--postate Team"
