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  Using Time articles with Active JWs

  by truthsearcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is an interesting thread under friends about various time articles over the years.

  some are very revealing as far as dates and practices.

  i would like to share these articles with some active jws.

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  PS I see that I have just graduated from newbie to a jr. member, so I'd like to be the first to congratulate myself!
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  Using Time articles with Active JWs

  by truthsearcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is an interesting thread under friends about various time articles over the years.

  some are very revealing as far as dates and practices.

  i would like to share these articles with some active jws.

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  There is an interesting thread under Friends about various TIme articles over the years. Some are very revealing as far as dates and practices.

  I would like to share these articles with some active JWs. Will they really read them and consider them to be non-apostate? We were discussing the Bible in Hebrews where it points to the old prophets having a Heavenly not earthly hope, so I am sure that subject will come up again...Anyone else have experience doing this?

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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  LOL No one is answering my questions, so I'll try and start a new thread and see if that works!
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  For Newbies: EXCELLENT Judicial meeting with LOTS of info!!

  by Lady Liberty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  thought i would bump to the top this excellent tape recording of a judicial meeting.

  you will find the person "on trial" has bneen a elder himself.

  once he realised things were not adding up he ended up disassociating himself along with his wife.

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  Ok, I might be showing my complete ignorance here: Are you able to save the clip onto your own computer (is there a download option?) Once there, then you could burn it onto a CD. I also know that some of these are available as taped sessions from the website. Maybe contact them about getting some?
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  Audio: A Elder and Circuit Servant leave after researching JW history

  by Lady Liberty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope you are all well!!

  my husband and i listened to this audio experience of a cicuit servant and his wife who began to have questions and left the organization.

  it is excellent!!!

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  PS Mouthy: You're not the only "foolish thing", me too!
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  Audio: A Elder and Circuit Servant leave after researching JW history

  by Lady Liberty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope you are all well!!

  my husband and i listened to this audio experience of a cicuit servant and his wife who began to have questions and left the organization.

  it is excellent!!!

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  I just wanted to add to this that I am trying to help the JWs in my neighbourhood and it is slow, agonizing work (you all know what I mean). So when I feel overwhelmed and wonder I am doing, I listen to a clip and remember that there is still a chance that my jws will realize their blindness. Don't want to offend anyone here, but I do sense much bitterness and pain (understandably) in many lives that have been destroyed by the WT. I have listened to many of the audio clips and found them REALLY REALLY ENCOURAGING that people actually leave the cult and find peace.
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Thanks for posting these Time magazine articles, I am sharing them with a few active JW's I know, since the source of the info is "non-Apostate" they will read it.

  I would like to share these articles with some active JWs. Will they really read them and consider them to be non-apostate? We were discussing the Bible in Hebrews where it points to the old prophets having a Heavenly not earthly hope, so I am sure that subject will come up again...Anyone else have experience doing this?
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  Revelation "Adjustments": Complete Analysis

  by V in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  reference update.

  chapter 6. .

  reference update.

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  I asked to borrow a copy of the Revelation book from a JW because I wanted to read up on the beast of Revelation. At first I was given a hard back, then they switched it to the new soft cover, saying :"This one has updated statistics in it".
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  From the Magazine | National Affairs

  Glad Assembly

  SUBSCRIBE TO TIMEPRINTE-MAILMORE BY AUTHOR

  Posted Monday, Aug. 19, 1946

  Cleveland had rarely seen such concerted concern for the uplift of its soul. Evangelists cried out on street corners; windrows of leaflets clogged the city's gutters. Defiant placards atop caravans of clanking autos proclaimed the doom of Satan.

  All this, including the fair warning to Satan, was the work of an extraordinary army of 75,000 invading and noisy militants—from Finland, Argentina, Scotland, Mexico and every corner of the U.S. They were encamped on the shores of Lake Erie for the Glad Nations Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  At their first triumphant postwar conclave, the Witnesses cast off wartime tribulations. In Germany, their disdain for human authority had tumbled 6,000 of them into concentration camps. In the U.S., their religious scruples against saluting the flag had vexed mobs to tar & feather them and burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment.

  The Locusts. They brought wives and children and grandmothers with them. In Cleveland's western outskirts, on a treeless sunbaked flat of weeds and dust, 20,000 of them made a tidy camp. There they parked their trailers, pitched tents, built their own privies and slept like Spartans on mats of straw.

  Nearby filling-station attendants complained that their washrooms were clogged with naked Witnesses taking sponge baths. Mechanics sweated without charge over the creaking chariots of fellow zealots. Free haircuts were dispensed by an amateur barber who was thoughtful enough to bring along an electric clipper. Payless chefs, cooking in tin-plated oil drums and 600-gallon kettles, ladled out 75,000 meals a day.

  At central headquarters, Witnesses methodically divided the city into 11,773 four-block sectors. Then, like locusts, they swarmed out, haranguing pedestrians, charging up doorsteps with portable phonographs (message: let Roman Catholics change their ways), hawking the limitless output of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society.

  When fire broke out in an elevator shaft of the downtown Leader Building, the canvassers stopped firemen rushing in to quench the flames, handed them pamphlets describing the coming destruction of the world by fire which is part of the Witnesses' dogma.

  The Fireballs. Having thus tried Cleveland's spirit of hospitality, Witnesses turned to their own affairs. More than 2,500 of them, togged out in bathing suits, playsuits, pajamas or long underwear, waded hip deep into Lake Erie to be immersed backwards in its waters. (Baptizers, chilled by the four-hour ceremony, swigged from a bottle of port wine.)

  Attentive throngs of Witnesses turned out faithfully for lecture after lecture in mammoth Municipal Stadium. From a platform in the infield, speakers hurled Biblical fireballs into the packed stands. The joyous climax of the Glad Assembly came on Universal Peace Day. There Watch Tower President Nathan H. Knorr, successor to the late, mellifluous "Judge" J. F. Rutherford, denounced most human institutions, especially the United Nations. Cried he: "Display outright fearlessness of this world conspiracy. . . . God's vengeance is speedily coming against all conspirators."
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  TIME Magazine Articles on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone ever posted about the tons of time magazine articles about the jws?

  time has been around forever and has been a 'witness' (pardon the pun) to much of their history .. clear back to the 1930s.

  go to the time website and search for yourself!

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  Is there anyone brave enough to show these articles to current JWs?