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  Morning Woship: Kenneth Flodin targets "apostates"

  by Sanchy in

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  video is entitled "beware of deceit" he uses the letter of jude to show that current day apostates are deceitful and that they use "trickery" to and "twist facts" to try to "grab our mind".

  warning: your head might explode.

  especially past the 5:30 mark.

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  I expect there will be 'many' talks in the future about "apostates." "Apostates" are their #1 enemy above the U.N. and the Catholics Church anymore.

  Flodin refers to a copy received by apostate source, of a WT copy about Russell's writings as "truth," and not needing the Bible. He says it was a manipulated copy done by apostates.

  Do any of you have that reference that he says is a lie?

  Of course, the GB don't want anyone to know about the early writings of Russell and any facts of the early WT days.

  On the other hand, since Flodin admits he checked this source, perhaps some will also try to verify any questionable sources too. (Of course, most JWs won't research anything.
  
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  Judge sanctions WTS - $4k per day penalty for not producing sex abuse documents

  by Simon in

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  judge sanctions jehovah's witnesses.

  imposes $4000-a-day penalty for not producing documents in sex-abuse case.

  by dorian hargrove, june 24, 2016. a san diego superior court judge has ordered the church of jehovah's witnesses, also known as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, to pay $4000 a day for every day that it fails to produce documents requested in a civil lawsuit brought by former parishioner, osbaldo padron, who claims a church elder sexually abused him when he was seven years old.. in a june 23 ruling, expected to be made final today, judge richard strauss admonished the church for willfully ignoring a court order to produce all documents associated with a 1997 body of elders letter that church leaders sent to parishes around the world in a quest to learn about sexual abuse of children by church leaders.. over the course of the past year, the watchtower society and its lawyers have fought hard to keep the letter confidential, claiming that turning over the documents would infringe on the privacy of those mentioned in the letter that were not associated with the case.. in march 2015, the church turned over a heavily redacted version of the letter.

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  Thank you all for updates and any future updates!
  
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  Young Girl Exposes Jehovah's Witnesses at school video goes VIRAL last 2 days 273,000 views

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  original thread here.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/291080001/brave-high-school-student-exposes-abuse-corruption-within-jehovahs-witnesses.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvt_gyq-ls.

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  706,523 views (shows today on YouTube)

  May more JWs high schoolers leave JWdom as successfully!!
  
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  "Circuits with Congregation Details", Effective September 1, 2016. Official Statistical for Dominican Republic, leaked.

  by hildebrando in

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  official information of congregations, languages, publishers, elders, ministerial servants, pioneers, special pioners, and names of circuit overseers, all in english:.

  https://hildeydesa.blogspot.cl/2016/07/asambleas-de-circuito-2017-y-sesion-con.html.

  bonus track in spanish: all outlines for circuit assemblies 2017, and annual pioneer meeting....

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  Gayle

  This shows "effective Sept 1. July and August are not completed yet. So incomplete?
  
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  Rumor: Discouraging news from GB at upcoming CA?

  by bohm in

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  this is on the reddit frontpage and sounds super weird.

  can it be confirmed in any way by anyone here?.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/4u72dk/what_kind_of_announcement_could_cause_jws_to/.

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  Maybe selling Norco Assembly Hall?? Could be discouraging to some?
  
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  " you will never grow old..."

  by mrquik in

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  " you will never grow old..." a more grievous lie is hard to imagine.

  i heard this one first in 1957. i was 6. my mother had just converted.

  i heard it many times after that.

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  Happy to 'chime in' with this group here. I was 9 yrs old when I was told my folks and I would never get old - 60 yrs ago. In 1970, I was assured mom would be resurrected 'soon.' So, for a dozen years or so, I juggled these and many JW issues. I chose to accept 'reality' versus JW lulling dreams. I have not missed the unrealistic JW world for one second!
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  Kids continue to leave in droves - so what is the organization's grand plan? This

  by sir82 in

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  jws have one of the worst, if not the worst, retention rates among their kids.

  i've seen numbers from 65% to 88% who leave, never to return.. you'd think this would be a priority amongst the leadership, right?

  where do tomorrow's leaders come from, if the vast majority of kids leave the organization?

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  Thank you, sir! I wonder who of the GB were raised in org and only a couple or few in all had any biological children? I know a few years ago, it was stated on this site, there were about 88,000 elders in U.S. I wonder what percent of elders were raised in org? The org. has only been a burden for their children, totally unrealistic.

  I assume Steve Lett was raised in as he was at Bethel by 20 yrs old or so.
  
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  Beard's Coming to the Borg!

  by DwainBowman in

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  wt sept study edition, page 17, paragraph 17!

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  Gayle

  Is this a desperate measure to get the young brothers to reach out because of the organization's need for "ministerial servants"?
  
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  Tales from the Special Convention in Helsinki

  by internationalfader in

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  i created a new account since i didn't want anybody to be able to trace this back to me based on my other posts.

  i was an international delegate at the special convention in helsinki.

  i am an awake pioneer.

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  Gayle

  Finland slightly decreasing pubs. last few years. Sometimes these international conventions give some slight increase of things, though temporarily.
  
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  Happy Independence Day!!

  by Gayle in

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  "freedom is a grand thing to celebrate!

  " we came from a culture that we couldn't be 'independent.

  ' but we made it!

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  Gayle

  "Freedom is a grand thing to celebrate!" We came from a culture that we couldn't be 'independent.' But we made it!

  Celebrate it!! Fireworks and all!! ( Some can't openly celebrate it yet, but maybe in spirit)