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  Need info on Lawsuits that the WTBTS has lost.

  by Trauma_Hound in

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  i just shocked the hell out of my grandma, i sent her an e-mail copy of bowens e-mail about being sent on the wtbs tab.

  she basically called it all lies, i showed her sources, and basically told her, if she continues to support pedophiles like this, she will never see her grandchildren by me, because i will not have the exposed to a damaging religion like this.

  she e-mailed me back, and said the wtbs has never lost a lawsuit.

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  Try finding info on these:
  
  Charles Russell v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle

  In 1911 Charles Russell very foolishly and naively allowed two of his followers to persuade him that they had found a farmer who grew "miracle wheat" (wheat that produced a much greater yield than any other variety). The Watchtower Society received 30 bushels of this wheat to be sold at one dollar per pound as seed grain. The sale gained the Society about $1800 dollars (a very substantial sum in those days). Subsequently a New York newspaper, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, lampooned Russell and his "miracle wheat" in a cartoon. Whereupon Russell sued the newspaper—and LOST the case.

  Olin R. Moyle v. Watchtower Headquarters Staff

  In 1943 Olin Moyle sued the leading members of the Society’s headquarters staff for LIBEL. Moyle had been a loyal Jehovah’s Witness for many years and had even defended the Witnesses in some court cases. But on July 21, 1939 Moyle sent Rutherford an open letter of resignation. In this letter he accused Rutherford and some of his associates of excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages, improper conduct and low morals. In addition he specifically accused Rutherford of outbursts of anger, discrimination and vulgar language. In The Watchtower of October 15, 1939 Rutherford attacked Moyle publicly, in print. Rutherford wrote concerning Moyle’s letter, "The letter, being filled with false, slanderous and libelous statements... the writer of that letter... identifies himself as one who speaks evil against the Lord’s organization... every paragraph of that letter is false, filled with lies, and is a wicked slander and a libel." Interestingly, when Moyle sued the Watchtower leaders in court over Rutherford’s scurrilous Watchtower article—he WON, and the court awarded him damages of $15,000 (equal to about $200,000 in today’s currency).

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  New Way to Fend off *Sheparding Calls*

  by teenyuck in

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  2. friends

  when i read the thread about trumans experience with the brothers making a call i thought: .

  why not feign amnesia?

  you answer the door and say you are not brother/sister so & so.

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  Adding in a statement that after you were knocked out, you woke up covered in blood with someone's ear in your mouth ("maybe it's one of yours?"), might also be helpful. Expatbrit
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  Women

  by qwerty in

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  Then why do you wimmen keep on marrying them?

  Because the perfect strap-on hasn't yet been invented?

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  Here is something to debate!

  by Aztec in

  1. jw
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  does true love exist?.

  i'm a skeptic by nature, although not necessarily a very logical one.

  i believe in love but i am not sure of the idea of one true love or soulmates.

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  Love is like any other emotion, the result of chemical reactions and electrical impulses caused by external stimuli and the instinctive impulse to perpetuate one's genetic material.

  Thus questions of true or not true love, or of concepts like soulmates, are pointless.

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  The Society's response to my letter regarding my dad's suicide

  by cruzanheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, i finally got a response to my letter, and it only took them almost three months!

  models of efficiency, they are.

  actually, big tex and i think they had to run this through the legal department.

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  What a puke-inspiring letter. Just what you'd expect from the slimey serpents in WT HQ. Fake sympathy with underlying criticism and legal covering of their asses. Not a shred of decency or recognition of responsibility is to be found. Bastards.

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  The Society's response to my letter regarding my dad's suicide

  by cruzanheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, i finally got a response to my letter, and it only took them almost three months!

  models of efficiency, they are.

  actually, big tex and i think they had to run this through the legal department.

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  Integ:

  How dare you make such a nasty comment about my picture! So I wasn't looking so hot at the time, so what!

  Oh alright, it's really Davros.

  Expatbrit

  p.s. Cruzanheart, I had a little trouble making out a few words...lol
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  The Society's response to my letter regarding my dad's suicide

  by cruzanheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, i finally got a response to my letter, and it only took them almost three months!

  models of efficiency, they are.

  actually, big tex and i think they had to run this through the legal department.

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  *pacing impatiently*

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  Don't Pee in the Water You are Swimming in.....And Other Bits of Knowledge

  by teenyuck in

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  my mother....oh, if you could hear her.

  recently, my mother has taken a great interest in my health.

  i have epilepsy.

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  Tell her that you saw a TV programme where a JW picked up a nasty parasite from the microphone she was commenting into, and it ate her ovaries away. Tell her the moral is always to make very short comments.

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  Personality Types

  by breal in

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  2. relationships

  recently i have run into a few people that wanted to discuss this topic.

  i believe i am a type a or driver personality although i know it goes alot deeper than this but confused as i took two tests and came out as esfj and isfj.

  imho and based on human nature i have felt that people tend to romantisize there own perceived personality type.. i am interested in this from the standpoint that perhaps what we perceive as our personality type may not be how we come accross to others?!

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  I'm an ISTJ, which according to one of those sites is:

  ISTJs are often called inspectors. They have a keen sense of right and wrong, especially in their area of interest and/or responsibility. They are noted for devotion to duty. Punctuality is a watchword of the ISTJ. The secretary, clerk, or business(wo)man by whom others set their clocks is likely to be an ISTJ.

  As do other Introverted Thinkers, ISTJs often give the initial impression of being aloof and perhaps somewhat cold. Effusive expression of emotional warmth is not something that ISTJs do without considerable energy loss.

  ISTJs are most at home with "just the facts, Ma'am." They seem to perform at highest efficiency when employing a step-by-step approach. Once a new procedure has proven itself (i.e., has been shown "to work,")the ISTJ can be depended upon to carry it through, even at the expense of their own health.

  ISTJs are easily frustrated by the inconsistencies of others, especially when the second parties don't keep their commitments. But they usually keep their feelings to themselves unless they are asked. And when asked, they don't mince words. Truth wins out over tact. The grim determination of the ISTJ vindicates itself in officiation of sports events, judiciary functions, or an other situation which requires making tough calls and sticking to them.

  His SJ orientation draws the ISTJ into the service of established institutions. Home, social clubs, government, schools, the military, churches -- these are the bastions of the SJ. "We've always done it this way" is often reason enough for many ISTJs. Threats to time-honored traditions or established organizations (e.g., a "run" on the bank) are the undoing of SJs, and are to be fought at all costs.

  This is..um...rather accurate actually. Don't f*$^ with my balance sheet!

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  Who's your idol?

  by JH in

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  do you have an idol or a person that you look up to?.

  please, share with us who your idol is?.

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  I always liked Captain Kirk of Star Trek. I think and act like him.

  Do you.....really......speak like....this?

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