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  Major changes to convention security beginning in 2017

  by Edison Trent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  short info on interesting changes to the major conventions this year: there will be a new security concept that will be implemented at all regional conventions in 2017.. similar to other major events (e.g.

  festivals, concerts), there will be admittance controls in stadiums.. - at each entrance, there will be a massive presence of attendants that look at each visitor.. - there will be pocket checks at the entrance.. - suspicious persons are no longer left on the convention grounds.. - suppliers to the stadium will be intensively inspected by attendants.. - there will be a special sign for attendants that must enter the stadium before 7.30 am.

  all others (even all attendants) can only enter after 7.30 am..

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  snowbird

  WT has given people plenty of reasons to dislike JW's.

  It is not just ex-JW's, either.

  I knew a "worldly" man who blamed WT teaching for breaking up his marriage.

  HE. HATED. JEHOVAH'S. WITNESSES.
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  Just got back from Field Service

  by biblexaminer in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i had to work with an elder in fs today.

  there was no way out.. this elder is from africa somewhere, right off the boat.

  how do they view children?.

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  snowbird

  Blondie, you are a true survivor!
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  Good Morning!

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.

  sylvia.

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  snowbird

  Summer is coming on apace down here, Blondie.

  I hope you have a wonderful camping trip.

  We sisters are supposed to have a meetup in Atlanta, but with the main player ailing, it may have to be postponed.

  It will not hurt my feeling; that Atlanta traffic is scary.
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  snowbird

  What???
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  snowbird

  Disquisition
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  Good Morning!

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.

  sylvia.

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  snowbird

  5-9-17

  Good day/night to all.
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  Maybe you can help with this?

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as some of you know, i'm not a witness, but i am the co-author of a series of history book that discuss the watch tower's earliest years.

  russell mentions a 'brother' van der ahe as an early days wt evangelist.

  we can't identify him.

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  snowbird

  LOL.

  That first link is Rachael's.
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  A Kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (stealing Christianity)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses took mainstream christianity and replaced each part of it, one item, one term, one definition at a time, into its contrary.. holy spirit (capital letters) became a tholy spirit (lower case letters) = from a person into a mere forceful gesture.. cross became torture stake.

  (eradication of the essential symbol of historical christianity).

  soul went from ethereal spirit to a mere hunk of flesh and bone.. salvation by grace became earning your salvation one door-knock at a time.

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  snowbird

  You ain't never lied!

  Also, under Fred Franz's stewardship, a simple I AM became I HAVE BEEN.

  Even The Message Bible got that one right.
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  snowbird

  Hoot! Hoot! Hoot!

  Ezekiel 23:19-21.
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  snowbird

  Okay, okay.

  I see what you mean.

  Hubristic and overweening could be synonymous, but not hubris.

  Rueful