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  No longer to use "house to house record" slips and "please follow up slips"!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  a letter has just been read out indicating that effective immediately, witnesses are no longer to use the s-8 slip known as the "house to house" record slip, as well as the s-43 "please follow up" slip (usually used for foreign language people).. the letter stated that this is because of the changes in privacy laws etc that are becoming common in the world today.. i will try and get a copy of the full letter and post it asap.. .

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  What Assembly were you baptized at...

  by vilot in

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  i was baptized at the 1976 "sacret secret" dc at inglewood ca there must have been 50,000 people there..

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  1977, Inglewood, CA DC...can't remember the name of it.
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  TV.JW.ORG is coming!

  by Oubliette in

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  Wow!...that is incredibly creepy. Lett sounds like a hypnotist putting his audience in a trance. I loved the reminder that considerable money has been spent to bring this loving arrangement to the people (especially the young ones!). I guess it is time to dig deep again to cover all of these loving expenditures.
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  JW.ORG signs to be put on all Kingdom Halls! New directive.

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so i have been told that all kingdom halls are to have a large jw.org sign placed prominently out the front..... can anyone confirm this?.

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  Drove by a local hall yesterday, and there it was on the marquee...JW.ORG!
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  Controversial new film exposing the Watchtower ...... Blood!

  by koolaid-man in

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  the watchtower org.

  is getting hit in all directions, the bad press just keeps coming.

  the proliferation of critical information is unrelentless.. new apostate books are popping up at record rates, informative blogs and websites are now being created on a daily basis, conference calls and internet radio are successsfully making there debut.

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  I couldn't find the article cited, but here is a link I came across...looks like a film on blood:

  http://thewatchtowerfilm.com/
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  Hey There, so...what have I missed in the last couple of years?

  by PSacramento in

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  hi everyone,.

  so...what have i missed in the last couple of years?.

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  Hey PS...welcome back!

  So, what did your studies tell you about Theology and how has that affected your viewpoint? Are you a Believer or have you let go of Theism?

  OOPS...sorry, I posted before I saw your answer earlier...if you can expand a bit with your insight, I'd love to hear it.
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  Telephone Conversations Today with 2 Elders Re: Shunning - Or Not?

  by abbasgreta in

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  my alcoholic and aged jw mother is now extremely ill and is being cared for in every respect by my non-jw brother.

  3 sisters visited him yesterday and were adamant.

  that i (disassociated and shunned by her for nearly 3 years) was able to 'visit her any time' and that ' there was nothing to stop me seeing her' as long as i. didn't discuss spiritual things with her.

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  I am going through this myself...and I do have to say, the double standard is mind blowing! Not one of my JW relatives nor my mother's JW friends or fellow JW's would even acknowledge my presence in the past, but now that Mom needs care, they fall all over themselves to pass the financial and care burden to me. All of a sudden, I am getting phone calls and warm, friendly greetings when I see to her needs, and one of them comes by for a brief visit it's all smiles. I would not shrug my responsibility to my mother, and to her credit, she never shunned me...but I am floored at the abrupt 180 these "friends" do when they see an opportunity to shift any congregational responsibility to a "filthy DF'ed one"...hypocrisy at its finest!
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  Is this the new "Witness to all of the Inhabited Earth"?

  by tenyearsafter in

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  i just saw an email from a family member trumpeting how they met an individual and referred them to jw.org...they then followed up the next day with the individual, stressing to the "interested one" how they could read publications and have questions answered via jw.org.

  my family member then went on to write, "i just had my first rv with mr. "x".

  i guess this is the new reality of witnessing in the 21st century....

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  I just saw an email from a family member trumpeting how they met an individual and referred them to JW.org...they then followed up the next day with the individual, stressing to the "interested one" how they could read publications and have questions answered via JW.org. My family member then went on to write, "I just had my first RV with Mr. "X". I guess this is the new reality of witnessing in the 21st Century...
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  Do you think that the Jehovahs Witness religion would be better /worse if their were an equal number of male/female on the G.B.?

  by smiddy in

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  of course this is a hypothetical question , it will never happen .?

  but what if it did , what do you think the society would be like if it did happen .?.

  let your imaginations run wild .

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  Authoritarianism is the great equalizer...male or female, they would unify under the high control banner!
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  Decade after Murders, are we Safer---(Freeman article)!

  by Voyager in

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  http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-al_5freemanfeb27,0,7705711.story?coll=all-sunday-hed .

  http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-al_5freemanfeb27,0,7705711.story?coll=all-sunday-hed .

  decade after murders, are we safer?.

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  I just saw this story on "Evil Kin", a Discovery ID Network television show, and was disgusted by the story. I recall this horrific murder when it happened, but as the show detailed the events leading up to the murders, I can only conclude these two "boys" were bad seeds.

  As much as I would like to tie these slimy young men's actions to being raised JW's, I can see nothing presented on the program that would show this couldn't happen in a Christian, Jewish or Atheist home. These guys were just plain evil...they were defiant, menacing and utterly rebellious. They embraced the neo-Nazi lifestyle while rejecting and disdaining their JW upbringing. Many of us were raised in strict JW homes, but I don't recall reading about any of the people on this forum slaughtering their parents because we couldn't go out to party after our curfew.

  These brothers had no remorse...none. Despite their admissions of killing their parents and brother, the Freeman's have spent the last 18 years trying to get their sentences thrown out. So, besides being taumatized by the horror of the crimes, the community where this took place has had to shoulder the cost of all the legal manuevers these idiots have taken since their guilty pleas to get their sentences reversed. These people disgust me, regardless of their JW ties. I have no sympathy for these oxygen thieves...

  Anyone else have a chance to catch this show?...thoughts?