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  Part 2:The Elders Return, Made Decision To Disfellowship Us On Grounds Of..

  by Lady Liberty in

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  dear friends.... "happy tuesday!

  " well the saga continues!

  i thought we had seen the last of the elders last friday night as most have you are familiar with the story.

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  MissingLink

  Very subtle lighting. Surprised anyone noticed.
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  The Biblical Flood Thoroughly Trashed

  by Farkel in

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  there are many new ones on this board who may not have seen this.

  my old friend alan feurerbacher who has done an unbelievable amount of scholarly research on many subjects must have spent about two or three thousand years researching virtually every aspect of the biblical flood story, and am providing the link to this subject (together with links to other excellent work by him).

  it's long and detailed and definitely not for those who get bored with more than four sentences of information and sound bites.

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  MissingLink

  he, he. Somebody said "ass".

  Can we move on?
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  The NORCO Jehovah's Witness Circut Assembly 2007 Expenses

  by BBOARD in

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  just wanted to share this with fellow jwd members.

  i went to the norco circut assembly and these are the recent $ numbers quoted ... .

  as of 4/14/2007 (the first of two circut assemblies) we had $10,260,22 (a surplus) .

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  MissingLink

  They may also have resident CO or Caretakers on the payroll. Although few would know about this arrangement.
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  Circuit Assembly 2007 PROGRAM

  by BBOARD in

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  for cindi_67.

  http://www.imagebam.com/image/60d3611436719.

  http://www.imagebam.com/image/5191681436720.

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  MissingLink

  I wasn't planning on going. But that does look pretty awesome! The part about "pioneering glorifies god" - wow. I didn't see that coming. I've been waiting for an invitation to expand my priviledges.

  I think all athiests/agnostics can appreciate the program because it appears to have 0 bible based talks! Its going to be 100% "you should do this, you shouldn't do that because we say so".
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  Here's the reason for the 3% jump in publishers for the past year

  by sir82 in

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  it is immigration that explains the vast majority of the increase.. who is it that immigrates?

  the poorest of the poor, the desperate ones that would be dead from starvation or execution by gangs/guerillas within 5 years anyway.

  these were not the ones being converted in their home countries - when you have to work 14-18 hours a day, 7 days a week just to feed your family, there is no time to "study", attend meetings, go out in field servce, etc.. so, they go to their new country.

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  I thought it was worth mentioning that 30 countries either had a zero or a negative (growth ?)

  I was thinking about this. Take for example Poland. It lost about 1000 members. But this was less than 1% so the report shows 0%. If all of those 1000 jws moved to Ireland (and a LOT of them did), then that would be a 20% increase! This is because of our small population in comparison to Poland. I know this doesn't account for the toal 3% growth, but it explains why numbers are rising in some educated areas where you'd expect them to be dropping.
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  The NORCO Jehovah's Witness Circut Assembly 2007 Expenses

  by BBOARD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wanted to share this with fellow jwd members.

  i went to the norco circut assembly and these are the recent $ numbers quoted ... .

  as of 4/14/2007 (the first of two circut assemblies) we had $10,260,22 (a surplus) .

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  For the society owned facilities the expense is not just for the 2 days. They take the anual expenses and divide by the number of assemblies. I know at least some of these facilites have full-time caretakers on location. These are paid pioneers. So their wages might be coming out of this fund, as well as construction/maintenance costs and utilities for the year. If there are only 4 circuits sharing, and they're paying 2 salaries out of this, then you can see how this might get expensive.

  But they don't have paid clergy.
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  New Yearbook stats for 2007 now out!

  by Dogpatch in

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  the report is out!.

  http://www.watchtowernews.org/2007report.pdf.

  cooking the books with 3% increase??.

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  Ireland had a 6% increase, but I can tell you this is definitly due to massive immigration from Poland, Brazil, and Nigeria.
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  How long have you been out now?

  by hillbilly in

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  days?

  months?

  years?

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  MissingLink

  Fading for about 5 years, but ready to make it "official".
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  How Would You Feel?

  by compound complex in

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  dear friends,.

  i realize that this has already happened to some of you, but it is a new experience for me.

  a mutual friend put me in touch with old jw friends and family from my former congregation who have exited the organization.

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  Lucky!
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  "Ring" or "Knock" ? --- "Once" or "twice" ?

  by JH in

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  in the field service, i never rang the door bell.

  i would knock all the time, because a person could be working midnight to eight and i could wake them up.

  ok, the real reason was that i didn't want them to answer the door.. and i would knock like this: "knock knock knock".......then i'd wait about 30 seconds and then another "knock knock knock" but not any harder...and i'd walk away with contentment.

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  MissingLink

  Tap lightly. . . don't wake the baby!

  There was an old fella in the cong where I grew up. He was a boxer when he was young, but now he was in his final years - nearly blind and nearly deaf. But he would knock on the doors with the tip of his middle finger. Old dude was like a freakin rock. His one finger banged louder than I could with my fist.