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  obscure scandal for the newbies

  by carla in

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  2. scandals

  a scandal the newbies may not know about-.

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  http://jwemployees.bravehost.com/newsreports/2015.html.

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  garybuss

  Good one!

  http://jwemployees.bravehost.com/NewsReports/2015.html
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  Is The WT A Religion Or a Business?

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many claim that the watchtower organization is a business disguised as a religion?

  is this the most accurate way to describe it?

  or would you say it is a religious institution with some corporate or business strategies thrown in?.

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  garybuss

  The Watch Tower Society of the William Henry Conley and Charles Taze Russell era started out as a business. When the Watch Tower Society was founded in 1881, William Conley donated $3500 of the $5000 original capital. Joseph Russell donated $1000, with Charles Taze Russell donating only $500.
  
  The readers of the company's pamphlets were just readers of the company's pamphlets. They were not organized, they were not a religion. Mostly they didn't know each other. If they were associated with a religion at all, they were an eclectic unorganized group.
  
  Mr. Rutherford hijacked the business and turned it into a political subversion organization. Just read his writings and listen to his rants. It was still a business.
  
  When my dad started dragging us to meetings in 1950 when I was 6 and 7 years old, Jehovah's Witnesses advertised they were NOT a religion. They did advertise that they were a business.
  
  About 1953 Knorr and company were in danger of losing their tax exempt status and they quickly changed their nature and started to advertise that they were now a religion.
  
  Now, the Watch Corporations are just a BIG business and the Jehovah's Witness people are just their customers, fundraisers, and labor pool.
  
  
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  What is the Truth? How do you Define it?

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jws teach that 'accurate knowledge' is the definition of truth.

  they add to this by saying that the 'conduct' of average church goers also identifies them as not being in the 'truth.

  ' and, they define their 'organization' as being the truth, because they are a clean people who are doing right works, and teaching accurately.

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  Amazing, Truth is the earth is really whatever shape it is after you and I are gone.
  
  
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  What is the Truth? How do you Define it?

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jws teach that 'accurate knowledge' is the definition of truth.

  they add to this by saying that the 'conduct' of average church goers also identifies them as not being in the 'truth.

  ' and, they define their 'organization' as being the truth, because they are a clean people who are doing right works, and teaching accurately.

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  garybuss

  When superstition, religion, opinion, philosophy, psychology, and politics are removed . . . reality is what's left. Truth to me, is not needing explanation, not debatable, and not reducible. Proof of untruth is explanation, debate, and reduction. Planet earth is round = truth.
  
  OUTLAW's truck story is not reality . . . that's just plain old bad luck.
  
  
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  Demons under the bed..................

  by Warlock in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you know, some of you say the j.w.

  's see demons under the bed.. well, you know, some of you see j.w.

  's under the bed.. that's all.. warlock .

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  garybuss

  Deemins are like colds . . . ya catch em. They git in through the ears and the eyes mostly. They can travel in items like Ouija boards and books.
  
  
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  What is the Truth? How do you Define it?

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jws teach that 'accurate knowledge' is the definition of truth.

  they add to this by saying that the 'conduct' of average church goers also identifies them as not being in the 'truth.

  ' and, they define their 'organization' as being the truth, because they are a clean people who are doing right works, and teaching accurately.

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  garybuss

  What is the Truth? How do you Define it?
  
  Reality.
  
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  Does anyone have a scan? - JUNE 15 2009 WT Study Edition

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this one has an important article on the faithful steward and the governing body.

  cannot find one anywhere.... .

  thank you in advance!.

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  garybuss

  Good stuff! Thanks!
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  Shunning is a Great Anti-Witness

  by outofservice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i spent an hour and a half last night on the phone with my mothers boss.she has worked for him for years and i have known him since i was a teenager.

  he called because he could not believe she was not coming out here to see her oldest grandson graduate from high school.

  he said i offered her a plane ticket and everything i could think of to get her to come and she refused.

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  I've found I don't need to do any negative advertising for the Jehovah's Witness people. They do a fine job all on their own.
  
  
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  Need advice, they are trying to suck me in!

  by Searchinggal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am hoping you can help me.

  i have a very dear friend of over 20 years, who was brought up jw.

  our children are friends and we have vacationed and been like sisters all these years.

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  how do I stay her good friend without becoming a JW?

  Ask her.
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  1974 Is This Life All There Is?--PDF!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1974 is this life all there is?--pdf bookmarked searchable reduced front cover?

  click here: http://www.imagger.com/view/865440_scan-20001.jpg.html old book is a bit rough but will provide a few quotes.

  such as: knowing these things, what will you do?

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  garybuss

  Got it! Thanks!