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Special talk by GB member by phone hook-up
by Must obey! in
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new zealand jw's had a 2.5 hour meeting on saturday to listen to a 'special talk' via telephone link-up given by a governing body member.

was it the same as gerrit losch's recent australian talk?.

when i was a jw (35 years) i don't recall this ever happening before.
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Losch reveals newer new light at Australia Zone Visit
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
okay everybody, grab your barf bag because i just got a steaming shovel full of craptastic notes from gerrit's zone visit to the land down under !!.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ read at your own risk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~puke.

zone overseer was losch and his side kick was a big black guy, quite a scolar, cant remember his name though.
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New study shows JWs have the lowest retention rate of US religions
by M.J. in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the pew forum has put out a report called the "us religious landscape survey.

", as reported in the boston globe: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/more_americans_2.html .

of note is this quote from the actual report summary: .
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What prompted the whopper of all Flip Flops? (Sodom & G. resurrection)
by Open mind in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in pre-studying my watchtower for this sunday, (with mary's assistance on v's thread of course), i was reminded of something i've wondered about re: the whole "will the residents of sodom & gomorrah be resurrected?

" question.. to my knowledge, this one holds the watchtower record for most number of flip-flops.

please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Proof WBTS is downgrading 1914
by yesidid in
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2. friends
maybe they're keeping the doctrine but they are not writing about it as much in the watchtower.. below are statistics from their 07 cd showing how many times 1914 was mentioned in the watchtower for each year 1950 to 2006 .

i have divided the years 1950 2006 into segments of eight excepting for the last, which is nine.. on the side i have the average for those years.

notice they have gone from 88.87 a year to 24.44. .
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1914 and 1919 have to go!
by Mickey mouse in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was reading an interesting thread in the "best of" sub forum about how the wbts are referring to 1914 less and less in the literature.

this thread was from 2001 (would love to paste the link here but i have serious technical difficulties with this site .

i definitely see the society using the "silent dropping" technique referenced by ray franz and expect to see 1914 discounted completely in the near future.
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Unquestioning Obedience
by trudy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i shared this in another topic list, but wanted to share it again.

i was reading an old watchtower i .

found in one of the watchtower bound volumes, year 1963. the may 1, 1963 watchtower page 283, at the .
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Anybody out there an Agnostic mentally but a Believer at Heart? (like me)
by Meeting Junkie No More in
1. watchtower
2. bible
first off, i no longer believe the bible to be the inspired word of god.

but with my heart i want to believe.

i love the idea of an all-powerful deity that cares for me and the rest of humanity.
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Anyone here that DOES believe we are in the last days of this system?
by tula in
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2. friends
just taking a roll call here.

no empire lasts forever.

no system of government will last forever.
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NewLightFlashLightStrobeLightBlackLightFleshlight!
by oompa in
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2. beliefs
i may have posted this before, but could have been really drunk and don't remember.......i am soooooo sick of hearing about new light from the wt.

for lurkers and newbies here....have you ever found one single incident in the bible where god decided to reveal or teach false teachings first....and then.......reveal the truthful teaching later?

why the hell would god want to teach a falsehood, then later clean it up to make it "the real truth"....and yet that is what has been going on for the last 100 plus years?