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How I obtained my personal files from Bethel

by jwfacts in

it has taken me a long time, but i have finally put together an article outlining how i used the law to force bethel to send me my personal files.

it is a very long article full of scans, so i have linked to it at http://jwfacts.com/watchtower/experiences/personal-files-privacy-act-1988.php.

in brief, in 2006 i requested that bethel send me my files on the basis that the australian privacy act 1988 entitles people to receive a copy of any information a corporation holds about them.

Ultimate Reality

Paul, thank you for your effort. You have given a rare glimpse behind the curtain.

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Holy spirit reveals stuff through GB--July 15, 2010 WT

by sd-7 in

july 15, 2010 wt page 22, 23:.

would all anointed christians shine?.

in a sense, yes, for all christians would participate.

Ultimate Reality

All hail the Governing Body for their 'honestly explained adjustments'. Does it not warm our heart that Jesus saw fit to install these 'representatives' in 1919?

And it sounds like more blessings are going to be coming down the channel! Truly, the end is near!

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New site exposing "jehovahsjudgment"

by middleman in

many of you are already familiar with the watchtower's 10 year association with the un.

there's also a good amount of us that are familiar with the "flagship" rebuttal site of this association---> http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.

time and time again i have been referred to this website when talking to jw's about this issue.

This is now the standard policy. The Society will not provide any written information directly to a "rank and file" publisher. I think this is because people have uploaded information to the internet, but the more important reason is to avoid legal ties. There is to be no direct relationship (and potential liability) between the Mother Organization and the publishers.

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Scan Request - Dec. 15 1971 WT chart & full page

by Ultimate Reality in

hey everyone,.

i am writing an important letter to my family and i would like to get a full page scan with the famous 'chart' of jehovah down to the local rank & file.. i am hoping that the chart and the infamous, "it is a theocratic organization, ruled from the divine top down, and not from the rank and file up.

", are on the same page.

Ultimate Reality

BluesBrother,

Thank you for your contribution, it will help because, "I'm on a mission from God."

UR

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Scan Request - Dec. 15 1971 WT chart & full page

by Ultimate Reality in

hey everyone,.

i am writing an important letter to my family and i would like to get a full page scan with the famous 'chart' of jehovah down to the local rank & file.. i am hoping that the chart and the infamous, "it is a theocratic organization, ruled from the divine top down, and not from the rank and file up.

", are on the same page.

Ultimate Reality

Hey everyone,

I am writing an important letter to my family and I would like to get a full page scan with the famous 'chart' of Jehovah down to the local rank & file.

I am hoping that the chart and the infamous, "It is a theocratic organization, ruled from the divine Top down, and not from the rank and file up .", are on the same page. There are plenty of scans of the chart around but the whole page would be most helpful.

Thanks!

UR

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Memorial 2010 Your Experiences

by scotinsw in

just got back from memorial.

only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!

it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.

Ultimate Reality

The new songs are horrible. They put you in a trance. The old ones for the memorial were quite pleasing and even upbeat (Hail Jehovah's First Born), but that is no longer the case.

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CO visit provides preview of April generation change!

by agent zero in

jw
friends

i thought the april wt's brazen generation doctrine change would barely get an official mention before nor after the two paragraphs that deal with it, but yesterday i went to the circuit overseer's visit and in a talk from a bethel outline, he specifically mentioned the change, and i quote... "the very very very newest information we have available, from the april 15th 2010 watchtower!

" ..reads the infamous paragraphs.. and then, "isn't that wonderful brothers and sisters?

so now we understand that it means that brother russell's life overlapped with brother rutherford's who's life overlapped (he went through them all), so clearly, this means the end is near.".

Ultimate Reality

This C.O. may not be a true believer anymore. Perhaps he's trying to wake people up in his own way.

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Feel the Love ? ... continued

by AK - Jeff in

nov 15, 1952 watchtower pp.703-704 questions from readers .

questions from readers.

in the case of where a father or mother or son or daughter is disfellowshiped, how should such person be treated by members of the family in their family relationship?p.c., ontario, canada.. we are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from god and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of israel in the wilderness of sinai and in the land of palestine.

Ultimate Reality

What I have always found odd about this QFR (in addition to the obvious) is that the question has nothing to do with disfellowshipping for apostasy.

It's as if one can only be disfellowshipped for apostasy -- but we know that's not the case. Perhaps the author was not paying attention.

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Well, I told my mom today that I haven't been to a meeting in 5 months plus I need some advise for next Saturday

by doublelife in

jw
friends

me and my mom made plans to see each other today so this morning she called me and said she was already in my area and wanted to know where to meet up.

i told her that i wasn't ready yet so to come to my apartment first.

i said that me and my husband are still in our pjs and she gasped and ask, "you didn't go to the meeting today?

Ultimate Reality

Don't make statements of belief. Just ask questions.

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Well, I told my mom today that I haven't been to a meeting in 5 months plus I need some advise for next Saturday

by doublelife in

jw
friends

me and my mom made plans to see each other today so this morning she called me and said she was already in my area and wanted to know where to meet up.

i told her that i wasn't ready yet so to come to my apartment first.

i said that me and my husband are still in our pjs and she gasped and ask, "you didn't go to the meeting today?

Ultimate Reality

They will focus on 2 Chronicles 36:21 and Daniel 9:2. Remember, Daniel said 'devastations' -- plural. 2 Chron talks about sabbaths DURING the time the land was desolated and how Jeremiah's 70 years were fulfilled by the Persian overthrow of Babylon addressed in that same chapter.

These are one sentence references to Jeremiah 25. To know what Jeremiah said, make them read the whole chapter. Remember when you get to the section on calamity starting with Jerusalem late in the chapter, the Society applies this to events taking place in Jehoiakim's reign -- not the Temple destruction.

This also brings us to when Daniel was actually taken from Jerusalem. He was taken before the major deportation that occurred under Jehoiachin. In Daniel chapter 1, Daniel himself claims he was taken under Jehoiakim along with some of the Temple utensils. But, the Society claims he was taken under Jehoiachin. Ask them why, since 2 Chron 36 describes two separate Temple raids -- the Society glosses over this.

Focus on one point only at first: Where in Jeremiah's 25th chapter do we find the reason to apply the '70 years' to the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem rather than 70 years of servitude for all the nations mentioned in the chapter? No where will you find anything about Sabbath's for the land of Judah nor anything about the destruction of the Temple.

It is critical to understand how and why the Society has interpreted these verses. It takes some time to understand all this. Do not focus on the 'secular' evidence. Focus on the Bible and the Society's flawed interpretation.

Another Jeremiah point; focus on how Jeremiah 29 was written to exiles taken about 10 years before the destruction of the Temple (were they to be there 80 rather than 70 years?).

Finally, Zechariah chapter 7: These verses are NOT about the 70 Years of Jeremiah's prophecy but about what had been happening the past 70 years -- specifically, since the destruction of the Temple. According to the Insight Volumes he wrote this in December of 518 BCE (within the 70th year of the 587 BCE destruction date). If he did not really mean that, why did he write it? Should we not stick to the obvious and plain meaning of scriptures?