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  Email from a friend's mother

  by Jourles in

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  wow, i was just forwarded an email from a good friend of mine who recently moved away from where i live.

  he was telling me that his mother sent this to him after he expressed concern about the pedophile issue.

  he couldn't believe that she basically attacked him over this and that she defended the issue so strongly.

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  MUST CLERGY REPORT ABUSE IN YOUR STATE?

  by outnfree in

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  in another thread, dungbeetle had the great idea that we should become activists at least in our own states (if not in all the states which do not require reporting) for mandatory clergy child abuse reporting.. watchtower has said that the elders will be ordered to report abuse in a clergy-mandated-reporting state.

  so why don't we do this...someone put up a list of all the remaining states that do not have this rule, and we start working on the legislators of those states to implement this rule or some version of it, and to close the loopholes and strengthen any existing rules.

  it will solve one problem that i can see.

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  WT 15 June - Approves of Internet?

  by Nemesis in

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  i just noticed this in the latest mags (15 june, 2002, see picture below) on the top box: if we want .

  a concordance to the bible, we can find no better than the internet.. im just wondering if this will lead more witnesses to indulge in some web surfing, with the inevitable consequences of them coming across some critical matter?

  lets hope so!

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  Elder Rips Off Elderly

  by messenger in

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  this gives a whole new meaning to a "hiding place from the wind.".

  suspect in texas to return to miami.

  staff reports.

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  LeakyTeepee Rehab Nears Complete-FoolishJW Comment

  by MadApostate in

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  volunteers give hall needed makeover.

  by michael van sickler, palm beach post staff writer.

  thursday, january 10, 2002. west palm beach -- if there's a promised land for the jehovah's witnesses in palm beach county, it's the old leaky teepee at 1610 palm beach lakes blvd.. officially, it was known as the west palm beach auditorium.

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  Is it true Watchtower owns bomb factory?

  by avengers in

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  <a href=" http://www.machynlleth.freeserve.co.uk/wts_bombfactory.htm.

  i ran across this site, but i don't understand this one sentence: .

  mr. mccann has indicated that he donated the shares held by the watchtower society to that organization but has retained a voting proxy for those shares.

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  Is anyone near me?

  by Sky in

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  i was wondering if anyone on this forum is near cincinnati?.

  thats where i be, and i be lonely!.

  peace to all!.

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  The Bristol assembly hall scandel

  by sleepy in

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  is there anyone from the area who remmbers the story of the 30,000 spent on trees for the vist of a gb memmber.. i dont know the exact story as it is now about 7 or 8 years ago but i heard it from several people that worked on the hall.. apparently a gb memmber was to come to britian to dedicate the hall (i cant remmember which one).. the brothers in charge wanted the hall to look nice for his vist.but the land around was yet to be landscaped.. so brothers enquired as to the viability of planting some trees but were informed that it was the wrong time of year and they would die.. the cost of the trees was around the region of 30,000.plus the amount of free labour from the brothers in planting them.. anyway the big bosses of the scheme decided to ignore the professional advice and planted them anyway.. they all died.. 30.000 pounds of money from old ladies, pioneers and little children as well as ordinary publishers went down the drain for the gb's visit.. nice to know they used our money wisely.

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  The Ransome Issue

  by Amazing in

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  from a very young age i have been curious about the ransom jesus provided.

  i always wondered why god found it necessary to have his son killed for our sins or our inherited sin, when he simply could have just waved his hand and forgiven us.

  my catholic faith helped me some to understand the 'financial' exchange aspect of the ransom, but it was never truly satisfying to my sensibilities.. upon becoming a jw, i felt that they had better ideas and definitions.

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  C.O. Reports: JWs/WTS "Reach Critical Mass...

  by BitterTruth in

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  jehovah's witnesses/wts have reached "critical mass" - says ex-circuit overseer.

  ------posting copied from h2o-----.

  posted by xelder [seeker4] on july 13, 2000 at 12:00:52 {rn3hpwrs1eubi2tgjvegd9bhhxgwag}:.

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