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Yeah, there's an app for that!
by DNCall inif you search on "jehovah" in the app store on iphone, you will find some amazingly telltale apps that reveal the kind of thinking fostered within jw culture.. to quote from one called ministry school timer: "the bible highlights timer allows you to not only time the bible highlights but also to time each individual comment, which also counts them and averages them.
each comment time will appear in a list and those over 30 seconds long will appear in red.
" so now brother school overseer can ream the brothers with precision when they go overtime on their comments.. another one called my time offers: ".
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Has any other GB member achieved a university degree aside from Lloyd Barry?
by DNCall ini can't think of one.
anyone .
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DNCall Unmasked - Part 5 of 5
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during the appeal period of one week we sent the following letter to approximately 22 of our oldest and closest friends.
im including it here because it conveys how we feel at present, looking back over the half-century of our lives.. dear ____,.
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DNCall Unmasked - Part 4 of 5
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even though i didnt have the title of elder, i was still active in my work at bethel and the congregation used me as much as possible.
when the congregation recommended that i once again serve as an elder, one elder raised the objection that that barbara was a low-hour publisher.
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DNCall Unmasked - Part 3 of 5
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by the 1990s it became necessary for me to seek work outside of music.
barbara, who had to help support our family in the mid-1980s, was working as a legal secretary and suggested i consider doing the same.
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DNCall Unmasked - Part 2 of 5
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i was one year old at the time of my fathers conversion.
although my three older sisters were required to attend the meetings, they never accepted the teachings.
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DNCall Unmasked - Part 1 of 5
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prompted by the thread started by wha happened (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/179005/1/a-good-friend-of-mine-was-dfd-this-week), i thought i would introduce myself and tell my story.. i am frank kavelin.
my wife barbara and i were recently disfellowshipped for apostasy.
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70 Years of Jeremiah 25:11 = 609 BCE to 539 BCE?
by DNCall inbablyon defeats assyria at the battle of harran (509 bce) and then babylon is defeated 70 years later (539 bce).. in verses 11and 12, jeremiah refers to a 70-year period of judah and the surrounding nations serving the king of babylon until the king of babylon is called to account.
although the devastations of judah, jerusalem, its temple and jewish exiles are tied to this general time period, jeremiah does not speak of these events as defining the 70 years.. society chronology aside, isn't it irrelevant when the temple was destroyed, in determining the fulfillment of jeremiah's 70-year prophecy?.
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Fractional Withdrawal
by DNCall init occurred to me that by introducing the concept of accepting blood fractions as being a conscience matter, the society has established a precedent for the disposing of other unfounded teachings.. consider, for example, birthdays:.
on your birthday it is allowable to eat cake.
it is allowable to light a candle or candles.
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The 144,000, a Subset of "Spiritual Israel"?
by DNCall inthis is an alternative to "spiritual israel" and the 144,000 being one and the same.. two scriptures might support the subset idea:.
first, revelation 7:4-8 states that the 144,000 are "out of" the 12 symbolic tribes of "spiritual israel"--12,000 "out of" each tribe.
this would indicate to me that "spiritual israel" is a larger body than the 144,000 (whether a literal number or not).. second, the new covenant is said to be between god and "spiritual israel," entitling its members to be children of god and brothers of christ.
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