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  Do you believe in Ghosts?

  by Thechickennest in

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  just curious.....what is your feelings post witness about the super natural?

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  heathen

  a resounding YES! absolutely , seen them on many an occasion and believe they are demonic . These ghost threads are sometimes interesting tho,,,
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  announcement at service meeting

  by heathen in

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  i actually went to the service meeting last night and low and behold the announcement was about the wtbts not charging interest on the loans on kingdom halls anymore but they still had to pay back the principle balance , i never knew they charged interest but think that it was a very dishonest thing for them to do to begin with .

  you have to borrow money to pay for a building that the wtbts owns?

  to charge interest is a very worldly practice since it was against mosaic law to do so and clearly jesus would never have asked anything of the sort .

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  heathen

  so which is it , did the WTBTS settle out of court or did this thing actually go to trial? I do stand by my statement of the family or legal guardian of a child not doing something to protect the child. In the catholic system the church is the legal guardian of the orphans thereby placing the guilt on the church for not protecting them .
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 06-29-08 WT Study (WORTHWHILE)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the 06-29-08 wt study (april 15, 2008, pages 21-25)(life worthwhile).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  heathen

  Yah really good on the solomon being so tired of being wealthy stuff ,gee maybe he should have tried the other side of it instead of being a rich A-hole . Instead of grabbing for the wind he'd be grabbing his pee pee , complaining about being poor. There wouldn't be a thousand wives to cheer him up .
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  What's Your Personal Favorite Movie Of All Time?

  by minimus in

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  goodfellas is my favorite.

  (i love gangster movies).

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  heathen

  star wars
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  Censorship Jehovah's Witnesses PDF

  by jaydee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here is another pdf file.

  'censorship jehovah's witnesses p1' .

  that may be of some interest.. i have been asked about the provenance of these files, which is a fair question.. this is why at the end of the file , there is included a text file that lists..... title.... series number.... control symbol.... contents date range.... access status.... location.... barcode.... all of the above is verifiable .... .

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  heathen

  my bad , the adobe reader wasn't even installed .
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  announcement at service meeting

  by heathen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i actually went to the service meeting last night and low and behold the announcement was about the wtbts not charging interest on the loans on kingdom halls anymore but they still had to pay back the principle balance , i never knew they charged interest but think that it was a very dishonest thing for them to do to begin with .

  you have to borrow money to pay for a building that the wtbts owns?

  to charge interest is a very worldly practice since it was against mosaic law to do so and clearly jesus would never have asked anything of the sort .

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  heathen

  Ok well, I doubt I'll be reading 5,000 pages of court documents , apparently there was no law in place of reporting accusations to the secular authorities so families would be responsible for that, so regardless of the threat of dfing you would think the family members would do something legally of which they could have and should have done ,so they are at fault .
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  Censorship Jehovah's Witnesses PDF

  by jaydee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here is another pdf file.

  'censorship jehovah's witnesses p1' .

  that may be of some interest.. i have been asked about the provenance of these files, which is a fair question.. this is why at the end of the file , there is included a text file that lists..... title.... series number.... control symbol.... contents date range.... access status.... location.... barcode.... all of the above is verifiable .... .

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  heathen

  I tried downloading and got a blank page.
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  Society to start laminating paper backed publications

  by Lady Zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  at the wednesday night ministry school meeting, a letter from the society was read announcing that wtbts paperbacked publications will begin to be laminated.

  according to the letter, this "will save approximately 2 million dollars per year," "lengthen the life of the publications," and "increase the attractiveness" of the publications.. so there's that.. .

  also, will someone please explain to me why 85% of the congregation started smiling and nodding at this.. i sometimes think that headquarters could send the congregations boxes of turds and the jws would act like it was the best thing ever..

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  heathen

  obviously it's because they want publications to last througout the millenial reign and they don't have to walk all over the world to deliver new copies of stuff since the current modes of transportation will be no more. also explains why they needed a new 500 million dollar printing facility , so they can have a laminating department.
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  announcement at service meeting

  by heathen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i actually went to the service meeting last night and low and behold the announcement was about the wtbts not charging interest on the loans on kingdom halls anymore but they still had to pay back the principle balance , i never knew they charged interest but think that it was a very dishonest thing for them to do to begin with .

  you have to borrow money to pay for a building that the wtbts owns?

  to charge interest is a very worldly practice since it was against mosaic law to do so and clearly jesus would never have asked anything of the sort .

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  heathen

  I really don't get how the WTBTS is responsible for the child molestations that go on in the various kingdom halls . I don't think of it as the same situation with the catholic church where they do have orphanages and take advantage of children in them . The children had nowhere to go to seek help for fear of being left without a home and food. Is there a court transcript of the trial ? I'd like to see just how the court handled this stuff. True the people at Bethel do earn their way but the statment made was nobody ever got a penny of compensation for anything but we all know they do feed them and give them a couple of bucks a month for personals . I also hear they operate outside the WTBTS in the private sector with the construction crews or janitorial services . Personally I don't think it too much to ask to give your insurance check to the WTBTS for the repairs done by volunteers . It's really defrauding the insurance company to get over inflated prices from contractors and receive money based on those only to use volunteers and cut the labor cost to $0 .
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  EMPTY KINGDOM HALL

  by thebigdebate in

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  2. experiences

  i have heard from my father (who is an elder about 50 years old) that there is a great seperating work going on within the org.

  he said that almost all of the people my age 25 to 35 have quit going to our hall (about 20 people).

  i have not been to a meeting in about 1 year.

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  heathen

  It is amazing that they even continue to build more kingdom halls that can hold a couple hundred people when in reality there is about zero growth reported and the buildings are mostly empty during the meetings anyway.