Brilliant, all of you. Just brilliant. I can't touch it. (sighs, looks down, shaking head).
Cadellin
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David H. Splane will visit Spain
by JHK inaccording circuit overseer, brother splane will visit spain branch, in ajalvir (madrid).
the objective is to sell the factory and the 450 apartment complex, how much money?
more than 1.000.000.000 euros!
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"Bearing Thorough Witness"--page 98, par. 13; Compare p. 103, par. 9, 10, 12
by sd-7 inwhen i find the same old same old in the newest publications.
here's a little sampling, from my now-favorite work of bible-based fantasy, "bearing thorough witness" about [the governing body].
note page 98, paragraph 13:.
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Cadellin
BeDuhn, BeDuhn, BeDuhn, BeDuhn...That's all, folks!
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"Bearing Thorough Witness"--page 98, par. 13; Compare p. 103, par. 9, 10, 12
by sd-7 inwhen i find the same old same old in the newest publications.
here's a little sampling, from my now-favorite work of bible-based fantasy, "bearing thorough witness" about [the governing body].
note page 98, paragraph 13:.
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Cadellin
Uh-oh, do I have his name wrong?
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"Bearing Thorough Witness"--page 98, par. 13; Compare p. 103, par. 9, 10, 12
by sd-7 inwhen i find the same old same old in the newest publications.
here's a little sampling, from my now-favorite work of bible-based fantasy, "bearing thorough witness" about [the governing body].
note page 98, paragraph 13:.
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Cadellin
Though I haven't read his book, it's my understanding that, far from being an exhaustive examination of the NWT, DeBuhn has rather focussed on comparing just a few scriptures across several translations. And it may well be that the NWT does a good job of translating those handful of occurrences (I don't know), which would have no reflection on inadequacies beyond the rather narrow scope of DeBuhn's work. I'll be interested to hear what you find, sd-7.
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According to bookstudy, it's ok to beat wife.....occassionally
by JWinprotest ini apologize if this has been mentioned, but i don't have the time to come on here as often.
yesterday's bookstudy on divorce got my shorts in a bit of a knot.
apparently, according to the god's love book, a wife could consider legal separation from her husband if she is physically abused, but (get this) only in the case of extreme physical abuse, and if the wife's life is in danger.
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Cadellin
Sickening, isn't it?
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How Much of an Impact is Being Made by Young JW' s Leaving the Cult ?
by flipper inwe have read threads where statistics show that 2 out of every 3 people raised as jehovah's witnesses eventually leave once they get in their 20's to 30's and out on their own.
my children and my nieces and nephews are between the ages of 21 to 35 .
out of those 8 people - 4 of them have completely stopped attending meetings .
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Cadellin
I was baptised in 1996 and my younger son at 8 in 1997
What the snarf is going through ANY elder's head baptizing an 8 year old boy???? After all this time, it amazes me. No infant baptism. Yeah, right.
Anyway, it seems like my situation is just the opposite from all the other posts. My husband's sibs and kids and my sister's kids all super strong, no flinching or blinking. Still, there's super-strong socio-familial pressure and I wouldn't be surprised to see something crack in the next few years.
Who knows...I feel like I'm the only one in my whole family who can see this religion for what it is. Oh, wait--I AM the only one!
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New Understanding of "This Generation"
by snowbird inam i dreaming this, or is the wt teaching "the generation that will not pass away" to be those who knew some of the anointed of 1914?.
are they crazy?
(not a rhetorical question).. sylvia.
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Cadellin
But if they leave it like this wouldn't that make it last forever seeing as how they say newly annointed are replacing the ones that screwed up? Now THAT could go on forever.
Now you're getting the idea!!!!
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Dissolved Congregation
by dudeson ini heard recently that 1 of the 4 congregations in our relatively small area has been "dissolved" and relocating many of them to the hall i used to attend.
it must be due to the low numbers these days.
our average sunday meeting attendance when i left was around 75.. does this seem to be a growing trend recently?.
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Cadellin
According to the Annual Meeting there were two new peaks in the USA during the last service year, so why are congregations being merged?
The peaks might have been in foreign language or in some "aspect" of the ministry like bible studies counted. I think a lot of these cong dissolutions are in English, where things have been stagnating for a l o n g time.
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New Understanding of "This Generation"
by snowbird inam i dreaming this, or is the wt teaching "the generation that will not pass away" to be those who knew some of the anointed of 1914?.
are they crazy?
(not a rhetorical question).. sylvia.
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Cadellin
Yes, there is a "new understanding," which was delivered at the Annual Meeting. The generations--okay, brace yourselves--overlap! As long as there are annointed whose lifespans overlap, they are all one generation.
Got to hand it to them, it's inventive, at least!
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Proof Jehovah's Witnesses have been declining for nearly 20 years? (At least in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
by slimboyfat insee the tables on pages 124 and 125 of this book:.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mtw90ykkb3gc&oi=fnd&pg=pa117&dq=scientology+jehovah%27s+stark&ots=0-yvd6jk_o&sig=vualoe-l3bxezaqktnbfhpsdj8u#v=onepage&q=scientology%20jehovah's%20stark&f=false.
admittedly these statistics don't measure the same thing official watchtower statistics do (i.e.
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Cadellin
More evidence that the decision to stop printing publisher stats in the KM each month is because the news is depressing. Now, they can just cherry pick which item (that shows the greatest increase in whatever category--placements in March of 186-page books on paper that yellows, for instance) to reveal. Of course, this is typical, razor-sharp JW logic: If we don't publish it in our lits, then it isn't true!