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Who is Your Mediator? ---- proof readers required
by jwfacts in
1. watchtower
2. bible
a number of posters here have said that the watchtower doctrine that jesus is not our mediator is the one that they find most disturbing.

for this reason i have written a new article to post on my site.

the article is long, but i would appreciate if people could check it for doctrinal and historical accuaracy.
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Jerry Bergman Interview on Hayden Covington
by VM44 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
from: http://www.freeminds.org/history/covington2.htm.

dr. jennifer henderson interview with jerry bergman.

on watchtower attorney hayden covington.
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Has Anyone Ever Been "Shafted" By The Organization??
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
since i've been re-reading crisis of conscience, i've come to appreciate that many good people have been "shafted" by those in the "truth".

franz and company got the boot.

my mom got removed as a regular pioneer.
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I told my mother to stop contacting me
by kyria in
1. jw
2. friends
after two months of terribly abusive emails from my mother telling me that i "am not capable of appreciating true love" and her weird delusions that i have no friends and my life is a mess, i finally cut her off.

i blocked her email address, and i told her to stop contacting me.

yes, the jehovah?s witnesses.
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Circuit Accounts Servants Confesses how the SCAM WORKS!!
by JT in
1. jw
2. friends
yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?
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Watchtower--#0531 With United Ways!
by Voyager in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
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click on the link below, and when the first page comes up, click on (site map).. when the next page appears, scroll down to (workplace help) and look in the 2nd green area, and click on (designated restricted agencies).. when the 3rd page appears, look just above the ladies heads, and click again on (designated restricted agencies).. when the 4th page appears, scroll down the organizations names that start with the letter (w).. go here first: http://www.unitedwaysb.org/ .

watchtower--#0531. voyager.
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History of Head Covering for JW Women
by UnDisfellowshipped in
1. jw
2. friends
it is not a case of her being appointed to conduct a congregational meeting.

in such cases the dedicated brother should offer the prayer, and the sister may conduct the study with her head covered.

for if a woman does not cover herself, let her also be shorn.1 cor.
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Yes the WT Told Millions of Youth NO COLLEGE!!
by JT in
1. jw
2. friends
*** watchtower september 1 1975 p.543 questions from readers *** .

how many years of secular education are advisable for children in christian households?

today, there are many teenage baptized servants of jehovah... how far should they go with a secular education?
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Why My Wife and I Have No Kids
by JT in
1. jw
2. friends
*** g74 11/8 ***9 is this the time to have children?there has always been a positive attitude about childbearing.

*** g74 11/8 10 is this the time to have children?

what does imminent mean?
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JW Preaching Work Ends in 20th Century ?
by Scorpion in
1. jw
2. friends
page 12 of the january 1,1989 wt original magazine paragraph 8 ends with the statement that the apostle paul's missionary activity laid a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century.".

(a subtle prophecy that 'the end' will come by the year 2000 a.d.).

this sentence is changed in the bound volume reprint to read "a work that would be completed in our day.