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  Did you ever feel let down by the Bethel tour?

  by maninthemiddle in

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  2. friends

  reading jeff's thread about dress made me think of my one and only trip to bethel.. i can't remember if i was babtised at the time, but i went with a bus load of jws.. like someone said in the last thread, printing presses and empty rooms.

  i was very disapointed, however i don't think i had any pre-concieved notions of what it would be like.

  what i was diapointed in was so much of the "tour" was walking hallways looking at exhibits behind glass.

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  How many people have read the bible...Graphic...

  by maninthemiddle in

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  ..and probably very accurate.. http://standardmadness.com/offbeat/people-who-have-actually-read-the-entire-bible.

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  I Just had to..(picture)

  by maninthemiddle in

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  i saw this in the clearence bin and couldn't pass it up.

  the frame came with a grand mother, mother, and daughter picture in it.. .

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  What would this religion look like if.....Revelation was never included?

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since it is the largerst contributer to the "7 times" and to the 144k.

  this would of couse wipe out 1914 and 1919.. since the wts like to use bible imagery to apply to them selves and modern times, that would basically just leave jesus' words and paul's and others letters .

  (daniel too).

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  Ever had that dream where....

  by maninthemiddle in

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  2. humour

  http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1783#comic.

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  Frustrated with Holidays

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know we have all talked about the fact that holidays today don't mean what they did in the ancient past.

  i don't like the word pagan, becuase of all the negative conatations associated with it.

  but with something as simple as valentine's day; that the history beyond the known facts that a christian known as valentine was martyed on feb 14th, why is there so much disdaine for it?

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  New crazy predicting the end of the world.

  by maninthemiddle in

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  mabe the ws needs to talk to him, they haven't predicted a date is a while.. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/ba8v1av589.dtl&tsp=1.

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  JW therapist????

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i read on a facebook thread some talking about going to a jw therapist, i didnt't know there were any.

  i remember a young girl that da and my mother blamed it on a "worldly" therapist.

  knowing what i know of her family it had to be the best decision of her life.. .

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  Scans from Messanger about Beth-sarim 1931 with pictures.

  by maninthemiddle in

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  2. beliefs

  here are two pages about beth-sarim printed the the wtbs rag the messenger in 1931. they are scans of a copy, so not the best quality but readable, just view them full size.. feel free to save them for later, so many don't belive it existed, of course this article won't say the real reason.. if i can get my hands on the copies again i will rescan them better.. right click and "save as" will help.. scan1.

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  Article on Education and Belief in the bible

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i found this while sifting through old papers at my aunt's house.

  even though it isn't a wts paper, it loooks like someone "studied" it very well.. there have been related topics in the past, but i think this goes to show it is not just jws.

  the second page has a wonderful graph that i think says more than the article.. .

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