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  Jehovahs Witnesses to morph into a Tele-evangelical religion .

  by smiddy in

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  JeffT

  BTW: anyone know if you can block TV channels?!

  Simon, obviously I don't know what cable system you're on. I just looked and I can do it on Comcast (its a parental control code). I expect other systems have something similar.
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  Taking Back The Kingdom Halls.

  by RunAsFastAsYouCan in

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  thesis: the kingdom halls as a real estate entity could be couped; coup d'etat.

  a group of 3 elders as trustees could sell the kingdom hall out from under mother watchtower corporation.

  spread the money to the community or non profits, or just give it as a distribution to the congregation who paid for the kingdom hall.

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  The Watchtower has plenty of lawyers. I suspect that no matter how the land is titled the Watchtower Society has a lien against it, which would make transfer of title impossible without paying off the lien.

  Edited to add, I think the society could also foreclose on the property if the agreement between the local congregation and the Society is breached. A few years ago a bank served my boss with notice that he was in default of his loan agreement due to crime in one of his apartment buildings. We were current on the loan, but violating other terms of the agreement is still a breach of the contract.
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  Read a tribute to Ray and Cynthia Franz and leave your condolences at this webpage:

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  a webpage tribute to cynthia & ray can be found at http://www.commentarypress.com/.

  on the bottom of that webpage is a place that you can leave your condolences and thoughtful commentsfor the families of cynthia and ray.. for more information about cynthia's death, see http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/270338/1/cynthia-franz-died-december-29-2013#.utl16zdnbl8.

  barbara and joe.

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  Thank you, Ray and Cynthia were great people, I wish I could have met them.
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  Next time I see a JW

  by JeffT in

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  'm going to ask a question:.

  since you believe that people of multiple ages overlap to form one generation, why can't you believe that three dieties (father, son, holy spirit) overlap to form one god?.

  might provoke an interesting reaction..

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  'm going to ask a question:

  Since you believe that people of multiple ages overlap to form one generation, why can't you believe that three Dieties (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) overlap to form one God?

  Might provoke an interesting reaction.
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  This will be fun. What is your generation count?

  by Defianttruth in

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  the wbts teaches a overlapping (generation) will not pass away since 1914 right?.

  what is your personal genealogy.

  (1) my great grand father was born in 1901. he became active with the bible students around 1910. .

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  Dad was born in 1920, me in 1951, oldest son in 1975, grandaughter in 2004.
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  Europe in 1914 ...

  by fulltimestudent in

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  try this bbc site:.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1.

  and as an aside, while studying a unit called japan in asia from 1840, i had cause to read a lot of commentary on the 1904/05 war between japan and imperial russia.

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  To be fair to the Watchtower, they aren't alone in buying into the idea that everything was great until the Archduke was assinated and then the world was plunged into war. It's a commonly believed narrative that just doesn't have a basis in fact. I think the idea grew out of wartime propaganda (both sides were trying to blame the other for destroying the nice peaceful world). If I remember where I read that, I will post a link.
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  Sometimes the real world gets in the way

  by JeffT in

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  as a few of you may have noticed, production of my fiction and articles stopped a couple of months ago.

  since early november, caring for my 91-year-old mother has consumed most of my available time, energy and emotion.

  i keep hoping that this will change, it does not show any sign of doing so.

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  As a few of you may have noticed, production of my fiction and articles stopped a couple of months ago. Since early November, caring for my 91-year-old Mother has consumed most of my available time, energy and emotion. I keep hoping that this will change, it does not show any sign of doing so. In the meantime, I keep noodling around with “Armageddon’s Prisoners,” and a couple of articles on business and religious subjects. The next chapter of “With Our Backs to the Wall” remains about ninety percent done. It may not help that I’m trying to write for two (or more) audiences at once, but when I have the personal resources it’s a good way to deal with writer’s block. If I stuck on one thing, I worked on another.

  But writing requires a lot of mental energy. My head is full of characters and situations demanding my attention if they are going to grow. Even the care and feeding of alien invaders requires considerable work. For the moment, my creations lie frozen in amber, awaiting my return to the word processor. I hope to reanimate them in the near future, you will all hear about that when it happens.
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  For the many who remember "just2laws," he had a massive heart attack last night...

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  and died at home in panama city beach, florida.

  steve imhof, a bethelite in the 1970s and former very active elder who became a very vocal wt critic starting in 2002, was 65 years old when he died.

  he was father to three children and two grandchildren.

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  My condolences to the family.
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  Do You Own A Firearm? Would You??

  by minimus in

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  2013 was a record breaking year for firearm purchases.

  2014 is supposed to be a record breaker for ammunition.. do you own a firearm?

  but i support that right for others---if they are qualified..

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  I used to, I may yet again. FYI, shotguns are better for self defense, too many things can go wrong with handguns if you're not an expert.
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  Suggestions for car buying

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  if you were a lady and you were 55 and had $5,000 or less to spend on a used car, what would buy?

  top concerns: good mpg; reliable; in not having major issues like ball joints breaking, timing belts breaking, etc.

  not too expensive to maintain.

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  Re: snow and four wheel drive.

  If you buy a four wheel drive learn to drive it (if you don't already know). A number of years ago we drove to my in laws for Thanksgiving in a snow storm. I started keeping track of cars in the ditch just as we started up the mountains. Fifty miles later I lost count at 24, 21 of which were four wheel drives.