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  Salter called Rutherford a liar....WOW

  by HappyGuy in

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  i had never heard of this letter before.

  not sure how william salter was exactly.

  someone high up in the organization at some point.. i didn't go looking for this, i was rooting around on doc bob's site looking or the baptism questions and i stumbled across this letter that salter wrote to rutherford.. he just comes right out and calls rutherford a liar.

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  Do the "top" men in the WTBTS go in field service?

  by HappyGuy in

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  i read in a letter from walter salter to j. f. rutherford that salter states that rutherford does not go in field service and salter admonishes rutherford to start going in field service so that he will "know what you are talking about".. i found this a bit surprising.

  so, i want to ask anyone who knows the inner workings at the hqs.

  do the top men go in field service?

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  What is your favorite poem? Here is mine

  by HappyGuy in

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  thou hast made me endless,.

  such is thy pleasure.. this frail vessel thou emptiest again and again,.

  and fillest it ever with fresh life.. this little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales,.

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  Tangerine Dream play the Devil's Music

  by HappyGuy in

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  i guess one of the things that i hold most against the senile octagenarians who run the wtbts and tell us things like "rock music is from satan" is how much music i either missed out on or felt guilty about listening to.

  i love music.

  everyone who knows me can tell when i am not listening to enough music.

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  "Put Jehovah First...." what does this mean? Anyone?

  by HappyGuy in

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  i was baptized at the age of 15, my father was very opposed.

  i loved god and wanted to be a spiritual person.

  so, anything in the literature which told one how to be a spiritual person was of great interest to me.. i remember hearing and reading this phrase over and over and over again "put jehovah first".. don't get an education - "put jehovah first".. don't take that emt certification course that meets on tue and thursday for 6 weeks - "put jehovah first".. don't get a real career, be a janitor and "put jehovah first".. don't spend time with your "worldly" parents on the weekends, instead abandon them and fill your time up with field service and meetings and "put jehovah first".. .

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  Will the 10th planet cause an "Armageddon"?

  by HappyGuy in

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  i hope this dude is wrong.. http://www.kkglorychurch.com/z-the%20end%20of%20the%20world.htm.

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  Why does God hate Grand Funk Railroad?

  by HappyGuy in

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  like all teenagers of the early 70s i loved grand funk railroad.

  especially their live album.

  yes, mark farner is probably the worst guitar player in the history of music but mel shacher is the best bass player in the history of music.. their music is so silly.

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  The real harm done by the WTBTS

  by HappyGuy in

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  when i first realized that the wtbts was not teaching the truth, i thought "well, they are basically good people and teaching some morals, so what real harm is there?"..

  then i started looking at the opportunity cost.

  by this i mean all the things that a jw does not have access to if they believe the wtbts nonsense.

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  The tone and voice of the WTBTS publications/writings

  by HappyGuy in

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  i hope this doesn't sound too strange.

  the first wtbts book that i read was the studies in the scriptures.

  my grandfather gave my favorite cousin the entire set when we were both around 12. we read these books cover to cover like they were comic books.

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  The homeless sister and the $60,000 RV

  by HappyGuy in

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  i was in a congregation once which had a large number of desperately poor people in it.

  there was an elderly sister, she lived near me, a sweet woman, who became homeless because her ramshackled old house caught fire.

  around that same time one of the overseers (imagine that using a slavery term), i forget if it was district or circuit overseer, came to town wanting a new rv/truck combo.

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