Get well wishes and a quick recovery, Terry!
We're worried about you and hope you'll feel better soon, bro!
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ABOUT TERRY
by Quentin interry was admitted to the hospital yesterday.
he has a severe case of cellulites which has affected his neck glands.
his face and neck are very swollen.
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Has anybody heard of anointedjw.org? Thoughts?
by Indian Larry ini stumbled across this site.
was wondering what you all think about it?.
http://anointedjw.org.
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I've gotten in touch with them through email.
In fact I think they're trying to reform the WTS from within and NOT aid the WT in its present course.
By bringing attention to the issue of Sonship as a Christian they're opening a Pandora's box at WT,
and proving their published doctrines to be nothing more than WT speculations and delusions that
are coming back to haunt them.
I say more power to them. Hip hip hurrah! And what not!
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Does the current Watchtower Bible & Tract ?
Yes, and No. The current Watchtower doesn't place many Bibles in the d2d
business but they sure do like those Tract campaigns--It gets the R&F excited.
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@R&R,
I think Moshe is right. It does make sense to try and forget the slight but really, personally, to me things like this are like a knife in one's gut.
I'm so sorry you and your family had to put up with this elder's b u ll s h it rules!
Really, they are the WTS rules and the only comfort I can offer is that you s h a r e this with anyone and everyone you have a chance to.
If you expose the insensitivity to others outside the cult you may save someone from falling prey to it.
I understand that to some, who can "rise above it," such slights may not be so important.
But I can empathize with the pain and anguish that the legalistic pharasaic petty rules of elders cause.
And it is so by design. It was designed by the petty and pharisaic minds of people like Fred Franz who didn't seem to give a rat's a s s about anyone else and their feelings.
This mentality is a disease that gets passed on by the studying Watchtower publications with mind controlled Watchtower believers.
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One smart householder!
by man oh man inyou might enjoy this lady's experience with a jw visit.
she is too nice but also more smart!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vgug6sbppy.
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Here's another YouTube video from her trying to get people to look into her preferred cultist beliefs.
If she's so smart how is it she doesn't see the cultishness she's into?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HFMMXYUMU&feature=player_embedded#!
LOL about her endorsing of Gnosticism!
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Thanks to everyone on this forum!
by cedars intoday is my first anniversary as a jwn member.
it's hard to believe that only a year has passed since i joined, but i feel that's a testament to how much i have been welcomed and made to feel like part of the furniture.. i would very much like to take this opportunity to thank everyone on the forum for the immense help and assistance i have received, particularly in my first few weeks/months of posting.
it truly was a lifeline at a very distressing time for me.
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Happy 1st JWN Birthday!
Yay!
Dear Cedars, during this first year we've seen awesome things
as a result of your hard work and toil to expose TTATT and
we are all endebted to you for the great survey, wonderful!
That survey really does shed new light on the old WT.
Your videos are entertaining and eye opening. And you're
always a gentleman scholar as a member of JWN!
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I Finally Understand the Kingdom Hall Scam
by jamiebowers inhttp://www.codyenterprise.com/articles/2009/02/19/news/doc4987722b2d8b5588859832.txt.
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As an elder and local incorporated JW Congregation "director" we received instructions on how to change the bylaws of our KH owning Congregation so that along with the RBC's remodeling loan the ownership of the KH would go to the WTS. No rebuilds get done without such a clause.
The CO as WT's representative informs the elders that they need to look at their Congregation incorporation papers and amend them so as to reflect the changes, if the Congregation elders do not do so, no money from the Kingdom Hall Building Fund is loaned to the Congregation so the RBC can make upgrades to the building. Whenever the RBC enters the picture it takes over the funds and disburses them, purchasing as many items as possible from the approved list, which the WTS has of items they either stock, or get a kick-back from.
The KH building and remodeling is definitely quite a lucrative venture for the WTS.
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Did You Have A Lot Of Meetings With The Elders?
by minimus inwe're you always in the back room with the elders?.
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Yup. Just had another one a week ago.
I've had too many backroom meetings and "home" elder visits to count since stepping down, began to partake, and started making trouble.
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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil
by Dogpatch indear randall.
good morning!.
here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!
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Two scenarios, at each extreme of what I'd hope for...
On the positive side (from my POV):
I would like to see a radical change like what took place with the Church
of God Armstrong becoming Grace Communion International.
Becoming more "Christian" and mainstream and leaving behind quirky
Rutherford & Freddy Franz theological gaffes would be nice.
On the other hand:
What I think we may see is a cracking down on expressing dissention, and too,
perhaps a confirmation of the often rumored changes with the way CO's and DO's operate.
The goal being to put more of the legal accountability on the local congregations
and BOE's while demanding more loyalty to their "Mother" Organization.
As always using obfuscation telling the R&F through elders that the changes
would be to simplify and better follow the scriptural pattern with the hope of
hiding the real trigger for the changes being the big hit of the abuser Kendrick trial.
(Like with the donation/contribution change brought on by the Swaggart case).
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Anthony Morris III tells us to stop screaming at eachother...
by cedars inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cooy7egs0mw.
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Ahhhh, I remember "Network" and sticking out your head out the window to scream I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore!
Wouldn't that just be a big relief while Thony the Thurd is going on and on about "YOU scream at each other"
I'd like to scream at him, what a fraud he is.
Paul screamed at Peter when he was being a hypocrite.
Jesus screamed and whipped while driving the money changers out of the Temple.
The WT older men minions who hound the R&F aren't supposed to scream, just calmly state "it will be announced that you are no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses (oh and by that it's implied you're going to lose your family and friends you've grown up with) but there's no need to scream, no need to get all worked up in this Organization, just keep taking the mood enhancing drugs and be a good JDoobee"
YOU know what... I shall go on quietly and surreptitiously degrading this bOrganization, like a rust on steel, like a sticky gangrenous and festering wounding stench on the on the balls of the Watchtower, sapping away its spunk of mind controling power.