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  Memorial partakers this year?

  by punkofnice in

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  will there be over 12k 'partakers'(tm) this year?.

  won't the wbt$ publish the amount of 'partakers'(tm) of the vinegar and crackers this year given that they stated this in qfr watchtower 15th august 2011 page 22 ????

  (wow!

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  Given a modest 4% increase in comparison with recent years the total of Memorial partakers is 12,297 for 2012.
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  Watchtower Library 2012 - download.

  by Fernando in

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  please does anyone know if it will be, or is available yet, and if a download link exists yet?.

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  The filestube link seems to work ok.

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  One obvious deletion is the summary page in the yearbook with the totals for the year.

  The Memorial Partakers number isn't given as it has been the custom for years.

  Instead they've included a few WT service year story experiences. You know the type.
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  Circuit Assembly Highlights. Day 1

  by DATA-DOG in

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  well things were actually pretty boring.

  i mean really boring.

  that's the price of fading i guess.

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  I have found a way to tolerate sitting at a CA for the day.

  It's called napping.

  Unfortunately, if I snore my wife elbows me.
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  Whats happened to Commentary Press

  by BlindersOff1 in

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  is it planning to reprint rays books?.

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  @ Ray Publisher and @ Indian Larry

  The link in pirate bay is for a pdf file.

  Is there a link to the audio recording?
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  RBC biggie divulges WTS expects disaster victims helped by RBC volunteers to fork over insurance money to the WTS

  by oppostate in

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  my wife spent all morning long preparing this super thanksgiving banquet.

  with a huge turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce.

  and greenbeen salad, pie and icecream.. yummy!.

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  My wife spent all morning long preparing this super Thanksgiving banquet

  with a huge turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce

  and greenbeen salad, pie and icecream.

  Yummy!

  Well, we can call it NOT a Thanksgiving dinner because we had it today, Saturday,

  and every good jW Yankee knows Thanksgiving Day is on Thursday so if you had

  the same meal but on a different day then you can theocratically call it a get-together.

  Anyway, we just had this get-together and had long discussions with two couples

  who are heavily involved in an RBC in New England. Among their many accounts

  of volunteers giving their time and helping people rebuild, they divulged that the

  Society expects disaster victims who are helped by an RBC to turn over all the

  money they receive from insurance companies because the RBC helped them.

  So volunteers give of their time and effort, paying their own way, and helping

  rebuild damaged properties, then the Society gets the money from insurance.
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  any ex witness from maryland ?

  by unstopableravens in

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  hi i have not been here for a while i did not have a working pc how has everyone been ?

  just wondering if there a re any ex jws from maryland.

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  I used to be in the Clinton Cong. in Prince George's County.

  Go Redskins!
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  Greetings! From an Existent JW!

  by Ethos in

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  i'd like extend a greeting to all members of jwn.

  i've been a lurking by-stander of this forum for approximately 6 months.

  i think this forum's best moments can be attributed to the involvement of actual jw's in doctrinaire discussions and to heated (though not always dialectic) debates.

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  Granny Grace has a question I'd also like answered by you, Ethos.

  Why should her family shun her because she doesn't believe that Jesus came invisibly in 1914?

  Let's stick to one subject and please answer that in a way that is scriptural and can give a proper answer to a grandmother who is being denied the love of her family due to WT rules.
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  HUGE, Faithful and discreet slave SEPARATED from other annointed now!!

  by EndofMysteries in

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  i almost missed this in my last post, but i just realized how important and must list it.

  paragraph 14 from jan 15, 2010 wt last article entitled "jehovah's way of ruling vindicated".

  "a few anointed members of "the israel of god" still remain, and as jesus' brothers, they continue to act as "ambassadors substituting for christ (2 cor 5:20) they have been appointed as a faithful and discreet slave class to care for and provide spiritual food for annointed ones and a growing crowd of christians, who now include millions having the hope of living on earth forever.

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  Thanks EndOfMysteries for giving us meat in due season.

  Good catch and 2 years ahead of the annual meeting!

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  Note to any lurking bethelites and traveling brothers:

  "As always you heard it first on JWN!"
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  Another doozie from DO Brown Payne about "many JW's compromising their neutrality" and voting for Obama

  by oppostate in

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  bro do brown payne told the audience of today's sa day at natick mass.

  that "many brothers compromised their neutrality by voting in 2008".

  he followed that by asking "and what has this president done for you?

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  Bro DO Brown Payne told the audience of today's SA day at Natick Mass. that "many brothers compromised their neutrality by voting in 2008"

  He followed that by asking "And what has this President done for you?" He smirked and said "Nuttin' Honey!"

  Which was received with loud chuckles by the audience. He went on to say "And what's the next guy gonna do for you?"

  He answered his question: "Same thing. Nuttin Honey!"

  I wonder if by saying "the next guy" he thinks Romney is going to win the presidency.

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  (BTW Bro Brown Payne is black, a military veteran, with time in Vietnam from what he shares about "war crimes", he said Jehovah has fogiven us if we did awful things in wartime and when coming into the "Truth" we confessed to Jehovah and to the elders about "our wrongdoing in the war". One wonders what kind of wrongdoings he did while in Vietnam?)
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  DO Brown Payne tells SA audience Serena Williams "disciplined" by her local elders for swearing on TV

  by oppostate in

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  2. beliefs

  at today's special assembly in natick ma, bro brown payne annouced to the audience that serena williams was disciplined by her local elders for her swearing escapade on tv.. saying: "can jehovah's witnesses swear like that on tv?

  " then he told the audience that she was "disciplined" by the elders of the congregation she's a publisher in.. doesn't this smack of revealing the private business of another person?

  the most the local elders could have said was "a matter concerning serena williams has been handled by the elder body".

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  What would make Serena Williams sue the WT?

  Probably not the fact that elders supposedly disciplined her.

  The way DO Brown Payne said it was almost like Serena took the discipline and as a JW she wont be doing that again.

  His remarks that this brought reproach on Jehovah's name made just about everyone taking notes start writing down what he was saying.

  I'm sure there's a lot of notes and even the recording done by the sound department that can be used in a lawsuit.

  But would Serena Williams sue the WT? Probably not.

  She's a mouthy but obedient J-Doobie or so it was presented.