Because the judicial branch is (supposedly) not political. He wasn't a real judge anyway. Sober Joe was a substitute judge one time, for what would be the equivalent today of a municipal court that hears traffic tickets and shoplifting charges. Also it was before he became a Russellite.
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Jw's and the third branch of government
by trujw ini have always wanted to ask a jw how many branches of government their are?
most likley they would be hard pressed to know that there are three.
then i would like to ask why is it ok to run and participate in one branch proudly ( the judicial) but have nothing to do with the other two.
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JW's Sandy Respond Show off
by pixel inthis just post on their website:.
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http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/americas/united-states/video-clip-hurricane-sandy-relief/.
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Take away #2 (after I finished drying my tears): Your generous donations are hard at work flying WT heavy Gary Breaux (pronounced "Bro") in a chopper all along the New Jersey coast. You might protest that this helicopter ride is unnecessary, but that's where you would be wrong. He was using his new JW-detector 3400 goggles to detect JW houses to swoop down upon and repair. A lack of nearby landing pad is not a problem. As long as the next door neighbor is not a JW, the WTChopper1 is authorized to land on top of the debris of their houses. Unless it's a really nice one that can be rebuilt and appropriated for JW-use after the big A when its occupants are destroyed. You go Breaux!
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JW's Sandy Respond Show off
by pixel inthis just post on their website:.
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http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/americas/united-states/video-clip-hurricane-sandy-relief/.
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Chaserious
Take away: If you have no valuable skill and would just rather do "keep it in the family" disaster relief than go out in field service, you too can be part of a 15 person human conveyor belt for carrying garbage 20 feet from the house to the garbage truck. Maybe the contractors will learn a thing or two from this operation.
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Will the 'Make Good Use of Our Official Website' discussion backfire?
by jw07 ingood day everyone,.
i'm a born in jehovah's hostage, and am still a hostage until i can wake my family up (wishful thinking i know).
i'll formally introduce myself later.. for now i have some burning concerns about the service meeting part for the week of december 24, 2012.
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Maisha: I'm not sure I understand what you are proposing? Are you suggesting Typosquatting?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting
That doesn't tend to work out too well. I don't understand what you are suggesting about the two letter domain name, also. New domains have to be three letters or more, but existing ones were grandfathered in:
aa.com (american airlines)
ge.com (GE)
db.com (Deutsche Bank)
un.org (United Nations)
And many more, I'm sure...
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Welcome, and best of luck with this. As someone who is not a JW, there is no reason you can't do your own research and present it to him, even if it would be considered "apostate" by JWs. If he tries to use the buzzword, try to explain to him that you are trying to learn both sides of the JW doctrine with an open mind, and whatever label he wants to put on certain reasoning, the most important part is what is correct. I think the books that were mentioned were a good start, but I think specifically what logic you use depends on what kind of person he is and what attracts him to JWs. Some JWs are really into the prophesy and doctrine (and I think a large percentage of those are the ones who end up here, lol). If he is into the detail of bible chronology, prophesy, etc, I think the best ammunition is the sheer frequency with which they change their interpretations of these. It's enough to make your head spin. There is plenty about that here and on the other Truth about JW sites & blogs.
But for a large portion of other JWs, it's enough for them to wave their hands and assume all of the "deeper" doctrine is true, because they enjoy the social aspect of it, or they are under the impression that the JWs are "cleaner", "happier" or whatever, or the glitzy prospect of living forever on earth is too good to pass up (even if it does sound a little too good to be true). It can be a little harder, because this group tends to not care about or even understand the doctrine, so proving its foolishness is not going to help. I think if this is the case, it's a combination between discovering the underlying reason he feels some kind of need, and exposing the cracks in the armor. Things like the families they break up through shunning, the intellecutual growth they stunt by discouraging education, the lives lost due to the blood policy and former policies that have now been tossed away, like vaccines and organ transplants. Not to mention the change in the blood policy where they now take all kinds of things that are part of blood, like hemoglobin, which is almost the entire red blood cell. They love to use the illustration that if you were told to abstain from alcohol, would you inject it in your veins? What about if you had a peanut allergy, would you eat peanut butter, peanut brittle, and things made with peanut oil? Would he want you to be left a widow if he got sick and needed a transfusion because of following this organization's strict, but ever changing blood policy? If they change their policy in 5 years like they have done lots of times before, will he have died for God or died for his Watchtower leaders?
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People who will never hear the WT message
by jgnat inyou are all familiar with the heartwarming images of people from all lands joining in a "great crowd" marching in to the promised land.
it occurred to me with more than nine countries and 1.6 billion people who are not recorded in the yearbook, that a great number of ethnic groups will not be represented.
china.
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There are tens of millions of Christians in China. If there are no or only a few JWs there, they can not be said to be the only ones preaching the gospel to all the nations without sounding dishonest or ignorant.
You mean tens of millions of Christendomites spreading false religion.
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Good Reasons To Hate Every Weak And Ex-Jehovah Witness.
by AuntConnie in1. my husband's time is finite, it's wasted on spouses arguing over money, sex or family mattters with stupid home visits.. .
i hate people's constant open hand for money, it's the weak individuals asking others to pull their weight.
my family worked extra hours instead of begging the strong members for district assembly money, cat food for seven cats or tiny little rag-a-muffins weiner dogs.. .
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I figured she was just trying to be funny.
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Good Reasons To Hate Every Weak And Ex-Jehovah Witness.
by AuntConnie in1. my husband's time is finite, it's wasted on spouses arguing over money, sex or family mattters with stupid home visits.. .
i hate people's constant open hand for money, it's the weak individuals asking others to pull their weight.
my family worked extra hours instead of begging the strong members for district assembly money, cat food for seven cats or tiny little rag-a-muffins weiner dogs.. .
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Lol... good first post. It took me two reads through to figure out exactly what you were talking about, but it was funny. Those pubs were always something else who always called around the hall looking for rides everywhere, to the meetings, to the grocery stores., to pick up medicine. Also calling around looking for somebody in the hall to fix their busted car or house instead of hiring someone.
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Do they still follow the same backwards policy on AIDS?
by Chaserious ini was browsing through some of the boe letters (made available here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/243938/1/all-letters-to-elders-from-the-branch-1981-2012-boe) and came across the 3/15/96 letter about persons with communicable diseases.
it specifically mentions aids several times in the letter and seems to be primarily targeted at that population.
among other gems:.
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These questions were added in 1996, so I guess that's when they started asking them. I was dunked in 1996, coincidentally, and I don't remember this question, but it's not something that would have left much of an impression at the time, I suspect. I was dunked in a pool in a JW-owned assembly hall, where the pool was always kept filled, so maybe they kept those chlorinated, but not pools in rental halls or stadiums. BTW, the letter reads in part:
" To assist the elders in providing guidance for those with a communicable and potentially fatal disease who request baptism, the following additional questions are to be reviewed with candidates for baptism. In addition to this letter, an insert for the Our Ministry book outlining this information will soon be provided for each elder.
When covering question 4 on page 191 under the subheading "Sanctity of Life," be sure to include the following questions:
(a) What responsibility rests upon a person who is infected with a communicable disease that is potentially fatal?
Keeping an eye, not in personal interest upon just your own matters but also in personal interest upon those ofthe others.-Phil. 2:4.
All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them.-Matt. 7:12.
(b) To avoid transmitting a potentially fatal disease to others, (I) why would it be better for an infected person not to initiate public
displays of affection such as hugging and kissing?
(2) why would it be best to attend the Congregation Book Study at theKingdom Hall, if at all possible?
(3) why should infected ones not react negatively when some choose not toinvite them into their homes?
(4) why would it be wise to choose voluntarily to have a blood test beforebeginning a courtship?
When covering Question 3 on page 217, be sure to ask the following question: (a) If one has a communicable disease, why is letting the presiding overseer
know about it before that one gets baptized the loving thing to do?"
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Do they still follow the same backwards policy on AIDS?
by Chaserious ini was browsing through some of the boe letters (made available here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/243938/1/all-letters-to-elders-from-the-branch-1981-2012-boe) and came across the 3/15/96 letter about persons with communicable diseases.
it specifically mentions aids several times in the letter and seems to be primarily targeted at that population.
among other gems:.
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Chaserious
I recall the pools being chlorinated, but I'm not positive. As far as the elders not knowing if someone has AIDS, in the same letter I was referring to, it said that a question would be added to the baptismal questions about the responsibility of someone with a communicable disease to inform the elders. So basically everyone that gets baptized has to promise the elders they would tell them if they had AIDS.
Also, I don't think they could sue over not being invited over, at least in the U.S. Besides obviously not suing if they want to remain in good standing in the org, people can invite whoever they want to their house socially. The discrimination laws don't apply to private social settings. Not illegal, just unchristian. WTBTS.