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  Witnesses involved in Multi Level Marketing

  by tresdecu in

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  i just ran across an old aquaintance who is a former missionary (along with his wife) - although i think they just went to serve in s.america on their own, not gilead endorsed.

  they live in the las vegas area now, and are promoting a new mlm company called 'kaching kaching' (look for it on youtube, pretty cheesy) wactching them on these videos saying things like "do you want a piece of the multi billion dollar pie???

  " just blows me away.. i can't help but wonder if they are even still active.

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  Yan Bibiyan

  Kaching my a$$...Isn't the end sooo near? Who needs Kaching...
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  The April 2011 Awake

  by Yan Bibiyan in

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  the new asleep is available on jw.org in its full color pdf glory.. i only glanced trough...seems pretty blah....except for the opening article and the pictures in particular.. the article addresses parents grieving to the loss of a small child due to an infectious disease.

  an unimaginable situation for any parent (myself included)!.

  the wt seems to show the natural reaction to the loss of a child and the expected grieving in a way that any normal parent would react.. however, it stood out in a stark contrast to the 1994 awake, where children lost to a stupid misunderstood and missaplied belief were lined up all smiling and their parents commended for the very actions that cut the life of their own children short!!.

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  LWT, funny thing you'd pick this page. Look what I found immediately to the left of you r screen shot:

  “An Uncomfortable History”

  “The Report of the Commission to Inquire

  Into Child Abuse reveals an uncomfortable

  history of Ireland,” says The Irish Times. According

  to the newspaper, this report uncovers

  a history stained by the systematic abuse

  of children in Catholic religious institutions,

  ranging from “beating children whose crime

  it was that lice had infested their heads” to

  sustained sexual abuse. The abuse was ignored

  because of misguided loyalty to “the

  absolute authority of the Catholic Church,”

  says the paper. “Shame on You, Government

  and Church,” said a headline in the Times,

  quoting the words of one who sympathized

  with the victims."

  Now, substitute "Catholic Church" with "Watchtower" and we get an uncomfortably familiar picture.....
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  The April 2011 Awake

  by Yan Bibiyan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the new asleep is available on jw.org in its full color pdf glory.. i only glanced trough...seems pretty blah....except for the opening article and the pictures in particular.. the article addresses parents grieving to the loss of a small child due to an infectious disease.

  an unimaginable situation for any parent (myself included)!.

  the wt seems to show the natural reaction to the loss of a child and the expected grieving in a way that any normal parent would react.. however, it stood out in a stark contrast to the 1994 awake, where children lost to a stupid misunderstood and missaplied belief were lined up all smiling and their parents commended for the very actions that cut the life of their own children short!!.

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  The new Asleep is available on jw.org in its full color PDF glory.

  I only glanced trough...seems pretty blah....except for the opening article and the pictures in particular.

  The article addresses parents grieving to the loss of a small child due to an infectious disease. An unimaginable situation for any parent (myself included)!

  The WT seems to show the natural reaction to the loss of a child and the expected grieving in a way that any normal parent would react.

  However, it stood out in a stark contrast to the 1994 Awake, where children lost to a stupid misunderstood and missaplied belief were lined up all smiling and their parents commended for the very actions that cut the life of their own children short!!

  Are you, WT, telling us when and how to grieve for essentially the same astronomical loss - the loss of a child?!

  Are you somehow telling us that the loss of a child due to an infections disease (which comes from the inherited imperfection resulting from sin, we all know) is somehow trivial, when the (murder) loss of a child due to a denied blood transfusion is to be celebrated?!

  Sorry for the ramble; had to get it off my chest.....

  -Yan
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  Simple explanation why "Anointed" # going up (from the CO)

  by InterestedOne in

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  i asked the co, if the heavenly calling was closed in 1935, why is the number of anointed going up?

  he simply said that the society no longer says when the heavenly calling was closed.

  have they discarded the 1935 teaching?

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  Speaking of how far back the literature on the CDROM goes, I noticed that the 2008 edition occupies only 376MB on a 700MB disc.

  So plenty of room to put about twice as much garbage on it, yet no such desire to do so...Wonder why

  -Yan
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  I'm having a baby!

  by AwSnap in

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  im just about at 14 weeks.

  whooohooooo!

  i thought i had the answers to all, until i got that "positive" on the pregnancy test.

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  You go "girl"! (no pun intended ). I have 2 girls and I guarantee you - hubby will love it!
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  My First Post on JWN- Hello!

  by Philadelphia Ponos in

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  i'll give some background information before i introduce myself.

  i faded from the organization three and a half years ago.

  i have no family members who are jws and haven't thought about this religion at all over the past three and half years.

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  In Chicago, there is a Romanian congregation because there are Romanian speaking people in the area.

  Excellent point, OTWO!

  Philly, listen to this guy, he knows what he is talking about...
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  My First Post on JWN- Hello!

  by Philadelphia Ponos in

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  i'll give some background information before i introduce myself.

  i faded from the organization three and a half years ago.

  i have no family members who are jws and haven't thought about this religion at all over the past three and half years.

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  Welcome Philly!

  I second the opinions of others advising you to stay away. To me what you are trying to do is akin to jumping into quick sand so you can better understand the properties of sillica based products.

  Be very careful, the methods of hooking you in and controlling you are the same irrespective of the language used - they are based on human psycology and we are all hardwired the same under the hood.

  Be sure to stay on the board and let us know how it goes. Good luck!

  -Yan
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  my story, would like some advice

  by deservingone26 in

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  im looking for some advice.. so i grew up as a witness was baptized when i was seventeen, which by the way i was pushed into baptizm cuse my parents kept asking me when i was and threatned to not buy me a car if i didnt get baptized.

  since it was never in my heart i was never very dedicated and was disfellowshipped by nineteen i started the process of coming back but after bout four months i moved out.

  i started partying alot mainly with my other disfellowshipped friends and nonactive jw frien, we were drinking alot and smoking weed but soon i started feeling the need to go back so i started up at the meetings but i got bored and went back to my old ways, this has been what i have been doing for the last five years, partying getting drunk and drugs and then stopping and going back to the meetings for a couple months, the same process for last the last almost five years.

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  Yan Bibiyan

  Welcome to the board!

  It may sound cliche but you have to find what makes you happy. A hobby, an educational goal, a career, volunteering, etc. Partying and drugs can be fun (not that I would know) but it's to a point and you seem to have reached this point. Take time away for a few weeks if circumstances permit, go on a vacation, think about what do you want from life.

  On the other hand, I am happy to see that you can cut through the Watchtower's nonsense and get a grip on its deceptive ways.

  Sorry to hear about how your family treats you - this is just one more indicator of how great the "good News" really are.

  -Yan
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  Hello

  by FirstLastName in

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  Yan Bibiyan

  FirstLast,

  Pad yourself on the back for exercising your god given ability to think.

  Welcome to the board!

  -Yan
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  Watchtower Library 2010 CD-ROM For Download: Ethics, Honesty, And The Internet.

  by Bangalore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower library 2010 cd-rom for download: ethics, honesty, and the internet.. http://jwtalk.net/2010/12/watchtower-library-2010-cd-rom-for-download-ethics-honesty-and-the-internet/.

  bangalore.

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  Yan Bibiyan

  Aspen60605 I do not have the link , but Welcome to the forum !