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  2012 Memorial Partakers--12,604!

  by Atlantis in

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  2012 memorial partakers total 12,604.....atlantis

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  Mary

  Flipper said: It used to be they FERVENTLY declared that no new anointed would be allowed after 1935 and that the 144,000 had been sealed to completion by that year.

  Essentially true, but they still allowed for the occassional "replacement" without too much hassle. Depending on who you were. Ted Jackass Jaracz wasn't even baptized until 1941 and he didn't start partaking until 1971. Seeing as he was alreay pretty high on the ladder by then, I doubt anyone gave him a hard time. However, if an average R&F started doing the same thing, they'd be viewed as "haughty" or "forgetting their place" or "mentally diseased".
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  What a Week! The Bees Got Married!

  by BizzyBee in

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  2. friends

  what a wonderful holiday season!

  time with family, time for fun, and in the midst of it all - we got married!

  after christmas we were in palm springs for the weather and golf, but took off for nevada on thursday and tied the knot in a sweet, simple ceremony.

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  Mary

  Aaawww.....congratulations BB!!
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  Canadians have nobody to blame but themselves........Fergie Olver.

  by Theocratic Sedition in

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  2. friends

  wtf?

  seriously?.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trbwkffjv4.

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  Mary

  I think Dazed-but-Not-Confused's post hit the nail on the head. I mean.....YIKES!!!!
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  100 Years Ago: We Were Already Backpedaling

  by breakfast of champions in

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  2. friends

  from the december 15, 1909 watchtower:.

  "while our faith and hopes would be equally clear and logical whether this age ends in october, 1914, or a century later, nevertheless our expectation that "gentile times" will conclude october, 1914, undoubtedly has a stimulating effect upon our hearts and influences all of life's interests and helps to "wean" us from earthly joys and ambitions and to set our affections on things above!

  " [italics mine].

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  Mary

  "While our faith and hopes would be equally clear and logical whether this age ends in October, 1914, or a century later..."

  No, no, no......all this proves is how right they were and able to discern and/or gleen these wonderful truths that The End would not happen for another century! Evidently, The End is coming in 2014. Time to sell those homes and businesses.......again!

  
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  Sparlock for xmas

  by zombie dub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my friends got me this for xmas:.

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  Mary

  LMAO! I think you should send one to each of the Governing Body members.....
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  Are you on vacation this week?

  by moshe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i always loved getting away on winter break.

  we usually went to florida and now i live in florida, so i vacation at home!

  where did you go for your winter break?

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  Mary

  Yep! Universities, colleges and public schools all close up for the Christmas break. I don't have to go back until January 2nd.
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  Remarkable Statistic - Bible Studies compared to Baptisms

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am surprised i have not noticed this before, particularly since this is one of the most important statistics, and so have just added the new graphs to watchtower publisher statistics.. the number of bible studies generally trends roughly with the number of publishers on a one to one basis.

  however, the number of baptisms has not been rising.

  this has resulted in a rapidly falling conversion rate.

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  Mary

  The percentage of Bible studies that get baptised have dropped dramatically, from a high of around 1 in 5 (22%) to now a mere 1 in 32 (3.1%).

  Wow! I never realized the numbers were so low! Even a 22% ratio is pretty bad. That means that 78% of all bible studies go absolutely nowhere. I wish we could get some stats on how many of those bible studies are:

  a) conducted with children who are born-ins
  b) conducted in third world countries where those poor people would grasp at anything that promised them a better life.

  I'm guessing that bible studies with potential converts in developed lands are almost non-existant. And when you factor in the billions of hours that Witnesses spend in the coffee shops preaching each year, it really shows how inefficent the door-to-door preaching actually is.
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  There was no "assault" rifle used in Newtown, CT!!!

  by Yohan in

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  2. current

  http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50208495#50208495.

  the bushmaster was left in the car and it was 4 handguns that were used in the massacre!

  the media are morons.. .

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  Mary

  so Mary would take hunters guns away from the hunters as well?

  If it helped prevent massacres of innocent people? Absolutely I would. Wouldn't you?

  Funny, I was just watching an episode of All In the Family where Archie Bunker was dead set against gun-control. (Coincidence that that particular episode happened to be on?) He said he could "end hyjacking tomorrow". How? Simple. Just arm all the passengers with guns before the flight and that'll end the problem. Funny how the NRA's solution to the massacres in the USA mirrors exactly what one of the biggest buffoons in TV history suggested.
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  There was no "assault" rifle used in Newtown, CT!!!

  by Yohan in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50208495#50208495.

  the bushmaster was left in the car and it was 4 handguns that were used in the massacre!

  the media are morons.. .

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  Mary

  The Bushmaster was left in the car and it was 4 handguns that were used in the massacre! The media are morons.

  Wow. If you think that argument is going to help your 'you-can-pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-hand' argument, it sort of backfired. If 4 handguns can murder that many people in so short of time, then maybe handguns need to banned too.
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  An interesting article on scientific explanations of near-death / out-of-body experiences

  by cedars in

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  2. friends

  i've been doing quite a bit of research into books recently, and i've noticed that the book "proof of heaven" is selling very strongly at the moment.

  it's currently no.1 in the new york times bestseller list for nonfiction paperbacks.. the book is by a qualified neurosurgeon who converted to religious faith after going into a coma and having what he later described as an experience of heaven, which he elaborates on in great detail in the book.

  he argues that the experience must have been supernatural, because his cerebral cortex was "offline" for the duration of his vision.. .

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  Mary

  The best book I've read on near death experiences is called Science and the Near Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death. It's not quite as simple as some like to make out. That it's either a hallucination or 'someone looking to make a quick buck.' There are several cases that cannot be dismissed quite so easily, although to those who already have their minds made up, no amount of evidence will ever convince them of the possibility that something might exist after this physical life.