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  The Media is Controlled by SATAN!

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the jehovah's witnesses teach that all of the world's media and news sources, all other religions, and all of the world's governments including the united states, are controlled by satan the devil, and that satan is using them all to attack the jehovah's witnesses: .

  the watchtower, march 1st 2003 issue, study article "be courageous and strong!".

  paragraph 6: .

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  Gerard

  Awsome collection of quotes! I just sent them to about 25 news media agencies, including the ones that have reported JW sex abuse.

  Cheers,

  Gerard
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  Canadians: what do you think of them ?

  by RAYZORBLADE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering, all you non-canucks(canadians) on this forum.

  what do you think of canada, and canadians?

  be honest, good or bad or in between, it'd be neat to read what impression non-canadians have of us canuckastanis (thanks pat buchanan).

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  Canadians are sexy!
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  Attacks on Kingdom Hall

  by Kenneson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in today's paper: "church worries about rash of vandalism.".

  http://pasco.tbo.com/pasco/mgab8nacrbd.html.

  while i certainly don't agree with jw doctrine, neither do i condone such activity.

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  It seems it's just another case of dished-hate-comming-back.

  That was wrong... bullets are not as coherent as a law suit.

  Edited by - Gerard on 4 February 2003 16:54:3
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  Dissing the JWs....

  by ScoobySnax in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been inactive for a few years now, and yet, despite all i read, i can't feel as you mostly all do.

  i have a lot of happy memories of being "in the truth" (and i know how much some here hate that line) and fond memories of the meetings and assemblies, sure it was much easier to break away and live life like i am now,..... but well, thats just how i feel.

  i can understand those that may leave for personal reasons, but not sure i'll ever understand some here who have such a hatred of anything jw related.

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  Gerard

  Am I missing something?

  Unloving practices such as shunning, blood transfusion prohibition, knowingly false prophesies, concealment of pedofilia from police, isolating members from an otherwise normal chilhood and social interactions, implantation of phobias, discouraging independent thinking...to name a few.

  But hey, you droped out... you know!
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  What was Columbia's mission?

  by Xander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  amazing with all the coverage of 'what went wrong', etc, no one has bothered to ask what columbia's mission was.. here is an article put up after the launch but before the disaster:.

  http://www.eprairie.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterid=4411.

  tidbits:.

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  Gerard

  From: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/03/columbia/main539214.shtml

  Here are some examples of experiments conducted on Columbia:
  

  • A study on the growth of prostate cancer tissue, potentially leading to advances in treatment.
  • A look at combustion. The Columbia crew created the weakest flame ever created in a laboratory, about 1/200th that of a match. NASA says using this science, a company can create less soot (Soot accounts for about 60,000 premature deaths in the United States alone).
  • Another experiment aimed at developing internal combustion engines that burn less fuel and emit fewer pollutants.
  • An experiment that observed cultured mouse bone cells to try to figure out why humans lose bone mass when traveling in space.
  • Experiments with protein crystals trying to grow "perfect" protein crystals because a flawless protein crystal can help develop new drugs.
  • Creation of a new scent that was bound for perfume counters on Earth. A fragrance company having learned that fragrances extracted from roses in space smell different than those extracted on the ground paid astronauts to do this experiment.
  • Student experiments, some proposed by children as young as 12, were part of NASA's education mission. The experiments came from students in the United States, Australia, China, Israel, Japan and Liechtenstein. Some plants and a menagerie of small animals,including carpenter bees, spiders, silkworms, Japanese killfish and harvester ants, were on board, mostly for the student projects. Among the findings: Moss, in zero-gravity, grew in spiral patterns, as it searched for north. The ants, tunneling through a transparent gel, appeared oblivious to weightlessness.
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  Watch Tower Finances

  by link in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  would anyone like to comment on the following observations?.

  the very large majority of the jws that i come into contact with on a regular basis are not wealthy and many have very low incomes, yet they still make substantial contributions to the wbts every month.

  because they are firmly lead to believe that it is an organisation that is struggling for its financial survival.. following a recent visit from the c.o.

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  Gerard

  However, they have recently realised that their [WT's] fraudulent corporate conduct has now, after some eighty years under shelter, finally been traced and unveiled by the authors of this book, as they spotted our research some years ago. That is why they filed, in September and November 1994, a Dissolution Amendment at both the NY and PA Departments of State. This amendment was an effort to anticipate the winding up of their corporations so that they can secure their assets before any attorney general (or any local county court or court of common please) takes action to revoke the articles of the said corporations and dissolve their assets.

  http://www.bombsinsidewtc.dk/wt-trial/newsletters.htm
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  There's more than 1 way to kill a JW...

  by Gerard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...and the wt has been thinking of many ways for several decades.

  in addition to the blood tranfusion prohibition, i particularly felt offended by these:

  *** the golden age, jan. 1, 1923 p.214 ***.

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  Gerard

  ...and the WT has been thinking of many ways for several decades. In addition to the blood tranfusion prohibition, I particularly felt offended by these:

  *** The Golden Age, Jan. 1, 1923 p.214 ***
  [Note: not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM]

  But the dog-rabies-vaccine imposition is the latest.... Rabies! When it has been shown conclusively that there is no such thing as rabies

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  *** The Golden Age, May 1, 1929, p. 502 ***
  [Note: not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM]

  Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows the seed of syphilis, cancers, escema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccination is a crime , an outrage and a delusion.

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  *** The Golden Age 1923 January 3rd, p.214 ***
  [Note: not available on 1993/1995/1999 CD-ROM]

  The public is not generally aware of how large an industry is the manufacture of serums, anti-toxins and vaccines, or that big business controls the whole industry...

  the boards of health endeavor to start an epidemic of smallpox, diphtheria, or typhoid that they may reap a golden harvest by inoculating an unthinking community for the very purpose of disposing of this manufactured filth ...

  Vaccination summed up is the most unnatural, unhygienic, barbaric, filthy, abhorrent, and most dangerous system of infection known. Its vile poison taints, corrupts, and pollutes the blood of the healthy, resulting in ulcers, syphilis, scrofula, erysipelas, tuberculosis, cancer, tetanus, insanity, and death.

  Edited by - Gerard on 3 February 2003 16:31:21
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  Will the Watchtower file for bankruptcy?

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wonder if the watchtower will use the same tactic as the hare krishnas.. devon.

  >>hare krishnas to declare bankruptcy to avoid abuse lawsuit.

  hare krishna congregations named in a lawsuit alleging sexual and emotional abuse of boarding school students will file for bankruptcy to avoid being sued.. a spokesman for the hindu sect said about a dozen congregations will start filing for bankruptcy reorganisation next week in several states.. the group hopes that if their plan is approved by federal bankruptcy judges, the $400 million (280 million) lawsuit filed in dallas by former boarding school students will be dismissed.. anuttama dasa, a maryland-based spokesman for the international society of krishna consciousness, or iskcon, said: "we don't believe that innocent members and congregations should be held accountable for the deviant behaviour of individual acts committed 20 or 30 years ago.".

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  Gerard

  A Catholic parrish in Boston has recently filed banckrupcy following succesful law suits by plaintifs and the Vatican is unlikely to foot the bills. Similarly, the Watchtower may resort to 1) Flatly decline responsibility; 2) Use escapegoats; 3) Make localKHs responsible. That will shelter the WT's gold vaults.

  The ongoing law suits must target both the Borganisation in addition of the abusers.

  My 2 cents...
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  Help with 1914!

  by izobcenec in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am discussing about the year 1914 with my dub friend...he insists, that the year 607 is scriptural,.

  because 607+70 is 537, when israelis returned to their land.

  i presented all the evidence about 586/87.

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  Gerard

  Take a look at:

  http://quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/
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  Watch Tower Finances

  by link in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  would anyone like to comment on the following observations?.

  the very large majority of the jws that i come into contact with on a regular basis are not wealthy and many have very low incomes, yet they still make substantial contributions to the wbts every month.

  because they are firmly lead to believe that it is an organisation that is struggling for its financial survival.. following a recent visit from the c.o.

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  Gerard

  Personally I do not think for one moment that the hierarchy believe in their own rhetoric regarding Armageddon and the End of the System. These are just tools for use in the trading system.

  
  

  That is true. And one obvious result is that the organization and its assets have been reorganized to become less vulnerable to a major lawsuit. If the Governing Body is sued for deaths resulting from its ban on blood transfusions or child abuse, the Society's factories can not be taken in a settlement, because the factories are owned by a distinct corporation. If the WTB&TS corporation is found criminally liable, the Governing Body members are safe, because they are not Directors of that corporation.

  A few years ago, The WTformed three new non-profit corporations to run the Society's "operations" in the United States. These corporations are:
  

  1. The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses - will coordinate all service (i.e., proselytic) activities, including door-to-door proselytism, circuit and district conventions, etc.
  2. The Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses - will coordinate the activities of those involved in full-time service, including pioneers, missionaries, and circuit and district overseers.
  3. Kingdom Support Services, Inc. - will control construction of all new Kingdom Halls and other facilities, and will hold the titles to all Society-owned vehicles.[3]

  The Society has claimed that this reorganization occurred for practical - increased efficiency in administrative duties - and theological - enabling the Governing Body to focus on spiritual oversight - reasons. There are, however, several additional reasons for this reorganization that are not being elucidated by the Watchtower Society: the Society is almost certainly responding to its failed doctrines regarding the anointed class, and the Society is protecting its assets in light of governmental fines and potential litigation.

  [ http://www.orthodoxstudies.org/cults/jwreorg.htm]

  Edited by - Gerard on 3 February 2003 17:39:39

  Edited by - Gerard on 3 February 2003 17:41:15