Interesting... What ever happened to their "ecclesiatical" privileges? (hope i spelled that correctly)
Posts by Alfred
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5Two Pastors Arrested For Failure To Report Sexual Abuse
by mind blown inlet's hope between steven unthanks crusade for justice in helping sexually abused jw children, along with more people speaking out, there will be a ripple affect to other countries!
pastors daniel and laura mccluskey from the church on the word in phoenix have been arrested.
the pastors were both arrested tuesday and booked on one count each of failure to report sexual abuse.
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Question #9 of this week's "oral review" of DVD "Faith In Action"...
by Alfred inthis week, the service meeting will have an oral review of the dvd faith in action which was distributed in the 2010 district assembly worldwide... as many of you probably know, the intent of this dvd is to present a "white-washed" version of the history of the watchtower by omitting all the scandals and cover-ups.... i no longer go to meetings, but i would have loved to raise my hand and answer question #9 which reads: "what did the bible students expect would happen in 1914?".
my response would have been the following:.
even though the geoffrey jackson admits that the bible students expected a "heavenly reward", the dvd avoids mentioning that russell categorically predicted armageddon would come in october of 1914. what's even worse is the fact that the narrator lied on two occasions by saying that the bible students expected or reasoned that jesus would take the throne in 1914. this is completely false.
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Alfred
By now, about 2/3 of congregations have had their Service Meeting this week...
For those who attended, please share...
thanks
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WTBTS "uses" heroes of church history only when it suits them to make a point
by AuntBee in" god raised up bold champions for his word, among whom were luther, zwingli, melanchthon, wycliffe, knox and others.
" (divine plan of the ages) um...hello??
bold champions for his word?
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Alfred
excellent thread
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Faith In Action DVD... A tribute to Freemasons
by Alfred invery few people actually know this but the watchtower dvd faith in action is actually a tribute to freemasonry.
this dvd presents illustrations of several famous freemasons such as john coustos (a portuguese grand master from lisbon circa 1740).
the dvd actually presents two illustrations of coustos being tortured by the clergy while the anonymous narrator denounces historic abuse from the clergy.
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Alfred
bumping due to this week's review of this DVD in Kingdom Halls around the globe...
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Freemason John Coustos... the Watchtower's hero
by Alfred inin case you didn't notice, there are a couple of illustrations of the famous freemason john coustos being tortured in the dvd faith in action.
one picture has him tied to a torture wheel and the other illustration shows him being tortured by an arm-stretchting torture device.... no.... i'm not saying that the freemasons are taking over the world... so please don't get excited.... by the way, the dvd also mentions john calvin, the freemason who invented the deity "great architect of the universe" (also used by jws)....
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Alfred
For more details about the Freemasonry content in the Watchtower DVD "Faith In Action" Part I (2010), see this thread...
again... I'm not saying that JWs are Freemasons or that the Freemasons are taking over the world... but the info in this thread is worth looking into if anyone is interested in digging further...
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Freemason John Coustos... the Watchtower's hero
by Alfred inin case you didn't notice, there are a couple of illustrations of the famous freemason john coustos being tortured in the dvd faith in action.
one picture has him tied to a torture wheel and the other illustration shows him being tortured by an arm-stretchting torture device.... no.... i'm not saying that the freemasons are taking over the world... so please don't get excited.... by the way, the dvd also mentions john calvin, the freemason who invented the deity "great architect of the universe" (also used by jws)....
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Alfred
In case you didn't notice, there are a couple of illustrations of the famous freemason John Coustos being tortured in the DVD Faith in Action. One picture has him tied to a torture wheel and the other illustration shows him being tortured by an arm-stretchting torture device...
NO.... I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE FREEMASONS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD... SO PLEASE DON'T GET EXCITED...
by the way, the DVD also mentions John Calvin, the freemason who invented the deity "Great Architect of the Universe" (also used by JWs)...
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WT Flip-Flops on JesusÂ’ InspectionÂ… Was it in 1918 or 1919?... Did the WT PASS or FAIL?
by Alfred inthis is utterly ridiculous.... .
the more i research this particular subject, the more flip-flops i uncover.
it seems the fds cant even make up their minds regarding what happened in 1918 (or should i say 1919?).
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Alfred
bumping for Chariklo...
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1919
by Chariklo incan anyone explain to me just how and why the jw's confidently believe that jesus came and "inspected" all the other religions and found every one lacking and failing his expectations except the little group of bible students who went on to become the jw's?.
this is the biggest gap between history, logic and common sense and wt belief, to me.
more ludicrous than all the propehecies put together.. i'd be really interested to know all the different strands of this.
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Alfred
I think this thread might help answer your question...
Alfred
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Draconian Rules for Attending "Special Convention"
by BluesBrother inbritish dubs are invited to attend a special convention next summer in dublin , irish republic.
o k, this kind of trip has been done many times before.
however i have never seen such a crude and rigid set of rules that would apply to their own people going on a trip, at their own expense of course.
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Alfred
2 years ago, I was at a pointless 2-hour meeting in a Coliseum where Anthony Morris III was the main speaker. There was much expectation that a very important annoucement was going to be made. But after it was all over, everyone was left scratching their heads and asking "wtf was that all about?"...
Anyways... I'll cut to the strangest part of his "talk"... Towards the end of his talk, he was discussing the world-wide preaching work when suddenly he requested a show of hands of all those who enjoy getting up Saturday mornings to go to Field Service. I was amazed that less than half of the 3,800 or so in attendance raised their hands.
Oddly, his response to the audience's "weak" reaction was something like: " Well that's a lot more than I expected. I surely don't enjoy it, especially when you can barely find interested people in the territory. But it's something we all have to do because of Jesus' command in Matthew 24:14." ... or words along those lines. I remember the shocked look of an elder that was sitting in front of me... it was classic! Morris hates Field Service and he publicly admits it!!! this guy is incredibly stupid...
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Faith In Action Pt 1 DVD
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the service meeting for this week was almost entirely made up of questions based on the dvd faith in action pt1.
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Alfred
Pirata...
Agree with everything you've said... except that they did gloss over 1914....
Even though Geoffrey Jackson admits that they expected a heavenly reward, the anonymous narrator LIED on TWO occasions by twice stating that the Bible Students expected Jesus to return in 1914. This is COMPLETELY FALSE... as we all know, Russell taught them what the Adventists taught him, that Jesus had already returned invisibly in 1874 and that Armageddon would start in October 1914...