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  What is Knorr's legacy?

  by drewcoul in

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  i was wondering, i am aware of most of the presidents of the wts being a born in.

  i am familiar with how it started with ct russell and the tumultuous takeover by jfr.

  i grew up in the franz era and left about 2001 (although not mentally out until finding this forum a year and a half ago).

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  So, then Freddie took care of prophecy and Knorr took care of the business and growing the organization. I see. It just seems that theologically he wasn't very insightful and didn't really look into deep scriptural things (true or not) like the other three (Russell, Rutherford, and Franz). Am I right about that?
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  What is Knorr's legacy?

  by drewcoul in

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  i was wondering, i am aware of most of the presidents of the wts being a born in.

  i am familiar with how it started with ct russell and the tumultuous takeover by jfr.

  i grew up in the franz era and left about 2001 (although not mentally out until finding this forum a year and a half ago).

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  I was wondering, I am aware of most of the presidents of the WTS being a born in. I am familiar with how it started with CT Russell and the tumultuous takeover by JFR. I grew up in the Franz era and left about 2001 (although not mentally out until finding this forum a year and a half ago). What was Knorr really known for? Franz had all of the "Types and anti-types" and end time prophecies that I remember throughout my childhood and teen/ early adult years. But what the H-E-double hockey sticks did Knorr accomplish as president?

  Just curious to get the thoughts from people who remember farther back than I do.
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  Famous ex-Jws

  by ekruks in

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  michelle rodriguez used to be a jehovah's witness.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/michelle_rodriguez.

  i am just wondering if we can make a list of famous people that used to be jws, i.e.

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  I think that was the point of his song......As I remember reading, his mother was a faithful Witness, and he used to attend, but pursued his music career and left when he was a teenager. He was still close to his mother, and wrote the song for her I guess to make it seem like the KH was more energetic than it really was.
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  Famous ex-Jws

  by ekruks in

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  michelle rodriguez used to be a jehovah's witness.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/michelle_rodriguez.

  i am just wondering if we can make a list of famous people that used to be jws, i.e.

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  Van Morrison was raised as a JW. He has a song called "Down at the Kingdom Hall"

  He performs it on Saturday Night Live here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAu8TWJTd-M
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  Were Jehovah's Witnesses Correct In ANYTHING They Taught?

  by minimus in

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  or are they as correct as any other false religion?.

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  I would say yes. Which in my opinion, is worse than 100% lies. There was enough truth spread throughout their message for people like me to come in and buy it all. Where I find them lacking is that they are as right and wrong as anyone else, but they never admit fault and anyone who points out the past is quickly labeled an apostate.
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  My recap of yesterday's Watchtower study...

  by sir82 in

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  ...for those of you who missed it:.

  ahem..... .

  we are the faithful and discreet slave!

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  FoundSheep: I think they're getting worse. I don't remember growing up hearing hardly anything about the GB. The attitude I remember having was kind of like: "We have the truth because we study deeper things, and we rely on Jehovah for our direction." More or less.

  Now the attitude is that you have to follow the Governing Body because Jehovah is directing them, and if we follow them, we are following Jehovah.

  To me, its far worse than it used to be. I think old timers, even those who are still Witnesses probably agree, but are too afraid to say anything.
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  OVERLAPPING GENERATION Written Review

  by blondie in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/search?cx=partner-pub-4963413421914369%3ag5in7s-4bz3&cof=forid%3a10&ie=iso-8859-1&q=overlapping&siteurl=www.jehovahs-witness.net%2fsearch.

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  many threads on the overlapping generation...how do you explain it briefly to a ex-jw or jw on the edge?.

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  Lost Generation: Outstanding! Thanks for sharing. It's nice to have something showing ONLY WT quotes.

  By the way, regarding the title of this thread "Written Review," do they still do the written review every few months during the TMS?
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  I need a new phone......which one is better- I-phone or Droid?

  by drewcoul in

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  i'm in need of a new phone.

  i've had the samsung omnia for quite a while.

  its a piece of crap.

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  Now, please allow me to remove my customer service hat.

  If liberty is your thing, Apple represents hardware tyranny. Like the PC, Android is the platform of hardware liberty

  LOL! That's the one thing that has turned me off from buying apple or mac products. I know they are proven, and high quality but I like versatility.

  So, flash is going to be a thing of the past soon? Are most mobile phones able to support html5?
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  I need a new phone......which one is better- I-phone or Droid?

  by drewcoul in

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  i'm in need of a new phone.

  i've had the samsung omnia for quite a while.

  its a piece of crap.

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  I'm in need of a new phone. I've had the Samsung Omnia for quite a while. Its a piece of crap. Its supposed to be a smart phone, but its hard to text, I run out of memory, and the internet is slow.

  I'm on Verizon and I'm debating on whether to get the I-phone 4-S or the Droid Razr. Any suggestions?
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  CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured

  by botchtowersociety in

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  huh?.

  cern claims faster-than-light particle measuredgeneva (ap) -- a fundamental pillar of physics - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around albert einstein's theories.. scientists at the world's largest physics lab said thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light.

  that's something that according to einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity - the famous e (equals) mc2 equation - just doesn't happen.. "the feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said james gillies, a spokesman for the european organization for nuclear research, or cern, outside the swiss city of geneva.. gillies told the associated press that the readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery.. "they are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinize it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements," he said thursday.. scientists at the competing fermilab in chicago have promised to start such work immediately.. "it's a shock," said fermilab head theoretician stephen parke, who was not part of the research in geneva.

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  And now a joke:

  The bartender says, "We don't serve particles that travel faster than the speed of light in here!"

  A neutrino walks into a bar.