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  Finally dared to register

  by Hoffnung in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  finally i registered today.

  being a lurker for quite some months, i convinced myself it is time to give my own 2 pence from time to time.

  i am living in europe and i am still 'in', although by now i must be counted as an inactive jw.

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  The Apostle John thought the end was near...

  by pirata in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i used to always justify that the apostles (and paul) thought the end was near because the "mini-end" (jerusalem's destruction in 70ce) had not yet happened.. then it dawned on me that 1st/2nd/3rd john were written in 98ce (at least according to the back of my nwt), after jerusalem's destruction.. 1 john 2:18 (new international version)warnings against denying the son 18 dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come.

  this is how we know it is the last hour.. not only was it the last day, it was the last hour..

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  Interested Person kills Bethelite in German Kingdom Hall, later is killed by train

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  on saturday, 35 jehovah's witnesses gathered in their kingdom hall near frankfurt and sat over coffee and cake (for whatever reason, maybe pioneer school or some other event).

  suddenly a 20-year-old man (according to most sources "not a jw yet, but wanted to become one"; though one source claims that he would have been an auxiliary pioneer) took a knife from the cake buffet and killed a 45-year-old bethelite (maybe a circuit overseer).. today the murderer was killed by a train - supposedly suicide.. .

  http://www.thelocal.de/national/20101108-31031.html.

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  Comparing the old elder's handbook to the new...

  by undercover in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as i've read through the new elder's book, something kept nagging at me about it.

  then i went to compare one passage in the new book to the old and it hit me.

  i've mentioned it on a couple of posts, but i wanted to start a thread on it.... what hit me was that the new book was like an instruction manual to supervisors in a plant.

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  List of Branch Offices being closed?

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i've tried searching for some recent posts on rumours or otherwise of branch offices being closed but cannot easily find anything.

  does anyone readily have a list of the ones earmarked for closure?

  i did read about central america but also recently some european too.

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  my story.

  by xbro in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is a truthfull account of what i went through,it is a work in progress and there is much mor to come.. all i can say to anyone reading this and are contemplating joining or are still a jehovahs witness is dont join and those that have,leave asap!.

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  Recent Belgium TV expose' about JWs on YouTube. Need a French translator to tell us basically what was said

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  voici (enfin...) sur you tube le reportage le monde parfait de jehovah (diffuse par la television belge rtbf (la une) devoir d'enquete le 23/09/2009).

  pour se conformer au format exige par yt, c'est decoupe en 7 parties d'une duree de +/- 10 min.

  le monde parfait de jehovah (partie 1#7) 9:42. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc41ieqjveo.

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  In memory of Charles Taze Russell who died 92 years ago.

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  pastor charles taze russells wife, maria, divorced him in 1906. the writings of maria russell e-document contains an eleven-page enlightening introduction that outlines her fall from her husbands affection because he said she was endeavoring to take over the editorship of his religious journal, zions watch tower.

  is that true?

  also discussed is the question of mrs. russells acumen as a writer which her husband and followers called into question.

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  Brothers committed suicide over 1914

  by stev in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this excerpt gives the information that brothers committed suicide over the disappointment of 1914. i have never heard this before.

  http://towerwatch.com/articles/caputo_appeal_committee_meeting.htm

  i met a woman in florida, she was ninety-three years old...a sister.

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  Is it possible for the WT society to ever convince us of true reform?

  by james_woods in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got to thinking about this and for me anyway, they would have to come clean on at least the following things:.

  an honest retraction must be made on all the ridiculous chronology (of course including the false prophecies).

  by this i mean, stop this psuedo numerology stuff of adding up this or that date, adding on x many years, etc.

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