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  Fred Franz changed doctrine to steal Vice-President from Bro. Covington

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when rutherford was dying, he called three of his closest"friends" by his side.

  fred franz, nathan knorr, and heyden covington.

  he put his hands on their heads and told them to "always stick together.

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  Makena1

  FWIW - I recall my father speaking of Covington's "condition" when I was a kid. Dad did his time at Bethel in the mid 30's when there were very few at Bethel, and even fewer secrets.
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  Support for the Louisiana Jena 6

  by Makena1 in

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  i'm not one much for prayer these days, but friends from chicago who do are holding a prayer vigil in chicago on september 19th.

  they asked me to spread the word about this event.

  i detest injustice - whether its from the wts or any other source, especially racially motived injustice!!!!!!!!

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  I'm not one much for prayer these days, but friends from Chicago who do are holding a prayer vigil in Chicago on September 19th. They asked me to spread the word about this event. I detest injustice - whether its from the WTS or any other source, especially racially motived injustice!!!!!!!! Thanks for reading and your support.

  Rev. Dr. Michael L. Pfleger JENA SIX BRIEFING . Jena, Louisiana is in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana .There are about 350 African Americans in the town of less than 3000.LaSalle Parish has a population of about 14,000 people – 12% African American. On September 20, 2007 in Jena, Louisiana , a judge will determine if 17-year-old Mychal Bell, a young black male will be sentenced to serve 22 years in prison. Bell and five of his fellow black high school students, ranging from the ages of 15 to 17 years of age, are facing a lifetime in prison for a schoolyard fight. In total, the young black male high school students are facing up to 100 years in prison, with charges of attempted murder, the alleged weapon, tennis shoes. In rural Louisiana , a black student asked permission from school administrators to sit under the “white tree.”Permission was granted and the next day three nooses were hung from the tree, a tree symbolically labeled “for white students only.” ü The principal recommended expulsion for the three white students responsible.The superintendent of schools over-ruled the expulsion and gave the students a three-day suspension for “an adolescent prank.” ü Over the next several weeks, Black students organized a sit-in under the tree;the District Attorney threatened them with “stop making a fuss over this innocent prank – I can be your best friend or your worst enemy.I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen.” ü The school was put on a lockdown.A still unresolved fired burned down the main academic building. ü A black student was beat up at a party by whites.A white student involved in several of the incidences, on and off campus, began taunting the African American students at school, was knocked down and beat up by black students.He was taken to the hospital, treated, released and went to a social event that evening. ü Six black Jena students were charged with attempted second-degree murder and expelled from school.Bails were set from $70,000 - $138,000. Jena is the same place where in 2000 the Juvenile Correctional Center for Youth was forced to close due to racism and choking of juveniles by the guards. Jena now joins the historic and infamous line of gross legal injustices against African Americans in the tradition of the Tulia, Texas arrests in 1999. And throughout America’s rural communities, the story is being repeated over and over again, case after case, our children wasting away in adult prisons.African American man-child in the promise land still at risk and still under watch.

  Facts to Know and Share

  Over 10,000 youth are presently incarcerated in US adult prisons. African American men are three times more likely than white men to face jail once they have been arrested in the US; 24.4 percent of African Americans arrested in 2005 ended up in jail compared with 8.3 percent of white men; African American men receive jail sentences that are on average 15 percent longer than whites convicted of the same crime. (State of Black America Urban League Report) This briefing and litany was created and distributed by the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, September, 2007. www.sdpconference.info. (773) 548 6675 . Aloha Makena
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  RATE THIS SONG 1 - 10...10 being great...1 being garbage....

  by fedorE in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i give it a 10...i love it!.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtahlpcdh9c.

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  LOL - you beat me to it. I definitely hear a Jethro Tull influence - ala Songs from the Wood. Lots of good musicians, but overall could only rate it a 6. Here are a few examples of Tull that I really like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NyvTS8Vb0k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJAqGHuaJAY&mode=related&search= I'm using Firefox, so probably these links will have to be copied and pasted -sorry!
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  Going to Maui and looking for advice

  by Dawn in

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  2. friends

  my girfriends and i are planning a trip to maui next year to go diving and snorkeling.

  we already have the condo reserved.

  has anyone here been to maui?

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  Dawn, we've been here for a couple of years. Except for some spelling errors, you have been given some good info from the folks that have responded so far. I sent you a PM and can provide some more info when I get back from LV. Aloha, Makena
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  Golden Age Goodies

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  recently i had the pleasure to examine a stash of 1920s and 1930s golden age magazines, among the rarest of watchtower publications.

  i thought it would be a fun idea to have a thread in which i share with you some of the amazing, ridiculous, hilarious things contained therein.

  hence, this is the first post of a series of excerpts, scans, etc.

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  "Psychiatry is unnecessary and leads to sin; psychologists are stupid monkeys." LOLL - Tom Cruise would have loved the Golden Age!
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  Musical Dishonesty - What next?

  by hillary_step in

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  2. entertainment

  one of the saddest and imho dishonest introductions into the popular music world in recent times is the processor introduced by antares called 'auto-tune'.. this combination of hardware and software processes the music, and especially the vocals of musicians, to automatically correct the tuning for example, of voices which cannot hold a note or sing in tune and does so in virtually real-time.

  it is used by a growing number of vocalists who are untrained and cannot sing in tune and allows them to parade on stage as if they were note perfect.. numerous amateur and professional performers alike have decided that autotune is one way that removes the need for talent or hard work and have no issue with dishonestly representing themselves as long as the cash flows.

  it is set to become standard equipment on tour.. i cannot help but feel that we have lost something big along the way.. hs.

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  I agree. Hopefully pure artists will advertise that their concerts are "auto tune" free zones???!!
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  Anti-aging News: Powerful Pomegranate

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you can afford to take only one natural anti-aging substance, i'd say pomegranate juice might be the.

  right choice.

  http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2007/may2007_report_pomegranate_03.htm.

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  I totally agree. Big pharmaceutical companies cannot patent what nature provides, so they lobby to have them labeled as dangerous. I also take goji berries, snack on pecans, sprinkle hemp and flax seeds on my oatmeal/pancakes. I have been substituting pomegranate juice for cranberry juice in my vodka cosmo's for a long time!!!!!!!!!!!
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  "Born-Again Christian" co-worker's Anti-Semetic comment distirbs me.

  by booker-t in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was having a very interesting conversation with a co-worker that is a "born-again christian" and is a very nice guy.

  he is very hard-working and everybody loves him to death.

  one reason i like him so much is because he lives the role of a christian and not just "announce" every 5 minutes that he is born-again like alot of christians i know.

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  Well said Seeker. I guess a "kinder, gentler" version of hell is more PC.
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  Seattle people: Can I borrow a copy of CoC?

  by seattleniceguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am in urgent need of a copy of crisis of conscience.

  mine is on loan to a friend and i won't be getting it back for a week or two.

  does anyone have a copy i could borrow?

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  Makena1

  Hey SNG! Glad you got what you needed. Just wanted to say how much we enjoyed meeting you at some of the past fests in Seattle. aloha from, Makena and Sabine
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  ALERT: All Child Abuse Lawsuits have been settled. Millions cashed out???

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  re: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/116108/1.ashx.

  a bethel insider in the know told me that all of the child abuse lawsuits where the watchtower bible and tract society was one of the defendants were settled back in the beginning of this year.

  i questioned it and called napa myself and they were absolutely settled back then.

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  Makena1

  A little off topic - but many years ago I settled a personal injury suit against someone who was skiing recklessly. I asked a friend who was a CPA if the IRS was going to get a big chunk of it. I was told that these kind of settlements were NOT taxed. I hope that is the case with the folks that have suffered all these years. I have no problem with them taking the money per the terms, getting some help and a new start in life. Just hope the amounts were minimum low seven figures!