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  Victoria, Australia: The long edition (new) of Part 2 of Steven Unthank's report of molestation/rape within the Traralgon Cong.

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.jwnews.net/.

  crisis of conscience within the traralgon congregation of jehovahs witnesses?

  part 2december 18, 2011 by sitepost .

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  Christopher Hitchens has died.

  by botchtowersociety in

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  http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/in-memoriam-christopher-hitchens-19492011.

  it angers me that we still do not have the technology to save these people.

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  R.I.P. Mister , and I repeat, Mister Christopher Hitchens. We've just lost one fo the great if not the greatest independent thinker of the past two generations. I bought, Arguably, two weeks ago, and to think I had the nerve to ask the clerk when the paperback edition was coming out as I hate buying hardbacks. Regardless of the cover, anything he wrote was worth reading. I'll miss him. R.I.P.. People like him, matter fact, INDIVIDUALS, like him, deserve every bit of credit in the world. They've got the format, and the balls to express themselves regardless of who disagrees, and that makes them GODS in my book. Fukk the Bible, give me anything Mister Christopher Hitchens wrote anyday!!!!! R.I.P..
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  Tebowing in the Kingdom Hall... Funny? Not funny?

  by oppostate in

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  2. humour

  tebowing is defined as "to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.".

  http://tebowing.com/about.

  here's tim tebow in full tebowing stance:.

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  LOL, what a funny thought. Ashes and sackcloth.

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  A little example of how severely the contributions for the Society are drying up

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  just a little tidbit from the congregation i attend..... the congregation has approximately 120 publishers.. well over 1000 magazines per month are picked up, not to mention all the books, brochures, and tracts that are picked up.. there was a "local needs" part on the service meeting recently, asking for more contributions.. it seems our congregation has averaged just about $300 per month contributions to the "worldwide work" over the past year.. .

  assuming 1500 magazines / month, that's just 20 cents per magazine - and that completely ignores all other literature that is picked up.. the last price the magazines had, 20+ years ago, was 25 cents per issue.

  with inflation that would have been about 50 cents each now.. just another sign of how severely the contriutions to the society are drying up..... .

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  Another aspect that should be mentioned is all the money spent "voluntarily" going out in field service, "voluntarily" attending the meetings regularly, "voluntarily" attending the circuit assemblies and district conventions, "voluntarily" participating in spring cleaning or fall cleaning, amongst a ton of other things including clothing and vehicle maintenance. Yet it's never enough for those greedy bastards.

  Ohhh, I almost forgot one other item that should be mentioned, which to some of us may or may not be more valuable than material posessions, and that's, Time. One of my coworkers asked me in the most perplexed tone, "George, does anything in your life not involve your church?" You should have heard me stuttering like Foghorn Leghorn trying to not make a fool out of myself all the while in my heart knowing what she asked was a valid a concern. All the wasted time spent "voluntarily" doing things on behalf of a religious publishing company, wasted. I couldn't tell you the last time I donated any actual money to the WT, and have no intention on ever doing that again.
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  Tebowing in the Kingdom Hall... Funny? Not funny?

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. humour

  tebowing is defined as "to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.".

  http://tebowing.com/about.

  here's tim tebow in full tebowing stance:.

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  (Matthew

  “Also, when YOU pray, YOU must not be as the hypocrites; because they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the broad ways to be visible to men. Truly I say to YOU, They are having their reward in full. 6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.7 But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words. 8 So, do not make yourselves like them, for God YOUR Father knows what things YOU are needing before ever YOU ask him. 9 “YOU must pray, then, this way: “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth. 11 Give us today our bread for this day; 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked one.’ 14 “For if YOU forgive men their trespasses, YOUR heavenly Father will also forgive YOU; 15 whereas if YOU do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will YOUR Father forgive YOUR trespasses. 16 “When YOU are fasting, stop becoming sad-faced like the hypocrites, for . . .

  6:5-16)5

  By the way, the one comment on that article regarding the students suspended for Tebowing made me chuckle to myself. "At least they weren't Sanduskying"
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  Very tiny change to Service Meeting Announcements protocol.

  by Open mind in

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  2. beliefs

  for those who want to keep up with the "pure language", i found out this week that at the most recent elder's school, they were told that the announcements should no longer include the following:.

  1. name of public talk and speaker for sunday.

  2. synopsis of all the parts that are coming up on the rest of the service meeting.

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  If this is the case, they might as well simply axe the announcements unless the COBOE has something that needs read to the entire audience.

  As others have echoed, what exactly do the GB meet about and discuss by the way? Why even have a GB if this is the most change they can initiate. Sheesh, pathetic.
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  Bloodguilty?

  by Retrovirus in

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  2. beliefs

  such a scary expression!

  the thread on theocratic terms reminded me of this one.

  i searched and found this thread, which answered some of my questions, but still have some questions.

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  The WT is more than bloodguilty according to Matthew 23:13

  "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to."

  The WT may have single handedly created more atheists and doubters than Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris combined.
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  Hippo (For those who could use a good laugh.)

  by leavingwt in

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  someone sent me this video, with the description: "taco bell has this effect on me.".

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ywmbtkxgea.

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  You know Bethel monitors this forum, and I can see them doing an article on this..............

  The Hippopotamus' Fecal Fan- Evolution, or Was it Created?
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  Anti-Apostate blog has fascinating articles, photos and opinions!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the governing body of jehovah's witnesses has decided (oct., 2000) that the positions of president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, etc.

  in the legal corporations (e.g., watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc.,) do not have to be filled by anointed brothers.

  therefore, all of the brothers that were currently holding these positions, all of whom were on the governing body, have resigned.

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  Anybody had a car accident? Anybody fighting for child custody? What could this mysterious court case be? It's so sinister-- A COURT CASE! LOL LOL LOL

  Alright, alright, I'll come clean. You know the tag on a mattress that says explicitely, "Under penalty of law, this tag is not to be removed except by the customer"? Well, I ...........
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  Anti-Apostate blog has fascinating articles, photos and opinions!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the governing body of jehovah's witnesses has decided (oct., 2000) that the positions of president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, etc.

  in the legal corporations (e.g., watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc.,) do not have to be filled by anointed brothers.

  therefore, all of the brothers that were currently holding these positions, all of whom were on the governing body, have resigned.

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  Something I find amusing about apostate bashing is, if you believe that the WT is in fact Jehovah's organization, and that none of the thoughts put forth by apostates are worth debating, then why are WT apologists so obsessed with apostates? This website, and DJEggnog, amongst others were thoroughly obsessed with what goes on at this and other apostate outlets. The hate towards Ray Franz was always fascinating too. He never did anything to these WT apologists, but boy do they hate him.