Posts by vienne

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Scarce Watch Tower Booklet

by vienne in

uncle b is seeking a scan of this booklet: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2023/02/we-need-clear-scan-of-this.html.

can you help?.

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vienne

Atlantis would rather insult me than help. But thanks for your suggestion. We may have located a copy. Getting a copy is another matter.

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Scarce Watch Tower Booklet

by vienne in

uncle b is seeking a scan of this booklet: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2023/02/we-need-clear-scan-of-this.html.

can you help?.

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Scarce Watch Tower Booklet

by vienne in

uncle b is seeking a scan of this booklet: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2023/02/we-need-clear-scan-of-this.html.

can you help?.

.

vienne

Uncle B is seeking a scan of this booklet: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2023/02/we-need-clear-scan-of-this.html

Can you help?

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Bait and Switch "Bible studies"

by Vanderhoven7 in

mark jones, a witness for over 30 years describes what jws call bible studies offered to the public.. .

"they (jehovah's witnesses) offer you a free home “bible” study - which turns out to be a study of a watchtower publication with the bible brought out as an afterthought to try and prop up whatever current idea the governing body are claiming is “the truth” this week.. i think it’s underhanded.. when my parents became jehovah’s witnesses and they offered people a free home “bible” study, this is what they brought to study with them:.

what, did you think they were going to study the bible with you?.

vienne

I've read that book. But it's been a while. What predictions and claims? The first ed. of the Truth book made some. That book? I have no memory of any. Explain, please.

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Musings About...Spirit Beings

by titch in

folks: this topic might seem a little "out there in left field.

" but it might be something to think about, or perhaps it's something that you have wondered about in the past.

i know that i sometimes wondered about it, , even when i was "in" the jw organization.

vienne

Nelson Barbour, for all his weirdness, has some excellent thoughts on the nature of spirit beings as revealed in the Bible. See his Three Worlds.

Other than historical interest, that's probably the ONLY thing he wrote that is worth while.

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Does anyone actually believe that Russia blew up its own gas pipeline?

by slimboyfat in

the claim that russia blew up its own pipeline functions, whether intentionally or not, as a test of our collective intelligence, and it’s worrisome how many fail the test.

as a former pentagon official put it, “a child could tell you that doesn’t make sense”.

they talk a lot about russian propaganda and suppression of their media, which i don’t doubt for a minute.

vienne

Putin may be stupid enough to do it. It is in his advantage to raise the price of gas. But do I think the Russians did that? No. Still it IS possible. How about that for vacillating?

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

vienne

I still read this thread, but I don't know why. If he ever had any relevance, he's lost it.

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Gun Ownership - A question for American Witnesses (or Ex-Witnesses)

by no-zombie in

i would like to ask a question regarding gun ownership in the active american witnesses community.

while rifle ownership has been put in the same category as spear guns and fishing rods, how has the issue of pistol ownership been handled in us congregations?

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vienne

One of my uncles, a long-serving elder, had a pistol and no one questioned it. He used it for competitive, timed shoots. That is, how fast and accurate can you be on targets at distance. He'd still own it, he says, but one of his brother in laws stole it.

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1942 Book "The New World"

by Debra Ann Romano in

i grew up in a magnificent, 3-story, greek revival house on the once very rural staten island ny.

the house was originally part of a huge compound, cannery, farm, and wbbr radio station owned by the watchtower society.

my late grandparents purchased 1065 woodrow rd in 1957 and that is where i spent the next 12 years of my life.

vienne

This appears to be George M. Russell. The problem is there were at least four with that name living in or associated with Staten Island and Brooklyn. Best I can do at this time.

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Are Both The JW And The Ex-JW Community a Cult?

by Vanderhoven7 in

charlie ryde writes:.

let us use the same bite model for determining if something is a cult to both being a jw and being ex-jw.

mind you this is a short summary.. b- behavioral control.

vienne

Short answer, yes.