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  Candice & Kathleen Conti with Barbra Anderson on 6 Screens tonight. 8/4/2012 7PM

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  just got a call.. tonight on 6 screens candice, her mother and barbra will be interviewed.

  starts at 7.

  7:30 candice is on.. 712-432-8710. pin # 9925.

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  Kathleen is recounting her experiance as a victim in the 70s. Horrible.
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  Candice & Kathleen Conti with Barbra Anderson on 6 Screens tonight. 8/4/2012 7PM

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  just got a call.. tonight on 6 screens candice, her mother and barbra will be interviewed.

  starts at 7.

  7:30 candice is on.. 712-432-8710. pin # 9925.

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  Just got a call.

  Tonight on 6 screens Candice, her Mother and Barbra will be interviewed. Starts at 7. 7:30 Candice is on.

  712-432-8710

  Pin # 9925

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  Are you an Apostate...?...or a Heretic...?

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  /jumpto bodycontent .

  look up heresy in wiktionary, the free dictionary.heresy is a religious act or opinion held to be in opposition or ardent violation of the stated doctrine of the christian church (particularly the holy roman or roman catholic church)or that of any church, creed, or religious system.

  " - wikapedia.

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  to be not only excommunicated but even put to death." (Summa Theologica, c. 1270).St. Thomas...What a guy...if he were alive today, being a partaker and all....I bet he would be appointed to the Guberning Body ASAP!!!

  I do like the sound of "observant bullshit detector" !!! humm

  So hard to decide.
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  I Finally Understand the Kingdom Hall Scam

  by jamiebowers in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.codyenterprise.com/articles/2009/02/19/news/doc4987722b2d8b5588859832.txt.

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  "Power (often collective/shared) is the most powerful of all drugs."Randy

  Ditto
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  The Watchtower and the Masons

  by ozziepost in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the latest edition of the free in christ ministries journal contains a very interesting article entitled the watchtower and masons.. drawing upon material from the book the watchtower & the masons by fritz springmeier, it gives the following parallels between the things that c t russell believed and those taught by the masons:.

  * both believe jehovah is the most important word being the basis of their dogma, and the name of their god.

  * both believe god yielded power to a lesser god.

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  As a child in the 50s and early 60s we used the Freemason halls rather than pay for other halls. They gave us a deal. I found it weird as did many JWs- like meeting in a Catholic Church.
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  If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?

  by Open mind in

  1. social
  2. physical

  they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

  thoughts?.

  om.

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  I wonder If how these famous people who donate $$ to WTBTS are treated could be used in court. An attorney was explaining to me the concept of how Cities get sued for "spotty enforcement". Employers get sued for "Similarly situated employees". Courts let rules stand IF they are administered EVENLY. If you try to defend a law or rule..it has to be enforced EVENLY..... If not possible lawsuit. hummmmmmmmmm
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  Is Today's Jehovah's Witness Religion The Same As It Was When You Were A Member?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my day, you were proud to be a jw!

  you knew you'd get "persecution" and it was all good.

  when you abstained from blood, you read the ingredients of a candy bar!

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  "The "faithful and discreet slave" was rarely mentioned. Instead, the talk was about leading the kind of lives that would please Jehovah and being a footstep follower of Jesus Christ… reading and understanding the Bible was also very important. WTBS publications…. did not have primacy over or even equality with the Bible back then."- Quendi."

  We used to have piano players male and female, things started going downhill musically when they started playing. Albums and would not let the piano players play. There was no internet; in fact, there were only four channels on TV. If you went to a bookstore the religious section with bibles and so forth were maybe two shelves. Information was hard to come by. The apostate book that I heard about in my youth was "30 years a watchtower slave".-James Brown.

  “...the baptism change, Barry dropped dead in 1999 and by 2004 I could hear/feel the familiar return of yet another round of intense bullying, fear mongering and dumbing down....it took Jaracz a bit longer to make it full circle but as we all know he did manage to restart the wagon-circling, dumb-downed, loyalty button pushing, distrusting, fear mongering stupidity that can be seen in the very WT we are studying this month! I miss the boldness. I miss the magenta songbook too. I miss deeply researched and discussed comments. I miss the independent thinking... we used to smirk at the Catholics for their lack of it (w58 8/1 p. 460 Dawns a New Era for the Irish). I miss the parties. I miss the event atmosphere of the Assemblies. I miss volunteering at the Assemblies. I miss the freedom of thought and speech to openly shrug your shoulders, laugh in the parking lot of a KH and roll your eyes when you disagreed with something non-scriptural. I miss being able to brag about us as JWs......We used to discern when the WTBS was 'hyping'......Now all we have is praise for the Emperors and their ever-changing new clothing " YKNOT.

  I have inherited piles of Old WTBTS Lit. Well marked Interlinear. Non-WTBTS BIBLES. - It Strikes me how these Pillars of the Organization (All Elders, Bethelites Etc) would be disfellowshipped today for the marginal notations- AS APOSTATES. “THINKING” is APOSTATE TODAY. The fawning over the Governing Body we see would have been labeled apostasy and "POPE RY" back then.

  I remember the GREEN songbook, and the rousing banging on Piano every meeting- by a piano player. I remember the camaraderie of congregation picnics. I remember doing business with "Brothers" whenever possible, and helping each other with jobs. I remember "speculating" at gatherings and J.W.s dragging out Strong’s concordance or an interlinear to debate, "Making sure of all things, holding fast to what is fine", being "noble minded Boreans". Making fun of Catholics for blindly following the Pope with his list of "Rules", the Inquisition, and constantly begging for money. "Religion is a snare and a racket" older ones would laugh..After a few drinks............

  When I stepped aside as an elder a few years ago, 21 st century Jehovah’s Witnesses were beginning to remind me more of the fearful 15th Century Catholic Church with Pedophile priests, creature worship, heretic hunting, money grubbing, and Pope worship (Governing Body), than the Jehovah's Witnesses of the 60s.
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  Nice 1975 quote from F Franz, in 1975

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  *** w75 5/1 p. 285 a contrastmissionaries with an urgent, lifesaving work ***.

  another speaker, f. w. franz, the societys vice-president, forcefully impressed on the audience the urgency of the christian preaching work.. he stressed that, according to dependable bible chronology, 6,000 years of human history will end this coming september according to the lunar calendar.

  this coincides with a time when the human species [is] about to starve itself to death, as well as its being faced with poisoning by pollution and destruction by nuclear weapons.. franz added: theres no basis for believing that mankind, faced with what it now faces, can exist for the seventh thousand-year period under the present system of things.

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  Leaving WT: I LOVE that JPG !
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  Disturbing new YouTube video showing Anthony Morris's approach to teenage baptism

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if anyone was under the illusion that all baptized jw children become dedicated solely of their own volition, then hopefully this new video should be a wake-up call.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgbjdgoj-u.

  (unfortunately, due to the soundtrack i've chosen, this video is apparently banned in germany.

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  I remember almost the same talk by our C.O. Van Ike so I huried up and got dunked as a pre-teen. Sick.

  What Billy said:

  No scriptures cited. There's no evidence that first century Christians were baptizing kids just because they were old enough to work in a field or something. Jesus made no such threats about slaughtering children because they "can't get in on their parent's coattails." By their teachings, the GB make JWs believe that even baptized JWs will get slaughtered if they don't "do enough". So getting baptized is no salvation at all. It's only about control. Once the kids are dunked, the elders can officially start butting into what the kids do, what the parents do, and threaten, and control."

  Ditto.
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  Are you an Apostate...?...or a Heretic...?

  by Balaamsass in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  /jumpto bodycontent .

  look up heresy in wiktionary, the free dictionary.heresy is a religious act or opinion held to be in opposition or ardent violation of the stated doctrine of the christian church (particularly the holy roman or roman catholic church)or that of any church, creed, or religious system.

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  Look up heresy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

  Heresy is a religious act or opinion held to be in opposition or ardent violation of the stated doctrine of the Christian Church (particularly the Holy Roman or Roman Catholic Church)or that of any church, creed, or religious system." - wikapedia

  Thomas Aquinas: "...a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas" (Summa Theologica, c. 1270) Thomas Aquinas: "Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death." (Summa Theologica, c. 1270).

  I kind of prefer the sound of HERETIC, It sounds so medievel ....and brings up mental images of torture and the Inquisition. ?