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Balaamsass
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Which websites do you go to for your NEWS?
by ThomasCovenant ini go to the following every day.
bbc news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ .
cnn international http://edition.cnn.com/ .
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Why Is My Sister Accusing Me Of Apostasy? (new guy here)
by HelpMeBelieve inhello, maybe i am gambling by posting a thread here at your website.
i don't know what an apostate really is and why someone is removed from the watchtower for this sin.. .
i have a sister in visalia california who is telling all my brothers and sisters "he is an apostate, our schizophrenic brother said so!".
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WELCOME !!
I agree with flipper and others. Projection sounds like it might be right from what you have told us.
She sounds toxic right now.... distance sounds like a good idea. Perhaps if you are having a lot of family problems and want things to cool off..attend a couple of meetings at a different hall some distance away and have your cards transferred. Then you can tell your family truthfully you have been attending "Meetings" at another hall because you were "stumbled". Then you can hang out here, read other sites, and study the the truth about the "truth" in peace and quiet!
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Religious extremism at its worst - the Taliban behead 17 people for having a party
by cedars ina truly shocking story in the telegraph.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9501478/taliban-behead-17-caught-dancing-to-music-at-party.html.
it makes you realise how fortunate you are to live in a rational society.. .
cedars.
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Cedars...funny..I bet you will not read about that in the AWAKE!. Funny how ISLAM gets a free pass in WTBTS material.
Humm ...perhaps because of working jointly in legal issues.......Or because of car bombs ?
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ABOUT TERRY
by Quentin interry was admitted to the hospital yesterday.
he has a severe case of cellulites which has affected his neck glands.
his face and neck are very swollen.
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Just saw this. Get well soon!
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The Decline of Elders and Ministerial Servants
by Londo111 ini seem to remember somebody saying that since the 90's the number of elders has declined from 90000 to 60000. does anybody have any hard figures regarding this?.
the organization is desperate for "qualified" men.
but their standards are much too high, especially the monthly field service hour requirements tagged on to endless meetings and congregational busywork.
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One extremly qualified ex-elder that was in my bookstudy consistantly turned in only 6 hrs field service. I knew he did at least 10-12. I asked why? He said "so he wouldn't get pestered to be an Elder again"! LOL.
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Mexico. JWs up 42% in 10 Years
by Joker10 inaccording to the recent 2010 mexico census, people 5 and older who identified themselves as jehovah's witness grew by 42%.. .
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year 20002010% total 1,057,7361,500,98441.9% population 84,794,454106,427,63625.5% ratio, one jw to:8071 .
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Based on a attending Spanish US Congregations and having family members as missionaries and branch members in Mexico, I think the JW experience is a bit different there. Most Mexican JWs I have known don't know or bother with WTBTS history or doctrinal mumbo jumbo. Even the Catholic experience is different in the rural areas. Lots of animisim.
As a JW men can gain status as servants. A great social life. JWs sell and do business with each other and have a "tribe". They throw great parties. Study... what's that. Doctine..huh? Internet..who needs it? Donate to WTBTS for RBC...Manana.
Every US hall I have attended Spanish did very little donating, or help with the building projects. However, even a dollar a month from millions of eople adds up.
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Elders or anyone who knows: What would I find if I got to snoop thru the secret file cabinet at KH?
by Lied2NoMore inwould there be files containing review or asessments of individuals in cong?.
would there be files containing complaints voiced to elders about them or anyone else?.
would there be anything damaging to wtbs?.
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There few file cabinent makers in the US, so keys are easy. So are Kingdom Hall locks and alarms. However since most JWs have not attended college, you will find a lot of chicken scratch in most Cong. files. Very little on family members of elders...those files tend to vanish over time.
It wouldn't be worth the possible jail time.
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Will this case pave the way for ex-JWs suing Watchtower Bible and Tract Society for Hate Crimes?
by Balaamsass inhate crime trial under way in amish beard-cutting attacks .
epa.
amish community members leave the cleveland, ohio federal courthouse on monday after a jury was selected for the trial of samuel mullet sr. and 15 co-defendants who are charged with committing hate crimes, conspiracy, kidnapping, and destroying evidence for a series of beard and hair cutting attacks.. end13527874 by kari huus, nbc newsa hate-crimes trial got under way in a u.s. district court in cleveland, ohio, tuesday morning for an amish leader and 15 followers accused of forcibly cutting the hair and beards of religious rivals.. .
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Hate crime trial under way in Amish beard-cutting attacks
EPA
Amish community members leave the Cleveland, Ohio federal courthouse on Monday after a jury was selected for the trial of Samuel Mullet Sr. and 15 co-defendants who are charged with committing hate crimes, conspiracy, kidnapping, and destroying evidence for a series of beard and hair cutting attacks.
By Kari Huus, NBC News
A hate-crimes trial got under way in a U.S. District Court in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday morning for an Amish leader and 15 followers accused of forcibly cutting the hair and beards of religious rivals.
Samuel Mullet Sr., a 66-year-old bishop for a group of Amish in Bergholz, Ohio, and a group of co-defendants including four of his sons, face charges of conspiracy, hate crimes, kidnapping and obstruction for attacks on nine victims.
Prosecutors laid out their case to the jury, arguing that the group led by Mullet spent months planning the hair- and beard-cutting attacks, considered deeply offensive in Amish culture, The Associated Press reported.
Amish community members appeared in court in their traditional attire — including suspenders and long beards for men, and long dresses and head scarves for the women, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.
The Amish are known for simple living and shunning the use of technology.
The elder Mullet sat stiffly in his seat as the trial got under way, wearing a blue shirt and suspenders, with a beard hanging down to the middle of his chest, according to the AP. The defendants have denied the charges and rejected plea bargain offers. They could face lengthy prison terms if convicted, it said.
"Every one of these attacks targeted those symbols of Amish righteousness," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan, according to the AP.
She said that although the elder Mullet did not take part in the attacks, he was the mastermind.
"Sam Mullet was at the beginning and the end of all these attacks," she said, according to AP.
Defense attorneys portrayed the attacks as family disputes or disagreements over religion that fall short of hate crimes.
Dean Carro, the attorney for Lester Miller, said his client was moved by concern for his parents' salvation when he, two of his brothers and others went to their parents' house and cut off their father's beard, according to the Plain Dealer. The sons' wives then cut off two feet of their mother-in-law's hair, the report said.
"He thought his parents had forgotten the rules," Carro said of Miller, acccording to Reuters. "He was trying to bring them back to the fold."
Carro also told jurors that his client once voluntarily cut off his own beard and slept in a chicken coop in order to correct his own errant ways.
Judge Aaron Polster started the day's proceedings by giving instructions to the jury, which was selected on Monday — explaining the definition of conspiracy and other charges and the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence, according to a report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He also asked jurors to put aside perceptions of the legal system gleaned from television shows such as "Matlock" and "Law and Order."
According to an FBI affidavit, the attacks were acts of revenge in a dispute between the elder Mullet and other Amish bishops who disagreed with his decision to excommunicate eight families after they left his group in 2005.
Read the affidavit
A gathering of 300 mainstream Amish overturned Mullet’s decision, apparently prompting Mullet and his followers to launch the attacks, the affidavit said.
In the forcible cutting of the victims’ hair and beards with 8-inch horse mane-cutting shears, some of the victims were wounded and bloodied, it said.
The case has drawn national attention because the unusual and violent attacks are at odds with Amish pacifism, and because the Amish community is generally self-contained, handling disputes internally.
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Balaamsass
This could be a Rosetta Stone for WTBTS fundraising and the the Menlo Park issue. Can I get a download?
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Post 607: Reject 607 BC if You TRULY Trust the Bible!!!
by Londo111 intherefore, if the 70 years period is for the destruction of jerusalem and exile at babylon:.
if zedekiah had not rebelled against babylon, had he surrendered during the final siege that lasted two and a half years, then the destruction of jerusalem and the deportation need not have happened.
then in the jubilee year, they were set free and their hereditary land was returned to them.
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Interesting, but the crux of all this was the Seven Thousand year creative days. Soooo since it is obvious life on earth is MUCH older what difference does it make?
