Posts by Indian Larry

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2013 Baptisms @ U.S. District Conventions Reports?

by Gayle in

anyone getting/hearing how baptism numbers are this summer @ conventions?

in previous years, reports showed less baptisms per attendance numbers.

overall, annual 2012 service report showed for u.s. reduction in baptisms..

watchtower tones down apostate talk at august 3rd convention!

by nowwhat? in

no mention of them being mentally diseased or using "lies" to deceive god's people, just that they are out to attract followers for themselves!.

p.s.

i was cringing at the thought of sitting for 3 1/2 hours for the afternoon session but fortunately my one kid got sick!!

My wife went to Raleigh this weekend. She said they did not mention Hitler, the blood issue, or pedophiles in the apostate talk. She said it was not as harsh as I had told her it would be. Perhaps they did tone it down some.

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2013 Baptisms @ U.S. District Conventions Reports?

by Gayle in

anyone getting/hearing how baptism numbers are this summer @ conventions?

in previous years, reports showed less baptisms per attendance numbers.

overall, annual 2012 service report showed for u.s. reduction in baptisms..

Indian Larry

Raleigh

9000 attendance

64 baptized

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watchtower tones down apostate talk at august 3rd convention!

by nowwhat? in

no mention of them being mentally diseased or using "lies" to deceive god's people, just that they are out to attract followers for themselves!.

p.s.

i was cringing at the thought of sitting for 3 1/2 hours for the afternoon session but fortunately my one kid got sick!!

Indian Larry

If anyone can tell me if they "toned it down" in Ralegh this weekend that would help me out a bunch. Thanks!

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No more district assemblies in Tri-Cities. News article

by Indian Larry in

for years the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses has held a regional convention in the tri-cities, attracting about 16,000 of the faithful who spend an estimated $8.6 million while in town.. .

but they won't be coming in 2014.. "what they told me is the decision has been made nationally to downsize the number of conventions from 400 to 100. they're simply consolidating," said kris watkins, president and ceo of the tri-cities visitor & convention bureau in kennewick.. .

read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/01/2500842/jehovahs-witnesses-convention.html#storylink=cpy .

Indian Larry

Oubilette - Check the link. It is a newspaper. I believe it is in Washington

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No more district assemblies in Tri-Cities. News article

by Indian Larry in

for years the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses has held a regional convention in the tri-cities, attracting about 16,000 of the faithful who spend an estimated $8.6 million while in town.. .

but they won't be coming in 2014.. "what they told me is the decision has been made nationally to downsize the number of conventions from 400 to 100. they're simply consolidating," said kris watkins, president and ceo of the tri-cities visitor & convention bureau in kennewick.. .

read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/01/2500842/jehovahs-witnesses-convention.html#storylink=cpy .

Indian Larry

For years the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses has held a regional convention in the Tri-Cities, attracting about 16,000 of the faithful who spend an estimated $8.6 million while in town.

But they won't be coming in 2014.

"What they told me is the decision has been made nationally to downsize the number of conventions from 400 to 100. They're simply consolidating," said Kris Watkins, president and CEO of the Tri-Cities Visitor & Convention Bureau in Kennewick.

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Freemason Wilbur Ross... buying back Watchtower assets for the Rothschild family

by Calebs Airplane in

freemason wilbur ross, a well-connected banking tycoon with strong ties to the rothschild family has just bid on some watchtower buildings in brooklyn... is the watchtower returning assets to their mother organization?.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/ross_for_jehovah_witnesses_bldgs_komlwtyitfqj3e0ly5fsmk.

also, please view this fairly recent interview with forbes magazine... seems carefully scripted on both ends.... http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyabenedicto/2011/01/31/wilbur-ross-on-the-economy/.

Indian Larry

Check out he Wikipedia entry on Ross. Seems he specializes in "distressed" businesses.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is an American investor known for restructuring failed companies in industries such as steel, coal, telecommunications, foreign investment and textiles. He specializes in leveraged buyouts and distressed businesses.

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Since leaving watchtower what has been your biggest act of rebellion?

by 3rdgen in

jw
friends

i'm in a pissy mood and would love to hear your stories.

personally, i'm thinking of getting a tatoo on my rear end saying wbt$ kiss this!.

Indian Larry

I bought a 1/4 oz of medical grade marijuana. However I just could not bring myself to light it up. I ended up giving it away.

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Show me something better

by WildeLover in

terry started a really good thread a little while ago.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/258731/1/where-did-pastor-russell-get-his-truth.

it reminded me of what the jw who studied with me and brought me into the truth said.. she said show me something better.

she qualified this by saying show me another religion that teaches the basics.. i changed subject but i suppose basics are.

Indian Larry

http://lhim.org

The group at the link above meets all your criteria execept they use Yahweh instead of Jehovah.

Non-Trinitarian

Paradise on Earth

Kingom should be preached

No Hell

No Eternal Soul

Best of all no FDS

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There Is No 'Heavenly Hope'!

by The Searcher in

propitiatory sacrifice.

this is how christ's death is described three times in the scriptures.. the apostle john wrote, "the love is in this respect, not that we have loved god, but that he loved us and sent forth his son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.

" (1 john 4:10).

Indian Larry

Thanks guys!

What I want to try to get across to family is the main two scriptures:

(John 3:5) . . .Jesus answered: “Most truly I say to you, Unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

and

(Matthew 8:11) But I tell YOU that many from eastern parts and western parts will com and recline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens.

so if the average witness hopes to see the "ancient worthies" as Rutherford put it, they HAVE to be born of water and spirit. The "slave" reserves that for only the 144,000. This is in total disagreement with the bible, although it certainly does bring to mind one scripture

Matt 23:13 “Woe to ? YOU , scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ? YOU ? shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ? YOU ? yourselves do not go in, neither do ? YOU ? permit those on their way in to go in."

In other words by following the religous leaders of that time, people were kept from the kingdom of the heavens (kingdom of God), the same is true today. The odd thing is that six or seven million people can't see that. Of course who am I to talk. I did not see it for 40 years either.