Rob Crompton

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  SPARLOCK has been banned on YOutube!!!!!

  by usualusername in

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  all the videos have been taken down by the watchtower!.

  yikes.

  uun .

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  Well, at least this confirms that the idiocy is genuine and not an elaborate parody.
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  I find it ironic"should you be charged for religious services"

  by bobld in

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  some of their comments.. leaders of professed christian religions charge a fee for religious services.these may include baptisms,weddings or funerals.. but does the bible support such customs of charging for religious services or even of making people feel obligated to pay.yet,at the same time,they professed divine backing.. in the time of micah,priests "instructed just for a price"jehovah was not a supporter,he detested their conduct.. today many religious leaders resort to the same greedy tactics.. however,jehovah's witnesses obtain needed funds through voluntary donations.they do not charge for their literature or religious.

  services.they don't tithe or pass a collection plate.. tell me how this relates to their charging for c.a.

  or sad now d.c..

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  A couple getting married pay for the use of the venue, they pay their caterer, they pay their photographer, they pay for car hire, they pay their florist,,, and they pay a fee to the officiating minister. And some folk call it greedy tactics on the part of the minister?

  Do Christian window cleaners not charge to clean your windows? Do special pioneers not receive a monthly allowance?
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  Posters in the UK, a trivial question....

  by Glander in

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  i was reading a novel by a british author, robert goddard.

  i have read several of his books but in this one, "past caring" he spells the word "connexion" instead of "connection".

  i had never seen that spelling before.

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  Connection is the normal British spelling. Connexion is widely regarded as archaic but survives within the Methodist Church, as the Methodist Connexion - i.e network, interdependent group etc.

  Worse or worst? One is comparative, the other's superlative, So:

  A is bad

  B is worse than A

  C is the worst.
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  So you don't believe in miracles... - watch this!! Clip with T.B. Joshua

  by Mr Facts in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maum_5bwo6s.

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  It makes me very sad and angry to think that desperately unhappy people are being encouraged to believe in this abusive garbage and pursue false hopes of miraculous solutions to their ills.
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  Soul

  by on the rocks in

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  how many of you since leaving the wt now beleive in a soul that will survive your physical body?

  any thoughts?.

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  "Soul = sol = sun. Many religious words have a solar/astrological similarity or connection."

  Have you tried translating this into any other languages?
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  I just love this.....

  by Slidin Fast in

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  canon dr paul shackerley made a series of unholy comments in which he joked about drinking, mocked religious events and grumbled about having to give sermons.

  in one, he commented: i think i will put my feet up.

  ive done f*** all today other than jazz lesson and visit a friend.

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  He sounds quite a decent guy really - can't have that sort of thing, though.

  Reminds me of a friend who was similarly colourful in his language. Shortly after taking up a new post as vicar in a different parish, he had preached a sermon in which he uttered the word "blimey." On the Monday morning he had a call from a member of his congregation protesting about the use of such dreadful language. My friend apologised and said he would promise to avoid that sort of thing in future. But then he added, "I was trying not to say fuck." The line went silent.
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  Are There ANY Prophecies or Beliefs That The Witnesses Have Right In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  regarding prophecy, i see nothing that they've ever been correct on.

  from my understanding, they've always had to change the "truth" about the "truth".. scripturally, i can't see the logic of a godhead or a loving father eternally roasting a person who is deemed "bad".. yout thoughts, please?.

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  They had a missed opportunity with The Finished Mystery. It was a major faux pas and landed JudgeJoe with a rather tricky problem - little wonder itwas so short-lived. But in George Fisher's section on Ezekiel there was a prediction of a major onslaught against the Jewish people in Europe in the 1930s. I wonder what they mighthave done with that if the book hadn't been dumped or if Fisher hadn't fallen out of favour with the Judge.
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  For 6 months I have been having trouble with the bottle

  by usualusername in

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  can any of you guess the bottle and the cause of my embarrassment?.

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  Oh. come on - it's not one of those... well, you know, "Nurse, can I have a...?"

  Oops, sorry. Couldn't resist it!
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  REAL-TIME CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY UPDATE "DO NOT SHOPLIFT FROM JEHOVAH!"!!!

  by Sunflower Samurai in

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  just a quick overview of some new light that is coming our way, forgive my posting via my cellphone.

  audience is given ten questions and we have receved anwsers to r questions.. .

  "we are stealing from jehovah, if we are worrying about problems in our life, congregation, or employment.

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  " This is Jehovah's job to solve family problems, congregational problems, employment problems. Stealing from Jehovah, <taking matters into our own hand> grieves Jehovah's holyspirit,"

  So immaturity and dependence are good, whereas taking responsibility for one's affairs and using one's (god-given?) abilities is wrong?
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  The Predictions Thread

  by cedars in

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  i thought it might be interesting and fun to have a "predictions thread", where we set out our predictions for events to unfold concerning the watch tower society (or jehovah's witnesses in general) over the coming years/decades.. it strikes me that so much has happened in the last ten years, most of which has defied expectations.

  here's just a few of the developments that i can think of:.

  the abolishment of group book studies in favor of a "family worship evening"the creation of a "study edition" watchtowerthe halving of monthly magazine printing commitmentsthe unprecedented closure/merging of branches (16% reduction in branches last year)the menlo park scandal, a body of elders removed for resisting a refurb of their kingdom hallthe lawsuits in victoria, australia - the society taken to court concerning child protection lawscourtroom admissions about the faithful & discreet slave and similarities with the catholic churchincreased hate speech against "mentally diseased" apostatesastonishing lapses of judgment, such as the "selma and steve" study articlethe ditching of gilead as a school for missionariesambitious construction plans for a new world hq (with or without jehovah's blessing!

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  Over the past several years access to information via the internet and the creation of cyber-communities, like this one, have played a major part in increasing the flow of defectors from the WT. The next phase in this process, which will ironically be assisted by the availability of WT pulblications online, will be the formation of independent groups of Witnesses gradually distancing themselves from control by the Society/GB.

  Rob Crompton