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  THIS MAN Changed your life - Did you know that?

  by Terry in

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  this man changed your life - did you know that?.

  our story begins 6 years later in 1782 in pittsfield, massachusetts.

  there is a family of 16 children called the miller family.

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  'It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled' -Mark Twain
  
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  What Turns The Average "Worldly" Person Away From The Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  is it their door-to-door incessant preaching?

  is it their view on blood?

  is it that the religion itself is simply often misunderstood?.

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  Arrogance and stupidity are such an unattractive combination.
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  Frederick Franz, "Bible Scholar"

  by Quendi in

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  as some of you know by now, i spent sunday, 7 august, renewing ties with a dear friend.

  we're both disfellowshipped, the difference between us being he is seeking reinstatement and i am not.

  we got into some very spirited discussions on different bible topics and one of them was the value of the new world translation itself.

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  That Fred Franz is regarded by JW's as a great scholar proves the old saying, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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  Who wrote the May 22, 1969 Awake article "What Future for the Young"?

  by VM44 in

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  does anyone know who wrote the may 22, 1969 awake!

  article, "what future for the young?"?.

  i wonder if they still are at bethel.. .

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  Ah yes, but remember 28 years prior to that article Judge Rutherford in his literary classic "Children" instructed his followers not to marry or procreate. If only they had listened in 1941 the Awake wouldn't have had to tell their children in 1969 that they had no future! Today the Awake can tell the great grandchildren of the 1941 "generation" that they should not marry or procreate. Or maybe I have this wrong. Maybe the children who heard received Rutherford's book in 1941 are members of the same "generation" as today's teenagers. I mean after all, "generations" have been know to overlap.
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  The Economics Thread

  by sabastious in

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  jim has a job stacking boxes for a courier company.

  frank has his own business selling lumber.

  jim has a house project so he needs some lumber.

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  Unless of course the lumber purchased prevented the house from losing $150 in value (repair of a fence perhaps). But don't ask me, I'm just John Maynard Keynes, what would I know about Economics.
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  Bros before ... on the watchtower CD

  by bohm in

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  below are the average occurances of specific words plottet as a function of year for the watchtower.

  the occurences has been normalized such that for instance an occurance of 0.1 correspond to the given word being used an average of 0.1 times per page in the watchtower for that year.

  (a page is assumed to contain 3000 characters).. any good ideas?

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  Correction to above: In line 3 I meant during the time of de-emphasis.
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  Bros before ... on the watchtower CD

  by bohm in

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  below are the average occurances of specific words plottet as a function of year for the watchtower.

  the occurences has been normalized such that for instance an occurance of 0.1 correspond to the given word being used an average of 0.1 times per page in the watchtower for that year.

  (a page is assumed to contain 3000 characters).. any good ideas?

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  Regarding the downward trend in the use of the word ministry: In the 70's they de-emphasized the word ministry in favor of the word service. Our Kingdom Ministry became Our Kingdom Service. Prior to this time all JW's were said to be "ordained ministers." During the period of emphasis only elders, MS and pioneers were "ordained ministers." If I remember correctly this change was made due to research on the book "Aid to Bible Understanding." As you may remember this book was largely worked on by Raymond Franz. After they showed him the door they went back to their old beliefs regarding "ordained ministers" and put the name back to Our Kingdom Ministry.
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  House2House Board Game for JWs

  by VM44 in

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  I guess this is what you play when your religion won't let you play chess...
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  A very long time elder post this on his facebook page, he is not one of my fb friends

  by Iamallcool in

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  bringing simplicity back to network marketing...$25 to get started...no selling, no pv, bv, or cv, no left leg and right leg plans, no 2-ups or cycling!!

  !...learn how to turn $25 into $5000 residual income & more!!!

  huge call 2nite @ 8:55pm est.

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  Let me see if I understand this: An elder from a church which is in reality a multi-level marketing religious scheme is trying to start his own multi-level marketing business scheme. Who would have ever thought it ???
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  Charles Sinutko wants to sell you some songs-

  by moshe in

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  he is on the internet and he has 5 songs he wants to sell you.

  i guess he probably needs some extra income to supplement his meager social security check ( wt pay is pretty bad).

  can you believe he is 75 years old now?

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  Charles had relatives in my congregation in New Jersey. His uncle was Paul Sinutko Sr. (deceased), his aunt was Jane Sinutko, cousin Paul Sinutko Jr. (deceased) and cousin Arlene Sinutko (married name unknown, she would be in her late 50's). I met him when he came to visit. He did have an outstanding singing voice.