Topics Started by Rick Aust

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WTS AND THE INTERNET
by heyfea in
1. jw
2. friends
regarding the wts and their fear of the internet.

i just wanted to mention that the wts will probably come out with a cd-rom, something to supposedly help the jws study the bible, or some crap like that, but in reality, it will be a program to block the jws from accessing any anti-jws web site.

i know the church of scientology did it.
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Thoughts about the two witness rule
by Sadie5 in
1. jw
2. friends
i was thinking this morning about how i feel the two witness rule is not applied to every situation.

take a charge of adultery for example.

i know of times when elders camped out in front of someone's house all night to see if two people spend the night together and this would be grounds for adultery, however, unless they peeked into the windows, or snuck in to be there, they were only witnesses to the fact that someone went in the place and came out the next morning.
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Child Abuse
by Rick Aust in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
go to www.antichrist.com.au/index.html do a search with "jehovah" and tell us what you see.
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Things Four Presidents Would Be Disfellowedshipped
by Blueblades in
1. jw
2. friends
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russell: anti-organizational teachings,celebrating birthdays,christmas and holiday observance, military involvement tolerated, not draing blood from food, considering self to be the "faithful and discreet slave", selling miracle wheat,dabbling in the occult, and signing his own books.. rutherford: signing his own books, beer parties at bethel,making many enemies within and without the organization.. knorr: having private opinions on 1975 and the time of the end counter to what was printed in the watchtower.. fred franz: he was too smart to be disfellowedshipped.

besides ,he practically invented disfellowshipping.
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WT HYPOCRITES!!! Re: Child Abuse...
by TheApostleAK in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
just letting you guys all know that a certain kingdom hall in south australia has a 6ft x 4ft pin-up board that has half of it that is strictly devoted to anything to do with the whole catholic, anglican child abuse scandals...they're particularly gloating over newspaper articles about the possibility of the boston r.c.

church going bankrupt.... also, quote from awake article on child abuse published in the 8/4/99 issue (pages 6-7) makes this accusation about the clergy then quotes a book:.

"in australia a review of the book the battle and the backlash: the child sexual abuse war commented on child abuse by clergymen and others in positions of trust.
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www.watchtower.observer.org/
by Rick Aust in
1. jw
2. friends
i cannot get into "watchtower.observer.org" anymore.. has something happened to this site?

i haven't been able to get into it for months.

does someoen know something?
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Photodrama of Creation
by Wolfy in
1. jw
2. friends
i was going through some old jw books of my aunts and found one entitled the photodrama of creation.

it is missing the 1st few pages but it is really interesting to look through.

i did notice that there is almost no mention of jehovah's name in the book althought it talks about jesus and the church constantly.
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When will I no longer be a newby?......
by SillyPutty in
1. jw
2. friends
......and what are the different levels?

thanks.
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Elders? Ministerial servants? Pioneers
by lv4fer in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm just curious.

how many of you were elders or ministerial servants or pioneers?

were you an elder or ms or pioneer when you realized it wasn't the truth or a had you stepped down already, were you "weak" when you realized it?
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September 8 Awake
by KSJordan in
1. watchtower
2. medical
the main topic is help for depressed teens.

yet when i was a teenager and depressed, did the elders help me?

the elders made rude little comments about it.