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  DO Rodrigues/ROD-ricks commenting on JWN discussions and apostate having some Troof.

  by cattails in

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  what a flurry of interesting topics on jwn lately!

  my oh my.. i haven't posted in the last few days... nor read the forum.. this last week i was back east visiting friends in the troof.. lucky for me it was assembly time, so packing and going to.

  natick assembly hall (boston, ma), and caught the sunday.

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  I was in Bethel with Rod-Ricks and he manned the 124 Columbia Heights desk. A real jerk, and not the sharpest blade in the drawer. Dressed well, fairly good looking and made a nice appearance.
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  IT'S OFFICIAL - New Elder's Manual by end of 2010

  by sir82 in

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  per a "top secret, confidential, burn this after you read it" letter to all boes, dated march 2, 2010, but not read in our congregation until this past week:.

  new "kingdom ministry" school for all elders and ministerial servants, to be held (in the us anyway) between november 2010 and january 2011.. 6 hours of jaw dropping tedium instruction for ms, 9 for elders.

  ms session to be held on a sunday, elders on friday and saturday.. the "super secret surprise", for elders only: a new textbook will be released to be studied at this "school".

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  I'll bet there will be ample margins and large spaces between paragraphs to write in what they they will be verbally told at the school
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  Another JW "Wicked World "Myth Dispelled....

  by Room 215 in

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  we allknow how wt literature trumpets the unique honesty and ethic of jws while at the same time portraying the world outside jwism as a monolith of depravity, self-interest and dishonesty.

  just saw a reality tv show in which a van randomly dispersed eleven bags purported to contain bags of money with tags identifying the owners and requesting a return for reward.

  results: nine of 11 were returned..... whether any or all of the honest nine were jws was not stated.

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  WE allknow how WT literature trumpets the unique honesty and ethic of JWs while at the same time portraying the world outside JWism as a monolith of depravity, self-interest and dishonesty. Just saw a reality TV show in which a van randomly dispersed eleven bags purported to contain bags of money with tags identifying the owners and requesting a return for reward. Results: nine of 11 were returned..... Whether any or all of the Honest Nine were JWs was not stated.
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  Will you sink or swim with Jehovah's Organization? June 15, 2010 study article

  by truthseeker in

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  hence, many people feel.

  of the psalmist?

  there they will feel.

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  This article is so agenda-driven...... they're losing control of the flock, they've become so strident and overbearing that people are simply tuning them out
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  Armageddon Survivors-- Welcome to Jehovah's Vegetarian New World........

  by Room 215 in

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  ..... just don't trip over those 7 billion cadavers on your way in!.

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  I think it's the greatest irony: the creation of a veggie, macrobiotic New World, in which all domestic creatures will be off-limits as food sources, ostensibly out of respect for the sanctity of life and of blood, is to be brought into being by the slaughter of 99.99 percent of the human race!
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  Armageddon Survivors-- Welcome to Jehovah's Vegetarian New World........

  by Room 215 in

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  ..... just don't trip over those 7 billion cadavers on your way in!.

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  ..... just don't trip over those 7 billion cadavers on your way in!
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  What is the main issue you have with this religion?

  by Quillsky in

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  for me there are many obvious issues, but the big one is......... the big daddy of the universe, the father of all this incredible creation, is not about to annihilate everybody who is not a member of this late 1800's american religion, jehovah's witnesses.. that's it for me.. what is your big issue?.

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  In a word: CONTROL
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  Legal Department....

  by on the rocks in

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  just curious to know how big is the legal department in brooklyn??

  is it headed by a gb member...how much influence they have over the teachings of the society?.

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  There's no question that legal concerns -- and potential financial liability -- dominate WT policy. Examples are the 1985 "simplification" of baptism vows, the proliferation of several coroporate entitities, the wording of disassociation and disfellowhipping announcements, the change to "voluntary donations" for literature, the instructions that congregational actions are set autonomously and not directed by Brooklyn/Patterson, etc., etc. were conceived by the Legal Department whatever the scriptural jistification offered to rationalized them.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 03-21-10 WT Study (REAL CHRISTIANS)

  by blondie in

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  christ's true followers (5).

  true christians (3).

  (matt.

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  Q 8, 9. (a) What experiences highlight the value of using the Bible in our ministry? (b) How can we become more adept at using God's Word?

  8. When in the door-to-door work, a brother read Daniel 2:44 to a Catholic man and explained how God's Kingdom will bring about true peace and security. The man responded: "I really appreciate your opening the Bible and showing me what the scripture said instead of just telling me." When a brother read a scripture to a Greek Orthodox woman, she asked a number of good questions. In this case too, the brother, along with his wife, answered from the Bible. Later, the woman said: "Do you know why I was willing to talk with you? You came to my door with the Bible, and you read from it."

  Thanks Blondie. My impression is that the JWs are almost as reliant on the "Reasoning From The Scriptures" book as the old-timers were on Rutherford's phonographs. I wonder what percentage could stand up to a lengthy conversation with a Biblically literate householder with nothing more than a Bible in their hand.
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  An Explanation of why TIME TRAVEL does not work

  by Terry in

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  energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed.. consequently, the building blocks of existence are actually finite parts.. to create things in "tomorrow" which are new, something has to be dismantled to leave spare parts for tomorrow's new thing.. the old thing deteriorates, (dies/disintegrates) and the parts become available to make the new thing.. time travel requires going to a place where today's parts are available to be rearranged.. some of today's things persist as they are, of course.

  they only travel through time by persisting as they are.

  (mountains, for example.).

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  Another constraint to time travel -- especially rearward travel --- is the principle of causality... essentially, causality prohibits one from going back to a point before one was born.