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  You can now download (pdf) Plaintiff's Response to WT's Request for a New Trial

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  (pdf) plaintiff's response to wt's request for new trial:.

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  http://www.mediafire.com/?di4bry8su9tn1ft.

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  Referred to in the pdf:

  g93 10/8 p.5 How Can We Protect Our Children?

  "AFTER using children to satisfy perverted lusts, after robbing them of their security and their sense of innocence, child molesters still want something else from their victims—SILENCE. To secure that silence, they use shame, secrecy, even outright terror. Children are thus robbed of their best weapon against abuse—the will to tell, to speak up and ask an adult for protection.

  Tragically, adult society often unwittingly collaborates with child abusers. How so? By refusing to be aware of this danger, by fostering a hush-hush attitude about it, by believing oft-repeated myths. Ignorance, misinformation, and silence give safe haven to abusers, not their victims."

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  Email exchange with a JW MS that I used to know

  by loosie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have to laugh at this email exchange had with an ms i used to know.

  a little background first so you will understand why i was amd at him.

  about 25 years or so ago we dated fro about 2 weeks.

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  I know a JW window washer who earns about £40k per year.

  He's his own boss, chooses when to work and when to go on vacation. No 9:00-5:00 for him.

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  Email from my grandmother yesterday.

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  here is an email that my grandmother sent me yesterday.. .

  shawn, it's very difficult & sad to come to this decision, but because of your attitude towards the truth & us personally (thinking that we are stupid) we're going to treat you as a disfellowshipped person from now on.

  actually, you're worse than them because usually they know they have not kept their oath to jehovah & don't speak abusively of the organization and don't turn apostate.

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  What are those two scriptures about a parent laying up an inheritance for the children?

  Will look for them when my PC is on next.

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  When was the last time you had someone appointed in your cong?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for my cong, apart from those moving in, we last had an elder appointed 16 years ago.. we last had some ms's appointed about 3 years ago.. our boe are getting old, 3 in their 80's, 1 in his 70's and three in their 60's.. they all work hard, but when their time comes, they deteriorate quickly.. splash.

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  This could be what the new Elder School is about at the end of the year.

  There is currently no proper training for men to reach out. No encouragement, no incentive.

  It's very poor that after a decade or more no brother qualifies for recommendation - what does that tell you about the appointed men?

  We have had CO items to the local BOE and Assembly items about men not reaching out.

  There should be a formal training program to bring the skills and understanding up, then that might create the desire to serve.

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  Nice 1975 quote from F Franz, in 1975

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  *** w75 5/1 p. 285 a contrastmissionaries with an urgent, lifesaving work ***.

  another speaker, f. w. franz, the societys vice-president, forcefully impressed on the audience the urgency of the christian preaching work.. he stressed that, according to dependable bible chronology, 6,000 years of human history will end this coming september according to the lunar calendar.

  this coincides with a time when the human species [is] about to starve itself to death, as well as its being faced with poisoning by pollution and destruction by nuclear weapons.. franz added: theres no basis for believing that mankind, faced with what it now faces, can exist for the seventh thousand-year period under the present system of things.

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  *** w75 5/1 p. 285 A Contrast—Missionaries with an Urgent, Lifesaving Work ***

  Another speaker, F. W. Franz, the Society’s vice-president, forcefully impressed on the audience the urgency of the Christian preaching work.

  He stressed that, according to dependable Bible chronology, 6,000 years of human history will end this coming September according to the lunar calendar. This coincides with a time when “the human species [is] about to starve itself to death,” as well as its being faced with poisoning by pollution and destruction by nuclear weapons.

  Franz added: “There’s no basis for believing that mankind, faced with what it now faces, can exist for the seventh thousand-year period” under the present system of things. Does this mean that we know exactly when God will destroy this old system and establish a new one? Franz showed that we do not, for we do not know how short was the time interval between Adam’s creation and the creation of Eve, at which point God’s rest day of seven thousand years began. (Heb. 4:3, 4)

  But, he pointed out, “we should not think that this year of 1975 is of no significance to us,” for the Bible proves that Jehovah is “the greatest chronologist” and “we have the anchor date, 1914, marking the end of the Gentile Times.” So, he continued, “we are filled with anticipation for the near future, for our generation.”—Matt. 24:34.

  Nice little get-out clause in there too. Smart!

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  When was the last time you had someone appointed in your cong?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for my cong, apart from those moving in, we last had an elder appointed 16 years ago.. we last had some ms's appointed about 3 years ago.. our boe are getting old, 3 in their 80's, 1 in his 70's and three in their 60's.. they all work hard, but when their time comes, they deteriorate quickly.. splash.

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  For my cong, apart from those moving in, we last had an elder appointed 16 years ago.

  We last had some MS's appointed about 3 years ago.

  Our BOE are getting old, 3 in their 80's, 1 in his 70's and three in their 60's.

  They all work hard, but when their time comes, they deteriorate quickly.

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  Best British Bands

  by outsmartthesystem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on a lighter note......what do you think?

  here's my top ten.

  1) beatles.

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  @jamesmahon,

  The wife loves TakeThat, and after having to listen to them for years (decades?) and seeing them in concert, it kinda rubs off on you.

  Its only a matter of time before Gary Barlow gets knighted.

  Maybe i should swap them out for Sham 69.
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  Best British Bands

  by outsmartthesystem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on a lighter note......what do you think?

  here's my top ten.

  1) beatles.

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  1. The Smiths

  2. The Jam

  3. Sex Pistols

  4. Muse

  5. Sleeper

  6. David Bowie

  7. Iron Maiden

  8. The Who

  9. Coldplay

  10. Take That
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  Australian WTS definition of 'Charity'

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  just been reading this letter from the wts in australia a few years ago.

  http://jwleaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/357-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-of-australia.pdfdefining the word 'charity' it says:real charity is both the "purpose" and the "nature" of the activities carried out by a christian religion if it follows the example of christ set forth in the bible.

  perhaps the best known scriptural principle related to charity is recorded at 1 corinthians 13:13: king james version.

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  Just been reading this letter from the WTS in Australia a few years ago

  http://jwleaks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/357-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-of-australia.pdf Defining the word 'charity' it says:

  Real charity is both the "purpose" and the "nature" of the activities carried out by a Christian religion if it follows the example of Christ set forth in the Bible. Perhaps the best known Scriptural principle related to charity is recorded at 1 Corinthians 13:13: King James Version.

  "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."—

  This statement was made by an apostle to the early Christian church. However, in modern times, the word "charity" has assumed a related, but more limited, meaning. The

  Collins English Dictionary, Fourth Australian Edition , defines "charity" as— " 1a the giving of help, money, food, etc., to those in need.… 5 love of one’s fellow men.… from Latin caritas affection, love …"

  Therefore, the "charity" of the Christian religion includes, but extends beyond, giving to the poor and needy by means of the provision of money, clothing, food, medical attention, and other material help. It may, or may not, include assistance to the poor and needy by means of gifts of material possessions, but it is exercised for the good of the other person or a community of persons. It can include providing encouragement, advice, and counsel, giving hope, or showing kindness.

  Maybe the next WT publication should be an authoritative dictionary.

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  Another Watchtower property on the Market...Come and get it!

  by Momma-Tossed-Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  take a look!.

  $3.4 million .

  http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/44739.

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  COHI?

  Anything to do with this?

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/63614/1/DUMBO-property-and-the-secret-of-the-Margaret-Hotel

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/127932/1/COHI-Towers-Associates

  Splash.