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  Scientology opens up H.Q. in UK

  by The Fall Guy in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41697303.

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  What`s your point Fall Guy ? without you making a comment ?

  Cults have the right to exist anywhere they like in western society ?

  They certainly don`t have that freedom to exist in certain other political/religious Society`s.

  Lets hear it.
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  New World Translation Vs. Kingdom Interlinear Translation ... your thoughts

  by Ianone in

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  8: 58 footnote 1985 ed kit blue (01).

  8: 58 footnote 1969 ed kit purple (02).

  jesus, himself tells us just how important it is.

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  I was thinking along the lines of word for word translations of the scriptures and how they may influence our beliefs or non belief and not rely on religious interpretations into modern English by translators who may have their own agenda.

  I was also thinking of the Old Testament as well as the New Testament in word for word Translations.

  And then I came upon this post.

  I was surprised to learn in this post that their were two versions of the "Kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures " published by the WTB&TS I never knew that.

  I hope their are some knowledgeable people out their who can throw more light on this post after 13 years since it was first posted .
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  Why I lost my religion

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was a jw for over 50 years and recently just stopped cold turkey going to the meetings.

  years of sitting at the meetings with the boredom, the gloom and doom, repetition of doctrine, the gloom and doom, the fake love, the gloom and doom, the end being so close, do more - do more, just got to be too much for me to stomach.

  i stopped praying to god and no longer thank god for the food before i eat.

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  FedUpJW ,LOL that`s very good,maybe the punch line should have read :

  "Do you know how hard it is to find a Governing Body Member with a brain ?"

  just saying.

  Sour Grapes this is such a good post with so many good points considered .

  Such as ,why would a loving God cast Satan out of heaven back to the earth where he can do more damage ?

  That just doesn`t make any sense at all .And as pointed out he could have sent him elsewhere in the universe.
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  Spillane, Mickey Spillane--Cool Brother Spillane-naked wife on the cover

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  spillane, mickey spillane.

  he pulled no punches and his pen was as fast as his gun.

  after all, it took almost three whole weeks for mickey to type his first novel.

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  Hi Terry ,their have been many posts on here about mickey Spillane going back 16 years .One I posted about 6 years ago as smiddy.

  Before I became a convert I used to love reading his books when I was a teenager.

  Their have also been a couple of TV series with two different actors playing Mike Hammer many years ago and at least one movie or two about the Private eye Mike Hammer.

  Relying on my memory ( which is not always reliable nowadays ) I believe it has come out in a publication that he was converted after finding a leaflet left under his door ,and he became a book study conductor some time later .

  I think he stopped writing for a period of about 10+ years ? And then he started writing again which made me think he was out of the religion .

  But that was just my thoughts.
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  Why is there such a 'high turnover' within the Jehovahs Witnesses?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i happened to come across a time article in 2008. it was basically talking about the high turnover in american faiths.

  it mentioned the jdubs and highlighted the following point.. an even more extreme example of what might be called "masked churn" is the relatively tiny jehovah's witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds.

  that means that two-thirds of the people who told pew they were raised jehovah's witnesses no longer are — yet the group attracts roughly the same number of converts.

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  snugglebunny

  Your father must have been an exceptional charismatic man who had good people skills to influence so many people to his cause.

  However I would say such a person is the exception to the norm, the majority of JW`s in the many KH`s I attended never converted anyone to become a JW.

  And some of the KH`s I attended had between 80 and 100+ publishers.

  Thats just my experience of 33 years in the "struth"
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  Update

  by Issa in

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  2. experiences

  it has been a couple of months since the last time i updated.

  i got a good news to share.

  i have been accepted to university!

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  Maybe you can become a lawyer and take on and beat the WT Organization ?

  Just joking.
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  JW Broadcasting: Russian Convention Travel Report w/Mark Sanderson

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201709_12_video.

  a few things about this video:.

  it's very nice that they managed to host a convention for the russian brothers and sisters, and that they all got fed.

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  Sanderson doesn`t have an outside job so who pays for his holiday with friends in Finland ? Oh that`s right gullible JW`s donations.thats who .
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  Clue re approach to Annual Report in Jan 2018 MWB

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at the agm on oct 7th, his eminence miserable morris iii stated the jw yearbook would cease publication and that the annual report would instead be released via the "about us" menu in the jw website.

  related to this, the "life and ministry meeting workbook - january 2018 (living as christians)" outlines the following item to be considered jan 1-7 2018...."annual service report: (15 min.

  ) talk by an elder.

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  interview publishers, selected in advance, who had outstanding experiences in the ministry during the past year."

  I`ll look forward to that ,I wonder what part of the world they will get that from ?

  The yearbook used to be a real incentive to press on in the ministry and see the overall increase that was happening world wide and take it as Gods blessing his chosen organization to give a witness to the world.

  I dont think this new arrangement will have the same desired effect as a bound book thats in your home library.
  
  
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  Japan Renounces Pacifism

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  shinzo abe has won reelection in the japanese election.

  abe called the poll specifically in reaction to the threat from pyongyang.

  he asked for, and has now won, a mandate to change the pacifist nature of japan's constitution.

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  When a foreign nation fires missiles over your sovereign territory who can blame them ? And now as an Ali to the USA it`s in both their interests for Japan to do so especially in that region with China also expanding their influence in the South China Seas.

  Interesting times lay ahead.

  { And no it doesn`t mean the GT or the big" A" is just around the corner }
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  Why is there such a 'high turnover' within the Jehovahs Witnesses?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i happened to come across a time article in 2008. it was basically talking about the high turnover in american faiths.

  it mentioned the jdubs and highlighted the following point.. an even more extreme example of what might be called "masked churn" is the relatively tiny jehovah's witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds.

  that means that two-thirds of the people who told pew they were raised jehovah's witnesses no longer are — yet the group attracts roughly the same number of converts.

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  the problem the JWs DO have. now. Is the lack of converts combined with born-ins leaving.

  In the 33 years I had being a JW convert and the six or so congregations I was involved in I could count on one hand the amount of people who came to a meeting through invitations that were regularly distributed in the community.

  The converts in the Western world has been dwindling for many years now and what converts their have now are from poor 3rd world countries who do not contribute much money.

  I find it hard to comprehend why the WT has cut back on printing books and Mags and not willing to pay a tax on these sales. ( It could be argued that they are only paying back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar

  They have something like 7-8 million sure sales of these publications every time they produce a new publication.

  I`m sure a worldly publishing company would consider that a dream result in sales.

  Also ,it was once said that Advertisers had approached the WT to use their Mags for their products recognizing the distribution these Mags had worldwide ,what a misplaced opportunity then.

  They could have been selective as to what was advertised in their mags.but look at the revenue they could have enjoyed with volunteer `s distributing these books and magazines worldwide.

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