yeah, I think it's branch visits now and not zone.
TheOldHippie
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November 8th Special Meeting
by Chris Tann inanyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.
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Not on JW.org: SIX Texas victims acuse Jehovah's Witness Elder & Circuit Overseer of sexual abuse, and bring lawsuit against Watchtower for cover-up.
by Balaamsass2 insexual exploitation and abuse of six young children leads to lawsuit in dallas county.
dallas, oct. 23, 2014 /news.gnom.es/ six young adults, from north texas, all sexually abused as children, filed suit today in dallas, texas state court against three north texas jehovahs witnesses congregations (dallas, plano, and greenville), the watchtower bible and tract society of new york, and an elder.. sexually abused when they were ages 4 through 14, the plaintiffs were children of members of the dallas, plano, and greenville jehovahs witnesses congregations.
the suit states that they were repeatedly sexually abused and molested by an elder and an unknown regional circuit overseer, and that they and their families were threatened with discipline and harm if they disclosed the abuse to anyone.
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TheOldHippie
What has happened in the meantime - since the abuse and to this day? I ask because I find what took place against Jane Doe #1 VERY hard to believe (please don't sharpen your knives, I know that the most unimaginable things DO happen!), so for the victims and the case I just hope this is not a case of repressed memories and thus something which proves to be "nothing" in the end, because of over-eager psychologists.
It's a tough world out there. Things take place that are hard to believe, yet they do take place.
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Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?
by 3rdgen ina poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.
break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.
the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.
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TheOldHippie
I used to go around the corner and have a smoke with a couple of friends.
We also had all the meetings on one day, shortened down to three hours .................
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Mental Disorders among JW's
by Blackfalcon98 inhi everyone, im begining to notice patterns of mental issues in the congregations and among the witnesses as a group.
do you think this is a trend in the entire world or is it exagerated in this organization?.
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TheOldHippie
"My father who is still a JW is also a Pharmacist and now attends his 3rd different congregation in a different state from the first 2 and likes to talk about all of the anti-psychotics he fills or has filled for fellow JW's from each of the congs including one of the ANNOINTED."
So he blatantly is breaking patient confidence? Give me his name, and I'll have him sued and losing his profession within five monites.
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The great Jack Bruce of Cream passes
by designs inthe premier bassist of his generation, his songs made many love babies.
rock on forever jb..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdo0juekqm.
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TheOldHippie
I so much liked West, Bruce, Laing. Now Bruce is gone and West is one-legged.
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Awake! to be part of Watchtower Public Edition!
by Atlantis inthis was posted on a jw site and it would be nice if we could verify.. .. .. as of february 2015, the awake!
will come as a part of the watchtower public edition instead of as a separate magazine.
this is a huge change... with serious cost savings.
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TheOldHippie
The only thing the letter says, is that Awake will be delivered as a separate magazine inside of the WT magazine, the same way as large parts of the rest of the world has got it/them for some time. It seems they have been delivered separately till the Spanish congregations for printing reasons till now.
So sorry guys, this was not a notification of the magazine vanishing.
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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty inthis excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .
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TheOldHippie
"comparative anatomy, embryology" - don't mean a shit when it comes to evolution. Similar anatomy - but different evolutionary history. Embryology - a la Haeckel - fake.
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English to Spanish differences
by StarTrekAngel ini was wondering if someone here can guide me a bit.
i have been doing some research on wt publications, specifically those that have the key writtings regarding changing doctrine.
the problem is that i am native spanish speaker and i attend a spanish congregation.
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TheOldHippie
Do the same as with other languages: Go about four months further on, and you will find it (for example, a July article in the English magazines will be found in November issues of foreign-language editions),
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which book says it?
by sowhatnow inmy mom seems to railroad me into a debate at least once a week.. anyway long story short,.
she says 'there is no where in the literture that the wt writers claimed that a specfic year it was going to be armageddon.. well i thought there was, and id like to print it or show it to her, i have some older books but not many.. so, is there?
i told her that the wt claimed that 1975 was going to be the end, she said no, they said that was the beginning of the tribulation.. wow, she forgot about the most recent article ablout that already!.
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TheOldHippie
Anddontcallmeshirley - I think you should have included the part of the paragraph you left out in the WT68 quote: "If these two periods run parallel with each other as to the calendar year, it will not be by mere chance or accident but will be according to Jehovah’s loving and timely purposes. Our chronology, however, which is reasonably accurate (but admittedly not infallible), at the best only points to the autumn of 1975 as the end of 6,000 years of man’s existence on earth. It does not necessarily mean that 1975 marks the end of the first 6,000 years of Jehovah’s seventh creative “day.” Why not? Because after his creation Adam lived some time during the “sixth day,” which unknown amount of time would need to be subtracted from Adam’s 930 years, to determine when the sixth seven-thousand-year period or “day” ended, and how long Adam lived into the “seventh day.” And yet the end of that sixth creative “day” could end within the same Gregorian calendar year of Adam’s creation."
While I find the whole paragraph - and others - "most unfortunate" to say the least, this one paragraph wih the missing part included shows that what is to happen or to run out within weeks or months, is the 6,000-year period, and as it says it remains to be seen whether that period will run parallell to the outbreak of Armageddon. So whereas the intention of the paragraph possibly can be read a you point out, one could just as easily state it calls for caution ................
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a young 14 year old girl was disfellowshipped in my former congregation last week
by alexandre ina baptized girl from my former cong.
was expelled out because she participated in more than one porn videos with classmates in the school and theses videos became public.
she is 14 years old and grew up as witnesses.but anybody knows she had many boyfriends and she-, but that thing was unbelievable!
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TheOldHippie
"a 14 yr old has no buisness being baptized to begn with"
Neither has a two months old ....................