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  Article from Jamaica: Jehovah's Witnesses' properties for sale - Rising costs force religious group to go small

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20160410/jehovahs-witnesses-properties-sale-rising-costs-force-religious-group-go-small jehovah's witnesses' properties for sale - rising costs force religious group to go small.

  sunday | april 10, 2016 | 12:00 am by erica virtue.

  norman grindley.

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  TheOldHippie

  Seems the journalist must have looked at the wrong country, the number of JWs do not make any sense.
  
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  Very Weird Experience During Recent Special Talk After Memorial

  by Tenacious in

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  2. beliefs

  hesitantly i attended this talk with my family and sat through it without batting an eye.. mentally i take myself out during the entire meeting some would describe this as daydreaming or zoning out.

  whatever the case may be, for some reason this particular speaker, whom i know of but not personally, got my attention the way he would say certain phrases.

  he cited some texts that directly advised the audience that faith in christ was the only way to salvation.

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  TheOldHippie

  Hesitantly I attended

  Mentally I take myself out

  get upset with some of the crap they try to push down everyone's throat.

  heard the awful singing

  I won't usually agree with anything these maggots say

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  I am so disappointed with you - that you did not manage to put any more negative statements to show how tough you are, into your text. I mean, I KNOW you are tough and HAVE to show it to us all, but did you not have anything MORE negative to say?
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  The two elders threaten my sister again

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as i reported here in this forum, some time ago, my sister was constantly harried by two elders so as to be submitted to a judiciary committee for apostasy.

  these two elders were constantly hounding her in the street when she walks to go to her job.

  so she had to send them a notary letter in which she wrote that she would attend the judiciary committee only with her attorney.

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  TheOldHippie

  Sounds very strange in my ears; in my congregation, some 7-8 have faded during the last 3-4 years, and they are neither hounded nor are their names mentioned from the platform re. disassosiation.

  Different places, different practises.
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  More Ant-Evolution BS in this months JW Broadcast Program

  by ttdtt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so at around the 46 min mark - the are talking to this guy from ukraine who was a zoologist.. he talks about how he was a staunch evolutionist (who wasn't able to prove evolution to himself, by the way).

  then when he studied nature through the lens of evolution - he found that nature contradicted evolution.. his big point came when he said - "imagine emptying a box of letter blocks on a table, and the encyclopedia britannica appears, or could a computer program come by chance.

  so who could dna come by chance.".

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  TheOldHippie

  "How many books have GB men read on Biological evolution ? = 0

  How many books have the GB men read on the Earth's own Geological evolution ? = 0

  How many books have the GB men read on Astrophysics ? = 0"

  How do you know that?
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  The danger of thinking we know everything.

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a thought occurred that there is a danger in thinking we know everything, or have it all figured out in life.

  especially when it comes to matters of doctrine or faith.. witnesses (or at least the society as a whole) are so self-confident, so proud to be the only ones who know "the truth" about everything to do with the universe, the earth, our past and our future, that pride kicks in.

  and pride is dangerous...(.and before a fall).

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  One area where for my part I feel this definitely is an important point, is in the field of evolution versus creation. How many program do I not watch where the evolutionists state that earlier, one did not quite understand how this or that was - but NOW we know how it is, NOW we have the full truth about it. And then, in about 20 years' time, another evolutionist will say exactly the same. I don't intend to hijack the thread, but me - I get angry when I hear about how the plants and insects and worms have figured things out and miraculously managed to overcome obstacles and have engineered new solutions whereupon the tree next door has managed to overcome this etc. NOW we know it, a decade ago we didn't.
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  Who was vice president of WT between 1997 and 2000?

  by lenaga in

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  1977-1992 milton henschel, 1992-1997 lloyd barry, in 2000 malefant and wallen.

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  TheOldHippie

  Swingle 1992-2000
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  JW TV - Britain Branch Report

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  although it is titled as "britain branch report" it's not much of a report.

  it only goes for just over 6 minutes and half of it is some 'wild talk' about romeo and juliette, i say wild talk because it has nothing to do with the british branch and if there was any point to it, it's lost on me.. anyway, about the only thing said that is of any importance was this (at the 2.20 mark) -.

  "the governing body, very kindly, have given us permission to continue construction once we have reviewed the scope of the building so we hope to be underway very soon".

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  TheOldHippie

  "half of it is some 'wild talk' about Romeo and Juliette"

  Half of it? It lasted from 04:45 to 05:50, one minute and five seconds, and that is not half of six minutes in my calculations?
  
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses are Taught to Lie but to then Lie about Lying

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah’s witnesses are taught to lie but to then lie about lying.

  first off, let’s define what it means to tell a lie.

  i prefer the definition offered by aristotle way back in 4th century b.c.e.

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  TheOldHippie

  Funny that the major amount of articles is from the 1950s ........
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  Catholic encyclopedia misquote

  by alcyone in

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  2. scandals

  i do not know if this misquote has been discussed here already.. new catholic encyclopedia says this about jw:.

  "judge" rutherford introduced important changes in the witnesses' creed and transformed the congregational structure of the sect as it was under "pastor" russell into a rigid theocracy.

  the third leader, "brother" nathan h. knorr, gradually replaced the offensive convert-making tactics of the rutherford era by suave manners that have gained the witnesses their current reputation as one of the best-behaved groups in the world.

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  "It is comparatively biased for an encyclopedia. "

  All encyclopaedian articles are written by persons, and so reflect what the author wants to state. You find the strangest opinions on various religious and political groups in encyclopaedias.
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  So... Are they done printing the number of partakers?

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  during the wt study yesterday i had a confused look on my face the whole meeting.

  more of a, wtf, face.

  one paragraph says, "therefore,the number of partakers does not accurately indicate the number of anointed ones left on earth.".

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  TheOldHippie

  Nothing new. The same has been stated for years - though I admit not as clearly as this time, but still it is nothing new, and the numbers have been printed at the same time. So what's the worry?