saw this on e-watchman's discussion forum: http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3133&pid=34199&st=0&#entry34199.
anyone know if it's true?
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I think if more JWs understood more clearly the Watchtower doctrine that most of the New Testament is only for the anointed, they would realize they really are second-class citizens in their own religion.
Personally, I used it to my advantage, when someone told me I needed to be preaching in harmony with Matt 24:14, etc, I just said, hey, that's for the anointed, not for lowly other sheep like me!
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in line with ritchie rich's thread where abad points out that the wts has an ongoing editing policy for the littermanure.. they have heavily edited the bound volumes as opposed to the original ragazines.
they even got rid of kingdumb melodies from the song book, because their composer turned away.
ditto the aid book.. has anyone noticed if they remove people from old photos who are no longer approved?
Ok why does there appear to be a missing post on the first page of this thread??? Apparently GaryBuss had posted the orginal source of a picture from the Live Forever book, from some book or magazine called Stern? But where is this post?
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i want to thank you in advance for your suggestions.
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Bacon. Bacon goes with everything.
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"why do all the famous jws have to be weirdos?
it's embarrassing!
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Its not just the famous ones that are weirdos...
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a simple question: is the watchtower's continuance of their blood transfusion policy rather like the way nazis used the rail system?.
it is asserted that the nazis were so fanatically driven to exterminate jews, poles and others that they used vital railway resources to transport prisoners to concentration camps rather than transport needed weapons and soldiers to the front.. i observe a clear drift in the organization towards more ease and compromise.
even the society now talks about witnesses who lead a double life or those who are 'part-time' witnesses.
What's funny though is how for a time it looked like they were starting to backpedal on this issue. Remember how the book that replaced United in Worship dropped the whole chapter on blood, and the rumors the year the blood cards were not issued.
But yes, in the last few years they have gone really hard core in pushing the blood doctrine, even as it becomes more controversial.
I still think there may be something to the theory that 9/11 was a turning point, that it allowed the "conservatives", the hard-liners, to gain the upper hand within the organization over the more liberal, progressive factions.
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in the sacramento bee yesterday was an article on this.
not adept at posting links - but it's short so i'll post the sources quoted.. " rock star prince may be forced to choose between his faith and his health.
so contends britains guardian newspaper, which reports that hip problems are affecting the purple one's mobility, and his religious beliefs are preventing surgery.
The other day I was reading some blurb about Prince, it referred to him as the "world's sexiest Jehovah's Witness!" LOL!!
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on june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
If its no big deal, will we see mention of it in the Awake! or the Kingdom Ministry? Will they even mention it on their PR website?
If its so innocent, why are the R&F continually kept in the dark?
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BluesBrother,
The licence plates in New Hampshire carry the state motto: Live Free or Die. Apparently at least one JW thought that this was a political statement and did not want it displayed on his vehicle.
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http://www.cbs3springfield.com/news/local/47654212.html
JW's can be firefighters now? Who knew, they are going mainstream.
I don't think this is new. Why wouldn't they be able to be firefighters? My understanding is that in some areas lots of JWs are firefighters, its a relatively good-paying job that doesn't require any evil higher education.
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I've seen a lot less of him since he met a gal a few months back, He hasn't been to the last few meetups. I might have to give him a call and see how he's doing, let him know people are looking for him.
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