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  Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
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  this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

  "what role do those with an earthly hope play?

  oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.

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  Didn't care much for Jaracz, he's one of the reasons I lost the belief in the whole 144,000 thing, I mean, if he was chosen worthy as one of those to rule as a king and priest for 1000 years and that little old faithful brother in my congregation that is so warm and compassionate isn't, something had gone awry quite terribly with the selection process.
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  Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

  "what role do those with an earthly hope play?

  oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.

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  Childish....I wonder how he got back at them now that he's one of the bigwigs
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  I really don't understand this

  by keyser soze in

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  why, if you're a health care worker who's been exposed to the ebola virus, would you get on an airplane and travel right after?.

  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/second-texas-nurse-with-ebola-had-traveled-by-plane/ar-bb9f6bs.

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  I am not a fatalist, nor a conspiratorialist, but something is rotten in Denmark.
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  This weeks #2 & #3 talk on homosexuality

  by granada35 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.

  since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.

  to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.

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  Love how the new REVISED NWT has added...that's right "ADDED" to the 1 Cor 6:9 with its blatant slant toward anti-gay. It is incredible how much they have moved from a translation to an interpretation. Grab and interlinear, read the word for word, and compare. Integrity? Hardly.
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  GB Doesn’t Believe in 1914 Anymore – My reasoning

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a lot of talk over the last year or so if the gb will eventually ditch 1914 and some have even made the claim that most, if not all of the gb do not believe in 1914. ive given this some thought and in the past i wasnt sure.

  this annual meeting puts 100%, without a doubt in my mind that the gb do not believe in 1914. id even go as far to say that they talked about that date and have a game plan in mind.. here is why i feel this way:.

  there were a lot of changes with the parables at this annual meeting.

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  DP...sorry
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  GB Doesn’t Believe in 1914 Anymore – My reasoning

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a lot of talk over the last year or so if the gb will eventually ditch 1914 and some have even made the claim that most, if not all of the gb do not believe in 1914. ive given this some thought and in the past i wasnt sure.

  this annual meeting puts 100%, without a doubt in my mind that the gb do not believe in 1914. id even go as far to say that they talked about that date and have a game plan in mind.. here is why i feel this way:.

  there were a lot of changes with the parables at this annual meeting.

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  1914 is integral to the hype and thus cannot be changed. It may be marginalized, but changing it means that the organization was never imbued with supernatural, "we know and you don't" capability. The GB flourish because of that date. They thrive on the succession of know-it-alls and thus, "LISTEN (to US) OBEY (US) and be BLESSED (by GOd).
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  Orwellian Attitude to Old beliefs - Letter re old Lit

  by BluesBrother in

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  the b o e letter about returning old field min.

  supplies and , in particular , the future of their revisionist publishing put me in mind of my literary hero george orwell.

  they said this : (dated sept 10.

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  "When a publication is revised, the older stock on hand is generally used first before intro- ducing the revised publication."

  If there is one quote that screams "PUBLISHING EMPIRE" it is this....If the "truth" were so important when revised, why would you knowlingly continue to disseminate information that was not "truth." Unless, of course, you were more worried about the cost of the publication than the soul of the recipient.
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  Does money buy happiness and a longer life? You decide...

  by Brock Talon in

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  i poured over time magazine's sep 8-15 2014 edition article "who we are" and put together this spreadsheet on the results from their poll.

  i found the statistics quite fascinating.. most people would say that "money doesn't buy happiness", but this poll seems to me to indicate the exact opposite of that.

  it also correlates education levels with higher earning that result in that happiness.

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  Money doesn't buy happiness but it makes it a lot cheaper
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  Sleep Paralysis - YOUR EXPERIENCES

  by Black Man in

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  2. friends

  so what have been your experiences with sleep paralysis?

  any connection to astral projection?

  this has interested me recently as i used to have sleep paralysis quite often years ago.

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  Grandmother used to talk openly with us about how the "demons" used to hold her down and she would fight and wrestle but to no avail. Only years later did I realize that she suffered from sleep paralysis and whatever "demons" she experienced were in her mind.
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  My appeal was successful. Now what?

  by noonehome in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  faders: why do we bother staying in?.

  we cling to some false hope that people we love will accept us despite our not believing, even though its as much a fairytale as the dogmas based on untruths.. ive never been anything but a good friend and human being and would do anything for the people i love; i couldnt dream of shutting out someone i care about.

  and its not like theyd revel in the idea of doing it either, yet its seen as not just the only choice, but also as undoubtedly the right thing to do.

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  Fortunately you are in a better position now. Be very careful however as the disfellowshipping body will have a bone to pick and someone or all will be looking for something to ratify their previous decision. No appeal committee ever likes to overturn the previous decision unless 1) they think the disfellowshipping body is a bunch of baffoons or 2) the lack of judgment is so egregious that there is no alternative. That being the case, I would imagine the second is the reason. You are now in the right, and they, in the wrong. You have the capability of claiming that they are harassing you if they start putting you and what you say under a microscope.

  I think Terry sums it up well, you must have quite a delivery. Good for you.