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2020-Letter Writing Manual--Pre-Authorized Debit Donations!--( as of 2020-10-10)
by Atlantis in
1. jw
2. friends
2020-10--letter writing templates manual.

91 pages.

2020-10-01--donation arrangement--pre-authorized debit.
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$77 Million sent OS from Australia
by why144000 in
1. jw
2. friends
poor watchtower in australia, they made a loss of $1,537,325 in 2019 according to their filings with the government.

they obviously can't participate in the national redress scheme as they don't have the funds.

only problem is that they have sent over $77,000,000 of donations from australian publishers to overseas branches in the past 4 years.
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Economist article on JWs
by usualusername1 in
1. jw
2. friends
have not read it yet but will later.. https://www.economist.com/erasmus/2019/02/09/jehovahs-witnesses-often-clash-with-earthly-powers?fsrc=gp_en?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/jehovahswitnessesoftenclashwithearthlypowersreligioussects.
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Watchtower Now Considers Elders to Be Clergy Class
by Roger Kirkpatrick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my father's uncle and spiritual mentor, benjamin ray kent, had been a deacon (ministerial servant) in watchtower founder c. t. russell's home ecclesia (congregation) in brooklyn, and also served as russell's personal secretary at brooklyn bethel.

after attending university my father served a 5-year prison term during world war ii, supposedly for his loyalty to god.

while his mother's proud and patriotic family disowned my father for his decision, it was his uncle ray who regularly visited him in prison.. that is the culture in which i was raised, and for much of my life, i took great pride in the belief that my father was a man of integrity to god.
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Last week's WT - a convoluted trip back to Earth
by neat blue dog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
last weekend's wt study (nov. 18) had 3 count em three biblical references to the christian hope of heavenly resurrection that had to be twisted into talking about earth to fit their doctrine.. 1:.

in what sense do the mild-tempered “inherit the earth”?

jesus’ spirit-anointed disciples inherit the earth when they rule over it as kings and priests.
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An update for the completionists
by jaydee in
1. watchtower
2. bible
for all of you who have closely followed my posts over the years....(ok, so that's none, i get it).

some time ago in a galaxy far far away.... i posted some aus government files.. one of which contained an article...'what is a jehovah's witness - - by milton g henschel.

(see here).. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/161119/more-aus-watchtower-pdf-files.
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Watchtower and the Robert F Kennedy assasination
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
only stumbled upon this letter today:.

http://jw-wayback.org/jw-wb/english/letters/to%20congregations/1916-2006/1968-07-09%20to%20all%20congregations%20in%20the%20usa%20(jw%20involved%20in%20assassination%20of%20kennedy).pdf.

apparently, the father of bobby kennedy's killer was accused of being a jw.
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Flat earth vs round earth
by Jrjw in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

what are people's thoughts on this?.
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How do JWs pronounce COBE?
by Wild_Thing in
1. jw
2. friends
just wondering.

when i was a witness, we had presiding overseer, and would say p-o for short.

do they spell it out when they say cobe or do they say it with as a word?
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Video about history of JW in Australia
by why144000 in
1. jw
2. friends
i recently saw a amateur video about the history of jw's in australia.

for the life of me, i can't find it again.

could someone do me a favour and give me the link?.