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  Crystal Cathedral is Bankrupt: Chapter 11 filed

  by Terry in

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  your request is being processed.... crystal cathedral bankruptcy: megachurch files for chapter 11 amy taxin | 10/18/10 09:11 pm | .

  garden grove, calif. crystal cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show "hour of power," filed for bankruptcy monday in southern california after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million.. in addition to a $36 million mortgage, the orange county-based church owes $7.5 million to several hundred vendors for services ranging from advertising to the use of live animals in easter and christmas services.. the church had been negotiating a repayment plan with vendors, but several filed lawsuits seeking quicker payment, which prompted a coalition formed by creditors to fall apart, church officials said.. "tough times never last, every storm comes to an end.

  right now, people need to hear that message more than ever," sheila schuller coleman, the cathedral's senior pastor and daughter of the founder, told reporters outside the worship hall.. "everybody is hurting today.

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  If it was blessed by God, why would it need to go bankrupt?
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  The letter re: coil binding the elder book

  by booby in

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  i think if an (intelligent) questioning jw was able to read the letter about coil binding the book the impact could/should be greater.

  this letter should be an embarrassment to the gb.

  what blatant and stupid instructions sent to a large group of men who are supposed to be available to instruct in an intelligent way persons coming with an assortment of life's problems.

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  No surprise, we all know that the Watchtower is run by a bunch 19th century, Chauvini stic old men.
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  JW Molesting a Boy is seen as nothing more than 'homosexual behaviour'

  by iknowall558 in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-11575733.

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  William Penwell

  I have heard other JW's refer to Molesting or pedophiles as Homosexual Behaviour.
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  Wooo Hooo.... I'm Gonna Be A Millionaire!!!

  by Broken Promises in

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  an email i just received:.

  after our meeting today with cbn world bank of nigeria plc .

  we write to notify .

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  There was one web site I seen years ago where they would actually string these guys along. It was pretty funny.
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  Here was a funny story I heard today

  by MrFreeze in

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  someone at work was telling me a story about her friend and her friend's autistic son.

  this particular boy is in his early teens.

  his mom was out of the house for about an hour and had left him at home.

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  I was going to say it sounds like an Urban Legend.
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  Do you hate the person you were, in the WT ??

  by wobble in

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  when i look back, i can do so with rose coloured spectacles, but, in truth, i do not like the cult member i was.. o.k , in mitigation i was one of the most liberal jw's in a very liberal congregation, i never did the 100% shunning bit, i found nice seats (not at the very back, and next to their family if poss.

  ) for the df'd ones after giving them a proper welcome to the k.h for example.. but i still see clearly that my thinking was twisted by those mind controlling bastards who run, and write for ,the wtb$.

  i did not trust anybody worldly to any great degree, i believed the "system" would end one day and so i didn't have to contribute anything to it,.. i could go on, but basically i hate all those things about me that were from the cult.. how about you ?

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  Do you hate the person you were, in the WT ?? Yes but it was a good life lesson and if it was not the Watchtower it would have been somthing else.
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  My Husband Cuts through the BS!

  by 3dogs1husband in

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  a long time ago my husband came up with this.. the wtbts holds out our hope like a carrot on the end of a stick, and we should be motivated to all ways want and try to get it.

  if you change you mind in anyway and no longer want the carrot, or just wanna stand and eat the grass, you then will be beaten by the stick.. .

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  The Watchtower knows all about mind control and human behaivour that is for sure. That is why they don't like it when you take higher education as then they know they cannot control you anymore.
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  One Nation ABOVE God. Is this realy what the Founding Fathers wanted?

  by whereami in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayr3hq4zaua.

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  Good video. Thanks
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  Got a Call asking for my time

  by In in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the brother asked for my september time!.

  i haven't been to a kh since mid-september, and haven't heard from anyone since, and then he calls the other night.. i said, " you can record a 0".

  i repeated myself.. and he said, "we haven't seen you at the meetings.".

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  It is such a joke. I mean how much of the time reported is correct? I recall some posters on here saying they used to just make up a number and report it in order to keep the elders off their backs. Even the ones that are out in service, how much of that time is actually spent banging on doors? Outside of them doing their return visits or back calls and the rest of the publishers sitting in the car waiting, then with the 1/2 hour spent in the coffee shop, I would say that over 1/2 of the hours reported are non productive hours.
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  What's the deal with Facebook?

  by serenitynow! in

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  i mean what is so fun or interesting about facebook?

  i am very new to it, i feel like i must be missing something.

  it seems boring.

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  William Penwell

  It is more of a womans thing. Most guys find it boring.