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User sign-in issues
by Simon in
1. forum
2. announcements
just a heads-up / status update - i'm still working on the issues so please don't think i've abandoned you if you still can't sign in and i haven't replied to your email.. i will get things sorted out and then we'll have the old gang back together.. thanks again to you all for your patience and perseverance while the teething problems are being ironed out.
wokeup

Simon, thank you for fixing the bugs on my end!
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Do Beta Blocker side effects ever go away
by Quarterback in
1. jw
2. friends
everybody cringes when i tell them that my dr wants to put me on beta blockers.

is there an alternative to not going on them if your dr recommends it?

maybe armegeddon is around the corner and i may not have to worry about it..
wokeup

Beta Blockers in themselves are not generally good at hypertension control. They are usually given in conjunction

with one or more anti-hypertensives. Many physicians prescribe an Ace-Inhibitor as a first line of treatment. Beta Blockers

are more effective in the treatment of an arrhythmia disorder. Bradycardia, the desired or not so desired effect, is most

pronounced upon start up. As time goes by, your heart rate will increase some. The flip side to it, many patients

report Beta Blockers have a calming effect on them. This is medically substantiated. A matter of fact, Beta Blockers are

banned in some sports due to the edge it gives some athletes, reducing essential tremor, such as in Archery and sports

requiring precision and a steady hand.
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Most absurd thing I heard at the convention yesterday!
by Batman89 in
1. social
2. physical
brother lett was giving the last talk of the day about what they supposedly accomplished in 100 years.

i was just waking up so im paraphrasing alittle(i was dosing off all day) anyways in his introduction he said.

"there is more evidence to prove gods kingdom on the earth is a reality than wind,electricity and gravity is a reality on the earth".
wokeup

I've understood the governing bodies' stance they believe 'they' are running the physical manifestation

of God's Kingdom on earth, AKA the Watchtower. Their doctrine on the execution of events leading to their furher glorification

was re-iterated at this years convention in one of Friday's talks. The speaker stated the faithful slave/anointed were

to be wisked to heaven at the outbreak of the Tribulation, crowned as kings, then to swoop back down to

earth and take out all those that did not obey them during their stint at Watchtower. Ushering in the New World (order).

The survivors will then be under their loving guidance for a 1,000 years more.
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Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Reject The Bible's Example Concerning Baptism
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i asked the below questions to 2 of my elders a few week ago ................................silence.

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wokeup

Designs, that's true, baptismal requirements had been devised long ago, how each denominations' 'requirements'

stand up to the example set out in the Bible vary. I feel the Mat. 28 'command' conflicts with the record in Acts that

shows the apostles baptizing only in Jesus' name.
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Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Reject The Bible's Example Concerning Baptism
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i asked the below questions to 2 of my elders a few week ago ................................silence.

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wokeup

Crazyguy got it right. The witnesses' Q&A before 3 elders. The 2 question dedication pledge, living up to the dedication.

Looking to the Watchtower as the way, the truth, and the life is the 'other sheeps' salvation plan. Christians have

Jesus as their mediator.
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Party in the kingdom hall!
by StephaneLaliberte in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
check it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.
wokeup

What I find of interest here, is that the organizers intermixed 'kingdom malodies' with old pop songs. Capping the festivities off with Pharrell Williams.

Performing them on the stage in a structure 'dedicated to Jehovah'. With 'sisters' taking ' the lead '. Blurred lines indeed. History in the making?

Is this what JW.org is all about?

'Happiness is the truth'
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Party in the kingdom hall!
by StephaneLaliberte in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
check it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.
wokeup

Let me get this straight. Some of the International delagates were bused over to this Kingdom Hall to sit and listen to amatuer hour on the stage.

Then watch local witnesses dance and clap to a rappers song. The same rapper who appeared in Robin Thicke's controversial Blurred Lines video?

All with the Governing Body's blessing? Tell me it ain't so?
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Changes in DF reporting
by fader77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
to all bodies of elders.

re: notification of disfellowshipping or disassociation.

dear brothers:.
wokeup

This has their Legal dept. written all over it.
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How Will The New York Nonprofit Revitalization Act Effect The Watchtower Corporation Book Keeping Transparency?
by frankiespeakin in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
so many questionn perhaps will be answer by this investigation/independent audit and perhaps some follow up untanglement of funds in the proliferation of different corporations that are under the gbs control.. i think 2014 is going to be a very interesting year for the wt corporation.

o and how do do feel about the whistleblower policy implimentation for all those that bring in 1,000,000 dollars or more annually.

can you imagine the wt corporation problems with that little gem, they can't disfelloship him or dismiss a whistleblower my my my.. .
wokeup

here's an excerpt from the above link:

"A number of our kehillot have asked whether the new Act applies to religious corporations, since

they are exempt from filing annual audits and fund-raising reports with the Attorney General’s

Charities Bureau. The short answer is, yes; the Act applies to religious corporations. Some

examples of its application (not intended as an exhaustive list) are:

 “Type B” corporations organized as for religious purposes under the NFPCL are

now categorized as “charitable” corporations and governed by the NFPCL

requirements and standards for such organizations."

Does the Watchtowers' ' Kingdom Support Services Inc. ' fall under Type B corporations?
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How Will The New York Nonprofit Revitalization Act Effect The Watchtower Corporation Book Keeping Transparency?
by frankiespeakin in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
so many questionn perhaps will be answer by this investigation/independent audit and perhaps some follow up untanglement of funds in the proliferation of different corporations that are under the gbs control.. i think 2014 is going to be a very interesting year for the wt corporation.

o and how do do feel about the whistleblower policy implimentation for all those that bring in 1,000,000 dollars or more annually.

can you imagine the wt corporation problems with that little gem, they can't disfelloship him or dismiss a whistleblower my my my.. .
wokeup

Is the Watchtowers' 'Kingdom Support Services Inc.' registered in New York as a Non-Profit Charitable Corporation?

The State Attorney General's Office could probably answer that.

The new law is discussed by uscj.org here regarding their religious corporations:

http://uscj.org/congservices/forms/NYStateInfo/NewYorkStateNonProfitRevitalizationAct_20140318.pdf