I remember I adamantly was opposed to buying RRSPs (registered retirement plans in Canada). I argued I wouldn't need them since I was never going to reach retirement age in this old system of things. Then came the November 1995 Watchtower article on the redefinition of "this generation". Shortly after I started buying RRSPs aggresively. A reality check for all Dubs now.
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WTS retirement plan
by stichione inas a building inspector in a large city, i also come across inspecting nun's retirement homes.
in fact, working on a special project recently i visited 10 buildings housing anywhere from 60 to 500 nuns each.
i was struck by how well these nuns are taken care of by the catholic church.
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MESSAGE FROM SHUNNED FATHER
by SHUNNED FATHER infor the month of october , i have four court hearings.
i had one yesterday and the link below to the calgary sun describes what happened.
i didn't have a lawyer, so i represented myself.
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Yes Mr. Hughes, please post the comments you made in court.
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WTS retirement plan
by stichione inas a building inspector in a large city, i also come across inspecting nun's retirement homes.
in fact, working on a special project recently i visited 10 buildings housing anywhere from 60 to 500 nuns each.
i was struck by how well these nuns are taken care of by the catholic church.
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As a building inspector in a large city, I also come across inspecting nun's retirement homes. In fact, working on a special project recently I visited 10 buildings housing anywhere from 60 to 500 nuns each.
I was struck by how well these nuns are taken care of by the Catholic Church. They spend their useful years engaged in various works for the Church and community organizations. Then when they get old, the Church takes care of them by providing a home and all the benefits of living in a community where everything is provided to you.
And for those who become infirm and are only partly autonomous or completely bedridden, they were taken care of by trained nurses in the long-term care facility of the residence.
This got me thinking about some Dubs I know who after high school became pioneers and did the work until retirement years, or others who went from Bethel to circuit work, then after 30 or 40 years retired from the fulltime service for whatever reason. They were now on their own financially; they had to get jobs to pay the bills, not to mention never having contributed to a retirement plan. And God forbid they became sick!
The WTS simply left them to fend for themselves without any kind of compensation or help after having spent an entire life in service to them. This also reminds me of how things went for Raymond Franz, who after almost 40 years of full time dedication to the WTS, was thanked for his services and asked to leave. The money paid him seemed almost for the purpose of buying him off.
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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Jail for Shunned JW. Hoaxer
by Kenneson intitle of article is: "hoax suspect gets jail sentence".
"forcellina is italian-american, and has been a jehovah's witness since he was a child, said his lawyer, federal public defender terence ward.
since his arrest, forcellina has been formally shunned by jehovah's witnesses...forcellina ha spoken before 30,000 people at a religious rally in shea stadium...".
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You can rest assured that he's not receiving any compassion from his "loving" congregation!
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Field Service Reporting To Book Study
by Coqui inabout three or four months ago the organization changed the way field service time is reported... they decided that everyone would not drop their time card in a box in the kingdumb hall but rather leave the report with their book study conductor.
i liked the fact before that i could leave the report with someone i seldom saw.
with the change i realized that with this change the elders had even more control and influence on me.
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I agree that time reporting is a way in which the WTS controls its members. I know I certainly was. I felt pressure to report at least the national average so I could appear to be a good Dub. If it was below average I wase made to feel guilty because I were not out there serving the Organ.. er, I mean God.
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APOSTACY IS WORKING
by hamptonite21 intwo weeks ago all sunday meetings were cancelled in the shirley area here on longisland ny.
a elder meeting was held with the co. my aunt a jdub has informed me that all 4 congregations have had over 7 disfellowshippings in the past month and about 2 dozen since the beginning of the year.
it seems that many of the youth are having sex and allowed to do what ever they want.
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This is fantastic. With the diffusion of the internet and the Dubs surfing, doing research and visiting sites such as this one and many others, they will finally see the "truth" and come to the conclusion that at best the WTS in not any better than other religions, and at worst that this religion is a waste of time and an apostasy from true Christianity.
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Watchtower quote needed, pls
by johnathanseagull inhi all.......nice rainy day here in the uk, no surprise there then!!!
!, can anyone point me in the direction of the watchtower quote, you know the one about "the end coming within this 20th century" only to find the wt bound year volume had been changed to something like " "the end coming very soon " or to that effect.
my sis never a jw, is on a back call by some jw's and she needs ammo.
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Here is a scan of the guilty Watchtower magazine of January 1, 1989 page 12 and also of the book "The nations shall know that I am Jehovah" (1971) page 216:
http://www.jwfiles.com/20th-century.htm
Enjoy.
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Circle the wagons?
by thinker ini don't read very many watchtowers or awakes, but the oct. 1, 2002 watchtower seems especially concerned with keeping jws in the borg.
pg.
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All this repeating has definitely left me brainwashed.
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Anybody know somewhere has Carl Oslof...?
by jwsons indear everyone,.
i hope one of you can help me to know the story about carl oslof jonsson.
how wts treated him etc... his webpage says nothing about his life-story.
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Buy his book "The Gentile Times Reconsidered". In it there is a chapter that talks about how the WTS treated him for speaking out about his research on the faulty 1914 chronology.
http://www.freeminds.org/sales/menuframes.htm
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God's name
by freedom96 inever notice how as a witness, you could not say "god" by itself.
always had to be preceeded by jehovah, or just say jehovah.
i remember my ex telling me that was the first sign that they knew i was on the way out, because i would refer to god simply as, "god".
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I noticed in the New Testament that the Bible writters referred almost always to God as Lord (including the 237 times the WTS arbitrarily inserted "Jehovah" even though the greek word Lord appears), even though the WTS referred to God simply as Lord in the first 50 years. I guess Rutherford wanted to take away from Jesus as much attention as possible, so they altogether stopped using the title "LORD" (which could be used interchangeably with God or Jesus), and started referred to God as Jehovah and Jesus by his own name. As a result, today the WTS probably gets more attention than Jesus, since in many articles the word "Organization" appears more often than Christ or Jesus.
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