Posts by stichione

Actually since you're the head of the household the elders should ask your permission for the meeting, not go hehind your back and ask for secret meetings with a minor. What are they, pedophiles too?

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"Disassociation" research questions

by Nathan Natas in

in response to a question during an on-line discussion i opened my 1995 edition of the wts cd-rom and typed "disassociated" into the search field.

i got some very curious results.

the cd search engine returned no hits prior to 1981!!

stichione

Strangely enough I can't get anything older than 1970 for Awakes on my 1999 WTS CD-ROM.

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Devil's appearance in WT literature

by stichione in

i just got the october 15th 2002 issue of the watchtower magazine.

on pages 8 and 9 we see a caption reading " jesus firmly opposed the devil".

jesus is standing there pointing at a slouching, hooded man.

stichione

I remember a brother that used to espouse the view that Jesus had to be right handed. I always felt he must have been ambidextrous.

You're right mimimus, since Jesus was perfect, he should be able to use his right and left hand equally well.

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In Addition to Undisfellowshiped's List

by FiveShadows in

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friends

wasn't it true that in mexico (?

) the witnesses preached that they were no longer a "religion" so they did not have to hand over their bethal land and various other lands (kingdom halls) to the government?

if so, is it not written that the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one?

Whats interesting is that the WTS lied to the Mexican government so they could keep their property. Compare this with what Daniel did in Babylon when it was ordered that all had to pray to King Darius in Daniel chapte 6. Not only did Daniel continue to pray only to God, but he did it openly without fear and for others to see. In contrast, the JWs in Mexico did away with prayers and singing at meetings and did not bring Bibles in their door to door work: all so that they could claim to be a cultural association and continue to retain ownership of property. They openly claimed not to be a religion, that the meetings were not religious, that the witnessing activity was not a religious activity and that baptism was not a religious act (See Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz). The WTS indeed is greedy for them to have done this. Greed is a disfellowshiping offense, and everyone on the Governing Body should be disfellowshiped!

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books with 192 pages

by izobcenec in

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friends

below is a list of 25 wt books, that all have 192 pages...how is it.

possible, that books with such different themes all have 192 pages?.

1967 did man get here by evolution or by creation?

stichione

If the wholesome truths from Jehovah came in 192 page format, why did Fred Franz torture us with those 400 page books in the late '60s and early '70s that did nothing but melt our brains at the book study? Or wait a minute, maybe we just getting primed for 1975.

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