AndDontCallMeShirley

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  JW honored for civic service

  by Mum in

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  2. bible

  check this out.

  i once knew this guy.. www.topix.com/forum/city/johnson-city-tn/tir9m88gbacn79lmo.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  @ Vidiot: Shirl, you promised you wouldn't tell!!!!!

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  it was a WT-type promise, therefore non-binding and completely useless. I thought you knew?
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  Funny devices used by the Golden Age editors, or: Do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?revised reprint from the witchtower, july 2010. .

  in a family and in a house where it is available and used, this little all-purpose device surely will obviate the need for a doctor many times.

  das goldene zeitalter [german edition of the golden age], december 1, 1931, page 359. .

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  I'm pretty sure Jesus used one of these all the time

  
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  Would God (Jehovah) really choose lying and corrupt religious Charlatans like the Watchtower Corporation ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.

  books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.

  many of the doctrines created by this.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  to JB....out of sheer morbid curiosity, maybe you can list for us which religion is:

  grade school?

  junior high?

  high school?

  college?
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  There is no difference between people

  by cassuk11 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just to point out that there is no difference between those who are in an organization or church and those who are not.

  it rains on us all.

  the mistake some make is to think some people are more righteous than others.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  The fact is God makes no distinction between people whover we are

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  Really? Have you read the Old Testament?

  Even the NT demonstrates clearly that god either approves or disapproves of a person based on their religious beliefs. Armageddon anyone?

  Now before you launch off to where I know you'll next go, namely that events in the OT cannot be attributed to god, and that Armageddon is not a genuine Biblical concept, keep in mind that if you reject those two concepts then you must also reject the concept that god is impartial- because it's all in the same book.

  Reject one and, by default, you must reject the other.
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  Would God (Jehovah) really choose lying and corrupt religious Charlatans like the Watchtower Corporation ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.

  books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.

  many of the doctrines created by this.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Regardless of whether a person believes in the Bible or not, just read the record as it is written: has any religion or system god allegedly instituted ever worked?

  Whatever system (formal or not) god set up was hopelessly flawed and corrupt from its inception, and slowly (sometimes quickly) circled to a death spiral. Even if (and it's a humongous if) WT was god's chosen religion, really- does it run any differently from any other system he's built???

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  I agree with Oubliette's correct, but long-winded, answer
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  JW.ORG Logo Denied Trademark Status by United States Patent and Trademark Office

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the jehovahs witnesses official web site logo incorporating jw.org has been refused registration by the united states patent and trademark office due to similarity to jw player.. section 2(d) refusal likelihood of confusionclass 42. for the reasons set forth below, the refusal under trademark act section 2(d) is now made final with respect to u.s. registration no(s).

  this refusal is limited to the class 42 services in the application.. applicants mark is jw.org & design, for use with, inter alia, providing a web site that gives computer users the ability to download audio and video recordings, dvds, music, digital print publications, online publications, documents, forms and web pages all in the field of religion, in class 42. the cited mark is jw player, for use with downloadable computer software for playing, viewing and streaming audio and video files in class 09.. .

  documents available to download at jw leaks.. http://jwleaks.org/2014/06/19/jw-org-logo-denied-trademark-status-in-the-united-states/.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Oubliette: I don't know about you guys, but I'm really beginning to wonder if Holy Spirit has anything to do with this organization!

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  Give it time to prove itself...WT has only been around for 133 years.

  (6,000+ years if you count Abel as the first Jehovah's Witness). LOL.
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  JW honored for civic service

  by Mum in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  check this out.

  i once knew this guy.. www.topix.com/forum/city/johnson-city-tn/tir9m88gbacn79lmo.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Good for him for flouting the WT and yet remaining in their good graces!

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  I agree. Any JW who actually makes it in life is to be applauded.

  The irony is, of course, that if he was a successful, highly educated architect and civically-minded JW who is not an elder and is not promoting WT interests (i.e. selfishly persuing his own dreams sans WT), he would most assuredly be labelled as "weak", "materialistic", "worldly", "selfish" and "not seeking the Kingdom first" by the very same WT minions that are praising him. And the rank-and-file would be warned that he is not an example to be emulated.

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  As the scholar and gentleman Vidiot so aptly observed, "They've taken "double standards" to an art form, that's for sure."

  Amen, brother. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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  JW honored for civic service

  by Mum in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  check this out.

  i once knew this guy.. www.topix.com/forum/city/johnson-city-tn/tir9m88gbacn79lmo.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  From the "comments" section:

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  According to a 5-14-2013 news article published in the JONESBOROUGH HERALD & TRIBUNE, local JEHOVAH'S WITNESS LEADER, James Kenneth Ross, president of Jonesborough's Ken Ross Architects , Inc., was recently honored at a meeting of the Johnson City/Jonesborough/ Washington County Chamber of Commerce. Ken Ross is the local tri-cities area Representative for the Brooklyn, New York-based WATCHTOWER CULT.

  According to the HERALD & TRIBUNE article, the Chamber of Commerce honored Ross for being the local person responsible for bringing multiple WATCHTOWER CULT District and Circuit conventions to Johnson City for "more than 25 years".
  Readers should be aware that there are unanswered questions as to the terms of the multiple unpublicized contracts over the years, as well as questions as to whether the WATCHTOWER CULT has received any FINANCIAL SUBSIDIES from any local governmental entity as its incentive for making members in Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia travel all the way to Johnson City to attend their own state's conventions. Some of these concerns have been voiced in other local TOPIX threads.

  Interestingly, according to the website for Ken Ross Architects, Inc., their firm has been employed by the WATCHTOWER SOCIETY to design multiple multi-million dollar projects across the United States. These include a $10,000,000.00 project in Maryland; a $10,000,000.00 project in Arizona; and a $8,000,000.00 project in Georgia. Similar projects in Colorado, Texas, and South Carolina are also referenced

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  And there you have it. WT always honors loyal JWs who bring money into the Org; local government honors JWs who bring money to the local economy.

  While WT categorically condemns every JW who pursues 'material advantage' in this life, it simultaneously has no problem with a JW who uses their money/influence to promote the WT's interests.
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  Science proves there is a God

  by seekchristonly in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  fusion with god natural .

  in the cosmos universe or whatever.

  all things are made of the same materials etc so humans will always be fused with the universe in life and death because those building blocks are eternal.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Only those who think, explore and gain an in-depth knowledge can escape traps or develop understanding

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  Otherwise known as "apostates".
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  JW.ORG Logo Denied Trademark Status by United States Patent and Trademark Office

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the jehovahs witnesses official web site logo incorporating jw.org has been refused registration by the united states patent and trademark office due to similarity to jw player.. section 2(d) refusal likelihood of confusionclass 42. for the reasons set forth below, the refusal under trademark act section 2(d) is now made final with respect to u.s. registration no(s).

  this refusal is limited to the class 42 services in the application.. applicants mark is jw.org & design, for use with, inter alia, providing a web site that gives computer users the ability to download audio and video recordings, dvds, music, digital print publications, online publications, documents, forms and web pages all in the field of religion, in class 42. the cited mark is jw player, for use with downloadable computer software for playing, viewing and streaming audio and video files in class 09.. .

  documents available to download at jw leaks.. http://jwleaks.org/2014/06/19/jw-org-logo-denied-trademark-status-in-the-united-states/.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  You'd think Holy Spirit would have seen this coming and told the GB to choose another logo before blundering into yet another legal dead-end....