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  WT Library 2003 CD-ROM

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i now have this on my hard drive so if anybody needs any information please ask and i will see what i can do

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  Roddy

  << Does someone have bandwidth to host the ISO image? I can upload it somewhere. The CD is about 350MB in size. Not sure what size it is compressed.

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  What? Is that all??? The CD only half filled? You figure with all the trees they kill with all the paper they generate year after year, they'd be able to fill several DVDs at least.

  Since it is a fact that most of the articles and information are just recycled from previous articles, I guess you can fit all the Watchtower's genuine information on a diskette and still have space left over to save a spreadsheet and a wordpressing document.
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  My Catholic wife chastised the JWs coming to our door

  by franklin J in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife just called me to tell me that as she was leaving the house this morning to run some errands, there were 2 " nice looking" ladies coming up our drive.

  we have a 200 foot driveway and she encountered them already on our property approaching the house, just as she was driving out.

  she said she knew they were jws because of the conservative looking clothes and cheap vinyl book bags.

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  Roddy

  Let's hope that what your wife said to them would pinch their hearts to realize this truth before the indoctrination meetings hardens their hearts to standard Watchtower hardline.
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  URGENT UPDATE !!! ON E-WATCHMAN

  by SWALKER in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

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  e-watchman has just sent a letter to the governing body accusing them of apostacy and demanding a full investigation by an outside committee!

  go to www.e-watchman.com and click on commentary for april!

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  Roddy

  Addressing the letters to the WTS or the congregation will only fall on blind eyes. He's got to get the letters to the rank-and-file to do the most damage.
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  Looooong Prayers!

  by BigJ in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok, who remembers all those long prayers?

  especially at the district conventions!.

  we had our convetions at a small hockey arena and the stairs were really steep.

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  Roddy

  Somehow a GB member would have to say a long prayer - which was annoying.

  I didn't appreciate long prayers for mealtimes. By the time the brother finished the hot meal cooled off.

  Neither did I appreciate brothers who would use prayer time to rehash the talk just given, the assembly, the Watchtower article, etc etc.
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  They're everywhere!

  by Octavia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out that the woman in the cube next to me is a witness.

  i came in from my break and she was reading a watchtower!

  i said "are you a witness?

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  Roddy

  I recommend you not say you are DFed nor that you know alot about the JWs. Otherwise she'll instantly have an attitude with you which you don't need from a coworker.
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  More Ex-Witnesses than Witnesses?

  by OHappyDay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses use the number of the mighty 6 million (tm) to "prove" that god is blessing them over and above all other religions.

  but with so many being disfellowshipped and leaving over the past decades, how many ex-witnesses are there?

  with thousands growing wiser and more dissatisfied with wt doctrine, might the number of ex-witnesses over the years now equal the number of witnesses?

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  Roddy

  I heard in a talk years ago that 40,000 a year worldwide are DFed. I suspect the numbers are larger as the org is larger and more people are on the Internet.

  But what about drop-outs, inactive, irregular, and those just hanging-on? I'm sure that's a much larger number.
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  The Watchtower - A Waste of Paper and Time? ( May 1, 2004)

  by metatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  often, when you pick up a copy of the watchtower, you'll notice some articles that.

  give good counsel.

  they may advise elders to lovingly care for the flock, teenagers to.

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  Roddy

  Well said. Unfortunately many more trees will be wasted before the WTS becomes a dinosaur.

  I think I'll start taking the Watchtower and Awake magazines from some poor lonely pioneer on the street. I'll use them for free toilet paper. At least it will be wasted paper put to good use. And it give my butt some color.
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  Watchtower's 360 Furman Street Bldg. is SOLD!

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?newsid=7751

  watchtower building sold

  the jehovah's witnesses have made a deal to sell their 1 million-square-foot building on the brooklyn waterfront to ral development services, a residential development company.

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  Roddy

  Hey! I was just thinking. With 360 Furman street on the way out, does this mean that some residence buildings that the WTS have in Columbia Heights will be sold as well? Perhaps one or more of the smaller ones? After all, with the 360 Furman building sale there will be a decrease of their local labor force as the 360 Furman workers are either transfered to other areas or, most likely, laid-off. So I think this will not be the only WTS building in the area that will be up for grabs.

  I wonder how the antagonized Columbia Heights residents must be feeling regarding this sale and the possibility of other sales? For a while they thought that the WTS was taking over the neighborhood.
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  Watchtower's 360 Furman Street Bldg. is SOLD!

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?newsid=7751

  watchtower building sold

  the jehovah's witnesses have made a deal to sell their 1 million-square-foot building on the brooklyn waterfront to ral development services, a residential development company.

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  Roddy

  After rumors and denials, now the truth is out. They were selling the thing! Big waterfront building in a prime area? That had to be a megabuck sale. I'm half surprised the WTS didn't rent or lease the thing.

  This is going to make a lot of poor unbenefited unemployed uneducated career Bethelites hitting the cold hard streets of the world as the WTS further downsizes.
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  The Sale of the 360 Furman Street bldg also announced in the official site

  by Roddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm?content=/region/americas/usa/english/releases/events/usa_e040412.htm

  for immediate release .

  april 12, 2004. watchtower announces sale of furman street building.

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  Roddy

  http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm?content=/region/americas/usa/english/releases/events/usa_e040412.htm

  For Immediate Release
  April 12, 2004

  Watchtower announces sale of Furman Street building

  BROOKYN, N.Y.?Today the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., announced that they have reached an agreement to sell their nearly one million square foot shipping and distribution building located at 360 Furman Street to RAL Development Services LLC. The agreement with RAL allows Watchtower to remain as a tenant in the Furman Street building for one year, sufficient time for all the existing operations to be relocated to their other buildings in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

  Contact Jehovah's Witnesses' spokesmen:
  David A. Semonian, Office of Public Information, 718-560-5600
  Daniel Rice, Real Property Office, 845-744-1900

  Also, by permission: RAL Development Services, LLC, 212-748-8900