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  Prediction of large drop in JW numbers in 2014

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am going to make the prediction, here and now in mid 2006, that there will be a significant drop in the number of jehovah's witnesses in the year 2014, the one hundredth anniversary of 1914.. the only way this drop in numbers might be avoided is if the watchtower society can think up some way to stir up the rank and file and get them motivated to do more, like they did with the 1975 fiasco.. .

  i doubt very much that the watchtower magazine is going to proclaim loudly in the year 2014 anything about the "generation of 1914" not passing away.. --vm44

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  Oh by 2014 they'll all have forgotten the Society ever said anything about the 1914 generation.
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  I need a REALLY BIG FAVOR

  by Country Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i met this man in texas that is a witness.

  we talked for several hours, but what he really was focusing on was the un involvement.

  i've looked all over the interet again and again and can not find the letter where the un acknowledged the that the witnesses were involved in the u.n. .

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  Here is the letter from the UN's website (but via the Wayback Machine):
  
  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/watchtower.pdf
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  Called JR Brown regarding Cano Pedophile situation

  by LDH in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  just called their media line:.

  http://www.jw-media.org/contact.htm.

  asked a young man named bryce where is the official press release on the cano pedophile situation.

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  This guy cannot *still* be a believing JW, surely... *I* could parrot "reasoning" as well as he does. He must be wrestling with enormous cognitive dissonance every day, *surely*!
  
  Number 1 candidate to make a high-profile exit? Or is he a tosser? Anyone here who knew him in real life?
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  Can Dubs Eat Ice Cream ??

  by Poztate in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i picked up this little item from fark.com.

  they might have to have a qfr or article to help them make up their minds.. 26 june 2006low fat vaneela ice cream by stewart maclean .

  a low-fat ice cream using dna from an eel-like fish has been developed by scientists.

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  glitter

  When I was in I never ate ice cream from Mr Whippy or Mr Softee ice cream vans - because it "has blood in it". I always thought it was ridiculous, but actually I don't know if I've *ever* eaten ice cream from those particular vans even when I've been out (though maybe I just haven't seen one!)
  
  The "reasoning" was that it had lecithin in it!
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  Update! Attending Sunday Meeting and Loving it!

  by drew sagan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep that's right folks, yours truely has actually been attending the sunday meeting.

  many will ask, why in the hell would you ever do that?

  well, developments going on in my world have led me to this decision.

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  glitter

  That was brilliant, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall!
  
  I am not a Christian anymore (though sometimes I think I want to be, but atheism and disliking OT God is getting in the way!), but I can see what the Bible plainly says about Jesus. I was talking to an elder and and Aux Pioneer about being saved by Jesus alone and they (don't know I'm an atheist) looked at me like I had two heads!
  
  I'm going to use that Watchtower and your answer to have another bash at getting through to my mum about the JWs and Jesis, although I think she is about 90% "Awake" - she already knows they're wrong about Jesus being mediator, but doesn't believe/see it about the society diminishing Jesus. Thanks for the fantastic example you've set. :)
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  Do you know of any "apostate" ex-jws that became "BAC's" that quit bac's?

  by booker-t in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember when i left jw's and started going to born-again christians(bac's) churches my "atheist" father laughed at me and told me that i would eventually leave bac's because like j.f.

  rutherford said "religion is a snare and racket".

  he said bac's and jws are just on an endless treadmill motivated by "fear" and not love for god into going to church/kh.

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  "Born-Again Christians" with glazed eyes and fixed smiles creep me out.
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  Buffet gives Gates $37 billion

  by MsMcDucket in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://articles.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20060625161409990005&ncid=nws00010000000001

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  There was a representative of Buffet on BBC News 24 just now and I couldn't *believe* the criticism this was getting from the presenters and from posters on the website "Oh yes well it's good he gave £20b but it's better if a billion people give £20", "Why do rich people have to leave their mark on the world?", "Why did he wait so long to give to charity?", "Who cares if he gives £20b, some old ladies might give £5"
  
  He shouldn't have got *thanks* per se, but ffs why all the jealousy and bitterness?
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  Just returned from the 2006 (Armageddon's here) "Deliverance At Hand" DO

  by apocalypse in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how much can one person gag?

  it is interesting to note that clive thomas (canadian branch office) spoke during his part in such a way as to betray the fact that he was personally aware that what he was saying was false.. it's one thing when a local onion gets exuberant about parroting the gb's nonsense.

  it's quite another when a bloodsucker like clive comes from the branch and does a "bait 'n switch" the way he did.

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  Oh I suppose all pro-JW message boards and posters will just vanish overnight now... *eyeroll*. I hope all the paranoia has got some of those who aren't afraid of the Big Bad WWW curious enough to come here and see what all the fuss is about.
  
  What was the new release?
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  JonBenet Ramsey's Mother Dies

  by Mary in

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  i was really shocked to see this headline this morning....patsy ramsey died this morning at the age of 49 of ovarian cancer....i always wondered what happened there; whether she and her husband actually killed their daughter, or if someone else broke into the house and murdered her.......while family members are always high on the list of suspects when something like this happens, i tend to think that john and patsy ramsey were falsely accused of murdering their daughter, as there appeared to be no motive.

  anyone think they did kill her?

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  I don't think they came across as the nicest parents, and I strongly disagree with them exploiting JonBenet in those creepy pageants (the participants of which don't even look like any child I've ever seen, it's all 80s big hair and shoulder pads) - but I don't believe they killed her.
  
  JonBenet had a pair of small singe marks on her body - apparently from a taser. It makes sense that a kidnapper did this and it also explains the wet bed. I saw this on a documentary about it and other unsolved murders and the finger was firmly pointed at a local (now dead) paedophile who had previous history of gaining access to houses via the basement window. Before I saw the documentary I was suspicious of the mum and dad, but I was convinced by the singe marks especially.
  
  It's very sad that Mrs Ramsay has died.
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  Do you have nightmares about going back?

  by Mysterious in

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  2. friends

  anyone else ever have nightmares where they find themselves in a kingdom hall.

  i keep dreaming i came home and my mom laid out my clothes and just like a robot i put them on and go to the book study all the while thinking how it's wrong and i shouldn't be here but i can't stop myself.

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  I have had dreams about being back at the Hall, it's the ex-JW version of those "at school naked" or "faced with an exam you haven't studied for" dreams. :D