FatFreek 2005
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Bethel Memories by Living the Dream -- all of them
by FatFreek 2005 inour friend living the dream has written a wealth of his experiences when at bethel -- all of them well told.
i had a bit of spare time tonight and decided i would search for the ones i missed.
well, google doesn't cut it.
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Scans of Golden Age, grape cure articles
by FatFreek 2005 indoes anyone have scans of certain golden age magazines?
specifically, i'm looking for the following articles:.
"the ehret system of elimination", golden age, march 20, 1929, p.
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Can't call him father, so "This is my [dad, daddy, daddyo, papa, pops, pappy, sire, beginner, don, begetter, male parent]
by FatFreek 2005 indear question from readers .
i realize that watchtower is clear in avoiding fancy titles when it comes to people.
jesus said, "do not call anyone your father on earth".
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Branch office in Guam -- on Jehovah Street?
by FatFreek 2005 ini found this interesting, a 2009 kingdom ministry with reference to the branch office in guam.. .
*** km 2/09 p. 4 announcements ***.
the address for the guam branch office is watchtower bible and tract society, 143 jehovah street, barrigada, gu 96913.. it peaked my curiosity so i decided to see what this street looks like from satellite.
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Disfellowshipping -- the fault is theirs, not yours.
by FatFreek 2005 inthe announcement, "john (or mary) doe is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses", is happening some 70,000 times each year.
the society wants its flock to believe that the member became so unrepentantly contaminated with evil that it became necessary to remove him from the faithful members.. i suggest that nothing can be further from the truth.. these members had lost their trancelike acceptance of watchtower interpretation long before that formal announcement.
while it's true that recent reminders to the flock that the governing body needs obeisance on a level virtually equal to that of christ, the root of the cooling down of a member to the point where an announcement is made is not necessarily a rejection of governing body power grabbing.
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Proof that not all apostates are bad (looking)
by FatFreek 2005 inwith apologies in advance to aeropostale.
len.. .
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The real WT deal on 1 Cor 5 -- shunning non-household family members.
by FatFreek 2005 ini don't want to hijack that thread with the british interview of an ex-jw who is now shunned by his mother and brother(s).
the interviewer then properly and fairly contacted a wt official who gave the party line answer.
those of us who have really studied wt references know that this lawyer-like answer actually follows wt teaching.
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Watchtower: Telling truth is only an entitlement, not a requirement.
by FatFreek 2005 inwhile i didn't listen to the recent audio interview (see this thread), a certain watchtower official denied that disfellowshipped people are shunned by their relatives.
i was understandably irked at that bald-faced lie since for the last 33 years i've been shunned by two of my children.
then i thought -- hey, that official simply reverted to his watchtower teaching.. that jwn thread may not show up.
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Calling Frank Toth (fjtoth) -- we need your Bethel expertise, please!!!
by FatFreek 2005 infrank,.
we are trying to complete the names of those folks from bethel who are on the cover of the infamous 1984 watchtower.
some people who know you have the feeling you may know them.