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  Comments that made feel pity at last Sundays WT study

  by drew sagan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i believe it was paragraph 17, the one that spoke about the faithful slave and how there are those who wish to be "independent" and that this is wrong.

  two comments came, both from elders.

  elder 1: so what the paragraph is telling us is that instead of developing an independent spirit we actually want to be developing a spirit of dependece upon god's organization and the spiritual food they provide.

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  Our WT conductor said with a very serious look--'When we read some direction in the WT, it is just the same as if it was in the letter sent to the cong after the Acts chapter 15 meeting.'

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  Do you remember when JW's would advertise their Sunday talks in the paper?

  by moshe in

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  2. beliefs

  i got involved with with the witnesses in 1971. some of the local kingdom halls would place a small notice in the paper about the upcoming sunday talk- bro.

  so&so from chicago will give the lecture on "how to recognize the true religion", etc.

  a general invite to all was given and a phone number to call for info and a "free bible study!

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  Yes. I was responsible to go the newspaper with the info.

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  Did You Help Anyone To Get Baptized?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i did.

  many, actually.

  and i regret that they're (many) still active witnesses.

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  A few. But the stupidest thing I ever did (in this regard) was risk getting fired by taking off work against orders to take some one to a C/A to get dunked.

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  Superbowl XL - It's Pittsburgh all the way!

  by drew sagan in

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  2. friends

  i'm loving it.

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  blindersoff

  Seahawks have difficulty explaining how they lost to Steelers

  But several key penalties, mistakes pain them most

  Monday, February 06, 2006

  By Chuck Finder, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  They dropped a minimum of four passes, three by linebacker Joey Porter's favorite "soft" tight end, badly bearded Jerramy Stevens.

  They gave up not only their longest running play of the season, but the longest offensive play, period, in Willie Parker's back-breaking, 75-yard touchdown run on the second half's second play from scrimmage.

  They got as many interceptions thrown by quarterback Matt Hasselbeck -- one, at a time when Seattle was close to some kind of much-needed score amid a tenuous, 14-10 Steelers lead -- as he had thrown in his previous half-dozen games.

  They missed back-to-back field-goal attempts of 50-plus yards by Josh Brown.

  They misfired on five of their last six third-down conversion tries.

  They converted just one of their three trips inside the Steelers' 20, and this from the NFL's leader in the territory known as the red zone.

  We made a lot of mistakes," Tatupu offered meekly. "We kept hurting ourselves. That's stuff we can't have. The team that makes the fewest mistakes comes out on top."

  ....................starter and defensive soul Ken Hamlin was lost earlier in the year after a nightclub scrap hospitalized him with serious injuries

  ONE FOR THE THUMB

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  List of family/friends lost to the Watchtower cult? (suicides)

  by hubert in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after reading about puternuts (ari) suicide, and also reading about sabine and js losing their daughter to this cult, i think it would be a fitting memorial, so to speak, to write a list of all the people we know who died because of this cult.

  i also know that cruzanheart lost her dad to it, too.

  i'm sure there are many here that can make a list of suicides brought on by the shunning/threatening policies of the watchtower cult.

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  I don't want to be too specific, but I know of one person who came home from a cir assembly and did it that night.

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  JW sex offender now working as a supervisor at the rug-cleaning company.

  by blindersoff in

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  sorry, i tried to delete this but couldn't.

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  blindersoff

  Sorry, I tried to delete this but couldn't.
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  WTS Letter: Tracking Down Displaced JWs

  by doinmypart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  shortly after the hurricanes hit the gulf coast region of the u.s. the wts organized committees and met with elders in the affected/surrounding states.

  one point of discussion was the damage assessment to khs and homes; the other point of discussion was locating displaced jws.. the wts is concerned about losing publishers.

  at the time it was stressed that if a displaced person or family moved into your area be sure to get at least name and former congregation and forward the information to wts.

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  forward it to [email protected]

  A new address to send news articles , etc.

  Thanks, 'doin...'. You really are.

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  have elders ever been sued successfully?

  by silentWatcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  quote: what i am waiting for is one of their rank and file elders to get sued over this issue and some of the hospital liaison puppets to lose everything he owns because of it.

  this point was brought up in the "big news has started" thread (and is now buried on page 3).

  interesting point, and i wonder if anyone has ever heard of a case where elders have been successfully sued over judicial matters (slander / libel) or wrongful death (blood)?

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  If individual elders were sued, regardless of their motives, then they may think twice about df'ing someone, or possibly about being elders at all.

  Good point, TT

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  New light for the Catholic Church

  by TallTexan in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this may have been covered already, but i missed it if it was.. a lady i work with who is catholic told me that not too long ago the new pope changed the catholic doctrine on purgatory - in that now it no longer exists.

  of course i couldn't help but think "hmmmm....new light....".

  my question to her was "well, do all the people that paid to get their loved ones out of purgatory get a refund?".

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  It makes me think that all of our efforts to expose the WTS are a waste - they'll still believe what they want and we'll still be the 'lying apostates'. It's frustrating.....

  
  As Paul says---never may that happen. There is plenty of proof thatr our efforts are bearing fruit.

  The train is grinding to a halt and will soon start backing down the grade.

  'Move ahead, move ahead in your ministry I just donated CoC to the library
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  I think I've finally had it! (long)

  by lynnmelo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some of you may know that i had regularly been studying with the jw's for about two years, but i was never baptized.

  i stumbled on some information about the child molestation scandal a few months ago, and that started me on the road to questioning the organization (for further details on my situation, see my topic history).. anyway, up until now, i had decided to just fade into the background, still attending sunday kh meetings because i want to attend some church, and i just don't know where else to go (don't agree w/ the teachings of the other churches in my vicinity either).

  my last "study" w/ my bible study conductor (a month or so ago) was terrible.

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  When someone like you pulled out of the study, I would always find peace by looking again at Jesus' illustration in Mt 13. I would put the person in one of the catagories he mentioned. Now I realize that doesn't work because it is not kingdom seed that Jw's are sowing in the first place.

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