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  I have in my hands "Report on Everlasting Good News" June-Sep 63

  by jgnat in

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  the full cover reads, "report on 'everlasting good news' assembly of jehovah's witnesses around the world june 30-september 8, 1963", 192 pages.. it appears to be a report on each of the conventions that were held around the world at that time.

  a little wordy for modern taste, but there's lots of neato pictures.. hubby is borrowing it from a friend.

  is this document available elsewhere or as a scan?

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  truthsetsonefree

  My parents used to have that. When they lost their house it disappeared. A scan would be nice for old times sake.
  
  Isaac
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  OF INTEREST TO NEW YORKERS?

  by Dansk in

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  just saw this on richard dawkin's site: http://richarddawkins.net/ and thought it might interest new yorkers and others on jwd:.

  two ex-jehovah witnesses to tell why they became atheists.

  by nyc atheistssee:.

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  Too bad I didn't see this earlier....
  
  Isaac
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  New Light

  by jefferywhat in

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  i swear more new light is available here than in the corridors of the wts.

  in leviticus the israelites are instructed not to eat things strangled or already dead, but if they do, they are only unclean, not stoned to death.

  so why has it been upgraded by the wts to be this unforgivable sin?

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  This matter was another nail in the JW coffin for me. I recommend if you haven't already read it Ray Franz's In Search of Christian Freedom. It touches on the matter of the animal's being sold to non-Jews. That clearly shows that the monetary value of the animal was still important. It could not therefore have been the cardinal sin that WT claims it to be.
  
  Isaac Carmignani
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  The Nuclear Doomsday Clock

  by truthsetsonefree in

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  2. friends

  so my mom calls me at 2:00am to tell me..that the doomsday clock has been moved forward to two minutes before midnight!!

  i guess she has heard that i have a problem with the jw doom and gloom predictions.

  but come on ma, we were asleep.

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  I did sleep well after. Thanks for asking. I am too tired working days, sending my daughter off to school early before work, and dealing with the ex wife's JW antics to get too shaken up. I appreciate the site on the clock as I hadn't gotten a chance to dig it up. Funny how it would never occur to her to look any of this up. The clock was THREE minutes to midnight in 1984 during the Cold War. Not that it matters much to JWs. They take what they want from secular sources and ignore the rest. I remember as a kid worrying about that clock. The dubs (and my Mom evidently) would talk about it as proof the end was "at hand". And that is what my Mom was driving at this morning.
  
  Isaac Carmignani
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  The Nuclear Doomsday Clock

  by truthsetsonefree in

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  2. friends

  so my mom calls me at 2:00am to tell me..that the doomsday clock has been moved forward to two minutes before midnight!!

  i guess she has heard that i have a problem with the jw doom and gloom predictions.

  but come on ma, we were asleep.

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  So my Mom calls me at 2:00am to tell me..that the doomsday clock has been moved forward to two minutes before midnight!! I guess she has heard that I have a problem with the JW doom and gloom predictions. But come on Ma, we were asleep. I thought that there might have been an emergency...OK I used to work nights but still, I don't anymore. Oh well...anybody remember the JW fascination with that clock? I don't think they ever really got the point of why that thing was setup to begin with.

  Isaac
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  Got the new WT Video last night....so we edited it :) ENJOY

  by iblowmynoseatyou in

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  the new video "pursue goals that honor god" was given to me last night at the hall.

  it encourages young people to pursue spiritual goals, and not waste their time on foolish endeavors such as riches or education.

  well, at least it used to have that message, until we had our way with it :) .

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  The guy in the beard is one of two twins at Bethel, Seth or Josh Ortin. I had Josh on my Operating Committee at my Hall. So yup, its real.

  Isaac
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  ten pounds in ten weeks

  by Hortensia in

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  so it's january 1 and i want to lose ten pounds in ten weeks.

  i've been on a diet for a year and a half and have lost 130 pounds.

  weight loss has slowed down, so i need more focus and more exercise.

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  45 lbs in eleven months, almost a pound a week. Walking did the trick here, and of course portion control, all the standard advice, but no extremes. Good luck.

  Isaac
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  Confidential Body of Elder Letters from 1981 through 2006

  by Elsewhere in

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  here it is guys.

  this is what darth frosty was talking about in his post the other day (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/149460/1.ashx).

  this is a collection of confidential letters from the watchtower society that were sent to the bodies of elders in the years 1981 through 2006. these are the letters that you were never meant to see or read.. there's all sorts of information in them ranging from the boring and mundian to instructions about how to handle child molesters.. many thanks to darth frosty and others (who i'm not sure can be named) who worked very hard and took risks to collect and scan the information.

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  Elsewhere, you're awesome, you and all who have helped.

  Isaac
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  John 19:14, a devastating contradiction?

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  matthew, mark and luke claim that jesus died on passover (nisan 14) john, however, claims that jesus died on the day of preparation for passover (nisan 13) "now it was preparation of the passover" -john 19:14 nwt (it helps to read the context, several verses before and after.

  ) john also doesn't mention the lord's evening meal with his his apostles on passover.

  it would have been impossible, because he was already dead, according to john.. the bible contains many contradictions that can possibly be reconciled if you have enough imagination, but this contradiction seems pretty blatant.

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  I never picked this up before. Has anyone seen any rationalization from the GB on this?

  Isaac
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  BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?

  by Black Man in

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  i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.

  while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).

  a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.

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  Mulan, I never got details on Fred's Mom as he was in a neighboring Hall. It would be easy to find out ...if I was still in that is. There is a chance that it wasn't his Mom, but the info was from a reliable source. She may not have been deathly ill, but that was the reason put out there. It could have been him wanting to be close to her.

  Isaac