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  Field Service Reports Count More than Showing Love - Ray Franz CF Book

  by flipper in

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  i've always suspected this was the wt society's view when i was in the jehovah's witness organization - but never knew the head of the writing committee karl adams had written a letter to nathan knorr ( then wt president ) recommending a change regarding reporting field service time as it wrongly emphasized jw members being seen as mainly being approved due to field service statistics - instead of emphasizing christian qualities of love, kindness, peace, etc.. karl adams had been personally handpicked by nathan knorr to be the head of the writing department.

  in 1971 he wrote a letter to knorr which he wanted shared with the entire governing body as well .

  i'll share the main parts of that letter.. on pg.

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  Mr. Flipper have you made your quota for booklets this month, if not we may have to remove you as a publisher. The Society
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  Another hilarious facebook post...

  by MrFreeze in

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  a post made by a jw on facebook:.

  unemployment line-here i come with my aux pioneer slip in my hand!!!!.

  yes, let's take advantage of government programs designed to help those who are less fortunate, so we can spend more time in god's work.

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  Yeah that time wasted pioneering could be spend looking for work. One thing for sure, the Watchtower Society is not gonna help this guy. the organiztion is all take and no give, unlike other religions their money doesn't go to provide anything in the way of education hospitals or anything that might really help somebody. All those millions they take in goes for what?
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  Taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy...

  by Deputy Dog in

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  taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy,.

  from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/06/10/2010-06-10_taliban_hang_7yearold_boy_accused_of_being_a_spy_suicide_bomber_kills_40_at_afgh.html#ixzz0qjy3uv6j.

  twisted taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying - and hanging him high.. that outrage drew immediate condemnation from the afghan president, who called the execution a "crime against humanity.".

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  Terrible, what's also sick is our Government training Boy Scouts to use guns to go after disgruntled vets.
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  No typos or grammatical errors ever????

  by StAnn in

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  seems to me that, despite the fact that the content of the wts literatrash is crap, i've never seen a typo or grammatical error in the lit.

  anybody ever noticed this or ever found instances of errors?

  and, if there are no errors, how do they manage that?

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  Oh there was one, 1975 was just a typo, 1914 too.
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  As a JW, Did You Skip Houses You Knew Were Not Interested?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  i have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.

  i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.

  (bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).

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  No I was under their mind control, counting time, I wanted to call on any door where someone would talk to me interested or not, if they didn't answer I would stand their a long time streching the time, gotta get those pioneering hours in. That was sressful trying to make those one hundred hours every month, and meet your literature quotas. What a waste of time.
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  Public Viewing of "Inside Islam: What Do A Billion Muslims Really Think?"

  by Justitia Themis in

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  there will be a public viewing at the university of washington-tacoma, on may 26, 2010, from 4:00-5:30 in the milgard assembly room.. it is free and all are invited.

  http://upf.tv/upf06/home/tabid/320/default.aspx.

  keynote address world premiere june 3rd, 2009 inside islam: what a billion muslims really think .

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  I rember Madeleine Albright for this statement:

  "U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright reflected the mindset of U.S. officials when she told “Sixty Minutes” (and the people of the Middle East) that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions were “worth it.”
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  Judgment Day and the End of the World 2011

  by RR in

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  it's coming, so pack your bags everyone.

  less than a year to go.. .

  http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/index.html.

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  I am sure the JW's are like the kid standing outside the locked toy store window, wishing they could get in on the action of predicting the time of the end again but knowing there are enough of their older former members around who would throw 1975 in their face. Oh well they'll have to limp along until most of us die. Then they can start up their end of the world band wagon again.

  Still crazy JW's aside there are alot of things going on in the world that seem to look alot to me like Revelations or Isaiah or Daniel's phrophecies, I am not sure how I interpret it, I just think were living in more difficult and dangerous times than anything I have seen in my lifetime. I wonder what 2012 might bring.
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  Art Linkletter dies at 97

  by straightshooter in

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  sad to hear that art linkletter passed away.

  i remember his shows, they were very entertaining.

  i especially enjoyed the "kids say the darndest things.".

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  Wasn't that show on Tuesday nights , book study night?
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  Would Jesus have told us the devine name was lost?

  by wannabe in

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  some would just love to see it lost!

  satan the devil maybe he`s a god!

  {jehovah} 7 " 'i will make known my holy name among my people israel.

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  "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel never used any personal name to distinguish Him from any peers because He had no peers. Therefore, no personal name was ever needed. The only name He gave for Himself was "I am," which indicated that He is to be identified with all existence. The Greek Septuagint Old Testament of 285BC never used any sacred name for God, nor was such ever mentioned by other ancient writers such as the Israelite historians, Philo, and Josephus, or the later Eusebius, or even the Jewish Aristeas the Exegete who wrote his commentary on the Greek Septuagint. The word did not appear in any Old Testament text until the Masoretic Text of 1000AD!"
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  Mormon Version of Hell

  by cameo-d in

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  .....teaches that upon death, righteous souls go to paradise, while the souls of the unrepentant go to a spirit prison, where the former are sent from paradise to preach the gospel to the latter, and the living perform work in lds temples providing ordinances that can only be received in the flesh, which the repentant imprisoned ones can accept.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/resurrection.

  imagine that you were an apostate and you end up in the spirit prison.

  would you rather have to listen to the righteous mormons or the righteous jws (providing you were given a preference)?.

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  Don't forget that the GB forbade marriage before "Armageddon" in 1925.

  At Bethel too before 1975 you had to put in four years as a single person, if you didn't make your four years you were branded as somebody who didn't keep their word. President Knorr would go on tirades against the people who left early.