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Louisville Archdiocese to Pay $25 Million Abuse Settlement
by blondie inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/national/11kent.html?ex=1055995200&en=0adac3331d3714f9&ei=5006&partner=altavista1 june 11, 2003 louisville archdiocese to pay $25 million abuse settlement
by laurie goodstein
he roman catholic archdiocese of louisville announced yesterday that it would pay a settlement of $25.7 million to 243 people who say they were sexually abused by priests, religious brothers and employees of the kentucky archdiocese.. the settlement is the largest ever paid directly from the assets of a diocese in the two decades since people began confronting the catholic church in court over sexual abuse by priests, both the plaintiffs' lawyer and an archdiocesan official said.
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Why On Earth Did You Ever Become A Witness & What Made You Decide To Leave?
by minimus ini've known for years that if i was visited at my home by jehovah's witnesses, i would have become a do not call.
i would have firmly but politely told the witnesses to never come back to my door and bother me again.
since i was raised "in the truth", i learned the religion from infancy.
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First District Convention of 2003 in Rockford, Illinois
by blondie inhttp://www.rrstar.com/localnews/your_community/rockford/20030525-5467.shtml
baptism questions.
6/1/85 wt page 30 on the basis of the sacrifice of jesus christ, have you repented of your sins and dedicated yourself to jehovah to do his will?do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of jehovahs witnesses in association with gods spirit-directed organization?.
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Here is the article and photo of Bigred from Sunday paper
by Mulan inhere is the photo that ran in the paper yesterday.
dave is in front, and our eldest son, randy is behind him.
this is the article, online: http://classifieds.nwsource.com/jobs/jobmarket/.
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Did you cheat on your monthly report?
by JH ini was always honest with my field service reports, until the time when an elder came over to give me hell because i had only 1 hour that month in the field service.
i told him that i was working 50 hours a week, had a 4 day district convention that month and couldn't do miracles that month.
he never accepted my explanation.. .
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Ahhh yes...DISTRICT CONVENTION TIME IS HERE.....
by jimbob inyes, summer is almost here, and this will be my very first summer that i will not be attending a district convention.
since the wife and i left the borg last august, i have looked forward to a summer, free from conventions.
at last that time has arrived.
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I saw a JW Elder at X-Men 2 Movie this weekend!!
by WingCommander ini nearly fell off my seat.
this 30ish jw elder came strolling in the movie theater with his wife and a huge tub of pop corn in his arm to watch x-men 2: xmen united.
i couldn't believe the hypocrasy.........they teach not to even watch much tv, much less go to a movie.
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The WatchTower and Higher Education
by Maverick inrunningman's post on the fallacies of the watchtower reasonings started me thinking on the gb's stand on higher education.
i am impressed with the superb thinking ability of many who post here.
unclebruce, stephanus, victor_e, gamaliel, blondie, undisfellowshipped, and machislopp to name just a few.
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THIS USED TO BE THE SOCIETY- HOW SAD TODAY
by JT in"we would not refuse to treat one as a brother because he did not believe the society is the lord's channel... there should be full liberty of conscience.
-- wt april 1, 1920, p. 100, 101
it is interesting to think that at one time the wt viewed itself merely as students of the word sharing and printing thier understanding or interpetation or their take on a biblical point and as a result they felt that if they printed something that someone didn;t agree with well all is well, we just got a different personal view on a matter.