Yes, they were just recognized as an official church in Austria and one of the first thing was to join this meeting.
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion
by GermanXJW inon june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.
among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.
you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.
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GermanXJW
On June 9th, 2009 Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in Austia that are registered under public law.It was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the Austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things. Among the participating churches were among others Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Jews, Muslim, Mormons, Buddhist and - Jehovah's Witnesses!
You find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=OTS_20090608_OTS0170
Photos of the event are found here: http://fotoservice.bundeskanzleramt.at/imagecatalogue/image/list/19347
The JW delegate Walter Schneeweiß is the third head from the left on the group photo. It seems that he was avoiding to be clearly seen.
The picture reminds me of the picture that WT used in 1986 about the meeting in Assisi:
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Why do American's pronounce herbs as 'erbs?
by yadda yadda 2 init's spelt herbs and it's not a silent h, so why do american's pronounce it 'erbs?
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GermanXJW
Excuse my French.
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Growing up in a communist country ...
by Albert Einstein ini lived for the first 20 years of my life in a communist country.. .
great .... .
we were told we lived in the best regime, had best medical care, best election system, best goverment, no criminality like in the western countries, no unemploymence like in the western countries, not all the problems like people in the west ..... .
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GermanXJW
...and there was a committee of old men.
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Foxnews = Internet to run out of room by 2010- JWN will close this time!
by Witness 007 inthe internet will soon run out of room according to fox causing "brown outs" at first with the internet slowing down drastically before it closes down!
will jwn close after all these years???
what will you do with your new spare time?.
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GermanXJW
Could be made up by an internet company - or several of them - looking for investments.
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German XJW-Comedian Uses NWT for Bible Sketch on TV
by GermanXJW ingerman comdedian oliver pocher has been raised as jw as he frankly declares.
in his current tv show he uses the story of lot and his daughters and uses his nwt.
he also uses some of the typical jw phrases like inviting the audience to use their own bibles.. starts at 8min10 here:.
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GermanXJW
German comdedian Oliver Pocher has been raised as JW as he frankly declares. In his current TV show he uses the story of Lot and his daughters and uses his NWT. He also uses some of the typical JW phrases like inviting the audience to use their own Bibles.
Starts at 8min10 here:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6312201/Oliver_Pocher_Gefaehrliches_Halbwissen_8_18
continues here: http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6312324/Oliver_Pocher_Gefaehrliches_Halbwissen_9_18
He also tells the audience again that he was raised as a JW. When someone is laughing he says "This is serious" and says it might be the case that he knocked at door at 9:30 in the morning at [points at people in the audience] you, you you you and you. But not you because I would remember"
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Baby name suggestions?
by JimmyPage inboy or girl names, don't know for sure which as of yet.
preferably something with apostate or rock musician connotations.
i thought of "stevie ray" as in stevie ray vaughan and as a tribute to both steven hassan and ray franz but it sounds a bit too redneck for my taste.
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GermanXJW
What about "Taze" for a boy. I know only of one person in the last 200 years who had that name and he had some impact.
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Another Newbie...
by CrazyBlonde ini have been lurking for a while, just joined.
nice to see there are so many others out there who feel/felt how i feel.... long story short - i was born into it, started having doubts about age 6, but what can you do when you have over controlling parents whose only goal is to make you a pioneer and ship you off to bethel so you can be like your goody-two-shoe brothers.
suffered through my school years being bullied with no friends - parents made sure that i was very different from other kids inc how i dressed and even what i ate to the point where i was apparently known as the ugly hippie.
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GermanXJW
Welcome, CB.
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My Father has just past away
by caliber inyes my father has passed on sunday.... all my family brothers, sister, in-laws are jws .
it is occasions like this that.
make me see why i and countless others are just faders .. not taking that bold step of disassociation .
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GermanXJW
Please accept also my condolence. The death of a father or a mother must be one of the most difficult things in life.
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Abortion
by Luo bou to ini know the wt says a sister can have an abortion if her life is endangered but what if she is raped must she give birth to the child of her rapist?.
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GermanXJW
It is in the Reasoning-Book, but it this states that the life of the baby or the mother must be endangered in the moment of birth.
