They pressed the uniforms as well,thats real IRONY !
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australia bethel had from 1938 began to make big money!
they employed many brothers.
they opened a saw mill, bakery, 20 kingdom farms, and an engineering company.
They pressed the uniforms as well,thats real IRONY !
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2.4 page 28. our coming to know the truth- (wtbts) the entire body of christian teachings that has become part of the bible!
wtbts claims "essential to our salvation!".
wtbt publications are not part of the bible!
I would take that as meaning anything actually IN the bible,the writings of Paul,James'&Jude etc as well as the actual words of Jesus,but to EXCLUDE anything outside of the Bible.
Thus the ramblings of the WTBS are not TRUTH,by their own admission.
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i remember when i was in my early teens finding out about a jw brother who was hitting his jw wife.
her parents were also witnesses and were disgusted with his behaviour (and rightly so).
i was completely shocked at the time, thinking those kinds of things just didn't happen among a loving brotherhood.
The whole headship and submission thing is just another bit of scripture that the WTBS has got TOTALLY wrong.But even if you accept their crap exegesis it says in the NWT "As the Christ is head of the congregation" Does Christ abuse the Congo. in any way?
There is no excuse,no mitigation for DV and any B of E that dosn't tackle it are reprehensible cowards.
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40 minutes drive to a new resort built at mornington natural hot thermal springs....it's very relaxing in winter to enjoy a hot spa in natural spring water that is replaced every 30 minutes.
the area is surrounded by wineries and beer brewers and farms....japanese and russians come from miles to enjoy this as part of their culture.
You're a lucky Geyser!
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i was struck by a quote in a very recent watchtower claiming that wts publications are now part of the bible.
quite a bold statement.. how about these two quotes beside each other:.
we would not refuse to treat one as a brother because he did not believe the society is the lord's channel.
The few beliefs that they retain from their start in the late 1800's are not unique to JW's (no fiery Hell, no immortal soul ,no trinity) and were borowed from elsewhere in the fist place.
I asked an active Dub a while ago why would I be DF'd today for teaching the stuff they taught when Jesus supposedly chose them in 1919? and then went on to ask about the evolution of Dub beliefs,but he hasn't come back to me.
They are not very far away from their early stuff,because it has been an evolutionary process, but they are MILES from the truth
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i wasn't there, but a friend called and said the local needs part was how the congregation is having a serious problem.
" meeting attendance has never been as low as it has been this year!
if anyone here knows of someone who is not attending meetings please stop in on them to let them know they are making satan happy.
People keep missing meetings coz they are so bloody boring.
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in hungarian "barack" means "apricot".. here is a picture of some "barack" brandy:.
pope.
ps its' pronounced "borrotzk".
in the tract delivered saturday, it said that a neighbour qualified to teach the bible would come around if you wanted.. are they actually qualfiied?.
NO NO NO
To be truly qualified to teach on the Bible,they would need to know what it ACTUALLY says,and only using the laughable NWT they cannot have a clue.
I found in recent years that a good 98% of Witlesses cannot even defend their own beliefs from their own Bible unless they use something like "Reasoning on the Scriptures" and then they have no concept of the context etc. of the verses they pull out.
Hardly qualified to teach! They should be prosecuted under the "Trades Description Act" !
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i thought long and hard before making this thread, that many will not agree with it but i think there needs to be balance and people to realise there are alternate viewpoints out there on many of these subjects, the ones that are most spoke about on this forum.
i was recently sent a full message containing mary's book and these links give the rebuttal to many of her points.
those that are still open-minded enough feel free to look over them even if in the end you still don't agree at least you have heard both the defence as well as the attack as they are on the internet.
Reniaa,
where are you all of a sudden?
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now i got your attention......(i'm gambling on those who remember these) when were you there?
what years?
and what do you remember........ they all seem like such a big part of my history.
Being born in,in the early 1950's, I go back to pre-historic times !
I can remember an assembly held in Maidstone !
I walked down Union Street with sandwich boards on advertising the Suday PT,(I was about 8yrs old)
It was when the Prime Minister ,Harald McMillan had just made the claim that Brits had never had it so good,and the District Servant of the time,a well known wag called John Blaney said from the platform "Youv'e never been Had so good!"
Come someone make me feel good and go further back than that!
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