Topics Started by JAVA
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Living Church of God & the Watchtower
by JAVA ini?m sure most of you have seen some coverage about the murder/suicide by a member of the evangelical church called the living church of god.
the church was founded in the mid-1990?s when it split from herbert w. armstrong?s worldwide church of god.
the living church observes the sabbath on saturday along with other old testament rituals.
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Member Biographies
by JAVA inlike many of you, i like reading threads i don?t necessarily take part in, and clicking on the profile and reading the biography.
several, maybe most, have nothing listed in their biography, for whatever reason.
on the other hand, some might not know about the biography section that?s in your profile.
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1981 Ph.D Thesis on JWs
by JAVA ini just got my hands on william zellner's 1981 thesis, of another world, the jehovah's witnesses.
the 124-page work was in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a ph.d, through the sociology department at south dakota state university.
zellner's work looks at how the witnesses recruit new members and retains the converts the last part of his abstract says:it is argued that the social characteristics of a group are more important in the conversion process than in the group's message.. .
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Thirty Years a Watch Tower Slave
by JAVA inperhaps the first widely distributed book written by a former witness about the watchtower society is, thirty years a watch tower slave by william j. schnell, baker book house, grand rapids, mi, 1956. its been out of print for several years, and very few libraries still have the book.
schnell was born in 1905, and was part of the watchtower movement from 1921 to 1954. .
in part, the foreword reads: by the lords grace i am a christian.
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Marley Cole, a Watchtower Stooge?
by JAVA inthanks to wasasister, i just received a copy of jehovah's witnesses, the new world society, by marley cole, vantage press, ny, 1955 printing date.
as some of you know, cole wrote this book under the pretence that he was only interested in writing about the jws, and didn't identify himself as a jw.
note what the jacket cover says about him:.
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JW-Values Anyone?
by JAVA inwe have a discussion group of 8 or 9 people that meets at our house every 4 to 6 weeks.
weve been doing this over 5 years and gotten to know each other fairly well.
during our last salon a few spoke of religious values that carried over even though they are no longer members of their former religion.
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France fines Watchtower Millions
by JAVA inthe other day my spouse heard a report on npr about the french government fining the watchtower millions of us dollars (40 million?
) for the so-called contributions they squeeze out of people.
did anyone reading this hear that report?
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1975 Believers 101
by JAVA ina believer of a conviction is a hard person to change.
tell a believer you disagree with them and he?ll run away.
show him the facts and figures, and he?ll question the source.
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Summer JW Assembly Drama Picture
by JAVA infor all who took real vacations or saved money for college tuition instead of attending this year's summer assemblies, i'm providing a public service.
here is what you missed in order to make it into the new system of things:.
--javacounting time at the coffee shop
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Larc's Family-Placed Obituary
by JAVA inlarc's family-placed obituary is in the sunday, 11/13/05 "dayton daily news.
"thornton, carl leonard 65 of oakwood, oh., passed away mon., nov. 7, 2005. carl retired as a tenured professor of organizational behavior from kettering university (formerly gmi), flint, mi., in 2000, having served there since 1986. from 1978-1986 carl was with the ncr corp., dayton, oh, last serving as director of training/development, engineering & manufacturing group, and was functionally responsible for the educational programs at 16 us manufacturing and 8 international locations of ncr.
from 1976-1978 he served as the executive director of personnel affairs, university of miami, fl.