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  Which posters are male and which are female? Am I getting it wrong?

  by Lozhasleft in

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  this is baffling me...someone suggested a day or so ago that outlaw is female?

  and what about bandontherun ?

  is that a lady too?.

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  MrMonroe

  Male, 50s, married, children.
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  Watchtower Lawyer’s Response

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  watchtower lawyers response .

  today i uploaded a new article to my blog comparing what a watchtower lawyer wrote in a medical journal with what watchtower had actually directed.

  i think readers will find it of more than a little interest.

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  MrMonroe

  My experience was always that all baptised members of the congregation were given a card by their book study conductor, which is contrary to Ridley's statement. There was strong encouragement for everyone to fill them out and sign them out, but no checking that all had done so. If a person decided not to, (or neglected to do so) there was no coercion. That may not be the situation in all congregations, however.
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  I'm going to start snowboard cross races for......

  by Snowboarder in

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  since i have dual nationality with bosnia and canada, i thought long and hard about since i need to apply for my fis race license to race international for any country.

  i will do races for bosnia and herzegovina, i'm going to apply for my fis license from them and there is so much good news, i'm going to start my training soon, like in 2 weeks.

  i'll keep everyone posted.

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  MrMonroe

  PM for you Hopscotch.
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  Gems from the August 15, 2011 WT

  by Ultimate Reality in

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  pdfs can be obtained at jw.org.... spiritual gem #1. perhaps witnesses should apply the standard the wt recommends for gathering information on the internet to wt publications; from page 4:.

  (1) who published this.

  material?

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  MrMonroe

  Where did the author get the information? Does he

  supply sources that can be checked?

  That's the beauty of Wikipedia articles on Jehovah's Witnesses, the faithful slave, the Governing Body, the failed predictions and criticism of the religion in general: a verifiable source for every statement is provided.
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  Circuit Overseer talking Ray Franz in talk this morning (Phone number included)

  by LightsOut in

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  i'm still a semi member of the kh but not at all active and have major doubts when i started reading all kinds of opposing literature.

  talked to elders about this and also my father but my father but he still believes it's the "truth".

  anyways jist of this story is i gave my father a copy of "crisis of conscience".

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  MrMonroe

  My God, "Some think that 3-4 hours a month will save them".

  Just where in the Bible do these people find the notion that a person has to fill a monthly quota to be "saved"?

  Odd that Ray Franz wasn't "prepared to wait". Wait on who or what? Without GB members actually raising doctrinal issues, and talking them out with friends, how would doctrinal changes ever take place? His CoC book gives numerous examples of GB members bringing to the table discussion points, from which doctrinal changes were made. How is that his proposals marked him as an apostate?

  There's no logic in this at all. It's cultic thinking pure and simple. It would be the height of fantasy to think that any member of the organisation could stand up at a KH and give a reasoned, dispassionate opinion on the developments surrounding Franz's expulsion. The company line is that he was proud, lacking in humility, trying to draw away followers and critical. Expressing any sympathy for him or his ideas would be suicide for any elder or CO.
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  Is there a reliable list of average publisher stats year by year?

  by MrMonroe in

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  does anyone have a link to stats drawn from wt publications on average publishers year by year since about 1945?

  i have figures 1989 to 2010, but there are gaps for many years in between because of the inconsistent policy of full disclosure in the yearbooks.. thanks..

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  Thanks, figures were located and have now been added to a chart on the Wikipedia page for the JW article. Paul's figures at JWFacts were good, but he had already used them in a chart and I needed the raw figures.
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  Is there a reliable list of average publisher stats year by year?

  by MrMonroe in

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  does anyone have a link to stats drawn from wt publications on average publishers year by year since about 1945?

  i have figures 1989 to 2010, but there are gaps for many years in between because of the inconsistent policy of full disclosure in the yearbooks.. thanks..

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  Correct. For some years the yearbook on the cdrom contains a short summary, other years there's none. That means I go looking for a mention of the figure in the general comments in the YB or that year's Jan 1 WT, but it's very hit and miss. I'm relying on someone who may have collated them from the hard copies.
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  Is there a reliable list of average publisher stats year by year?

  by MrMonroe in

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  does anyone have a link to stats drawn from wt publications on average publishers year by year since about 1945?

  i have figures 1989 to 2010, but there are gaps for many years in between because of the inconsistent policy of full disclosure in the yearbooks.. thanks..

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  MrMonroe

  Does anyone have a link to stats drawn from WT publications on average publishers year by year since about 1945? I have figures 1989 to 2010, but there are gaps for many years in between because of the inconsistent policy of full disclosure in the yearbooks.

  Thanks.
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  New Light @ The 2011 District Convention

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  " at the bottom of the image on the back of the invitation raises some eyebrows, but last night in the routine district convention article during the service meeting, i caught that one of the paragraphs mentioned that we would be encouraged to keep a copy of the tract in hand for a discussion during sunday's last talk.

  my guess is, there is going to be some new revelation about what the "?

  " represents, or some other fangled idea.

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  The 1978 WT dismissing the prophetic significance of the 10 toes is dangerously logical and commonsense. It adds no mystery, raises no questions whose answers will "soon be revealed" and is not explained with any far-fetched, fear-mongering suggestion that includes the use of the word "evidently". I'll take a stab and suggest that answer was provided by Ray Franz.
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  Funniest JW memory?

  by stillstuckcruz in

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  perhaps something that happened in fs, the memorial, convention etc.

  i need a laugh.

  last year at the memorial, an old brother was so shaky in the hands, when he passed the wine it spilled all over him.

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  Witnessing with a fat sister who offered the "Watchtower and Awake."

  Householder: "No thanks, I don't need to watch my weight."

  Working with an elderly sister who, sensing the rather butch female householder was from up Moscow way, asked her, "Are you Russian?

  Householder: "Yes, I'm just on my way out."

  Witness: "Well I'll leave you this then. You might find it easier to read." (Hands her a booklet in Russian).

  Householder, eyeing it rather dubiously because she obviously doesn't know a word of Russian: "Ah, thanks ..... "