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IMPORTANT: District convention in Evansville, IN - please PM if you attended or know someone who did
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please pm me if you or someone you know attended the evansville, in district convention over this past weekend (june 21-23, 2013).. the key talk of the convention was given friday afternoon and our recording of the friday afternoon session was accidentally recorded over.. getting a recording of this talk would be very, very helpful to many on this board..
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Couple other interesting DC tidbits...
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1) they're going to stop producing the wt publications index "because its hard to maintain and translate".

so they're going to create a digital-only research tool on jw.org .

it's like, how convenient and smart.
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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!
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so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
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Cargo cults: scary indictment of human nature
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during wwii, isolated islands full of aboriginal people were suddenly inundated with civilization far advanced from anything they'd ever seen.

to them, it was magic from the gods.

after the soldiers left, the islanders built bamboo planes and control towers and cleared makeshift runways and talked nonsense into coconut headsets.
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So if Russell was the "greater" John the Baptist paving the way for the GB...
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... what does that make the "governing body"????????.

wait for it....... yes, the greater jesus.

they stopped short of saying that in the july 15 wt (all they said was that russell was the greater john the baptist), but what other conclusion is there, especially since now they're going to rule with jesus over the messianic kingdom.. talk about a messiah complex.
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Anyone know why Will Gorham was taken off the road?
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they were a great co couple (he wasn't much of a speaker but...).

heard awhile back they were removed from the circuit work.

curious why..
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The Only True Doctor A Parable
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a friend of mine recently found out a few years back that she had an aggressive form of breast cancer.

she went to many doctors, but all of them told her she had to have a mastectomy and undergo radiation therapy.

that seemed really unappealing to her.
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Got an email from a "ghost" today
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ever get a letter / text / email from someone and it turns your blood cold?

like, you get it and you literally freeze and feel your spine turn solid?.

happened to me today.
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"House of Prayer" or "Den of Thieves"?
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so my good people, hear this.. my dad used to be the assembly and convention overseer, so i know the facts.. do you know why the org loves assembly halls so much?

the place i grew up - we had the circuit assemblies in our town.

we were able to rent the facility for $1000 / day plus expenses.
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Temporary Special Pioneer Assignment...?
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members of my extended family were recently given a temporary special pioneer assignment as a result of the bible school for christian couples (vomit).. anyone got details on how this works?

why temporary?

is it a testing ground for circuit work or a "we dont want you on our payroll for good so we'll use up what you have to offer and dump you back into reg pio status when this definitely not-cushy assignment is over"?.