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  Today's Special Day Assembly Expenses and the $10,499 Deficit. Silent Majority?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  today i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.

  i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.

  sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.

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  Expenses for these events are always phony. Usually the biggest "expense" occurs the result of elders voting to accept a recommended donation to Watchtower's World Wide Work fund. It's a scam.
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  Theocratic War Strategy and Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole...

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  remember brother toole's testimony to the royal commission that he was unaware of watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

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  well wait until you read the letter i just posted on my blog: theocratic war strategy in action?

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  Yes. The letter found in my blog posting has been sent to the Royal Commission.

  Something that really stood out to me during Toole's testimony was his constant deflection suggesting that because he worked in Watchtower's Legal Department he was not too well versed about goings on in Watchtower's Service Department.

  The problem I have with this is that before Toole worked in the Legal Department he worked nearly 10 years as a Circuit Overseer, and Circuit Overseer are part of the Service Department. In fact, as a Circuit Overseer Toole was sent to congregations under direct supervision of the Service Department for purposes of representing Watchtower through the lens of all things "Service Department" because that's who he reported to. To then claim ignorance of things "Service Department" is patently absurd, not to mention dishonest.
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  Frederick W. Franz and September 5, 1975

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://www.jw-archive.org/post/128775480828/frederick-w-franz-and-september-5-1975#disqus_thread

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  I think this audio should be the October Broadcast!

  Why not? It fits right in with all the current kookiness coming from "the voice of GOD" (read: Guardians of Doctrine).
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  Theocratic War Strategy and Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole...

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  remember brother toole's testimony to the royal commission that he was unaware of watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

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  well wait until you read the letter i just posted on my blog: theocratic war strategy in action?

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  There's something fundamentally bizarre about using "theocratic warfare" to try to refute the concept of "theocratic warfare".

  Yes, there is. In the world of Theocratic Warfare (TW) "lying" takes on a special meaning that precludes intentional deception when the subject is supposedly a threat to the Kingdom's interests. Hence TW practitioners find themselves asserting that they are not lying even when they're intentionally deceiving!
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  Theocratic War Strategy and Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole...

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  remember brother toole's testimony to the royal commission that he was unaware of watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

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  well wait until you read the letter i just posted on my blog: theocratic war strategy in action?

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  It would have been funny if he'd signed it

  The letter may not have Toole's signature but it does have the Service Desk stamp, and as an active Circuit Overseer in 1988 Mr. Toole had been working nearly a decade for the Service Desk. If anyone was familiar with Watchtower theocratic war strategy doctrine it would have been someone in Toole's position at the time.
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  Deconstructing Splanes 'Generation' explanation

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at around 4 minutes into the september 2015 video splane said "for the man and the baby to be part of josephs generation they would have had to have lived at least some time during joseph's lifespan.".

  this is the lynchpin of the wt argument, that two lives must overlap to be considered the same generation.. let's take an example of twins who are born just a few minutes apart.

  obviously, these twins are the same generation as each other.

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  In the context of Splane's argument we would have to read the text of Exodus 1:6 to mean Joseph's children are part of "that generation" Joseph is said to belong to. But something tells me the context of Exodus 1:6 does not suggest this.

  But, hey, context never gets in the way of Watchtower leadership when it wants to ram something down JWs' throats.

  
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  Bethel Provides Excellent Clarification of "This Generation"

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  bethel clarifies "this generation" via letter.

  /s.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzzxpiqj2w.

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  Watchtower insiders don't know how to answer for stupidity any more than their leaders. Thanks for sharing.

  We were raised and/or otherwise led to expect more. We got the same crap we were told other religions were spewing. Made up man-made religion.
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  Theocratic War Strategy and Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole...

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  remember brother toole's testimony to the royal commission that he was unaware of watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

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  well wait until you read the letter i just posted on my blog: theocratic war strategy in action?

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  I couldn't quite read the letter on your blog

  You can right-click on the image and open it in a different tab or window. Then click on the image and it enlarges for easy reading.
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  Theocratic War Strategy and Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole...

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  remember brother toole's testimony to the royal commission that he was unaware of watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

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  well wait until you read the letter i just posted on my blog: theocratic war strategy in action?

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  Marvin Shilmer

  Remember Brother Toole's testimony to the Royal Commission that he was unaware of Watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

  Well wait until you read the letter I just posted on my blog: Theocratic War Strategy in Action?

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  TV.JW.ORG (September 2015) - Generation explained again

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  guess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend.

  david spane does his best to explain it again.

  the cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that fred franz died.

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  Marvin Shilmer

  These buffoons have set up a class distinction within the rank of future governing body members. Will they be:

  1. This Generation-ers

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  2. Not This Generation-ers

  Perhaps more importantly, who on earth would believe a group of men who didn't know what they were ("faithful slave-ers) for decades and only recently figured out they belonged to a generation they supposedly belonged to the whole time?