Given the high credibility of BAR the ossuary is real. The ossuary is large not small. The writing calls it a "box" but it is a "large" box not a little box.
Also several years ago the ossuary for Pontius Pilate was found.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021021/ap_on_re_us/jesus_inscription_6
scholar touts oldest link to jesus mon oct 21, 5:11 pm et.
by richard n. ostling, ap religion writer.
Given the high credibility of BAR the ossuary is real. The ossuary is large not small. The writing calls it a "box" but it is a "large" box not a little box.
Also several years ago the ossuary for Pontius Pilate was found.
ok englands ready to rock the boat again!
silentlambs march in uk will take place on march 29th 2003. its only 5 months away so please advertise and make this a significant event for the uk victims who continue to suffer.
a lot of scared victims came out of the woodwork after panorama and felt able to speak out for the first time, there's plenty more yet to speak out so lets support them by raising awareness on this march.
Great! And we'll need one for Germany etc too!
For that matter why not also in other U.S. cities...
i need good quality video of the silentlambs march.
media i am working with want to use it for documentary information of the march and to present as part of the program.
i need to closest copy of hte orginial.
Francis, he doesn't have to tell us if he's still in Europe or not. I'll see word gets around for you, Bill. Glad to hear you're working with film media. Hi to the friends in Europe if you're still there.
does any1 know, what the jw statistics for this year are...i have.
heard somewhere, that the increase was 0.7%, but i'm not really.
sure about that info...
Watchtower only gives the very peak month for supposed growth which would be September 2001 when the terrorists hit and people ran into the kingdom halls. So .7% is also unduly positive. If it was .7% then the growth without the September 11 attack was only about 0% - total stagnation.
i was considering revealing my identity soon, but had a thought.
although i'm not active, i am well respected by my family and the witnesses from my past.
perhaps i could do more good for my family/friends and massive damage to the wt if i was to become active again.
Some other contacts for you: [email protected] regarding class action lawsuit,
[email protected] regarding child molestation in particular
[email protected] regarding organizing of new Bible groups
i was considering revealing my identity soon, but had a thought.
although i'm not active, i am well respected by my family and the witnesses from my past.
perhaps i could do more good for my family/friends and massive damage to the wt if i was to become active again.
If you have access to documents make a copy of them if you can. If you cannot make a copy of them, then write what they say on a separate sheet of paper. Send the information to [email protected] .
If you do not have access to documents but you know other things that would be useful to the Free Christians movement, send that information as well. As a long-timer you probably know or have heard a lot of interesting, useful things.
two weeks ago all sunday meetings were cancelled in the shirley area here on longisland ny.
a elder meeting was held with the co. my aunt a jdub has informed me that all 4 congregations have had over 7 disfellowshippings in the past month and about 2 dozen since the beginning of the year.
it seems that many of the youth are having sex and allowed to do what ever they want.
I just thought that Pat Garza saying Ted Jarasc of the Governing Body over Jehovah's Witnesses is guilty of child molestation could have caused a lot of people to quit, but the U.N. liason for 10 years, the overall pedophilia coverup as revealed on Dateline NBC etc could also do it. There's no reason to doubt that.
two weeks ago all sunday meetings were cancelled in the shirley area here on longisland ny.
a elder meeting was held with the co. my aunt a jdub has informed me that all 4 congregations have had over 7 disfellowshippings in the past month and about 2 dozen since the beginning of the year.
it seems that many of the youth are having sex and allowed to do what ever they want.
Do you suppose they heard Pat Garza says Ted Jarasc of the Governing Body molested her when he was a District Overseer in Los Angeles?
this is what has been happening with us lately.
we (my husband and i) have not been to any meetings in over a year.
the elders have stopped by quite often (once they stopped by and they were here from 10:30 12:00, they left the others in their car group, out in the car the whole time!!
God has always used an organization that's in heaven! None on earth have ever been perfect.
An organization led by pedophile-lovers and pedophiles etc is not of Jehovah God!
Even when a human organization was active in worship it was a confederation of 12 tribes in Israel's case (independent but cooperative) and a confederation of independent but cooperative house-churches/congregations for earliest Christianity.
Watchtower as with Rome is a top-down structure; earliest Christianity and most Protestant churches have used a down-upwards structure to permit maximum Christian freedom as granted at Romans 14:6.
is to act together as a united group.
i know to many of us that smacks of jwism but it's not really, it's just common sense.. take for example the colonial world in north america prior to the revolution.
there were thirteen colonies, each with their own problems, their own goals and needs.
The Free Christians movement is diverse but united by friendly actions on issues of mutual concern. No one monopolizes it. The Free Christians newsletter is for those of differing views many of whom are exJWs and other friends, this freedom granted at Romans 14:6. More unity of action within the community is welcome.
Let us know what you'd like done and it can be put in the newsletter going directly to about 750 emails some of whom forward and distribute copies, and also gets posted with other egroups totally several thousand additional persons some of whom also share copies. Many use it as just a news service, others as a source for friendship, and still others as a source for spiritual encouragement.
Yes, a formal organizing effort by others utilizing press releases etc however you deem best would also be welcomed, although new Bible Groups (congregations) formed by those organizing are, in our opinion, best given great if not full local autonomy to prevent development of new mini-Watchtower cults. Our own branch within the movement is and will stay "underground" to assure survival, but a group openly organizing could do lots more things that we can not. Cooperation is thus mutually beneficial.
All things to all! [email protected] , [email protected]