I am wondering if this is simply a money grab on the part of the Society, to get free funds to help clean up a site, thereby making it re-saleable. If I understood more about the Brownfield Cleanup Program and what it entails I could be more sure of what they are up to.
dropoffyourkeylee
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Chemicals buried at WT Farms (WT ruining the earth)
by doinmypart init seems that the wt is guilty of illegally dumping printing chemicals (or as they like to say "ruining the earth") in upstate new york.
read the full articles from the news sites below.. "state officials are investigating chemical pollution found buried at an upstate new york property owned by the jehovah's witnesses organization.
" http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/8e675d204fbf4352ab2cf65086b4b411/ny--buried-chemicals/.
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JWs and the Roman Catholic thing
by Band on the Run inmy father learned to hate catholics at home (a russian orthodox mining town) and at bethel.
he seemed to have no fervor pouncing on a protestant.
preaching against catholics at work put him on notice that he would be fired if he continued.
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dropoffyourkeylee
One of the books which started my exit was:
The Encylopedia of American Religions, editor J Gordon Melton Volume II, 1989
for some reason, though simply an encylopedia, it opened an entire new understanding about the JW religion and its roots for me
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Chemicals buried at WT Farms (WT ruining the earth)
by doinmypart init seems that the wt is guilty of illegally dumping printing chemicals (or as they like to say "ruining the earth") in upstate new york.
read the full articles from the news sites below.. "state officials are investigating chemical pollution found buried at an upstate new york property owned by the jehovah's witnesses organization.
" http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/8e675d204fbf4352ab2cf65086b4b411/ny--buried-chemicals/.
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The more I think about this, the more significant I think this will be. It depends on how extensive the contamination is. Unintentional contamination is one thing, but to intentionally bury 55 gallon drums of chemicals??? What were they thinking?
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Did the WTBTS improperly dispose of printing chemicals?
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inis that what this article is saying?.
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/news/2011/december/12/wbtsny_remed-12dec11.html.
brownfield remediation plan under study at watchtower farms property.
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When did printing start at the Farm? I distinctly remember going to visit there abt 1979-1980 and they were printing some of the WT and Awake at that time, but not any books, if I remember correctly
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In the latest tower on page 20 this statement - what say you?
by therevealer inthe other sheep should never forget that their salvation depends on.
their active support of christ's anointed "brothers".
still on earth.
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thanks Revealer for the link. I didn't know that the WT study edition was available for download as a PDF.
Having read the article, it strikes me as really curious. Being timed just before the Memorial, I would have expected the usual 'don't partake unless you're really sure', but I don't see it. Instead they don't seem to discourage it at all, do not mention anything about the number 144,000, and the drawing of anointed ones looks like people of middle age... certainly not the 85+ group usually pictured. Also not a single Asian or Hispanic pictured... hmm.
Really a curious article, I wonder where they are going with it.
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In the latest tower on page 20 this statement - what say you?
by therevealer inthe other sheep should never forget that their salvation depends on.
their active support of christ's anointed "brothers".
still on earth.
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dropoffyourkeylee
The other sheep should never forget that their salvation depends on
their active support of Christ's anointed "brothers"
still on earth. (Matt. 25:34-40)It is truly outrageous that any human would twist the scriptures around like this to demand obedience from other Christians.
I don't have the magazine at hand to read the context, but looking at just this short quotation, I expect they mean:
attend meetings and conventions,
report service time,
donate money,
plus about a thousand other non-Biblical things that they have built up into a 'religion'
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JWs and the Roman Catholic thing
by Band on the Run inmy father learned to hate catholics at home (a russian orthodox mining town) and at bethel.
he seemed to have no fervor pouncing on a protestant.
preaching against catholics at work put him on notice that he would be fired if he continued.
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a couple of observations:
Rutherford had a personal vendetta against Catholicism, which almost took a life of its own with an on-air radio rivalry between Rutherford and Father Coughlin. Father Coughlin and Rutherford hated each other and many of the Rutherford barbs against Catholics were digs at Coughlin. Not defending Coughlin; he was definitely strange.
Another aspect of the Society's anti-Catholic stance in the early days was the roots of the Russell movement came out of Adventism, which in the 1800's was mostly a Protestant phenomenon in the Northeast US. Adventism inherited the anti-Catholic feelings that were pervasive from the colonial period thru the 1800's
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Where is the Statement That JWs Should Follow the GB Even If They Think They Are Wrong?
by Justitia Themis ini am having difficulty locating the recent printed statement that jws should follow the gb even if they think they are wrong.
would someone please let me know where that is?.
jt.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Justitia,
There was a CO talk recording discussed on this site a few months ago:
Of course if you are writing a paper, you will need a printed quote with the correct citation. (unlike the WT writers, who simply make an out-of-context quotation without giving the citation).
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Harold Camping has been Raptured - OK he's dead
by cantleave inso i have just heard.....it maybe an unsubstantiated rumour.
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"the rumors about my death are
greatly exaggerated"... Mark Twain -
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2011 Watchtower publisher statistics with analysis
by jwfacts inthe 2012 yearbook has released the publisher statistics for the 2011 service year.
a scan of the report can be found at http://www.jwfacts.com/images/2011-publisher-report.pdf and i have started updating the graphs at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php.
as expected, it is following on from similar trends to the last 15 years.
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I think that another measure we are not looking at enough is the number of congregations. I don't have access to the past years reports (had a big bonfire with all my old literature, including the yearbooks - what fun!), but I would be interested in the percent increase in number of congregations is similar to the reported percent increase in publishers