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  25-30 Columbia Heights headquarters up for sale

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/3/breaking-news-jehovahs-witnesses-put-brooklyn-heights-headquarters-sale.

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  I think 25 Columbia Hts was what used to be called the Squib building
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  Some thoughts on the Brooklyn real estate website

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i took another look around the new website ( https://www.watchtowerbrooklynrealestate.com/ ).

  first they have two properties listed here 124 columbia and 85 jay street.

  these have to be worth a lot of money.

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  If they keep a moratorium on KH builds for too long, it will come back and bite them eventually. The whole scene relies on the assumption they will resell the halls in time, keep the proceeds, and build another with donated labor. If they don't resume the new builds, they will be left holding the aging buildings and maintenance. Some are lost thru fire and disaster too and they don't carry insurance.
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  Notice that Satan in the bible never existed in the old testament

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he appears as a snake in genesis not as satan.

  all the way to job no satan is mentioned.

  satan and devil mean "resister" and can be apllied to other people.

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  The Jews (according to the commonly accepted theories) picked up the idea of Satan while they were in exile in Persia, where the Zoarastrian religion had the two opposing deities.
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  JWs, UFO's, demons, and the book "The Dark Gods"

  by MikeHammer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been looking into this issue that (many/most/all/etc) ufos are caused by demons as seems to be said by jws.

  some time ago when i browsed this site i read a posting where someone recommended a book titled "the dark gods" by roberts and gilbertson (here is a link to the book at amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dark-gods-anthony-roberts/dp/009138771x).. besides that one there are a couple of other books that i have checked (one of these is "operation trojan horse" by john keel and the other one is "a guide to the paranormal" by magnus raven).

  both of these say the same thing although they approach this issue from different directions.. looking at the amazon reviews for "the dark gods" it looks like it also says the same thing but the book is out of print.

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  Other than a few crackpots, I don't recall any JWs saying that UFOs were demons. There's always the loony ones, though. The books on the OP sound interesting, worth a look.
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  Kingdom Farm in S Lansing NY sold for 2.8 million in March, 2015 - news article

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is probably old news and was commented about in early 2015, but the ithaca news reported on the 3/15 sale of kingdom farm in s lansing ny.

  this is the property that was directly across the road from the old gilead site, which had sold a number of years ago.

  but about 500 acres still was operated by the jws as kingdom farm.

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  Actually according to the new article, the 5300 per acre was a high price for farmland in that area.
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  Kingdom Farm in S Lansing NY sold for 2.8 million in March, 2015 - news article

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is probably old news and was commented about in early 2015, but the ithaca news reported on the 3/15 sale of kingdom farm in s lansing ny.

  this is the property that was directly across the road from the old gilead site, which had sold a number of years ago.

  but about 500 acres still was operated by the jws as kingdom farm.

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  This is probably old news and was commented about in early 2015, but the Ithaca news reported on the 3/15 sale of Kingdom Farm in S Lansing NY. This is the property that was directly across the road from the old Gilead site, which had sold a number of years ago. But about 500 acres still was operated by the JWs as Kingdom Farm. We drove by the site in the summer of 2014 and observed some barns and routine work of mowing grass, etc.

  
  http://ithacavoice.com/2015/03/lansings-kingdom-farm-sells-averting-development-concerns/
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  Remember that WT masturbation video? Who is the sign language person?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  below are a few screen captures from the video to serve as a reminder of what he looks like.

  below those will be a few captures from a weather forecaster now at our kark tv (arkansas).

  his name is matt peterson.

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  I'm gonna say it is a different person. Eyebrows definitely have a different shape
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  Everybody loves Raymond

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".

  the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.

  by nature i am an iconoclast.

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  Having read both of Franz's books, more than once, I owe a lot to him for giving a structure to my discomfort with the religion I was raised in. Even if his motives were not pristine, he has my gratitude.

  If he and Dunlop had been successful, the WT might be very different than it is now, maybe even tolerable.

  The Worldwide Church of God did an about face some years ago, so it is possible such a change could happen in the WT, but I won't hold my breath.
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  Revelation - it's grand climax is at hand

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  some people point out the subliminal pictures in the wtbts publications but sometimes things are just so obvious, such as the title of the book above.. the person who came up with the title for this book must have had a good old laugh.. interestingly, this book first came out in 1988 and has not been included in the online library but nothing has replaced it.

  the org is really going backwards when they ditch old light and cannot come up with anything new.

  they are real wankers ;)..

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  Is there a God, Who Cares!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses May Have Peaked in Membership at 8 Million (+/-)

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't have all the details of their new "service year" numbers, but i have read enough on jwn to state my opinion pretty strongly.. memorial attendance for 2015 was down.while they kept saying they were going to build a bunch of new kingdom halls, and everybody is still in recovery from watchtower taking all the local money away, they say pretty much that there isn't enough money to build new kingdom halls.putting gb members on the videos at jw .

  org has allowed people to really put a face and personality to these guys and remove the mystery of how they should be such deeply spiritual serious men.

  instead they see silly thoughts about tight pants and, really everything that comes out of lett's mouth is delivered ultra-goofy, along with the money reports.. the gb lost credibility a little more with every new light that shone down, with the strangest one being "overlapping generation.

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  Baptisms at a SAD this weekend ( Midwest US) :

  5 baptized out is about 1050 attendance. I wasn't there, so I don't know who they were.