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  Loyalty - Part of the New Personality (S-341a-18-E 5/17)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  loyalty—part of the new personality (s-341a-18-e 5/17).

  note to the circuit overseer:.

  use this outline for the tuesday service talk from september 2017 through february 2018. you will need to prepare your own 30-minute service talk for use after the watchtower study.

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  konceptual99

  Once again the aspect of loyalty to Jehovah over family is being highlighted.
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  Comparing Total Numbers Baptized During the 1990s and the Last Ten Years:

  by steve2 in

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  sometimes, comparing raw numbers provides a more clear-cut numerical picture of growth or otherwise than percentages.

  below are the numbers for peak publishers (rounded off so that 4,1 represents more than 4,100,000) for each year throughout the 1990s and those for the last ten years.. year: peak* baptisms.

  * peak publishers abbreviated - simply to show annual baptisms in relation to peak publishers.. the main point: .

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  I don't understand Theoldhippie, it's my understanding if in the year 1980 they have 100,000 publishers and then in 1981 30,000 decided to get baptized then they would state in the next years book they have 130,000 publishers, am I wrong on this?

  Publishers are counted based on the number of reports turned in during a month. People can be baptised and report, unbaptised and report (as an unbaptised publisher) or baptised and not report. Do the latter once or twice and you are irregular. Do it for 6 months consistently and you are inactive, even if you attend meetings. That's just a side point however.

  Before one can be baptised then they have to be a regular publisher. So the publisher numbers always include a proportion of unbaptised ones.
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  Cross-dressing Jehovah's Witness raped and molested girl

  by cobweb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/cross-dressing-jehovahs-witness-raped-13311020.

  a cross-dressing jehovah’s witness raped and molested a girl while making her wear adult women’s clothes.. david fuge, 69, wore dresses and silky underwear when he repeatedly abused his blindfolded victim from the age of eight to 19.. .

  liverpool crown court heard he gagged her and on one occasion tied a belt around her neck and left her hanging from a hook in a room.. he photographed the child naked, made her read pornographic magazines, beat her with a piece of wood and abused her at a golf course.. .

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  Fuge turned and waved to supporters in the public gallery when he was sent down.

  Who would support this vile excuse for a human?
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  June 29, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: Branch Relocation - Newsletter (UK)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
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  june 29, 2017 to all congregations re: branch relocation - newsletter.

  britain branch relocation - newsletter ed.5 summer 2017. .

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  konceptual99

  I live in a road with about 40 two storey buildings. If they were all placed on top of each other they would be as tall as an 80 storey tower block.

  If all the houses in in my town were placed on top of each other they could be the tallest structure ever built by a country mile.

  So fecking what????

  That bollocks is only surpassed by the statement that never has there been such a need for volunteers which is only a little less a pile of shite as trying to pass this immensely scaled down white elephant as some kind of evidence of God's blessing and "wondrous growth".

  I am not sure if NK or the WTBTS of Britain is spewing out the best propaganda right now?
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  Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

  #2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

  #3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

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  konceptual99

  All I can say about this thread now is...

  What.

  The.

  Actual.

  F*ck?
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  Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

  #2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

  #3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

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  The Genesis account, that we all learned, speaks of all mankind coming from a common ancestor, Adam. It's a foregone conclusion that it is accepted in the Bible Belt that we all descend from a common ancestor. How you have made this an issue, and made it supposed proof of evolution is breathtaking.
  Please write better stuff.

  
  
  
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  Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

  #2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

  #3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

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  What I would be interested in hearing from NImble Duck et al is some detail on what (if anything) he does agree with and what he doesn't. Perhaps then the "why" can be discussed in a more positive and reasonable manner.

  I've seen very little serious and specific counter-arguments to any of Cofty's posts. Does Duck agree with the concept that an animal may adapt and evolve? Does he accept any evidence of evolution being observed? Does he consider all gene mutations to be unable to produce positive and sustainable change?

  Cofty has been clear that he considers the statement that "all living things descended from a common ancestor" is a fact. He has presented numerous lines of argument to back that up. What exactly is false about the evidence that means it's not possible to accept that statement as a fact? Where does it fall down? Are there any points on which a creationist could agree?

  For me as a bit of a spectator it's a bit like the Indecent Proposal premise - it's not really that the guy's wife won't sleep with Robert Redford, it's a matter of how much money it will cost. It's not that creationists don't believe evolution, it's how much evolutionary theory and science that they are actually prepared to accept.
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  Witnesses Respond After Inferno Consumes Apartment Building in London

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah’s witnesses are assisting victims of a catastrophic fire that engulfed the grenfell tower, a 24-story apartment building in the north kensington area of london, in the early morning hours of june 14, 2017. authorities are reporting that at least 79 people were killed.. four witnesses were evacuated from the apartment building, two of whom were residents of grenfell tower.

  fortunately, none of them were injured, although the witnesses’ apartments were among those completely destroyed in the blaze.

  witnesses that live near the now fire-gutted apartment building provided food, clothing, and monetary aid to their fellow members and their families that were affected.

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  Spiritual comfort is filling a gap. After all, the rest of the community, and indeed people from literally hundreds of miles around, came and gave physical and material support in the hours and days after the event to the point where the local voluntary organisations filling the void left by the useless local council simply could not handle the amount of donations.

  What these people who had escaped with just the clothes on their back, escaped with their lives, escaped when others in their family had perished really lacked was a Watchtower. What they needed most of all, the hole that had been left by the rest of the relief effort was some patronising words about suffering coming to an end "very soon now"(© WTBTS), God really cared about them and the efforts of the countless kind hearted people around them was just a bit of a sticking plaster on the situation.

  Come on people. How dare you be so unfair. Those Witnesses saw the need and filled it.
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  Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  #1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

  #2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

  #3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

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  konceptual99

  Don't you be coming round 'ere with all yer science and empirical data.
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  Behind Closed Doors

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  behind closed doors my dad, an elder, was so emotionally abusive that as a child i once got out of bed to get a knife from the kitchen so i could stop the abuse once and for all.

  i cried, and didn't go through with it.. behind closed doors, my next door neighbors, the family that "brought us into the truth" was yelling and screaming constantly.

  he hit her once while we kids played out back.

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  konceptual99

  Behind closed doors I know of pre-teen girls who are self-harming, one even took an overdose recently.

  Behind closed doors I know of several tyrannical men who were highly manipulative, verbal and physical bullies towards their long suffering wives and terrified children.

  Behind closed doors I know of vindictive elders, lording over as many as possible.

  Behind closed doors I know of more and more people looking for a way out.