Skimmer
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Outsourcing at the WTBTS
by Skimmer inconcerning outsourcing at the wtbts:.
in a few weeks i may be proven wrong on this, but i don't see where the wtbts has much profitable opportunity in outsourcing more than a few of its operations.. remember that the wtbts operates for the most part on the "slave enterprise" system and has no reason to pay any third party a competitive price for whatever service it can obtain from "volunteers".
most of the work of running the corporations (printing, farming, food service, cleaning, etc.
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Twelve Tribes Cult news article
by Skimmer inconsider a cult like the wtbts with the control turned up a little bit and with a touch of racism added.. -> http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/main09042001.htm
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An honest question for women only
by Skimmer inrecently, i came across the web site.
* http://www.classmates.com.
which is a directory of high school graduates throughout north america with many millions of entries.
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To JWs: My Unanswered Question
by Skimmer inhere is a repost of a question i asked in another topic that hasn't yet been answered.
are there any real jws reading this who can give a convincing answer?.
if you are a sincere believer of the wtbts, i would like to ask you a fairly simple question that i have not seen answered in any of the wtbts publications.
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Life after death, of a sort
by Skimmer ingreetings to the board:.
some might remember my posting about my stepfather who passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago.
since then, i've been spending some time helping out my mother with paperwork including handling the incoming mail.. yesterday she got a wonderful letter from the new england organ donor bank.
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Toppled Tower
by Skimmer in(headline) toppled tower.
(dateline) october 2029, brooklyn, new york; associated internet media news service.
after a century and a half of preaching and publishing, the wtbts (watchtower bible and tract society) has closed its doors.. the group was started in the 1870s with most of its doomsday doctrines borrowed from the second adventists, another american-born religion of the 19th century.
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WTBTS membership count prediction
by Skimmer insome thoughts on statistical projections of the wtbts membership count:.
1) extrapolation (projection beyond known statistics) is hazardous for any measurement that does not derive from a simple model.
an accurate model of the wtbts membership count would have to include demographics for each of the countries, and this would have to combine population age distribution data, educational attainment data, economic data, current wtbts coverage, and (of course!
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"The spirits are about to speak!"
by Skimmer inthe wtbts claims to be "spirit-directed".
how this is different from being "inspired", only a lawyer could tell.
there is no doubt that the wtbts has many, many times claimed to be "god's only true channel", "appointed by god", "not a false prophet", and so forth.. my question here is: how does the wtbts describe the actual mechanism of "spirit-direction"?.
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Why does the WTBTS survive?
by Skimmer inback in late 1973 when i got my fatal doubts about the wtbts, i was sure that the society would crumble soon after 1975 when yet another prediction failed.
i was not alone with this thought; a british author by the name of stevenson (an exjw that had written an expose) allocated an entire chapter in his book about the likelihood that there would be a very major falling away in 1976 or soon thereafter.. but it didn't happen.
yes, there were several years of consecutive worldwide declines.
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Asembly security questions
by Skimmer ini've been reading the comments on the recent district assemblies and i've got some questions about the wtbts convention security teams.. 1) is it a given that anyone who tries to get in without a convention badge is going to be carefully scrutinized?
questioned?
tailed?.