john.prestor
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Recent random highlights: Disrespect, Hypocrisy & Creature Worship
by neat blue dog injust some clips from recent articles.. in the one about holidays:.
rosh hashanah.
this is the first day of the jewish year.
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Campaign during Convention JW'S
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara infound this on facebook.
actvism campaign during convention dates in london.
huge turnout last year.. zing.
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Review: revised Elder's manual, part 1
by neat blue dog inrecently the new super-top-secret no girlz alowd elders' treehouse club manual was released.
during phase one it was released to apostates for beta testing via file-sharing sites, and then it was rolled out to elders nationwide, together with precautions to keep it confidential.
here are the covers:.
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1953 Yearbook Faithful and Discreet Slave Compared To Jehovah And Moses Again. đ
by Fabian inmonday, august 17 [ 1953 yearbook ].
the vision has its own appointed hour, it ripens, it will flower; if it be long, then wait, for it sure, and it will not be late,-- hab.
when aaron built the golden calf, yielding to the demands of the people, moses loyally stood for jehovah against this false worship.
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Interesting post regarding validity of CSA claims in ARC
by berrygerry inone of the key submissions to the arc was a document wat.0021.001.0001, which is a spreadsheet summarising the 1006 case files subpoenaed from the wt's australian branch and is available on the arc website.
i had a detailed look at the data and discovered a few things that may be of interest:.
although the 1006 cases cover reports made in a 65 year period from 1950 to 2015, almost half of all cases (449) were first reported in the 10 years from 2000 to 2009 and 87% were first reported after 1990.. the two witness rule was a factor in preventing at least 125 cases from proceeding to a judicial committee.. there were 163 cases with 336 victims where the perpetrator was an elder or ms.. the total number of victims was 1,858.. from time to time on this forum i have read comments suggesting that false reports of child sexual abuse are quite common.
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Active JW's - Some Bible direction for you in 2019......
by The Fall Guy in....if you seriously sin.. w85 12/1 p. 7 - "the intercession of a human......at any stage of âjustificationâ has no foundation in the bible....the way in which a human can be granted a righteous standing before god.
the org & elders denounce what jesus said at matthew 18:15-17 - that a sin should dealt with by the repentant sinner and witness alone.. ask yourself why you are compelled to obey the anti-scriptural "confessional" process which the wtbts has invented, through which you must seek the forgiveness of three elders.
which scripture tells you that they can decide if you're repentant enough, and why would you want to collaborate in such a dehumanizing and vicious ritual?.
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Update coming for my "Satan" Study
by Doug Mason inthe temple stood from about 520 bce to its destruction in 70 ce.
it was renovated and extended during that period.
the second half of its life also witnessed expansions and innovations in the jewsâ beliefs.
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Signs of company men
by john.prestor inanybody seen a sign posted in a kingdom/assembly hall or another 'spiritual' place that made them laugh?
i saw a sign in a janitor's closet at one assembly that said something like.
'make sure to return your key to this supply closet.. 1 corinthians 14:40: 'do everything in an orderly fashion.'.
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The commercialism of early Christianity and Jehovah's Witnesses
by john.prestor ini'm noticing something that scares me but also... interests me.
here's what i found.. many, not all, but many early christians believed they would enjoy paradise on this earth, like jehovah's witnesses talk about today.
in the (lost, so conveniently) writings of the church father papias who lived in late 1st and early 2nd century turkey he records traditions he heard from people who knew "elders," early church leaders about the eschaton, that's the term they used, the eschaton, paradise, the world to come in and on this earth, in the body, of the body.
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Western MA Regional Convention: anyone attending?
by john.prestor ini'm considering attending the regional convention in western ma at umass amherst's mullins center in two weeks, both out of my typical curiosity and to see the degree to which they've increased security.
the convention is going on from friday to sunday, that being august 3rd to august 5th.
is anyone on here planning to attend and/or protest?