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  Exposing the Sickness: they printed letter to editor on the WT's treatment of Ray Franz in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sat.6/12/10

  by not a captive in

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  closure isn't needed.

  in georgia recently, a religious "criminal" died.

  this one had been brought to account.

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  Excellent!
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  Question for ex-elders

  by startingover in

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  is a publisher's record card necessary to df someone?

  if a person had one, faded and does not live near nor had any contact with the congregation who holds it, nor any other congregation for 30 years, would you say they are off the radar?.

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  Is a publisher's record card necessary to DF someone? If a person had one, faded and does not live near nor had any contact with the congregation who holds it, nor any other congregation for 30 years, would you say they are off the radar?
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  607 - New 'Apostate' Light

  by sweet pea in

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  thanks to frank kavelin for looking at the old well worn subject from a completely different perspective.. enjoy!.

  http://www.freeminds.org/doctrine/chronology/607-bce-the-bible-or-the-formula.html.

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  I think "scholar" really loses credibility when he starts referring to himself in the third person.

  For years I gave a public talk entitled "Is it time for god to rule the world?" which dealt with 607. In the talk I remember referring to the day for a year thing as a "rule". Looking back, it seems that to use the word "rule" is really assuming a lot. And just because it's mentioned somewhere in the bible, does that mean it applies to everything?
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  Ode to the 192 Page Book

  by millions now living are dead in

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  ode to the 192 page book.

  once i wondered what life was all about.

  i struggled with faith, i struggled with doubt.

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  That was great! Once again as has happened so many times before on this forum, something I never thought about before hits me. Like making the info fit into 192 pages.
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  Bible Students/Jehovah's Witnesses

  by StAnn in

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  i hope i'm coherent here as i have a question.

  from what i read somewhere in the numerous ex-jw publications, the majority of the bible students who followed c. t. russell were appalled by the changes that rutherford forcefully imposed and they refused to follow rutherford.

  because rutherford was president of the corporation, the bible students could not keep the names of the watchtower and the ibs but left the organization under rutherford and have continued to this day, following russell's teachings, and still calling themselves the bible students.

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  My grandparents got involved in 1910, and I asked the same question about why they stayed with Rutherford. Then I discovered that A. H. MacMillan was a close family friend. In the case of my family, being a close associate with one of Rutherfords henchmen is the connection had everything to do with why they followed him.
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  Any iPod/iTunes experts?

  by startingover in

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  my computer crashed that held my music files.

  i had backed them all up but did not use itunes to do it, i just copied them to a portable drive.

  now i want to restore them.

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  startingover

  Never mind, figured it out.
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  Any iPod/iTunes experts?

  by startingover in

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  my computer crashed that held my music files.

  i had backed them all up but did not use itunes to do it, i just copied them to a portable drive.

  now i want to restore them.

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  My computer crashed that held my music files. I had backed them all up but did not use ITunes to do it, I just copied them to a portable drive. Now I want to restore them. I discovered how to download them in iTunes by adding a folder, but my question is this. Each of the individual artist's albums is in a folder named after the album, and each of these album folders is in a folder named after the artist, and all all the artist folders are in another folder entitled iTunes music. Is it possible to add the folder entitled iTunes music which contains all the subfolders or do I have to add each individual album folder one at a time?

  I just can't figure it out from what I've read. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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  How many people have read the bible...Graphic...

  by maninthemiddle in

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  ..and probably very accurate.. http://standardmadness.com/offbeat/people-who-have-actually-read-the-entire-bible.

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  Although I think the chart was made in jest, interesting comments were made below it.
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  Evidently . . .

  by Mad Sweeney in

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  2. bible

  this has been a wt buzzword for a long time but has come up in several recent discussions here.

  so, i just had to look it up on the wt library cd-rom.. the word "evidently" appears 1,439 times in the insight books alone.

  that number is staggering considering that the two-volume set is supposed to be comprised of encyclopedic facts.

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  Their use of that word is something I discovered early on in my awakening. It would be interesting to see how many times that word is used in other books that have references cited, like maybe CofC.
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  Condemn the UN but then ask for their help

  by startingover in

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  http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/05/117_65498.html.

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  I actually got this off the JW email circuit.