joe_from_kokomo
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Speaking Up on Child Abuse
by joe_from_kokomo instill "taking the lead" in my congregation with severe doubts brought on by my.
own "new light", that is personal study on 587 bce (if you know what i mean, then you know what .
to add to that, this publicity about the child abuse issue (silent lambs) has me very.
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Follow up on our Baptism Nullification letter
by joe_from_kokomo indear friends:.
some of you have pm'd me while i was away from this site, wanting to know how everything worked out after sending in our baptism nullification letters to the local kh and the society.
(search on baptism nullification to find these postings if you want the details, even a sample of the letter we used).. well, in a word: great.
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Time to have a Picket Rally at Bethel?
by joe_from_kokomo inafter reading what e-watchman posted, i feel inspired.
i would like to propose a general purpose picket of bethel to happen on the nissan 14 (can anyone tell me what day that falls on this year?).
bill bowen and everyone from silent lambs can come and protest on behalf of abused children.
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Twisted Scriptures of the Watchtower - Part 2
by joe_from_kokomo infriends: .
this one may not qualify as a "fully-twisted" scripture, in the sense that so many others are more twisted and more misused, and more transliterated.
but, i did run across a scripture that is incorrectly translated in the new world translation i felt it needs to be brought to light.
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The Watchtower Society and the Bulgarian connection - hypocrisy in action?
by joe_from_kokomo infriends: .
i was shocked to learn yet again of more hypocrisy on the part of the wts with regard to human rights agreements in bulgaria.
from what i have learned from a july 2000 article on the uk guardian newspaper web site and from subsequent info found on the association of jws for reform on blood web site, .
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UK Child Abuse show on Dish Network-Sun. 2/2 @9 pm
by joe_from_kokomo in.
attention: the british panaroma program "suffer the little children", an expose on child abuse among jehovah's witnesses in the uk and elsewhere, will be rebroadcast on channel 9410 (worldlink tv) this sunday feb. 2, 2003 at 9 p.m. est.
all dish network satellite subscribers who get america's top 150 should be able to access this channel, as may others with c-band satellite dishes (check your satellite provider's guide for the worldlink tv channel..
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President of the WTBTS, Milton Henschel, dead at age 82
by joe_from_kokomo inthe article appeared in the new york times and other papers, but the nyt got his age wrong.
he is 82, not 72.. here is the link:.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/obituaries/30hens.html?ex=1049605200&en=36708e6cabbd6fc3&ei=5062&partner=google .
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Need your help: How to convince a doubting JW field service isn't required?
by joe_from_kokomo infriends: i need your help.
my family and i left the wts one month ago and during a recent discussion with my sister-in-law, who is still in the borg, it seems she also has doubts, too.
but, one thing in particular seems to keep her in the organization: she believes that by being a witness she is fulfilling the commandment at matthew 28:19 about "go therefore and make disciples [of people] of all the nations and baptize them in the name of..." (well, you know the rest by heart.
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Twisted Scriptures of the Watchtower - Part I
by joe_from_kokomo indear friends: .
we were reminiscing about how we were so easily duped into joining the org in the first place, and decided to review the baptismal questions from the organized to accomplish our ministry book.
remember those 40+ questions in the back of the book?
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"the truth" has them coming and going...
by joe_from_kokomo inin a recent article from christianity today, they quote that christians are more "mobile" today, and they pack up and go somewhere else whenever they so choose.
(although i know quite a few who are too psychologically immobilized to do this.
according to their article found here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2003/003/19.7.html, 32% of jws left and 39% joined.