Topics Started by integ
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United Insurance Group in Michigan..Entirely run by witnesses...
by integ intheres a large national insurance agency in milford, mi.
called united insurance group who my friend works for.
he says the place only hires witnesses for their fulltime positions at the home office.. pat patterson, who runs it, is very wealthy.
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WHY NO MEDIA REPORTS ABOUT JW CHILD ABUSE SETTLEMENTS???
by integ inbig news that the catholic arch diocese in california has settled a lawsuit of over 600 million dollars to victims of abuse.. shouldn't the media be telling the story of the recent watchtower settlement???.
there should be an investigative story on this i would think.. the witnesses always talk about being persecuted, yet they are getting a free pass on this and this is pretty big.
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MICHIGAN PEOPLE!!!...Multi-millionaire witness Pat Patterson.....
by integ inanyone heard of this guy?.
he built up an insurance agency in michigan, and sold it for over 10 million dollars.. apparently, at his big office in novi, michigan, he only hires witnesses and they are all making big bucks.. i know an agent who was going to work for him in another state (they do business in 10 states i think), but declined to sign up when he found out the organization was owned and operated by witnesses.. he said: "that explains the ridiculously low commissions they pay their agents".
they sell alot of life insurance.. why would this witness owned agency push life insurance if the end is so near???.
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What is the current light on the "Generation" issue???
by integ inon the watchtower official web site they still hold to the doctrine that "some of those alive in 1914 will be alive when the end comes" or something to that effect, which flies in the face of the 1995 wt article that speaks of "generation" as being something different.. i brought this up to a witness and she said "no way.
the society wouldn't say that".
well...they did, but what really is the current stance on this?
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God's "Spirit Directed Organization"???
by integ injust got back from the district assembly and during the baptism talk the speaker made this statement: "...in association with god's spirit directed organization?".
now, correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't jr brown (the societies media spokesman) say during an interview that the witnesses do not consider themselves to be "spirit directed"?.
before i get all mad and outraged about this, would someone either confirm or refute the fact that "brother" brown made this statement?.
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Witnesses cannot refute the real "TRUTH"
by integ inno matter what any pompass ass witness says about the religion being the "truth", they cannot refute the simple fact that nothing they have ever predicted has come true.
that's a pretty poor record for gods' chosen people.
oh sure they can point to lame obvious things such as " critical times getting harder to deal with" (even that is debatable), but no hard facts to point to that show they are right, or have ever been.
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Disfellowshipping vs.Going mainstream
by integ inhi friends,.
i was thinking that the wts was headed toward a more "mainstream" platform for a while with the loosening up of the "college thing" and what it seemed were a switching over of what were once df'ing offenses to now becoming "conscience" matters..blood, voting, etc.
(although the wt literature says they are "conscience' matters we all know what the real deal is) anyway, i had thought that maybe the society was going to try to soften public perception to them.
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Who are the Jonadabs? Why are they important?
by integ in.
i just found a copy of the book "paradise" by jf rutherford at a garage sale yesterday.
on the ifrst page he says the book is for the "jonadabs".. can someone tell me who they are and how they fit in to the great witness scheme of things?.
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Comeback from witness...interesting
by integ ini asked my uncle elder about the scripture that says; "keep testing to make sure you are in the faith" or something to that effect, to kind of try to explain why i have the audacity to question watchtower doctrine.
his response was something i guess i knew, but had forgotten.."that doesn't mean to keep testing the teachings of the faithful slave, it means that we need to keep testing 'ourselves' to make sure we are still faithful to gods' organization".
i had forgotten the spin on that scripture, and all i could do was shake my head and say "okay, whatever".
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Does the Watchtower Society Monitor this Board???
by integ inmaybe this has been addressed before, but after reading certain comments about people being "outed", i wonder if the wts really monitors this site?
if so, to what extent?
or is it just individual elders etc.?.