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  What's Your Status? Are You Technically Still A JW?...

  by minimus in

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  are you disfellowshipped, disassociated, active, inactive???

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  Active but with bullshit deflectors set on maximum
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  Judicial Committees prove that God is not backing the WTBTS!!!

  by 00DAD in

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  judicial committees prove that god is not backing the wtbts!!!.

  on another thread, one poster shared a humiliating experience they had in a judicial committee hearing.

  the poster was asked, as it typical of such hearings, a series of highly personal and extremely intrusive questions regarding their sexual activities.

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  00DAD said

  I think many of us, maybe even most, have had a similar experience like this where, under extreme pressure, we lied or were at least evasive when confronted with a situation. We weren't struck dead by an angel and then after getting over the initial fear and shock of that, we realized something very important: This is NOT God's Arrangement.

  Absolutely - I confess to this - once or twice while I was an elder too!!!
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  Reduced Magazines Etc: Scenario Thinking

  by metatron in

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  forgive me for creating this thread but i believe there are aspects of watchtower downsizing that have not been fully understood or 'fleshed out'.. for example: you have a publishing company whose main source of revenues are book and magazine production and sales.

  their international presence is supported by the profits they make on these.

  so far, so good.... overtime, their products fail to sell.

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  Honesty said - The WTBTS flips property for huge profits. Downsizing a publishing dinosaur is a smart move on their part.

  Totally agree -reduce mags, download from internet, produce cheap CDs/DVDs etc -ask for donations BUT.

  Use all that free labor build Bethels, Branches, KHs , Assembly Halls, wait some time. Huge property boom- sell them - RINSE AND REPEAT - Real Estate built with free labor - far more profitable than publishing.

  Higher ups will get free hotels at DCs- book 4000 rooms - get the publsihers to pay. Hotels give you sayd 50 free rooms for the GB/Branch etc- Sweet, sweet deal for the WTBTS
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  Has anyone read Thucydides - beside the author of Daniel?

  by kepler in

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  belshazzar was the son of nabonidus the king.

  darius i was a persian king who reigned after cyrus from 522 to 486 bc.

  he succeeded the son of neriglissar, labashi-marduk who reigned for only nine months and was put to death in a conspiracy.. .

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  History of the Pelopenesian Wars
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  Regular Pioneers no longer appointed by Branch!

  by hoser in

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  a letter was read this thursday from the platform that the branch will no longer approve or remove regular pioneers.. it was called a simplified arrangement that the local body of elders would decide who should be appointed or removed as a regular pioneer and then to inform the branch of any appointments/deletions.

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  i guess the bethelite who had that assignment is now unemployed.

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  In the USA this has been the case for over 2 years. The Local Body of Elders appoints and removes Regular Pioneers.
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  Is there any religion that has so much anti-apostate focus as JWs

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  i'm surprised at how much is in the watchtower lately and at assemblies warning of apostates.

  is it my imagination or is this ramping up a lot lately.

  i am a born-in and stopped attending only a few years ago (now in my 40's) but don't remember so much anti-apostate warning as we see now.. the watchtower seems extra obsessed with apostates and the need to warn about them lately.

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  ISALM - they kill you for it
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  Sex, the Disabled and the Terminally Single

  by bigmouth in

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  put aside your religious or moral standards if you can for a moment and give me your viewpoint on this......... generally, the 'beautiful people' pair off with other 'beautiful people' in a sexual union for however long, and the average lookers meet other average lookers and so on down the line until you come to.......................those who don't appeal to the opposite sex due to appearance, injury, illness or mental capacity.. can, or should, these people be given access to those in the sex trade for 'relief' without cause for fear or stigmatising ?

  or is it a case of "that's too bad" (meaning you're committing fornication and that cannot be sanctioned in any way)?.

  have you ever needed to counsel a person (or their parents) on this ?

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  Can, or should, these people be given access to those in the sex trade for 'relief' without cause for fear or stigmatising ? Or is it a case of "That's too bad" (Meaning you're committing fornication and that cannot be sanctioned in any way)?

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  I heard of a guy in a wheelchair in Vegas, and he paid for a girl. She serviced him in his room. I see nothing wrong with this as long as the girl was not a victim in her own right ( a sex salve to Russian mafia etc).

  I certainly will not stigmatise him (or her).
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  Special Meeting for Certain Congregations Only ??

  by Poztate in

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  anybody have any information on what that's all about (b.c) ?

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  It is a plan for a new assembly hall and basically it is the congregations affected that are invited.
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  Iran vs Israel and the USA = WW III (Should we be worried?)

  by Me Myself and I in

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  this particular bowl of soup has been bubbling for some time now, with various posturing and toing and froing.

  looking at the media and the subsequent comments from israel regarding iran, it looks clear that something is going to happen soon, very soon..... with iran having the ears of both china and russia, israel having the us and of course we (uk) as the states poodle on the other side.

  i wonder if this could be the beginning of the end?.

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  My question is .. why is it okay for "us" to have the bomb, and not Iran?

  We are relatively sane - My dinner jacket and the mullahs are not
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  True Pink Floyd Fans Only...(ok everyone is invited)

  by charlie brown jr. in

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  listening to a retro lunch...... this queensryche song comes on....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xuq6dw.

  the only song from them i like for 1 reason........ pink floyd rip off...... hidden voices..... and the corny...........help me!.

  lmao!!!.

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  No one told you when to run

  you missed the starting gun