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Organization -
Governing Body
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Written by Randall Watters and Barbara Anderson
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 14:44 |
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Theodore ("Ted") Jaracz
1925-2010
About 7:30, June 9, 2010, Theodore ("Ted") Jaracz, a member of the Governing Body (GB) ruling over Jehovah's Witnesses, died. Previously, on May 19, 2009, he had had a serious stroke, but recently seemed to have made a recovery even giving some assembly talks. Jaracz was born in 1925 and was 85 years old at death. Even prior to the major stroke he had been diagnosed with a heart condition as far back at the early 1990s.
Raised in southern Illinois, in 1945, Jaracz graduated Gilead at age 20. In 1951 he was sent to the Australian Branch to become the branch overseer by the then President of the Watchtower Society, Nathan Homer Knorr, because he was diligent in preaching and demanding theocratic order. During that era, Jaracz was the youngest Gilead graduate and also youngest branch overseer in the world.
In 1956, Jaracz reportedly was working in the Service Department. However, for reasons no one has yet divulged, during that same year, Jaracz was ordered to leave the Australian Branch. (Now that he has died more about this is likely to come out.)
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Organization -
Governing Body
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Monday, 01 December 2008 16:18 |
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Taken from: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/5309/1/Leo-Greenlees
Author Topic: Leo Greenlees, Read 6000 times Kiwi
Newbie New Zealand Posts: 12 Since: Apr 4, 2001 Posted: May 11, 2001 6:30:29 AM
I seem to remember something on the board about Leo Greenlees being removed from Bethel & the GB. Can anyone give me information about this. Is he still allive and where? Liberated
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Sociology -
Women
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Written by Diane Wilson
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Tuesday, 26 July 1994 00:00 |
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I have researched the Watchtower Society's (hereby designated as WTS) view of this "rape" issue as far back as I have the resources to do so. I have their 1935-1980 "comprehensive" index, and the earliest listing is in 1964. Since my personal library only goes back to 1969, my husband went to the Kingdom Hall and made copies for me of the 1964 and 1968 articles. (Funny how making copies of the Society's old literature is always suspect, isn't it!)
I suspect the WTS has printed articles prior to 1964 on "rape" and is up to their old tricks of leaving selected articles out of their "comprehensive" new indexes. I have caught them doing this on other topics, but I have no way to check it.
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Life Stories -
Rank & File
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Written by Vito and Annette Potenzieri
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Friday, 27 March 2009 14:11 |
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About six years ago, the Lord called me out of the Watchtower organization. My research, in the early publications of the Watchtower, opened my eyes as to what this Organization really was all about; a cleverly designed scheme to lure many away from the Lord Jesus and the true Gospel to follow a manmade Organization.
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Blogs -
Nils Jansma
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Written by Nils
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 14:38 |
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As the title says, this is my second installment wherein I continue to critique the JW-Origin of Life video (JWOL). Here is a link to the video if you haven’t already seen it. (http://www.nils4.info/b/ov.htm ) My reason for this review is not to support the WT-Society, but to challenge the JWOL video’s response, in which atheistic arguments are often used to ridicule the WT-Society’s theistic views. Additionally, in my opinion, many of the JWOL video arguments are spurious and display an apparent lack of familiarity with the disputed topics. In this blog, I am going to proceed in considering whether the video’s assessments are accurate both in principle and in fact.
We will continue our discussion starting where the Narrator examines what is again characterized as a humorous quote on page 5, which says:
“Life always comes from preexisting life. However, if we go back far enough in time, is it really possible that this fundamental law was broken? . . . All scientific evidence to date indicates that life can come only from previously existing life. To believe that even a “simple” living cell arose by chance from nonliving chemicals requires a huge leap of faith.”
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Sociology -
Children
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Written by Mark Palo
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Friday, 16 January 2009 15:08 |
Interview with Mark Palo

Randy,
I'm the little four eyed geek in the middle wearing the Circuit Assembly placard. In the Bronx we used to hold them at this place called Hunts Point Palace. It was a real speak easy during the prohibition days and owned by the mob. Many big name bands preformed there during between the 30s and 60s. My high school was right around corner and we used the place for graduation ceremonies.
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Sociology -
Sexuality
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Written by Jessica Day
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 00:00 |
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Dear Randy,
I stumbled upon your website, Stories From the Watchtower World, a few years ago. I wished to write and inform you that the content has helped me a great deal in coming to terms with the loss of a faith that constituted my entire frame of mind. Technically I left the organization when I was 14 but I didn’t truly take back my heart and mind until around 20-21 years of age. I’m 23 now. Another reason I decided to write this letter is that I feel a need to tell my own story in the hopes that it might help somebody else come to terms in the same way the stories of others helped me.
Written by Jessica Day, December 6, 2005
When I was born my father was barely out of his teens and my mother was mentally ill so I was given to my grandparents to be raised. I lived with them from an infant until the age of nine, they were the only family I ever new. My dad was somebody who visited once a month. When I was six my dad moved near to us and I began to see him a little more, not enough however to prepare me for what was to come when I turned nine. He was a Jehovah’s Witness, he was therefore not allowed to be with a woman without being married. When his girlfriend broke up with him because she refused to become a JW for him he was very lonely. He married the first JW Woman who came along after that.
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Life Stories -
Rank & File
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Written by anonymous
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009 06:35 |
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Hey everyone, I'm a male in my mid twenties, born and raised a Dub (JW) with an elder father and on again off again pioneering mom. Both are career professionals too. My family has been JW since my grandparents, giving me a strong "spiritual heritage" in the org. Growing up I never had any reason to doubt the faith. It had done my folks well, as well as many others I knew or I was oblivious to their problems. I had a comfy lifestyle, prominent father in the cong., and I must admit that the TMS and reading all those publications as a kid helped me easily excel throughout my early schooling: I read and spoke much better than any of the kids at my school. Then again, it was a pretty ghetto school district.
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Life Stories -
Bethelites
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Written by Jeff and Kathy Schwehm
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009 07:28 |
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How many of you have ever been deceived? Has anyone ever lied to you? Has your parents, Pastor, or best friend ever lied to you? How did you feel? Were you devastated? Did you ask them why they had deceived you and were their explanations less than satisfactory?
Second Peter 1:16-21 talks about following "cleverly invented stories." According to Adam Clarke in his commentary on Second Peter, it was common in the days of the Apostles for the religious leaders among the Romans to present mystical shows in order to make the stories of their gods appearing in the flesh more believable. These shows were tricks made up by these religious leaders.
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