Posts by carla
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THEOCRATIC KENOSIS: the Watchtower Organization's ultimate goal for humanity
by TerryWalstrom inever wonder why jehovah's witnesses have almost nothing but words instead of love?.
every wonder why jw's praise their corporate leaders rather than jesus?.
every wonder why faith is only demonstrated by allowing children to die and molesters to escape, or disasters to be welcomed through obstinate demonstrations of loyalty to the org?.
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carla
If I could find the thumbs up emotion I would post it! well done! -
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2014 Fully Accomplish Your Ministry-PDF!
by Atlantis in2014 fully accomplish your ministry-pdf!..
this file was not easy to get!
the informant had to carefully wait until each time his regular pioneer wife left the house to get into her service bag.
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carla
Rank & file are not allowed to see this book? If not, shouldn't they check it out before making the decision to pioneer?
Thanks to Atlantis and the ubm spy!
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Not Seating at the Same Place in All Meetings.
by Tempest in a Teacup ini haven't heard this one in a while but it has been on my mind lately.
maybe it's because i'm noticing that these days people at the kh are going the extra mile to vary their seating places in all meetings.. having skipped meetings for a few weeks, i'm wondering if there has been a talk/article about that recently.
that's one of the most laughable rules they made and i never felt bound by it.
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carla
Thank you for the links darksilver but I stand my comment, people do not rent pew space in this century as far as I can tell.
Odd that jw's would even discuss the issue which only brings up the fact that they weren't even around when this was going on (jw's did not begin until late 1800's). Naturally no jw would check it out.
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8 million - The Population of Honduras
by bemused ini sometimes look at the magazines on jw.org to see what the wt are saying now.
the latest watchtower is a good old fire and brimstone, armageddon is coming any moment now issue, but it was a short article in the april 2015 awake that caught my eye.
it features the country of honduras and is quite an informative little read (though failing to mention the very high crime rate in that country).
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carla
I was just thinking the same thing the other day! well, not about reading anything from their website as I don't like to give them any ranking with Google.
Barbara Anderson posted something and in the article it said that there were about 1 million jw's in the US. Only one million?! really?
So I had to Google the population of Chicago (nearest large city) just to see, the population of Chicago is 2,695,598. All the jw's in the US would fit in Chicago with room to spare!
Warms my heart to see how few there really are in the US.
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Not Seating at the Same Place in All Meetings.
by Tempest in a Teacup ini haven't heard this one in a while but it has been on my mind lately.
maybe it's because i'm noticing that these days people at the kh are going the extra mile to vary their seating places in all meetings.. having skipped meetings for a few weeks, i'm wondering if there has been a talk/article about that recently.
that's one of the most laughable rules they made and i never felt bound by it.
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carla
From Blondie's post-"The CO gave a talk at the end of the evening about pews in churches and how people paid to sit there. But there is no pew rent in Jehovah's house."
Do jw's really believe that? Christians pay for their spot in the pew? oh for goodness sakes! how damn ridiculous is that?!
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Semi Home Study Based Charter School vs. Regular School
by SonoftheTrinity ini blame my stepkids bad grades in school squarely on the watchtower.
they don't get enough sleep because of the demands of family bible study and thursday meetings but comprimise isn't in my wife's vocabulary.
my stepson has friends at school but there are also bullies, and the classes are overcrowded with sicknesses spreading through them in a way that is detrimental to the family's health.
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carla
Organized sports would be good for him but the dub mom probably wouldn't allow it. Same could be said for Boy Scouts, marital arts, etc.... I have no idea what is left for the poor kid.
Would the mom allow him to volunteer at an animal shelter or something? It wouldn't be helping us evil non jw's in any way but still get him out there with the public a bit.
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Magazine Routes March KM
by Rattigan350 inimproving our skills in the ministrydeveloping a magazine route.
what does delivering magazines have to do with skills in a ministry?.
"many people who enjoy reading our magazines do not wish to study the bible with us.".
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carla
For the zillionth time you dumb@##$%, people only take them to be polite!
Sorry, my rant to the wt. Friday, long week, time for a cocktail. Carry on....
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Gave my first hour talk sunday before last
by Perry ini started going door to door at age 5 and was giving no.
2 talks by age 7. during the 8 years i was an active adult jw i was never a ms or elder (although i was a regular pioneer once).
so, i never qualified to give an hour talk.
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carla
Thank you for doing that! I wish more people would give talks about the cult. A church is the perfect place to reach many people who already believe in God. It is exactly some of those very people who the cults pick up because they do not have black and white answers to all things like the cults and particularly the jw's do.
Most people have no answer to some of the things jw's bring up because they make no sense or have no relevance whatsoever to mainstream Christians. They also do not realize the language is so different, example; the Holy Spirit is something completely different to a jw and a mainstream Christian and so on........ (the whole jw Daniel statue thing is something I still can't wrap my head around and to be honest I find it almost humorous, at least when my jw was trying to explain it years ago)
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Is this what they are up to?
by Pistoff in1. the meeting notes (which seem to be genuine, several sources now) for the ldc roll out talk about the need for 500, yes, 500 new halls.. 2. they are not interested in what property is available, but instead what is 'optimal', and are training couples to search for 'optimal' property.. 3. if the buildings did not have a sign that said jw .org (i refuse to give them a free link) and kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, you could not tell it from a small bank or office building, just check the pictures.. .
this makes me think that a) they either need to build and sell commercial property very quickly, or they just want to build and sell commercial property very quickly.. .
think about this: to build a kingdom hall (church), you need a variance, whether commercial or residential.. i predict they will put these in primarily commercial locations, ie, 'optimal' locations.. .
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carla
I have no comment on the property issue just wanted to agree with;
" jw .org (I refuse to give them a free link"- same reason I will not click on links to their site be it an article or video, I don't like to give them the Google ranking.
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Gaslighting abuse
by Illuminated inas a former wt member, would you say the wts intentionally abuses it's members in the form of gaslighting?.
gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted/spun, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception and sanity.. sociopaths frequently use gaslighting tactics.
sociopaths consistently transgress social mores, break laws, and exploit others, but typically, are also charming and convincing liarswho consistently deny wrongdoing.
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carla
Very interesting! doing a quick Google search I found an article by a counselor on the subject. (it was just a Google search and I have not checked out the rest of his site but the gaslight article was spot on)
http://counsellingresource.com/features/2011/11/08/gaslighting/