Huh. I can't think of a more Seig Heil moment. You can dodge field service. You can dodge elders. You can dodge phone calls. If you're pinned in a chair, you are pinned, covered and checkmated by the economy of gazes of your concentration camp inmates. Failing to salute the Fuhrer GB is self-marking from the non-podium. It is enforced complicity.
Posts by rmt1
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by stillin ineverybody knows it's going to pass.
nobody ever asks if possibly that much money for the circuit overseer's whatever isn't a bit too much, or whatever else the congregation is being asked to agree to.
then the call to raise your hand if in favor of doing the "right thing.
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What happened in 97-98 to reduce the increase?
by Splash inlooking at the yearly stats, it's apparent that something happened in 1997/98 which caused the increase %ge to drop off a cliff and remain low.. take a look:.
yearpeak pubsincreaseincrease %1981-822,477,608115,7124.8991982-832,652,323174,7157.0521983-842,842,531190,2087.1711984-853,024,131181,6006.3891985-863,229,022204,8916.7751986-873,395,612166,5905.1591987-883,592,654197,0425.8031988-893,787,188194,5345.4151989-904,017,213230,0256.0741990-914,278,820261,6076.5121991-924,472,787193,9674.5331992-934,709,889237,1025.3011993-944,914,094204,2054.3361994-955,199,895285,8015.8161995-965,413,769213,8744.1131996-975,599,931186,1623.4391997-985,888,650288,7195.1561998-995,912,49223,8420.4051999-006,035,564123,0722.0822000-016,117,66682,1021.3602001-026,304,645186,9793.0562002-036,429,351124,7061.9782003-046,513,13283,7811.3032004-056,613,829100,6971.5462005-066,741,444127,6151.9302006-076,957,854216,4103.2102007-087,124,443166,5892.3942008-097,313,173188,7302.6492009-107,508,050194,8772.6652010-117,659,019150,9692.0112011-127,782,346123,3271.610anyone know why this was?.
splash.
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rmt1
I got out in 1999 and AOL enabled me to realize and appreciate that there were good souls out there that had nothing to do with JWs. Combined with knowing, and having known for a long damn time, that it was all BS, this use of the Internet allowed me to get out with confidence that my social prospect was not doomed forever.
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Today's WT Study (Who is the FDS - Sep 2013)
by ohnightdivine inplease share how your wt study went today...
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rmt1
Sunk costs are deafening.
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Today's WT Study (Who is the FDS - Sep 2013)
by ohnightdivine inplease share how your wt study went today...
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rmt1
Purge.
Recommend an oldie but a goodie, at least for this very young then-JW growing up in the 70's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymJAsxHbVg
Rod Serling - Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man -
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Head coverings yet again in the latest KM
by life is to short inmy husband just gave me the latest km the novermber 2013 and it yet again has a question box on head coverings.. question box "should a female publisher wear a head covering if she is accompanied by a male pubisher at a doorstep bible study?".
it says "when a female publisher conducts a reagular, scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.
(1 cor 11: 3-10) the july 15 2002, issue of the watchtower page 27, explains: "this is a prearranged session of teaching where the one conducting the the study actually presides.
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Strain gnat, gulp camel, tenth of dill, mint and cumin.
Only families and employment and sunk costs being held hostage at shunpoint can explain subordinating one's own nature-given common sense to this collosus of stupidity.
No person is so naturally stupid as to absorb all this as God's will.
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2014
by teela(2) init may have discussed elsewhere but should not the fact its nearly 100 years since jesus came invisibly.
this should be ringing alarm bells for the 50 year olds and upwards age group.
or has this generation will not pass away being passed over for new light??
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What are David Letterman's Top Ten Things That Could Happen Invisibly In 2014?
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Eve made our periods painful
by rebel8 ini was just remembering this teaching--that a mythical woman ate a piece of fruit 1000s of years ago after a snake told her to, and that's the reason we have menstrual pain.. you see, the bible says eve was cursed for her sin with painful childbirth.
hence we can make up extrapolate that this includes menstruation, which is just part of childbearing.
then we can make up extrapolate that this applies to all females in the entire human race today, because according to a loving god we should all share in her sin as we all have vaginas too.. i remember crying in total agony while i was insulted comforted by having this scripture and explanation read aloud to me, and thinking how much this knowledge drew me closer to jehovah made me realize what a misogynistic wackadoodle cult this was.. thor causing thunder is more plausible than this.. if dubs take midol, does that mean they are scoring jehovah's lesson?.
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Good time for someone in the know to incorporate the spouse of the original Jehovah farm? storm? deity.
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Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.
by Balaamsass inwow.
i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.
i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.
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Last time I saw an Awake in life was 1999, and I just checked one out on jw.org.
Wow!
So I plugged in the ASCII text from the article "Can You Trust the Media?"
http://www.readability-score.com/
Got these results:
Reading Ease
A higher score indicates easier readability; scores usually range between 0 and 100.
Readability Formula Score Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 59.1 Grade Levels
A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.
Readability Formula Grade Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 8.3 Gunning-Fog Score 11.4 Coleman-Liau Index 12.1 SMOG Index 8.6 Automated Readability Index 7.5 Average Grade Level 9.6 Text Statistics
Character Count 4,957 Syllable Count 1,660 Word Count 1,044 Sentence Count 80 Characters per Word 4.7 Syllables per Word 1.6 Words per Sentence 13.1 -
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Eve made our periods painful
by rebel8 ini was just remembering this teaching--that a mythical woman ate a piece of fruit 1000s of years ago after a snake told her to, and that's the reason we have menstrual pain.. you see, the bible says eve was cursed for her sin with painful childbirth.
hence we can make up extrapolate that this includes menstruation, which is just part of childbearing.
then we can make up extrapolate that this applies to all females in the entire human race today, because according to a loving god we should all share in her sin as we all have vaginas too.. i remember crying in total agony while i was insulted comforted by having this scripture and explanation read aloud to me, and thinking how much this knowledge drew me closer to jehovah made me realize what a misogynistic wackadoodle cult this was.. thor causing thunder is more plausible than this.. if dubs take midol, does that mean they are scoring jehovah's lesson?.
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I can't think of a way to appropriate or rehabilitate that scripture. Once the facts get in the way (cranial size: forebrain, long-term memory, past/present/future, imagination, linguistics, symbols, tools - all the things required to think about God and do stuff to his glory), this becomes trite. There are the hormone swings. I think males have hormone/chemical/mood swings in their own manner.
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Got Accosted by 2 JW Women While Pumping Gas Yesterday - Weird
by flipper inabsolutely weird.
minding my own business while pumping gas - this 60 year old short jw lady with fluffed bun styled 60's hair and her 30 year old attractive 5 ' 10 inch jw lady partner came straight up to me as i'm pumping.
they picked the wrong hombre .
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I used to go to the DCs in the 20k seat indoor stadium, the Capital Center, MD. This experience has has taken me back to those days, and I can see (and hear), with my mind's eye, the distant rushing sound of applause filling the reverberating, misty air, after the hearing of an experience given from the platform in suit and tie amongst carpet and flowers. This is worthy to receive the applause of 20k survivors.