Posts by rmt1

The reason I ask is that I heard there is a picture of an upsidedown coke can in some Watchtower somewhere. The insinuation of which without evidence is ghosts, UFOs.

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The Real Aftermath of the AGM...Part 2

by raymond frantz in

for the ones based in britain only the "few" were invited to attend the agm .they received their new grey bible and the rumor was that the new bible will not be available for the rest of the congragations until january .it was confirmed tonight .a letter was read as local announcement that the new bibles will not be available until the end of january for the rest of the congragation .all the in crowd were sat there with their new flashy bible looking smug.also the bible reading was read from the new bible to make it all the more obvious ..... the real aftermath of agm....

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law

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FOLLOW THE MONEY to the Revised NWT

by Terry in

lawsuits with big $$$ awards attached lead to schemes for raising instant revenue to offset losses.. what is the best bet?.

read the nytimes and make a guess.. .

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html....

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Is printing a new Bible a sustainable habit? How soon could the corporation pull this trick again? 2030? 2040? If proceeds were the main motivation, seems to me you could write up some alternative trash book that maybe has less color pictures or something, than print the untouchable. Which has the higher probability: shore up doctrinal changes or shore up income?

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A House Divided Against Itself Falls-Luke 11:17

by Stand for Pure Worship in

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that text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.

second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.

you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.

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Performance art.

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Are MOST JW's lacking Moral Fibre ?

by Phizzy in

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i find that whether born in or converts, most jw's give their own conscience over to the gb (and writing dept) to dictate how they will react to any moral question.. they simply lack a conscience of their own.. this is not their fault, we should not look down on them for this, their conscience, their natural feeling of what is right and wrong has been:.

stolen from them !.

we all know how the cult does this to them, it did it to us, i really am almost in tears when i think that had either of my darling children needed a blood transfusion i would have resisted, believing what i have been taught all my life, that their eternal life was more important than their life now.. how can we persuade jw's to take back their conscience ?.

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I'm waiting to hear anecdotes of how at Bethel you had to stare at a daily text on your plate while your stomach rumbled. A lot of wood fibre. A lot of opiates and sedatives and pablums and waiting for Guffman trickling in your ear. Nothing to feed your hunger for some authentic human experience.

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So the people with the REAL truth are apostates!

by ILoveTTATT in

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i have been on this site for around two months.

in those two months, i have learnt a ridiculous amount of jw history and i now have insight on how humongous of a scam the jw's are.

at first, maybe even a year ago, i would have thought, yeah... the apostates have half-truths and they utilize some truths and then lie about the rest.. well, for the benefit of all the lurkers in here: trust the apostates!

rmt1

anonymouz, evolution produced high intelligence predatory animals through spatial reasoning and the capacity to imagine trajectories and likely positions of prey even when not seen by eye. This is the simplest form of faith or belief. Our species took that basic predatory capacity and ran with it. We have produced so many imaginary spaces that are populated with our projections, anticipations, estimates, hopes, dreams, hungers. But that is how evolution which produced a more highly refined gray matter inadvertently produced a tool-using, tool-building, time-planning animal. To be blunt, faith or belief is chemically bound up in the motivations of this human animal. A God, a god, a dog, a deity does not have to have anything to do with what happens to our species. But evolution to first order has resulted in a species which has that largest number of options for the largest number of specimens for the longest lifespans (yes some other species live longer), and that is before we take a second order look at political/socioeconomic difference. Based on the evidence or data that I see with my own eyes, I find (it's just me, I know) that faith in evolution is more grounded than faith in a gestalt zeitgeist of collective moral dissipation. I don't know how you can go out and measure "What is the moral caliber of the atheist", or "what is the moral caliber of the non-JW", but you might be surprised to discover that it exists. It has to exist, through the existence proof of civilization that has extended our life span, medical options, knowledge, conveniences. Civilization could not grow, could not exist, in a kingdom of thieves. Something to think about. (No, you don't have to hug anyone. Yes, you can be perfectly grumpy and still have faith in the world outside the KH.)

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Apostate Networking

by Watchtower-Free in

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Underground railroad?

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REACTION from my neck of the woods...

by problemaddict in

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as some of you may know i am in the midst of a fade, working on the family coming along (new thread to update there).

most mf my close friends are still jw's to varying degrees.

i would say most are couples that are around our age (25-35), and they attend maybe 90% of the meetings, go in service on sat, pioneer in april, and have a couple bible studies etc... in general the good kind.

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"'Comrades!' cried an eager youthful voice. 'Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. We have won the battle for production! Returns now completed of the output of all classes of consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 per cent over the past year. All over Oceania this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us. Here are some of the completed figures. Foodstuffs----'"

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JW App Stats

by konceptual99 in

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so how high will the jw app climb up the app store download charts on monday?.

will it be high enough to register on any third party lists of what's hot?.

can you imagine what the wts would make of it being on the front page of the app store?.

rmt1

Next up is... App for automatic monthly contributions? Local service industry jobs search? Local gas prices? Zoomable online maps for field service with territories, do not calls, apostates, do not enter, etc, clearly marked off? Online house to house and return visit tracking which auto-uploads to a master TWS database? Daily reading program that suggests, tracks (and uploads) how much quantity time you've spent with the publications? Visited-site cookies auto-uploader (?). JW Singles search? What else...