Posts by Severus

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RE: memorial 2006

by Inquisitor in

when is the memorial this year?

Whats your Latitude and Longitude in Google earth?

by mkr32208 in

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my house is at; .

it's an old pic but still pretty good!.

anyone else want to play?

Circuit Overseers Are On a Pledge Drive

by Severus in

jehovah's witnesses will be experiencing a special treat during their co (circuit overseer) visit this season: a bona-fide pledge drive.. during the thursday night meeting the normal co talk will instead be a video entitled:.

building kingdom halls advances true worship.

this 30-minute advances video is well produced and explains the watchtower society's program to build simplified kingdom halls in third-world and poor countries were materials and funds are scarce.. interviews and footage focus on south america, africa and eastern europe.

Severus

Send Watchtower Money! Make a statement, click here for the infamous Zero Dollar.

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WANTED: WTS Publications Do You Have Any Of These?

by whyizit in

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i'm currently becoming involved in educating christians in my church about the beliefs of the jws and how to effectively witness to them.. i would especially like to have copies of what does god require?, knowledge that leads to everlasting life, can blood save your life?, and should you believe in the trinity?

if you have any extras of these that you would like to pass on to help christians learn how to ask thought provoking questions of their jw friends and family, that is what i would be using them for.. i would like to obtain them from regular posters, so that i can make sure my personal information does not get into the "wrong" hands.

thanks for any help you can give.

Severus

Go to www.reexamine.org

WT CD: http://www.reexamine.org/index.php/2005_Watch_Tower_Library_CD-ROM

Secret Publications: http://www.reexamine.org/index.php/Reexamine:Community_Portal:Publication_Downloads:Secret_Publications

List of publications (some scans): http://www.reexamine.org/index.php/List_of_Watchtower_publications

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Circuit Overseers Are On a Pledge Drive

by Severus in

jehovah's witnesses will be experiencing a special treat during their co (circuit overseer) visit this season: a bona-fide pledge drive.. during the thursday night meeting the normal co talk will instead be a video entitled:.

building kingdom halls advances true worship.

this 30-minute advances video is well produced and explains the watchtower society's program to build simplified kingdom halls in third-world and poor countries were materials and funds are scarce.. interviews and footage focus on south america, africa and eastern europe.

Severus

Jehovah's Witnesses will be experiencing a special treat during their CO (Circuit Overseer) visit this season: a bona-fide pledge drive.

During the Thursday night meeting the normal CO talk will instead be a video entitled:

Building Kingdom Halls Advances True Worship

This 30-minute Advances video is well produced and explains the Watchtower Society's program to build simplified Kingdom Halls in third-world and poor countries were materials and funds are scarce.

Interviews and footage focus on South America, Africa and Eastern Europe. Interesting tidbits include:

African JW's singing Kingdom Melodies while they work
Time-lapse video of construction
Visiting Society building coordinators sharing time in the ministry as well
African JW's breaking rocks to make brick mortar
Before and after pictures
Interviews with local government officials
East European interview describing freezing conditions in their old hall
A classic scene where chickens come running out of an old open-air hall

Interspersed through the video is references to financial contributions. A scene is dedicated to the process of Society approval, showing how the congregation must pass a resolution to contribute a fixed sum to the project every month. While Advances viewers shrink in shame, the camera focuses on black hands stuffing a rustic contribution box.

Advances continues to tout the incredible progress the Society program has made. A computer graphic of the rotating planet highlights the countries involved with thousands of points indicating completed kingdom halls. Of course this was made possible only by the donations from wealthier JWs, as Advances continually reminds the viewer.

All pretense is lost when the video stops to display 2 Corinthians 8:14:

But that by means of an equalizing YOUR surplus just now might offset their deficiency, in order that their surplus might also come to offset YOUR deficiency, that an equalizing might take place.

The rest of Advances is a montage of thank-yous from around the world. While educational and moving at times, Advances is a transparent wallet-miner that will undoubtebly send millions of dollars into Societies coffers. UNICEF and Sally Struthers take notice: there's a new begging bowl on the block.

No word yet on a general release of this video.

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Death of a laptop

by DigitalFokus in

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well, i went ahead and killed my laptop.

unfortunatly i didn't use a shotgun or a assault rifle, i used a .45 automatic pistoli .

its not as dramtic as i had hoped but its still felt really good killing that thing.

Severus

My own laptop recoiled in silent horror as it was forced to play this savage assasination of one of it's own crippled brethren.

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Global Warming - it's happening right now, how will you respond?

by truthseeker in

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this is really worrying.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11951694/.

whatever the causes, whether you think it's global warming or just another cycle, millions of people will be affected and so will the animal kingdom.

how will you respond if the worst happens, and the sea starts lapping at your front door?

Severus

Am I mistaken but haven't the Inuit been dealing with artic thaw since, um...

the Ice Age??

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Many thanks to Simon!

by Elsewhere in

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if it were not for all of the very hard work that simon does behind the scenes to keep this forum up, much of the other work others are doing could never have happened.. this site serves as an excellent central location for us all to communicate and exchange thoughts and ideas about how to expose the evil ways of the wts.. simon, thank you very much!

Severus

I always look forward to a chance to appreciate Simon and his helpers.

Many deep and sincere thank you's!

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Another LIE Stated in the Watchtower....with proof!

by gumby in

the society has always been cleaver enough with wording to skate around many things.

they use gramatical trickery which makes for many ' written skapegoats' they've used to protect ther validity as jehovahs mouthpiece.. i found a quote by them when researching for something on another thread and thought it was interesting.. below is an article in a 1993 awake!

march 22, pages 3-4.

Severus

Don't forget the most enduring, repeated and damning quote ever:

"...the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away"

- from every Awake!, March 1988 - October 1995

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The Demon of Saskatchewan

by RunningMan in

well, i have once again put finger to keyboard and produced another article.

i have to say that i have never had as much fun with a subject as with this one.

you can really see the goofyness of religion under the demon microscope.

Severus

So many excellent lines!

My favorite:

If you get a board with the demon missing, can you take it back – get it re-possessed, so to speak?