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  That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  leaving the university with my degree!.

  exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

  i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!

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  Not only will I be getting a "worldly" degree, but I'll be wearing a flowing gown and fancy hat when I get it!

  
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  I be a walkin......

  by out4good3 in

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  across that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I hope you rock your gown like I'm rockin' mine!
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  A serving elder's take on the new "tithing" arrangement

  by TTATTelder in

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  the gb can kiss my ass.. i'm writing "0" on the little slip of paper they pass out.. hey here's a thought:.

  you know that "widow's might" stuff they're always talking about?

  well i'm pretty dang sure that the lady was giving from the heart not because she filled out some dumba$$ piece of paper pledging two small coins several months previous!.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  The illustration was supposed to be:

  "if you had three kids, and had saved up $10,000 each for them for any emergency health needs, and Watchtower told you to give them the money because your family needs to learn to rely on Jehovah instead of "worldly riches", would you hesitate to use the money saved for your three kids to help Watchtower make even more money after recently selling about a billion dollars worth of real estate*? Thats what the GB is asking us all to do worldwide...to stop putting our trust in unrighteous riches and give them all our money"

  *A billion dollars is only an estimate since WT never, ever allows for any outside audits or public accounting for how their money is made or spent.
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  Additional BOE Letter: Please Be Advised that Further Direction Will Soon be Sent to the Bodies of Elders...

  by TTATTelder in

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  dear brothers:.

  we are writing as a follow-up to the letters dated january 24, 2014, and march 29, 2014,. to all congregations regarding the adjustments now underway to accelerate construction of king-.

  dom halls and assembly halls.. .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Watchtower doesn't have a biblical precident for this, but I think it deserves a couple:

  • Watchtower is taking a financial census of the JW populace similar to the way that David had taken a census... resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
  • Since WT has already collected hundreds of millions of dollars from recent sales of branch properties, the GB is now surveying to see how much they will continue to rake in. With this information, they can tear down their old money storehouses and build bigger ones. But like the guy in Jesus' story, he died that very night and his money was no use to him.
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  Visitors

  by twice shy in

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  before i stopped attending i noticed that several members left our hall.

  i also noticed that when family members gave talks there was an infux of visitors too support their relative.

  still i noticed, that our meeting attendance would go way down then all of a sudden our hall would be full of people we'd never seen before.. is this the new thing...the elders sending their families and ms servants to other halls to make it appear there is a lot of new members when the co comes to visit or when certain talks are given?.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Did any of the visitors look like this?

  

  It's the latest for increasing the attendance and diversity in you local congregation!

  
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  Additional BOE Letter: Please Be Advised that Further Direction Will Soon be Sent to the Bodies of Elders...

  by TTATTelder in

  1. watchtower
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  dear brothers:.

  we are writing as a follow-up to the letters dated january 24, 2014, and march 29, 2014,. to all congregations regarding the adjustments now underway to accelerate construction of king-.

  dom halls and assembly halls.. .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "It is our privilege to be working alongside you during these momentous last days"

  "Momentous last days"?!? If they really believed these were the last days, why are they laying out these complex financial schemes for the indefinite future? They've raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in the very recent past from selling branch property and they're already clamoring to establish how much more the sheeples can dole out for the future?

  "Sisters, Jehovah needs a chunck of your Social Security check until you die... or until armageddon comes... whichever comes first. Besides, your 'worldly' children should be supporting you anyway."

  Like the bible says, a greedy man is never satisfied. The GB and WT Corp have become the greediest of pigs.
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  That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  leaving the university with my degree!.

  exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

  i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Leaving the university with my degree!

  Exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before I walk.

  I was certainly stressed about doing this. I'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close! But here I am, 4 years later, older and much wiser!

  I wish I would have done this 20 years ago, but better late than never.
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  I had a funny feeling he was a Witness... and now I need help.

  by noontide in

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  im in a bit of a bind and im not quite sure what (if anything) i can do about it.

  i was recently hired as a business consultant for a rather large company.

  the company that hired me mentioned that they are concerned about a certain department and the way its being run, as this department affects every other department in the company.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Sounds like a case where a good worker got promoted. Just because someone is a productive staff member doesn't mean that they're management material... regardless of religion.
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  MTS & Gilead: Can we talk about how much of a FAILURE these 2 schools were/are?

  by Black Man in

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  i know quite a few from both of these schools who basically crashed and burned once they got into their assignments.

  graduates of these schools would be thrown into foreign territorities or remote areas without a good visible means of support and would get emotionally, mentally, financially burned out.

  post your experiences or of those you know that went to these pitiful excuses for educational institutions..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I got to know a bunch that had attended Gilead and stayed in assignments for various amounts of time. Some didn't last long, some did. All of them had some kind of terrible/bizarre experiences that would never be published.

  I didn't know as many MTS. The ones I did get to know had been sent to terrible locations with troubled congregations.

  I heard enough to realize that I never, ever wanted to go to either school.
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  The official COSMOS thread

  by Jon Preston in

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  so what does everyone think this far?

  please theist feel free to add your opinions if you e watched so you can also appreciate certain facts weve learned....and hey theres speculation too!

  but non judgmental speculation;-).

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I enjoy it. Some of it is rather slow-moving, but I think it keeps the information from being over-whelming or overly-technical.

  One hour of the show is time better spent than a month in a Kingdumb Hell.