Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.

  they will be published here:.

  http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  That's a steaming, fresh pile of truth, right there!
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  Another cheery video for the kids on jw.dork

  by konceptual99 in

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  http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/kids-animated-videos/.

  enjoy..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  It's impressive... if the person has never seen other animated TV programs or Movies. Even that promotional video struck me as, "I've seen stuff like this already."

  The problems for WT with videos is that they would need to make a lot more, a lot faster, if they want to keep people's attention. As much as the GB wish the sheeple would watch their videos every night, that doesn't happen. Kids have a greater interest in watching something or hearing the same story over and over, but that only goes so far.

  So is Caleb never going to grow up? Will he be like Bart Simpson and always stay the same age?
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  Singapore's Pink Dot celebration

  by fulltimestudent in

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  a few years ago i had an opportunity to discuss the situation for gay people in singapore with a gay chinese man from that country.

  he told me that despite the fact that the singapore government persisted in retaining an old british law that criminalised male to male sex, and that the government banned any normal method of protest, that gay people in this small (essentially just one city on a small island) had decided not to use western methods (i.e.

  as used by gay groups in western countries) but to basically use a large picnic to celebrate their sexuality.. this was the first i'd heard of what has become known as singapore's pinkdot.. starting very small it has grown.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Something that strikes me as bizarre is the Muslims wearing white as a silent protest of this event.

  After watching the news for years and seeing Muslims slaughter each other, even Muslim rulers using chemical weapons to kill the Muslim children in Syria, these self-righteous people decide that it is important to protest this pink dot celebration? Now Muslim terrorist organizations are plotting to carry out even more attacks on the rest of the world.

  Are these Muslims planning any kind of protest, silent or otherwise, to try to end the Muslim bloodthirst?
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  At RC, Splane says 1000+ new KH's needed, last year only "60" new one's built.

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so there are now regular, full time "construction servants" and their help is much needed along with regional rbc volunteers, who better get working because over a thousand kh's are needed and last year only sixty were built by the u.s. branch.

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  splane also said that just with the new baptized this weekend all over the u.s. we had one whone new circuit, so we better put more work into building needed kingdom halls..

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "Splane also said that just with the new baptized this weekend all over the U.S. we had one whole new circuit"

  A circuit of 8 year-olds? That would be interesting!
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  Most absurd thing I heard at the convention yesterday!

  by Batman89 in

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  2. physical

  brother lett was giving the last talk of the day about what they supposedly accomplished in 100 years.

  i was just waking up so im paraphrasing alittle(i was dosing off all day) anyways in his introduction he said.

  "there is more evidence to prove gods kingdom on the earth is a reality than wind,electricity and gravity is a reality on the earth".

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  "now that you are baptized your prayers are more readily heard by Jehovah."

  Wrong. This is how prayer really works:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZDcS-rMf4
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  Pets aren't people, says speaker at Regional Convention. Fido and Mimi better watch out! And instead of drinking wine or beer go do some gardening or play golf.

  by oppostate in

  1. social
  2. current

  a big discussion driving back from the regional convention about what exactly was meant about pets.. the warning was obvious to me.

  don't get pets, they cost time and money and you would do better to spend your time and money supporting the organization and going in field service.. as to the wine and beer, because the bro during his soliloquy admitted that the first thing he would like to do is relax after a hectic day at work with a glass of wine or beer, his conscience was traumatized.

  however he came up with a perfect idea, he'd go tend the garden (obviously a solution for a married bro) or hit some golfballs at the driving range (maybe he's not married).. maybe jesus should have told the wine guzzlers at cana to sober up and go till the fields.. .

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  So after a day of work, rather than relaxing with a drink, you go for the other optional activities. But when you're done gardening or whacking balls and would like to sit down and enjoy a beer or a glass of wine... uh oh, traumatized conscience returns, must go gardening or whacking balls again. This could become a fatal cycle.

  Headline: "JW Man Gardens Himself to Death after Attending WT Crapvention - Doctors Say Beer Could Have Saved His Life"

  Sure, pets take time and money. Installing and maintaining indoor plumbing takes time and money. Gardening and golf both take time and money, too. Sure, I've done plenty of gardening that returned a fair amount of produce. But I've bought plenty of seeds and tended plants that died before yielding and were a total waste of time. And isn't tending flowers and bushes a waste of time and money?

  GB to children: "Your beloved pet is worldly. 'It' is a satanic waste of time and money that Jehovah will destroy at Armageddon. But cheer up, Jehovah will replace your demonic animal with a perfect panda in the new system!"*

  *Footnote: Pandas will only be available where there is a suitable food supply. There won't be any zoos. So you'll only get to see a panda for a couple of days every million years, if you're approved to travel. As a perfect person by WT standards, you will not want or need any kind of pet. Even in paradise you won't have time or money for such animals because we'll have plenty of meetings and new scams to keep everyone slaving for the corporation.
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  Assembly Invitations: A Sad, Pathetic Anachronism

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, witlesses are handing out assembly invitations locally for their gatherings to invite the public to attend...... .

  a meeting that's 50, 100, 150 miles away?

  there was an era when placards were put in storefront windows and bombastic sermons were delivered by radio.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Such a waste of paper, ink, fuel, and time.
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  July 6 WT Study- Lesson they want you to learn

  by bruh2012 in

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  2. beliefs

  - if you have a problem with someone in the congregation -it's your fault.

  - only brothers have the immorality problem.

  - brothers have 4 main vices on his mental shelf.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Welcome CubicalDUDE!

  "Only brothers have the immorality problem"

  Really? Then who are the brothers committing immorality with? When the married service overseer and a single pioneer sister in an old congo of mine started doin' it, was her participation "moral"? In one congregation it happened twice that single sisters met guys in service that they later hooked up with, and later married.
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  I was 36 when I started posting here. This weekend I celebrated my 50th birthday!

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  and i mean celebrated!

  it was a cracking barbecue party for around 40 good friends and neighbours as well as my 'never jw' cousins and one of my brothers and his family.. .

  drank a bit too much, embarrassed my kids with some 'dad dancing' and laughed until 2 in the morning.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Happy Birthday!
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  Most absurd thing I heard at the convention yesterday!

  by Batman89 in

  1. social
  2. physical

  brother lett was giving the last talk of the day about what they supposedly accomplished in 100 years.

  i was just waking up so im paraphrasing alittle(i was dosing off all day) anyways in his introduction he said.

  "there is more evidence to prove gods kingdom on the earth is a reality than wind,electricity and gravity is a reality on the earth".

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "There is more evidence to prove Gods kingdom on the earth is a reality than wind,electricity and gravity is a reality on the earth"

  What an idiot. Just because Lett doesn't understand wind, electricity, or gravity, it means they aren't reality? Perhaps he should grab a line labeled "high voltage", or step off a tall building, or stand in the path of a tornado. The fact is, if someone goes apostate against wind, electricity, or gravity, they get plenty of evidence, very quickly, that these are realities that deserve complete respect.

  However, when I realized that Jehovah wasn't a reality and went apostate against the JW cult, I very quickly saw there was no evidence to prove that god had any such kingdom on earth. It was all a money-making hoax for WT Corp.