Posts by Billy the Ex-Bethelite

The wedding talk was a WT infomercial and went overtime.
The bridesmaids dresses were hideous and almost looked like burkas.
One of the toilets in the womens room plugged.
The reception was a cheap-ass affair in an overcrowded room with about a million kids running around screaming.

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Another religion celebrates 100 years

by A.proclaimer in

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this is from the iglesia ni cristo, another jw-like religion.

they even boast about growing numbers and having missionaries in other countries.

the only thing is they made it to the yahoo!

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Didn't Jesus say that the only true religion would be established in the USA?

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Not on JW.ORG : Another Watchtower Society property closed and sold.

by Balaamsass2 in

jul 22, 2014, 2:09pm hstlongs drugs to open new store in east honolulu near aina haina shopping center enlarge photopbn filelongs drugs, which opened this store in the davies pacific center in downtown honolulu last summer, plans to open another location in east honolulu near the aina haina shopping center.. duane shimogawareporter-pacific business newsemail | google+ | twitter | linkedinlongs drugs has purchased property for $7.6 million from the jehovahs witnesses for a new store and pharmacy in east honolulu near the aina haina shopping center, the broker who represented the seller told pbn.. rhode island-based cvs caremark corp.(nyse: cvs), which owns the longs drugs chain in hawaii, and kz devco, the california-based company that serves as the drugstore chain's exclusive developer in the state of hawaii, recently pulled building permits for the 1.4-acre property at 5156 kalanianaole highway, which was at one time was home to the popular ranch house restaurant.. a cvs/longs spokesman did not immediately return a message left by pbn.. the fee-simple property, which includes a two-story, 24,200-square-foot building, the former current home to the jehovahs witnesses, and a 2,279-square-foot building, the former home to a veterinarian clinic, had been on the market since the summer of 2012.. mark bratton, vice president of investment properties for colliers international hawaii, who represented the seller, told pbn that the jehovahs witnesses sold the property because they need a smaller location closer to where their members live.. the property was one of the few fee-simple commercially-zoned properties located within the aina haina and hawaii kai neighborhoods, which has about 150,000 square feet of office space and approximately 783,000 square feet of retail space in the trade area, colliers said.. with this limited inventory of commercial-zoned properties in the area, property sales are few and far between, according to colliers, which noted that the nearby aina haina shopping center was sold in 2007, making it the last commercial property sale within that area.. cvs opened its newest hawaii longs drugs store in may in makiki, which was its first new full-service store in urban honolulu in years.. longs drugs, which has operated in hawaii since 1954, currently has 54 locations in the state.

the aina haina neighborhood has longed for a drugstore chain to open in the area.

both walgreens and longs have stores in hawaii kai about four miles away.. duane shimogawa covers energy, real estate and economic development for pacific business news.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

For people who profess to believe that everyone will be throwing their money into the streets very soon now, it sure seems to be their priority to trade tangible assets for as much of that "soon to be worthless cash" as they can!

Maybe they're pooling this mountain of cash in order to have a lavish anniversary celebration for the centenial of Jesus' invisible rule?

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JW.ORG ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

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jw.org for the past year or so seems to have exploded onto the scene and going foward, to be the new name and face of the old tired and exposed jehovahs wittnesses, bible students, etc... and to the wbats for good reason!!!.

the .org in jw.org is just as important as the jw in this age of internet and information.

if you were to type jw.org or even jw alone into a search engine or directly into your internet browser (most people will type in jw.org into the internet browser, and be taken directly to the website) the first site to come up is of course the intended site, jw.org, and the websites following the initial jw.org site are uneventful, a law firm, media player, etc.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

"So to the unsuspecting 18-35 year old (the WBATS target the young) they will totally by pass websites like this and others that expose TTATT."

It's true that they can go directly to the website using the specific address. However, even the over-35 crowd like myself don't just click straight to a company page and make a big purchase based on the company's pictures and promotion. For cell service, job hunting, even smaller purchases like a printer, I look around online for information besides what the company features--at other reviews, other customer experiences, where the best deals are, etc. I don't expect all the reviews to be 5 star, but I want to hear what others have to say so I can really compare and decide.

Any religions/churches can come up with slick websites. I think a person would have to have lived their lives under a rock to go straight to jw.org and decide to join the cult based on that website. The mormons have a slick website and a huge network of people and businesses promoting their religion. Yet I doubt that anyone is going to go straight to their website and decide to join. They'd sooner go to wikipedia and other websites to get information.

It's easy to conclude that the 'social networking' generation are shallow non-thinkers. But, in reality, more people than ever can educate and inform themselves against propaganda. A hundred years ago when WT was selling books, people couldn't sit in their living rooms and search the Internet for more info about the corporation like people today can... and in just minutes find jwfacts or this website.

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Just wondering

by ducatijoe in

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so i am new to this site.. i have left the organization of my own accord.

and doing very well.. why do those of you who are still active, if you are on this site, still attend?.

it is no differance to me... i am just wondering why.... .

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

I attended after I began posting here because of family.

I didn't DA because of family.

I got sucked into this cult because of family.

Family... the ties that bind... and gag.

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Watchtower Tells Us "Employers Seek JWs Only" Yet Most JW Employers Avoid Hiring JWs, Why?

by BucketShopBill in

here's a thought: we're told over and over how employers sing the praises of their jw employees, sometimes with a vague quote about how 'if we could only hire jws, we would as they are so honest'.

however, while some jw employers themselves may hire jw employees (usually cheap entry level positions), most don't.

in fact, many jw's in general who have businesses have a rule not to do work with jws, even those in their congregation.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

I've seen some JWs do okay working for other JWs, and I've seen some JWs become awful employees.

The typical excuse for the terrible JW employees is, "they're still just imperfect humans."

That completely crushes the idea of there being any "spiritual paradise" or "da troof changes lives". Fact is, the good JWs would still be good people even if they weren't JWs, and the bad JWs are completely unaffected by "holy spirit" or magical "new personalities."

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Local Elder wins hot tub.

by Clambake in

an elder in my cong.

test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.

i don't know if he had to enter to was just.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

He'll have to donate it to the local branch...

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vRemember Those in the Full-Time Service

by thedog1 in

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forgive me if this has been posted before by somebody else but i am outraged by the wt study edition for sep 15 2014 and the study article about remembering those in full-time service.

some choice quotes:.

of course, some have circumstances that do not allow them to share in the ministry full-time at this point.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

"We can imagine the concern..."

It really is all about imagination.

Any that might be in a financial position to help other sheeple are expected to financially contribute to WT Corp. FIRST and foremost. And then they are often considered 'materialistic' if they have a good full-time job. It increasingly condemns the very people that are propping up this crazy religion.

Rather than wasting money supporting a work that produces almost not growth in the bOrg, the money should go to education and career counselling for the dubs.

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Pixar the production company is jealous of Caleb and Sophia video's

by life is to short in

so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.

he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.

the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Right. And Celine Dion was recorded singing "Kingdumb Maladies" with George Benson because JW music is so wonderful.

This is yet another JW urban legend.

When I was in beth-hell, there was a story spreading about a sister placing the Knowledge book with Pres. Clinton and he later told a reporter that he'd recently read an interesting book... blah, blah supposedly he read an entire JW publication. The Writing Department went to work tracking down the story to see about publishing it. When they tracked down this sister that had told the story at a Circus Assembly (somewhere in Idaho or something) and started asking questions, she broke down in tears and admitted it was all a lie.