its a social club to the vast majority of them isnt it? they pay so little attention to doctrine any changes/new light simply doesn't mean anything anymore, they seem to be getting worse in this area, the very last brief interaction I had with them at a cart recently was such a pointless waste of time due to their complete utter disinterest and disregard to anything of note I simply gave up and walked away.
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Today's W.T on GB not being inspired is having ZERO impact on most J.W's
by Isambard Crater inthe congregation i attend had it's watchtower study on thursday night because of l.d.c work this week-end, and another congregation i have some not very spiritual friends in had their watchtower study on wednesday.
from what i have delicately prised out of people, the congregations loved the watchtower study this week, saying it was so encouraging and all the usual stuff, with no-one seeming to realise the g.b.
said they're not inspired, so the spirit int he past has moved them to teach wrong things, and all the other ideas excellently summed up on reddit.. today's watchtower will wash over the heads of most j.w's like it never even happened, the all remaining as loyal as ever, and it makes me so, so sad..
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What do You Think About Hybrid and Electric Cars?
by Village Idiot inbattery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade.
while pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.
hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank.
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and what about the carbon footprint and environmental impact of entire cities switching over to electric and the access to the power points, how will council/sink estates with tower blocks deal with the huge project of installing charge points all over them? in London our electricity substations are powered by huge diesel generators as are most cities in the UK, it seems this Utopian dream is making environmental savings/benefits in one area but making catastrophic disadvantages in in the other
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Crisis of Conscience: December 12, 2015 - 50 weeks later
by Jehalapeno inon december 12, 2015 this statement was made by the copyright holder:.
i am presently considering three different routes to publishing crisis of conscience.
i hope to make a decision within days and plan to publish within weeks.. it has now been 50 weeks since that statement.. has the book been published yet?
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been off the site for a while, any news? any updates? I thought as much, zilch, scandalous.
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What do You Think About Hybrid and Electric Cars?
by Village Idiot inbattery technology has been making leaps and bounds in affordability and energy output throughout the past decade.
while pure electric cars currently have limited range, the near future holds prospects for longer ranges.
hybrids, and recently plug in hybrids, have a mileage of up to 50 mpg* giving them a range of 500 miles from a ten gallon gas tank.
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I'm a little concerned about the environmental impact on the planet when the untold millions of these electric/hybrid cars have to have these massive vast batteries disposed of when they malfunction or wear out, dont batteries contain lead,acid and mercury? I'm sure its been thought of but I have yet to see/read any thing about how they are disposed of or recycled
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Local Elder Mentions this Site from the Platform
by James Jack ina local elder had the part this week on the "good news" brochure.
he said: "if the householder has any questions, direct them to jw.org, don't say, just look up jehovah's witnesses on the internet(an older sister said this at the door), if you do they will be directed to a site visited by apostates and weak witnesses!
" "this mistake, would cause the householder to never accept bible truth".. i thought to myself, wow, i'm sure some listening to this part, will get curious now(many in the hall are just being exposed to the internet, and practicing with their new tablets) and do, just what they were told not to do..
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jookbeard
I remember that idiot some time back speaking at some ass'embly or another about how great the IT dept have been in protecting the R&F from being directed to "other" web pages if they was to google a particular URL and it only gives one result; their site, what a fool I wonder how he was able to get away with such ignorance!
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Is Stephen Lett an alien imitation?
by LoveUniHateExams ini've been watching quite a bit of gb member stephen lett on youtube recently (no, i'm not thinking of going back to the jws).. i just find him compulsive viewing, like when people slow down to see a car crash.
i find his facial expressions and intonation spell-binding.. it reminds me a bit of john carpenter's the thing, a film where an alien life-form infects a host and imitates it, spreading throughout camps of remote workers in the antarctic.
if i were a bethelite living in close proximity to lett, i'd be thinking about giving him the blood test to see if he was normal, lol.. why does lett speak in public the way he does?
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Richard Oliver; even if he does have a family member with hearing problems isnt Lett capable of tailoring his speaking style when he is addressing audiences from the platform? rather than continually sounding like the demented moron he portrays himself as? I would guess over the years Lett has given hundreds of talks so much of the old chestnut that being a jw makes one an excellent public speaker.
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Is Stephen Lett an alien imitation?
by LoveUniHateExams ini've been watching quite a bit of gb member stephen lett on youtube recently (no, i'm not thinking of going back to the jws).. i just find him compulsive viewing, like when people slow down to see a car crash.
i find his facial expressions and intonation spell-binding.. it reminds me a bit of john carpenter's the thing, a film where an alien life-form infects a host and imitates it, spreading throughout camps of remote workers in the antarctic.
if i were a bethelite living in close proximity to lett, i'd be thinking about giving him the blood test to see if he was normal, lol.. why does lett speak in public the way he does?
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jookbeard
he certainly is a very strange man, a frustrated actor? with the personality and talent of a worm! retarded? I think so indeed, I believe he has a mental age of a 9 year old and certainly would have had/has SEN .
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Business Slow at JW Literature Trolley
by Athanasius inyesterday i stopped at a local shopping center to pick up a few things.
i arrived at 9:45 am and two jw ladies had already set up their literature trolley and had opened for business.
but i didn't see anyone stopping by and taking advantage of their free literature.
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jookbeard
I see them less and less in my town these days although they were there yesterday as I drove by, the next much bigger town where I go most weeks I never see the carts there at all, I pass an underground station every single morning and never see a cart there in the week but I saw them there last Sunday the least busiest day of the week! how insane is that!
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My Old Kingdom Hall being merged with TWO other congregations!
by pale.emperor inthis can only be a good sign.. my old congregation in liverpool has had a lot of money in it's bank account for years.
for a long, long time (almost 8 years) they've been looking for land to build a new hall.
the one they're in now is literally falling to bits.
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wow that must be sickening for the relatives of the old folks who bequeathed all that cash to the WTS, its clear this is the shape of things to come up and down the country , interesting to hear of other mergings
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Elusive response from Japan's Branch
by yoko N inan active jw living in tokyo is expressing extreme hate in twitter to those who are in different religion, admirers of musicians, those who love toplay air soft guns.. linkpeople who saw it got angry and exposed his real name,congregation where his associating with, his address, his professionon the internet.. linkthis guy wouldn’t stop expressing hate, so somebody spread softdrinks and gambages in front of the porch of his house.causing some uproar.some jws are writing, calling,sending fax to japan’s branch office tostop this man,because this cause bad reputation about jws as a whole.. branch office keep denying accepting letter, fax.they are saying they don’t know anything about the disturbance.a little newspaper on the internet wrote the article about this,.
linkand branch offices finally admitted accepting a letter of complaint.--------“ did you accept the letter we sent you?branch :yes-----did you read it?branch: no, man in charge should read it.---are you not in charge ?branch: no ------where the man in charge?branch: he is not available right now.. -------when can i talk to that person?
branch: i don’t knowthis kind of elusive conversation is going on and on and on.growing number of people is aware of the incident,and calling to the branch.disgusted of their elusive attitude.this keeps going.
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welcome Yoko N, always interested to see how exjw activism is doing in Japan