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  Is Britain on the brink of financial armageddon?

  by Hopscotch in

  1. social
  2. current

  saw this article on line in yesterday's daily mail.

  it's a bit of a worry to say the least.. .

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231563/is-britain-brink-financial-armageddon.html.

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  Australian Senator Slams Scientology in Parliment - Could JWs Be Next?

  by Hopscotch in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  australian senator xenophon slammed scientology in a speech in parliment.

  it was covered last night on national tv here by a current affairs program today tonight.

  by sheer chance (as i usually do not watch tv) it was starting when i went into my mil's room (she is a jw who lives with us) so i stayed and watched the program.. the senator stated at the end of his speech, "scientology is not a religious organisation, it is a criminal organisation that hides behind its so-called religious beliefs.".

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  Graph from Dec 15 09 Wt on How to Apportion Your Time to Remain Joyful. Crazy....

  by Hopscotch in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a scan from the dec 15 09 wt (study ed) with a graph of how a witness should apportion their time to remain joyful.. .

  so according to this graph, to remain joyful a witness should spend 3 times as much of his waking hours in 'theocratic activities' as he should in secular work!

  hopscotch.

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  Anybody's Story

  by Hopscotch in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this is a story of four people: everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.. there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure somebody would do it.

  somebody got angry about that because it was everybody's job.

  anybody could have done it, but nobody realised that everybody wouldn't do it.

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  The WTS and Frequent Liar Points

  by Hopscotch in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i have read on here of the frequent flyer points racked up by bethelites etc on wts business and it made me think of this.. .

  frequent liar points.

  the wts has told so many lies to its members, the public and the media that if there were points accumulated for frequent lies then surely they would have a huge tally of them.. .

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  Family Worship VITAL FOR SURVIVAL - Oct 09 WT Study Edition

  by Hopscotch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  inspired by the other thread on the family worship arrangement and by a request for printed information here are scans from the latest wt about this arrangment.

  the article starts off by using a favourite wts tactic - fear!.

  hopscotch.

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  Is The WTS Getting Desperate for Males? KM Aug 2009

  by Hopscotch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just thought this article was interesting in view of what has been said in the last couple of years on the forum about the declining number of elders and servants and those reaching out.

  add to that the large percentage of young teenage boys who leave 'the truth'.

  i can't ever remember this much space in a km being devoted to converting men.. para 2 states: "when a family head accepts the truth, he often influences others in the family to join him in pure worship".

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  How To Be Dead When You're Not

  by Hopscotch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  step 1: get dragged into jws by your parents when you are 5 years old.

  step 2: get baptized in 1975 when you are 16 because armageddon is coming and you don't want to die.

  step 3: continue being brainwashed and mind controlled for the next 30 years because you don't want to die at armageddon.

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  Jehovah Knows in Advance His People Will Fail - July 1 09 WT

  by Hopscotch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in this public edition of the watchtower it uses an illustration of a piece of furniture to help explain why jehovah tolerated polygamy.. but the more interesting point i thought was the reasoning in the first paragraph in the second column about jehovah warning his people when they strayed from his standards.

  it says "however, he knew in advance that his people would often fail to obey even the most basic of commands, such as the one against idolatry.

  (exodus 32:9).

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  No One Should Be Made to Choose…..LIES from July 09 Awake

  by Hopscotch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following quote is taken from the article is it wrong to change your religion?

  in the july 2009 awake p29:

  no one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.

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