Sadly, yes. Need I mention .... Andre?
MrMonroe
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"How the hell do you get baptized while being nailed to a tree"
by trueblue intook mother to a meeting one time and this lady asks me "are you one of us?
" i looked at her like, i don't know man, i just come down from outer space, are you one of us... and she rephrased her guestion to "are you baptized?
" i said no... felt like saying no i wouldn't want to be one of you!
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MrMonroe
Fair point, trueblue. You'd think Jesus would have told him, "I'll see you in paradise ... after you've gone and knocked on some doors and placed some literature in imitation of ... well, me, I suppose!"
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Well, it's official, I am a rabid, mentally diseased Apostate!
by serenitynow! inso an apostabuddy wanted to stage a silent protest at the assembly hall where she was baptized.
we went today.
the plan was to wear these apostate t-shirts that had stuff printed on them about thinking for yourself, and a bunch of websites.
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MrMonroe
Great stuff, serenitynow.
They stayed in their seat because they were (a) petrified of what might eventuate and (b) because the WTS had never given them instructions on what to do in the event of a brazen apostate appearing in their midst. No one was game to make the first move and stand up.
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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MrMonroe
They also keep records of judicial committee decisions and retain files of disfellowshipped members. Yet not the details of those God is using as his channel. Curious.
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That crazy FDS and the GB connection...or lack thereof.
by Aussie Oz inthe whole fds and the gb representing them is a huge jump of impossible logic.... if the wt do not by their own admission, count the annointed nor know how many real ones there are, if they dont consult the remaining ones, the faithful slave how the hell can the gb 'represent' them?.
i mean, how can i for example tell the world that i represent the people of my town in parliment if not only have they never met me, i have never so much as asked one single towns person anything?
if i don't even know how many people live in my town?
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MrMonroe
Meanwhile ... What blogs and what websites?
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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth
by 00DAD inprobably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.
regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .
"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.
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MrMonroe
Because they believe the first myth -- that God directs and leads their organisation -- they then, of necessity, believe that anything it says is true.
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Victoria, Australia: October 11th hearing. All five cases made it through the court...just!
by AndersonsInfo inthis is a preliminary summary only.
i hope to obtain more details later.. .
all five cases are still within the criminal justice system.
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MrMonroe
I still don't get why there wouldn't be a transcript. Isn't there ALWAYS a transcript in all court sessions?
No.
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Victoria, Australia: October 11th hearing. All five cases made it through the court...just!
by AndersonsInfo inthis is a preliminary summary only.
i hope to obtain more details later.. .
all five cases are still within the criminal justice system.
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MrMonroe
Of course there will be a transcript. The June 8 meeting had a transcript, and so do depositions, so why wouldn't these hearings?
What took place on June 8 was a publlic hearing by the Victorian government's inquiry into protecting vunerable children. It had nothing to do with the magistrates court. No one in the magistrates court in Morwell will have been recording the conversations for a transcript.
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Definition of "Negativity" according to JWs
by LongHairGal ini recently had a falling-out with a jw which i won't go into because it is nonsense really.
in one of the pathetic retorts i was told i was "negative".
this wasn't the first time i heard this from a jw over the years.. what i have noticed is that it is because i spoke about real life situations in the world and/or problems and wrong things in the religion.
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MrMonroe
The Watchtower has always warned against the "dangers" of negative speech, so naturally the drones will go to extreme measures to comply. Essentially it's just another control tactic to ensure people are made to feel BAAAD if they ever criticise the authority structure or one of the WTS's methods. Because ultimately it's not the idiots running the show you're criticising, you're actually finding fault with God!
Years ago, after the Revelation Climax book came out, I was having a discussion with an elder who was a bloody moaner himself, always complaining in coded language about the way the other elders treated him. I mentioned some minor criticism about the Revelation book and he suddenly leapt down my throat and said I was being critical.
After a while you just don't bother raising any criticism -- whether it's the boring, repetitive meetings and assemblies or the pointlessness of spending hours in the field service for no constructive purpose. There'll always be someone who starts sooking and accuses you of being negative and then word will get around that you're a "murmurer" and "complainer".
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Victoria, Australia: October 11th hearing. All five cases made it through the court...just!
by AndersonsInfo inthis is a preliminary summary only.
i hope to obtain more details later.. .
all five cases are still within the criminal justice system.
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MrMonroe
The material above is not a transcript. It is the observations of someone in the court for the purposes of Unthank's website.