i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.
there are resources here that are deep.
like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?
Hi ML,
I, too, am very proud of your stand which must've taken a great deal of prior thought of the consequences (shunning by family and friends). Your inner feelings finally came to a head and from there you acted admirably. When things finally settle down in your corner, please share with us whatever you'd like -- we would love to hear your journey to TTATT (The Truth About The Trooth).
Len Miller
i took these pictures over a month ago.
i had not realized that they were really pushing their site.
this was at our farmers market, although they were not officially in the market area but off the side on the sidewalk.. .
Yesterday morning they worked our neighborhood. I was thrilled as I saw them getting closer for it would be the first time at our new house. I was waiting for a knock or the doorbell. That didn't happen. However I noticed some shapes of movement through our front door's prism and colored glass. I waited, then saw the shapes descend down the steps.
I hurried to open that front door to see if I could engage them, the two black women in long dresses. One of them quickly ran back up the steps, a bit embarrassed that the pamphlet had fallen out of the door handle. She handed it to me and I warmly introduced myself and they reciprocated. I asked (tho I knew) if they were JWs and the leading lady answered yes. I then launched into my regular entrapment routine, "That's interesting cuz I used to study the Bible with you people many years ago (It was actually 37 years ago when I DA'd. I didn't lie cuz I studied with them in 1955 before my baptism.)
It is at this juncture that they usually take the bait and ask the question, "Well, why did you stop studying with us?"
No such luck. The leading lady simply responded, "Well you can ask any question you want now by going to JWussy.org". You'll see reference to that web site on that pamphlet as a reminder. Have a nice day."
As I shut the door I began to think. Are they dumbing down the work that they used to be so proud of? In my day there used to be sessions on overcoming objections, looking for openings to give a good witness, showing people that we really did know (well, we thought we did) our Bible. One poster on this topic (page one) quoted a February KM that recommended exactly what that leading lady did -- point the householder to their web site.
While not coming out and explicitly saying it, in my opinion, Watchtower is dumbing down the work in order to get more to participate, to get the new ones to shed their fears of interactions with people by showing how easy it now is -- telephone witnessing, push carts in malls, and now -- the very easy "go to JWussy.ORG" suggestions. Father GB will take care of you just like he is taking care of us.
Len Miller
ps: I purposely misspelled their web site based on a suggestion here some time ago. He said that the search engines favor the sites with the most references to them.
15 page pdf.
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http://www.mediafire.com/view/j1x6pso6b0v7axj/youths_who_put_god_first_1994_awake_15_pages.pdf.
Wasblind, that appears to be an unfair and cruel question you posed to BOTR. I gleaned from your order to BOTR that s(he) somehow bore some responsibility for the judgments made simply because of BOTRs profession.
S(he) made (and should be allowed to make) a passing or pedestrian comment and has made a ton of them on this forum, many of them very insightful on a wide variety of legal topics.
I hope I'm wrong on this and apologize in advance if that is the case.
Len
as i have mentioned before, i love photography, and specially a technique called hdr.
hdr stands for high dynamic range, and it means the ratio of the "lightness" of the lightest spot in the picture to the darkest.. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/high-dynamic-range_imaging.
Very good, ilttatt. I'm a PSP (paint sho pro) user, myself. Italians call me a Cheap a skate. I read where PS has a built in function to merge the three photos while PSP users have to (when I tried it 3 years ago) copy the unique photos into separate layers.Off course one must use a tripod or there will be mismatch. There are online scripts for us cheapskates.
Thanks for sharing.
Len
psalm 51:17 says, my sacrifice, o god, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, god, will not despise.. .
as the evidence mounts, and fingers are pointed at the governing body for their complicity in the 'child abuse cover ups' ,.
...will they ever get down on bended knee and show truly broken hearts?.
1)media moguls (a samll but powerful number of corporations.
own primary media outlets, corporations are desesigned fro profit).. 2)governments (gov.
want to convince the public to support their.
Pot -- meet the Kettle! The Great Watchtower Contradiction.
Len
My scenario -- we won't ever learn what happened. Our military with its top secret ability uses satellite imagery gets a fix as it veers toward Indian Ocean. When they detect that it finally veers toward some major enemy city (see minimus above) our fighter jet puts it down. On 9/11 " On September 11, 2001, during the terrorist attacks on the United States, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township , 1.75 miles (2.82 km) north of the town of Shanksville. The hijackers had intended to crash the airplane in Washington, D.C. ; destroying either the Capitol or the White House . [7]" -- Wikipedia
Some theories advocate that our military put it down before it could do massive civilian damage to important populated structures on the ground. We'll never learn about the truth of that mission either.
Len
this is the last boe we will be able to provide.
our informant or source, was caught, disfellowshipped, and thrown out of bethel.
we knew that sooner or later the watchtower would find him out.
Atlantis, you have an email waiting at your AOL address.
Len
a contribution from one of the members who doesn't get to post very often.. ... .......... ........................ ......... ..........atlantis
"THINGS IN WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE". That expression has always bothered me. It infers, to me, that there are also "THINGS IN WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE".
What's your take?
Len
a contribution from one of the members who doesn't get to post very often.. ... .......... ........................ ......... ..........atlantis
I attended the Baltimore assembly in 1957 (
*** w57 2/15 p. 128 Announcements ***
August 21-25, Baltimore, Md.
). Was so zealous that I had one of our Bethelites introduce me to Nathan Knorr who chastised me for thinking that I should quit high school in order to immediately enter Bethel.
A year or so earlier, just prior to field service, I grabbed one of the inventory booklets with intention on taking it out with me to place. The title, "Millions Now Living Will Never Die". An elderly special pioneer quashed my enthusiasm about doing that since it had old truth that had expired. She never shared what that was exactly but I later read it and found the 1925 prediction.
Len
by the way, that badge was a circuit assy badge from 1970.
*** km 7/70 p. 3 Announcements ***
A new circuit assembly program is scheduled to begin in September. We believe you will find it most informative and upbuilding. The public talk will be “Who Will Conquer the World in the 1970’s?”
