i noticed over the years how bros & sis(tm) would pronounce words/names differently or totally substitute them so as not to sound offensive.. egs:.
instead of 'bible aids' a bro(tm) said 'bible helps' thus avoiding aids disease!?!.
instead of sodom the bro(tm) pronounced it 'sow dom'.
Brother carpetcleaner, the WT study conductor was on the platform, trying to sound intelligent as he postulated how Big J's attack on the real world would start. He thought the technology would be neutralised with an electromagnetic pulse (uncharacteristically smart, i agree) caused by "The sun throwing off a bit. A mass ejaculation".
Think he meant a coronal mass ejection.
i ran across this while i was lookin up a reference from another post.
here's a summary.
july 2013 wt.
Hello PleiadesPoliceman, my bad, I got Serenity and Firefly mixed up. I'm in the UK so I don't think Firefly made it over here, unless it was on cable. I've just got the download of it. As a mere study who commented in the meetings with the frequency of Halley's Comet, I was in the habit of slipping lines from science fiction in, just to see if anyone noticed. Never did. Amazing how easily you can pass off "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" and "live long and prosper" as scriptural.
Punk, I've always wondered the same thing, these so-called experiences are nothing more than an over exaggerated modern parable designed to elicit a specific emotional response. Rather like Pavlov's dog. How many times can you hear about Brother Andre or Sister Mary, who lives in the rainforest but still pioneers and never misses a meeting despite having to drag their carcase through 50 miles of swamp whilst having malaria, beri beri, amoebic dysentery and a wooden leg (so why aren't you doing more, you slacking, bone idle, lazy arse proles).
i ran across this while i was lookin up a reference from another post.
here's a summary.
july 2013 wt.
To paraphrase a line from the movie "Firefly", this whole religion is nothing but "a long wait for a train don't come". This activist, if he even exists, will soon get sick of waiting for the train don't come. He'll see continuing animal suffering, whilst being told to wait on jehovah. Really? The same perpetually pissed deity who delights in waterlogged mass extinction events? Whose terrestrial mouthpiece depicts ginger cats being thrown into the abyss when the big "A" hits? Who brands pets as false gods, and seems to think the only good animal is one on a plate or a sacrificial altar?
"Wait on jehovah" is nothing more than a worthless panacea, a promise of jam tomorrow. It does nothing to ease today's empty belly. Anyone who gives a damn about the other inhabitants of this planet, whatever their species, will soon be driven out of the WTS. They've been doing nothing but treading water for 130 years with nothing of any benefit to anyone or anything to show for it. The apathy, indifference and pointlessness of it all will be more than they can bear.
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the unwary may adopt the same view of theocratic arrangements.
they may be unwilling to go along with congregation procedures and may even complain about anything not to their liking.
Education is their kryptonite. Knowledge inoculates you against the torrent of dumbassery that flows forth from the platfom every meeting. The WTS tells you what to think, but higher education teaches you how to think. To assess, to analyse, to evaluate impartially.
An intelligent, educated publisher is their greatest fear, someone who sees straight through the fallacies and flawed logic.
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the unwary may adopt the same view of theocratic arrangements.
they may be unwilling to go along with congregation procedures and may even complain about anything not to their liking.
They are the only group on this planet that promotes ignorance as a virtue.
I'm reminded of a conversation I had with the MS with whom I was studying, in which I was complaining loudly and vociferously about their anti education stance. He responded "Are you calling the Witnesses stupid, then?"
My answer was "No, I'm calling you ignorant. To be ignorant is to be without knowledge. Thinking that's a good idea is stupid."
Shortly after I was dropped as a study...
this weeks watchtower study contains an image that depicts the hierarchy of the org, with the picture showing god and the angels, followed by the governing body directly underneath heaven.. and the rest descending further away from it.. (check the following link, my description isn't the best.
) "the earthly part of jehovahs organization includes: 1.the governing body 2.branch committees 3.travelling overseers 4.bodies of elders 5.congregations 6.individual publishers very subtle.. http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20130415/do-not-tire-out/.
Precisely, Vidqun, in this image the GB have usurped Jesus' role as head.
Unless they've printed him in invisible ink, to mirror his invisible return..?
this weeks watchtower study contains an image that depicts the hierarchy of the org, with the picture showing god and the angels, followed by the governing body directly underneath heaven.. and the rest descending further away from it.. (check the following link, my description isn't the best.
) "the earthly part of jehovahs organization includes: 1.the governing body 2.branch committees 3.travelling overseers 4.bodies of elders 5.congregations 6.individual publishers very subtle.. http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20130415/do-not-tire-out/.
About as subtle as amoebic dysentery and explosive diarrhoea. The holy-holy GB depicted in their comfy chairs, perched on top of the world, and with god himself on his celestial segway directly overhead, with no-one in between. The implication being the GB have a direct line to god and are answerable to no-one. Stalin would have been proud of this little piece of propaganda.
Can't help wondering how many rank & file dubs will see this as anything suspect though?
i noticed over the years how bros & sis(tm) would pronounce words/names differently or totally substitute them so as not to sound offensive.. egs:.
instead of 'bible aids' a bro(tm) said 'bible helps' thus avoiding aids disease!?!.
instead of sodom the bro(tm) pronounced it 'sow dom'.
Sometimes it worked the other way. I remember Brother Nice-But-Dim doing his part for the Muppet Show (TMS) and speaking about burning braziers. Except he pronounced it burning brazieres.
Maybe he had a thing for hot ligerie.
is anyone able to post this years dc badge for printing?.
i'm a man with a plan .
mawahhhhhhh!.
"Millions now living will never die".
You want deception? How about that.
Millions then living are now dead.
i'm just curious if jwn is as busy as it was even a year or two ago?
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sometimes it seems this place buzzes and other times, not so much....but maybe it's all in my head..
A year ago we were enjoying the self-inflicted wound that was the "Summer Of Sparlock". YouTube postings, WTS frantically getting them taken down, dubbies in denial claiming it was fake, 4Chan putting the boot in, parody videos etc. It was fun, and it had the board buzzing.
This year doesn't have the same level of dubbish dumbassery. The convention releases work better than valium, and there's nothing to hold up as ridiculous. True, the July WT helps raise the BS quotient, but it's probably too convoluted for many dubs to understand all of it's implications, and it lacks the instant "grab factor" of the little purple plastic fella.
Basically, this year they're just trying to bore us into submission.
