Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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Gaslighting

by mann377 in

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friends

ever heard of it?

i have but never realized the full meaning.

this is the tactic the wtbs uses to control people.

dropoffyourkeylee

OK, I just watched the movie from the previous post. Very good. It is 1:24 long, for those who are interested.

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"No junk mail". How witnesses ignore these signs!

by stuckinarut2 in

as we know, many people have "no junk mail" signs on their home letterboxes.

this clearly means that they do not want unsolicited mail or advertising material.. so how are witnesses getting around this?.

during the campaign to distribute the convention invitations, when they come across a house with "no junk mail", they are just putting the leaflet inside an envelope and hand writing "to the householder" on the front and putting it in the letterbox!.

dropoffyourkeylee

John is right, in the US it is illegal to put thungs like that in a mailbox.

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Gaslighting

by mann377 in

jw
friends

ever heard of it?

i have but never realized the full meaning.

this is the tactic the wtbs uses to control people.

dropoffyourkeylee

Thanks jd I'll definitely watch it soon.

18

If they stopped the monthly report card ?

by Chook in

witnessing would cease, would it flow on to attendance numbers at meetings and then total decimation of the church..

dropoffyourkeylee

I believe that Reporting and recording of time spent preaching was started primarily to document a persons qualification as a 'minister', which was needed for draft issues in the US. As long as that need exists, the requirement to report time will continue.

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The Irony of 2017's RC "Don't Give Up" Theme

by steve2 in

if the end is oh-so-very-near why the exhortation rammed home during the convention to "don't give up.

if humankind is poised right on the knife edge of the end, the sense of urgency in the organization would be breathtakingly palpable.

urgency?

dropoffyourkeylee

If their theme is 'now's not the time to jump ship!', then all it means is that a lot of people are indeed doing just that.

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Russell's Pyramidology Originated In Edinburgh Scotland

by cofty in

the edinburgh city observatory sits atop calton hill at the east end of the city centre adjacent to burn's monument, scotland's national monument modelled on the parthenon, and nelson's monument with the time ball that falls at 1pm every day except sundays.. .

the second astronomer royal of edinburgh was charles piazzi smyth (jan. 1819 - feb. 1900).

smyth was a man of many and varied interests including meteorology, producing weather observations that still form an important part of uk climate records to this day.. building on the work of james taylor, smyth became fascinated by the great pyramid of egypt at giza.

dropoffyourkeylee

I used to have a book by John and Morton Edgar, two Scotsman who were Bible Students in Russells time ( I think they left the WT later). The book was much more elaborate than Russell's writing on the subject.

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Are You Raising An Introvert?

by darth frosty in

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its not easy being an introvert in an extrovert worldespecially when youre a kid.

it is even more difficult if none of the adults in the kids life recognize that the child is an introvert.

this doesnt happen only when the childs parents are extroverts, but also with introverted parents who have never understood their own introverted nature.. .