Too many questions unanswered.
Posts by zeb
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My Father's Last Words
by Terry inmy father's last words_______in 1972, i was 25 years old following a strong impulse carrying me 1,500 milesaway from home in fort worth, texas.i intended to find him - my dad.
he’d left when i was about half a year old.his home in detroit, michigan had been the first house i lived in at age zero.
i knocked on his door and he answered.
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zeb
Terry,
Live long and prosper in peace, wisdom and love..
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Disaster Preparedness Training - WTF is that?
by wannabefree ini'm making plans for next weekend and my wife says she's not available saturday.
"is there an assembly?
" i asked.. no, disaster preparedness course (or something like that) at the kingdom hall.. is this new?
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zeb
what possibly could this be from a wt perspective.?? hide literature??, send us your $$, have 'secret' meetings??
Yes details please.What country was this please?I tried to get my uber wife interested in having a very modest store of canned food and other bits and pieces but because the idea didnt come from the kh there was no co-operation.
My idea was to have some stuff on hand if there was a disaster of some sort that cut off food supplies temporarily.
Her telling comment was obtuse "whos to say we will be here (home) when it (it..?) happens.
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Why are they still so obsessed with Dr Spock?
by purrpurr incomment in today's wt, was about dr spock, and his book "that every parent in the world read" apparently (!).
if it wasn't for the wt's obsessions with the guy i would have no idea who he was, neither i suspect would the vast majority of the congregation.
there has been a mass of parenting books written since and yet they keep harking back to this one.. do they have no idea how out of touch this makes them seem?.
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zeb
I remember hearing that 'not pick them up thing' from the [platform and an elder denied, denied, denied it all later I told him Im not silly nor a liar. He went scarlet.
Such a practice is another indicator why so many jw are emotional train wrecks.
But what can you expect from an org masters that have not had kids of their own.
and Spock never said half the things accredited to him; it was people in America and elsewhere reading his work and taking it to extremes.
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Something ToThink About
by Hairtrigger inhttps://youtu.be/23sydkfkfou.
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this a possibility where the money is going?.
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zeb
'where the carcass lies the eagles gather'..
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The suffering and anguish that “NEW LIGHT’ has caused.
by I believe in overlapping inthe watchtower paints new light as a blessing from jehovah.
they have convinced the members that the way jehovah works is that he reveals information in small spurts of truth.
and little by little the path of all those following the instructions becomes clearer and clearer.
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zeb
re the call up for war.
I was one who was conscripted for the Vietnam war. (Yes Australia was involved.) I was told by the elders to tell the court in applying for conscientious objection was MY idea alone and that alternative service was a non no.
So prison was going to be it.
There was no mention of the wts paying legal costs and from memory the elders never came near my suffering mum and dad. Dad had been to the WW2 and Mum was at home waiting the dreaded telegram and here they were now about to go through it all again thanks to the crawl up Americas arse Liberal party government.
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Is the Governing Body under estimating the volume of those waking up?
by I believe in overlapping inwith all the scandals of the organization, it would .
be sound and logical from a human or strategic viewpoint,.
that they loosen the reins of control and be more honest with its members.
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zeb
Australian and other world governments please note.
The GB have said that jw may be asked to do things distant from a human understanding and could suggest.. (!) every one sign over their own homes or 'super funds to the WT (Jehovah will look after you) and many will do so. The WT is about getting every dollar out of its people it can. It faces an aging membership and they have in the main no super (retirement saving) and can not donate any more than they have.The WT is capable of anything.
Anyone remember the scene where they wanted kids to start a money box so they could donate their ice cream money to the WT?
This will mean when that fountain has dried up a very large body of people then going to the various government depts or charities to house them.
Governments like Australia's.. wake up!
people here who have major disabilities now cant get a disability pension due to impossible to meet criteria and the government should be looking very hard at the WT and its $$ exporting business.
- remove the WT charity exemption of the WT
- stop the exporting of $ to the US head office
- lean on them to sign on to the National Redress Scheme.
- remove the WT charity exemption of the WT
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Now Canada's Turn
by newsheep injust got a phone call this morning from a very upset anointed brother.
he said he didn't believe me when i told him about the pedo problem and selling off of halls.
he said he was disgusted with the watchtower and had to go to a special meeting last night.
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zeb
This ongoing sell off tells me evermore that the gb are not running the show at all its being run by some very nasty lawyer/accountant types who have attached themselves like limpets to the wt operation because of the mountain of cash and cashcows therein.
Once the $$ pile gets below a certain level they will cut and run leaving whatever remains of the congs to their fate whatever that may be; indeed this is perhaps what is happening with all these congs that are being sold up?
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Crying at the Kingdom Hall these past 2 weeks
by James Jack ini didn't go to the first sunday(7/14/19) meeting discussing "child abuse".
but i did ask a sister who i work with: how did it go at the watchtower study yesterday?
she said: "i cried throughout the meeting".
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zeb
JJ all the more reason for the US to hold a full commission of inquiry into the matter as we held here in Australia.
and the tears.. I can only wonder at my uber wife's response to this article as she must have considered the abuse her/our own suffered a the hands of that 'perfect' brother.