ok bear with me for second on this one..... i was just reading the other day about "pitchf/x", a type of technology that can accurately track whether a pitch in baseball is a ball or a strike.. a couple of analysts went over 6 years of baseball data.. it turns out that umpires are wrong about balls & strikes about 14% of the time.
what they call a "ball" is really a "strike" about 13% of the time, and what they call a "strike" is really a "ball" about 15% of the time.
here is the article.. that's at the major league level.. umpires have to work their way up to the major leagues, just as players do.
DesirousOfChange
A JW friend recently told me that the Elders said JC decisions are never wrong. They are directed by Holy Spirit.
Years back I was told the same thing when this lady committed suicide after she was disfellowshipped. The elder tried to convinced me that the lady would have committed suicide anyway because she committed porneia..
would it really affect them?
how would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable.
any materials they buy would be taxable.
You guys are cracking me up with your descriptions!
TerryWalstrom
The Watchtower and its multiple corporations would have their little white belly turned upward and exposed to ravenous predators
sir82
If there were any hint of that approaching you'd suddenly see more "new light" than an 100,000 candlepower halogen lamp.
Firstly, C.O.'s would lose their "parasite" status
would it really affect them?
how would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable.
any materials they buy would be taxable.
Would it really affect them? How would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable. Any materials they buy would be taxable. Any property they buy would be taxable by the city as property tax assets. Any contributions such as-money, property, Wills and Trusts, would now be taxable according to the law. How would it affect Circuit Overseers since their work would now be considered taxable? Would they now have to pay salaries and social security to the Circuit Overseers and permanent Bethel workers? The work of regular pioneers could be taxable.
Would this bring them down more than the Lawsuits?
Could they continue?
haven't been on this site since fall of last year.
i was very active in spreading awareness and getting information to help me cope with the fact that my mother cut off complete communication with me as of jan 2014, but i guess too much of a good thing was too much for me to handle.
i ended up getting panic/anxiety attacks.
The dr asked me to maybe try and pin point the triggers and so far....looks like it stems from anytime I read or respond to a JW rant about how I"m wrong and they are right. Or it could be an article in the news talking about cults. Anything that is remotely related to JW's gets my blood boiling and I react. I feel really stuck and upset that I always said I was not going to let the Watchtower have an emotional hold on my feelings and space in my head but it seems like they are winning.
You just pin pointed the triggers that cause you distress. You need to stay away from the triggers-JW RANT- that upsets you until you get to the point where you can handle the jw rant. Start filling your mind with anything not related to JWism.
the latest controversy over the confederate flag just sums up to me the state of dysfunction that exists in american society.. in summary: a white supremacist nutter shoots 9 black people dead in a church.
he's clearly inspired by the messages of others which the confederate flag is often a symbol of.. it seems like a no-brainer to remove it.
not only isn't it removed, it isn't even lowered at all as a mark of respect.. and of course now there are the people who want to defend their right to have it.
am i the only one who has single, desperate sisters in the congregation?
they tend to be holier-than-thou, frumpty, but in private talk about getting married.
but they don't understand why no brother will look at them.
ToesUp
Sisters with knee length skirts, high heels and make up = need to be a little more "spiritual."
I guess I was in the None-spiritual - weak - congregation because most of the young sisters wore black pencil tight skirts and bubble dresses 3 or 4 inches above the knees.
Now that I do miss.
all of my years in the truth, i never understood why we had to study before each meeting.
the contents are self-explanatory with the answers to the printed question within the first or the last sentence of the paragraph.
then, commenting never made sense, especially comments and experiences that don't answer the printed question.
Sir82
Our WT conductor bragged, in a service meeting interview, that he literally goes over the article 4 separate times in advance, prior to conducting the study.
I got a better one. An old coot used to brag that he started on Monday and each day after that till Saturday night. Once each day. When the CO heard about it, they had him give his experience in one of the Circuit Assemblies and everyone clapped like crazy. Total hours studying one article, between 12-15 hours.
His wife ran off with a worldly man.
i mean e cigs and vaping.
not even tobacco inhaling but inhaling other stuff like herbs etc.
is this allowed?
If you are in the wrong congregation with the wrong body of elders, they might tell you it is wrong because vaping rhymes with raping.
Just remember YMCA, birthdays, chimes, spanx, and you get the drift.
i know a guy who have more hair in his nose then on his head.
you become older your hair in your nose become gray and it looks as if .
you have a dirty nose.
blondie
Actually, nose hair outside the nose is worse.
a situation regarding this religion has developed which i fear might have negative implications on me and wifes lives, and i'm looking for thoughts and advice in how to approach the situation.
i'll start with some background information to enlighten the situation.. i'm a male in mid-twenties, raised secularly, married to an ex-jw woman (on paper still a jw though), who's been raised in the jw religion, although somewhat untheocratically shall i say.
for instance her mother has 5 children with 3 different men, all non-jws, and has had many other relationships as well.
maksutov
My wife knows enough to know that it is not true, but she still believes.
That the key right there. They need to know "Enough" to know it's not true.
That take research and time, lots of time. When I was in, I saw the bullshit, but it took commitment and lots of time to research thoroughly the Organization and compare it to what the Bible actually teaches. Most people don't have the training to do that kind of research. It was until after I went to College that I learned how to research. It took me about a year of intense research to finally come to the realization that the WT was a cult. There are no short cuts.
