Posts by Calebs Airplane

In JW Land, it's wrong to place children on a pedestal or honor them like worldly people do with birthdays, etc.. But it's OK to place them on a pedestal in front of 100 people and then give them a great round of applause (as long as this will help remedy their youth retention issues)...

Another point I'd like to make.... S A F E T Y F I R S T ! ! !

Who was the idiot who put this kid in harm's way by making him climb on a chair with flip-flops on... that's an accident waiting to happen... after many decades of j-dub children giving parts from the platform, you'd think the WT would have already fabricated podiums for children by now... morons...

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GATED COMMUNITIES IN PUERTO RICO: ACCESS CODES and REMOTES must be provided to the WATCHTOWER CORPORATION by APRIL 23, 2013...

by Calebs Airplane in

this case is in it's 9th year an has been touched upon briefly on and off.. the latest from the federal court is that all gated communites in puerto rico have until april 23 to provide the watchtower corporation full access.... this means the entry code or remote control devices that open the front fence.. this is clearly an act of provocation in order to create "pseudo-persecution" thereby increasing fs hours and "voluntary donations"....

Calebs Airplane

Band on the Run... sorry I missed your question...

This law originated in 1987. Basically, it allows certain exisiting neighborhoods and future developments to close off the neighborhood and create limited access points (usually 1 but sometimes 2). These access points (or front gate, if you like) are intended to simply "control" vehicle access. This means that a guard is placed at the front gate and will ask everyone who doesn't have a remote (to open the gate) what they intend to do once they enter the gate (visit someone, pass out fliers, whatever). The gaurd then writes down the license plate and the visitor is free to enter since all streets in Puerto Rico are considered to be public.

However, over the years, people on the island have slowly lost sight of the intent of this law and it later became a generally accepted assumption that only residents and visitors were allowed access (aside from the obvious... trash pick-up, FedEx, UPS, etc.).

It's a little more complicated than that... but that's the gist of it...

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Why do they call it the New World Translation?

by Tameria2001 in

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does anyone know why the watchtower named their bible the new world translation of the holy scriptures?

it's been awhile since i have even had any of their books in my home, and most of the time i don't think about it.

i don't know why, but when i think of that title, the phrase new world order keeps popping up in my mind..

Calebs Airplane

When this Bible was first published, the Watchtower Corporation (or should I just say Frederick Franz?) had already been publishing several books and Watchtower articles that contained the Masonic phrase "New World Order". It became the catch phrase that would also be frequently heard in conversations between JWs. However, eventually many JWs began to write the Society to question the use of this Masonic phrase, so this catch phrase later evolved into "New Order", then "New System of Things", then just "New System". But the name "New World Translation" is based on the Freemason's phrase "New World Order".

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What will the JW religion be like in 2015?

by JimmyPage in

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over 100 years into the reign of christ and six more years of damage from the internet.

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what do you envision?.

Calebs Airplane

mass exodus will start in November 2014 and JW population will probably drop to just under 6 million by the end on 2017 before stabilizing again after some bull shit NuLite explaining away Jesus' falling asleep as the wheel...

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People who pioneer on government assistance

by ilikecheese in

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i had a chat with my boyfriend about this, and he said that he knows quite a few pioneers who are capable of working but prefer to pioneer with government assistance.

his thought was, "well, it's kind of bad, but at least they're doing something useful/good with their time.

" i know from reading this board that it's a pretty widespread thing.

Calebs Airplane

Shirley... that is rare. Most elders are happy to show the CO how many pio-sneers they have in their congo while hiding the fact that some may be getting by on workmen's comp or other state-funded benefits... In my ex-congo, there is elder/pioneer who is on workmen's comp, yet he frequently performs cleaning duties at assemblies and garden work at the KH...

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 05-12-2013 WT Study (HEART)

by blondie in

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i will give them a. heart to know me, that.

figs: i will give them a heart to know me, that i. am jehovah; and they must become my people.

give them a heart to know him.

Calebs Airplane

You guys are all missing the point here. What the writer is trying to say in this article is that when a fig is cut open a certain way, it will have the appearance of an uncircumcised vagina (if you have an uncircumcised heart)...

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What was the recent change made regarding baptisms?

by Witness My Fury in

just saw a post by splash on the commision transcript thread: (pasted below).

we had a talk at our hall recently, basically saying that there have been lots of letters written to the uk branch, questioning and complaining about a new change introduced for the baptisms at the sad and ca.. the talk did not try to reason, it did not try to explain.. the talk was "do as you are told, don't question what you are told".. we were told to do as the song instructs us "listen, obey and be blessed".. we were told that this change was from jehovah so keep up with his chariot.. i think this talk was given in quite a few locations around the country.. what was that all about please?.

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Calebs Airplane

Thanks Atlantis...

So un-baptized publishers infected with HIV are to be taken to a nearby river if they want to get baptized??? How demeaning...

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Pumping up Field Service Time to the Billions of Hours

by RayPublisher in

we know that wt has been inflating the hours spent for a long time so that their "growth" looks good on paper and for bragging rights.

here is a quote from the 2008 km:.

*** km 9/08 p. 3 question box ***.

Calebs Airplane

Ray P... you're right! ... those Secretaries don't want a shit storm when the CO arrives and finds low hours or missing hours on those congo reports... They'll fudge the numbers however they need to just to get the heat off of them... Then they might pray to Jehovah for forgiveness or simply "reason it away" like they're trained to do with everything else...