Well people are being served unhealthy food at the kingdom hall.
"I'll have one generation burger - uh no, make that an overlapping generation burger."
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Kingdom Hall ... BURGER KING?
by sparky1 ini live in a very rural part of the northeastern united states.
after 9 years of waiting, the local witnesses are getting their new kingdom hall.
it is being built on a back road next to a sandpit.
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Is it true the society were considering disfellowshipping overweight people in the 1980s?
by UnshackleTheChains ini just saw the video below and thought 'no way' !!!.
but then given the obsessive amount of rules they have, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that this was at least considered.
if there is some credibility to this, then they most certainly have gone beyond the pale!.
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I don't have a clue but I do remember that they had articles on Gluttony.
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What is you 'red line'?
by no-zombie intoday we hear a lot about red lines in political commentaries these days.
but for those of us who are pimos, what be your red line?
what would be the doctrinal change or event that would tip you over the edge into leaving for good, regardless of the repercussions?
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no zombie - when they changed from zero blood to fractions, it bothered me because they so strongly emphasized in the past, zero tolerance. It bothered older ones too. But none left. They may have said to themselves that they wouldn't take any blood but if others did, well that was their conscience.....
Some might leave or realize that it couldn't be right to just change it. But in the past there was something similar with organ transplants. Who knows how many died obeying them, I know of one. But when it changed, a bunch of JW's didn't leave. So I'm sure some would but not a lot. I'm not a pimo by the way.
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The awake on my doorstep
by days of future passed ini occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house.
this time it was an awake.
is the world out of control?.
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steve 2 - Loong day at work so I couldn't answer you. At the beginning of the article, the doomsday clock is just before 12:00 right? If it does go to 12, it would mean no hope - destruction of the world we know. The second illustration of the clock is 12:05 and it shows a man in paradise. In JW land it means that god has saved the world and the clock now goes on forever....
What it really means tho, is that God is the doom that struck at 12 and took out all the "bad" people. Yeah instead of a nuclear annihilation, it is God that destroys the majority of humans.
And talking about words, the word "bad" is used in the articles. A label that to a Jw means evil. It is also the black and white thinking the WT gets people accustomed to, so that it is easy not to think of "worldly" people as well, people. Tony the III also turns humans into "hotdogs" Since I was raised in the "truth" since I was 5, I also thought in black in white. You don't know it of course.
The magazine left on the porch, could have been left by an annoying Jw that wants to count time on me and believes that she is motivated by love to save me. The last time a set of magazines were left, I didn't pick them up and two days later, they were gone! Guess she (or ?) didn't want to waste the precious mags.
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The awake on my doorstep
by days of future passed ini occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house.
this time it was an awake.
is the world out of control?.
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I occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house. This time it was an awake. IS THE WORLD OUT OF CONTROL?
It is not that it is earth shaking or surprising in the content - but there were some things that stood out to me. One is the font choice for the main article. It is in all caps but the first part of the title - it's line stroke is only as wide as an eyelash and the last two words more in bold. Something like this "IS THE WORLD OUT OF CONTROL OR NOT?"
Apparently the WT is attacking the thought that life has improved and that people are working to better things. Here is the last paragraph on the first page.
"In fact, millions of people believe in a bright future. They profess to have evidence showing that mankind and our planet will survive indefinitely and that our quality of life will improve. Is that evidence credible? Is the world out of control or not?"
Of course the doomsday clock is the illustration and at the bottom, the reason why the scientists call it that. The next page shows illos of tornados, factory pollution and a person in a hospital bed. Oh and half a mushroom atomic cloud.
Opening sentence on this page. "IF YOU (caps their's) are apprehensive or scared outright by the barrage of bad news, you are not alone. In 2014, Barack Obama, who was then president of the United States, suggested that because of all the bad things reported in the press, many conclude "that the world is spinning . . . . fast and nobody is able to control it."
Titles in red that go with the pictures mentioned before hand. OUR HEALTH UNDER SIEGE. HUMAN'S ATTACKS ON NATURE. NATURE'S ATTACKS ON HUMANS. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
Concluding sentence in article. "Surely you can think of other grave threats to our survival. Yet, you will not find statisfying answers about the future by analyzing all the bad things happening today." Of course it finishes with the question of where can you find the answers to these problems....
Again with the spidery lettering and bold "IS THE WORLD OUT OF CONTROL? What Does the Bible Say?" Now they have the second part in the more friendly Upper Lowercase.
Opening comment paragraph has an interesting shift from black text, to red. "THE dire state of the world today was foretold in the Bible many centuries ago. And what is more, the bible specifically predicted a bright future for mankind. (RED) What the Bible says should not be quickly dismissed in view of the fact that so much of what it foretells has actually been fulfilled in amazing detail.
There's a list of evidences from the bible next - punctuated by red text of more negative remarks about the world. Next page shows the doomsday clock past 12:00 but there is a man in a surprised position in paradise next to it. Of course it is because JW's are a global community that worship God and expect him to save them.
The next two pages are on how to make sure you teach your children humility. Which is fine except I'm sure the WT's aim is to make sure JW children aren't given positive unconditional love. It is true that if you only praise children and don't give guidelines on conduct, they will tend to expect everything is for them. But how many JW kids get pampered? It is not that the information is incorrect but I don't trust the motive behind it. Because of course, there is the common put down in JW land that you are a speck of dust that doesn't deserve anything so be humble.
Last article is about Alhazen. Man who was a scientist/inventor. Made the first recorded camera obscura. Wrote seven books about Optics that laid the ground work for lenses etc. Best sentences for the magazine is found at the end.
"He was one of the first investigators to test theories by experimentation, and he was not afraid to question accepted wisdom if the evidence did not back it up."
"A tenet of modern science can be summed up by the dictum: "Prove what you believe!" Some consider Alhazen to be "the father of the modern scientific method." On that basis, we have much to thank him for."
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From enemies to friends: Did it really happen?
by StephaneLaliberte inyesterday, they showed the story “from enemies to friends” at the kingdom hall.
my mother in law told me about it as she was touched by the story.
so then, later in the evening, i searched for the video and found it in the january 1st 2017 broadcast.
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On another thread they had a vid of person reviewing Tony Tight Pants rave about, well you know. On the side suggestion list was another talk by Tony - beware of the bird catcher. If you want to hear one fake story after another (followed by tony's high pitch laughter) just watch. Or don't and save your mind....
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New Light
by Lost in the fog inam i the only one who can't reconcile new light with the light gets brighter?
if it matters at all.
i bring a candle into my house and light it.
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I've tried to think of different ways of showing the craziness of that idea. In your illustration, you've missed one aspect.
After tossing the old candle and lighting the new, you realize that the brightest light was the old candle. So you relight it. Ooops, no the new one was brighter. Ooops no the old one...
Will those that were Destroyed in Sodom and Gomorrah be Resurrected? Yes, No, Yes, and NO...maybe yesss......
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Heinrich Himmler and the Jehovah's Witnesses
by OrphanCrow inthis is a letter written in july 1944 by heinrich himmler, one of the most powerful men in nazi germany.. i have encountered quotes taken from this letter before but i have never read the letter in its entirety.
this is a translated copy from a russian website:.
http://www.k-istine.ru/sects/iegova_witness/iegova_witness_himmler-02.htm.
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Interesting letter. Very clever on how they want to cause division by giving land to the peasants and then make it a provision that they have to maintain the border.
For some reason, the part about using the JW's, brings to mind the movie "Bridge over the rive Kwai" Alec Guiness leads the prisoners into building the enemies bridge as a matter of pride. Showing off the good skills of the british army. He misses the point that the enemy will use it against them and the allies.
The organization has always proudly pointed out that there were JW barbers that shaved the concentration camp leaders. Did all sorts of trustworthy things etc. Did they know it helped the nazi's?
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Bible Student Movements + surprise announcement from me
by pomo6780 inhello to all pomos, pimos and lurkers!
i would firstly like to introduce myself, as i should have done in my initial post.
i will remain anonymous for this website.
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Hahaha good way to expose your deepest trolling insensitive habits.
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The Phonograph and the Cart
by days of future passed inthese special pioneers took the lead in the phonograph work when the society voluntarily withdrew from commercial use of the radio.. to learn of the effectiveness of this new program let's read from the 1940 yearbook, which presents the report for the 1939 service year:.
the special pioneer work was announced at the columbus convention in september, 1937, and that work has continued now for two years with good results.
when the special pioneer work began the company publishers were not convinced of the value of making back-calls and the regular daily use of the phonograph.. about 200 specially chosen pioneers throughout the country took upon themselves the responsibility of really putting to use the phonograph.
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What I was saying was, they made a lot of money on the phonograph and somehow they make money on the carts too. I don't think the watchtower makes the carts. But they certainly wouldn't let a 3rd party get all the money either. Just shows that the WT recycles ideas. Pretty soon they will own a bank that handles all the atm transactions so they can charge an extra fee for JW's contributions. Why not?