W.T January 1, 2006

by Diogenes 25 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  AuldSoul

  It is very odd that tabulation takes longer now than it used to.

  I am certain the delay (I think it is March now) gives more time for Secretaries to hit up publishers for their Field Service Report for missing months. At the end of one service year, I had a Secretary tell me to estimate when it was discovered I was missing two months from near the beginning of the service year. I did. I should have padded it nicely, "120 hours, 42 mags, 823 return visits, 16 babble studies, 73 brochures, 119 books." I wonder if he would have recorded it?

  AuldSoul
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  kgfreeperson

  It occurs to me that their message is less anti-education as it is anti-success and anti-personal responsibility. Their argument against education seems to be based on the idea (if you can call it that) the only reason for education is career success. So their argument is an argument for perpetual and abject poverty.
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  Mary

  Here what it reads like unedited:

  "...Anyone who does not trust firmly in the Governing Body's mindless drivel Jehovah might think they're full of shit differently. The majority of humans view material wealth as a major key to security because it generally provides a pension, benefits and a good wage. Hence, parents have encouraged their offspring to invest much of their young adulthood in higher education, knowing hoping that it will prepare them for well-paying careers. Thank Almighty God on bended knee that Sadly some Christian families have found the cost of such an investment to be the smartest thing they ever did to be very high, as their children were finally able to think for themselves and realized this religion duped them have lost spiritual focus and no longer believe the crap that churns out of Brooklyn turned to pursuing materialistic goals.."
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  stillajwexelder

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/102007/1.ashx
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  BluesBrother

  Anyone who does not trust firmly in Jehovah might think differently

  Classic piece of fallacious reasoning. An appeal to emotion or flattery. The implication is that if you don't agree with them , and send your kids to college or university , then you do not trust firmly in Jehovah. And what sort of a person does not trust Jehovah? Those selfish worldly ones who only are out for themselves, that's who . Now who wants to be like that ............

  This blurring of the word of god with the word of Watchtower Society has kept them in power for too long
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  yaddayadda

  Quit complaining. There's nothing wrong with toilet cleaning, window cleaning, and carpet cleaning.
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  sf

  "Sadly some Christian families have found the cost of such an investment to be very high, as their children have lost spiritual focus and turned to pursuing materialistic goals".

  LOL!!! Yet is seriously allowed for certain adults, among the sKank and Vile.

  TED JARACZ: Seriously brother, the clock is ticking on the days left until THE TRUTH about your fraudulent book publishing organization [ FRONT ] opens wide. Are you seriously prepared for that day? I tell you this...you seriously had better be. Tick tock, tick tock goes the Watchtowers Demise Klock...{repeat in the mirror twice a day for one month...AFFIRM IT}

  sKally
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  JH

  What I can't understand is that when I attended meetings 15 years ago, it was bad to go to college, then I went to a few meetings about 7 months ago, and a few times they said that it was good to get a college degree . I couldn't believe what I heard, and now you're saying that it's looked down upon...

  So, I guess they changed again.
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  sf

  Oh, and Mary...you seriously kick ass lady.

  sKally
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  Blueblades

  Undercover! That's a good one, doctoring the numbers game takes a little longer, so we won't be putting them in the Jan. issue.