Cart work = volunteers = charity = tax exempt.
The only reason WT does anything to keep their tax free donation $$$.
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Visiting Japan and saw one of those Carts. What is the purpose of those book carts for the borg?
by adjusted knowledge ini'm in japan for three weeks visiting my sister-in-law and brother.
the people are so polite and i came across two female jw using the cart.
it is the same experience i noticed back in the states.
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Spiritual Welfare
by wheelwithinwheel inthis year’s “don’t give up” convention encourages theocratic welfare.
brother pioneer is doing a lot of carting and having trouble making ends meet.
his landlord doesn’t get it and decides to evict him and his wife.. .
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Guilting the individual members of the congregations that do work to feel responsible for the ones who refuse to look after themselves adequately because they choose instead to advertise for the borg fulltime and for free.
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WT shirking it's responsibility towards it's own volunteers - as usual.
Side note : I ve never met a pioneer who wasn't a whiny me, me, me freeloading bitch.
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JW Grandparent Drama
by What Now? inmy mom and sisters have not had any contact with my family for the past year and a half.. we even recently announced a new pregnancy and none of them acknowledged it or called to say congratulations or anything.. this past week my non-witness grandfather passed away and i had thought that for the sake of his death and funeral, it being "necessary family business" that they would at least be civil in front of our other family.
all of them still ignored me, my sisters didn't even speak to my children at all - to be honest i don't think my kids even knew who they were.
for the sake of my grandmother i made a small attempt at the end of the day to say goodbye to my mother and she kind of just brushed past me and said goodbye without really looking at me.. anyways my grandmother told me later that my mom spoke to her and said "i love my daughter and i love my grandchildren and i'm so upset that she won't allow me to see them".
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In any situation other than "religious rights" this type of "family" behavior would be called out for what it is - petty, passive aggressive and disgracefully using religion as a weapon.
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Ritualistic behaviour within the JW faith
by stuckinarut2 ini was thinking about how the society criticises other faiths such as catholics because of their ritualistic procedures.. but couldn't it be said that witnesses have their own deeply ritualistic behaviours?.
think about the prayers said at meetings.
they all have to follow the same basic style and theme, and include the same basic content.. what about the ritualistic procedures of the memorial, and the passing of emblems - even to the servers and speaker (although they actually handle them more than everyone, they do their own special act of passing them to each other).
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In other cult news JWs have their own language! Lol. Repetitive riualized behaviors are very important to keeping people under the spell of indoctrination.
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JW Grandparent Drama
by What Now? inmy mom and sisters have not had any contact with my family for the past year and a half.. we even recently announced a new pregnancy and none of them acknowledged it or called to say congratulations or anything.. this past week my non-witness grandfather passed away and i had thought that for the sake of his death and funeral, it being "necessary family business" that they would at least be civil in front of our other family.
all of them still ignored me, my sisters didn't even speak to my children at all - to be honest i don't think my kids even knew who they were.
for the sake of my grandmother i made a small attempt at the end of the day to say goodbye to my mother and she kind of just brushed past me and said goodbye without really looking at me.. anyways my grandmother told me later that my mom spoke to her and said "i love my daughter and i love my grandchildren and i'm so upset that she won't allow me to see them".
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No don't let them walk all over you, I wish more people would stand up to JWs rude insulting behavior by just saying No deal! JWs are not "nice" they are narcissistic religious bullies.
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IDEA "new business
by James Mixon inafter seeing tiger woods mug shot the idea hit me, a makeup artist for the famous and rich...i have never seen a mug shot of someone who didn't look like, well you know..weekends you camp out around the police station and charge 20-30 bucks to clean up arrestee(you the makeup artist) before taking their mug shot..i'am sure tiger would have paid big bucks.
i have never taken a mug shot but why don't they offer the folks a mirror......of course you will need to make arrangement with the law but i think it's a good idea to make folks presentable.
i'am sure some folks are declared guilty by just looking at their mug shot..
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I'm sure the fact that it's known as a "mug shot" doesn't help either. So maybe a whole new re-framing of the occasion is required also. The hair and makeup should involve a small twirly black moustache and black suit for men and a jessica rabbit look for the women.
Yeah great idea. If you're gonna look guilty it may as well be hot guilty.
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How Far Up The Ladder Did You Go In JW Land?
by minimus ini pretty much did it all.
vacation pioneered as a youngster and became a regular pioneer out of school.
i became a ms then an elder.....the organization pushes you to be somebody within the confines of their realm.
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You are spot on Bungi Bill all smoke and mirrors.
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Using violence to end violence?
by stuckinarut2 init really is mind blowing when we think about it : witnesses have no problem with a deity who will use violence in order to end violence?!?!.
armageddon will be gods war to kill billions of people...because it shows his love?.
thoughts?.
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They are fine with genocide as long as it's "Jehovah" that's doing the dirty deed like a contract killing, genocide by proxy, one degree of seperation between them and the mass murder.
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Is there truth in religion
by bola ini am asking this questions due to the teachings, beliefs and practices of different religions..
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Probably some common truisms amonst them, general principles that are universally applicable. The stories and accounts themselves are more useful if viewed as allegories as there's usually some kind of moral or lesson to be gleaned, but the lesson the original writer intended is hard to know sometimes because of differences in cultural context . Trouble with religion it treats stories and illistrations as literal and mixes in its own erroneous interpretations or outright lies.