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  If the Watchtower corporation went bust

  by Fred Franztone in

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  2. friends

  what do you think would happen to jehovah's witnesses as a religion and as a people?.

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  What would "bust" look like anyway?

  They would be just fine, they would have a "bust" contingency plan.
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  Clearly, undeniably, without doubt ... is there a term for introducing a thought in such a way.

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".

  for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.

  "jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.

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  These words are popular with advertising companies as well.

  Politicians love them also.

  The media like to imbibe occasionally but, fake news and gossip rags even more so.

  Conmen and scammers love them.

  Tele marketers think these words are great.

  These words are used in clickbait sites all the time.

  Hmm, I'm detecting a pattern here. 🤔
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  Sunday's Watchtower Study March 18... Another Money Appeal

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  january 2018 issue "why give to the one who has everything?

  an unashamed contribution appeal... this one with the most manipulative language i can imagine... it may have been commented on before, but i am going to anyway.. p5 quote.

  "would you not agree that jehovah is worthy of all the glory and honor that we can give him by offering the best that we have?

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  I do like the thought of them squirming uncomfortably because the "the money of the greater number is cooling off" and their "money waters are drying up" but, it is strange that if they are in such desperate need for money they would not put a bit more effort into customer satisfaction and figuring out why people leave or stop donating - but they don't seem to care at all about the lost donations from lost sheep. So could they really be that hard up if they're still not willing to care about that to actually do more?

  Like doing more to prevent unhappy, disatisfied customers/members leaving in the first place by finding out why they are leaving and making genuine efforts to make the congregation experience a more positive one - but they don't.

  Making more of a genuine effort to woo back lapsed members. There is sooooo much more they could do without resorting to what amounts to religious bullying, threats and emotional blackmail to woo back the old customer base - but they don't.

  The so-called "witnessing" recruiting that gets done now is pathetic, yeilding pathetic results and yet that doesn't appear to bother them either. Not exactly the attitude of an org in dire straights.
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  Special Talk today was televised

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i heard the special talk today was televised (recorded, i presume).

  the speaker was named griffin.

  did anyone catch his first name or where he was from?.

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  Big Brother WT style.
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  What are the big black tanks that were installed and buried at Beth Sarim?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  i have been watching this video.

  at about the 4:40 mark, the footage shows a big black tank with two windows (they look like windows).

  at the 4:46 mark, you can 2 of the tanks already in the ground and they being installing a third one.

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  My guess would be water tanks as well.

  This folks is how a cult leader lives.
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  The next time I see the cart babysitters

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the next time i see the jdubs standing or sitting by their carts sipping their coffee lattes or updating their facebook pages, i am going to approach them with the following thought process acting as an interested person.. do jw's believe the end is near?.

  do you consider your preaching work to be urgent?.

  why do you just let people walk by if their very lives are at stake?

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  Cartsitters are J-duds. Useless for any kind of discussion let alone intelligent discussion about their beliefs. The whole cart thing is just one of the ways the borg can claim they do "volunteer" work.
  
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  Cart observations from Cardiff South Wales

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was in a suburb of cardiff, capital of wales where it was difficult to get near to my customer's offices to deliver and install what i do.

  i had my car parked about a hundred yards away and had to make several trips with goods and tools past a local jw trolley cart.

  as i was working i didn't stop but observed much of the time from an upper floor office window.. in the hour or so i was there, on a warm sunny (for late february) lunchtime/early afternoon - right by a bus stop and several local shops, cafes and banks with plenty of people about - not one person stopped at the cart.. the two women at the cart i guess were about 50 and 75 respectively - pleasant looking motherly/grandmotherly types.

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  I saw a gang of five on the lawn outside the entrance to a polytechnic.

  Lawn chairs, picnic blankies and hampers the whole shabang. They were way off from the path that led to the main entrance too, you would have to actually go across the lawn a little ways to approach the cart. There they were all sprawled out there like a bunch of rich people in the thirties enjoying a day on the green.
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  Guardian Newspaper

  by Phoebe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just to say, the guardian investigative reporter who is looking into child abuse among jws rang me today as i had completed the form linked to their recent article.. we had a nice chat, she asked me for some details about my particular experience and asked me to spread the word as they are looking for more abuse victims.

  her new article will probably come out in 10 days, so look out for it.. if you are in the uk and you are a victim or know of one, this is an opportunity to speak out and you can remain anonymous, as i have done.

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  Good for you Phoebe, it takes courage to speak out.
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  Life is a bag of Sh^t

  by JRK in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  happy st. paddy's day.. that being said, life is a bag of shit.. so please give me some sort of positivity in this post.. i wish i could get it from whom i would like it from, but that is a bullshit dream.. life sucks then you die!.

  jk.

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  Speaking of painting, have you tried it - very theraputic.

  Failing that, weed + the family guy = happiness done. 😆
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  JWs line up to have Gov. Body members autograph bibles.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was watching some of the videos on line and marc and cora had one where they said that after zone talks the gov body members would autograph bibles.

  anyone have any video of this?.

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  Atlantis posted a link to it but there is the shameless photo op we are all familiar with fro the WT.

  I wouldn't think it beneath the current crop of GB fanboys and girls (of which I'd say there are plenty) to ask the current GB members for them to sign their bible (or their bra for that matter) and for the GB to oblige - happily.