Posts by sparrowdown

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Polish Publishers that became inactive in 2015 will be reported to Branch Office

by wifibandit in

per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.

i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.

report).

sparrowdown

If they made such a list in my area there would be twice as many on the inactive list as there are going to meetings.

If they are stupid enough to think there would only be a handful they need to think again, where I live there are literally more of us than there are of them.

The task of documenting them for a file would be a mammoth undertaking, that most elders have not got the time or inclination for. I can see a lot of publisher cards going missing and collective elder body amnesia occurring.

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Polish Publishers that became inactive in 2015 will be reported to Branch Office

by wifibandit in

per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.

i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.

report).

sparrowdown

Their attempt at evil market research, veiled as loving care.

My guess. They want to make sure they have any potential future troublemakers on file.

Dossiers on the inactive.

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Honor Your Story

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

a recent thread mentioned members who wrote their own story as a book.

you don't have to have an entire book to write your story.

as a matter of fact, you don't have to share your story if you are not up to it.

sparrowdown

I like the idea of honoring our stories. In the borg you're stripped of any individuality and a story, any story is only ever as good as its repeatability factor in order for it go be used to create new converts or for advertising the borg. Otherwise you are treated like your previous non JW existence or your current existence means nothing.

In order to be relevant, I have seen many turn themselves and their families into human JW propoganda machines, spewing forth borg blurbs and spiels wherever they go, all in the hope to be used for that all important service meeting or assembly part.

You never see or hear their story, their real story. You only see this fake synthetic, that looks human and sounds human but is just a WT machine.

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Guardian of Doctrine Admits 'Doesn't Really Matter If Jehovah is Accurate' say it how you want...

by LostGeneration in

tough to watch this whole video, the way he talks gets pretty annoying, especially after the rc hearings:.

http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodstudio/pub-jwban_201506_1_video.

go to around 8:20 where he gets into the pronunciation of jehovah.

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Vidiot- I know what you mean about using the name Jehovah, I was never comfortable with it. I always thought there must be something wrong with me because other brothers and sisters would liberally pepper their conversations and prayers with "Jehovah this..Jehovah that..." as a sign of their superior spirituality.

There was even one sister who told me proudly "me and Jehovah are like that" as she made the entwined fingers sign for closeness.

I used to wonder why Jesus didn't use the name in the model prayer.

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Watch Tower Society owns web domains: www.MT2414.com and www.PS8318.com

by Gilgamesh in

(my apologies if this was already discussed somewhere else.).

i noticed that the domain www.mt2414.com was taken, and when i tested it, it was a mirror of the log in portion of the www.jw.org site, where you can look up assemblies, kingdom halls, and make either one time or recurring donations.

so i created an account there (you can use fake form information as long as it's a real email address for email verification).

sparrowdown

Hmm... the plot thickens.

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JW UN Rumor

by ivanatahan in

jw
friends

yes, i have returned.. a short recap of major events since my inactivity began: i finally revealed to my parents that i do not believe the same thing they believe in (after i was caught smooching my girlfriend by a family of good-for-nothing pieces of human feces), and of course they view themselves as failed parents who were unable to brainwash their children.

that is, of course, the reason why they are much more controlling over what i do in my life now (my mom even tried having a "bible study" with me).

i told them everything and i was unable to dent their jw imposed mind force field, while also exposing a clear jw misunderstanding of probability, evolution, history, logic/reason, and the big bang theory.. in a conversation i had with my mother a few weeks back (i also heard this rumor before, but my mother told me it again), she mentioned how the un held a summit of all religions and when the jws presented themselves and mentioned their preaching work warning of the coming un ban on religion (referring to an international organization who can't even prevent genocide, much less impose human rights), a un official came up to the jw who presented the cult and told him to "speed up the preaching work", because they plan on doing the ban soon.. it saddens me to think of how ignorant jws are in relation to the principles upon which the un was founded and being unaware that the un at least has some sense as to not ban religion, but this rumor, as ridiculous as it is, needs to be put at rest.

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So much for Jehovah pimping up the preaching work.

Instead he creates a website and issues stationary trolleys.

Wow, my guess is the only speed those trolleys experience is when they get packed up at the end of the morning.

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What does your baptism mean to you now?

by GiftsinMen in

i was baptised on 1st sept 1990, 25years ago today.

it is still a date with deep meaning for me.

i never dedicated my life to serving any man or any organisation, this was my choice - as a grown adult - to serve my god through jesus christ.

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My baptism isn't worth the paper it's.......hang on a minute there was no paper.

That means they have never had any hold on me...doh, why didn't I figure this out sooner.

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Oh my God, I now have proof that Adam was made from dust.

by James Mixon in

bro.

e. soriano set matters straight for me.. you people alleged that the creation of adam is an "anti-scientific nonsense; and god did not.

create adam from a handful of dust, like the bible says, (ok maybe a bucket full).

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I'm sure there are plenty of people that would be interested in the recipe for making a man so when you figure it out don't forget to patent it.

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JW UN Rumor

by ivanatahan in

jw
friends

yes, i have returned.. a short recap of major events since my inactivity began: i finally revealed to my parents that i do not believe the same thing they believe in (after i was caught smooching my girlfriend by a family of good-for-nothing pieces of human feces), and of course they view themselves as failed parents who were unable to brainwash their children.

that is, of course, the reason why they are much more controlling over what i do in my life now (my mom even tried having a "bible study" with me).

i told them everything and i was unable to dent their jw imposed mind force field, while also exposing a clear jw misunderstanding of probability, evolution, history, logic/reason, and the big bang theory.. in a conversation i had with my mother a few weeks back (i also heard this rumor before, but my mother told me it again), she mentioned how the un held a summit of all religions and when the jws presented themselves and mentioned their preaching work warning of the coming un ban on religion (referring to an international organization who can't even prevent genocide, much less impose human rights), a un official came up to the jw who presented the cult and told him to "speed up the preaching work", because they plan on doing the ban soon.. it saddens me to think of how ignorant jws are in relation to the principles upon which the un was founded and being unaware that the un at least has some sense as to not ban religion, but this rumor, as ridiculous as it is, needs to be put at rest.

sparrowdown

Sorry bn, no sisters, no walnuts. That be bs aswell.

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JW UN Rumor

by ivanatahan in

jw
friends

yes, i have returned.. a short recap of major events since my inactivity began: i finally revealed to my parents that i do not believe the same thing they believe in (after i was caught smooching my girlfriend by a family of good-for-nothing pieces of human feces), and of course they view themselves as failed parents who were unable to brainwash their children.

that is, of course, the reason why they are much more controlling over what i do in my life now (my mom even tried having a "bible study" with me).

i told them everything and i was unable to dent their jw imposed mind force field, while also exposing a clear jw misunderstanding of probability, evolution, history, logic/reason, and the big bang theory.. in a conversation i had with my mother a few weeks back (i also heard this rumor before, but my mother told me it again), she mentioned how the un held a summit of all religions and when the jws presented themselves and mentioned their preaching work warning of the coming un ban on religion (referring to an international organization who can't even prevent genocide, much less impose human rights), a un official came up to the jw who presented the cult and told him to "speed up the preaching work", because they plan on doing the ban soon.. it saddens me to think of how ignorant jws are in relation to the principles upon which the un was founded and being unaware that the un at least has some sense as to not ban religion, but this rumor, as ridiculous as it is, needs to be put at rest.

sparrowdown

I've had that sad little tale related to me as well, except at the end of it I made a point of feigning great interest and saying -

"that is wonderful news, so who was the Brother that represented JWs, and what was the UN officials name....sorry when exactly did this happen...and who told you?....oh you have to go, oh too bad maybe next time you could give some details that's a really interesting experience.....bye, bye now...."