Posts by b00mslang

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Quotes from the Watchtower that you agree with 100%

by nicolaou in

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just curious.

add your quotes with no commentary if you like, it should be obvious why you agree.. the dangers of being deceivedthe really sad fact is that very often the person who is deceived or deluded tends to hold on to his belief in spite of strong evidence proving otherwise.

perhaps he gets so emotionally attached to his belief that he simply shuts his eyes and closes his ears to any evidence that might challenge it.. the watchtower, 01/09/ 2010 p10/11.

b00mslang

The date of the magazine.

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Most interesting chat with an annointed JW today

by A.M. Number 1 in

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we sat in a mc donalds talking for the last 2 hours.

she made some very interesting claims like:.

god magically takes thoughts from her head and puts them in the watchtower magazine.

b00mslang

Perhaps she had a bit too much lysergic acid diethylamide in the 60s?

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Are JW'S "hated" in all the world? Or...are they considered IRRELEVANT?

by Terry in

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wathctower 90/1/1 p. 12 par.

8 not ashamed of the good news .

while it is true that jehovahs witnesses are hated and opposed in all the nations of the earth, this is in fulfillment of what was foretold to be an identifying mark of genuine worshipers of the one living and true god.

b00mslang

Hear hear!

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Are JW'S "hated" in all the world? Or...are they considered IRRELEVANT?

by Terry in

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friends

wathctower 90/1/1 p. 12 par.

8 not ashamed of the good news .

while it is true that jehovahs witnesses are hated and opposed in all the nations of the earth, this is in fulfillment of what was foretold to be an identifying mark of genuine worshipers of the one living and true god.

b00mslang

Something I've always wondered; when Rutherford (et al) were released from prison, they claim that it was a cause for trembling.

Did the various religious leaders even notice? It is my personal opinion that they were such a small and insignificant sect that they didn't even rate an acknowledgement from the major religions.

Just self-aggrandizing.

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Did anyone in the congregation discourage you from going to college?

by Trapped in JW land in

i remember being out on service with an elder when i was 17. he asked me what i plan on doing after high school.

i told him i was thinking of going to college to be a teacher.

he then asked me, "do you think this system is going to be around that long"?

b00mslang

In the late 70s I was down to only attending sporadically, so, when I started college no one really took notice. However, when I spoke w/ my cousin (a full time pioneer and daughter of a long-time elder) she jumped me about; "Witnesses aren't supposed to go to college".

So, I moved to another state because a friend of mine (an MS at his Congregation) wanted me to work with him and go for an Associates Degree program locally, with him.

I met my wife and got married and was always able to pull down top paying blue collar jobs (Operating Engineer). He "sent out feelers" into the Congregation to see if the two year college thing was going to fly. Finally, he want through a two-year/non-accredited vocational/technical course instead.

You see, they (the "brothers and sisters") didn't seem to have a problem with him going to a vocational/technical school (because it wasn't called a "college") and receiving a "certificate of completion" but they apparently took issue with the idea of him coming away with a degree (even though most of us think of an AAS degree as a "consolation prize").

Interestingly, a relative of mine, that suffered an on the job injury, went through a two-year degree program while and during his time as an elder in his congregation. He's still and elder and some poobah in the RBC.

Needless to say, I ignored this foolishness and finished my education. I now work in an office/high rise and have my own parking spot (and I make exactly twice as much money as my relative with the two year degree).

There is an obvious psychology to encouraging accolites to take vows of poverty and move into trailer parks. The mundane drudgery of their jobs and social standing is ripe for the implantion of a bright, alternative future. A future where trailer-park-elders become "Chieftains Among Men". Their expected reward is to rule as lords and ladies of the land. There are aspects of the current elder arrangment (and I recognize that we're speaking of imperfect humans) that if applied to the "New System" would render it nothing more than a totalitarian-garden-work-camp. This would likely end with the majority of the resurrected being destroyed at the end of the Millenium.

Interestingly, a book I read many years ago (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) contained two conflicting and competitive religions. The first (Mercerism) surrounded watching a televised image of a man (Mercer) taking an endless climb up a mountain while being pelted with stones. The "faithful" would watch this while being interconnected (networked?) via "empathy boxes" (so they could really "feel his pain"). We can think of this as the trailer park/drudge job existance.

The competition of "Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends", which would be the promise of the glorious "New System" with all the stuff they denied themselves, in this life.

One problem for the Society is the failed promise and the embittered accolites that gave up everything based on "Old Light". What can they believe they gave it all up for?

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Who Exactly Answers Your Letter When You Write the Society?

by millie210 in

this is something i cannot find the answer to on my own.. who exactly answers your letter when you write the society?.

i thought maybe there has been a thread on this before or maybe one of your awesome researchers would know how to answer?.

.

b00mslang

MegaHAL chatbot.

They just feed your questions into it and then forward what pops out.

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Voices The Governing Body Listen to (Jehovah The Corporation Sock Puppet Included)

by frankiespeakin in

how do the governing body hear the voice of jehovah their corporation sock puppet?

how do they know jehovah's moods?

sad, indifferent, joyious, melancholy, pensive and so forth?

b00mslang

Urim and Thummim

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Different Vibe in hall since new understanding of Faithful slave

by Clambake in

has any noticed a different vibe in the kingdom hall since the new understand of the faithful and discreet slave .

when my wife forces me to go once and while and like to say i wonder what the slave will be this week .

man it pisses her off but she has been hardly actively since the new light.

b00mslang

The latter/lower Guy Pierce would be perfect (Memento). He could wander around with "New/Increasing Light" written on the inside of his arm and just pretend/forget the previous "Truth" was never stated.

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There are some questions I have had about the JWs view "post-Armaggeddon"

by booker-t in

i have always wondered how jws believe about "post-armaggeddon" earth.

question#1 how will jws survivors bury all of the dead bodies.

with about 4 billion people on earth today how can 8 million jw(1/2 of them children and babies) bury all of those dead bodies?

b00mslang

The elders expectation is to become "chieftans of men" and occupy a position in the hierarchy that they couldn't attain, pre-Armageddon.

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BOE District Overseers- CONFIDENTIAL

by WatchTower87 in

instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

no virus ;-).

boe district overseers- confidential pdf: http://adf.ly/glwdn.

b00mslang

Perhaps an additional "simplification" would be to stop printing all of the various publications and focus one just one. Like the, er, bible?