Posts by berrygerry

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More Conditioning in Sunday's Watchtower

by Socrateswannabe in

have you read the article, "this is our place of worship" in the july 15, 2015 study edition of the watchtower?

it is the study article for this coming sunday.

note the brainwashing techniques they're using to condition the jws to a total takeover of their kingdom halls, in the excerpts below.

berrygerry

Don't mean to be a party pooper here, but as far as I was aware, congregations did not make decisions themselves to build Kingdom Halls and did not do the planning or construction work on their own. Decisions were obviously made at a branch level based on CO or DO recommendations; I don't know who applied for local authority planning permission, but the regional building committees then probably took over the task of funding and actually building the premises. Yes, they relied very heavily on volunteer labour and donations from local congregation members, but those local JWs had not actually caused the hall to come to be.

You're pretty late to the party.

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Revolt Brewing At Headquarter and Different Branches and The Governing Body Is Losing Credibility Among It's Staff

by Brokeback Watchtower in

in my mind i see this as a very real situation developing rapidly world wide as these child molestation pay out become public knowledge and can no longer be denied or kept secret from the r&f.

pretty soon the governing body will be the but of many jokes at headquarters and abroad.

they are being caught red handed while robbing the cookie jar.

berrygerry

If the branch changes do come true, that would make sense with ToMo's recent video telling branches to pray for understanding and obey the GB.

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Help Me Undertand...

by DarioKehl in

according to the 2014 annual report:.

"worldwide, there are 115,416 congregations of jehovahs witnesses and 8,201,545 publishers.".

i don't understand how the borg is facing financial difficulty.

berrygerry

Something is going on - I doubt if we will ever truly know, unless the whole thing really did implode.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/311690001/canada-branch-finances-whats-going-on

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Stop Using Old WT Library - Any Confirmation?

by berrygerry in

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3lw5cx/new_letter_from_ccjw_is_a_doozy/.

on reddit.. i've been expecting this.. any confirmation?.

berrygerry

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3lw5cx/new_letter_from_ccjw_is_a_doozy/

On reddit.

I've been expecting this.

Any confirmation?

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Mystery of the ' Strange Couple '

by Esse quam videri in

this strange couple was seen on main st. in vancouver, b.c.

a casual observer would be hard pressed to figure out their relationship.

the man seems a little young for the woman.

berrygerry

I note that the Metro News box has been emptied, but the "Good News" box has not.

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Anthony Morris III: Jehovah Blesses Obedience

by wifibandit in

http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201509_1_video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9j7qs7bvm.

obey.

berrygerry

Just to clarify the SEEMING contradiction.

(Most of the text is on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3lu936/transcription_of_anthony_morris_iiis_new_jw/ )

Now we have apostates and... opposers that would... like God's people to think that the Faithful Slave is dogmatic. And they expect uh you to accept everything that comes out from headquarters... as if it's... dogma. Arbitrarily... decided. Well, this does not apply.

"This does not apply." You are not asked to accept everything from HQ.

if you want Jehovah's blessing on you as uh an individual or a family, certainly as a elder or a congregation, it'd be best to just ask Jehovah to help you understand it, but obey, the decision.

So, you are not asked to ACCEPT everything, but you are required to OBEY everything.

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Blindingly Obvious - But Not to J.W.'s

by The Searcher in

if a fellow j.w.

asked a publisher/pioneer/missionary j.w., "how are your hours this month", they will gladly reveal how many hours they've racked up "for jehovah.".

now ask them, "how much money have you contributed to kingdom interests this month", they'd look at you as if you were beelzebub himself, and tell you that that was "personal.