Posts by berrygerry

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Have you heard the one about "Back to the Future" Predicting 911??

by EndofMysteries in

when somebody posted this on fb, i was anxious to see how ridiculous it would be, probably worse then the gb prophecies, etc.

after watching the clip, i honestly don't know what to believe.

at the very least it's very entertaining and interesting.

Another Resolution

by truthlover in

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has anyone on the board been at the recent meeting where they are asking for more money to help out the co's, insurance and health and travel??

this is supposed to go into a general fund???

they can use it for anything they want..... oh, and also, if you can give more, it would help as many congregations may not be able to give - based on number of pubs in each cong.

berrygerry

This week's in Canada was the GAA - Global Assist something.

$8.25 per pub - but "We're not indicating that each pub donate this."

Instead, it becomes a congo resolution of 8.25 x number of pubs resolution, paid by the congo, and pubs can donate whatever they wish into the Local Congo expenses box.

(Instead of voting with a show of hands, they should have unmarked ballots.)

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Not on a WTS Cover - Famine Continues to Decline

by berrygerry in

that darn satan keeps confusing those horsies in apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years.

berrygerry

The communist decline is an interesting comparison.

Even though communism proved to be a dismal failure, it had its share of die-hard supporters - hence, the Borg's decline, yet its subsistence.

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Not on a WTS Cover - Famine Continues to Decline

by berrygerry in

that darn satan keeps confusing those horsies in apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years.

berrygerry

The only literature that mankind has to read is the literature printed and published by God's earthly publishing house .... The Watchtower Corporation.

So if reading 32 page monthly WT and Awakes garnered a College Education, what will that mean for the next gen of Dubs who only get 8-page bi-monthlies?

A certificate?

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Not on a WTS Cover - Famine Continues to Decline

by berrygerry in

that darn satan keeps confusing those horsies in apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years.

berrygerry

That darn Satan keeps confusing those horsies in Apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years

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We're not trying to convert you

by jws in

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recently i saw a link to an article from the st. petersburg times (one of these links on the side of this forum to sometimes old articles).

it was an article about jws and their preaching work.

imo, middle to favorable.. but the one thing was from a door where the jws are saying they're not here to convert anyone, they just want to share a scripture.. what sort of bs is this?

berrygerry

Dubs are trained to be forthright and honest about their objectives, just like the apostles. /s

Acts 2:37
37 Now when they heard this they were stabbed to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: “Men, brothers, what shall we do?” 38 Peter [said] to them: “Repent, and let each one of YOU be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of YOUR sins, and YOU will receive the free gift of the holy spirit.

Acts 15:3
3 Accordingly, after being conducted partway by the congregation, these men continued on their way through both Phoe·ni′cia and Sa·mar′i·a, relating in detail the conversion of people of the nations.

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What other Shenanigans can we expect to see in the next 2 years?

by John Aquila in

its been a little over 2 years since i left the watchtower.

in that time the magazines have been cut, the birth of jwtv, jw-org.

carts for preaching, removed district overseers, cut assemblies, demand all the money from the congregations, stop construction and layoff bethelites, change the format of the tmschool .

berrygerry

They actually covered oral and anal at an elders training just a few years ago.

Videos?

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What other Shenanigans can we expect to see in the next 2 years?

by John Aquila in

its been a little over 2 years since i left the watchtower.

in that time the magazines have been cut, the birth of jwtv, jw-org.

carts for preaching, removed district overseers, cut assemblies, demand all the money from the congregations, stop construction and layoff bethelites, change the format of the tmschool .

berrygerry

I have a hunch - and nothing to base it on - that the annual worldwide report on JWs, currently published in the JW Yearbook, will be changed in some way.

Have they not started to include reporting of tracts?

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Haven't Noticed This Vid Before - Keturah's Vid - Truly Beautiful

by berrygerry in

absolutely terrific.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwglexnsmdy.

berrygerry

Absolutely terrific.

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

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The right to shun - wrong?

by Simon in

many people are understandably upset and angry at the notion that jws have the right to shun people.

it seems such an obvious "no brainer" cruel and inhuman thing to do - it must be wrong ... surely?.

of course we look at things from the perspective of those hurt and harmed by shunning.

berrygerry

I don't know anything about this or how they have specifically used this law in their favour but I can say that the opposite is also true.

The US has a very flawed view of corporations, which spills over into all institutions, including religion.

Corporations are NOT "persons," and should have few, if any, rights.

The consequential US decision is that directors and executives of corporations must ONLY do what is in the "best interest of the shareholders."

Hence, we then end up with "risk management," whereby business decision are SOLELY based on short-term monetary decisions (eg. Chrysler's refusal to abandon a known faulty hatch design, as well as refusing to recall a 25 to 50 CENT patch - resulting in numerous deaths - see page 8 of pdf http://websites.firecompanies.com/njiaai/files/2014/07/Daimler-Chrysler-Vehicle-Problems.pdf )

The film "The Corporation" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_%28film%29 ) rightly described them as psychopathic:

"The Corporation attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with what it claims are the DSM-IV‍ 's symptoms of psychopathy, e.g., the callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, the reckless disregard for the safety of others, the deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law. "

(Sound familiar?)

As was acknowledged by WT in the Aus RC, a person desiring to leave the WT corporation / religion faces an impossible choice.

No person should have to make that choice.

WTS is the epitome of a psychopathic entity.

WTS deserves old-world justice executed on murderous psychopaths.