Posts by insidetheKH

i know the society is against higher education and the pursuit of careers but in my experience the elders in the various congregations i attended had good careers.

in fact most had their own businesses.

thinking back of the boe when i was a teenager this is what they had as a career: two were respected carpenters who owned a construction business, one a high school teacher(he was the po), one sold insurance and was a lawyer, one owned a landscaping business and also hired sisters to clean office buildings and other accounts he had, one was retired, and the last was a janitor for the school board.

insidetheKH

because people here like to ridicule Jehovah's Witnesses and portray them as being dumb and uneducated.

In the meantime JW's manage to do all the things they want and many of them follow or have followed higher education.

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Large scale War in the Middle East

by designs in

is this spreading conflict, war, in syria and iraq, inevitable and some argue necessary.. new leaders rising with napoleon size ambitions, old monarchies trying to hold on to power.. religious ideologies and groups challenging one another.

battles for natural resources and redrawing lands and boundries.. are there parallels to wwi and wwii..

insidetheKH

only dumb people are stupid enough to get involved in things like conflicts,.. wars and politics.

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Another cheery video for the kids on jw.dork

by konceptual99 in

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http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/kids-animated-videos/.

enjoy..

insidetheKH

i'll have to admit,.. its a great video,.. seen from their perspective.

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General focus on Pedos I

by konceptual99 in

insidetheKH

In the UK the media is now writing about a big political cover-up of child abuse that was committed by senior public figures during the 70's and 80's. Child abuse was everywhere !

those few cases where witnesses were involved are not important enough to make a real impact or impression

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Do the GB travel with assistants (body men)?

by Skinnedsheep in

just curious.

i would love to spend about 3 hours on a plane discussing things with one of these spiritual giants..

insidetheKH

i know from my own experience that Gerrit Losch did not have bodyguards

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Question about Lawsuits?

by Bob_NC in

i read on here posts about looming lawsuits and/or mulit-million dollar settlements that have struck fear into the wt society.. we all know about the candace conti case.

it gained enough notoriety through news outlets.

and i know that there are many many more accusations and cases against brothers and former brothers.

insidetheKH

its wishfull thinking,.. speculation. Exept for some out of court cases a few years ago that were settled for a couple of million dollars not much did happen.

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Awake 1973 banned Witnesses playing Chess..why?

by Witness 007 in

are all articles from jehovahs thoughts or do personal biased views poison the watchtower articles?

imagine a brother who hates chess observing in discust two bethelites playing chess...would it be right to use jehovahs "spiritual food" to push your own warped view....yes!!.

awake 1973 3/22 p.12 chess- "...the spirit of compitition between players can lead to unplesant circumstances...most families can keep comfrontations to the chess board...but for some the tension lingers long past checkmate...chess has been a game of war since its origin...a play substitute for the art of war...there is a danger of "stirring up compitition with one another" even developing hostility towards one another, something the bible warns christians to avoid..what effect does playing chess have apoun one?

insidetheKH

i learned to play chess in the 70's with the help of several brothers, one of them was an elder. Chess was not banned at all

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The Society is no longer printing hardcover books.

by kneehighmiah in

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letter read that the society will no longer be making hardcover books.

also the told people to not place orders for daily texts or calendars if they had the ability to download these.

who downloads a calendar?

insidetheKH

we were told to place our order for daily text books, calenders , yearbooks, bound volumes and the Watchtower Lbrary cdrom before the 1st of July. Nothing was said about downloading and printing.