I was saying to a friend a few years ago
While I was studying the history of WTS
This is a Franchise structure
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tepidpoultry
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So, I watched "The Founder" today, and had a minor Revelation
by Captain Schmideo2 inin the movie's story, ray kroc, the man who is in charge of franchising mcdonalds restaurants, is finding himself in a situation where he is doing gangbusters at creating the stores, but is going broke on his contract.
he gets help from another fast food executive who examines his books.one aspect of the business jumps out.
the stores need land to operate on, and that money is going to the land-owners who lease the land to the stores.
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Attitude in Kingdom Hall vs. in church
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu inso, today i went to a different church than the jw's for the first time in over three years.. it is a protestant african church.
my first thoughts: for people who are 'trapped in babylon the great (according to watchtower) these people really seem genuingly happy and sincere in their adoration for god.
what a freedom compared to the witnesses!
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Attitude in Kingdom Hall vs. in church
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu inso, today i went to a different church than the jw's for the first time in over three years.. it is a protestant african church.
my first thoughts: for people who are 'trapped in babylon the great (according to watchtower) these people really seem genuingly happy and sincere in their adoration for god.
what a freedom compared to the witnesses!
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tepidpoultry
Comfort and communion
are two things for which religion was invented
You might think of a mother with her child when that child is frightened
Sadly has largely been replaced as a way to control people
Fear Obligation and Guilt are the order of the day with most Abrahamic
religions
Sadly
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(A true story...) NOT THE OTHER STORY
by TerryWalstrom in(a true story...)not the other story.
little rock, arkansas many years ago.
we were stranded.
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tepidpoultry
I always enjoy your writing Terry!
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Jehovah sure loves foreskins!
by rebel8 inan atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
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tepidpoultry
You know Salome gets all the heat but the that was ONE man!
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Was this Mikal? I wonder what she was thinking, OOH David what a man!!
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Jehovah sure loves foreskins!
by rebel8 inan atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
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tepidpoultry
My NEW book of Bible Stories!
Help Watchtower out of its financial troubles,
Only 100 foreskins!!
Send by USP
(Still working this out with PayPal will keep you apprised)
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Jehovah sure loves foreskins!
by rebel8 inan atheist (never jw) friend of mine is an rv for a jw who he is trying to deprogram.
he started this totally on his own and just telling me about it.
it's quite amusing what he comes up with.. point 1: why the s & m stuff with foreskins?
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Smelly WATCHTOWERS
by Zoos inin 1967 i had the misfortune of being born with a watchtower stuck in my ass.
it took 45 years for me to realize, "hey!
there's a watchtower stuck in my ass!
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tepidpoultry
I'm counting 43 years to when elders were hunting me down
because loving wife (ex now yay!) turned me in as I was no longer a
"True Believer"
No Internet but encyclopedias and libraries,
Saw Penton's Apocalypse Delayed but didn't peek as
I was always trying to be good
They drove a stake of fear into my heart as a child and it was a
slow painful process to remove it
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Dose Wt really have that much cash.
by joe134cd ini realize that wt has got a wind fall of cash through various means.
so my question is in the greater scheme of things is it really that much.
for example let's say with all their real estate and cash on hand they are worth about $20 billion dollars.
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tepidpoultry
slimboyfat:
Watchtower 2012 Aug 15 p. 17
Study edition
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Pseudo history in Watchtower today 😂
by Gorbatchov ingorby went to the kh for family reasons today.. and landed right away middle in a pseudo history watchtower article.
just that aspect of the jw belief he is so sensative about.. so 1918 and 1919 are changed with one mark of a pencil.
the argument of change was in the past the argument of the doctrine.
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