Posts by sowhatnow

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Send the Watchtower Some Glittery Love

by jw07 in

what is the mail screening process at headquarters like?

wouldn't it be great if the watchtower received a few hundred packets of sticky, messy glitter that clings to everything over the course of a week?.

this website is amusing to say the least.. http://shipyourenemiesglitter.com/.

sowhatnow

That gave me a great laugh!

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NEW LIGHT FROM SLO CIRCUIT OVERSEER "Warning, Blood on Doorposts", "The Couple who Missed One Meeting Died With Their Kids, Don't Miss Any!

by Trailer Park Pioneer in

sorry, i messed up before i could put the right title on this new light from our circuit overseer, his visit show's a great desperation in the organization's mindset, adding more anxiety and guilt to jws who already feel they don't measure up!.

hi, i attended the circuit overseers visit and got really angry because our c.o.

gave information coming from the governing body's chief apologists regarding "meeting attendance" and "the couple who missed one meeting and lost their entire family because they did not get the "411" when armageddon was coming!

sowhatnow

i wonder when they will vote that c.o. off Gilligan's island

i could not have sat there without blushing and grinning and holding in laughter. just so sad and pathetic.

Id be embarrassed for that person.

to take the entire bible and misrepresent it as a means to control and fear monger is nothing short of ....

well fill in the blank...

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anyone want 2013 wt library cd? or old books?

by sowhatnow in

my mom brought me a bag of literiture that her khall was going to throw away.

apparently they are not 'placeable' anymore, hmmm.. she cant stand to see those books tossed out like 'garbage' so here i go, .

in ths bad was 5 brand new in the plastic wt 2013 library cds.

sowhatnow

my mom brought me a bag of literiture that her khall was going to throw away. apparently they are not 'placeable' anymore, hmmm.

she cant stand to see those books tossed out like 'garbage' so here i go,

in ths bad was 5 brand new in the plastic wt 2013 library cds.

2 of the the1995 knowledge book, hardcopy, and paperback

a clothe yourselves in gods love 2008 edition paperback

1986 worldwide security under the prince of peace book

[this is the one where it says that jesus is only the mediator for the 144000.not everyone]

secret to family happyness1996 worship the only true god 2002 paperback

the orange hard copy of the bible gods word or mans1989 and a paperback copy same year. probably full of misquotes from scientists and archeologists.

2, you can live forever in a paradise on earth book

Gods word through jeremiah 2010 and

a live with jehovahs day im mind 2006

a 1984 survival into a new earth green hardback book has a 1914 chronology type chart in it

a united in worship book

two 1990 all scripture inspired of god and beneficial books

and two keep on the watch brochures

one divine name that will endure forever brochure1984

two of the bible what is its message brochures 2009

one does g0d really care about us brochure 2001

and one keep on the watch, for what why is it especially urgent now 2004

if your interested pm me .

i have no problem tossing these in the mail , if its not to much, its cheap in the states to mail books its media mail.

if in one week i have no takers off they go to the curb.

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Separated from a loveless Marriage

by PLAYGROUND in

i don't know where to start.

i got married a year and half ago.

some months into the marriage things where discovered.

sowhatnow

i agree with scully for the fact that you were lied to. it is an illegal contract. No God in their right mind would expect someone to live in such a situation.

take it from someone who is in a unloving marriage, I have come to terms with the reality that I can leave when i want, and not feel guilty. [ but im not being abused physically, had i been even once, id have been gone long ago.]

you have a real reason to end it, not even God would disagree. God knows that one is a liar and does not follow the duty of a loving mate, so why would God want someone to stay in a spiritually destructive situation? Am I better than God? I would be If he doesn't allow a person to be free of oppression and great sadness.

The God I know wants people to be happy. how can someone be wholesome and fulfilling in their worship when its tainted with sadness and fear? they cannot.

most people know, and fully understand, that a divorce doesn't happen unless there is a real problem, and other people generally dont keep a bad attitude about it. its wrong to assume and to gossip.

in the hall i had gone to, three people got divorced and remarried were only disfellowshipped for maybe 8 months, after all they were immediately repentant, and they did not have sex before they got remarried. and are currently going to meetings.

three of my own family members had to get out of real bad marriages [abusive situations] [all jws] and got remarried, and were DF for a little while but not long. the reason is this, no one chooses to end a marriage unless its destructive, spiritually damaging, and, simply, wrong to stay in it! no one deliberately gets a divorce because they think its not a big deal and who cares. so , a person already feels grief over the whole thing. and that is what in itself is the punishment! [the bible says that too!] we don't need some goofy shunning added to the problems.

here is what a lot of people dont know, YOU can request to choose your own body of elders to hear your case.

my mother did this years ago, when the local elders disfellowshiped me for getting pregnant, I was an unbaptized 18 yr old, who had not been to meetings in two years! or service, in like 5.yrs. she knew an unbaptized person who hadn't been to meetings should not be DF. she was pretty upset about it, as she was all i had for help and she was not going to let me fall into homeless poverty and loose her first grandchild. so, knowing the elders wouldn't listen to her,because they did not like her forward personality,

she chose two elders from other congregations whom she knew better, and a circuit overseer she had known. and she met them at the assembly hall so she could explain to them what was going on. and they advised the elder body in her cong to change their decision. and so they eventually did, but they waited long enough to make it look like it was their idea. it was about 6 months only! and the only thing i did was t o go to meetings with my mom. yea it was pretty weird. announcing the reinstatement of an unbaptized irregular person, lol!

so dont be afraid, just get it over with, get the divorce, [definitely stay separated], take the needed time alone and improve your situation, and return to a good place. move to another area if you can too.

we cant help anyone else if were a mess right?

and if you want to, get remarried, just dont have sex until you are.

your not pleasing men, your pleasing God, and God never said you cant get divorced. and guess what else, were not under the law of Israel, and all those rules were for them.

but the principal is this, love one another. so by being loving.

maybe by getting a divorce your giving a 'gift of freedom' to the other person too.

[some people have such pride they will suffer rather than be the one to make the first move.I think that's what my husband is doing, forcing me to be the one to make the move, so he looks like the innocent party.]

I wish peace for you.

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Rasputin and Serums and Herbs--Oh My!

by rebel8 in

i have written a blog post about the dubs and their scorn of modern medicine and rasputin, while simultaneously touting unproven, dangerous cures.. i wonder what it is about a fake remedy that makes jws believe in it or scorn it?.

sowhatnow

truthseeker100

we are what we eat . [theres a book with that title too]

i dont know enough about the types actually.

adult onset diabetes

is almost always brought on by a bad diet and lack of exercise .

we wear our pancreas out with too much sugar we toxify our livers by too many chemicals.

so eating a healthy diet is surely something we all try to do.

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2015 March-Our Kingdom Ministry!

by Atlantis in

is the watchtower having problems with meetings for field service?

are field service meetings being viewed as "less" important than other meetings?.

2015 march, our kingdom ministry.. click the link by the blue arrow.. https://www.sendspace.com/file/fwcmcc ;.

sowhatnow

well how many different ways is there to place magazines? really once your shown how to do it what else is there?

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Who Benefits from the Multi-Billion Dollar Real Estate Empire that is WT?

by TTATTelder in

this thread is to formally address this subject.

this is for forum members and especially for lurkers (current witnesses reading this in secret).

please feel free to post any additional points.. there are a lot of changes happening in wt land.

sowhatnow

yea, who does benefit? its an awful lot of work to collect properties and manage them.

takes an awful lot of time doesn't it?

all these people can be attending individually simply locally run kingdom halls, paid for by local donations

and simply pay a printer for literature when they need it.

gee just think how much TIME everyone would have!

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WHAT IS LEFT? Have all the major teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses now changed?

by TerryWalstrom in

was there a second coming?.

a 3rd coming?.

" (the 3rd coming?).

sowhatnow

gosh, now I have a headache, lol!

honestly, all the years i was in, I could tell you very little of what core doctrine was.

makes no difference, all the 'answers' are in the paragraph.

reall good point phizzy what we left isnt there anymore.

unique? yea that's an understatement. uniquely brain damaging.

gosh its cold out.

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Is Watchtower's stance against education only for North American witnesses

by wannaexit in

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i was reading on a european ex jw forum where some feel that watchtower's railing against higher education is primarily for north america issue.

this is due that many in usa and canada leave home to leave on campus.

it was mentioned that many young european jw attend universities and its not frowned on.. i found this odd because i heard what morris and losch said about education in italy.

sowhatnow

it would seem to be the case, though ,despite the actual article recently about yet another imaginary female jw leaving college, and being 'happy' doing 'service' for JJ, [jesus and jehovah] she insists the society does not shun college. uh, yea they do. they want people to go to a trade school to learn blue collar trades, ie: electrician, plumber, hvac, anything that is in the building industry. [GEE I wonder why]

here they ridicule openly in talks, the very idea of becoming a professional chef, going into advertising [really ridiculed at an one day assembly talk once] or taking business or being a writer or designer, or teacher or doctor or dentist. yea, all the things THEY need to use!! they are so stupid. they favor on line college, of course, so you make no friends.

the fact that most jws in my area anyway, cannot even afford to go to college , because their parents are too poor, they dont have the grades required , as in the case of the majority of people in the us who simply have been eliminated from further educational opportunities due to the huge expense and life long debt this incurs.

the educational system in the US is a failing one. its all about money, not having skills needed to help a community. worldwide the generation thats entering the workforce right now will be forever burdened by debt and a lack of a job. its not what you know as much as it is who you know, to get ahead.

my son is 25 years old, and just now, trying to get into a community college. he has bad credit, and not two cents in a savings, but hes tired of working in a call center and being stuck in sales more or less. he not only has a huge car loan for a 7 year old car, high rent which is less than than the area average, and now he will have student debt. its no wonder why every time I pass a convenience store i think, gee If I could only win some money, just to get a freaking break. but I dont have a dollar on me for a ticket.

Now I wonder how many jws would be in college if it were included in taxes like it is on other countries??

I bet a lot more.

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no one will know...

by sowhatnow in

read here: what jesus says at matthew 24 .

36 but about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son,[f] but only the father.

37 as it was in the days of noah, so it will be at the coming of the son of man.

sowhatnow

I know but if we were raised from birth being told blue was blue and then someone says its yellow its a whole lot of mental anguish goes on.