“Beware Of Fakery On The Internet”
Absolutely. Case in point: http://www.jw.org/
Posts by SAHS
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6Beware Of Fakery On The Internet
by metatron inhttp://www.businessinsider.com/reputation-management-2013-12.
the above will explain how so many awful people and organizations can look ok on internet searches.. when judging reviews on the internet, i always read the most negative first.
then, i ask myself, "is this opinion really a deal breaker?
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Do the WTBTS monitor this site?
by quellycatface inbeen reading some back posts.
just wondered if the borg monitor this or any other sites.wouldn't that make them apostate as well?
?typical double standard through and through.the scumbags.hope you all have a crap week.
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SAHS
Hopefully the Watchtower will get more of their poeple lower down in the ranks to monitor sites like this because undoubtedly it would result in even more people turning to a course of personally questioning their long-held Watchtower dogma and getting to finally open their eyes. At the end of the day, there is probably more power in TTATT than the tenuous framework of lies.
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Wait!wait! But I DO want people to have a merry Christmas!
by stillin inis it really sharing in their wicked ways to bid people well wishes on their holiday?
i mean, i'm not doing christmas myself, but if they want to have it, what's wrong with saying "enjoy!".
witnesses extend best wishes to newlywed pagans all of the time, even though they know that the marriage is a godless, heathen, false-worship-filled union of sex-driven materialistic people.
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SAHS
“. . . she was proud to report to my aunt her cold and rude response . . . She honestly thinks she is bringing honor to Jehovah by being snobbish with strangers who probably have innocent intentions and then by further belittling them in private.”
The holiday season should be a time of joy and love, regardless of one’s religious, political, ethnic, or social affiliation or status. And, of course, the way to make it a time of joy and love is to express to others sentiments which are joyful and loving. Everyone has their own style and manner of expression, but it never does any good to anyone – including the one speaking as well as the one listening – to promote bad feelings. The holiday season may mean different things to different folks, considering their own beliefs and background, but, regardless of any of that, it should be a time of sharing joy and love – I mean, it can’t hurt, can it? After all, like it is said, “Love never fails.” Perhaps your mother should take a little peak at that expression in 1 Corinthians 13:8 for a little refresher.
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SAHS
I’m currently still a member considered in good standing in my congregation along with my strongly JW parents, and I want you to know that that means a lot to me . . . . a whole lot of nothing, that is! (I still get dragged to the Kingdom Hall and out in field service, but, on the upside, I do get the perks of room and board, and the opportunity to be able to occasionally give electronic-type presents to myself.) Even though I’m a born-in/stuck-in, that doesn’t have to stop me from having some Christmas good cheer. I wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year (whether you like it or not)! No matter what physical or financial situation you are in right now, hell, it’s still Christmas time, and there’s always some kind of simple good cheer to be had by all. Now drink it up! (The good cheer, that is.)
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Elders at the door
by Gorbatchov inyesterday at 10 am the doorbell was ringing.
thank god we were upstairs bussy with the kids.. they left a litle note with the text "we, __ and __, found you not home, see you in the kingdom hall.
cellphone number xxxxxxx".
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SAHS
But maybe instead of just leaving it like that, you could copy and past a link into the text message which directs to a pertinent Website such as http://www.jwfacts.com, http://www.quotes-watchtower.co.uk, or even some choice sections of, say, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net. Don’t just do a simple disconnect – go for a disconnect with a little strike back. They are asking for it!
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So I get a knock on the door...
by wearewatchingyouman ina few minutes ago.
it's a buddy of mine from my old hall.
i occassionally study with him when i can tell he's feeling guilty about hanging out with me, but it's been months since i've seen him.
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SAHS
Hopefully you have his email address, so you can slip him an interesting email – with some interesting links in it to get his cleanly-washed brain pondering, if you know what I mean. I would make some good use of those outings with him and share some interesting tidbits of information with him. After all, he spends much of his time trying to persuade people from door to door – maybe you should do the same to him.
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governing body my bottom.
by Captain Blithering insat on the sound again, listening to this twaddle about the governing body, hearing the parrotted answers and cursing my stupidity and ignorance for the decades in which i did the same.
posting on here during a meeting is fun!
you guys are a great support group.
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SAHS
Here is some useful advice for you: A trick I’ve been using for many years is the ability to actually “play” music in my brain! I can summon and “play” the actual audio track of the familiar music I’ve been listening to beforehand and stored in my memory. It is simply making use of the internal cognitive audio “signal” which anyone can “play” right in their own brain at will. (It’s a literal audio daydream, and we can all do it.) This simple technique has gotten me through many meetings, assemblies, and conventions, believe me.
And of course the other thing which I often do is to consciously bring my brainwaves into a light napping state – not actual sleep with rapid eye movement (REM), but more of a pleasant deep alpha-wave mode (sometimes with the occasional sudden head bobbing if I’m already tired).
The brain/mind is a wonderful thing, and you can learn to put it to good “use” during those lovely indoctrination sessions some of us must still endure at the old kingdom hell.
I can’t wait until I can get my hands on those new “Google glasses” things – you know, that very latest cutting-edge technology whereby you can actually be reading your email or even watching 3D video through Bluetooth on a sleek pair of glasses directly into your eyeballs. You can actually operate your smart phone through the computer interface of the glasses by tracking the movement of your eyeballs, and you can even capture a photograph by blinking your eyelids! (You can check out the link “http://www.google.com/glass/start/” for more details.) To quote Captain Steven Hiller (played by Will Smith) in the movie Independence Day, “I have got to get me one of these!” Now THAT would really be just the thing to help pass the time during those damn meetings!
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Watchtower.ORG!!!!!
by minimus ini here that the new advisory for witnesses, should the go on the internet is to only go on the org.
the org.
is all they are concerned about since "others" may have some "misinformation"..
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SAHS
Actually, we should all have good reason to trust Jehovah’s earthly organization and it’s Website, jw.org. The world has been promoting inaccuracies and half-truths on the Internet very sporadically and inconsistently for just over the past couple of decades. The organization of the Watchtower, however, has been faithfully and consistently promoting inaccuracies, half-truths, and blatant lies for a whole century!
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The " HIGHER EDUCATION" thread!!!
by DATA-DOG inalright.
let's have the ultimate discussion on "higher education.
" let's talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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SAHS
“KateWild”: “. . . nepotism and brown nosing (good social skills) bring success, no matter the ability and hard work.”
True. Like they say, “It’s not what you know but who you know.”
You have to weigh the prospect of banging your head on the wall for several years hoping to successfully attain some certificate, diploma, or degree with the fact that there are many folks who fudge, misrepresent, and greatly “expand” their résumés to secure high-paying jobs – and get away with it! So, you might have legitimately acquired your qualifications by burning your brain on some technical or managerial discipline only to find out that the next guy has successfully bluffed and faked his way into it, perhaps by being a smooth talker or having a close family member or good friend get them in, and you’re left out in the cold that day.
It makes sense to pursue the higher education option with the greatest payoff for the most timely and efficient investment (in other words, something that gives you the biggest bang for your buck). A reasonable compromise can often do the trick in the long run. At the end of the day, when all is said and done, the things that really count are happiness, contentment, and serenity, and those don’t really have the necessary correlation to surpassing physical necessities that people may think.
Also, one must remember that things don’t always work out the way they “should,” and sometimes the “best” man doesn’t win and the biggest dog doesn’t get the bone.
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Can WTBTS legally do this for international conventions.
by joe134cd ini was just reading this on jwservey with regard to the international conventions.
if an individual selected to attend a special convention loses his exemplary status and is no longer qualified to attend, the delegate should be thoroughly informed of the reason for your decision.
such a person would be fully responsible for any financial loss associated with his abrupt disqualification as a delegate, even up to the time he was supposed to depart.. .
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SAHS
“Exemplary status” – that is quite the subjective term. Unlike having been actually disfellowshipped or disassociated, which is a more black-and-white, either-or status formally on record, the status of being “exemplary” or not is a concept which really could be at the discretion or whim of almost anybody with any kind of position in the organizational hierarchy. The idea of being “exemplary” could, as Our Kingdom Ministry has stated, involve ‘having well-behaved children’ – or, it could be a matter of just being “well-reported on,” or having a “good reputation” in the congregation, which would basically be at the mercy of whatever rumor mill is operating around where the person lives (where hearsay and innuendo rule supreme). And, of course, there is the old guilt by association trick; i.e., in the example provided above of harboring a disfellowshipped family member in the home. Being “exemplary” or not is pretty much infinitely broad, and certainly as subjective as you can get.
It would therefore be basically impossible to establish with any kind of factual or legal veracity whether a congregation member would be rightly deemed as not exemplary. It would basically boil down to a he-said-she-said scenario.
As for the actual monetary expenses involved, I would think that it would depend on whether or not there had been any prearranged deposit made through the Watchtower corporation. The Watchtower couldn’t be responsible for any deposit made directly to any lodging facilities by an individual member. However, you would think that any deposit made through the Watchtower would be considered a legally binding arrangement or contract, and as such would be subject to mandatory refund if the member/client was denied satisfaction of the services already prepaid due to some intangible and arbitrary judgment which couldn’t even be proven in any event.
As an analogy, think of someone purchasing, say, a vacation package through a travel agency, or perhaps purchasing an item through an online fulfillment service such as E‑Bay. If the business arbitrarily denied the client his/her right to the services already prepaid (especially due to some disingenuous and improvable “hang‑up” they had about the client, such as being gay or having red hair, etc.), then you would think that they would morally, and probably legally, be obligated to refund the client their funds. That would certainly be the essence of “natural law,” because, after all, fair is fair – even for an evangelical corporate giant such as the Watchtower.