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Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel

by _Morpheus in

so fisherperson sent me a pm asking a bunch of questions re my time at beth hell.

rather than respond in a pm i will post the q/a here as i have nothing to hide.

q:what years did you serve in brooklyn bethel?

Village Idiot

"MY post was meant for Morpheus. Why am I beating dead horse, sort of speak. Support your views about my post"

by _Morpheus 5 days ago 308 Replies latest a minute ago

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Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel

by _Morpheus in

so fisherperson sent me a pm asking a bunch of questions re my time at beth hell.

rather than respond in a pm i will post the q/a here as i have nothing to hide.

q:what years did you serve in brooklyn bethel?

i just found this website and im so glad because for the first time in a long time i dont feel alone...i am a born in and in the last two years have been struggling because i thought that i was the problem and i was the reason for not feeling any love from and for the other pubs .i want to leave the org but have no idea how to tell my mother(who is a faithful jw).

Village Idiot

Welcome Spunky. Don't open your mouth yet. Just coast along until you can figure out how you're going to do things.

You mentioned your mother; what about your father?

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Wonderful video resource which has to be seen in full to be appreciated.

by TerryWalstrom in

i highly recommend you watch this video.. it is superbly researched.

you know all the things in this video already--but.

watching it will create an impression on you which.

Village Idiot

It's a great video but at 1:02 she gives examples of word "conditioning" that any religion, including hers, can engage in. Just substitute the word "Atheist" for "Trinitarian" and see how many pre-conditioned Christians react.

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Governing Body Obesity

by Calebs Airplane in

not sure if this subject has been covered recently but i thought i'd make this observation anyway.... i remember when the word "gluttony" was a frequently mentioned sin in public talks, in the wt publications, in convention talks, etc.. in fact, in the 80's and 90's it wasn't unusual to hear the words "gluttony" and "disfellowship" mentioned in the same sentence.

i haven't been to a meeting in over 5 years, so i'm not sure if they still harp on the subject of gluttony or other excesses.

but i can't help but notice how much heavier the gb 2.0 has become compared to previous regimes.

Village Idiot

All seven governing body members rolled into one?

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Babylon the Great and the Anti Christ

by Perry in

similar views as those presented here are gaining in popularity in christian circles.

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

Village Idiot

I've gotten to the 1:54 mark and I find nothing but slipshod and disjointed assumptions one after the other. For example what Biblical sources are there for saying that Nimrod's wife was his mother? Hope it's not the Talmud.

Why Turkey and not Rome as a literal reading of Revelation would indicate? Also, Muslims do not worship the Moon and stars particularly ISIS whose anti-idolatry stand is so severe that they would remove and burn such a flag flying over any Muslim nation.

PS: Cute reference to Cotards Syndrome.

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Straw Poll: In 2050 how many Jehovah's Witness publishers will there be on average?

by Saintbertholdt in

from the topic i made earlier (see below), it made me wonder about the forum's opinion.. straw poll: in 2050 how many jehovah's witness publishers will there be on average?.

link: http://strawpoll.de/oirz9kyi hope you will participate.. greetings.

sb.

Village Idiot

Thirty five years into the future is way too long for a meaningful guess. Even ten years is too much. We don't even know how many people will be on this planet by that year.

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Will the Watchtower ever turn against K-12 public education?

by cappytan in

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when i was in school, you never heard about critical thinking skills...not till you started taking college level courses.. i work closely with the public education community.

now, the big rage in public education is instilling critical thinking skills from kindergarten on up.. and i'm in texas!

imagine what it's like in more liberal areas.. i would not be surprised if the watchtower started denigrating and discouraging public education (k-12).. it would likely start like this: .

Village Idiot

It's funny you should mention critical thinking skills and Texas in the same post. Here's a quote from the Republican Party of Texas in its 2012 platform (PDF: Do a word search under "critical").

"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

It goes to show that JWs are not the biggest crazies on the block.

There is also a homeschooling movement that has grown amongst conservatives with fundamentalist religion influenced text books.

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Yet more trolley (in)activity

by konceptual99 in

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i am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.

whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.

i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.

Village Idiot

konceptual99: "Now the overseeing elder has come along and is taking pictures of the inactivity for posterity..."

You mean posterity in the new world?

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JW Broadcasting is dying.

by John Aquila in

once a month about 15 to 20 elderly jw publishers would meet at the kingdom hall and one elder was assigned to set up the system so they could view jw broadcasting.

these publishers were long time pioneers, former elders, and long time publishers who know nothing about computers or the internet.

they are the last batch of those expecting the generation that saw 1914 or understood it--- to not die off.

Village Idiot

Yes, I keep hearing example after example of such pathetic behavior but this one is really bad.