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  Governing Body Obesity

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  2. scandals

  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.

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  All seven governing body members rolled into one?

  
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  Babylon the Great and the Anti Christ

  by Perry in

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  2. beliefs

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

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

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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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  2. friends

  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: .

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  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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  2. friends

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  Yes, I keep hearing example after example of such pathetic behavior but this one is really bad.
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  Trump is a funny guy. Attacks John McCain

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the guy don't realize when he attack john mccain he alienated every men .

  and women who served in the military.

  and this is coming from a guy that.

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  He's a shill for foreign shipping, to the detriment of the U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. jobs.

  pros·ti·tuteˈprästəˌt(y)o͞ot/nounnoun: prostitute; plural noun: prostitutes

  
  

  That word, Nimrath, would apply to all of them.
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  Question and answers for fisherperson regardingy time at bethel

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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?

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  _Morpheus:

  "Milton henschel had a bear skin on his bed.... In his house suite....."
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  People should learn more about the Bible flaws

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have noted that the main problem for those who are seduced by the watchtower society is their ignorance about the bible itself.

  people who believe that the bible is the word of god usually ignore the studies on textual criticism and how scientific criteria forbid absurd stories like that of the global flood.

  so, i strongly believe that students in schools need at least an obligatory course on "the bible" through the point of view of science and the textual criticism.

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  opusdei1972: "But we need a book of a high school level in order to show to the students the flaws of the Bible."

  This short list that I organized should be helpful to people at all educational levels.
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  The Ultimate Tight Pants video for TMIII, God save us all!

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. social
  2. humour

  tight pants.

  hope he sees it.

  doubtful.

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  Village Idiot

  A Ferengi troll.