just saw a post by splash on the commision transcript thread: (pasted below).
we had a talk at our hall recently, basically saying that there have been lots of letters written to the uk branch, questioning and complaining about a new change introduced for the baptisms at the sad and ca.. the talk did not try to reason, it did not try to explain.. the talk was "do as you are told, don't question what you are told".. we were told to do as the song instructs us "listen, obey and be blessed".. we were told that this change was from jehovah so keep up with his chariot.. i think this talk was given in quite a few locations around the country.. what was that all about please?.
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You cannot catch HIV from being in a properly treated swimming pool.
Maybe the running water has some magical significance, like in the Fairy stories of Baba Yaga. Or in the Jewish Law, where if your house had dry rot or rising damp, you took two sparrows to a stream with a bowl. Cut the throat of one bird over the running water, catch the blood in the bowl. Dip second bird in blood, then release. Finally smash the bowl.
WHO SAID THE Borg gives you the equivalent of a COLLEGE education?
HB
thought this was a clever little ruse.. it's on page 11 of the instructions booklet.. .
the refund function is used to reverse a credit card transaction after it has been settled.. the refund function has been disabled.
any donor whose debit or credit transaction.
WHY disable the refund facility in the first place??
HB
i know jehovah created all life through his son jesus, recenttly i have been reading about different races of et beings visiting our planet and claiming to be a form of us from the future, i,m just wondering can anyone tell me if there is any scriptural refrences to these beings..
An Asleep! rag dealt with this in 1979 or 80.
They said we had radio long enough to find out if there is other intelligent life out there. ( actually: only nothing with the technology within 100 light years )
They then quoted the scripture "Jehovah will do nothing, unless he informs his servants the prophets.." (meaning the Gibbering Buddies) ASIDE - so they believed they are prophets. HAHAHAHAHA
In other words - if there was intelligent life on other planets he would have told the Witchtower babble and trash organisation.
You cannot make this crap up.
HB
jw leaks has just published the financial records for watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania for the years 1995 through 1998 in pdf.. these form just some of the records that were required to be lodged in britain as part of the legal requirements relating to the establishment of an overseas branch of the watch tower society in britain in 1993.. also published by jw leaks are a copy of the original 8 page "certificate of registration of an oversea company" and application lodged with the registrar of companies for england and wales for the registration of "watch tower bible and tract society" in britain.. on november 1, 1999, watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania closed their overseas branch in britain.
a copy of the "closure form" has also been published.
this closure was done following the registration of "watch tower bible and tract society of britain" a few weeks earlier.. documents relating to the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania can be download at:.
James_W -
Do you remember the Witchtower a few years ago where the sisters in the Solomon Islands were praised for their humility and faith?
They could not afford to buy shovels to dig the foundations - sorry: fundum - of the Kingdumb Hell, so they dug them with their BARE HANDS. Good Christ! Crooklyn wouldnt GIVE them shovels, or LEND the money to buy them, because they knew the cash would never be repaid. The fact it was printed, shows they KNEW of this situation...
Thats how relevant this kind of thing is, when they are now planning to deliberately expand in the third world where there is very little internet access, and the ignorant desperate poor will give what little they have to buy a bit of tinsel fringed hope.
HB
think about this.. go way back...far far back in history.. .
go back before the internet.
go back farther.. go back before newspapers, tv and radio.. .
JWB -
Dont be so RIDICULOUS!
Jehoobie wont get mad at Terry - He will be sooo sooo saaaad. Why would Mean MEAN Terry make jehoobie sad sad sad?.
BUT - when jehoobie is sad he gets MAD: When he gets MAD: he gets MEAN: Then he goes into a homicidal psychopathic frenzy and starts killing people.
' Member how he sent his angel who was going back and forth seeking a way to KILL Moses baby, cos he wasnt circum (sorry) genitally mutilated?
Poor sad mad mean baby - what does it feel like not getting all your own way all the time?
HB
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me...for most of my life.. what about you?.
just lois.
I remember and regret reading the "Generation that will not pass away" magazine.
My life at the time was terrible - a very low wage job, yet still struggling to go out on door to bore misery most days of the week, in shoes that leaked, and living on potatoes and eggs.
That magazine moved me sooo much, I prayed to jehovah "please take the helm " and guide my life.
After that everything, especially to do with Da Troof went tits up. An elder said I was not making enough sacrifices for jehoobie. Slander spite ostracism. maybe God did guide me - away from this pit of vipers.
HB
i'm meeting with a friend in about an hour and she said she will let me show her things about wt.
i can't say the whole story right now because of time...but i have a copy of a wt saying how "jehovah will not let false prophecy's come true..." from the may 1st 97 wt.. i don't have a wt library so i can't look up the info.
i know there are wt articles saying the end was coming in 1975 and also certain times from like the 20's.
There is ABSOLUTELY no point showing a true blue JW even a photocopy or a scan, they will refuse to look or read.
They need to find out for themselves - all they will do is argue WITH YOU and say you are wrong.
Been there done it wore the T shirt.
HB
PENIS AND HEALTHY TESTICLES IS THE FIRST AND FOREMOST - WITHOUT THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS IRRELEVANT.
this urban legend/anecdote was on the facebook page of a jw who is a facebook friend of mine.
it's kind of long but tell us what you think....it was all i could do to stop myself from making a snarky comment.
a young couple very much wanted to have a family, but his wife could not conceive, so they decided to adopt a baby.
When I last heard that steaming pile - back in the 80s, it was a little girl, and she spotted the little blue "Truth" book.
I cannot see why jehoobie would manipulate adoption procedures so a child gets witless parents, whist simultaneously watching parents elsewhere watching a dubbie kid bleed to death with the consent of its JW parents.
HB
i had the chance to speak with a circuit overseer, he was not my circuit overseer and it was my chance to get the offical party line why the watchtower joined the united nations.. .
"are you a jehovah witness he asked me?
(theocratical warfare allows lies according to the gb!
The united nations said that it had never been necessary to join as an NGO in order to use the library.
In any case the books there can be obtained on an inter-library loan.
HB
