Posts by moomanchu

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Patterson New York JW Tourist Destination

by Pete Zahut in

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i saw a photo on facebook of a jw couple i know, apparently you can now get your photo taken with the stars of the jw animated children's videos, at patterson.

i've tried to share it here but it isn't showing up.. basically, you stand in different cartoon scenes of the door to door activity, holding a bookbag and the hand of one of the children's characters from the viedo.

the houses are pastel colored, the cartoon brothers are wearing brightly colored shirts and ties , no jackets.

moomanchu

I wonder if they will eventually have stars from the bible available for photos????

Prolly not, that would be idol worship, the Catholics do that with their Mary and Jesus figurines.

Dream Job for JW's

by moomanchu in

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the pinnacle of careers for a jw.. i would make the windows dirtier from all the body fluids that would flow out of me.. http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/02/18/dubai-burj-khalifa-worlds-tallest-building-window-washer.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=hp_river.

moomanchu

The pinnacle of careers for a JW.

I would make the windows dirtier from all the body fluids that would flow out of me.

http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/02/18/dubai-burj-khalifa-worlds-tallest-building-window-washer.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=HP_River

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RETIREMENT HOMES AND COMPANY BY AND FOR JEHOVAH WITNESSES???

by ADJUSTMENTS in

just did some googling on jws and found some info i've never heard of before... this rabbit hole just gets deeper and deeper... links to retirement homes and company!!!

have any of you heard of this before?.

http://touch.mcall.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79180330/.

moomanchu

The Allentown home will be the first one in the USA.

The business has been around for a while.

There are other links in this thread.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/273115/1/Retirement-complex-for-older-JWs-to-be-built#.UwLNFbCYbGg

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WT Video on how to handle JWs contemplating suicide

by Oubliette in

http://www.mediafire.com/watch/cvas6fcrc9zca94/shepherding_instructional_suicidal_widow.avi.

i just watched beginning of the recently leaked video produced by the wtbts allegedly instructing elders how to treat jws contemplating suicide.

i am so apalled i cannot even begin to describe it!.

moomanchu

It's funny how the JW's seem like androids to me anymore.

The older elder reminds me of many elders they always have a stupid little smile on their face.

A smile that you would like to smack off.

The ending made me lol.

It looked like the older elder was thanking Jehovah because she was finally bringing some cookies out.

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JW. org: "No, we are not a cult. We do not look to any human as our leader."

by Faithful Witness in

i know this has been rehashed, time and again, but i saw this interesting blip on jw.org last night, and did a little thinking about it.... jw.

org answers the important question that so many have... are jehovah's witnesses a cult?.

jehovah's witnesses do not look to any human as their leader.

moomanchu

I'm of the belief that cults do not exist.

Name one group that admits to being a cult, none, therefore they do not exist obviously.

We don't follow a leader!!!

We follow leaders!!!!

Therefore we are definitely not a cult!!!!

Idjuts

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Retirement complex for older JW's to be built

by moomanchu in

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this is literally almost in my backyard.. they are using a local contractor, not jw volunteers.. http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-jehova-witness-retirement-home-20140205,0,2445692.story.

21 f. thursday, feb. 6, 20146:49 am est .

retirement complex for jehovah's witnesses in salisbury townshipnine-month project to employ workers from 20 trades.

moomanchu

Interesting, I never heard of them before apparently they are a registered charity.

I guess if it's private they can do whatever they want.

It just seems odd that employment and residency is exclusive to Jdubs,

but then again what "worldly person" in their right mind would want to be surrounded by Jdubs anyway, 24/7.

I think this is the first one in the USA.

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Retirement complex for older JW's to be built

by moomanchu in

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this is literally almost in my backyard.. they are using a local contractor, not jw volunteers.. http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-jehova-witness-retirement-home-20140205,0,2445692.story.

21 f. thursday, feb. 6, 20146:49 am est .

retirement complex for jehovah's witnesses in salisbury townshipnine-month project to employ workers from 20 trades.

moomanchu

So will they only allow Jdubs to live and work there?

I'm surprised the WTBS allows their name to be used for it.

When my brother in law became a quadraplegic he moved into a Catholic assisted living home,

The facility was right next to the church and part of a Catholic complex.

btw he is a good little Jdub.

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Retirement complex for older JW's to be built

by moomanchu in

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friends

this is literally almost in my backyard.. they are using a local contractor, not jw volunteers.. http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-jehova-witness-retirement-home-20140205,0,2445692.story.

21 f. thursday, feb. 6, 20146:49 am est .

retirement complex for jehovah's witnesses in salisbury townshipnine-month project to employ workers from 20 trades.

moomanchu

This is literally almost in my backyard.

They are using a local contractor, not JW volunteers.

http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-jehova-witness-retirement-home-20140205,0,2445692.story

21° F

Thursday, Feb. 6 , 2014 6:49 AM EST

Retirement complex for Jehovah's Witnesses in Salisbury Township

Nine-month project to employ workers from 20 trades.

1/10 By Sam Kennedy, Of The Morning Call

3:51 p.m. EST , February 5, 2014

Groundbreaking on a retirement complex for aging Jehovah's Witnesses in Salisbury Township is scheduled to begin next month.

The $6.5 million Legacy Place Cottages — to be located at 2051 Bevin Dr., near the southern entrance to South Mall — will consist of two single story buildings totaling 30,000 square feet, according to Serfass Construction of North Whitehall Township, which is overseeing the project on behalf of the nonprofit group Jah-Jireh Homes of America.

"It will blend into the neighborhood. These two buildings will look like large homes when they done," Serfass Vice President Matthias Fenstermacher said. "They are spending quite a bit of money to make it look like that."

according to Jah-Jireh's website, the group's goal is "to care for aging Jehovah's Witnesses who need assistance with aspects of daily living and are no longer able to stay in their own home."

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Jah-Jireh's board consists of members from throughout the state and from as far away as Grand Rapids, Mich., though the chairman, Darbin T. Skeans, is from Allentown, according to the site.

Neither Skeans nor anyone else from the group could be reached for comment.

Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian sect that was formed in this country in the late 1800s and is governed today by a ruling body based in Brooklyn, N.Y. They are familiar to many people through their door-to-door missionary work, responsible for distributing countless copies of their "The Watchtower" and "Awake!" literature to homes throughout the world.

Although Christian, Jehovah's Witnesses subscribe to tenants that distinguish them from Catholics and mainstream Protestants. They reject the concept of the Trinity (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit), and they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter.

Fenstermacher said Legacy Place Cottage is a good fit for Serass Construction — a third-generation, family-owned enterprise established in 1948 — because the company has developed a specialty in health care-related projects. About 20 to 30 percent of its work is tied to health care, he said.

Over 20 local trades will work on the project, and as many as 50 workers will be on site on any given day during nine months of construction, according to Serfass. The first day of work is set for March 1.

"As long as the weather breaks, that's when we're starting," Fenstermacher said.

The land on which Legacy Place Cottages will be built is situated in a residential area between the busy Auto Mile on Lehigh Street and the Little Lehigh River.

The project will include a number of provisions to protect the Little Lehigh Creek watershed, according to Fenstermacher. For example, he said, captured run-off from a sprinkler system will be used to irrigate landscaped areas

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Watching Amish Shunned on PBS...very deja vu if you are/were a JW!

by tenyearsafter in

this is a very interesting documentary...the similarities are so close, you could substitute jw for amish!

anyone else watching this?.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/shunned-introduction/.

moomanchu

I dvr'ed it, gonna watch it now .

Why can't someone do a similar show on the JW?

I guess they are to slippery?

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Religion VS Atheism and the decline of ethics and morals

by EndofMysteries in

being back in college after leaving the borg, one of the required classes for a degree at my college is ethics.

after learning a few things, i am curious where morality and ethics is heading for the future of humanity.

i wish i could find the source again, but several weeks ago i recalled reading a transcript of a very old document that talked about when christianity was being spread in europe, it brought civility and community.

moomanchu

Well one thing you can't argue is the decline in religion hasn't caused a decline in condescending, mocking and insulting

behaviour towards those that still believe in God. Woo Hoo let me have it LOL.