Yeah, my sis auditioned and is playing in Detroit for the delegates.
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GB approves entertainment auditioning for international delegates.
by suavojr ini don't know if this was mentioned but i spoke with a jw from atlanta, georgia that informed me that the great gb has approved jw auditions.. yes, you read that right!
now the jw's will have their own jw idol, jw voice, and dancing with jw stars, lol.. they are using an assembly hall in atlanta and jw's from all over are auditioning from 8am till 6pm.. supposedly the idea is to have live entertainment for the delegates traveling from overseas for the international conventions.. he said they have had jw's who can play all the hits from the beatles, play merengue, salsa, sing, dance, etc.. the gb is trying hard to make their cult look normal.. some of the questions this rises are,.
will it work?
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10 good reasons why celebrating birthdays should be allowed
by bluecanary ini cannot take credit for any of the gems below but i did want to polish and organize them.
much of the information was borrowed from this thread.
if you can come up with any more, please post them.. the bible does not ban birthdays.
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great thread!
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What's your take on UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS?
by Black Man innot looking for another religion as i'm completely atheist at this point, but the uu's do seem to have a community spirit about them and don't seem to be so cultish.
i lived across from one of their churches (before my recent move) and went to one of their services.
it didn't have the rigidity of the dubs, and seemed to be somewhat open minded.
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Not looking for another religion as I'm completely ATHEIST at this point, but the UU's do seem to have a community spirit about them and don't seem to be so cultish. I lived across from one of their churches (before my recent move) and went to one of their services. It didn't have the rigidity of the Dubs, and seemed to be somewhat open minded. I don't know too much about them, so what's your take on the UU's?
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CONSOLIDATION REQUEST: Branch Closings
by Black Man inhey all - i was wondering if we can use this thread as an ongoing one to detail branch closings of the last 5 years or so and any moving forward?
i had a discussion with some members of my family, who are still dyed in the wool jws, and they didn't believe me about numerous branch closures in recent years.
i was trying to look up some threads that talked about it here (on my phone), but couldn't find a thread quickly.. thanks in advance!.
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Hey all - I was wondering if we can use THIS thread as an ongoing one to detail BRANCH CLOSINGS of the last 5 years or so and any moving forward? I had a discussion with some members of my family, who are still dyed in the wool JWs, and they didn't believe me about numerous branch closures in recent years. I was trying to look up some threads that talked about it here (on my phone), but couldn't find a thread quickly.
Thanks in advance!
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Why are JW REQUIRED to report Field Service Time???
by JT inif you ever wanted to know why this poster put it best
repost-------------------------------------.
in reply to: why do jw keep track of hrs?
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Black Man
Tax purposes. It helps them justify their non-profit status.
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Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?
by Black Man ineven when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.
think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.
that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.
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Black Man
bttt!
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Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?
by Black Man ineven when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.
think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.
that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.
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Black Man
bttt!
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Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?
by Black Man ineven when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.
think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.
that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.
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Comatose: Yeah, I remember thinking that EXACT same thing, whenever I saw a happy non-JW family.
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Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?
by Black Man ineven when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.
think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.
that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.
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Designs: I remember working out in service more than a few times, the "friends" whom I was partnered with were making dibs on some of the houses (mansions being some of them), saying they would get that house once Jehovah destroyed their owners at Armageddon.
Disturbing!
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Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?
by Black Man ineven when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.
think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.
that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.
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Even when I was dyed-in-the-wool J-dub, I felt the Armageddon teaching was one of the most MORBID concepts to be hammered into the psyches of JWs. Think about it, only JWs would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while EVERYONE else would die a horrible death. That includes people who do GOOD THINGS and are GOOD PEOPLE, but are just not JWs. This would also include billions of CHILDREN. Why would such a loving God annihilate billions of CHILDREN?? Also killed in this global genocide are billions of workers whose lives are built on helping people - doctors, missionaries, police and fire personnel, etc.
I remember thinking back to the 80s during my middle and high school years and think how my teenage years were so depressing for me because the reality that I knew, my teachers and classmates, other good people who reached out to me, but were not JWs were all going to die and die very soon, because the end was right around the corner. I spent my teen age years depressed over that, and as such my studies in school suffered. I remember thinking what's the use of even trying to do well in school? Everything is going to be destroyed anyway. There was no striving for higher education, because that was spawned by Satan. It was full-time ministry or else! And that's if the system even lasts that long. The end was so close, two minutes to midnight if you remember the imagery from a popular Watchtower article from the 80s.
But at the same time, you had publications and various parts in meetings that would promote Armageddon as such a happy time for mankind. Who else remembers the countless pictures in publications (witness porn), showing non-JWs being destroyed at Armageddon with buildings falling on them, the earth swallowing them up and any other imagery you can imagine to show the destruction that awaited the "wicked" or non-JW's. And then there would be a corresponding picture showing only the JWs walking past Armageddon and on to the New Order, smiling at the destruction being executed against the wicked. Looking back, that was MORBID AS HELL, and I wonder how the psychological damage especially on young minds being taught that nonsense can be quantified.
I remember thinking how crippling and morbid that so-called future was and as a youth I think it affected me more than I realized. Anyone else had a similar remembrance/experience/feeling about ARMAGEDDON??