Posts by rmt1

instead, i was able to make some nice drawings on my tablet and notepad.. if you replace the name jehovah with watchtower, or the governing 8 men, it would really make sense.. what's up with all that nonstop guilt-mongering about education and having a decent job?!.

most people look down on the uneducated, and i remember, when i didn't have a job, nobody cared!.

rmt1

I just want to drop the statistical and demographic fact that 1 in 5 of the United State's graduate students are 40 years old or above. When I started looking into grad school at 40, I felt like I really didn't belong, that I was out of my cohort, that I would be an unnecessary drain on resources. And yet there was this other old-timer seemingly hanging in there with the other students in their twenties. Some fact checking later, and it turned out that out of our class of ten, he and I actually conform to the national statistics. I *think* what this means is that just because you're older, and presumably have beaten the odds to get your bachelors, doesn't exonerate you from a generalized responsibility to at least see if grad school is feasible.

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Guns

by Brother Mike in

does anyone know why people say as jws you can't have guns.

i've asked people at the hall and they say jws aren't supposed to have guns.

i asked them why, and they all say just because we're not supposed to.

rmt1

How different Jehovah's people are! When I was pioneering a fellow pioneer regaled me to the glorious coolheadedness and nearly worldly calm with which his second-generation elder father, apparently doing the only proper thing that one can do when a stray female cat has left some mewling presents that you do not personally want, in his loving kindness took each kitten one by one, held it up in the air at arms length, and with the most profound respect for Jehovah's creation, aimed a 12 gauge along that arm, carefully, and tenderly blew its head off. This feat of strength and daring was to me quite different from the stories I would hear of the other elders who went to the Rockies and took down bear and large game, so as to eat it.

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this week's wt study

by thedog1 in

i conducted the wt study tonight on higher education.

i wondered what the reaction of the bros and sis would be.

there was no deviation from the idea that a university education is not a good idea.

rmt1

"Wait until their donations dry up because their undereducated membership can't afford to put food on their tables."

I believe you might be waiting a while. The US GDP grows, the entitlement payout grows. In this year alone something like 2 trillion. I'm in no way saying that this job is easy, but "all they have to do" to maintain or comfortably consolidate their lifestyle over the next few decades is to hook in enough individuals on government assistance. That number will grow in scale with income disparity and general aging of Boomers. They've got an inexhaustible supply for the next 50 years - all THEY have to do is reach these ones with some predatory promises, love bombs, etc, etc. This will supplement the real loss you mention of contributions from uneducated / underemployed members. imho

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/fed_entitlement_spending_chart_09_014.html

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Jan 1st WT: Reaching out, Higher Education and Providing for one's needs

by truthseeker in

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well, as a nice start to the new year, the jan 1st watchtower article, "how firm is your trust in god" blasts those who live comfortable lives, those who don't reach out, and those who pursue higher education.. definitely, they are taking a harsher stand, having completely painted themselves into a corner.. i highlighted the interesting comments.

i did not include all the text for each paragraph, just the main points.. .

1 a young man wanted to be more useful to the congregation.

rmt1

These are predators. Even people with first and second degrees, of sound mind and competent to represent themselves and their interests, fall on hard times financially, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, ontologically. These predators lie in wait with the same manner of bait that nets those who are structurally at the disadvantage of not having developed critical thinking skills or the audacity to interrogate assumptions, promises, things too good to be true. In the GB's calculus, there are enough overeducated fools born every minute, who can be dragged in and exploited like the technology the GB is fond of adopting, so that they do not have to tolerate the offence of born-in or recent converts developing the courage to interrogate the narrative or deconstruct the fabrications.

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this week's wt study

by thedog1 in

i conducted the wt study tonight on higher education.

i wondered what the reaction of the bros and sis would be.

there was no deviation from the idea that a university education is not a good idea.

rmt1

Wall Street Journal

From College Major to Career (sort on unemployment percent)

http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NILF1111/#term=

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My Story

by Brother Mike in

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my story is long, heart stopping, tragic, and puzzling.

since i posted what was said to be my last post, i received a private message which sparked my attention about the watchtower.

immediately i did research, and have found not only proof from outside sources, but the watchtower openly admitting it.

rmt1

Coffee's fresh.

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10 Years out of the JW Organization- What I've Learned ( For what it's Worth)

by flipper in

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10 years ago i stopped attending jehovah's witness meetings for good.

walked out of the kingdom hall cold turkey never to return based on injustices i observed among others and myself at the hands of elders giving out not god's counsel but personal opinions as counsel .

some of them weren't even giving out wt society counsel- just personal opinions.

rmt1

I've recently taken up the habit of the toast on Friday nights when the wife and I head over to her friends' house. I'm a staunch disbeliever in a deity-type who holds deed and title over my moral choices, but I am absolutely comfortable indulging in a primitive superstition that the gods of thermodynamics ought to be recognized by marking the unqualified success of living through another week. And so I and the other guy raise a glass to the roof, the walls, and the 'floor' (countertop). It is a ritual far more satisfying than the weekly observations of servitude in the KH. And so, Flipper, I can say I'll toast you back when I get my hands on some beverage. It's good to be out of that living carnage. It is even better to be on your own road.

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9/11 resemblance

by A.proclaimer in

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i found this picture while searching through the old watchtowers.

this one is in the july 15, 1975 (spanish).

i don't know what date it would be for the english edition.

rmt1

Those are all modern analogues to the Tower of Babel. They all defy gravity. They all require a minimum infrastructure base of tens of thousands of workers, and lots of collaboration. Sometimes international, sometimes multi-lingual. And they get closer to God, if that exists, than 8 or 12 or 13 wrinkle bags of hot air ever could on their own merits. GB hate human successes with a frothing passion, except when they can use that point of success to their own advantage. They are analogous to the 9/11 fundamentalist Islamists in regarding human success in general as the Great Satan, with the U.S. as the greatest demonstrable specific exponent. But they are the definition of risk-averse, so they are not analogous to anyone that explicitly performs violence outside the cowardly defense of a wall of law, or at least a wall of lawyers.