Posts by rebel8

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jw.org cart days numbered?

by jookbeard in

reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

i bet its very minimal.

naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

rebel8

If they take something it is because they really want it.

I am not sure I can believe that. I've done community events where we hand out free trinkets and people have physically pushed each other out of the way just to get some $.05 piece of plastic crap. We had to stop leaving stacks of stuff on the counters because people would walk by and sweep the entire lot into their purses. Once I was handing out pink rubber bracelets and an elderly man swept a bunch of them into a tote bag--I asked him what he planned on doing with them and he said, "Nothing, I just want them 'cause they're free."

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Born in apostasy?

by woodforde in

a woman has a blood transfusion during pregnancy.

this blood, obviously, now constitutes the unborn child's circulation.

kid gets born, becomes of age and wants to become a jw.

rebel8

Who knows how they would regard that situation if it was real.

I was told that the fact I had fractions as a toddler (before becoming a dub), made me "damaged goods like a rape victim" and I would probably never be so fortunate as to find a bro willing to marry me. The issue would be compounded if I ever had fractions forced upon me.

Both of those situations were involuntary, and my spiritual and social status as a jw was lessened.

12

door to door

by gda in

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some jw's at my daughters door saturday morning.

they said nothing, nada, zip, zero, and just passed the mags to her and left.

is there no interaction any more?

rebel8

What a great way to place more magazines.

When I was in, we had to ask for a donation of $.20 or some amount like that, because supposedly the angels would then be able to tell if the person was really interested (if they were willing to pay).

If we didn't have to do that, shoving it in their hands and walking away would have made my life a lot easier.

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Celebrate the Un-Memorial

by rebel8 in

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i was thinking that we could spend the memorial evening doing the exact opposite of what we used to do.. smile and laugh.

have fun.

dress comfortably.

rebel8

Can't read those quotes?

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Celebrate the Un-Memorial

by rebel8 in

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i was thinking that we could spend the memorial evening doing the exact opposite of what we used to do.. smile and laugh.

have fun.

dress comfortably.

rebel8

I was thinking that we could spend the Memorial evening doing the exact opposite of what we used to do.

smile and laugh
have fun
dress comfortably
eat leavened bread with your friends while they also partake in the same meal
be noisy
don't think or talk about death or torture for the whole day
discuss how barbaric and unloving human sacrifice is
sit in comfortable chairs
listen to good music and don't sing along
be real--don't love bomb or behave in a fake way to impress outsiders

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Memorial Date this year, why so far out ?

by Phizzy in

we have debated for many a long year on jwn about the "proper" date for the passover/memorial and my conclusion is that jw's get it all wrong for a number of reasons, but as the gospels are contradictory, nobody can say for sure.. most years they are close to the time by a day or so, signalled by the full moon occurring about then.. i believe this year they have chosen saturday april 11th.. this is a full week, near enough, away from the full moon.. what has gone on with their calculation ?.

rebel8

That's because they were written by fallible humans, nothing more.

And the fact that there was no Jesus, so it's all made up.

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Blast from the past...

by Abaddon in

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hi people,.

just dropping by at random to say hi.

i used to be here a lot, from the really early days of jwd up until 2007 or 8 i guess.

rebel8

Hi there

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Watchtower in local newspaper

by lostinthought in

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forgive me if this has been posted already but this was in my local paper today.. http://m.recordonline.com/article/20150307/news/150309486/0/wap&template=wapart.

if you have time to read, this is an interesting article talking about watchtowers property in ulster and orange county ny and how much the properties are worth.

it also goes on to show how the tax exempt stays is hurting the communities..

rebel8

I cannot imagine the tax burden for the paying residents. Prisons, agriculture and cults take up most the property tax potential and contribute little.

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Russia's Supreme Court Declares Jehovah's Witnesses Website Extremist

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-s-supreme-court-declares-jehovah-s-witnesses-website-extremist/512562.html.

russia's supreme court declares jehovah's witnesses website extremist.

the moscow times.

rebel8

I didn't see this news posted on this forum:

http://www.examiner.com/article/jehovah-s-witnesses-are-declared-extremist-by-court-ordered-it-disbanded

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The Days if Noah - Is this the new unofficial generation?

by cofty in

edit - "the days of noah" damn!.

long story short - i need to go to bed!

i was in edinburgh today with my wife (football, coffee, walks, food, cinema) and i always try to take 10 minutes to have a chat with the jws on the trolley in the "big city".. i challenged an older guy who turned out to be an pioneer about the generation.

rebel8

He insisted that he was the same generation as his own grandmother!

omg.

And another thing: omg.