Posts by blindersoff

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Demonstrations against the WTBTS - Get on with your life.

by breeze in

you guys that are so obsessed with the wtbts and their future.

just stop it and get onto doing something positive with your life.

give back sometheng to your community and the world we are in for now.

Major (5 star) barf alert about DC experience

by blindersoff in

comments from our dear sister in the fort worth, tx area.

her email address is: xxxxxxxxxx [ pm me if you want it]

"i went to the sunday session of the convention this week and it was so .

blindersoff

----------------This is an email received by a relative----------

comments from our dear sister in the Fort Worth, TX area. They are most encouraging. Her email address is: xxxxxxxxxx [ pm me if you want it]
"I went to the Sunday session of the convention this week and it was so
encouraging. Brother Lett was one of the speakers and his enthusiasm was
great. He made a comment I was really taken with. He was talking about the
Faithful and Discreet Slave and all they do for us...like the convention
information. He said, "You have never received a letter from the Slave that
said, "Dear Brother, We will not be having a District Convention this year
because we don't have anything to say". So we will have a three day
District Convention next year....maybe it will be in the New System but we
will have a three day District Convention". Everyone really applauded that
statement. Of course it isn't that we are serving for a date but sometimes
we just get so tired. Anyway it really energized everyone there. I am
looking forward to going for the Friday session this week. I had to work
last week Friday so I am so grateful we have three conventions we can go to.
Of course if we had only one there would have been no question...I wouldn't
have worked.

They gave a wonderful experience of the invitation work. It came out of
Arkansas I think. A young sister, 12 years old, left an invitation with a
man named Kevin. He was really interested and said he would be coming on
Saturday and Sunday but that he had to work on Friday. Then he asked what
the Witnesses did so they could come on Friday. The young sister said that
they asked their boss for the day off and if he didn't grant it, they would
quit. Well, she went back a week later to see if he was still coming and if
she should save a seat for him. He said yes he was coming and would be
there on Friday as well. He had asked his boss for the day off and told him
if he didn't get it he would quit. The boss said he was too valuable an
employee to lose and gave him Friday off and Thursday as well to get ready
for the convention. When she asked if she could save him a seat he said
well he had some family members and friends that wanted to come too and thee
would be about 30 of them. The young sister said she didn't think she could
save that many seats and he said not to worry they would find some on their
own....and they did. All 30 attended and in the final talk the brother told
the experience and invited the friends to welcome these interested
ones...which they did enthusiastically. It will be interesting to hear any
follow up experiences. But it was encouraging to hear that these things can
happen here in the US. Sometimes it feels like we are out of sheep." CW

21

Stop the world! I want off!

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

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sometimes we all find ourselves in periods of time where we are constantly hit by stress... right now is one of those times for me.

i seem to recall a little string i can pull on a bus to make it stop... now where is that thing for the earth???

blindersoff

This too, shall pass

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Announcement: Another favorable court ruling regarding Napa County lawsuit

by AndersonsInfo in

i'm thrilled to tell you about the latest court decision made in california a few days ago which kimberlee norris said would be announced today, monday, on jwd.. on july 3rd, i started a thread where the last two rulings in the napa county, california lawsuit, charissa w. v. watchtower, new york, et al., were posted.

both decisions were favorable to the plaintiff.

see http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/116108/1.ashx.

blindersoff

Any ex-elders correct me if I'm wrong, but this inclusion into the PA book was given under the verbal direction of the CO.

That's how I remember it. Soooo--How did the co know precisely what to tell the elders verbally?

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350

Called JR Brown regarding Cano Pedophile situation

by LDH in

just called their media line:.

http://www.jw-media.org/contact.htm.

asked a young man named bryce where is the official press release on the cano pedophile situation.

blindersoff

just wondering if I should send this interesting information to that self righteous asshole that used to be my exhusband............

I guess he is now your current husband

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convention witnessing-special 'Gas cap' campaign

by blindersoff in

jw
friends

this was great fun.

someone here suggested it, so i did it.. i printed up auld soul's easy to follow instructions to the un website and a website address for 'the guardian' article and put it in gas cap doors.

there are many that can be opened from the outside of the car.

blindersoff

And not one car alarm went off??

Not one.

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convention witnessing-special 'Gas cap' campaign

by blindersoff in

jw
friends

this was great fun.

someone here suggested it, so i did it.. i printed up auld soul's easy to follow instructions to the un website and a website address for 'the guardian' article and put it in gas cap doors.

there are many that can be opened from the outside of the car.

blindersoff

This was great fun. Someone here suggested it, so I did it.

I printed up Auld Soul's easy to follow instructions to the UN website and a website address for 'The Guardian' article and put it in gas cap doors. There are many that can be opened from the outside of the car. My territory was a parking garage during the sessions.

SIDE 1

This is not a ‘lie or half truth’. In case you want to find out for youself about the association of Jehovah’s Witnesses with the United Nations in the 1990’s.

Go to www.un.org (the UN Web site)

Click "Welcome" Click "About the United Nations"

In the left column (about halfway down), click "NGO Section" (NGO means "non-governmental organization," which is true of any organization that is not a Government)

In the left column, click "NGO Relevant Documents and Events"

In the center, click "Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York"

Also see : http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,574175,00.html (a journal often quoted by AWAKE)

SIDE 2

***

w99 5/1 p. 15 "Let the Reader Use Discernment" ***

The Watchtower……, in its December 15, 1929, issue, on page 374, The Watchtower definitively said: "The whole tendency of the League of Nations is to turn the people away from God and from Christ, and it is therefore a desolating thing, the product of Satan, and an abomination in the sight of God." ….In time, the League gave way to the United Nations. Jehovah’s Witnesses have long exposed these human peace organizations as disgusting in God’s sight.

w79

1/1 pp. 30-31 Questions from Readers ***

Is it true that for religious reasons Jehovah’s Witnesses may not become members of the YMCA ?

Yes, that is so. Jehovah’s Witnesses may not become members of that organization.

Many persons think of the "Y" simply as a social organization that offers various services, such as a swimming pool, facilities for athletic training and a place for clubs to meet.

In joining the YMCA as a member a person accepts or endorses the general objectives and principles of the organization. He is not simply paying for something he receives, such as when buying things being sold to the public at a store.

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Finally out of Hiding

by Shador in

well i finally came out and told my parents i did not believe in the wts doctrines.. for me the last straw was seeing honesty's simple clear proof of the wrongness of 607.

'course i couldn't remember all the refs last night but now i've printed them out.. told them about the ngo thing.

of course they said the "ebul 'postates" were twisting the whole thing.. my dad tried to "reason with me" thusly:.

blindersoff

What 'Poztate' said.

Also--

At this point there has not been a DF offense committed from what I read. Thus a JC would not be formed until a couple of elders have looked into it and could actually charge you with apostacy. They would be required to try to help you 'come to your senses'. It could be that their conduct and inability to prove 607 might have an eye opening effect on your parents

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"Slogging" - the top speed at which JWs go door to door

by LovesDubs in

jw
friends

i know this topic has been beat to death probably in here...but i was watching some of the "friends" going down my street the other day (and they categorically skip my house because satan and i are tight you know) and it reminded me so much of how much i hated going door to door and how i prayed when it was my turn to knock that nobody was home.

and we walked down those streets with our little territory cards in hand, making anywhere from meticulous to rediculous notes about the house we were just at...and moving our feet as slowly as we possibly could to maintain a forward motion at all, to eat up the time we were forced to (yes i said forced to) report every month.

field service was what you called the time you spent between when you were at mcdonalds and dunkin donuts.

blindersoff

Under-b

You also 'can't' pad your service report

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I don't get it...a jw & ebay thing

by Why Georgia in

jw
friends

let me just start by saying...i sell on ebay.. when people are buying things from me, i sometimes click on their feedback to see what they have bought in the past because i am bored and obviously don't have enough to do with the 2 kids, house, 3 dogs, and 4 cats...lol!.

this one guy who is bidding on one of my auctions has purchased at least 10 of the old purple jw kingdom interlinears.. are they really that interesting?

is he one us us spreading the real truth or is he a jw buying back old light?.

blindersoff

The NWT was originally green

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