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  Look, Up in the Air...It's a Bird, it's a Plane...No, It's a JW!!

  by Cold Steel in

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  2. beliefs

  for you ex-jehovahs witnesses...and even you current ones...have you ever contemplated your future existence in paradise earth, should you be fortunate enough to end up there?

  during those raucous, fun moments at the kingdom hall when you were contemplating eternity and having the times of your lives...did you ever speculate about what life would be like?

  for example, would you have to walk everywhere or would you be able to fly around like superman?

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  Cold Steel:

  How will cities be built?

  Watch Tower Society illustrations of 'paradise' endorse equipment up to and including bulldozers (evidently™ fuelled by 'clean' energy sources that don't 'ruin the earth'). Can't be sure beyond that.
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  Look, Up in the Air...It's a Bird, it's a Plane...No, It's a JW!!

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for you ex-jehovahs witnesses...and even you current ones...have you ever contemplated your future existence in paradise earth, should you be fortunate enough to end up there?

  during those raucous, fun moments at the kingdom hall when you were contemplating eternity and having the times of your lives...did you ever speculate about what life would be like?

  for example, would you have to walk everywhere or would you be able to fly around like superman?

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  Cold Steel:

  As far as having one’s own planet? I think galaxy or universe would be more accurate.

  This is why we need a facepalm emoticon.
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  Look, Up in the Air...It's a Bird, it's a Plane...No, It's a JW!!

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for you ex-jehovahs witnesses...and even you current ones...have you ever contemplated your future existence in paradise earth, should you be fortunate enough to end up there?

  during those raucous, fun moments at the kingdom hall when you were contemplating eternity and having the times of your lives...did you ever speculate about what life would be like?

  for example, would you have to walk everywhere or would you be able to fly around like superman?

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  braincleaned:

  No birthdays, or any holiday to celebrate individual life

  Just think how disappointed faithful Bible Students™ who died before 1928 will be when they learn that Christmas (1928) and birthdays (1951) have been taken away from them. Even though Jesus evidently™ approved™ of those when he selected the BS (pun intended) in 1919.
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  What was your "Aha!" moment?

  by Hortenzie in

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  for me it was when i learned that gb makes their decisions by 2/3 majority vote, not by direction of holy spirit..

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  What was your "Aha!" moment?

  When I was about 8 and being asked stupid questions like, "What [wild] animal would you like to have in the paradise?"

  I had to go along with it for a while after that though.
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  Suggested Contribution Rate 1 Cor 16:2

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in case you were in doubt, the suggested weekly rate is.

  au$50.

  page 8 nov 15 2013 study edition .

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  jonahstourguide:

  didnt want to go down in history as a bull s..t artist

  After your attempted invalid correlation of currencies, I'm afraid that horse has bolted.

  Ewe is spoken in Ghana and Togo (mainly Ghana). Of those, only Togo uses francs.
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  10,000 year old spear point found in FL - man is only 6,000 years old?

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
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  http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/16/us/florida-spring-artifacts/index.html?hpt=hp_c2.

  as evidence piles up, will we reach a tipping point where people begin accepting the age of humans existence?.

  he described as "phenomenal" the preservation of the finds, whose location as many as 5 feet deep in oxygen-free sediment had protected them from decay.. they include a suwannee projectile point -- a spear point -- whose estimated age of 10,000 years puts it "right at the cusp of the end of the ice age," arbuthnot said.

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  Comatose:

  As evidence piles up, will we reach a tipping point where people begin accepting the age of humans existence?

  Don't most people already accept this?!!!
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  More WT Propaganda: Low Paying Jobs are OK for Family Heads. Just "Don't Miss the Meetings!"

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  god, evidently, wants you to be poor: .

  a newly baptized brother is married, and he and his wife have three small children.

  one day, a workmate suggested that he and the brother move to another company that paid a higher wage and provided more benefits.

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  Stand for Pure Worship:

  SMH at this thread.

  SMH at SfPW.

  You don't understand why people enjoy celebrations. You don't understand practicality, self-sufficiency or financial security. You don't understand why people don't fall for Watch Tower's empty 'promises' of the magical 'end' coming 'soon'.

  What has that crazy religion done to you?
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  More WT Propaganda: Low Paying Jobs are OK for Family Heads. Just "Don't Miss the Meetings!"

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  god, evidently, wants you to be poor: .

  a newly baptized brother is married, and he and his wife have three small children.

  one day, a workmate suggested that he and the brother move to another company that paid a higher wage and provided more benefits.

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  LisaRose:

  Why is the Watchtower so afraid for anyone to miss a meeting? Time control is part of cult indoctrination, it keeps people constantly busy trying to please a never satisfied organization, so they do not stop to question anything.

  Not only is it about 'busywork', but it's also about maintaining 'group think'. The 'information' at JW meetings is extremely repetetive in nature ("end is coming" "do more" "world is evil" "jehovah is magical"). So much so that even the most mundane variation, such as a 'tract campaign', is considered a 'special announcement'. The somewhat delusional teachings need to be continually reinforced, because otherwise the rational part of the mind begins to see the ridiculous teachings for that they are.
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  How long will it be

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wanting estimations on "how long do you think it will be before the society allows internet witnessing as another avenue of preaching".

  i feel it will only be a matter of time.

  they have to do something to counteract all the negative stuff.

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  Jeffro

  Because JW preaching is self-reported, there's already nothing to stop JW apologists from counting the time they spend 'preaching' on forums such as this one.

  That said, much of the time of 'actual' 'preaching' reported by JWs involves transit rather than actual preaching, especially in rural or semi-rural areas (as well as time spent in a great many coffee shops).

  The number of 'peak publishers' is also distorted in JW 'preaching' figures because individuals who fail to report in a particular month can submit two reports the following month, artificially inflating the count.

  For all they do to increase the purported number of hours spent 'preaching', it just makes their conversion ratio look worse.
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  Tiny procedural change

  by Caminante in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).

  i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.

  first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.

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  Caminante:

  The crappy quality is because the PDFs uploaded to JW.org have all images reduced to 150 ppi.

  That sounds pretty ridiculous for a large publishing company that has always claimed to be on the forefront of publishing technology. They managed to come up with unnecessarily large files and still have crappy quality. Genius. It's quite odd that they haven't since replaced the large files with smaller files of better quality, at least in the more common languages.

  And the Greatest Man book probably needs some 'New Light'™ updates anyway...