Posts by jwfacts

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Gotta love the internet!!

by ILoveTTATT in

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gotta love the internet... you can find out the watchtower deception in minutes.

this is an awesome example of cherrypicking:.

*** w79 2/15 p. 13 insight on the news ***.

Who negotiates a lower price when buying a new vehicle?

by hoser in

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i don't.

whatever the sticker says on the side of the window is the price i pay.

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There is always room built into the price for negotiation. When I buy new cars I buy the demo model, as it usually has all the high mark up inclusions, and is several thousand off the new price with just a few thousand kms on it.

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I had a funny feeling he was a Witness... and now I need help.

by noontide in

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im in a bit of a bind and im not quite sure what (if anything) i can do about it.

i was recently hired as a business consultant for a rather large company.

the company that hired me mentioned that they are concerned about a certain department and the way its being run, as this department affects every other department in the company.

jwfacts

Do not raise the question of religion at all, as that is illegal discrimination. Whilst that may be the underlying cause of the problems, it is irrelevant to the company. They need you to identify the specific problems, not why he has them. Does he have poor communication skills or procrastinate, leading to missed deadlines. Then set KPI's around those that can be used to help him improve, or else are the basis to manage him out of the organisation. There are personality profiling tools that can be used that specifically show how well a team works together, and identify areas that individuals need to improve on.

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This week's Bible reading

by JustVisting in

this week's reading included exodus 25:2 where moses was to collect contibutions from those whose heart incites him to.

i commented on this verse and quoted from the watchtower 1879 where it says, "we will not beg or solicite funds...when jehovah fails to provide the necessary funds it will be time to suspend publication.

" mind you, this was the same meeting where the letter was read about the new donation "arrangement" was read.. comments anyone?.

jwfacts

Great comment to make. I wonder if it will have an affect on how much people determine to donate to the new arrangement.

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"Only if you get a court order." wink, wink

by rebel8 in

recently had a discussion with a surgeon who said jw parents "usually" (her word, not mine) privately say they will take blood if the provider gets a court order.. yet another person, with no connection to dubs and no motive to make this up, saying this same thing.

interesting.. i'm surprised the thought police have not come out with an article saying jehoopla reads the hearts and judges as bloodguilty those who are relieved when forced to take blood..

jwfacts

The GB encourage it, as it is bad publicity for them when a child dies refusing blood. Toole, the Watchtower lawyer in Australia has admitted the law should be framed to allow the state to take children off the parents in life or death situation.

"Senator SCHACHT - I see. I just want to turn now to the well-documented case from your point of view about children and the complaint that we have laws in Australia in all states giving medical practitioners the right to overrule the parents .
Mr Toole - We are not saying in our recommendation that the law should not exist. What we have said is that there may well be circumstances arise where it does become an absolute life and death issue. We have said that in those circumstances that is the way the law should be framed. In its present form, the law is not framed that way and it allows an invasion of the family and an overruling of the principles of that family in circumstances that really do not call for that at all." (COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, Official Committee Hansard, JOINT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE, Reference: Australia's efforts to promote and protect freedom of religion and belief FRIDAY, 15 OCTOBER 1999 as shown at aph.gov.au as at 27th May 2006)

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Interview on YouTube with a former Bethelite who ended up homeless

by RayPublisher in

this is one of the most extraordinary interviews i've done on youtube to date and i'm not just saying that.. shawn "zen" dean shared his harrowing story with me of being raised in the jw "truth", going to watchtower farms and then getting his teaching degree only to end up homeless... lots of stories along the way, told with humor, sincerity and a heart full of love.. this is a tender-hearted guy that has had the ass-end of the stick his whole life... that's "the truth"!.

http://youtu.be/ub1wx3yarf8.

jwfacts

Sounds like a nice guy. I was waiting for the homeless part of the story.

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Trinitarians! Who is Jesus Christ's father the Holy Spirit or the Father?

by booker-t in

this is one question that trinitarians try to avoid because they have created a very embarrassing problem.

the bible is very clear when the angel tells mary that holy spirit will overshadow her and she will become pregnant.

the angel does not say the father will overshadow her but the holy spirit will and if the holy spirit is a person that would make him the father of jesus.

jwfacts

booker-t, are you sure you understand the doctrine of the trinity? The Father did not become so due to the human birth of Jesus.

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RIP: Timothy Campbell

by Wild_Thing in

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this is old news, as it happened six or so months ago, but i just found out today.

timothy campbell died of kidney cancer in november of 2013. he started one of the first ex-jw forums, beyondjw.

i met him in person once.

jwfacts

Thank you for posting, I was not aware that he had died.

Timothy's site was the first apostate site I found. It blew my mind. I wrote him an email to thank him and was surprised the receive a reply. It was a shame when the site disappeared, but a found a few articles in archive and posted them on jwfacts. A couple more are http://www.jwfacts.com/other/what-now-timothy-campbell.php and http://www.jwfacts.com/other/where-else-timothy-campbell.php

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New field service rules coming this summer

by doinmypart in

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new guidelines for field service coming this summer.

new publication to be released giving new ways of counting time, conducting studies, group activities, etc..

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Who cares if it is 2 billion or 20 billion hours. The measure is how many new publishers. The more easy hours, the more inefficient it shows it to be.

They should be like Mormons and encourage the rich to donate to support the pioneers (by donating to headquarters). Then they get more money and more efficient conversion rates.

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I heard an interesting piece of information from a super-elder today

by Barrold Bonds in

today i attended the special assembly day (sad lol).

i overheard a conversation between an elder and another elder.

we'll call this guy a super elder because he's on all sorts of committees in the area.

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the 100th anniversary of god's kingdom

You think they would be embarrassed that the 100th anniversary of God's kingdom has passed and it has accomplished nothing, and no one knows anything about it.

You make a good point, sports events get these sorts of attendances every week. The international conventions are special to no one but themselves.