Posts by jwfacts

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Cover of the September 2016 Watchtower.

by jwfacts in

the cover of the 2016 september watchtower has an islander couple preaching.

the brother looks like he may be fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an apple ipad.

i can't imagine there are many families that can afford an ipad in the pacific islands.

jwfacts

I wonder if he wears the skirt on the platform?

There used to be a Fijian brother in my congregation in Sydney that would wear the traditional skirt to the meetings sometimes. I can't remember him wearing on the platform though.

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Cover of the September 2016 Watchtower.

by jwfacts in

the cover of the 2016 september watchtower has an islander couple preaching.

the brother looks like he may be fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an apple ipad.

i can't imagine there are many families that can afford an ipad in the pacific islands.

jwfacts

Does Watchtower have any bulk purchase deal with Apple? Can iPads be purchased through congregations at a discount or does everyone have to obtain their own at list price?

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Cover of the September 2016 Watchtower.

by jwfacts in

the cover of the 2016 september watchtower has an islander couple preaching.

the brother looks like he may be fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an apple ipad.

i can't imagine there are many families that can afford an ipad in the pacific islands.

I heard a lot of stories from New Guinea where they had to have security in the car park during the meetings. Even then cars would get stolen. This cover is probably more to imrpress American JWs than a realistic depiction of life in poorer countries.

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Confusing Opinions with Facts

by cofty in

in a discussion about the best flavour of ice cream everybody's opinion is equally valid.. in a discussion about the shape of the earth or the origin of species everybody's opinion is equally irrelevant.

only objective facts and evidence matter.. confusing these two categories is a common feature of conversations in this forum.

people deserve respect, errors do not..

jwfacts

I think it needs to keep being reiterated that evolution is different to abiogenesis. The origins of life are far less understood but there is amble evidence for evolution. It seems few people understand the difference.

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Cover of the September 2016 Watchtower.

by jwfacts in

the cover of the 2016 september watchtower has an islander couple preaching.

the brother looks like he may be fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an apple ipad.

i can't imagine there are many families that can afford an ipad in the pacific islands.

jwfacts

The cover of the 2016 September Watchtower has an islander couple preaching. The brother looks like he may be Fijian in a traditional skirt standing in a river, doing a presentation on an Apple iPad.

I can't imagine there are many families that can afford an IPad in the Pacific islands. I wonder how this is received by the locals. Does this attract them to the religion or make it seem even more disconnected from reality.

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Help needed: transgender people and other unclear topics

by TeaBiscuit in

first of all, i am not quite sure whether this is the right place to ask my questions.

if this is not really appropriate, please tell me in advance, but i really did not know who to turn to, so i thought why not ask the internet... now, i know many of you are apostates and i'm not really looking for "leave it all behind you" answers, but really for experiences, thoughts and ideas... as well as maybe some verses if you can think of any.. anyway, first things first.

since this is very anonymous and i'd like to keep it that way, i will not give you my name, but still, i think some background info might be helpful.

jwfacts

Welcome teabiscuit.

I have addressed this topic at http://jwfacts.com/watchtower/homosexuality-gay-jehovahs-witnesses.php

To get baptised you are expected to go back to your "biological" gender.

“Mutilating the sex organs, such as having the male organ surgically removed and an artificial female organ created, does not change the facts or make the person into the opposite sex. Someone desiring to be baptized who has already undergone a mutilating operation of this sort (a transsexual) would be expected to take his or her place in life in accord with what the individual biologically is, not in accord with what the person has been mutilated to appear to be. This may even require that the person leave a “mate” to whom the person is “married,” since the mutilated one is actually (biologically) of the same sex as the “mate.””Correspondence Guidelines (2011) p.98

You really need to get out of that religion as quick as possible for your own mental heath. You do not need to join a high control religion to worship Jehovah, particularly one that refers to you as depraved and mutilated.

My best friend is an exJW and transgender. If you ever are in Sydney Australia it would be nice to meet up.

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Why do witnesses feel the need to put JW ORG on all their social media sites?

by stuckinarut2 in

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have you all noticed the obsession witnesses have of putting jw.org on all their social media sites like facebook, twitter, instagram etc?.

so many put it in their bio section...like some sort of loud proclamation to other witnesses that they are righteous and spreading the message.. it's also very lazy.

now with no personal effort at all, they can just say jw.org and be "witnessing".

jwfacts

They have always been a sales organisation. Just like sales people are pressured to do free marketing through social media, so are JWs.

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You wear tight pants and you will be in trouble

by wannaexit in

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i was reading in another forum, that a letter to the elders instructed them to speak to anybody who persists in wearing tight pants.

if changes don't happen then the instructions are to disqualify him from being a publisher but it won't be announced to the congregation.

i am am curious to see if this letter will surface.

jwfacts

Here is the information presented to elders at the last round of CO visits.

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"The Bunker" WT Conventions 2016 (Gag Me)

by Poztate in

in the very near future the gang will be down in a bunker,cellar awaiting the police,military to break in and take them away to camps or executions .

(paranoid much) this is the foretold "prophecy" of the governments turning on religion and saving them for last.since the couple portrayed as simplifying their life by getting rid of a lot of material things is shown to be (about) the same age in the bunker we know it must be any minute now that it will happen.

i have been out for over 35 years and things seem to be getting more bizarre each year.. when did this doctrine really become main stream?

jwfacts

It seemed to be a morbid fascination at the time
I remember it well. It was a sadomasochistic obsession.
Very unhealthy environment for children.

I was a child at the time and remember being afraid of having pins stuck under my fingernails, or being tickled to death (a bizarre fear of mine.)

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Best place to "Advertise, Advertise, Advertise!"

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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i was at a hippyish restaurant today, this was on the washroom wall.

no, this is not a fake or a photoshop....

jwfacts

I love that picture. So dirty. Like it belongs in a scene from American Horror Story. People are going to think it is a hook up site, maybe short for Just Whores .com