Posts by jeeprube

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Kingdom Hall burns...

by lisavegas420 in

someone broke in...evidence points to arson.

contents inside of building was set on fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axt17r6sem.

jeeprube

That's terrible! I'm glad nobody was hurt. Perhaps someone wanted their publishers card?

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Letter to the Editor about jw's

by Mamacat in

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friends

this was in our sunday paper.

i remember once in field service, an elder ran over a trashcan and never even stopped to set it back up, so this comes as no surprise to me.

how rude.

jeeprube

Oh, the persecution! How can these newspapers print such lies of Satan? It's just like the government of France denying tax free status to one of the world's largest printing empires.

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well i setup an account at reexaminer.org eager to make a contribution but find that uploading was disabled (for now anyway).. so here's this year's supposedly hard-hitting expose on "false religion" aka kingdumb news 37. i hope these links work for all of you.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5070/kn37p1wf7.jpg.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4599/kn37p2rn0.jpg.

jeeprube

I'm sorry, was that the Watchtower Society riding on the back of the wild beast, a.k.a. the UN? Or perhaps their 10 year membership in the UN qualifies them as the beast?

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Reverse Shunning

by uwishufish in

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friends

has anyone ever upon being df'd or da forbade the jws from speaking to them?

sort of as a preemptive strike.

explaining that if they so try you will seek an injunction!.

jeeprube

'reverse shunning' never really works. All it does is reinforce their 'persecution' complex.

Isn't it funny how the moment you turn the JW's rhetoric and actions back on them, they cry "persecution?"

21

Was you ever an attendent or had an attendent in the family?

by jayhawk1 in

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friends

i got to thinking about the conventions and such today.

here is a guy... always a guy who is in charge of a section of seating.

his job is to get up every so often and count people.

jeeprube

I used to be in charge of a literature release station at every convention, so technically I was an attendant. I really enjoyed it, but then I was 16 and telling everyone what they could and couldn't do.

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Kingdom Hall Duties

by KW13 in

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friends

i remember even though i was young, i was 'mature' and i got the priv.

of doing microphones on certain occasions, helped the brother doing carpark e.t.c.

i used to hate mic's at our hall, they had cable attached so you were always tripping over this huge cable, or a sister would have it in her hand, then pull it, so you'd end up with this thing around your legs, basically attaching you to her.

jeeprube

The worst thing about it was sister long boring answers would sit in the middle of a row, you had to bend over and stretch as she gave one of her long answers, while your arm is about to drop off.

ROFLMAO! I remember that.

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JW official website promoting Jesus?

by agapa37 in

i have heard from many people when i would go out in the ministry that "we" witness do not believe in jesus.

when my mother first heard about me becoming interested in the witness that is what she said.

ive seen some make that same statement here.

jeeprube

How many times was loyalty to Jesus mentioned at this summers district convention? How many times was loyalty to the "faithful and discreet slave"?

There is no doubt that the Society promotes Jesus Christ. The problem is that they interject themselves into the equation. Jesus did not say "No man comes to the Father except through the faithful and discreet slave and then me." Jesus set up a simple arrangement whereby the individual Christian had direct access to him, there was no provision for another layer of mediation whereby the Governing Body became defacto mediator. Yet that is the arrangement now put forth by the Society.

It takes more than just mentioning Jesus in some online news article.

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2006 Convention: Vow taken?

by lostlantern in

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does anyone know which talk at the convetion contains the "vow" on not visiting internet chat rooms, etc?

i was hoping to listen to it.. thanks.

jeeprube

overindulgence in food and alcoholic beverages

Half the JW's I grew up with were borderline alcoholics, and the other half are gluttons. Anybody ever hear about the beer bottle smashing station at Bethel? Apparently all alcohol bottles had to be collected and sent to a special room in the basement where they could be smashed prior to being put in the trash, can't have the NY trash workers thinking we're a bunch of alcoholics now can we?

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Torture stake not cross!!!

by kgav8r in

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friends

i'm going to try to word this carefully so that we may all understand.

the writers of the bible used a word that the wts interprets as stake.

if this word does indeed mean stake, then what word should the bible writers have used to mean cross if it is not the word the wts interprets as stake?

jeeprube

The problem with the cross vs. stake argument is that it's irrelevant. The real point is that Jesus died for us. The issue is a straw man debate tactic used by the GB to "prove" they alone have the "truth."

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Regrets of Being Brought up as a Witness

by chuckie77 in

ive never really been one to say a whole lot against the organisation, even though i was really unhappy in the years leading up to getting out of it, i still think theres so many good, peace loving and genuine people in it.

that said i was brought up as a witness and sometimes feel like ive been robbed of a true childhood.. my dad was a lot older than my mum, and was almost 50 when i was born.

he was the po in the cong and being a witness was, and still is, everything to him.

jeeprube

This is perhaps the saddest part of being a Witness, a wasted life. Witnesses never really live life, they are stuck in limbo waiting on a false promise while life passes them by.