I think the best part of this article is all the feedback at the bottom. It seems that the Governing Body is trying to portray JW's in a more positive light within the media, while tightening the noose behind the kingdom hall doors. I say this because of the outright lies and half truths JW apologists are spreading in these response columns and on other message boards.
It's nice to see some of the Watchtower skeletons brought out of the closet.
ok just got back from the dc in kansas city.
i know there has been a thread on the dc already but i will post "highlights" or lowlights depending on one's opinion, of the dc in kc on this thread.. 1) bethel speakers so far 1 from patterson bethel, 1 from brooklyn bethel and 1 from walkill bethel + governing body speaker anthony morris 111. friday major talk on christ on last talk by morris.
illustarted earthquake in armenia few yaers ago.
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okay, here goes.... i've seen many many many references to kool-aid here, such as "don't drink the kool-aid" etc etc but i can't work out what it's all about.. but, my imagination tells me that maybe someone went to a memorial meal, "partook of the emblems" and discovered that it wasn't wine, but kool-aid.. am i right or is there something else going on?.
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Here's a question for you......If the brothers locked the doors at a D.C. and brought out the Kool-Aid (real poisoned stuff); and the Bethel speaker explained the GB had decided we all had to drink to please Jehovah, how many there would drink?
okay i am getting messages from gay exjw site message board that ray franz is back at meetings.
i cannot imagine this has a fragment of truth... has anyone heard about this?
can verify or otherwise?
This is an interesting topic, I can't help but wonder if it really would matter if Mr. Franz went back to the meetings. Would that somehow invalidate the 100+ years of Watchtower hypocrisy? Would it make anything that he wrote less true? I don't think so.
been a fade away for quite a few years now.
wrote my letter and had my name removed from the list late last year.
i hate to just jump in and ask for help right away but i was hoping someone on here might be able to help me.
Welcome to the board!
What an awesome idea for a tattoo.
my husband and i were just wondering.......if a son, who is a jw, inherits a large sum of money from his non-jw parents, is he required by his kh or the wts to give a portion to them??.
thanks very much for any information!.
lavendar .
Do you mean give a portion to his parents, or to the WTS?
I don't think he's required to do either.
some people can spot a "gay" person by using their built-in "gaydar".. can you spot a witness easily?
what are the signs that this person must be a witness??
tell us about you "jwdar".....(prounounced jawaydar)..
I've got it. Two weekends ago my wife and I went camping and were hanging out with some really cool people across the way. We were drinking beer and hanging by the fire when my JWdar went off. Wait a minute, they have mustaches but not goatee's; four door cars but not two.......then one of the guys said shit a few times, and I relaxed.....until I realized that meant absolutely nothing......I still don't know if they're JW's.
when i was a teen, i aspired to be an elder.
from my pre-teens until i was 18, i was in every circuit assembly and district convention----having either ministry school talks or parts or experiences.
at 20, i conducted a bookstudy in the afternoon, also regular pioneered, was the theocratic ministry school overseer in the 2nd school and regularly taught the main school.
My wife and I just read your story, thank you for sharing. I've known several elders like your younger version. Never liked any of them.
A very encouraging story Minimus.
things must really be bad.
usually the advertisement for the district conventions are a few lines long, but this year they've laid it on as thick as ever!
witnesses invite all to "follow the christ".
Wasn't it just last summer that they were handing out tracts for the Deliverence is at Hand convention, and then they had a run up to some special campaign which was supposedly going to make them hated by all the world?
JW's are only relevent in their own minds, everyone else just steps right over them and keeps on going.
i just stumbled upon the watchtower article on the universal law of gravitation and why newton was wrong......what a laugh!
the deeper you dig the stupider these people become.. http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/index.php/watchtower_quotes/medical-science/gravitation_and_electric_energy/.
I guess my favorite part of the article is when the writer references the well known model of the atom as being similar to a solar system, and then immediately inferring that they would therefore have like characteristics. When Neils Bohr first proposed such a model he cautioned that it was to not be taken as fully reflective of the true nature of an atom, it was merely a rudimentary example. Indeed latter experiments showed that electrons orbit atoms in waves, not singular orbital patterns.
I'm left to wonder why the WTBTS would even attempt to comment on such complicated material? Perhaps they are so consumed with their own correctness that they feel whatever they think really is truth?
