Wild_Thing

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  Compliment or criticism - what affects you most?

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a bit of introspection on this one ... just read on someone's post that a compliment makes him "float" for hours, and it got me thinking; within the spectrum of comments that people make about me, from compliment to criticism, which is the type that most affects me?.

  after my experience as a jehovah's witness, i find that i've become suspicious of compliments and over-sensitive to criticism.

  because a common technique of elders was to compliment someone before going down to business, that is, giving hard counseling or discipline.

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  I'm always suspicious of compliments. If you criticize me, I know you are telling me how you really feel.
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  Thank you for redirecting me to the right organization!

  by economy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thank you, jw.net and cofty, for redirecting me to the right organization!.

  when i posted why did god permit scriptures to be corrupted?

  then i thought, if there is an organization that believes all scriptures are corrupted (which obviously makes it enemy of all religions), that organization is not ordinary, but gutsy, lionhearted, and worthy of close examination!

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  Pot ... meet kettle.
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  Question about this pic of JWs from the 1940s ....

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why is no one else singing???

  it's so strange!

  was she doing a solo or what?.

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  You think that one's funny ... this one is hilarious! The guy looks like he is jacking off under the water while he is ogling her.

  The description reads "CANADA - AUGUST 12: Model Dedicates Life to Jehovah; Fashion model Heather Farrar prepares for baptism as convert to the Jehovah's Witnesses during annual Watchtower convention yesterday. She is helped by Fred Holder; left; and Larry Sikorski in special pool set up at Woodbine Racetrack. Miss Farrar; one of more than 100 people baptized; said; I want to dedicate myself to Jehovah God. Convention; which started Thursday and ends tomorrow; has attracted 12;000. The immersion ceremony was one of the highlights. (Photo by Graham Bezant/Toronto Star via Getty Images)" Source

  
  

  
  
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  Worst Bible Verse ... EVER

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the nwt, of course.

  none of the other versions make it sound any better, either.

  2 timothy, chapter 2 has been used and abused to suppress women everywhere.

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  First ... Hawaii Pidgin is awesome! Thanks for that!

  Second ... the cruelest and most violent acts are, of course in the OT, but whenever I point out any of those things that are written in the OT, my JW family pulls the ... "yeah, but we are not under the Mosaic Law anymore" and completely miss the point. And I have always wondered and wanted to ask them, "If we WERE still under the Mosaic Law, does that mean you would stone your kids to death if they disobeyed you because the bible says so?" I am afraid the answer would be "yes".
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  Worst Bible Verse ... EVER

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the nwt, of course.

  none of the other versions make it sound any better, either.

  2 timothy, chapter 2 has been used and abused to suppress women everywhere.

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  I am too lazy to look it up, but there is also one in the OT that says to stone your children if they are disobedient.
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  Question about this pic of JWs from the 1940s ....

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why is no one else singing???

  it's so strange!

  was she doing a solo or what?.

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  Why is no one else singing??? It's so strange! Was she doing a solo or what?

  
  
  
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  Worst Bible Verse ... EVER

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the nwt, of course.

  none of the other versions make it sound any better, either.

  2 timothy, chapter 2 has been used and abused to suppress women everywhere.

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  From the NWT, of course. None of the other versions make it sound any better, either. 2 Timothy, chapter 2 has been used and abused to suppress women everywhere.

  12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but she is to remain silent.* 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 Also, Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and became a transgressor.
  

  Paul was an asshole (or whoever it was that supposedly wrote the book of Timothy.) And it sounds like we need to let imaginary Adam take responsibility for his imaginary actions instead of blaming his imaginary wife.

  What is your worst verse in the bible?
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  Does Anyone Know Where This Picture Came From...

  by MADMARY in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it couldn't be from a watchtower cover, right???

  does anyone know?.

  mm.

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  I used a reverse search engine. Here is one source I found:

  
  

  It is from: http://www.worth1000.com/contests/3247/contest

  I doubt it is the original since it was a photoshopping contest, but it was from 10 years ago, and seems to be earliest time I can find it on the internet. It probably started out as a stock photo on some website, and now it has been edited and used so many times, it will be hard to track down the original. It is similar to some pictures I have seen the watchtower use, but I don't think it is the same. The title of this photo is "Egg Timer."
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  Videolink speech by a HQ member this Saturday

  by Powermetal4ever in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so this saturday we are going to have some kind of videolink speech, by a james mantz from headquarters apparantly.

  how very exciting... or not.

  thats what my mum said anyway, and i just thought like " yeah right" i can t remember we have ever had it before, is it a new take?

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  Oh wow! I have never even heard of Kingdom Support Services, Inc. until today. My, how things have changed since I left! In doing a little googling, I found that they say it was established for construction and fleet management. Evidently, they run the KH constructions, and they hold the title to all of the Watchtower's fleet.

  Is this a corporation they established to protect themselves legally? If so, how does it protect them? Is this something commonly done by religious organizations? Do they commonly establish separate corporations for different divisions of their religious order?
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  ATL Teachers Sentenced to Prison in Cheating Scandal: Can the same charges be used against leaders of the WTBTS?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. social
  2. current

  first of all, i stand in support of the teachers ... sort of.

  this system of over testing in america, connecting test scores to monetary rewards or punishments, and threatening teachers with their job over test scores is directly to blame for the environment created where teachers and administrators felt pressure to cheat.

  but at the same time, they lost their integrity and cheated.

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  adjusted knowledge ... I agree with you. In the criminal justice system, they still technically got sentenced to 20 years. If they flub up during probation, they have to go back to prison and serve the remaining 20. It might be a small difference to point out, but it is quite glaring when you compare it to sentences that murderers and child molesters get.

  As for standardized testing, I have become bitter about the whole thing. I am a teacher. When I started teaching many, many years ago, all of this testing was not the sole focus of school, and now it is. I am about to start administering the state test to my students. 3 weeks of testing everyday. Several hours each day. They are 10 years old. They are not taking the bar exam to become a lawyer. I feel like I am committing child abuse! And this does not include the HOURS of practice testing that district forces us to do. I use to do so much more teaching. Now all I do is test.

  To make it even more frustrating, I work in a high-poverty, high immigrant school. I just had one of my Somali students go back to visit Africa for three works, and I just had two new students move in just a few weeks before the state test is to be given. One of them if from Kenya and has only been learning English for a few years. The other is an American, but she is so low academically. I emailed her old teacher to get the scoop on her, and she said that she has been in many, many schools during her short education, she has attendance issues, the parents will not help, and she will never do any homework at home.

  This happens all the time, everyday. And when the scores come back, all of these children, including the ones that just moved in the week before testing, will be tied to my name, and my ability to teach will be judged by them.

  Sorry for the long rant! I am VERY frustrated with the direction that public education has taken since NCLB was signed into law. With that being said, I will never give up my integrity and cheat. And anybody that does should be jobless!