The Long Beach Convention Center has a large circular area outside of the main entrance that is public property (meaning picketers are allowed to stand in it). If this is where the Aposta-Elvis was standing, this must have irritated any of the picketers who were probably jockeying for attention. Funny.
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18Elvis sighting at Long Beach Spanish Convention
by Shawn10538 inover 5,000 jws were serenaded by an elvis impersonator singing kingdom songs through microphone and amp as they exited the convention.
it was impossible to get to your car without going within 20 feet from him.
he would tell passers by to sing along saying, "i know you know the words!
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Maybe he should organize a global campaign passing out tracts telling other churches that their days are numbered; just as his Brooklyn-based rivals did. I say he and Ted Jaracz should just settle this thing through a friendly arm-wrestle. If Benedict wins, Jaracz has to wear the pope's hat for a week. If Jaracz wins, Benedict has to attend Bethel morning worship for a week.
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(Mormons)?Jehovah's Witnesses Vandalized Our Deck!
by DannyHaszard inwhoa!
top ranked across all the blogs and news wires jehovah's witnesses vandalized our deck!.
shakopee valley news, mn - 5 hours ago.
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Numb-nuts finds a tract in his door and cleverly deduces that it must have been JWs who did the vandalism. Wow, what a sharp guy - sign him up for CSI. For some reason, I think that he belongs in the wheelchair instead of his mom.
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Making excuses for not being a JW or for being one.
by Blindbutnowisee inone of the excuses i use to always use for not getting baptize was " why get baptized when i might in up getting disfellowship.
the jw whom i studied with would compare that to someone not learning how to drive because they are afraid of getting in a accident.
after finding out about their shady history i no longer feel guilty for not getting baptize as a jw..
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Why?? what do you think is so bad about them
A casual investigation into the organization's history while weighing it against their self-elevating claims of exclusivity will answer this question most appropriately.
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Making excuses for not being a JW or for being one.
by Blindbutnowisee inone of the excuses i use to always use for not getting baptize was " why get baptized when i might in up getting disfellowship.
the jw whom i studied with would compare that to someone not learning how to drive because they are afraid of getting in a accident.
after finding out about their shady history i no longer feel guilty for not getting baptize as a jw..
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The Jw whom I studied with would compare that to someone not learning how to drive because they are afraid of getting in a accident.
What an appropriate analogy. One could say that the Watchtower's course of date-setting, speculation, and changing teachings has been like a half-blind old lady running over the traffic cones as she tries to perform her driving test. You should go back to that boy scout and tell him that you didn't want to get into the passenger seat of an accident prone driver. Thank him for his sound wisdom.
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The Watchtower organization uses the word "apostate" in the same manner that Senator Joseph McCarthy threw around the word "Communist". One didn't have to show disloyalty to country or to the constitution to be branded as such, all they had to do was have political leanings to the left.
In the same fashion, one does not have to show disloyalty to God, Jesus, or the Bible to be an "apostate". They merely need to disagree with a piece of the Watchtower sectarian dogma to gain that honorary title. Joseph McCarthy would have made a fine Governing Body member.
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A Bethel friend of mine once told me some of the QFR and some articles were "test balloons", and if not many questions or comments would follow the article, they would pursue along its lines, whereas if a "storm broke out" after an article, the points made therein would quietly be put aside, be shelfed - until a later, more convenient time.
Sort of like the White House collecting polling data. I wish the WTS would just do the prudent thing and graphically arrange all of their doctrines around a large wheel, the same way the Wheel Of Fortune show arranges the dollar amounts on their colorful wheel. Let Ted Jaracz stand there and spin the wheel, and whatever it stops on, they can print that as the "current understanding" of Scripture. They might garner more respect this way instead of claiming that this doctrinal flim-flam comes from Jehovah.
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If this were true, do you think a BOE or the WTS would stoop this low?
by R.F. ina few of years ago at a circuit assembly the district overseer said that in another area that there was a 3 year old that wanted to be an unbaptized publisher.
the boe said that he needed to know how to read, so his parents helped him fine tune his reading skills and he qualified as a publisher at the age of 4.
4 years old!!
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If the child chooses to quit publishing at 5 would he be shunned?
Immagine if around the age of ten, he began to ask his mom about the New System; asking where they will get the petroleum to fuel the needed tractors, or who is going to manufacture the scissors that will be needed to cut people's hair. Suppose he shows signs of skepticism - will he be marked for apostasy? That would be a hoot. A ten year old marked by the group - like something you'd see in the book Lord of the Flies.
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Witnesses and Wedding Parties
by karnage ini am a chef at a country club in my area.
this is the season for a lot of weddings and i was told by some other employees about some past jw weddings that was held at our establishment.
i have heard stories about witnesses placing their trash on the floor and then leaving, leaving instructions for our staff to not smell the wedding cake, ring the glass for attention, and no raising glasses in proposing a toast.
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Watchtowerism instills phobias into it's members toward many trivial activities - this one being one of them.
The very short answer is that the toasting of glasses has origins in "pagan" non-Christian religious practices. I believe that it originated in the attempts to purge evil spirits from a celebration and to bring good luck upon a guest or person of honor.
Jehovah's Witnesses are extremely conscientious about avoiding any actitivities which have any "false religious" origins. This obsession over trivial matters had led to some absurd prohibitions: not using pinatas, not saying "bless you", not saying "good luck", not throwing rice at weddings, and not even doing the "YMCA" dance as popularized by the Village People. I guess this is an important prohibition, because we all know that anyone who has done the YMCA dance has immediately turned into a homosexual or a lesbian.
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Why is the attendance numbers taken twice during the meetings?
by JH inthe watchtower wants to know just about everything and the attendance at meetings is one of them.. do they count how many people are at the hall a second time, just to know if anyone slipped out un noticed ?.
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With the WTS, numbers are either about control... or about damage control. Therefore, some of the numbers are precise, others are not.
willyloman hit the nail right on the head in his post. The organization is statistically driven. These numbers are looked at by traveling overseers, and then are discussed in the Circuit Assembly "Giving Attention to the Needs of the Circuit" talks. I remember the last Circuit Assembly I went to in November 2005, the District Overseer gave a lengthy commentary on the attendance figures for the circuit. He proceeded to tell the assembly that their numbers were considerably lower than those of the Spanish; and that they should be more like the Spanish brothers. It was like sitting through a sales meeting for Coca-Cola; hearing an executive lament the fact that Pepsi was selling more.