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  Major Organization Announcement In October

  by Arthur in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay folks,.

  i don't know about you, but i am getting a little tired of all of the threads that speculate what the "major announcement" is going to be.

  so, i figured we could have some fun with this one.

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  Want a few more?

  1) A new directive has just come down from the Slave that single Brothers are not to wear any tight fitting underwear, as this could potentially arouse unclean feelings and thoughts.

  2) All Witnesses must now purchase only 4-door vehicles (proper service cars), and that anyone who is purchasing a 2-door vehicle is showing an independent spirit, and will be "marked" by the elder body.

  3) Witnesses are not to eat ice cream cones, as this is a simulation of oral sex; which is unacceptable for Christians.

  4) Cartoons are now unacceptable entertainment for Christian children. Talking animals are a simulation of animals containing supernatural powers; which originated in Babylon.

  5) The Watchtower Society has put a bounty on AlanF's head. Anyone who captures or kills AlanF will be paid $144,000 or will be given a voucher for the free viewing of ten R-rated movies.
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  Things peculiar to your country!

  by lowden in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, if i came to your country (usa, canada, france, holland, oz....wherever) what should someone experience or sample before they leave....to give them a true taste of your homeland.

  limit it to 5 per post....if you can.. i'll start with england/britain.. english ale, the lake district (england), to get a true taste of england visit the city of bath (or maybe stratford, though a bit too touristy), sample some black pudding (blood sausage .

  c'mon you patriots!!!!.

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  Mexican food here in Southern California is good but maybe too hot for some folks.

  LOL, yeah, very true. I think if some Europeans tried the Mexican food here, it would look just like the end scene in Raiders Of the Lost Ark.
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  Things peculiar to your country!

  by lowden in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, if i came to your country (usa, canada, france, holland, oz....wherever) what should someone experience or sample before they leave....to give them a true taste of your homeland.

  limit it to 5 per post....if you can.. i'll start with england/britain.. english ale, the lake district (england), to get a true taste of england visit the city of bath (or maybe stratford, though a bit too touristy), sample some black pudding (blood sausage .

  c'mon you patriots!!!!.

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  In the United States:

  I think going to a baseball game is a must. Many people here in the U.S. find it boring, but I think it would be a neat experience for someone from Europe who has never been to one before.

  If you visit the West Coast, make sure to visit Hollywood. You can take tours of Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Studios. Universal Studios is a really neat place to tour if you've never been there.

  The Grand Canyon is also a top tourist destination. It is a truly amazing place to see close up and first hand.
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  As long as their is new light, there is no false religion

  by JH in

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  if the jw's can receive new light, why can't the catholics or any other religion also receive new light, that would bring them a little bit closer to the truth.. so, if jw's can have new light, why do they call the other religions false?

  aren't they also entitled to receive new light somewhere down the line and maybe become even closer to the truth than the jw's are.. as long as a religion can constantly recieve new light, so can others, which means there is no false religion, just religions changing slowly from one belief to another either very slowly, or a little faster..

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  There is one major point that hasn't been addressed. They believe that the Master rejected all of Christendom and chose Rutheford & Co. as his "Faithful Slave". They even have "prophecies" to prove that this happened in 1919. As long as they have this doctrine, they can't be wrong.
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  Major Organization Announcement In October

  by Arthur in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay folks,.

  i don't know about you, but i am getting a little tired of all of the threads that speculate what the "major announcement" is going to be.

  so, i figured we could have some fun with this one.

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  Brother Greenlees is now dead, correct?

  Did Israel, the ancient type of the WTB&TS, have any restrictions about necrophilia?

  Would a dedicated Christian abstain from sexual relations with a corpse or skeleton?

  What if that corpse or skeleton consented to such a relationship?

  I obviously meant it in past tense when Greenless and Jaracz served at the same time in Brooklyn; and that Jaracz had kept it secret all of these years.
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  Was Simplification the Downfall of the Watchtower?

  by NotBlind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a thought i had daydreaming while at the recent convention .

  old timers in the organization often reminisce about the way the wts was many years ago.

  attending a convention meant (a) getting hot meals, (b) orchestra music before and during sessions, and (c) two, three, or even four dramas.

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  Much of the "simplification" has actually been the Headquarters taking more and more control over all minute details. No Kingdom Halls area allowed to have their music played on a real piano anymore - everything is pre-recorded. Kingdom Halls look and feel more like dentist's offices than they do a place of worship.

  The headquarters is micro-managing every little thing so much, that the organization is loosing it's human feel more and more. Everything has become so sterile and business-like, that it seems to feel less and less Christian-like.

  It doesn't feel like serving God, as much as it feels like being a member of a multi-level marketing company.
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  WHICH MAGAZINES DOES NY BETHEL SUBSCRIBE TO?

  by badboy in

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  as they quote from nature etc,one wonder what magazines the wt subscribes to.

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  Mind Control Weekly

  American Pedophile

  Apocalyptic Examiner

  Censorship Tactics Today

  Pseudo-Christianity Times
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  Raymond Franz is a good man

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have come across some old threads that make various accusations against rayfranz, but i think on the whole he seems a kind and thoughtful person.

  he didn't do everything right, and he is no saint as some make out: his expulsion is a bit flatteringly called a "crisis of conscience", but he came to terms with the disorienting situation well and did a service to all involved with the witnesses by giving us a look behind the curtain.

  some of the things that people hold against him it seems:.

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  Wasn't Jonsson's book first published in 1983, a couple of years after Franz's leave?

  Yes, but the book was based upon material he had sent the WTS during the 1970's while Raymond Franz was still on the GB.
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  Major Organization Announcement In October

  by Arthur in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay folks,.

  i don't know about you, but i am getting a little tired of all of the threads that speculate what the "major announcement" is going to be.

  so, i figured we could have some fun with this one.

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  Arthur

  Okay folks,

  I don't know about you, but I am getting a little tired of all of the threads that speculate what the "major announcement" is going to be. So, I figured we could have some fun with this one. Why don't we all tap into our "inner smartass" and make up an announcement.

  Here are my top 5 guesses as to what the announcement will be:

  1) Ted Jaracz has been disfellowshipped for having had a secret love affair with Leo Greenless.

  2) The King of the North has now been identified as Iceland.

  3) There will be 4,371 changes made to the New World Translation. All of the new verses will be printed in a special 150 page Kingdom Ministry.

  4) The 2007 Convention theme will be: Deliverance - Much Closer at Hand.

  5) Oral sex between married couples is now allowed, but the wife must wear a head covering.

  What are your guesses?
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  There *IS* a New Revelation Book!!!

  by OpposerSupreme in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  yes, the km lists the changes, but i went to service meeting last night, played dumb, and asked the lit servant what book would be studied when the bible/teach book is finished...

  i now have a new, crappy, perfect-bound softcover copy of the "2006 printing" of the revelation book--not "revision", not "revised edition", but "printing".

  the gall of these arrogant sacks at bethel, i tell ya....my housemate and i spent about two hours going through the old and the new side-by-side and, thus far, have found several flubs that contradict the changes made in the new book whilst leaving others on the same topics undone elsewhere.

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  We have several active JWs that post here that have not mentioned that this is a WT policy to require old books be turned in. I think this is either this individual man's tactic or something is being stretched here.

  Well, Opposersupreme, what about this? Can you back up your statements?