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Dec. 15th WT - WT Society REALLY Minimizes Earning a Decent Living

by flipper in

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it's ridiculous.

i saw this so much in my 44 years in the jehovah's witness cult.

whether it was elders, pioneers, or other people in the cult criticizing others for working too much at their employment or missing some service or meetings due to employment.

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flipper

Our Kingdom Hall had numerous talks on how missing meetings due to working overtime and working second shift were due to brothers not being spiritual enough. We were told to look for new work even if it meant lower wages. The brothers who missed meetings due to working on meeting nights were never called to say a prayer for the congregation. Also,no book studies were ever held at a brothers house who was working on meeting nights.

We had a brother who never graduated high school (who worked as a welder working second shift making over $30 hour)who was told numerous times to seek new employment because he missed too many meetings. He never listened to them. Where was he going to get a job making $30 hour with no high school education?

My brother quit his job at a grocery store working long hours because he was hounded by the elders. We also had a brother who worked in concrete construction quit his job because he worked too many hours and missed too many meetings. After he quit his job,he was unemployed for over 1 year. His wife went back to work to help the household.

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If Jehovah uses only the Witnesses in his preaching work,why don't they have a real message?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

jonah 3jonah goes to nineveh 1 then the word of the lord came to jonah a second time: 2"go to the great city of nineveh and proclaim to it the message i give you.

" 3 jonah obeyed the word of the lord and went to nineveh.

now nineveh was a very important citya visit required three days.

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THE ORACLE & PARAKEET

Thanks for your great posts! I'm laughing as I write this.

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If Jehovah uses only the Witnesses in his preaching work,why don't they have a real message?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

jonah 3jonah goes to nineveh 1 then the word of the lord came to jonah a second time: 2"go to the great city of nineveh and proclaim to it the message i give you.

" 3 jonah obeyed the word of the lord and went to nineveh.

now nineveh was a very important citya visit required three days.

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Jonah 3

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you." 3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city—a visit required three days. 4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." 5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

I no longer believe in the story of Jonah. But as Jehovah's Witnesses we believed that Jonah was given a real message to declare to the people of Ninevah. He gave them a warning that they were to act upon.

Today,there is no real message but just Watchtower and Tract presentations. If these are really ''the last days'', why doesn't Jehovah have a real message for the Witnesses to preach?

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Give a brief description of what is the Watchtower Society and the JWS organization

by The Almighty Homer in

if you were to give a brief description of what you know already of this organization, how would you define it yourself ?.

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my definition would be a an exploitive and manipulating free wheeling religious publishing company.. i might add none of this would have been at all possible without the freedom of religion policy of the united states.. it very well started out that way and continues to this very day.. intellectually dishonest but very commercial in its intension.. .

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HOMER

The Watchtower Society is a made- up religion by a man that had to much time on his hands. He took a little religion from here and a little from there and added some screwy ideas of his own. He wanted it to stand out. Most of his followers were tired of their own religion. This one stood out.

Then,you get screwball Judge Rutherford who takes this religion and turns it into a tax free business. Send out all the workers to sell and peddle preach your own written books and magazines. ADVERTISE! ADVERSTISE!

Now it becomes a book publishing business. Tell the members that blood is on their hands if you don't sell and peddle preach the good news!

Have a book study(where you buy a book) and a Ministry School (where you teach each one how to sell these books.) Print a Watchtower Magazine( and sell to every member and public.) Make them hand in a time report to see which ones obey the command to sell the literature.

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Post one PICTURE that sums up your Watchtower experience so far . . .

by nicolaou in

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i started a topic like this about 4 years ago but, as you'd expect, most of the images no longer show so here we go again .

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It was full of crap!

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...Good Food at Assemblys.....What Happened?..

by OUTLAW in

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in a time before many of you were born... assemblys had a great food... i left before the food started getting bad... .

i am totally amazed at reading... how food at assemblys got worse and worse... until finally food was`nt served at all... .

back in the day... food at assemblys was pretty dam good... there was quality cooking back then... jehovah`s witness`s actually looked forward to meals at assemblys... .

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I remember Assembly's at Brantford,Ontario where we would have pasta,subs,salad,cookies,cakes,and hot coffee. They took that away because the town of Brantford made them pull permits for sanitation,food prep,and taxes. They had a meeting after and decided that it wasn't worth it. Then they tried serving coffee and sweets only but they had to pull a permit for the coffee to make sure it was the right temperature.

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What are the means the WTS use to ensure that the organisation never crumbles?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the wts are a group of men in new york who have built an organisation that probably will never crumble.

their success comes from not debating anyone,becoming unapproachable,and answering to no one.

they use lawyers,elders,circuit overseers,and district overseers as a front to distract and distance everyone.. how can we or anyone fight an organisation that you cannot see or talk to?.

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The WTS are a group of men in New York who have built an organisation that probably will never crumble. Their success comes from not debating anyone,becoming unapproachable,and answering to no one. They use Lawyers,Elders,Circuit Overseers,and District Overseers as a front to distract and distance everyone.

How can we or anyone fight an organisation that you cannot see or talk to?

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When will they realise that the bus isn't coming?

by eyeslice in

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i was still a kid and living at home at the time, and so that must have been well over 30 years ago, that i heard ron drage (now a senior member of the uk bethel) say "if you are waiting at the bus stop it, is better to be 10 minutes early rather than miss it".

what he was referring to of course was the then then 1975 issue; in other words armageddon has arrived yet but it just round the corner and we are a little early for it.. i don't know what brought this to my mind the other day but i got to thinking, surely if you are waiting for a bus and you get there 10 minutes early and it doesn't then turn up, how long do you wait?

10 minutes, 15 minutes, half an hour, an hour, two hours?

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eyeslice

There never was a bus. This bus is always around the corner which no one can see. The WTS own this bus and this bus is the only way can can make it to the ''NEW SYSTEM''. Too bad for anyone who walks when he/she is tired of waiting. The WTS is repairing,cleaning,detailing,and fueling this bus for future passengers.

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Jehovah's Witnesses invite ''all'' to attend summer convention........65 miles away

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

while i was working outside on a customer's house,a witness handed me a tract inviting me to this summer's assembly.

he handed me the invite,told me what a nice job i was doing and left.. i read that the summer convention was about 65 miles from where i live.

when i was a witness driving 65 miles would of been no problem.

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While I was working outside on a customer's house,a Witness handed me a tract inviting me to this summer's assembly. He handed me the invite,told me what a nice job I was doing and left.

I read that the summer convention was about 65 miles from where I live. When I was a Witness driving 65 miles would of been no problem. But,handing out invites to non-believers and expecting them to drive 65 miles away attend is insane. I can't imagine anyone that is not a Witness going.When I attended the summer conventions,they were all local.

Does anyone know why they would choose a location so far when local locations are available? Can renting local facilities cost that much? Or,are contributions so down that renting facilities further away save the WTS money?

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How many Witness families do you know that still shun their children?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my congregation had many teens that were disfellowshipped.

none of them have been back to the meetings.

they either got married or moved out of their parents home.. it saddens me that i haven't seen any of them at any family functions.

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My congregation had many teens that were disfellowshipped. None of them have been back to the meetings. They either got married or moved out of their parents home.

It saddens me that I haven't seen any of them at any family functions. Just because they decided that they will never be a member of the WTS doesn't give the parents or family the right to shun them the rest of their lives. (My cousin hasn't been invited to any of our family functions in over 10 years)

Shame on you parents and family to treat your children this way! (That's one rule I never agreed with.)

WTS........When is the right time to stop shunning them?