Absolutely true, man377! If I remember correctly, besides Knorr, both Geouge Couch and Max Larsen got their new vehicles for free too. Supposedly, during the Governing Body power struggle the cars were taken away from these guys. Then they were put into the Bethel auto pool and could be requisitioned by ANY Bethelite needing to use a car from then on. Quite a 'slap in the face' to the President and his cronies.
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Brother Knorr's Cadillac and other secret perks
by tim hooper inback when i was a wee lad, my dad told me that the brothers in brooklyn had voted to purchase a cadillac motor car for the sole use of the then president, nathan h knorr.
he'd got this information from the london bethel, him being a chum of the then branch overseer, pryce hughes and his pal ron drage.
religious leaders of non-profit sects are supposed to take a vow of poverty!.
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Top 10 Signs that Jehovah's Witnesses Want to Disfellowship You:
by OnTheWayOut ini've posted these years ago and was reminiscing, so i thought i would share the laugh with you again.. top 10 signs that jehovah's witnesses want to disfellowship you:.
10. there's two guys in suits staying all night outside your home in a four-door sedan.. 9. an elder you spoke to on the phone calls and asks you to repeat what you said the other day, but asks you to speak slowly and clearly.. 8. suddenly, jw friends stop by and ask an awful lot of the same questions.. 7. your laptop computer was moved, left on, or is missing.. 6. you left your car unlocked, it was thoroughly searched by someone but absolutely nothing is missing including your gps which was searched too.. 5. your boss asks if you are in trouble with the law or someone, stating some really polite men were asking about you and left some "tracts.".
4. someone picked up the cigarette butts around your back porch.. 3. the bartender at your favorite nightspot asks if you have ever before seen the guys in the corner booth that have been ordering "cokes" all evening and pulling out a camera everytime you order a beer.. 2. you receive registered mail and you already served on a jury this year.. 1. your jw mother who finally had accepted that you will never go back starts begging you to either go back to the kingdom hall or move with no forwarding address.. .
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What you speak about apostrate was very common in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Voyeurism in the name of 'keeping the congregation clean' was a great hobby for some Elders. Now with stalking and privacy laws the Elders have to be very careful.
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FOLLOW-UPS for JW deniers of 1975
by Terry inmy favorite follow-up question to jw deniers:.
"okay, then what exactly was special about 1975, then?".
and another follow-up, "what was wrong with the first time it ended?".
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The 1874 calculation was explained away as being based upon a scribal numerical error in translating 1 Kings 6:1. Therefore the Watchtower Society had a ready made built in scapegoat.
The 1975 calculation was explained away as a few over zealous brothers running ahead of Jehovahs Organization. Therefore the Watchtower Society had a ready made built in scapegoat.
In reality, both calculations are bogus bull$hit because they are based on the assumption that Adam was in the Garden of Eden for 2 years before sin entered into the world.
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After all, JWs were RIGHT!
by abiather in1) science and technology appeared as a savior to mankind, yet the overall result points to the opposite direction.. http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-has-human-progress-ground-to-a-halt/.
2) john kerry warns of catastrophe if climate change is not tackled.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4295230.ece (times, saturday 13, 2014).
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After all, Pastor Russell was RIGHT!
http://www.pastor-russell.com/legacy/intro.html
Happy reading, abiather!
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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!
by wifibandit inhttp://imgur.com/a/e6dos.
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"I have been suspecting for awhile now, the Org is setting up a total abandonment of 1914."- Terry
I agree with you 100% Terry. Anyone that has a long history with this religion, if he is honest with himself, can see the handwriting on the wall. Changing the meaning of the 'parable of the ten virgins' is much like your analogy of replacing solid bricks in a wall with wooden ones. The book GODS KINGDON OF A THOUSAND YEARS HAS APPROACHED printed by the Watchtower Society in 1973 has quite an indepth discussion on the parable of the ten virgins. It is Chapter 11 entitled "HERE IS THE BRIDEGROOM". Much of the premise of the chapter is to show that the parable proves Jesus was enthroned as King in 1914 and that Jehovah chose this organization in 1919 as the 'wise virgin class'. Like I said in an previous post, this Governing Body is 'tearing down the house with their own hands'. It only remains to be seen how they will rebuild and recraft their 'dogma and new light' without completely destroying the whole religion.
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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!
by wifibandit inhttp://imgur.com/a/e6dos.
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I would like to make my own type-antitype application: The present Governing Body is prefigured by Samson. They are pulling the 'house' down around themselves with their own hands.
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This religion is about to be toast.
by kneehighmiah inthe governing body is preparing to take a major hit.
this recent watchtower shows it.
not the new understandings, but the article on marriage.
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Perhaps the Groom is the last Ministerial Servant left in her circuit and she thinks she can never get married? Maybe she committed fornication with the Groom and knows that he is lousey in bed. She might be torn between confessing to the Elders and be disfellowshipped or telling the unfortunate Bride that she is about to make the biggest mistake of her life. Maybe she is a single mother and the Groom molested her child and the Elders told her not to gossip about it and she wants to warn the Bride but doesn't want to be disfellowshipped for causing divisions. Maybe the brother giving the talk just farted and she is about to puke? I guess only she knows for sure.
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This religion is about to be toast.
by kneehighmiah inthe governing body is preparing to take a major hit.
this recent watchtower shows it.
not the new understandings, but the article on marriage.
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YES!! Pink ties are OK as long as you are wearing a white shirt and a dull drab grey-blue suit.
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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!
by wifibandit inhttp://imgur.com/a/e6dos.
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How in the flying fu@k do the members of Governing Body 2.0 sleep at night? Have they never read the book YOU MAY SURVIVE ARMAGEDDON INTO GODS NEW WORLD published in 1955 by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society? The ENTIRE book is devoted to types and antitypes! Page 16 paragraph 16 says the following: "We need not be filled with fear, dread and horror as we take up an examination of Armageddon and what will follow. No matter how terrible that war will be, we can know its righteous purpose, and always we can let ring in our inner consciousness the cheering thought: 'I may survive Armageddon into Gods new world!' This thought is no self-deceiving dream. The same inspired Word that unerringly foretold the very situation that we face up to in this generation also drew many pictures, staged many prophetic dramas and presented many direct prophecies of the ones to be protected all through the war of Armageddon. 17. It sharpens our interest to consider that unavoidable war from the standpoint of those who will live through it into the grandeurs of Gods new world. In fact, it becomes an absorbing, delightsome, thrilling consideration for us. To share this delight with our readers, we hope in following pages to look into at LEAST FORTY-TWO OF THESE TYPICAL PICTURES, PROPHETIC LIFE-DRAMAS AND DIRECT PROPHECIES regarding the Armageddon survivors. All these are very instructive and vital for us to consider now, FOR THEY SHOW US in one way or another things that we should wisely do now in order to be of that favored class." (Capitals mine) There is even a CHART in the appendix on page 367 that is entitled: LIST OF 42 TYPES AND PROPHECIES OF THE EARTHLY HEIRS OF THE NEW WORLD. Interestly enough, this is the book my mother studied that sent her on the road to a lifetime of Jehovahs Witnesses religious fanaticism. If she were alive today I wonder what she would be thinking? Yesterdays 'meat in due season' becomes todays SHIT to flush down the toilet as the words in the Bible are 'digested' and reinterpreted by each succesive Governing Body and presented to the rank and file as 'new light' to be gulped down without question or critical thought.
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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!
by wifibandit inhttp://imgur.com/a/e6dos.
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"All of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not"-WATCHTOWER November 2013
The metaphorical destruction of Watchtower publications printed before the year 2000 has already begun. Can the literal destruction of those publications be coming soon?
