'A picture is worth a 1,000 words' but to the Governing Body it could be 1,000 dollars!
sparky1
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WT study
by inbetween09 init became rare, i thought, when considering last weekends study article.
it became rare, that most of the message is actually quite ok. the gist was to avoid loving oneself, money and pleasures more than god.
thats ok, if you're a believer.. this was my take until i saw the pictures, and discovered the real message behind the article.. as often, they use pictures to contrast bad and good behaviour (in their eyes at least).
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Is porn really such a big problem in the wt?
by purrpurr inin the most recent circuit assembly there was a lot about porn and warning against porn.
even warning against looking at swim wear adverts!
so i was wondering, is porn really such an issue in the wt?.
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sparky1
I think it has always been an underlying issue. I left Watchtower Farms in the mid 70's but went back to visit some of my friends about a year later. One of them told me that a 'skin magazine' had been found in one of the men's bathrooms stuffed behind a toilet. The bathroom was on the floor that I lived on and which I used. An inquiry was launched and no one 'came clean' and it was determined that Sparky must have left it. So, I was scapegoated in absentia and the funny thing was that at that time I had NEVER purchased any pornography and shunned it.
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Why are there more sisters than brothers at the Kingdom Hauls?
by Sour Grapes ini have always wondered why there are more females than males in all of the congregations that i have visited?
some of these females are in their 70's so maybe their husbands have died and women just live longer.
or could the reason be that years ago men were the breadwinners and women stayed home to raise the children thus they were home during the week when the jdubs came a knocking?
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sparky1
According to Pew Research, that seems to be the case across the board for most Judeo-Christian belief systems. As to why this is so, who knows? Some say biology, some say nurture, and some say social structure that the individual (male or female) are exposed to. Probably a combination of all three.
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Automatic Donations Introduced Online
by JW_Rogue inthis was announced a couple of weeks ago on the clam.
you can now donate to any congregation, the worldwide work, and assemblies online.
further they have implemented recurring payments "because the hard part about donating is remembering to donate," they actually said that!
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sparky1
"If you can't beat 'em, you might as well join them"-New Motto of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
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Self indulgent attention whore thread....
by _Morpheus intoday is my birthday :) in happy to be able to say that guilt free!
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sparky1
Happy Birthday! Here is a fitting present for you....................you back sliding, worldly, devil worshiping, mentally diseased, morally depraved Apostate!
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Clearly, undeniably, without doubt ... is there a term for introducing a thought in such a way.
by jwfacts inwatchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".
for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.
"jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.
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sparky1
WEASEL WORDS:
"Weasel words are designed to give the appearance of truth whilst protecting the speaker from attack or legal redress. They are very common in advertising and marketing, where the goal is to attract people rather than ask them to think deeply about something." - Changing Minds.com
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Rudofl Steiner
by Brokeback Watchtower inrudolf steiner 1861-1925, developed eurythmy a performance art.
he wrote hundreds of books, a brilliant person in many fields from austria(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rudolf_steiner).. steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach.
he based his epistemology on johann wolfgang goethe's world view, in which "thinking… is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear.
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sparky1
Rudolph Steiner was a 'white supremacist' of the highest order and believed that the German people were superior to other races. Jiddu Krishnamurti was the smartest one (in my opinion) that broke away from the original Theosophical movement and the influence of H.P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant.
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever , by any religion, by any sect........the moment you follow someone, you cease to follow Truth."- Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
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JW Jokes
by OnTheWayOut inthey don't want you to donate blood because..... .....it might be within the erection of a homosexual act at any time.
watchtower tried to become the internet service provider of their members...... ......but their virus software kept deleting all but 144,000 select files.
what do you get when you cross a devil worshipper with a jehovah's witness?
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sparky1
How many Jehovah's Witnesses does it take to change a 'new light' bulb?
It depends on how many on the Governing Body vote for it.
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Did you learn how to debate in school (or elsewhere)?
by compound complex inlast night i was taking another look at the term "dialectics":.
the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions: discussion; debate; logical reasoning; etc.. the dialectical method is, at base, a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.. while i intend to do further research on my own, what is your own experience regarding preparation for debate, the do's and don'ts, maintaining your cool, .
i ask, in part, because i observe that some online debaters present facts and figures and use sound reasoning while maintaining their decorum; many do not.. thank you..
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sparky1
I took some debating classes in Jr. High School. This course is excellent in learning to hone your skills and teaching yourself to reach logical conclusions. I have it in my personal library and highly recommend it.
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Circuit Overseer Meets with Elders and Ministerial Servants
by accesible in¿necesitan los demás bosquejos?.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dvhuodkcahf6efu2xqxfk6o8ambqe5rm.
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sparky1
What the 'Hell' does Biblically drunk mean? I bet if every Elder in the world had to blow into one of these on meeting nights or before an Elders meeting, the results would shock the rank and file.