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  Just a quick Poll...Do you think the GB is sincere?

  by NikL in

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  i've been thinking about this the past few days and curious what the honest consensus is here just for fun.. show of hands,.

  is the governing body.... a: completely sincere.

  they really do believe what they teach.. b: somewhat sincere.

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  I think all religious leaders are 'sincere' in 'their own eyes'. The template was set when the first human declared that they can 'speak for God'.
  
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  Just a quick Poll...Do you think the GB is sincere?

  by NikL in

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  i've been thinking about this the past few days and curious what the honest consensus is here just for fun.. show of hands,.

  is the governing body.... a: completely sincere.

  they really do believe what they teach.. b: somewhat sincere.

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  They are just as sincere as any other self-righteous, God intoxicated, religiously deluded, power hungry, paternalistic, bible thumping human being. At least that is my opinion.
  
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  The Modern Mind

  by towerwatchman in

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  we believe in marx freud and darwin.

  we believe everything is ok as long as you don’t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt, and to the best of your knowledge.. we believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.. we believe in the therapy of sin.. we believe that adultery is fun.. we believe that sodomy’s ok.. we believe that taboos are taboo.. we believe that everything’s getting better despite evidence to the contrary.. the evidence must be investigated, and you can prove anything with evidence.. we believe there’s something in horoscopes, ufo’s and bent spoons.. jesus was a good man just like buddha, mohammed, and ourselves.. he was a good moral teacher though we think, his good morals were bad.. we believe that all religions are basically the same-at least the one that we read was.. they all believe in love and goodness.. they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, god, and salvation.. we believe that after death comes the nothing, because when you ask the dead what happens.

  they say nothing.. if death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its compulsory heaven for all excepting perhaps.

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  towerwatchman...............................Do you realize what an incredible anal sphincter that you are?
  
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  Anthony Morris - The Higher Education Broadcast

  by pale.emperor in

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  last night i had jw broadcasting on in the background while i was working, i like to keep up to date with their crap.

  which is strange because when i actually was a jw i hated reading or watching their material.. anyway, on the streaming section, anthony morris comes on screen telling me that higher education is bad and "the better the university, the greater the danger".

  i never would have believed it if i hadn't seen him say it myself.

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  GLORY whore............

  Thanks for the laugh, aintenoughwhisky If he needs a hemorrhoid burned off, the doctors will have to start at his neckline first.
  
  
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  A LETTER OF APPRECIATION

  by bola in

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  i just want to appreciate you all..

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  Welcome..........and stick around awhile! There is a lot to learn from the many posters on this forum.
  
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  How much $$$$ will have been spent on the letter writing campaign to Russia?

  by OrphanCrow in

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  i have been following the jw chatter online about the letter writing that has been furiously undertaken by the jws around the world.

  a global effort done on the command of the gb in ny.. several jws have mentioned the cost of mailing letters (and packages of letters, where allowed) to russia and the cost is substantial.

  some jws have mailed dozens of letters.. the jw boast is that the russian postal system will be overwhelmed with letters.

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  darkspilver...........dig a little deeper into the USPS site. Richard Oliver is correct about the cost of sending a basic first class letter,as far as I can determine.
  
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  Watchtower/Bethelite Volunteers and US Self Employment or FICA Tax?

  by EnlightenedEphesian in

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  with so many aging bethelites being "laid off" after years of volunteer service, what hope do they have of collecting any social security retirement?

  i ask because i recently learned that my mother will not receive any government retirement benefits because she did not work enough to collect the 40 credits required.

  this got me to thinking about bethel volunteers.

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  I just checked my Social Security online account. 1975 was smack dab in the middle of my Bethel slavery. My account says that I earned $1,069.00 that year! How does Watchtower accounting work? Like Compound Complex, I only received $14.00 plus $6.00 travel a month. I wasn't working a G-job either. Rather suspicious, I think. At any rate, as I posted before, I gave up the religious slavery in 1976 and left Bethel to seek my fame and fortune. I semi-retired at 47 years old and qualify to collect almost the maximum social security available at 66 and 6 months old. The Watchtower Society promised a 'better retirement plan' (the New System) which they didn't have to put a dime into! The corporate religious monster just keeps on existing off the backs of the religiously gullible and naïve. Slavery is the least drain on capital expenditures! Anyone that becomes a Bethelite, automatically participates in a zero sum game and the individual Bethelite is always the loser. The religious/political/spiritual/corporate game known as Jehovah's Witnesses has only one winner. The corporation itself!
  
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  What does CLAM stand for?

  by QuestioningEverything in

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  i've seen this in a few posts and not sure what it means.

  :) please help..

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  Claptrap Lunacy and Mendacity
  
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  The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children

  by pale.emperor in

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  i dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.

  but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.

  in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.

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  "teenagers were coming home with stories so bad that the silly parents fell for it and pulled the kids from school." - zeb

  Ha ha.....................I had an older sister that pulled this trick on my mother back in the late 1960's. She showed my mother a Timothy Leary poem ( I think it was him) that they were studying in English class. Needless to say, my sister was allowed to quit school before the week was out!
  
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  Jehovah is sending a warning to Putin--so say jw's

  by wannaexit in

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  dubs in a pro-jw forum are talking about the earthquake in kamchatka russia.

  they are speculating that this is jehovah's warning to putin.

  what kind of twisted logic is this?.

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  Seems like he warned them quite strongly already in 1952. Putin and the Russian government are like Pharaoh .........they are just hardening their hearts against Jehovah's judgments. We are now in the final seconds of the final moments of the final hours of the final days of the prophesied overlapping generation of the final judgment of the 'last days' of the time of the end!