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  How many of you should be working instead of this

  by bboyneko in

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  c'mon, 'fess up.

  shouldn't you be workin'?

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  I'm at a television station, hooked on The Young and the Restless. Ooooh, that Victor Newman makes me so MAD!

  Dedalus
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  why u should come back to Jahs fold

  by nytelecom1 in

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  [quote].

  i found out i had been "terminated" from my last job and found out on my first day back from vacation......argh, oh those cc bills!

  well, i went out and immediately signed up with about 7 temporary agencies.

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  I received a grant that makes it possible for me to take the next five months off from work. Thank you, Satan!

  Dedalus
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  For those who like a good RIP into WTBTS land!

  by biblexaminer in

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  i felt like becoming the first suicide bomber of the wtbts.

  i opened the august 1, 2001 watchtower on the way up to the first door in field service the other day.

  and i do.. read my rip into their flesh on the bible research page.

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  I think it would be hard to find a bigger hypocrite than yourself.

  You won't have to look far, YK!

  ... he poses as one of Jehovah's Witnesses and pretends to be one of us, even sharing in our ministry.

  You pose as one of Jehovah's Witnesses and claim to be one, and even share in their ministry, and yet everything you post contradicts Witness doctrine! You won't even own up to your own subterfuge, which makes you a much bigger hypocrite than BX.

  Dedalus
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  JWs on the Job Market - let them stay unemployed!

  by Kent in

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  there has been some protests to my former postings on this subject, and the protests goes on "freedom of religion".

  the fact that someone do get a job because his emplyer expects his employee to actually do the job, doesn't seem to worry much.. how come the jws are unreliable?

  why can't anyone trust them?

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  It is against my religious beliefs to pledge my allegiance to any entity besides God,

  It is also against his religious beliefs to carry a gun. So why did he become a state trooper?

  I'm a vegetarian -- if I decide to work at a butcher's shop, can I sue someone?

  Dedalus
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  THE MASTER OF DECEPTION

  by You Know in

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  this is a piece i posted on h20 some time ago.

  it was so well-recieved at the time that i thought i would repost it here for your enjoyment.. ______________________________________________________________________.

  the uninitiated reader of course naturally assumes that satan would be the master of deception, but in actuality, while he is the malevolent arch-deceiver, jehovah is actually the master.

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  dedalus

  It was so well-recieved at the time that I thought I would repost it here for your enjoyment.

  If you can convince people that this is true, I suppose it would make you the master of deception!

  Dedalus
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  Organization's Calender Pic for July/August

  by dedalus in

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  yesterday i noticed, at the home of my leaving-but-not-quite-left parents-in-law, the photo montage for july/august on the organization's calender.

  on the top of the page is a photograph of a bunch of jw children at a convention in 1941, holding up a copies of the book children, which had been distributed just to them.. here are two quotes from that book, some of which was written in a hokey first person dub-voice:.

  should men and women, both of whom are jonadabs or 'other sheep' of the lord, now marry before armageddon and bring forth children?

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  Yesterday I noticed, at the home of my leaving-but-not-quite-left parents-in-law, the photo montage for July/August on the Organization's calender. On the top of the page is a photograph of a bunch of JW children at a convention in 1941, holding up a copies of the book Children, which had been distributed just to them.

  Here are two quotes from that book, some of which was written in a hokey first person dub-voice:

  Should men and women, both of whom are Jonadabs or 'other sheep' of the Lord, now marry before Armageddon and bring forth children? They may chose to do so, but the admonition or advice of the scriptures appears to be against it ... The prophetic picture seems to set forth the correct rule, to wit: The three sons of Noah and their wives were in the ark and were saved from the flood. They did not have any children, however, until after the flood. They began to have children two years after the flood. (Genesis 11:10,11) No children were taken into the ark and none were born in the ark, and hence none were brought out of the ark. Only eight persons went in and eight came out of the ark. (1 Peter 3:20; Genesis 8:18) That would appear to indicate that it would be proper that those who will form the ‘great multitude’ should wait until after Armageddon to bring children into the world. -- p. 312-3.

  Our hope is that within a few years our marriage may be consummated and, by the Lord's grace, we shall have sweet children that will be an honor to the Lord. We can well defer our marriage until lasting peace comes to the earth. -- p. 366.

  It was eerie, looking at the photo of those children, most of whom are now sexagenarians. I wondered how many tried to wait before Armageddon, thinking to defer marriage and childbearing until then.

  Beneath the photo from 1941 was a more recent one, in which another group of children, back in the 80's, held up copies of the Young People Ask book. The juxtaposition was startling and disturbing -- the content of the books is irrelevant; to the Organization, both books are true and valid and worthy members of its literary canon.

  Dedalus

  [edited to correct math error]
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  Witnesses admit to counting time on-line ...

  by dedalus in

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  i wonder how much of a trend this is, and what it means for the watchtower publishing empire.

  hours up, placements down .... http://www.greatcrowd.com/159ubb/forum1/html/000234.html.

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  What if you have two windows open at the same time, and you're clicking back and forth between then, witnessing in both at once. Does the time count double in that case? What about three windows? Could it be possible to get an hour's worth of time in twenty minutes? Or, if you can handle toggling between four windows, one hour in fifteen minutes?

  Dedalus
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  Witnesses admit to counting time on-line ...

  by dedalus in

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  i wonder how much of a trend this is, and what it means for the watchtower publishing empire.

  hours up, placements down .... http://www.greatcrowd.com/159ubb/forum1/html/000234.html.

  dedalus

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  Well, I'm glad they are encouraging on-line witnesses.

  Me too -- but it's a case of on-line Witnesses encouraging other on-line Witnesses. The Organization actively discourages them, though as one poster at greatcrowd.com pointed out, it hasn't said anything explicit about this particular question.

  I wouldn't be surprised if it soon did, though! Threads like that one, monitored from Bethel headquarters, will likely prompt a "Question From Readers" article in which the parable of the talents and the number of horns on the beast's fifth head are used to demonstrate that on-line witnessing is bad. ("Just ask yourself, 'Would Jesus post a URL?'")

  Dedalus

  P.S. I just remembered a #4 talk I gave about that beast from revelation. I asked, "So, what do you think: is it one beast with five heads, or five beasts with one body? This is the ontological question with which we must grasp." It was one of my last talks.
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  Witnesses admit to counting time on-line ...

  by dedalus in

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  i wonder how much of a trend this is, and what it means for the watchtower publishing empire.

  hours up, placements down .... http://www.greatcrowd.com/159ubb/forum1/html/000234.html.

  dedalus

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  Tina,

  I found that thread too ...

  http://www.greatcrowd.com/159ubb/Forum28/HTML/000106.html

  Manofthetruegod is a moderator, I noticed. I suppose this means he could delete any post that had the url in question. Ah, aren't JW's so well informed?

  Dedalus
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  Witnesses admit to counting time on-line ...

  by dedalus in

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  i wonder how much of a trend this is, and what it means for the watchtower publishing empire.

  hours up, placements down .... http://www.greatcrowd.com/159ubb/forum1/html/000234.html.

  dedalus

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  Larc,

  Great point! All they have to do now is reduce the number of meetings to once a week & nix the ban on fornication, and hell, I'll go back!

  Seriously, though, how can the Organization regulate on-line evangelizing? Unlike the door-to-door work, there's no one watching you; you never have to put in an appearance, never have to show up for the pre-service pep rally. What's to prevent dubs from engaging exclusively in on-line witnessing work?

  Could be a brave new world in dub-land.

  Dedalus