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  From the mouth of the Ayatollah

  by Pistoff in

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  there has been more than a few posts about anthony morris iii and his talk about tight pants, spanx (spandex?

  ) and bethel as a destination vacation.. after the initial bewilderment and laughing about his diatribe, it is more clear to me that this was not about modest clothing choices, or spiritual priorities.. it was designed and succeeded as a slap in the face of all who listened.. the things he talked about are just not on the normal radar of anyone who listened.. i can recall nowhere in writing that ever encouraged families to go to bethel before disneyworld, mgm, etc; nowhere that talks about leggings or modern cut men's suits (it is just fashion, after all), or women wearing exercise clothing in public.

  (on a side note, i have been to assemblies, there are just not many of us who could wear tight clothing and not look like stuffed sausage, so how many people was he aiming at here?).

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  compound complex

  aka "cafeteria religion."
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  I know why you are here.

  by compound complex in

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  i was expecting you, but not so early in the day.. i saw you walk up to my neighbor fred's house last week while i was out getting the newspaper, once again tossed into the bushes by a careless newspaper boy.

  today, it's the usual routine of rising at dawn, fetching the paper from the bushes -- where else?

  -- and settling into my comfy, tattered wing back with the first of several cups of coffee.

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  Thanks so much, MissFit and Hairtrigger!

  You've both made my day. Though I typically get few replies to what I write, the ones I do receive keep me trying and pushing forward -- some 8 years now.

  CoCo
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  I know why you are here.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  i was expecting you, but not so early in the day.. i saw you walk up to my neighbor fred's house last week while i was out getting the newspaper, once again tossed into the bushes by a careless newspaper boy.

  today, it's the usual routine of rising at dawn, fetching the paper from the bushes -- where else?

  -- and settling into my comfy, tattered wing back with the first of several cups of coffee.

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  For MissFit:

  
  

  I know why you are here.

  My greatest fear has never been that I'm inadequate. I've always known deep down I'm gorgeous and brilliant, but I was never a braggart. No one ever accused me of being conceited. I was just self-assured.

  You, however, have always made sweet but subtly snide remarks about me, all the while smiling and laughing, as if to say, "Oh, you know I'm joking!" You profess friendship and love, but my real friends confide that you diss me behind my back. Funny, it  doesn't hurt so much as disappoint.

  Well, I see right through you. Your honey-laced digs are meant to hurt me, to tear me down. They don't.

  Take your toxic behaviors and speech somewhere else. You're  out of my  thoughts, out of my life . . . forever. . . .
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  I know why you are here.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  i was expecting you, but not so early in the day.. i saw you walk up to my neighbor fred's house last week while i was out getting the newspaper, once again tossed into the bushes by a careless newspaper boy.

  today, it's the usual routine of rising at dawn, fetching the paper from the bushes -- where else?

  -- and settling into my comfy, tattered wing back with the first of several cups of coffee.

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  I know why you are here.

  You want to help because you see my need. You worry for the well being of a stray cat. You burst with the desire to bring comfort and joy into my life. Sadness and pain are unacceptable to you; they must be overcome, subdued.

  I love you for the above and for so much more.

  Please, though, let me rest. I will be all right. 

  Please go . . . you wear me out, I murmur to myself.
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  Evidently, the 24 Elders are directing the Governing Body

  by compound complex in

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  i am grateful for holy spirit's ability to dredge up long-forgotten spiritual gems that lurk in dark caverns of the mind.. it has been revealed -- for your edification and enlightenment -- that the resurrected anointed among the symbolic 24 elders do, indeed, play a vital role in the new but typically confusing developments in the world of jw theology.. in the much revered but oft maligned book, "revelation: its grand climax at hand!

  " we discover the reason behind it all:.

  ] resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.

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  Thank you, Magnum, leaving_quietly, and wallsofjericho, for giving me more to ponder than I realized could be pondered.

  A very deep subject . . . perhaps we need to study the Revelation book a fourth time.

  Gratefully,

  CC
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  Who Is Engineering the Re-branding of Jehovahs Witnesses

  by millie210 in

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  is it an outside source?.

  an inside job?

  maybe the younger gb "helpers"?.

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/87690001/evidently-24-elders-directing-governing-body
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  Evidently, the 24 Elders are directing the Governing Body

  by compound complex in

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  i am grateful for holy spirit's ability to dredge up long-forgotten spiritual gems that lurk in dark caverns of the mind.. it has been revealed -- for your edification and enlightenment -- that the resurrected anointed among the symbolic 24 elders do, indeed, play a vital role in the new but typically confusing developments in the world of jw theology.. in the much revered but oft maligned book, "revelation: its grand climax at hand!

  " we discover the reason behind it all:.

  ] resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.

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  I am grateful for Holy Spirit's ability to dredge up long-forgotten spiritual gems that lurk in dark caverns of the mind.
  

  It has been revealed -- for your edification and enlightenment -- that the resurrected anointed among the symbolic 24 elders do, indeed, play a vital role in the new but typically confusing developments in the world of JW theology.

  In the much revered but oft maligned book, "Revelation: Its Grand Climax At Hand!" we discover the reason behind it all:

  [. . .] resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today." -- pages, 124, 125, paragraph 17.

  This, my friends, is the answer to all your head-pounding inquiries over what's happenin'.

  Of course, you may think this is for naught because of the little 3-letter disclaiming word, "may," in the quotation above.

  You work it out. I am not master of your faith . . .
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  Musical video on JW-TV February monthly program - must see !!

  by Viva la Vida in

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  you must see the musical video at the end of this month program (aprox.

  at 1:04:30).... i don't like to use "must" but this is wow... if you think they couldn't get any lower... just be prepared...

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  "What a feeling I get from wheeling  .  .  ."

  Off-off-off-Broadway.

  Well, didn't the Book of Mormon make it to the stage?
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  Comment someone gave on Today's Watchtower re: great tribulation 

  by cappytan in

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  "we may get instructions that don't make sense or they may defy logic, but we must be obedient to the faithful slave if we want to survive.".

  all i could think about was that these were the same kind of people that would have gulped down the kool aid at jonestown without hesitation.. pardon the language, but what the actual f**k?

  even when i wasn't a doubter and bought in to the organization, it was always with a view to what was in line with scripture.

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  "One must command from each what each can perform, the king went on.

  "Authority is based first of all upon reason. If you command your subjects to jump into the ocean, there will be a revolution. I am entitled to command obedience because my orders are reasonable."

  THE LITTLE PRINCE, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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  Watchtower choir

  by wannaexit in

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  i think i've seen it all now.

  nothing surprises me.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfzs7l_3sq.

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  This music is divinely beautiful, although it is a secular piece: "I'll Begin Again," from SCROOGE.

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/user/MormonTabChoir