Exactly Headmath. Furthermore, JWs have the nerve to knock on everyone's door and tell them that if they don't choose the WTS they will get smoked in Armageddon. To me, it sounds exactly like what the Muslims are saying "Convert to Islam or we'll convert you to ashes".
Santisimo
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The WTS and 9/11.
by Santisimo inhow many of you remember the scary pictures in the revelation book?
how many of you remember the images of the buildings on fire, crashing down on people?
did anyone notice that the wts did not push this book at all immediately following 9/11?
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Perils of Pay-As-You-Go "Preaching"
by metatron insome time ago, when the surprizing news emerged that the watchtower was radically downsizing their printing in brooklyn, rumors emerged.
that they were seriously looking at contracting out all such operations to outside firms.
some on this website offered their learned opinion.
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Santisimo
I think JWs are already paying to go out to field service. Think about all those donations they make for the mags before taking them off the "literature counter". If the society really believes it is serving as a so-called "faithful and discrete slave" than why is it charging for the "spiritual food" in the first place? In my view, you are really not doing me a favor if you want me to pay to distribute YOUR version of christianity.
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The WTS and 9/11.
by Santisimo inhow many of you remember the scary pictures in the revelation book?
how many of you remember the images of the buildings on fire, crashing down on people?
did anyone notice that the wts did not push this book at all immediately following 9/11?
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Santisimo
How many of you remember the scary pictures in the Revelation book? How many of you remember the images of the buildings on fire, crashing down on people? Did anyone notice that the WTS did NOT push this book at all immediately following 9/11?
Here's another question, if Bin Laden took down the Towers, and the WTS says that God is going to destroy office buildings and crush people to death with them - what the f--k is the difference between the two? If the JWs really believe that God is going to do this than how is He any better than Bin Laden?
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Bethel meals
by Alligator Wisdom inhave any of you had the experience of eating with the bethel family?.
what were some of the idiosyncrasies of it?.
as i mentioned before in another thread, it was brought up to me by another jw guest after the meal that it was "as if this was like a cult" when everyone would drop their utensils on que, stand up in unison and end the meal with a prayer.
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Santisimo
My brother and I used to get our Bible studies at Bethel in Brooklyn just so we could have a shot at a free lunch. Sometimes we got lucky and were invited. It was funny how some of these guys would race to the cafeteria. It seems that if you didn't get to a meal on time you were outta luck. Worse still, these Bethel Bots couldn't even cook in their own dorms. That's why so many of them were slim and ate like cows when I used to invite them over. I was like "Damn bro, you better stop packing so many books and eat a freakin' piece of chicken or somethin'!".
Have you ever seen how the Bethel Babes (Females) eat when they visit someone at their home? They try to act like they're not starving but when no one is looking they inhale their food. I used to feel bad for the girls because they were soooo hot and wasting all that ass on a dead-end job.
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Made up ideas by "the Society"
by Anomalous One in.
interestingly enough, the homepage of www.watchtower.org has the gall post a link ripping the trinity because, if true, "it should be clearly and consistently presented in the bible.
guess they don't like anyone infringing on their rights to create.
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Santisimo
The JWs do believe in a FORM of Trinity. Instead of the Catholic, Jesus, God and the Holy Ghost, the JWs believe in Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit. The JWs will tell you that God's Holy Spirit is not a person but a force. If this were true it wouldn't be called a spirit. In reality their entire view of this is all wrong. The word Holy Spirit does not appear in the Hebrew Scriptures in Hebrew at all. It is the result of poor translation in the Greek Scriptures. Think about it, why does God need a Holy Spirit when he IS a spirit already?
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Why do JWs claim to imitate Jesus?
by Santisimo inafter researching the subject for several years, i have come to the conclusion that the jws do not imitate jesus as shown in the greek scriptures.
jesus was a practicing jew.
this means he didn't eat pork, he observed the sabbath and all the traditional jewish customs.
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Santisimo
After researching the subject for several years, I have come to the conclusion that the JWs do not imitate Jesus as shown in the Greek Scriptures. Why? Jesus was a practicing Jew. This means he didn't eat pork, he observed the Sabbath and all the traditional Jewish customs. There is NO scripture in the Bible where JESUS DIRECTLY commanded any of his followers to cease from these observances. The JWs also say that they imitate Jesus because he preached to people. Again, they are mistaken in this regard because Jesus originally commanded his apostles to preach to the Jews only. It was Paul who later (long after Jesus was dead) commanded that the gentiles should hear the message and this happend after much debate. Logically, it would appear that the JWs are really imitating Paul not Jesus. If you read the Greek Scriptures carefully you will notice that James (Jesus brother) was a true follower of Jesus. In contrast to Paul, James followed his brother's footsteps and was considered the successor or at the very least a leader in the movement that followed after his brother's death.
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Why do you have YOUR faith?
by FreedomFrog infaith is the belief in something that there is no proof in.
christians believe in jesus, pagans believe in goddesses, atheist believe in no god and so on.... so everyone has put their "faith" in something one way or another.
even if you have put your "faith" in you...what made you choose?
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Santisimo
That question sounds like something a JDub would ask while standing at your door on Saturday morning.
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What Kinds of Weird Things were you banned from or not allowed as a child?
by mama1119 ini could not have a big new kids on the block pin, or wear any new kids on the block pins in puplic becuase it was considered idolatry.
i also could not wear my shoes without laces (it was cool back then) because it looked wordly.
what other strange theings besides the usual holiday/birthday stuff weren't you allowed to do?
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Santisimo
My mother wouldn't buy me Smurfs because she heard at the KH that a pioneer sister saw the toys running around her kids bedroom floor. She said they were possessed so of course my mom the retard refused to buy them for me.
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I never did it, did you?
by Outaservice in.
in the past whenever you went on vacation (holiday) did you try and find a kingdom hall to attend and also try and put in some service time?.
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One time I took a trip to El Salvador and visited the local KH. I was pretty upset when I realized that these people (in a poor third world country) had to PAY for their mags at the counter even though I got em' for free back in the states. You had to see the look on their face when I told them I didn't pay for mine back home. That's when I realized that this whole thing is about business. After all, aren't J-Dubs called PUBLISHERS before they get baptized? -
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watchtower press release
by candidlynuts inthis irks me.. a press release means the watchtower sent it to the paper right?.
it not only pushes child baptism it makes a celebrity of them.. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/cu0608/s00241.htm.
youths who are bucking the trend.
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Santisimo
I remember when we used to go to the District sales...oops, I mean conventions at Yankee Stadium back in the day. The Org wasn't allowed to have a pool on the baseball field so the baptisms were done at Orchard beach. It was kinda fun seeing some of the hot sistaz' in swimsuits. NICE! What a better way to start your path to holiness than by parading down a catwalk with your boobies all perked up!