Posts by Santisimo

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Is Street Corner Work Dead ???

by Poztate in

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years ago my wife and i used to spend an hour every saturday morning between 8-9 at the street corner work?

at 9am we would proceed to the group for the pep talk and then put in at least another two hours in service?

we were not the only ones in the street corner work.

Santisimo

In the Northeast of the U.S. you see street work in the poor neighborhoods. God forbid you ever see them in a wealthy suburb.

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Furman Building E-mail

by Bstndance in

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so my step-father sent me an e-mail that was circulating amongst the dubs with an article about the conversion of the furman building into condos.

he sent it to me with something like, "look what they're doing to the furman building".

the article said that wts sold the building in 2004(?

Santisimo

Someone is living lovely after that sale especially since the WTS has non-profit status with the IRS.

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Why do JWs claim to imitate Jesus?

by Santisimo in

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.

jesus was a practicing jew.

this means he didn't eat pork, he observed the sabbath and all the traditional jewish customs.

Santisimo

True, but the J-Dubs believe they actually got it right and that everyone else is mixed up.

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WTS Mastercard

by Santisimo in

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donations for watchtower and awake magazines....$25

filling up with gas to get to your kingdom hall meetings three times a week...$35

picking up breakfast and lunch during the district convention...$60

Santisimo

Donations for Watchtower and Awake magazines....$25

Filling up with gas to get to your Kingdom Hall meetings three times a week...$35

Picking up breakfast and lunch during the District Convention...$60

Looking at your kid sob all weekend because he knows you spent your last $100 on bulls--t and now you can't afford the movies...PRICELESS.

There are somethings money can't buy.

For everything else there's The Watchtower Society Mastercard.

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The WTS and 9/11.

by Santisimo in

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?

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".

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Perils of Pay-As-You-Go "Preaching"

by metatron in

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some 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.

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 in

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?

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 in

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have 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.

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

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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.

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 in

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.

jesus was a practicing jew.

this means he didn't eat pork, he observed the sabbath and all the traditional jewish customs.

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.

The Jesus that JWs believe in is a creation of Mr. Rutherford, the WTS and a combination of Protestant/Evangelical perspectives.