Posts by rebelfighter

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

rebelfighter

I was thinking exactly that when you posted a question the other day. The "Elder" from my past is extremely intelligent with a good education and very good critical thinking skills.

But I have 2 kids now adults who are extremely brilliant one at age 30 all kinds of education still cannot figure out what to do with it so he is supervisor of banquet setup at a resort. I am paying all these loans for this, really. The other one dean's list top of her class choice of any job she wants. Full scholarship offers for her masters. Not ONE once of common sense anywhere in her brain, her boyfriend and I run after her continually picking up the missing pieces.

So maybe the answer is they just do not get the picture when they are that intelligent.

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2015 Questions and Answers!

by Atlantis in

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2015, questions and answers!.

.. these are some of the questions we have received and the answers to those questions.. .. 1. what happened a few months back when atlantis had to disappear.. .. answer: it wasn't so much that atlantis had to disappear.

it was that atlantis had to take a break due to a serious family situation.

rebelfighter

St. Augustine has got to be the best city in the USA. By far my favorite. I spend a couple of days there every month. Love the art galleries, so much history, the college, have you been in the college cafeteria it has the largest stain glass collection in the world. The architecture in this town is spectacular.

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JWs and Education

by cognac in

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my parents were always of the belief that, "the end is right around the corner".. i was a zealous kid, with a learning disorder, so my parents never gave me a hard time or pushed me in regards to my education.. this not only hurt me, but, pissed me off insanely.

fast forward to me having my own kid.

ava is not doing well in school.

rebelfighter

Are you in the US? If yes, the school must test your daughter for learning disabilities you may have to fight for it depending on your jurisdiction. It is covered under the Federal Law. My daughter, I thought was reading to me before kindergarten because I read to her all the time. When I got the call from school that she could not read a single word in second grade I thought they had the wrong parent. She had been memorizing what I had read to her. It turned out she had extensive learning disabilities across the board. I am telling you this because early intervention IS important and YOU are spot on to react now. As I write this my daughter is in her final semester, on the dean's list, full academic scholarship of a teaching degree for hearing impaired education. She will start her career as a teacher in January. It was a long hard struggle of tutors and special help but neither of us regret a minute of it.

She is 24 and we both laugh today because I am a financial accountant and back when she was 6 months from graduating from high school with all kinds of honors, top of her class after completing calculas and all the other math classes, I actually lost my temper in a meeting with the principal and school counselor. All I said was "how can you possibly graduate someone with all these honors who has NO clue how to count MONEY?" Boy did I get a deer in headlights look.

Learning disabilities can be overcome with the proper techniques, you just need to get the right people with the correct knowledge on board to help.

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

CultBgone, just a personal thing with me. I am and have been involved with the Masonic community for over 40 years, it is not a religion. It is very much a charity organization and the "Elder " just was all over my case how he found it wrong. We just do so much for kids and treat kids so differently then the JWS.

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On a need to know basis - The Letter

by no-zombie in

we've just had our sunday meeting and the letter was read out to the congregation.. however, there was no mention of the bethel lay-offs or the building program shut-downs.. looks like we are on a need to know basis, here in australia..

rebelfighter

If I remember correctly this is the only place you get accurate JW news. JW dot ORG filters the news so that it is only HAPPY HAPPY news.

Heavens do you expect anything like honesty, like that upcoming lesson I think in the January meeting.

Rant over!

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

CultBgone, I am sure the way they see it now is no involvement with the Masonic community because the entire time I was seeing the "Elder " I was getting "you need to give up your involvement in the masonic community blah, blah, blah" .... "the way I read the bible. ...." And of course it was going in one ear and out the other, it just made me get more involved.

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

Blondie,

You would be very surprised how the Masonic organizations are not as secretive as you are led to believe. To become a member is very easy. And we do not approach you, you must have a desire to become a member.

Meetings are closed unless you are a member and our financial records are not revealed to the general public BUT at the annual meeting the budget comes up for a vote of the ENTIRE membership. All of our money comes from dues and donations and is spent on maintaining the buildings and all of the charities.

The majority of the charities are based on children. The largest being The Shriner's Hospitals.

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November 2015 Awake

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ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

I read somewhere that the founder of the JWS was a 33rd degree Master Mason.

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

The emblem you find in some Masonic Lodges which is a Cross inside a Crown. If you go back to the original Watchtower publications it is on their cover, if I remember correctly in the upper left corner.

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

The first picture is a church. The second is a Masonic Lodge, the difference is seating in a lodge is always on the north and south not in the center of the room as in a church. There will be no movement between the altar and the east. Anyone approaching the east will do so from the side but will not break the contact between the east line and the Bible.