seems like the pope is going berserk and blessing everything in sight!.
here's the full story:.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3505/pope_blesses.html.
Seems like the Pope is going berserk and blessing everything in sight!
Apparently at the same time, the Pope was also over heard singing,
"I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed the cop down at 34th and Vine
He broke my little bottle of
Love Potion Number Nine"
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geri hallowell from the spice girls?
michael jackson & family?
one of the presidents wives?
Very Famous People That Are / Were JW's?
I... may not be famous, but I'm so close it's scary.
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in politically correct america the wait staff on airliners are not termed stewards and stewardesses but rather flight attendants.
after joel bear (no offense joel, and i love you like a brother, but no more .
six years ago i was living in an apartment in the minneapolis suburbs.
Egypt is not amused.
It never ceases to amaze, how much like the WTBTS, many in control must be so willing to sacrifice others for their own self interest because those having influence can't be that stupid.
i have to respond to the letter sent to the branches from the wtb&ts.. first: the explanation from mike pence is right on the money.
i am still an active jw who was at bethel for several yrs.
and in good standing with my local congregation.
Jehovah has the power to manuever whatever He wants wherever He wants.
So far it appears Jehovah only wants to maneuver to protect real estate, and corporate assets.
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...Are you afraid of death?
No more afraid than I was prior to my conception.
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i would like to know if any of you were ex-district overseers or other "heavy" men in the organization and what made you leave?
"...but my application came back stamped..."No Women Allowed!" Go figure!"
Had, it's called, "...woman must wear the invisible burqua" clause and you have no choice but to "wear" it if you wish to remain in good standing.
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"watching the world" in the dec.8,01' awake carries.
a scare story about pornography.
it refers to the.
…although often I did, but did nothing about it.
Which is the very explanation why the WTBTS acts as it does.
It takes caring people to expose incongruities that allows someone to make an informed choice.
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a short while back i was sitting on the doorstep enjoying a rollie when from nowhere, this thought pattern appeared in my head on the subject of friendliness and jw's.. the way i saw things was from the perspective that here you have this guy called jesus, who despite churning things up quite a bit in the first century, was in fact not a bad guy to bump into.
in fact i reckon he was pretty cool.. to strangers he gave his time, his company and support.
he got to know people on the local level and mixed without barriers to all communities of all sorts.
I could never quite understand how placing magazines and having Bible studies was better than actually helping.
Jehovah Gods son did not have the benefit of high-speed colored printing presses during the first Century, otherwise he would have published and placed the Watchtower and Awake!
The only recourse he had at his disposal was a low tech hands on approach. However, things have improved and become much more effective since His day.
If Jesus were alive today, the truth is, he, just as we do today, would marvel at the wonderful improvements the effects of his words through the mass marketing of the WTBTS have had on mankind throughout the world.
I can provide many, many examples of His blessings regarding the former but I’m the Watchtower Study conductor this Sunday and have more important things to do than explain the obvious to you morons.
PS the above is my response to the thread if I were a still a Jehovah’s Witness.
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to the governing body:.
to presume you are inspired by god is paranoia,.
to presume you were spoke of in prophetic terms in the revelations is adding to scripture,.
...You who appointed yourselves as judges will be judged and fury will come with a great rushing noise.
Due to the lack of unbiased verifiable evidence that a ‘Jehovah’ faction actually exists, the ‘governing body’ are simply very good businessmen at selling the invisible.
In the mean time, the only rushing sound those who run the WTBTS will hear is, the sound of tax-free cash flowing into their corporate bank accounts earned from selling a ‘high margin’ product that’s advertised to ‘pay off’ by becoming apparent when 'God' says so.
Gosh…what a novel concept…taking advantage of the fearful and ignorant.
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the wts and the un have more in common than most people care to know.
paradoxically, both have the same objectives.
the wts corporation is also affiliated with other organizations not congruous with its religious theology.
...If I said I could tender evidences to support this claim, how high is the probability that people do not want to hear it?
Oh come on Fat, your post sounds like the following fictional post, ridiculous:
"I also have information that the Coca-Cola organization has promoted their most profitable product they push all over the world as the ‘The Real Thing’! However I have it under the highest anonymous authority that it most assuredly is NOT.
Contrary to popular belief, the knowledgeable few are convinced it’s simply brown colored fuzzy sugar water, and my does this organization make a bundle o’ bucks flogging this item.
I have secreted away under my socks and underwear drawer, evidence’ (which of course for good reason cannot be scrutinized nor independently verified) of this incredible conspiracy that is so ironclad, no one is, if you can believe it, willing to pay any attention when approached either.
For this fact alone…this obviously must be the Truth that will make you free for only a small bi-monthly publication contribution as well as mandatory five meetings per week discussion and fellowship …you know…to prove your loyalty and stuff among the nicest slightly anal retentive bunch of people you’ll ever meet."
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PS sarcasm for those who didn't know.
