Posts by floriferous

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JW Expressions We Hate

by Socrateswannabe in

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i was browsing through stuff on jw.org recently and ran across some expressions that really grate on my nerves: loyal love, loving-care, and loving-kindness, as in: "please exercise loving-kindness toward your servant.

" who talks like that?

they must be relics of the fred franz era.

floriferous

Behooves

Bounteous spiritual table

Lots of brothers in the congregation but not many 'men'........ie not reaching out.

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Gems From the WT

by Slidin Fast in

just noticed this gem of a definition in the current (no 1) wt.

"lying.

saying something false to someone who is entitled to know the truth.".

floriferous

The rank & file JW's seem to accept the need for 'theocratic warfare' ie not telling the truth to those not entitled to know it.

Trouble is the dubbies do not realise 'Mother' is actually very economical with the truth to them also.

Poor saps.

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Almost £1/4 million siphoned off?

by The Searcher in

according to charity commission records - http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/accounts/ends60/0001065860_ac_20120331_e_c.pdf - the chelsea & kensington kingdom hall in the centre of london had in 2012, "funds-on-deposit arrangement to branch" which amounted to 220,000.. i wonder how much they still have "on deposit", and how the fleeced sheep in that congregation are feeling now?

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floriferous

I heard a congregation in the South West UK had £500,000 siphoned off by the Borg.

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Battle over contamination at Watchtower site in Warwick

by OrphanCrow in

http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671.

battle over contamination at watchtower site in warwick.

by hema easley .

floriferous

I can't believe the WT didn't have this site thoroughly analysed before parting with any money, especially considering what the land had been used for.

Caveat emptor.

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Plans for huge Jehovah's HQ take shape

by Formerbrother in

http://www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk/news/11227290.plans_for_huge_jehovah_s_hq_take_shape/.

its going to be a real beautiful place when its finished.. they are going for quality over quantity.

it used to be accommodation for a few thousand permanent residents, now its looking like less than a thousand permanent with the possibility of a few thousand more in temporary accommodation should the need arise.. some say the plans are going to be like a garden of eden in england :) i mean they had farming in london over the years but this is going to be epic what they are planning for temple farm at chelmsford.. they are planting thousands (literally) of fruit trees, including tropical fruits in huge green houses, huge vines yards and then the same basic farming activities as before.

floriferous

I recall we use to say out in FS in wealthy areas amid beautiful surroundings,........

'They're not interested in God's New World because they have their paradise now'

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Matthew 24 - "This Generation": If you are a Jehovahs Witness that dares to study the Bible itself...

by defender of truth in

rather than just rely on the watchtower's latest opinions... are you ready?.

1) please read this article:.

2) if you are offended by the article's title, read this page for an explanation of what the phrase means, then go back and read it:.

floriferous

BTTT

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Does this fact in it`s own right , prove the Garden Of Eden story false to be no more than a fable ?

by smiddy in

thinking about life in general reflecting on the abundance of life on this planet , it became obvious to me that every living thing , those flying in the heavens ,living on the earth , or existing in the oceans , is all possible for one reason , and one reason only.. every living thing exists at the expense of the death of some other living thing , life and death go hand in hand.. the same is true even in the microscopic world .. every living thing feeds off some other unfortunate living thing.that`s nature at its most basic observation , but true.. what the noachian flood story overlooks is the vast amount of living marine life that existed and flourished and not influenced or affected by what supposedly went on , on land.. 99.9 % of all living creatures if not 100% live by the death of some other living creature and the same would have to be true in the garden of eden if it was to have existed in the first place .. no thing can live if it does not devour some other living thing .

a fact of life .. apologists are welcome to support god , by suggesting miraculous interventions by god that have no scriptual basis.

i guess any nature video of the animal kingdom , marine life in the oceans , or videos of the bird life , as in nature series should make this clear .. smiddy.

floriferous

You're absolutely right Smiddy.

An 'evolutionist' I knew that saw the 'light' & became a JW tried to argue that the food chain as it exists today was not god's original plan. He said god did not intend for creatures to kill each other & that they would only feed on animals that had died.

I asked him how far down the food chain god hadn't intended creatures to prey on each other. I offered the example of baleen whales being specifically 'created' to prey on krill by filtering them through their baleen plates. I asked if he knew of a way for them to distinguish between live or dead krill.

Stoney silence................

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Discussion with a Pioneer: CONCLUSION

by Saved_JW in

deity of jesus.

the final part of our discussion took us back to the very beginning where he was asking my christian friend a question about the trinity.

i wasn't convinced that david received an answer that was satisfying [essentially its a mystery, god is too big to understand etc..] i wanted to talk about that more.

floriferous

BTTT

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Too Much Discontent in Congregation Part 1

by Simon Templar in

i am seeing and hearing many, many long-time jws openly expressing problems with either the watchtower society itself, the publications, changing doctrine, incorrectly living their lives as a result of bad doctrine, the behavior of the boe and other related things.

i will share some of these things in several posts, because there are just too many of them.

the complaints that i hear from publishers and pioneers are many.