Posts by tula

i saw the movie the mist this weekend.. i was surprized at how good it was.. it is based on a novel by stephen king, how does that guy continue to crank out novels and movies?.

if you like thrillers this is a good movie to see.. i won't spoil it for you, but the ending is a shocker!.

tula

I would compare it to the gore in the movie "Carrie".

In an early scene in the movie Carrie, her mother is taking religious literature to a neighbors house and the neighbor woman gives her a couple of dollars for it to get rid of her and get her out the door. Was Carrie's mother supposed to be a Jehovahs Witness? Is it based on religious implication as to why they dumped the bucket of blood on Carrie?

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Why is JCanon, who was briefly JCanaan, JCanon again?

by nvrgnbk in

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friends

is there some prophetic significance to it?.

should we be fleeing to some mountains or something?.

seeking illumination..

tula

1) That Paul and the Apostle John are still alive from the 1st century, never having died, along with some other members of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Now, this I know is true!!

I was driving down the road the other day and I saw the apostle John.

I know it was him because I asked my 8 BALL and it said "DEFINITELY"

He was dressed like a bum. He was trying to fit in looking like a homeless person.

He is here because he is testing people.

He is looking for good samaritians and he is taking names. I know because I saw he was carrying a clipboard and paper.

I had passed him before I realized all this, so I turned around and went back.

I was planning to give him an Awake magazine...just to let him know that I would "for sure" be one of those who would see him again.

Figured those mags are like a code so we can always recognize each other in a strange town, you know.

Anyway, I turned around...he was only two blocks behind me, but when I turned around.......he was gone! POOF! That quick. That's another reason I know it was him and he is still superhuman and can vanish.

But I think we had a mental connection and he knew I was turning around.

I am sure I passed the test.

I

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Hey, What's up with Randy Watters????

by RR in

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i just received the latest issue of free minds.

i read it cover to cover the moment i opened the envelope.

i've been reading with interest randy's memoirs orf his life in and out of the watchtower.

tula

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The Salt Threat

by maowr in

.. you may be aware of recent media coverage on 'the salt threat'* where the fda is trying to regulate the food packaging industries use of salt in the products.. if they go forward with it what would stop them from trying to regulate the salt content in usda meat since it's common knowledge that blood contains salt and if the production line is slowed down allowing for a better quality of bleed in the carcass reducing the amount salt or blood in the meat.. * http://abcnews.go.com/gma/oncall/story?id=3929972&page=1 .

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tula

Most chickens are electrocuted first. This drives the blood deeper toward the bones. Before they are packed they are injected with a sodium solution which keeps them from bleeding out. ( this sodium will be listed on package contents of "fresh" raw chicken)

Haven't you noticed the past few years that even when the chicken is well cooked the meat is RED around the bones? And the bones, instead of being white are PURPLE?

Yeah. You've been eating blood alright.

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January '08 "Keep on the Watch" brochure campaign cancelled

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

i heard that a notice was sent to all boe this month removing "keep on the watch" as the featured january campaign.. can i get confirmation from anyone?.

tula

It's been changed.

The slogan for this year is ......... "DOOR OF THE ARK IS CLOSING"

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Watchtower Farms plans millions in expansion

by Grammy in

watchtower farms plans millions in expansionhttp://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20071129/news/711290360

tula

Granted, the following info is from 1990, but the point is to show that even then, there seems to be a lot of resentment in the political and residential community toward the WBTS. I also found it interesting that this article gives statistics of 3.8 million witnesses at that time. How could they have possibly doubled membership since then with more and more factual truth coming to public knowledge? Also, does anyone have info on this Florida citrus grove owned by "a witness"? I think there is more here than meets the eye. I know there is another big farm in South Florida. Is this common knowledge?

excerpt from: http://www.maykuth.com/Archives/jehov90.htm

The world's 3.8 million Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps best known for their aggressive proselytizing, their half-dozen predictions about the end of the world, their ban on blood transfusions and their refusal to declare allegiance to flags or governments.

But in Brooklyn Heights, where the Watchtower Society has maintained its headquarters since 1909, they're known for something else: real estate.

"They've become almost a juggernaut of acquisition in the last 10 years because of their tremendous wealth," said Bob Tramonte, the owner of Cousin Arthur's Book Shop in the historic neighborhood overlooking Lower Manhattan.

The Jehovah's Witnesses' land purchases are a continuing source of resentment in the pricey Brooklyn Heights area, where younger upscale and older middle-class residents live side by side. The sect owns about 35 properties, including four of the area's five hotels, and a growing number of brownstones in the quarter-mile by half-mile neighborhood. Sect officials say they need the properties to house the volunteers who work at the headquarters, which they call Brooklyn Bethel.

The uneasy yet genteel co-existence between the Witnesses and the neighborhood came to the fore two years ago when the Watchtower Society sought zoning changes to build a 35-story residence just outside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Preservationists and other residents objected that the building was inappropriate and would block the view of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The zoning proposal was defeated, but the fight left a bad aftertaste that continues to sour the relationship on a number of neighborhood issues. Taxes - the Witnesses don't pay any - is one; their minimal participation in the community, or its economy, is another.

"The issues have little to do with them as individuals," said Deirdre A. Carson, an officer in the Brooklyn Heights Association. "It has to do with what happens to any small community when it is overwhelmed by an institution."

The Watchtower Society pays its Brooklyn workers $80 a month to buy personal items, and provides for most of their needs. Their meals are served in the residence halls. Most of the food is grown on Watchtower Farms in Wallkill, N.Y., where 1,000 more Witnesses work, or at a Florida citrus grove owned by a Jehovah's Witness. The food is transported in the Watchtower truck fleet.

Watchtower Grove - (UNCONFIRMED)1001 Lehigh East Road, Lehigh Acres, FL 33972
(941) 369-3245

from WTS corp. list http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/8374/1.ashx

this comes up under google maps:

We were not able to locate the address:
1001 Lehigh East Road, Lehigh Acres, FL 33972

Would you like to:

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My wife FINALLY quits Witnessing and Meetings admits I was right!!!

by Witness 007 in

for afew years a have been fading and telling my wife how i feel about such false doctrines as blood transfusions, 607 b.c.e date etc.

at first she would say "don't talk to me about discouraging things!!

" since i haven't been attending meetings or field service for over 2 years she has slowly quit 1. witnessing, then 2. theocratic school which she hated anyway but was forced to do.

tula

My wife FINALLY quits Witnessing and Meetings admits I was right!!!

Oh nooooo! Just when armagedon is soooooo close!