You wrote:
I am wondering if we are doing the right thing by keeping them out of our lives.
Yes!
garybuss
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Need Some Advice on MIL JW
by dkeithia inok i will try and make this story short because its not my intent to go on a huge mil bashing spree.
september of 2004 i meet my now husband.
while we were dating he told me that he wanted nothing to do with his family because they were jw's and he was disfellowshipped because of them and his now ex-fiancee.
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Getting Married Today!
by alamb incourthouse.
3:30. thought i'd tell my "family" here.
thanks for being the friends you are.
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You wrote:
Getting Married Today!
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New Yearbook stats for 2007 now out!
by Dogpatch inthe report is out!.
http://www.watchtowernews.org/2007report.pdf.
cooking the books with 3% increase??.
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garybuss
Interesting thread. Thanks for putting it up Randy.
The Watch Tower Corporation's owners are fanatics but they're not stupid. That's what makes it so much fun to watch them scheme and manipulate.
When I was a kid we had chickens in a pen outside the chicken coop. We knew the weasel would get in but we didn't know how. Would he dig under the fence again? Or would he squeeze under a loose board and get in the coop?
My aunt and uncle had a farm and they didn't have any weasel killing chickens problems. Why not? They had lots more chickens than we did. The reason why was they didn't keep the chickens in a pen. They let them run loose. At night the chickens would roost in the trees. If the weasel came the chickens could get away.
The reason the weasel could get the chickens at our place was because the chickens were trapped in the pen and they couldn't get away from the weasel. The pen we built to protect the chickens was our chicken's problem. The pen trapped the chickens, but the fence didn't keep the weasel out and the fence made it easy for us to catch the chickens ourselves for Sunday dinner. The pen wasn't for the benefit of the chickens. Same with the Witnesses.
We know the weaknesses and strengths of the Society. One of their big strengths now is their guaranteed market. Imagine being a writer and have every book you write sell a million copies. How about 7 million? Or 14 million . . no matter what you write in it?
The cow's in the barn, now they just have to milk it. Think these guys are smart enough to make money off of over 100,000 offices and seven million customers? I'd have to think yes to that. The doctrinal change stuff is just an excuse to keep printing up new product. The changes create the market.
The ministry has changed. Instead of the Society printing material for the public with the Witnesses distributing it, now the Society's focus is on printing material for the Witnesses. They're one small step from discontinuing door to door soliciting. I expect in time they'll just have a membership list like most other churches and then watch the numbers go up.
There are 7 million Witnesses and 17 million at the yearly memorial meeting. If it were my business, I'd be figuring out how cash in on the 10 million memorial attenders not already working for me. Now the Society is running their company like a publishing and door to door sales company. If they'd start running it more like a well run church and less like a secular sales business, they'd see cash receipts and membership numbers both dramatically increase.
The Witness's admire the Catholic Church, they'd do well to take a few pages from their book. The Catholic Church does well without sound cars and huge printing businesses. The Witnesses dumped the sound cars when the sound cars weren't needed any more. It's time to dump the printing business.
The Society's yearly report needs to show how many children were fed, how many widows helped, and how all donated funds were spent to benefit humanity and the planet.
The Watch Tower's current report is self centered, self serving, selfish, and offensive. It wouldn't be any more offensive to me if they just reported how many trees were chopped down to make the paper to print the literature that the report focuses on. -
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HistoryJW.com - important question
by Motema Bolingo indo you know this website ?
http://www.historyjw.com/index.phtml.
there is a translation in english.. today, we were contacted by the ukrainian authorities asking us the same question.. if you have additional information, please let me know.. thank you,.
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Moles - How do I murder them? Will you be an accessory?
by AK - Jeff ini speak of the furry kind that burrow under my yard and destroy it.
this year in our area they were terrible.
i do not lie when i state that nearly every square foot of my front lawn was tunnelled this summer, some of it three and four times after i pressed down the tunnels with my feet and mower.
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2008 and still no Armagedon!!! I feel like I made an "Ass of myself"
by Witness 007 inyes sitting in pizza hut in 1991 a small band of pioneer brothers {me and friend's} debated when armagedon would come.
due to the "generations" doctrine, we calculated 2001 at the latest...then the doctrine was dropped!!!
recently the last world war 1 vetran died in australia.
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That's how I felt when I saw the year text for 1974. Pissed . . .
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Hating Religion Is It Bigotry?
by writetoknow indoes the term "bigotry" apply only to religious people or can a person be a bigot when they hate religion or religious people?.
the term bigot means to be willingly ignorant or intolerant of another person's beliefs or opinions.
bigotry is an accusation, which is often used by liberal and marxist types to condemn those people who are not of the same "tolerant" or "open minded" attitude as themselves.. .
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garybuss
A bigot is one who is intolerant of those who differ. Being intolerant of someone who is abusive is not bigotry it's a character strength.
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Witnessing to a Witness
by yuxist inhello i found this site while researching jws.
my motive is simply to reach out to those in the organization.
not by going after them but rather responding to them when they show up at my door.
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You wrote: Any help on errors in their doctrines would be appreciated.
They don't have one thing right. Take your pick.
I like talking to Witnesses at times. A really good Witness will make it take you three hours to git his name. A wannabe Witness will run at the first question you ask that they don't have an answer memorized for.
No Witness I ever met is prepared to explain their assumptions. So, at the first assumption used (usually in the first 30 seconds) jump on it and take them down with it.
If you read posts here for one month, you will know more about the Watch Tower than the majority of Witnesses . . . and have more fun too. Welcome! -
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Text for Monday, December 10, 2007
by garybuss in.
this is a day text i can agree with in principle.. .
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garybuss
Me thinks Witnesses have three choices:
1). They can buy crap like this day text,
2).They can go crazy.
3). Or, they have to leave. -
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Text for Monday, December 10, 2007
by garybuss in.
this is a day text i can agree with in principle.. .
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garybuss
This is a day text I can agree with in principle.