Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  one reason for the dumbing down of the org

  by Magnum in

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  a lot of us have said that theres been a dumbing down in jw land.

  its just not like it used to be especially a few decades ago.

  it seems to me that if jw are right and the end of the world is near, the spiritual food should get tastier and more nourishing as time goes on, but it's getting more and more bland and less nourishing.

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  LHG: "...they ended up attracting seriously dysfunctional people."

  They also made a lot of us JW kids seriously dysfunctional--Weird Single Bethelites like me. Which caused a lot of dysfunctional families. I heard of many congregations where the brothers had to cobble together some pioneer couple with a single sister's kids in order to make a fake family for a Serve-us Meeting part. Either there were no exemplary families, or just one family that happened to be on vacation that week.

  Perhaps that's why they're putting so much pressure on the family worship night crap. Sure, preaching is still important, but having a few more "normal" families is better. And perhaps that's part of the thing with litteratrash carts. They may be hoping to get some sociable people that can read, rather than going out and rounding up the anti-social hoarders like they've already got.
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  Tech49: Mini RC 2014 Review

  by Tech49 in

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  i attended the regional convention (district convention) over the last weekend, and thought i would spend a few minutes putting down some thoughts, for your amusement.

  i will bounce around a bit, as my notes and thoughts were a little craaaaazy.. we met at one of the smaller venues on the west coast, with attendance around 7,000.

  (28 baptized.... <.04%) we were tied in to the international convention in arlington, tx.. my first thought, only about 2 hours in, was how much this sounded like a plain old sales meeting!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "There was the part about not associating with DF relatives. His wording was that we could associate with them and show them respect, as long as we were discreet. (open-ended and non-commital language).... And why must we harp on PORNOGRAPHY and HOMOSEXUALS in every part?"

  You need to understand how all these truthz tie together. What they meant was you could look at porn and engage in homosexuality as long as you're discreet about it.
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  God come to you in a dream "go out and marry a prostitute".

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and by the way, she will be unfaithful.

  believe it was god or satan???.

  the book of hosea.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Well, Ezekial was commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days. Then lie on his right side for 40 days. During this time he was told that all his meals would be the strange "Ezekial bread" "using dried human excrement as fuel". After complaining about this terrible assignment, Jehovah allowed him to use cow crap instead for preparing his bread.

  Prophet of Jehovah is just not a good career choice.
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  Tech49: Mini RC 2014 Review

  by Tech49 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i attended the regional convention (district convention) over the last weekend, and thought i would spend a few minutes putting down some thoughts, for your amusement.

  i will bounce around a bit, as my notes and thoughts were a little craaaaazy.. we met at one of the smaller venues on the west coast, with attendance around 7,000.

  (28 baptized.... <.04%) we were tied in to the international convention in arlington, tx.. my first thought, only about 2 hours in, was how much this sounded like a plain old sales meeting!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "One of his parts he mentioned that we are SUPPOSED to go over the Daily Text every day with our family."

  Losch didn't really mean that. What he meant was that families in the future are supposed to go over the Daily Text every day.
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  IC 2014 talk: "A Century of Kingdom Rule Contrasted With a Century of Satan’s Rule"

  by AnnOMaly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.

  as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.

  the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "Yes, people live longer today, but what is the point of having a longer lifespan and better health...? 100 years ago, people may have lived 40, 50, 60 years"

  Ah for the good old days when all the GB farts would have all died at 40!
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  Stupid paragraph in this weekends wt study

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how's these comments in this weeks study?.

  i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.

  i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Par. 19 "People comment how happy Jehovah's Witnesses are."

  Let me guess. The 'people' that are making these comments just happen to be 2 dudes in the Writing Department that can't tell the difference between genuinely happy people (like I will be when I land a good job) and zombies that are in an over-medicated stupor (like I used to be).
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  VERY short day at the Arlington/Dallas International Convention-My Observations

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  okay, some good takeaway:.

  i have never been to a convention quite like this before.

  a very friendly vibe all around, lots of banners and posters with sayings like "sending love to all our brothers", "see you in the paradise", "ecuador sends greetings", and "jehovahs-witness.net" (okay, i lied on that last one...).

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "But, for all the text that has been ranted over Loesch in the past, what really struck me was that he is really a very boring speaker."

  His delivery is a rather slow-paced monotone. It's some of the bizarre material he comes up with when he's not given a manuscript or comprehensive outline that really sets him apart as cray-zeee!

  Indeed, I shall forever remember a morning worship which he delivered in his slow, monotone, 'matter of fact' way, where he explained to the entire bethel family (including the tie-line to Wallkill and Patterson) that in Genesis where it stated that the woman's craving for her husband... wait for it... was sexual craving. He explained how Genesis was correct in showing that women have an innate, out-of-control, sexual craving for men. I think he went so far as to reason that christian husbands need to be understanding of this and be ready to satisfy their wive's womanly need for sex. It was over the top, totally embarrassing for those of us that were awake and paying attention. And I heard many clarifying remarks afterward from both husbands and wives that women don't crave it nearly as much as men wish.
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  Churches = Goat Factory

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was kid, when we would pass a church, my dad would point to it and say, "look!

  there's a goat factory!

  he never explained that he was trying to be funny and young kids take things quite literal.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I most frequently heard churches called 'goat sheds' or 'institutes of the blind'.
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  Birthdays

  by Laika in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had my first real birthday party yesterday.

  call me an irredeemable pagan, but i was massively excited about this, the whole thing was very special, i got a little emotional and i think my friends must have found it a little strange but it was just nice to be creature worshipped.

  when i was a child my parents always used to tell people i didn't miss out by not celebrating my birthday but i did miss out.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Happy first birthday!

  I still haven't had a real, official, cake and presents, first birthday party yet.

  A head on a platter birthday cake would be pretty cool!
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  US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  the old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.

  intact- is viagra for the guys.

  funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Up next: Hobby Lobby owners paying illegal immigrant children less than $1 per day for 18 hour workdays to make Christmas ornaments... because that's their religious view.