Posts by Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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It is the Good News THEY preach now, not of the Bible. Are you as sick of it as I am? New title for Watchtower magazine.

by Wasanelder Once in

i am so sick of this pretend religion that has now come to the point of showing its true colors.

the colors are white and blue.

this picture captures the true purpose of the watchtower these days.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Hardly more than a year ago and WT was condemning the Interwebs as nothing but apostates and porn. It was "worldly" to waste money on tech gadgets. The Bible and hardcopy publications were to be used, marked up, and littered with sticky notes as proof that someone was spirichul.

Now my parents heads are swimming trying to figure out their iWhatsThis and figure out why they're watching TV at the hall. I guess there's new songs that have to be printed out from the website. Suddenly, the shrinking publications are disappearing all together.

At the rate they're going, many of the prophecies in Revelation will have to be updated to fulfillment with their JW website instead of assemblies at Cedar Point led by Judge Boozerford almost a century ago. Of course, a new "Grand Climax..." book won't be printed. Everyone will have to print out the changes from their website or just use the online copy that is updated daily with new (and ever-changing) light!

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Proud JW.ORG Photos everyone needs to see! The Watchtower Sanctified the Internet for Preaching!

by Trailer Park Pioneer in

i am proud to be a jehovah's witness in the last days, what religion has done this much to proclaim the message about the organization?

other religions are preaching about jesus, some wear the crucifixion, other's wear shirts with fishes but we wear shirts with jw.org!

no other religion has our courage!.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

what religion has done this much to proclaim the message about the Organization? .... No other religion has our courage!

Plenty of religious nutjobs in the Middle East and elsewhere are spilling blood and posting it on the Net. JWs don't even get noticed in the modern world.

You can put a couple of JW.bORG pins on the breasts of a couple of hot sisters and it will get a couple of looks from me. But there are plenty of fish in the sea that aren't in the net of a cult.

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Does anyone have the 2014 stats from the 2015 Yearbook yet?

by berrygerry in

does anyone have the 2014 stats from the 2015 yearbook yet?.

(isn't it usually out by now - or are they waiting to celebrate new year's day?

).

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

2.2% increase in publishers

6.9% increase in anointed

Here's what they need before the next Memorial:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/204491/too-many-partakers-org-help-on-way?size=10&page=1

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LDC Semininar

by Sour Grapes in

jw
friends

ldc semininar @ patterson nov 15-18, 2014 .

entire ldc dept included remote workers/design/legal/real estate/purchasing.

oversight.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

RBC is not a failure! Anymore that the DO’s that are being reassigned are failures. Would we say the book study arrangement was a failure simply because we have combined the meetings?

If those DOs and CBSs weren't failures, they would still be used. Successful things don't get axed. "Pioneers Assist Others" was also a failure. 1975, 1914, 1925, and "this generation" were all failures. Growing all their food at Watchtower Farms was a failure. And now with the description of what the new JW.bORG Halls are supposed to be like, the old windowless design was also a failure. WT Corp is just full of failures.

Jeh says to Jesus – Ok I want this creature to be lighter than air

WTF? Since when are eagles lighter than air? Are JWs really supposed to believe that eagles would just float out of their nests if they weren't clinging to prey to weigh them down? That entire section of the mess is just loaded with idiocy. Why didn't they marvel about the marvelous design of mosquitoes and ticks that suck blood and spread disease. Can I get a "Thank You, Jeezus!"?

As a Business Model – this would be utterly ridiculous!!

Much of what they are talking about is completely copied from a business model--standardization, minimizing expense, they sound like they want it to be as windowy and inviting as McDonalds or Starbucks.

We all agree that the Warwick Project is monumental – and of utmost importance.

We all agree that the Warwick Project is a joke compared to the truly stupendous construction projects going on out in the real world. There are plenty of cruise ships that are far more monumental than that goofy cult headquarters of Watchtower.

It's embarrassing for me to read garbage like this from WT and admit that I ever belonged to this crazy cult... and that I have family that are still being deceived.

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The Witness of the Food Pyramid

by processor in

the witness of the food pyramidrevised reprint from the witchtower, 12/2010the ... pyramid ... proves to be a storehouse of important truth.

millennial dawn, volume iii, thy kingdom come, page 314. as is commonly known, pastor russell thought that the great pyramid of gizeh was gods stone witness, corroborating biblical time periods.

(jehovahs witnesses proclaimers of gods kingdom, page 201) he believed that it would have been erected by melchizedek according to a divine construction plan.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

As we enter 2015, we can appreciate the significance of this year in Biblio-food-pyramido-chronology.

Spiritual food and physical food at the proper time, indeed!

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thoughts on this week's meeting

by prologos in

first thing i noticed, a would-be elder with a suitcase-sized 'service' bag.

pretender.

but i thought:.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Oh the memories of the Bulky Bookbag Competitions!

I think the gilead students were the champs at it with their rolling luggage carts. I told my friends that if I was a gilead student, I'd get a motorized wheelchair (a really fast one like sister Glass drove) and get it fitted with shelving and hook a book wagon behind. I would be able to travel everywhere fast with every publication... that way everyone would know that I'm the most spiritual brother in the universe!

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France - Bethel extension project

by fifth.column in

hi everyone, fyi :.

at the mid week meeting we had a letter, and a video to explain the extension project for the french bethel for the next 3.5 years.

the video was 5min long, in 3d (nice job in fact...) to show the future buildings for flats and offices (translation, video dubbing...).

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

It's all about the money!

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What are your new year's resolutions?

by rebel8 in

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friends

do you have any?

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

1) Keep improving in my career. Now that I have my degree and a great job, I want to keep learning and making progress.

2) Rebuild muscle. My weight and fitness level are okay now, but I used to pump iron when I was in bethel. Such a waste back then to have a great body that was hidden by crappy suits and topped with a depressed brain.

3) Have more fun. Make real friends.

4) If there's any time and energy left, get married and have a mess of kids.

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Outline - elders meeting with pioneers

by naeuca in

if you happen to have the outline for this years annual pioneer meeting with elders can you please copy and paste to me in reply or send me the link i'm pdf please.

thank you very much know advance!

naeuca.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

If the pioneers had the Holy Spirit they wouldn't need all this BS

Indeed. If we had to be so explicitly told that pioneering, serving in bethel, serving as MS/elder, and being single were such valuable gifts, are they really "gifts"? Of course not. Those gifts had so many strings attached that when I unloaded them, I felt such relief. And the "gift" of everlasting life? Living in a world full of JWs would be the 'gift' of hell. A gift earned by a lifetime of slavery to Watchtower, Inc.

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They came, they saw, they left...

by NVR2L8 in

during the holiday period one if my wife's brothers had planned a vacation in our area.

they drove about 6 hours to a condo they leased for a week to celebrate their wedding anniversary with their married son and daughter.

they called my wife to let her know they were coming to visit us since they were 2 hours away.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

they were stopping by after just to say hello

Why did they even bother? They can say hello with a phone call.