Posts by Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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jw.org cart days numbered?

by jookbeard in

reading a report of an elder in a friends cong has been hiding and spying on the pioneers who seem to have a practise of dumping the cart and finding a local coffee shop, i've noticed that they do this in my local high street as well but this week they seemed to be all huddled around the cart, they've clearly been warned, a vast percentage of the time i see they seem to be more interested in fiddling with their mobile phones and gossiping, is just seems these carts are a means for the pioneers to turn in "easy time" i wonder what sort of figures show how much literature is being taken by the public?

i bet its very minimal.

naturally the gb would say they are a phenomenal success , we clearly know they are not.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

If you look at the topics from 12 years ago till now its always about...

They didn't have these literature carts 12 years ago. Now they have JW TV and people like my elderly parents are trying to learn how to use tablets; but 12 years ago, they were condemning the Internet and counseling against buying all these technological gadgets. 12 years ago, the magazines were more frequent and had more pages, the meetings were more often and longer. Congregations hadn't been shaken down by the Corporation for money like they are now. 12 years ago, WT still owned all those Brooklyn properties (Furman sold in 2004. Since then they've sold $804,375,000* of property in Brooklyn with lots of other branch properties sold or currently for sale.). So you have to realize that this forum is keeping up with the changes of WT in the last 12 years.

90% of the topics on here are ignored by me. I dont read them and i don't post in them.

To a great extent, you are ignoring the subjects and experiences on here that are constantly evolving. If you only look for threads about "WT Society to End Soon!" you're limiting your available information as much as only focusing on all WT's prophecies of "This System to End Soon!"

And the more information you have, the better decisions you can make.

*http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/watchtower-nets-375-million-cash-windfall-from-brooklyn-factory-sale

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Celebrate the Un-Memorial

by rebel8 in

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i was thinking that we could spend the memorial evening doing the exact opposite of what we used to do.. smile and laugh.

have fun.

dress comfortably.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

It's on a Friday night this year. I can think of hundreds and hundreds of better things to do with a springtime Friday evening.

12

My first birthday gift to someone

by Slave4_38y in

i bought my girlfriend a birthday gift yesterday.

it felt weird.

i'm 43 years old and have never done this before.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

aww, that's nice! Did you know how to wrap it?

Here's how to wrap like a 1-year-old exJW

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Elder Using Innuendos at Every Single Opportunity

by Tempest in a Teacup in

there's this elder in my hall.

in his comments and talks, he loves to include the kind of details that would leave listeners wondering who his comment/talk is about.

he seems to see himself as a jw behaviour expert and drops titbits whenever he's behind the mic.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Hmmm, my guess would be that he's winging it on his parts but trying to make it interesting. Maybe some of these are from remarks he's heard from the sheeples. Nothing like a good beating from the platform to keep them in line.

Really, most of the WT articles and talks are recycled from within the previous 4 months to 2 years. It's mind-numbingly boring crap. Personally, I would try to include some bit of humor to keep my parts lively. Maybe this dude is trying to make his parts more lively by making them speculative or dropping hints that someone in the congregation should be "marked" or something.

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Gifts from my old hall..

by Garrett in

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hey guys,.

so, it seems the hall i used to attend before my latest one got to hearing that i "disappeared".

so today, i went to the post office to pick up a package.... i decided to try to face reality and open it... what i found were multiple letters and wrapped gifts.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

I don't know why I'm posting this, but I feel like I needed to write it out somewhere. It's really rough...

Yes, it's sad and frustrating to look back at these people and wish that they would wake up, leave the cult, and get on with life like you have, and keep them as friends in a post-JW relationship... but they don't get it, they don't wake up. Instead, they want to seduce you back into the ignorance and slavery of being a WT Corp stooge.

And you're posting this here because we've been through a lot of the same stuff. Hang in there!

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sadly standardised

by zeb in

convention this weekend and my wife (in) has been morose and down for the past days sadly standardized pre conv mind set and will be after.

anyone else have this situation.. you have my sympathy.. yes the jw are happy people.

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Billy the Ex-Bethelite

My parents seem to forget about everything preached at assemblies and conventions in the time it takes to drive to the restaurant afterward. They're much more concerned about who was there and how their [insert medical condition here] is.

It was always depressing for me. Expectation before the program of something new and exciting. Disappointment afterward that it was just more of the same old recycled crap.

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JW NFL Player Retires

by Barrold Bonds in

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this is news to me, despite somewhat following the steelers.. http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/03/11/steelers-free-agent-jason-worilds-announces-his-departure-from-football/stories/201503110155.

with all the surprises that were delivered around the nfl tuesday, jason worilds has pulled another.

the steelers free agent linebacker announced early this morning that he was leaving football.. and the steelers believe he means it.. steelers sources told the post-gazette today that they believe worilds, who became an unrestricted free agent on tuesday, is serious about walking away from football at the age of 27 to work for his religion, jehovahs witnesses, and that there is no hidden agenda involved in his decision.. i appreciate all of the interest from the organizations that have reached out to us the past few days, worilds wrote on twitter.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

The Williams Sisters are much better role models for JWs.

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New Mascot - Translator Robot

by Slave4_38y in

this is the latest offering from the caleb/sophia duo - lesson 16, preach in a foreign language.

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Billy the Ex-Bethelite

hard to pin down caleb and sophia's race.

Their dad seems to be part Latino and part Count Chocula. Mom seems to be stereotypical American.

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New WT property for A/V production

by respectful_observer in

so the wts just bought yet another corporate building in upstate ny.

this time it's a building to house a/v production a few minutes from patterson.

why they just don't build what they need on property they already own, i don't know.. http://www.loopnet.com/listing/17829130/39-mt-ebo-road-south-brewster-ny/.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

That's $6.1 million of money that would have built a lot of kingdumb hauls!

But as long as the end isn't coming anytime soon, they may as well start wasting a bunch of money to try to catch up with the TV evangelists, eh?

If WT Corp. can spend millions of dollars to buy buildings to renovate into studios to play "let's pretend", why are they opposed to dubs spending a few thousand dollars to get their kids educated so they don't have to play "let's pretend we're not broke, uneducated, and unfulfilled"?

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Over Education leads to Ugliness, Premature ageing and Beard Growth

by snugglebunny in

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it could have come straight from brooklyn!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls37snyjg8w.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Watch for it to be featured on an upcoming JW TV.