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  PERFECT TITLE : Obsolete building sails heavenward, helping train firefighters

  by paulmolark in

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  http://www.chinookobserver.com/co/local-news/20150320/all-fired-up-obsolete-building-sails-heavenward-helping-train-firefighters.

  plans to demolish an aging church created an opportunity for a multi-agency training burn.. .

  long beach it was a sunday morning service unlike any other.. on march 15, a few dozen spectators mostly church members gathered to watch a fire training at the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses north of long beach.. the burn was made possible through a cooperative arrangement with the local congregation and fire departments in pacific, wahkiakum and cowlitz counties.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Hmmm, how to respond...
  

  • Firemen torching a Kingdumb Haul? These MUST be the Last Days!
  • This is prophetic! 40 years is a "building generation" that overlaps the human generation that was alive in 1914. So the end is going to come before the little kids that attended that KH grow old and die.
  • Christendom takes pride in their churches that have stood for centuries. JWs take pride in Kingdumb Hauls that are disposable--easily burned to the ground and replaced with new Kingdumb Hauls that are redesigned to not look like old Kingdumb Hauls. They're like Kleenex--pull one out and the next one pops up.
    
  • Firemen: "Does anyone have a light?" JW: (hands him latest WT magazine) "Here's the newest light!"
    
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  Drugs and Alcohol Ruin Your Life

  by campaign of hate in

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  2. beliefs

  this point was raised in another thread vaguely, and wanted to try and expand on it.. the wt has said (and rightly so in my opinion) "that excessive use of drugs and alcohol can ruin your life".

  in my eyes this is a fact.. this is where it starts to get a little suspicious, as they also say (or subtly hint at) "that if you leave the wt you will becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol and will ruin your life".. its almost like a self fulfilling prophecy.

  as there are a lot who leave the borg and they do start drinking heavy or smoking, or taking drugs...or whatever.. the wt capitalizes on the fact that people want more freedom, and they subtly ingrain the thought that.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Part of the WT indoctrination is a self-destruct mechanism--leaving the cult will cause us to become an alcoholic, immoral, our family will fall apart, and everything will go so wrong that we may die or wish that we'd die.
  

  As mentioned by others, there are plenty of active JWs that are a mess. With the fear, obligation, and guilt that's heaped on JWs, they can't reason how WT is the real source of unhappiness in their lives.
  
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  Assembly Assessment increased 300%

  by James Jack in

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  2. experiences

  while at the assembly, when reading the financial statement, i noticed our expenses went from $2500 to almost $9500 so i questioned an elder and said that the assessment per publisher is at $10.50 for all in the us branch territory.. he added this helps the society know how much is coming in and helps them plan out future projects!.

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  Like "New day", I was in a foreign language congregation where the circuit didn't have enough money to cover the cost of the circuit assembly, so letters were sent to each congregation telling them how much they owed.

  It was sad. Lots of little kids that were publishers but didn't have jobs to pay for that kind of stuff. I suppose that's another reason that WT is trying to get the kids baptized young. Since they have to be publishers first, you have these 7-year-old baptized publishers that are expected to pay WT for the privilege of sitting in a dreary assembly hall on a beautiful weekend when they should be outside enjoying life.
  
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  1st time in 30 years no one Baptized at our Assembly

  by James Jack in

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  at our assembly in alabama, no one got baptized, even though we added 3 congregations to our side in the circuit.

  just looked at my wife and said wow.. yet ironically, the regular pioneer ranks have increased 45% in the last 5 years!.

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  Maybe they should start baptizing the literature carts.
  
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  Mind control.

  by New day in

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  2. beliefs

  in a recent thread someone mentioned that the wtbts uses mind control techniques.

  do you think this is a conscious ploy?

  if it is it would mean that the leaders of my religion (i am still an active jw) set out consciously to control people.

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  They use mind control and they know it, BUT... they think that it's good for them to do mind control because they have "da troof" and they have to use information control, emotional manipulation, and all kinds of other control tactics in order to "protect" the sheeple from the "mind control" and "independent thinking" of Santa's World.

  And they've had articles on cults, but downplayed the way JWs are a cult and focused on things like: "JWs don't have one human leader they unquestioningly follow", "we don't use starvation or physical abuse to control members", "we don't isolate our members on a remote compound." Yet, the facts show that WT uses cult mind control in their own way that will differ from other cults.
  
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  Too many partakers in the org? Help is on the way!

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  is someone in your congregation confused?

  coming soon to the local congregations:.

  anointification neutralizer100 suppositories.

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  It's that time of year again!

  If anybody else here has been inactive like me and forgotten what the Memorial is like. Here's a reminder:
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75TfwZX4B5Y

  I love that the Yeartext behind the speaker is from the WT instead of the bible. LOL
  
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  Growing number of memorial partakers explained(?) by local elder

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i brought this up in a conversation after today's meeting.

  the elder knowingly acknowledged the growing number and pointed out that of course, now we understand why this is so.

  i gave my best blank stare and said "we do?

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  The elder knowingly acknowledged the growing number and pointed out that of course, now we understand why this is so... He said yes that it has to do with the overlapping generations....

  does anybody here have a clue what he was talking about?

  The only thing I can conclude is that he's drawn the conclusion (and a very reasonable one) that all "new light" is the opposite of "old light". It used to be that "generation" meant only 1 generation. The new light is a complete contradiction that it means multiple generations. Similarly, the old light was that the anointed would decrease until armageddon, so the new light must be that the anointed will increase until armageddon.

  In any case, from now on I'd quote this brother whenever the subject of memorial partakers comes up: "Br. So-and-so said that the growing number of anointed partakers at the memorial is because of the overlapping generations." Then watch and see how others react.
  
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  My first birthday gift to someone

  by Slave4_38y in

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  i bought my girlfriend a birthday gift yesterday.

  it felt weird.

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

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I bought my girlfriend a birthday gift yesterday. It felt weird.

  Your gift was the severed head of one of her enemies, right? Having been raised a JW, I understand that it isn't really a birthday unless someone gets beheaded.
  
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  Happy Pi Day!

  by Twitch in

  1. jw
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  and now for something completely nerdy,.... http://www.piday.org/.

  lmao.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Our lab group from university had a reunion today, conveniently on pi day. We had pie for dessert. And in honor of St. Patrick's weekend, we also drank a lot of C2H6O (that's alcohol).
  
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  Groanfest. Share your daftest jokes .

  by jhine in

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  2. humour

  lots of serious stuff being discussed on site .

  i thought!it would be nice to make each other groan/ smile for a change .please share your corniest ,punniest , or daftest joke .. i will start with this shocker , borrowed from tim vine .. vandalism in a multi story carpark ....... ...................................,............................ wrong on sooo many levels !.

  come on now share yours.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  What's blue and bubbly and scratches on windows?

  A smurf in the microwave.

  What's blue and red and goes 300 miles an hour?

  A smurf in the blender.