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  Blondie's Highlights from 11-15-2015 WT (FAITH)

  by blondie in

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  blondies highlights from the 11-15-2015 wt study (september 15, 2015)(faith).

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Rather than looking at the example of Peter's faith, wouldn't it be appropriate to look at the example of the faith of Islamic extremists?

  Both JWs and terrorists pray for the deaths of billions of innocent victims, focus on their supposed reward in paradise, and put faith in invisible promises instead of look at reality. While the terrorists are ready to bloody their own hands and blow themselves up, the JWs stand by litteratrash trolleys, knock on doors at inconvenient times, leave scraps of tracts that blow into the gutter, and boast a website that gets buried under an avalanche of anti-JW websites.

  Shouldn't WT be going head-to-head in the Middle East and make great efforts to convert the devoutly faith-strong Muslim world to become JWs?
  
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  Too Funny Prank

  by berrygerry in

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  from a redditor - would have died to have been there.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3sukbu/our_congregation_happens_to_have_a_networked/.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Hahahaha!
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  Watch: Comedian Lewis Black Reads 18 Year Old's Awesome Resignation Letter To The Mormon Church

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/watch_comedian_lewis_black_reads_18_year_old_s_resignation_letter_to_the_mormon_church(warning!

  language!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Such a beautiful rant!
  
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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Another 21 "last days" have passed since this thread started. So that would be 3 "last weeks" and almost 1 "last month" that have passed.

  I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that 21 days puts that in the "false prophecy" category.
  
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  83,000 theocratic facilites?

  by average joe in

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  2. bible

  a bethelite was telling me that there are 83,000 theocratic facilities world wide.

  he compared that to 35,000 mcdonalds and 21,000 starbucks roughly to show the size of the theocratic organization.

  i am not sure where the 83,000 comes from what would he be counting?

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  He compared that to 35,000 mcdonalds and 21,000 starbucks roughly to show the size of the theocratic organization.

  Yet, McDonald's and Starbucks don't need to send agents door-to-door or have litteratrash trolleys blocking the flow of traffic to try to drum up new business.
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  Why are projects being shut down? Nu-light speculation....

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i went to the meeting last night.

  to keep the peace for now, i guess.

  anyway...... during the bible highlights, a newly appointed ms explained why construction is being curtailed in some areas.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  The explanation was to be found in 1 Chronicles where David went through all the work of preparing materials for the temple, but was then informed that he would not be the one to build it.

  It would be reasonable to conclude then that the current GB 2.0 is the Greater David and will be followed by the next GB 3.0 which will be the Greater Solomon. This Greater Solomon GB will build cities and palaces, marry the daughter of Pharaoh and 700 other wives. This GB will also have 300 concubines for when things get slow with the wives, because Jehovah made him extra wise on figuring out these things. But then these wives will draw the Greater Solomon GB's heart away from Jehovah so that they begin worshiping other gods.
  
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  What would happen ??

  by Clambake in

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  there is a certain elder in my wives hall that has seemed to developed a real interest her.

  first he seemed to feel a need to make sure all her blood cards were signed before she gave birth to our child.. he sends her text messages if she misses a meeting saying how much " we missed you last night ".

  he finally sent her a text wondering where her oct hours were , knowing she had some pretty serious tears from child birth and could hardly even walk, much less do field service ".

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Is he married?

  Maybe you should start texting his wife to check on her meeting attendance and spiritual activities?
  
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  Greetings

  by Pioneerbot in

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  wanted to say hi.

  i've been lurking for a long time.

  i also spend time on other forums.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Welcome!

  Always room here for more of the Awakened!
  
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  One Year Later - A Thank You to Tony Morris.

  by cappytan in

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  2. friends

  dear anthony morris, iii:.

  i wanted to send you a note of "thanks" on this special day.. why is this day special, you may ask?

  one year ago today, you, tony, woke me up to the fact that the governing body could not have jehovah's blessing or direction.. last year, on november 8th & 9th, 2014, the united states branch visit was broadcast to over 1,000,000 jehovah's witnesses across the country.. as i sat at the kingdom hall listening to the "historic occasion," i was ignoring certain doubts that had surfaced in the few months prior.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  From what I remember about Morris’ stupid talk, I think that he must have been referring to some kind of exercise pants, like some sort of tight jogging pants or “yoga pants” – which would make more sense, because I couldn’t imagine anyone going out jogging in a suit such as Chris Pine was wearing in those photos.

  ToMo condemned both women that wear tight exercise clothing in public and "young fellas" that wear "tight pants".

  Repeatedly he condemned women wearing yoga pants or Spanx in public and claiming to be JWs. Which is kinda ignorant because Spanx is mostly undergarments that I think a lot of sisters would like. Maybe they make some outerwear. But the yoga tights he's talking about is more like Lululemon. For example, here is a picture of a sister in lululemon tights running away from ToMo and a judicial committee:

  
  

  When he talked about "young fellas" that wear tight pants, otherwise known as tight pants (whatever he meant by that), something like this might come to mind as his "too tight" example:

  
  

  But we all know that when it comes to JWs judging others dress and grooming, some like ToMo are far more interested in judging the outward appearance rather than looking for the good in hearts. Because when he talked about pants being designed by homosexuals, he was opening the door to condemn any brothers that wear any flattering clothing that might be perceived as physically attractive. After all, sisters are supposed to only be attracted to an MS pioneer in an oversized polyester suit that he got at Goodwill.
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  One Year Later - A Thank You to Tony Morris.

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dear anthony morris, iii:.

  i wanted to send you a note of "thanks" on this special day.. why is this day special, you may ask?

  one year ago today, you, tony, woke me up to the fact that the governing body could not have jehovah's blessing or direction.. last year, on november 8th & 9th, 2014, the united states branch visit was broadcast to over 1,000,000 jehovah's witnesses across the country.. as i sat at the kingdom hall listening to the "historic occasion," i was ignoring certain doubts that had surfaced in the few months prior.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  So those pants that Chris Pine is wearing is what he is talking about? I don't get what is wrong with them, am I missing something where are they tight. What about thin brothers you cant stick them in big pants they would look stupid. Do you think he fell over & banged his head?

  There are tighter pants to be found on guys, but this is the type. No pleats, and probably have a good cut making the backside look good. The jacket is broad in the shoulders and narrow in the waste. When a guy has a good build, shouldn't he wear a suit that compliments it? Nope. A suit should make you look like a preacher... like ToMo3!
  

  And what qualities in a suit jacket and pants does ToMo3 need? Not tight! Not something that shows the underlying shape of his body underneath. For ToMo, the waist is going to be bigger than the shoulders, so the jacket needs to be voluminous, hiding the underlying shape of the body as much as possible. And the pants need to be roomy enough to make the legs look bigger, or he'll look like an egg trying to balance on toothpicks. And in the front, pleats give that roominess and act like closed curtains so there is no suggestion of genitalia. Similarly, the back side of the pants need to be roomy and just hide whatever is there, whether it's fat or flat.

  What ToMo3 said is stuff I'd heard often enough over the years in bethel. Before "metrosexual" the suits were called "European cut". Basically, the old fat dudes didn't want the young fit dudes to look good.