Posts by Lady Zombie

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WERE THERE ANY BUSINESSMEN IN YOUR CONGREGATION?

by badboy in

jw
friends

any takers?

WERE THERE ANY BUSINESSMEN IN YOUR CONGREGATION?

by badboy in

jw
friends

any takers?

Yes. He actually owned half of a manufacturing company. The majority of the people who worked there were JWs. As a boss, he treated them like crap and paid them low wages. The JWs had to kiss his ass on the job, and in the congregation.

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Got Some Encouraging "Bad" JW News

by Seeker4 in

an active jw was in touch with me yesterday, and we were catching up on a few things.

i found out that a witness i was friends with just daed.

he went to college and i'd always wondered if he has as much trouble with the jws as i thought he might.

Lady Zombie

Was it because of college, or did they drum up another reason?

I'm curious because this may lend support to a prediction I have.

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You know, I've yet to meet a JW who can explain this

by Lady Zombie in

i know that has probably been covered ad infinitum on jwd.

so...... if jehovah is omnipotent, then there is nothing he can't do and nothing he doesn't know.. and, according to jws (as well as most other religions), god is love.

therefore he had to have known, even before creating all of creation, what would happen.

Lady Zombie

Everyone is born atheist, or without a concept of god, if the term atheist bothers you.

The concept and belief in god must be taught.

So, if there is a god, especially one who wants constant praise and devotion, wouldn't a belief in god be hardwired into the brain much like a stimulus-response mechanism?

I'm hungry = I'll eat food

I'm cold = I must get warm

There is a god = I must worship

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Society to start laminating paper backed publications

by Lady Zombie in

at the wednesday night ministry school meeting, a letter from the society was read announcing that wtbts paperbacked publications will begin to be laminated.

according to the letter, this "will save approximately 2 million dollars per year," "lengthen the life of the publications," and "increase the attractiveness" of the publications.. so there's that.. .

also, will someone please explain to me why 85% of the congregation started smiling and nodding at this.. i sometimes think that headquarters could send the congregations boxes of turds and the jws would act like it was the best thing ever..

Lady Zombie

I can see this scenario happening.

Each congregation will purchase a PC and high quality printer. The society will make available .pdf files of study editions of the Watchtower and other 'Witness only' publications. Then the congregation prints out the publications on plain white paper and each witness will be given one copy. Anymore copies, each individual JW will be responsible for.

They will still publish books, Awake, brochures, and other publications used in the ministry. Still in full color, laminated, and "attractive" since these are what will be used for preaching but those will be strictly controled. Let's say a JW orders 6 of The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived books. They'll have to account where each of them went. Any un-placed publications will have to be returned to the congregation and will be placed back in the communal publications pot.

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You know, I've yet to meet a JW who can explain this

by Lady Zombie in

i know that has probably been covered ad infinitum on jwd.

so...... if jehovah is omnipotent, then there is nothing he can't do and nothing he doesn't know.. and, according to jws (as well as most other religions), god is love.

therefore he had to have known, even before creating all of creation, what would happen.

Lady Zombie

I can assure you that Lady Zombie hasn't read the Bible in full because a lot of her arguments are based off JWs or other religions, which, if she had read the Bible, she would know that more than a few of those teachings are off base.
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I have read the bible. Twice.

Again I wasn't trying to pick a fight with theists. Well, ok, maybe with the JWs a little but only because they claim they're the only ones to "have the truth" and are self-appointed experts.

If believing in god works for you, great. Doesn't work for me. It didn't in the past when I was a theist (hence the cognitive dissonance) and it sure doesn't work now.

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Society to start laminating paper backed publications

by Lady Zombie in

at the wednesday night ministry school meeting, a letter from the society was read announcing that wtbts paperbacked publications will begin to be laminated.

according to the letter, this "will save approximately 2 million dollars per year," "lengthen the life of the publications," and "increase the attractiveness" of the publications.. so there's that.. .

also, will someone please explain to me why 85% of the congregation started smiling and nodding at this.. i sometimes think that headquarters could send the congregations boxes of turds and the jws would act like it was the best thing ever..

Lady Zombie

At the Wednesday night Ministry School meeting, a letter from the society was read announcing that WTBTS paperbacked publications will begin to be laminated. According to the letter, this "will save approximately 2 million dollars per year," "lengthen the life of the publications," and "increase the attractiveness" of the publications.

So there's that.

Also, will someone please explain to me why 85% of the congregation started smiling and nodding at this.

I sometimes think that Headquarters could send the congregations boxes of turds and the JWs would act like it was the best thing ever.

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A knitted flying spaghetti monster

by loosie in

well i guess it is about time.

here is a link for the knitted pattern.. .

http://www.historyweaver.org/2008/06/flying-spaghetti-monster.html.

Lady Zombie

Beautiful!

Makes me wish I could knit.

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You know, I've yet to meet a JW who can explain this

by Lady Zombie in

i know that has probably been covered ad infinitum on jwd.

so...... if jehovah is omnipotent, then there is nothing he can't do and nothing he doesn't know.. and, according to jws (as well as most other religions), god is love.

therefore he had to have known, even before creating all of creation, what would happen.

Lady Zombie

To have an ability and choose never to use it, is effectively the same as having no ability at all.
Unless you believe I have the ability to conjure bratwursts from thin air, I just choose never to use it.

I'd like a bratwurst with spicy brown mustard please.

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You know, I've yet to meet a JW who can explain this

by Lady Zombie in

i know that has probably been covered ad infinitum on jwd.

so...... if jehovah is omnipotent, then there is nothing he can't do and nothing he doesn't know.. and, according to jws (as well as most other religions), god is love.

therefore he had to have known, even before creating all of creation, what would happen.

Lady Zombie

Sorry if that was a little scathing, but it's so frustrating when people ask all these questions and won't bother searching for the answers themselves. Since nobody is able to give them a "satisfactory" answer, they feel justified in their belief that God doesn't exist or that He isn't who the Bible says He is. Granted, the questions you ask have merit, but I think it has to do more with the spirit in which you ask them.

I ask these questions and debate them because theists and/or religious people ask/demand me to believe in something and exercise faith for a concept that just doesn't make any sense to me. Therefore, if I'm going to get on board and believe in a god, I feel that they should be able to convince me. And I spent a great deal of my life searching for the answers myself. Guess what conclusion I came to.

I don't go around picking fights with theists. I was one for a long time so I understand how they feel, however the cognitive dissonance that a belief in god was causing in me was a source of a lot of mental turmoil. Which incidently disappeared once I overcame my fear of the Eye In The Sky and accepted the evidence (or lack thereof) that he isn't real.