dear brothers ans sisters.
i just received this mail in french..(thank you google to have translates it)..this mail is from a still inside brother who encourage to come back.
do you think its a fact or an other urban legend.
Yes, it is a 'so what.' But a still image uploaded with an audio file means nothing.
Also, a thin paperback book in a mans back pocket wouldn't draw any more attention than his wallet.
I find it interesting that the man pictured is wearing what would be considered what a witness would never wear as being overly casual and sloppy, not even to visit a Bethel room or walk in the neighborhood. Why, the man with the demonic goatee is dressed in an appropriate casual polo shirt.
i heard form a reliable source that a kingdom hall consolidation is going to be happening in the us.
currently they are looking at every kingdom hall to see if they could and should sell it.
any kingdom hall that has not been updated and is in a bad location (long driveway, not in a visible location etc...) will be sold.
Wow, this is amazing when it was repeatedly emphasized the need for MORE halls when I went to meetings a few years ago. I then thought they were full of it just looking at the weekly attendance. Yea, maybe in a couple of metro areas in foreign language congregations there may be growth, but I wasn't seeing it in English speaking congs.
dear brothers ans sisters.
i just received this mail in french..(thank you google to have translates it)..this mail is from a still inside brother who encourage to come back.
do you think its a fact or an other urban legend.
im still in and i cant help but feel nervous as more and more changes are coming forward.
i cant help but feel that they are starting to get more hardcore again.
let me explain.
Yes, on unusual occasion movies would be mentioned by name in the magazines. The Omen (a passing mention in a contributed article,) The Exorcist, The Exorcist II (in a news blurb) speaking of the way the content disturbed viewers. E.T. (and Star Wars) in a half-page due to the extreme popularity of the film (people calling hq about it.)
Star Trek II and Time After Time mentioned in quotes from Nicholas Meyer re: meaning of PG rating. Making Love mentioned due to homosexual content shocking for the time.
A few others perhaps, usually mentioned in Watching the World blurbs.
My point though was that movie titles were not routinely (almost never, in my experience) mentioned in talks and certainly were not included in outlines given to speakers.
dear brothers ans sisters.
i just received this mail in french..(thank you google to have translates it)..this mail is from a still inside brother who encourage to come back.
do you think its a fact or an other urban legend.
Holy crap! This made YouTube today. Dude gives specific dates in May, 2010
im still in and i cant help but feel nervous as more and more changes are coming forward.
i cant help but feel that they are starting to get more hardcore again.
let me explain.
Movies you watch, music you listened to (Elder would go through your music) and so on.
This was not everyone's experience. The only time movies were mentioned by name from the platform was when somebody went off script. I know certain scifi/fantasy movies were mentioned as COs and higher ups in the circuit had their pet peeve movies to bug people about, but I know of no talk outline that mentioned movie titles. The only guideline that was mentioned through the years was not watching R rated movies or movies that featured 'demonism' or 'immorality' regardless of rating.
Never had an elder go through my music. If you went to Bethel, yea, that would happen.
i have written a blog post about the dubs and their scorn of modern medicine and rasputin, while simultaneously touting unproven, dangerous cures.. i wonder what it is about a fake remedy that makes jws believe in it or scorn it?.
I believe balance between both modern medicine and homeopathic/dietary methods for true health.
No. Homeopathy cannot and should not exist in any educated society. It is a belief in magic. While of course, diet effects your body and health, there is NO scientific methodology or theory as to how it can possibly work other than placebo effect. It has been disproven COUNTLESS TIMES.
i have written a blog post about the dubs and their scorn of modern medicine and rasputin, while simultaneously touting unproven, dangerous cures.. i wonder what it is about a fake remedy that makes jws believe in it or scorn it?.
JWs are rife with every alternative practice and multi-level marketing sceme out there.
Amway, Herbalife, Melaleuca, Shaklee, Noni juice, Excel Communications, 2Xtreme, etc etc etc. Some congregations become dominated by members involved in a certain company. The lack of critical thinking skills enables dubs to easily become involved in MLM scemes as well as the alternative medicine stuff.
dear brothers ans sisters.
i just received this mail in french..(thank you google to have translates it)..this mail is from a still inside brother who encourage to come back.
do you think its a fact or an other urban legend.
And this exact story made the rounds two years ago and four years ago.; the date has obviously been changed. Story is bullcrap.
I remember the same story for Clinton.
back when i was learning ttatt, i was shocked to read on jwfacts about the organ transplant ban from 1967 to 1980. this was a large piece of evidence for me that the society could not be god's organization.
growing up as an earnest witness, and living near the headquarters, i knew a lot of the organization's embarrassing history, and it didn't faze me, but i'd never heard of this ban before, and it shocked me.
it's gotten me wondering why no one i know ever talks about it, when it must have affected many witnesses during that time (or were they getting transplants on the sly?
So, did people not read the literatrash? Its not like it was a hidden belief. There were talks on the TMS about it.
