Posts by donuthole

@Terry - Yes I have seen Worlds Apart. That's a great film! Happiness is also a love story and shares similar themes, but the narrative goes a different direction.

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Happiness: How to Find It - A new JW novel. Read it for free!

by donuthole in

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hello to the vast apostate army!

i have exciting news to share.

my new romance novel debuts today on curiosity quills press as a serial novel.

Hello to the vast apostate army! I have exciting news to share. My new romance novel debuts today on Curiosity Quills Press as a serial novel. Each Thursday you'll be able to read a new chapter for FREE. (A print/eBook version will follow in 2013.) I had a blast writing this story and hope that you will enjoy it. It's fun. Here is the first chapter --> http://curiosityquills.com/happiness-how-to-find-it-chapter-one/

“The hardest choice she ever had to make was between true religion and true love.”

Rose Gluck thought she had everything in life. Just out of high school, she spent her days working as a pioneer minister of her Jehovah’s Witness faith, going door-to-door teaching others about the Bible and the happifying future God had planned. She thought she knew what it meant to be happy, but things would change when Wyatt True shows up.

Drawn to the dashing young brother, Rose experiences feelings that she never knew existed. Meanwhile, despite his vow of singleness, Wyatt can’t but help to fall for the beautiful young sister. But the Presiding Overseer of the congregation has his own plans for Rose. Will Rose find eternal happiness?

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For those in any doubt that the Society is at war with Facebook...

by cedars in

...take a look at this from page 29 of the latest october 2012 awake!.

the gloves are now well-and-truly off.

referring to facebook as a "social networking website" clearly isn't working.. the society now feels compelled to start being more specific about which websites it doesn't want you to visit!.

donuthole

This is typical Watchtower. They float a negative article in "Watchting the World" (or whatever it is called now) about a pet-peeve. The congregation picks up on Mother's "disproval" and backs away.

For example, one time I decided to research what the WT had to say about beards. I actually found little direct condemnation. There were a few of these little news blurbs about beards being dangerous on jobs or not considered proffesional by some company.

Also, when I was a child, a single small mention of "Garbage Pail Kids" in the back on an Awake! prompted our parents to make us throw them away.

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District Convention Points Saturday 21-07-2012 New Light? Governing Body Is Our Mother?

by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

i have been trying to wrap my head around the talk that introduced the slave as our mother?

the brothers at bethel are worried that we are not treating our spiritual mother with respect.

jehovah is our father, the faithful slave (the governing body) is our spiritual mammy.

donuthole

It's not a new teaching per say, but it is one that most JW's are not familiar with. Calling the organization "mother" went out of style with back calls, district assemblies, rendesvouzs. They are reintroducing it. In the convention demostration a CO is helping a brother understand why his Bible student is not making progress. The CO asks if the study has been helped to recognize/appreciate his spiritual mother. The brother asks with confusion, "His spiritual mother?" CO goes on to explain that it is the organization, using the passage in Proverbs. It is more direct then the obscure references seen in recent literature quoted by Blondie.

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Loss of AMC shows how can I get them?

by manicmama in

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as many of you may know, dishnet in it's infinite wisdom decided to drop all of their amc programming.

since many of you out there are much more tech savy than i, is there any way to get their programming such as a roku player with netflix or hulu plus?

i would like to tell dish to shove it, but i don't want to go to another cable service.

donuthole

http://www.amctv.com/breakingbad4dish/

DISH CUSTOMERS, WATCH THE
BREAKING BAD PREMIERE,
RIGHT HERE DISH DROPPED AMC, SO WE'RE OFFERING A SPECIAL LIVE
STREAM OF THE PREMIERE FOR DISH CUSTOMERS, RIGHT HERE.
YOU CAN START REGISTERING ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON
TO WATCH ON SUNDAY

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Anyone care to guess the age of this baptismal candidate?

by cedars in

this picture appears on page 30 of the latest october 15th 2012 watchtower in an article discussing the importance of sticking to our baptismal vows..... .

anyone care to guess how young this poor chap is?.

cedars.

donuthole

Watchtower Legal insists that even if you were baptized as a minor, your continued indentification and participation as one of "Jehovah's Witnesses" thereafter validates the initial contract. Not sure how this would apply to someone who got disfellowshipped before they turned 18.