Posts by cattails

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March JW Broadcast: Once again disparaging Higher Education - this time in the Music Video.

by cappytan in

i will have the music video separated shortly.

will post the link once it's done..

2014 Fully Accomplish Your Ministry-PDF!

by Atlantis in

2014 fully accomplish your ministry-pdf!..

this file was not easy to get!

the informant had to carefully wait until each time his regular pioneer wife left the house to get into her service bag.

What is the "Analysis Report" (S-10) form that CO's request from COBOE's?

by cattails in

i've heard of an s-10 form that elders are to have filled in called an "analysis report".... what is the "analysis report" (s-10) form that co's request from coboe's?.

what information is requested?

does it evaluate other elders and ms's and people with responsibilities in the congregations or the physical status of the kh itself?.

cattails

I've heard of an S-10 form that elders are to have filled in called an "Analysis Report"...

What is the "Analysis Report" (S-10) form that CO's request from COBOE's?

What information is requested? Does it evaluate other elders and MS's and people with responsibilities in the congregations or the physical status of the KH itself?

Who fills it out and why do CO's need to see it on their visit?

Anyone who's been out recently or still has access to the JW.org site that has the forms could you provide some of this info?

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NEW RUMOR: WT ALLOWS BIRTHDAYS

by J.R.R.Watchtower in

i've just read at a spanish forum for ex-jw that the wt has cooked a new light article series about social celebrations, including birthdays and aniversaries.

according to a member of this forum 'in short' the wt will let witnesses to decide by 'their bible trained conscience' either they celebrate birthdays or not.

is this rumor based in some real facts or it's just bullshit?.

cattails

They are leather covered in new colors, with not only gold but now... silver edging.

Okay! I want one, light gray-blue leather with silver edging for my BIRTHDAY!!! :-)

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SEX! and the DC Sunday Drama

by Red Piller in

the sunday drama at the dc was a parallel ancient (joseph in egypt) and modern (jw kid in high school) drama.

or was it extremely eroticized?

i've been seeing these my whole life and have never felt this way.. conversation between joseph and fellow prison inmate:.

cattails

I know many here thought it was an embarrassing drama...

I know why I personally think it embarrassing.

I think the Joseph was HOT! And those Egyptian guards, wowwie!

I actually liked the "drama" it reminded me of a soap opera.

How many times have we been reminded not to watch soap operas?

How many times have we been counseled not to keep watching shows that highlight SEX?

How many times have we been told to get out of the theater or change the channel?

Well, keep it up Watchtower! The hypocrisy can only make for more "conscious" Witnesses.

Otherwise, the gestures-exaggerated acting and obvious tentalizing wordplays made for a cheap theatric spectacle.

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Bethel U.S Zone visit scheduled for Oct 2011

by Red Piller in

it will involve 2 special meetings on oct 22 and oct 29. the meetings will be a. watchtower summary.. a member of the us branch committee will give a report on "progress in the field.".

talk by a visiting zone overseer.

and a talk by the gb.. it will be "approx 2 1/2 hours in length.

cattails

I like your account of the Zone Visit you experienced, LWT. That African brother told it like it was, I like it.

It makes me gag, though, to see this new Zone Visit presented to the R&F as if it was some sort of "parousia".

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Why haven't more JWs noticed the WTS false prophecy?

by Chemical Emotions in

i haven't found anything to show that they have, except in the reasoning book, they admit say this:.

"jehovah's witnesses do not claim to be inspired prophets.

they have made mistakes.

cattails

Ummmmm.... long thread titles cause havoc with my browser's display of the forum page! Grrrr... anyone else have this trouble?

Back on topic, the WT's "new light" gives them the boldness to say something with extreme authority only to reverse it when it suits them.

As it's been said before... IT'S a CULT.

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My wife...

by dontplaceliterature in

jw
friends

...made an interesting comment last night.. some of you may know that she is not into digging up dirt on the wtbts.

she realizes that there are some things wrong with the organization, but wishes to just ignore them for the sake of stability and preserving friendships.

there's obviously more to it, but in the interest of staying on topic:.

cattails

Your wife is "conscious" but likes to keep up appearences at the KH, me thinks.

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Watchtower defining irony

by Marvin Shilmer in

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friends

watchtower defining irony .

today i added a new article to my blog.

watchtower once introduced an article about a particular world famous object that according to watchtower has its origin in false religion.

cattails

Well... they just changed their minds.

They're just so.... so... so....... fickle.

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i think i might return to the WTS

by dm6 in

man im so drained right now and tired i cant say a whole lot.. but you know, i was thinking about going back to them and just to see a bit more about it all.. i dont know to be very honest with you if its thr right thing to do or not on a personal level.. .

i guess i need to mull things over.. .

any suggestions from previous jw's would be awesome for me.

cattails

Darren,

I feel they do teach some truth. But they, the Watchtower Society, will always use the truth as a hook to reel you in. Then they'll try to convince you, otherwise called "studying the Bible", to do what they teach and what do they exactly teach in most Study edition Watchtowers? To follow men. To follow the Governing Body and their lackeys, that is the District and Circuit overseers and the elders in every local congregation.

Would you allow God to tell you what to do? If it was written in the Bible that you had to do this or that?

Well, you may not want any person telling you what to do, but the studies are actually not Bible studies, they are Watchtower publication studies designed to influence your decisions based on scriptures they quote or reference out of the New World Translation with it's biased translation. They'll try to convince you that to do different from what they teach is to go against the Bible and against God.

So if you really have a love for God or the Bible, then read the Bible. Try to get a version that has a lot of notes like the Quest Bible, or the Holman study version, or use http://biblos.com and read it for yourself, don't just take what they say at face value, they are sincere people, many of them, but they are victims of mind control who have been trained to try anything to reel you in. So if you believe in God then try to get closer to Him through his Word and pray for Holy Spirit to help you understand. You don' need anyone to tell you what the Bible says if you are a Bible reader, right?

BTW I found Ray Franz's books, especially In Search of Christian Freedom to be a breath of fresh air compared to the stuffy study editions of the Watchtower. You can get a PDF online version of that book very cheap at http://www.commentarypress.com