Whatever happened to their saying they wouldn't ask for money but if God didn't support and bless them with enough money to keep going it was time to call it quits!?
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How strange that God's organisation needs tob eg for money
by Half banana ini would say that if god or jehovah or any other named or nameless god needs money then he/she/it is not much of a god.
as a poor jw pioneer i scraped by as a way of life serving a god i could not know, see or sense in any way but i swallowed the biblical dogma and recalled that the birds of the air neither toiled nor sowed but were provided for.. so for goodness sake...why is the jw org so concerned with keeping, promoting or downright snatching as much money as they can from the sheep?.
is it a sign that jehovah has disinherited them?
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Sorry..FASCINATING LETT (take 2)
by Diogenesister inhttp://chrisfugue.tumblr.com/ weirdly fascinating lett take 2 (sorry for 1st error)
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cattails
Hey BrokebackWatchtower with a dirty mind like that, were you one of those pedophile hiding appointed men, or were you one of them? -
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Royal Commission convened for now, but Jackson is an asshole
by umbertoecho ini have just finished listening to this man jackson.
i remember him well.
he is twisting things around as much as he is allowed.
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That Jackson guy does sound like a smug a-hole. That's what this religion does, it rewards people like that with positions of authority! -
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Cossacks attack, throw stones at Jehovahs Witnesses in RC while local police watched
by oppostate in07/23/2015russiacossacks attack, throw stones at jehovah's witnessesby nina achmatova.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/cossacks-attack,-throw-stones-at-jehovahs-witnesses-34845.html.
jehovah's witnesses were meeting in congress on 10-12 july in krymsk, krasnodar region.
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cattails
That's just awful! Worse I've got this picture in my head of these guys dressed in Czarist Russian attire doing knee squats and throwing stones, and doing drive-by stone throwing while riding a horse on its side, bunch of uncivilized Cossacks!
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Yet more trolley (in)activity
by konceptual99 ini am currently having to spend a little time waiting for an appointment in the vicinity of a central london station.
whilst waiting i am catching up on some work in a cafe.
i can see a couple of trolleys and have been watching them for around an hour now.. not one person has stopped to take literature.
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cattails
The cart witnessing is quite the farce!
I was asked to do it and I turned it down. Due to extended womanly complications of our frail nature, you understand.
Then, there's this past middle-age sister who is quite obese but is a dynamo at the door to door work. She's funny, she cares a lot about people and she'll talk about the Bible with anybody. I'm sure she gets way more return visits and placements than everybody else at the Hall. Well, they didn't ask her to man the cart. When she asked, and said she'd like to take the cart out too, they told her that they had a full schedule already and since there's been a lot of interest, the list was full for the next three months, but if she continued auxiliaring they'd keep her in mind when they make the new schedule.
Mind you I hardly ever go out in service any more. Several other sisters were asked if they wanted to do cart witnessing. Their service records are probably not even close to this other sister. The only difference I could see is we are not overweight and she is. What a bunch of losers they are pulling this crap! I'm glad I'm out of that congregation.
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Band Green Day and JWs
by hardtobeme ina few years ago i heard of a story about two jw's being at a green day concert.
i think that the witnesses were bethelites.
the person that told me that story said that the band was about to play but they couldn't.
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cattails
I'm so sick of this rumor. It keeps going around and around, and it's like the old kids game of telephone, where something changes and you've got a different artist and a different religion being picked on. It's such a bunch of garbage. -
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Freethoughtify Blog
by StinkyPantz2.0 inmy name is bridget, and im the creator and writer for freethoughtify.
i will have lots of posts about my life as a jw and how things are as an ex-jw atheist: http://www.freethoughtify.com/about-freethoughtifys-creator/.
please check it out and sign up for new posts: http://www.freethoughtify.com/.
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cattails
Hi Bridget! I'm looking forward to following your blog.
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JW Broadcasting is dying.
by John Aquila inonce a month about 15 to 20 elderly jw publishers would meet at the kingdom hall and one elder was assigned to set up the system so they could view jw broadcasting.
these publishers were long time pioneers, former elders, and long time publishers who know nothing about computers or the internet.
they are the last batch of those expecting the generation that saw 1914 or understood it--- to not die off.
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cattails
With the Watchtower everything is take take take, the only reason they provide something like literature is because they'd lose tax-free status if they sold stuff.
Of course they do expect donations for everything they provide.
With the videos at the Kingdom Hall it's the same bait and switch story, get people into watching it then make them donate through their noses!
What a bunch of mind dead drones those elders are, where is the love and honor for the elderly?
But you know who gets all the attention, the "able-bodied young men and women" those who can benefit the organization, the older ones are already used up and discarded. This makes me so angry!
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The WT Trucking Outfit Has Violations
by cattails in2. total number of vehicle inspections for the measurement period.
n. fatigued truck driving (hours-of-service) basic serious violation indicator (y = serious violation within previous 12 months).
n. kingdom support services inc truck driver fitness data.
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cattails
The WT Trucking outfit is called Kingdom Support Services, Inc.
I've met the brother who was a driver for KSS and he seemed quite nice, but he was like he had too much caffeine. He was on his way down from Canada with a load of construction stuff and headed back to NY. I did a search for the name of the company on the Tractor Trailer's door and found this DOT information.
This link shows their DOT records.
There's some violations but way lower than the National thresh-hold of violations. Take a look below:
Kingdom Support Services Inc. Safety Measurement System Data
Last Updated June 2015Total Number of Inspections for the measurement period (24 months) 47 Total Number of Driver Inspections for the measurment period 47 Total Number of Driver Inspections containing at least one Driver Out-of-Service Violation 2 Total Number of Vehicle Inspections for the measurement period 34 Total Number of Vehicle Inspections containing at least one Vehicle Out-of-Service violation 8 Kingdom Support Services Inc Unsafe Truck Driving Data Number of inspections with at least one Unsafe Driving BASIC violation 1 Unsafe Driving BASIC Roadside Performance Measure Value .13 Unsafe Truck Driving BASIC Roadside Performance Percentile Less than 3 driver inspections with violations Unsafe Truck Driving BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold) N Unsafe Truck Driving BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months) N Unsafe Truck Driving Overall BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months) N Kingdom Support Services Inc Fatigued Truck Driving Data Number of inspections with at least one Hours-of-Service BASIC violation 2 Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance BASIC Roadside Performance measure value .21 Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Roadside Performance Percentile Less than 3 driver inspections with violations Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold) N Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation within previous 12 months) N Fatigued Truck Driving (Hours-of-Service) BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months) N Kingdom Support Services Inc Truck Driver Fitness Data Number of inspections with at least one Driver Fitness BASIC violation 1 Driver Fitness BASIC Roadside Performance measure value .2 Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Roadside Performance Percentile 0 Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold) N Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months) N Truck Driver Fitness BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months) N Kingdom Support Services Inc Controlled Substances and Alcohol Data Number of inspections with at least one Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC violation 0 Number of inspections with at least one Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC violation 0 Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Roadside PerformancePercentileIndustry050100Industry Threshold:80Kingdom Support Services Inc PercentileTrucking Industry Threshold0 Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold) N Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months) N Controlled Substances and Alcohol BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months) N Kingdom Support Services Inc Vehicle Maintenance Data Number of inspections with at least one Vehicle Maintenance BASIC violation 14 Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Roadside Performance measure value 1.7 Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Roadside PerformancePercentileThreshold050100Industry Threshold:80Kingdom Support Services Inc PercentileTrucking Industry Threshold16 Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Roadside Performance Over Threshold Indicator (Y = Over Intervention Threshold) N Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Serious Violation Indicator (Y = Serious Violation from investigation within previous 12 months) N Vehicle Maintenance BASIC Indicator (Y - Roadside Performance Percentile over threshold and/or Serious Violation within previous 12 months) N -
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SDA church general conference has voted NO on womens ordination and now there is a big fight
by barry inlast wednesday the question was put 'can unions ordain women as ministers in the sda church?
the vote was defeated yes 41.35 to no 58.45.. the dutch churches responded quickly saying they won't be changing there policy and will continue to ordain women.. the north american division and the two conferences in california have women pastors that are already ordained.. the sda pastors in china are mostly women.. the internet is running hot with opinions one way or the other.
here is how millennials feel about there church at this point most are studying at an sda university.
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cattails
I take heart knowing that the current governing body will not be there forever and that a new body will lead the organization with open minds. Changes will be made in doctrine.
If that were possible in the Jehovah's Witness religion then it would quickly fall appart.
There's little chance that the Witnesses would change if the Roman Catholic Church can undo the Second Vatican progressive advances and still strong arm the American nuns into submission. I think the JWs and the Catholic men in charge like it that way and will keep that fascist combat boot pressing on the necks of women for as long as they can. Swine!
I think the SDA Church can have this sort of conversation/argument because they've never had the Patristic oligarchical tradition that JWs, Catholics, Greek-Orthodox and Mormons have against women, for example.
