a catholic forum has a discussion thread: "jehovah witness now appear with the royal commission".. i have made the comment before that dr. applewhite's appearance in support of the jws is not surprising if you consider that the royal commissions' findings will impact the structure of the cathoilc church as well.
the catholic church has a vested interest in the jws' hearing - if the jws are forced to change their organizational structure, so will the catholics.. the following post is an excellent discussion on the similarities and differences between the catholic church and the jws structure.
http://www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?id=174461.
It's very uncanny how both religions are so similary structured. Doesn't the Jesuit Order actually use the name Governing Body in their organization?
If the latest rant from the GB against Protestants is any indication I think the Jehovah's Witnesses are warming up to the Catholics. After all they're both very patriarchal and very centrally controlled, Overseers are Bishops, Elders are like priests and Ministerial Servants like deacons. I guess that makes the GB a bunch of cardinals or Popes.
http://chrisfugue.tumblr.com/ weirdly fascinating lett take 2 (sorry for 1st error)
Bonsai: "I can totally understand why Brokeback imagined what he did."
I can totally imagine BrokebackWatchtower being one of those filthy minded appointed men!
i 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?
http://chrisfugue.tumblr.com/ weirdly fascinating lett take 2 (sorry for 1st error)
i have just finished listening to this man jackson.
i remember him well.
he is twisting things around as much as he is allowed.
07/23/2015russiacossacks 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.
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!
i 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.
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.
a 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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once 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.
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!
