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  Geoffrey Jackson compares waiting for Armageddon to waiting for Brazil to score a goal against Argentina!

  by GodZoo in

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  wtf!https://vid.me/8tuy

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  freddo

  I wonder if the auxiliary counselor went up afterwards and told him that his illustration should be more accurate?

  AC "Brother Jackson, may I have a word?"

  GJ (Extending hand to be kissed) "Of course my brother! How much did you love my talk?"

  AC (Ignoring all fingers and rings thereupon and turning to Ministry School book) "Under study 40 - Accuracy of Statement - note p225 para 3 - When you are consistently accurate in what you say, you will become to be known as a person who respects the truth. This reflects well on Jehovah's Witnesses as a group. More important, it honors "Jehovah the God of truth."

  GJ "That's right!"
  

  AC "Well there is no 50 meter or 25 meter mark on a soccer pitch ..."

  GJ "Who is your Co-ordinator brother? Better yet who is your Circuit Overseer?"
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  Ran into some JW's.......but this time I did the teaching ;) x

  by snare&racket in

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  so i went out today with my broken leg and got accosted by an old lady, with some magazines.. it was my first ever encounter with a jw in ten years, and i had said 'i know you are jw's, i'm not interested thank you.

  " twice.....then she started talking about my broken leg and how wonderful we are made and how amazing the healing process is.... and that's when it all started...."i used to be a bethelite pioneer, now i'm an atheist doctor...".

  she was with me a good 30 mins, her elder husband left very annoyed but she stayed, and she was dying to hear everything i spurted out, despite aggressively defending every point, from military engines to paedophilia.

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  Nice job. Keep doing this. If she doesn't wake up she will be more depressed and that while not nice for her it will have a dampening effect on those witnesses around her.
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  Hitler admits the truth about the truth....

  by _Morpheus in

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  submitted by the governing body for your approval!

  credit freemindfade with on the script.... http://youtu.be/ldiwqqbcd5w.

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  freddo

  Brilliant!
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  On The Art Of Fading

  by expatbrit in

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  in october of 2000, i faded away from the watchtower.

  like most people, i have family and friends who are jw's (including my wife and parents).

  fading is generally the best method for people in that situation.

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  freddo

  Bump
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  Trolley Stands Up, Door-to-Door Work Down?

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  several threads have discussed the increased use of of the trolley work by witnesses in various countries (e.g, australia, new zealand, the states, canada and britain to name a few).

  several posters have described trolley settings as largely ignored by passersby and/or the witnesses immersed in everything other than appearing ready and waiting to make contact with passersby.

  what impact will this increased shift to trolley work have on the hallmark feature of jws, their door-to-door work?

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  "How are the trolley dollies chosen"

  Metropolitan in cities - Regular Pioneers only but just beginning to include some "exemplary" publishers - you know - elders and their wives and adult kids that dress "professionally." Nepotism rules.

  Local Cong - If you have a pulse and don't dress like a vagrant you're pretty much in in some congregations. In others they are more Pharisaical and try to copy or go beyond the metropolitan rules.

  And the vast increase from all this standing around? A big fat zero. In our hall we have about 95 publishers and about 65 attend the meetings.
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  Australian Football player Alex Rance

  by Mattieu in

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  how can i describe alex rance?

  if i was from the uk or europe, imagine your best football goal keeper.

  if from the usa, imagine your best defence player in the nfl.

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  freddo

  Phew! That was close.

  Now ... how to help him see the TTATT.
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  The Boldest Hoax

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rhffb-vhm4.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqf0cdjueja.

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  Try googling "archaeoraptor" for one in 1999 that hoaxed National Geographic ...
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  An experience of just how screwed over Wt has got them.

  by joe134cd in

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  2. experiences

  although i find this unsurprising, i think it worth mentioning as it demonstrates a point.

  i know a brother in chile, and i wanted confirmation on the flag flying outside the kh in that country.

  he said he was unaware of it.

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  He's put his hands over his ears and is screaming "I can't hear you la-la-la-la-la-la!"
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  Bethel Meeting at Regional Convention

  by MrTheocratic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i decided to go to the bethel recruiting meeting yesterday to test out my theory that the organization is in decline.

  i assumed that if there is a general feeling of apathy by many in the org, then certainly it would be shown up by the lack of enthusiasm or zeal by many to sign up for bethel service.

  well let me say that based on what i observed, this organization is not going anywhere.

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  Yes - especially in US and UK where bigger storehouses are being built all the zealous and deluded go to Bethel and building projects. (But where they closed the Bethels and kicked them to the kerb - well tough.) It's like a long gap year lasting between a year and several years when many are burned out or booted to the kerb.

  Meanwhile lots of congregations who lose these zealous and deluded have good old boys running the show and watchtower articles begging them to train up what youngsters they have left!

  But this show will go on in some form or another as mentioned above - it will be about "listen-obey-be-stressed-and-depressed" - so don't hold your breath for a collapse.
  
  
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  It came in today's mail

  by Virgochik in

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  it came today, the dreaded envelope containing my personal copy of "return to jehovah" from my elderly, desperate mother.

  it included a small note asking me to read it over and to let her know what i think.

  she got it at her assembly.. firstly, i'm angry that she continues to push her religion on me, given that i stopped attending meetings over thirty years ago, and very offended that she assumes that i still want to be a witness, which is her choice of religion, not mine.

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  I wonder if a bit of you is a bit like me. I have some resentment that my parent was daft enough/self absorbed enough to become a witness. That God was going to bail them out and let them see all their dead loved ones and live forever.

  And so as a kid I got swept along ...

  Only it took me 40 more years to realise it was all a load of nonsense. And I feel daft too.