Posts by oppostate

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Did you ever write your disassociation letter?

by make yourself in

but never gave it to the elders or anyone in the congregation?

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oppostate

Why play by their rules?

Well, you can beat them at their own game.

Write a letter that threatens to sue if there's any negative mention of you at a public meeting.

Say that you are withdrawing membership from such-and-such congregation but in no way does that entail disassociation.

Say you will consider any attempt to contact you after receipt of the letter as a form of harassment.

Tell them you'll sue the BOE but not the WT, unless the WT provides legal counsel to the BOE and thereby including themselves in any judicial action you may take.

Live your life happily without encroachment from the elder-hounders.

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Proposed Apostate takeover campaign

by zound in

jw
friends

fictional apostate takeover campaign.

stage #1.. what if in a town that had a particularly large amount of apostates and ex-jw's, over a period of a few months, they started going to a small congregation.

either pretending they were bible studies or just returning jw's, they got good standing in the congregation, priveleges etc.

oppostate

What about teaching them the meaning of Sonship as taught in the Scriptures.

The anointedjw.org seems to be having good results.

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nwtls-E THE NEW LARGER REVISED NEW WORLD TRANSLATION NOW BEING DISTRIBUTED AT AN ENGLISH SPEAKING K.H. NEAR YOU

by oppostate in

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friends

the new revised larger print nwt bibles (nwtls-e) are being distributed now.. the margins are quite big in contrast to the skinny text columns.. the same fanciful mini-study material at the beginning and ends.. .

oppostate

No, it just reads on a footnote that a number of authoritative ancient texts omit the passage.

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nwtls-E THE NEW LARGER REVISED NEW WORLD TRANSLATION NOW BEING DISTRIBUTED AT AN ENGLISH SPEAKING K.H. NEAR YOU

by oppostate in

jw
friends

the new revised larger print nwt bibles (nwtls-e) are being distributed now.. the margins are quite big in contrast to the skinny text columns.. the same fanciful mini-study material at the beginning and ends.. .

oppostate

The new revised larger print NWT Bibles (nwtls-E) are being distributed now.

The margins are quite big in contrast to the skinny text columns.

The same fanciful mini-study material at the beginning and ends.

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Memorial Musings

by undercover in

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friends

a few things noticed in last nights annual, jesus who?

gathering:.

1: only one scripture from the gospels was read or cited.

oppostate

I went to a Massachussetts congregation during the second (less packed together) session.

The first session went over by 20 minutes. The KH was really packed in. One brother waiting

outside to get in commented to others waiting on either side of the exiting horde, "Wow, the

Hall tonight looks like one of those circus cabs when all the clowns start getting out of the car"

and so many of us laughed out loud and thought it so very accurate a statement.

One new partaker in the first session, an older brother, in good standing, but not a servant.

In the second session another brother partook there, it's a very new congregation and this

is the first time anyone has partaken in the last three Memorials/years they've been holding

meetings.

I thought it very funny when a Bible Student reached into the plate to take a piece of

flat bread and his "teacher" grabbed his hand and shook his head no, the poor young

guy just shrugged his shoulders. It reminded me of what Jesus said to the Pharisees

about preventing others to enter the Kingdom of the Heavens and that they themselves

did not go in.

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How the GB give themselves away (forensic analysis)

by Terry in

what makes the faithful and discreet slave (fds) any different than the rest of us?.

isn't it their superpowers of channeling "food at the proper time"?.

is this a special talent?

oppostate

The surety of how they proclaim to have the Truth(c) and everyone else is wrong, that's what really gets to me.

The lack of humility, the eagerness to slander other churches, the unwillingness to do anything for charity to help the poor, that's what I consider pharisaical and worthy of contempt.

The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses have proven themselves to follow the un-Christian practices of Substitute Judge for a few days Rutherford, and like him are guilty of proclaiming men's teachings as if they were directed by God.

Thanks Terry for your logical and well reasoned, and balanced post.

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2014 DC Release (Unofficial Rumors)

by WatchTower87 in

mi first prophecy:.

friday afternoon: 4:20 teach your children to love gods kingdom!

new book/brochure for children based on the articles "teach your children" (appeared in watchtower public edition).

oppostate

Good Ol' ILOOWY says:

Nuevo libro de la Organizacion. Para el Sabado de la asamblea regional

New OR book released the Saturday PM of the Regional Convention.

"Jehovah's Organization"

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The End of Circuit Overseers

by wisdomfrombelow in

i am sure that the term "circuit overseer" will be gone soon.

they seem to be changing vocabulary and the presiding overseer is now the "coordinator of the body of elders" and all "district overseers" will be gone in a few months.

they used to be called "circuit servants" but they will never re-hash an old term so they will make a new term.

oppostate

Regional Coordinators

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Jehovah Witness An Organization Of Shame.

by WhoYourDaddy in

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friends

i don't have anything good to say about these people.. if you can get past all of the ambient abuse.. if you can get past all of the twisted lies and shameful history.. if you can get past all of the familes destroyed and children damaged from the blood and 2 witness policy.. if you can get past all of the real estate laundering and for profit lies; it is all about the money.. if you can get past all of the hypocricy and bitterness.. if you can get past all of the gb megalomaniacs.. if you can get past all those things.. i still can't find anything good to say about this shameful group of ignorant people.. shame on each and every one of you controlling liers.. shame on each and every one of you who aid and abet this continued ambient abuse and ridiculous fraud of an organization.. shame on you..

oppostate

@WhoYourDaddy

You weren't a JW baptized publisher by any chance, were you?

If you were to read what you wrote as a baptized publisher you'd be shocked and wouldn't think any of those things were accurate.

Would you apply those things to the organization while being an active Witness?

I too believe that the R&F Witnesses are mostly good hearted people who have been deceived by a self-serving printing and realestate holdings corporation posing as a religion.

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How Many Circuit Overseers And District Overseers Really Believe The Governing Body Is Really The Faithful and Discreet Slave and That The Watchtower Is God's Earthly Organization?

by frankiespeakin in

i'm thinking around 20% have serious doubts and 99% have some doubts but keep them from becoming conscious to avoid cognitive dissonance.

this is becoming increasingly harder to do over the fact that the governing body are showing their true colors and the contridictions are so great..

oppostate

The original discussion can be reached at:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/164699/3/09-INTRIGUE-SPYING-DO-CO-INSIDE-INFO-THE-SPANISH-EXJW-FORUM#.UxPqKxRdXwg

Interesting to pass on what I heard from a substitute-CO about filling in for a regular CO while the CO was in training...

They were testing out whether local brothers could take the lead in circuit visits and then in turn the regular CO would be their trainer.

This was like five years ago. But then the CO's were moved all over again and nothing like that happened.

As to DO's... I knew Bro. Herd as a DO and he could be quite frank about the ordeals he'd gone through as a CO, but he actually seemed to liked being suppressed, having to endure all kinds of hardships and put up with the rules and the regulations that didn't make much sense, but he went along willingly doing his assignments, all this from what he told it like in a very free manner, like if you got a letter with a tongue lashing and you didn't feel that you deserved it he'd just chalk it up to the many times when he'd deserved it and got away without scolding from the Branch. I guess that's how to go up in the hierarchy, and he did, he made it to the GB.