Posts by oppostate

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Tsongas Center Lowell MA, Sunday Session of the Regional Convention 2015

by oppostate in

we're breaking up the regional convention event by going each of the days to a different weekend session.. the tsongas center lowell ma was a bit hard to find, we got lost and got there after the first song and prayer (just in time for the first talk)!

we ran into so many from our home congregation who aren't even assigned to this rc!.

i think it's quite common for publishers now to break up the convention weekend and attend at times when their congregation isn't assigned.. some families (3) were attending this particular convention so as to meet up with family members who are in another part of the region.

oppostate

how did you get lost going there? It's right off the boulevard.

I didn't say it was by accident

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Learners

by freemindfade in

if you were at the watchtower how many times did you hear this idiotic condescending word?

i think i must have heard it 500 times.

the learner.

oppostate

In the educational context the word "student" is being replaced by "learner" in many instances.

At least in English this is true.

I have an advanced degree in Education from a UK uni and the term "learner" is all over modern educational parlance and in the professional literature. Here in the States it is likewise a common term to refer to students. Yet the obvious benefit of the term "learner" is that we are all "learners" and encouraged to continue to be so in our striving to better ourselves.

The term student is overloaded with Theocratic baggage when it shows up in WT literature, as WFB mentioned earlier. When the WTs show over-saturation of a term, it's really using a mind control mechanism. Repeated exposure will desensitize the reader. Like with a lie, if repeated often enough, people start believing it. Well, the term learner is something the WT obviously wants to incorporate into it's cult jargon.

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Disturbing hidden image in w15 04/15 page 9 (Not DF image)

by campaign of hate in

could someone do me a favor and post the picture on page 9 on the above mentioned watchtower.. i'll point it out, very surprised no one else has picked up on this creepy image..

oppostate

Wow! I can really see the images clearly now that Punkofnice optimized them!

Who would have thunk it? Does that make me color blind?

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These Aussie girls are popular around the world for lipsing

by barry in

jw
friends

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmpqusqcjfg.

what on gods earth is the world coming too.

oppostate

"That was pretty good[!]" (highlighting and emphasis mine =)

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We are slowly moving away from that kind of preaching work

by oppostate in

john hoyle--jws go knocking on strangers doors and try to get inside homes to preach.. wt rep--we are slowly moving away from that kind of preaching work, we do more preaching by using literature carts and personal telephone calls.. .

the above quote is from john hoyle's website:http://insidethewatchtower.com/doctrine/phone-calls-to-bethel-jw-org-email-and-contacts/.

it's interesting, isn't it?

oppostate

so fundamentally change the nature of JWs that the organization would become unrecognizable.

Fundamentally this is another permutation in the ever ongoing changes of the WTS. From Russell to Rutherford, to Knorr, to GB 1, and post Ray Franz GB-(hardass version 1.1, then lately GB 2.0--and mosr currently GB 2.1 the "Soft"-ware version.

From what the WT religion used to be when I got bapt'ed in the 80's compared to now, this is indeed quite an unrecognizable organization.

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Why are Battle Against Faith

by Jonathan Drake in

if any are willing, share your fact based reasons for viewing faith as dangerous.

viewing faith as dangerous is the reason for almost all of my posts recently.

what seems constant is that theists are too focused on there own little world to realize how and why faith is so damaging to society.

oppostate

Faith is the root of confidence (literally) and trust. If you trust statistics and that proof results are accurate then your belief is based on faith that there was no shenanigans in the compilation of data used to prove a point as true to one's satisfaction.

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Tsongas Center Lowell MA, Sunday Session of the Regional Convention 2015

by oppostate in

we're breaking up the regional convention event by going each of the days to a different weekend session.. the tsongas center lowell ma was a bit hard to find, we got lost and got there after the first song and prayer (just in time for the first talk)!

we ran into so many from our home congregation who aren't even assigned to this rc!.

i think it's quite common for publishers now to break up the convention weekend and attend at times when their congregation isn't assigned.. some families (3) were attending this particular convention so as to meet up with family members who are in another part of the region.

oppostate

We're breaking up the Regional Convention event by going each of the days to a different weekend session.

The Tsongas Center Lowell MA was a bit hard to find, we got lost and got there after the first song and prayer (just in time for the first talk)! We ran into so many from our home congregation who aren't even assigned to this RC!

I think it's quite common for publishers now to break up the convention weekend and attend at times when their congregation isn't assigned.

Some families (3) were attending this particular Convention so as to meet up with family members who are in another part of the Region. Others just because they wanted to check out the fresh meat on display in the concourse hallway during the lunch break. (Yup, I know, I was a hormone crazed youngster myself back in the day.) And were staying with friends outside their home circuits.

The total attendance was laughable for a Sunday session 3,582. I turned to my wife and said "We must be the two in that figure" since we arrived so late. Actually there was more than one count in the afternoon. I know that if the day's chairman or another bigwig doesn't think the figure is high enough there's another count taken, usually it is higher, and attendants are told to count people who are not in their seats but in the hallways for quite an extended time, and to count the empty seat if they saw someone get up during the count, that had previously been sitting there in the audience and there were books or bags still there at the seat.

This means that people getting to the bathrooms may be counted when sitting, when walking "to" the bathroom and then counted again when returning "from" the bathrooms--this includes cleaning volunteers and those who just wanted to stretch their legs, or meet up with a love interest, or to pacify a crying or squirmy infant who's had way too much sitting time. And of course there are those sad brothers and sisters who are assigned to go into the smelly bathrooms to count those "present" there. So double, triple and quadruple counting some attendees for higher figures' sake.

I was attendant overseer in Hallways for a number of years in my District, I know what goes on. (So, yeah, they have their tricks to increase attendance figures without an obvious crisis of conscience hitting them while doing so ;-)

I missed the baptism figure. I was cruising the hallways and ran into more people from our local congregation--those not assigned there--and we were chatting so I missed the previous day's baptism figures. I'll have to ask my wife and see how these measure up with past conventions.

Overall it was an easy Convention day to get through. I was either napping, promenading to the bathrooms, or chatting through most talks and videos in the concourse hallway. I complained to my wife that the box of raisins I snacked on while driving to the Tsongas Center made it "difficult" to sit through the program. (I know, TMI.) But there was more sh¡t coming from the stage than getting flushed down the toilets--just saying!

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Very Offensive Statement Directed To JW Parents-Watchtower 4/15/2015 Page 11 Paragraph 9

by JW GoneBad in

wt is insinuating, worse yet, blaming senior jw parents for there not being more younger brothers reaching out to be ministerial servants and elders.

page 11 paragraph 9 reads as follows: .

"elders in affluent lands may face an added challenge: how to motivate baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to get involved in congregation activities.

oppostate

This "survey" never happened. It's another total fabrication

I'd take into consideration Cedars yearly survey rather than this sham JW Survey at the hands of the WT religious corporate lackeys.

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The moral problem of Ephesians 5:23

by opusdei1972 in

for the husband is the head of the wife as christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the savior.

(ephesians 5:23).

if jesus is the head of the church, jesus is responsible for the many contradictions contained in the new testament.

oppostate

How much control is acceptable for a husband to impose on his wife?

Could a husband prevent his wife from cheating on him?

Could a husband prevent his wife from committing heinous crimes?

I think putting the blame on Jesus for the wrong acts of those who claim to act in his name is misguided.

Jesus is quoted in the Gospels as telling so called followers who said "Lord, lord didn't we do all these wonderful works in your name?" and he would say to them "get away from me you workers of wickedness!"

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Very Offensive Statement Directed To JW Parents-Watchtower 4/15/2015 Page 11 Paragraph 9

by JW GoneBad in

wt is insinuating, worse yet, blaming senior jw parents for there not being more younger brothers reaching out to be ministerial servants and elders.

page 11 paragraph 9 reads as follows: .

"elders in affluent lands may face an added challenge: how to motivate baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to get involved in congregation activities.

oppostate

The truth never came first in the life of such young ones.

How misleading! The "truth" did actually come first in their lives.

They saw the "lies" of the WTS and the fanatical example of their parents, elders, and spiritual reading material providers and decided that "bullsh¡t" wasn't going to control their futures.