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  Out of Control Flatbed Truck Crashes into Kingdom Hal

  by oppostate in

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  Too Much Discontent in the Congregation Part 2

  by Simon Templar in

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  here is part 2..

  so you will have some understanding of the boe i will reference in future posts, the following is who they are:.

  the coordinator.

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  I see a true telenovela developing. And I agree it's uncanny how some of these personality descriptions match some elders I've known. (Sadly I may have played the part of the Court-fool in my time : -)))
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  Happy Veterans Day! (America)

  by freemindfade in

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  people have varied and strong feelings about politics and wars, but you can't deny the courage a sacrifice of our veterans.

  too often they do not get the honor they deserve.

  in this country once they come home their sacrifice and heroism is too quickly forgotten.

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  To all vets on this forum, thank you for your service and sacrifice for fellow countrymen, friends and families.
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  Shunning is psychologically terrorizing

  by poopie in

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  its barbaric.

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  I can understand if someone really dislikes something you've done so much they want no association with you.

  But for an 0rganization to demand that one's friends and family treat the person they have marked as an outcast, a living-dead not worthy of acknowledgement or social courtesies, or worse a pariah and dis-owned family member, that indeed is barbaric, and it is shameful for this JW 0rganization/WT Society to inflict this suffering on people especially so those who do not want to be members of it anymore due to conscience, and are awake to the lies and harmful practices of this real-estate and money greedy grabbing religious cult.
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  Greetings

  by Pioneerbot in

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  wanted to say hi.

  i've been lurking for a long time.

  i also spend time on other forums.

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  Teaching Committee Helper blames weighed down feelings on "perspective"

  by wifibandit in

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  he mentions changes in assignment at 1:14 and 7:09.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1uufpx8jqk.

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  What a "tool" for the "Truth(R)"! All that Sh*t that's now hitting the fan for the WT minions... just change your perspective brothers... it's good fertilizer that's getting aerated go forth into the field, be well fed and stay warm!
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  Tight pants, colored socks, blue shirts, beards, wire -rimmed glasses...

  by Muddy Waters in

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  tight pants, colored socks, blue shirts, beards, wire -rimmed glasses... .

  does anybody remember any thing else that was once or still is proscribed against faithful j-dubs?

  when brothers in our kh started wearing different colored shirts rather than white, it caused a great stir and ruckus.

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  I had a young elder (a bit of an oxymoron, and he is too) tell me that there wasn't ever any rule against wearing colored shirts on stage. He's born in. He's cocky. He's a bit of an... as much as I respect other's opinions and points of view, it really ticks me off when someone tells me I'm wrong and I know better.

  There was too a rule. It was unwritten. There was a large white shirt and a dark blue tie kept in the coat room. You were told as an MS that if you wore ostentatious shirts that would be distracting you'd have to wear the white one no matter how baggy, or tight and badly it fit, or go home and change. That was the rule.

  And this young... idiosyncratic elder likes to wear fire engine red shirts with gold ties, and royal blue shirts with lime green ties, and deep purple shirts with white ties, and nobody says a word to him nowadays. Right. There was never a written rule but you wouldn't have gotten away with your colorful sense of style, young whipper-snapper!
  
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  CO Comes Up With A New Way To Be Judgemental...

  by JW_Rogue in

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  at the latest co visit something very strange happened.

  during the meeting with the elders and servants he passed out a copy of a hypothetical publisher card and asked us what we could learn from it.

  upon receiving it i saw that the average hours were pretty good, it had return visits and quite a few bible studies.

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  It's actually quite easy to place mags and count them in your monthly report.

  1. Place them in the rubbish bin.

  2. remember to count how many and write the number on your time slip.

  The real problem with the hypothetical publisher is that he was way too accurate an account on his service record.
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  Project Recapture 

  by Gorbatchov in

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  friends,.

  the magnificence seven have the ability to transform a christian fundamentalist religion into a tv / audio provider combined with a property investment department.. so what can we do?

  my thoughts are about a global, world wide return of us, people with a different vision, sometimes called faders, apostates, mentally disordered, non-believers to the kingdom hall under the name "project recapture".. it's easy.

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  I like your idea Gorby. I used to believe it was possible to do this early on in my waking process--to try and help other JW's become more Christian and less cultish.

  Here's the rub, though, in order for this to work you need people with a conscience. And as an organization, the JW religion has no conscience. In fact it destroys the human conscience.

  Nazis were successful in accomplishing the destruction of conscience through their promotion of duty above all else, intimidation on a personal and organizational level, and the regard of scapegoats and non-conformists as pariahs, subhumans who are worthy of extermination.

  The JW religion promotes the destruction of an individual's conscience. It condones the belittling of others not within the group, 7 billion people, as worthy of extermination. It makes dissenters and those who exercise a critical mindset into apostate boogeymen, worthy of being shunned out of physical existence, only to be thought of as unclean, diseased minds--a stench of presence from which to wince away in disgust.

  The weight of time and inefficiency was heavy on a Soviet empire that was reluctant to change, it broke rather than bend. Similar pressures brought upon Communist China have forced it to mutate into what survives today--an outdated foundation of oligarchical communism ever more capitalist in practice. China bends, but it bends with the force of a whip. Striping those who dare challenge the sovereigns of ideology and bureaucratic might. With such force it cuts down anyone standing defiantly before it, like the meditating Falun Gong--culled and harvested as replacement body parts for those with the wealth to buy themselves a new kidney, a new liver, a new cornea. A cannibalistic communion practiced on a national level condoned by profiteering Communist Party thugs.

  Such is today the JW religious organization, a Communist China style figure-head oligarchy. It rose with tribe of Russell, advanced through the monarchy of Rutherford, expanded under Knorr's empire, and revolutionized itself into the a regicidal junta propped up to oversee the current hierarchical organization of over eight million fanatically religious, proletarian mind drones.

  The Chinese Organization Department long ago disrobed itself of any Communist economy trappings. The JW organization long ago divested itself of any Christian ethics and sense of conscience. Misusing the adjective Christian as a snare to entrap the downtrodden and control the indoctrinated with baseless promises of paradisaical rewards in exchange of their minds and the best and most productive years of their lives--the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is truly and sadly just a capitalistic religious incorporation.

  Will China's overreaching forays into capitalism and development bring it to its knees? Will the real-estate grabbing and maniacal building sprees of the JW organization help to bring it down?

  My dear Gorby, it would certainly be of help to have awakened JW's make themselves available to comfort the downtrodden, the victims of the conscienceless JW/Watchtower organization--to have folks with a working conscience and a sense of compassion, there to pick up the pieces, the falling crumbs and scraps dropping from the mandibles of the cannibalistic Cyclops that is the JW/Watchtower religion--the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (aka JW.0rg).
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  Have you ever had your oven door explode?

  by Ucantnome in

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  the other day the glass in my oven door exploded and sent glass into the next room, fortunately i wasn't peering in at the time.

  about a year go the previous oven door shattered one morning.

  the oven was cold.

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  No ovens but I witnessed a newly remodeled KH front double glass door explode when the temperature difference inside the air-tight foyer made the glass buckle out and shatter into a million tiny flying pieces all over the entrance area.