If the watchtower corporation was a little bit smarter they would allow all members to count time on building projects. Publishers would line up to help build a real estate empire for the religion.
Posts by hoser
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7Counting time to build bethel.
by krejames invisited jw family yesterday.
conversation turns to bethel's recruitment drive for volunteers to help build the new complex in essex and how many pioneers and holding back from volunteering directly with bethel but willing to volunteer thru what was the regional building committee (can't remember what the new name for rbcs is).
the reason?
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what do you think to this odd application of deu 25:4?
by purrpurr inat a recent meeting the scripture deu 25:4 was cited "do not muzzle a threshing bull".. it was applied to how the elders in the cong should be obeyed submissively because, they said, to go against the elders authority would be like muzzling a threshing bull???
just one of those times when i'm secretly going " huh?!
what??".
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hoser
I don't think that is the official interpretation of that scripture.
however comparing an elder to a bull is an interesting comparison They are both full of $hit
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11/30/2014 WT Study - take care of those who are all used up.
by OneEyedJoe inwas bored during today's indoctrination lesson, and you guys weren't generating enough content to keep me entertained, so i looked agreed at next week's a bit.
basically the point of the hour lesson is that once the society has completely used someone up, they're to be dumped on next of kin (or anyone who'll take 'em) to take care of 'em.
obviously the wts can't dip into any of the millions/billions that they're sitting on to pay for the support of ailing missionaries - they've got that money earmarked for new cult compounds and paying off victims of the pedophiles that they've protected over the years.. just another in a recent string of articles paying lip service to taking care of those that have given their life to the cult while they do absolutely nothing from their ivory towers.
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hoser
They're a corporation. Thats what corporations do. Use up people.
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Biblical Injunction To 'Spare the Rod' And Spoil the Child' or 10 Reasons Not To Hit Your Child
by frankiespeakin inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltoyjvslwgg.
http://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/tenreasons.html.
in 37 countries 1 around the world, it is illegal for a parent, teacher, or anyone else to spank a child, and 113 countries prohibit corporal punishment in schools.
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hoser
I became very angry reading this.
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Good Morning! I'm visiting you today to share good news!
by Zoos inthe good news is:.
- studying the watchtower over breakfast.
- putting on a suit and tie.
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hoser
I will not be:
putting on a suit and tie
going to the meeting or field serve-us
i will be:
working overtime for a large sum of money because contrary to what will be taught at the kingdumb hall today, I will grow old in "this system of things" and I will need real money to retire on when I am too old to earn it anymore.
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Ever notice how JW's can attend a talk or Convention and remember nothing?
by Wasanelder Once inhow many times have you asked a jw who has attended a public talk how the talk was, only to be told it was so great!
yet they cannot remember the title nor any one single point except that the brother was "funny" or was good with illustratiions or some other vauge point?
and conventions weren't far off either.
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hoser
I was at one public talk about cleanliness where the elder delivering it went off the outline to chastise his wife for not keeping a clean house. I mentioned it to one of the brothers after the meeting and he told me he never heard it. I don't know if he wasn't listening or subconsciously blocked it from his memory.
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Feeling sad over a wasted life in watchtower
by wannaexit init's been 12 years since i first read ray franz's books and the scales came off my eyes.
by that time i was in my forties.. since 2002 i went back to school and have worked with 3 very professional organizations.
but my biological clock is ticking away and while my peers are looking forward to retirement, i am only beginning.
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hoser
I woke up in my late 30s but I was a "weak publisher" for at least 10 years before that. I had worked full time since I was 22 and my wife convinced me we should buy a house when we were in our mid 20's.
I did miss out though on a lot of hobbies that I enjoy all those years because of the shame and guilt that the Jws laid upon me.
although we still attend we are career oriented and put our own financial future ahead of the watchtowers.
if I could go back would I do it differently. For sure! But i can't go back so I just have to live each day and not make the same mistakes I made when I was younger.
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Anyone know of df'ing for taking a br. to Court (esp. if Cdn)?
by berrygerry inmost jw's have been told that taking a fellow jw to court is wrong.. the shepherd book uses wts speak: "if an individual ignores god's word on this matter, it may affect his congregation privileges.
" (italics theirs.).
the following are from an interesting case in canada ( link ):.
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hoser
That's why it is best not to do business with a fellow jehovahs witness
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Didn't the Governing Body tell us Israel is safe?
by kneehighmiah ini'm sure most people heard about this story that broke yesterday.. http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/world/meast/jerusalem-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t2.
of couse the governing body would never encourage the brothers to go to unsafe areas like detroit or israel.
sadly the brothers would believe it if the governing body told them drinking cyanide was safe.. .
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hoser
I wonder if any of the governing body are going to take the lead in the preaching?
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Why do self-righteous hypocritical people ...
by hoser inwhy is it that people who display self-righteous hypocritical behaviour are so blind as not to see what kind of people they really are?.
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hoser
Why is it that people who display self-righteous hypocritical behaviour are so blind as not to see what kind of people they really are?