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  Gone before his time -- Phil Hartman

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i was youtube'ing the other day and ran across this memorial to phil hartman.

  it is only his work on newsradio, but it captures the man nicely.

  the song it's set to brought tears to my eyes: .

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  joenobody

  He had the best minor characters on The Simpsons like Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz. Fantastic work that he did - just loved his sense of timing.
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  If Jesus could talk to Satan...

  by AuldSoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  consider the scene: jesus has just been baptized and immediately leaves for an extended stay in the wilderness all on his lonesome.

  now ... already this is something the governing body would discourage any jw from doing, but i digress.. along comes satan.

  jesus knows it is satan, because of how satany he is.

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  joenobody

  It's just another example of the completely inconsistent narrative in the Bible.
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  Remember congregation summer picnics? (and other ramblings)

  by WingCommander in

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  a thread on the last page made me remember something from my early childhood.

  remember congregation picnics and other outings?

  i remember when i was little, probably only 4 - 5 years old; there was a huge congregation picnic at a park with food, games, etc.

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  joenobody

  I remember those days as a kid looking forward to the platform announced congregation picnic. It usually meant my dad (a non-JW at the time) would come out and get to see the JWs acting normally, relaxing and enjoying themselves.

  - loved the softball game and getting to play

  - great having a picnic lunch with the family

  - funny memories of seeing some of the older people "dressed down" wearing shorts, but a collared shirt, dress socks and dress shoes

  - the day seemed to go on forever, getting there early afternoon and leaving after dusk

  The funny thing is that most current dubs are too new to remember his phenomenon of the 70s and 80s. It was a good recruiting tool for guys like my dad who used to abhor the Witnesses, but then got to see that most were regular people at the picnics.

  Some families hosted big get-togethers at their farms which included cookouts and bonfires. I think when they dropped the congregation sanctioned events to which all were invited, they probably fed into a lot of the cliques and class system that formed in the 80s. Suddenly people were having to organize smaller events and hence started to decide who they would invite and who they wouldn't. That invariably meant that a lot of the rich families didn't invite either the poor or the single-moms/unbelieving mates.
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  MAT 24:14 HAS BEEN FULLFILLED MP3 FROM BETHEL HEAVY

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  warning: the wtbts is becoming more cultish as evidenced in this mp3.

  listener take heed.

  turn on all your cult warning alarms on.. .

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  joenobody

  You are bang on undercover. The speakers that use that approach basically try to belittle and embarrass the listener into acting on the message.

  "Here I am giving you this important message right from God's mouth on earth and what are you going to do? How are you going to spend your time? Are you gonna be so stupid as to take up worldly pursuits and worry about mundane things? Wow... you are a piece of crap then and that's how everyone in your congregation will look at you, you ingrate."
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  MAT 24:14 HAS BEEN FULLFILLED MP3 FROM BETHEL HEAVY

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  warning: the wtbts is becoming more cultish as evidenced in this mp3.

  listener take heed.

  turn on all your cult warning alarms on.. .

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  joenobody

  What a stupid move on their part to say the preaching work is fulfilled. What will they keep the sheep motivated with? Will anyone recognize this new equation of FDS = Governing Body and not question that? There was no Body before the mid 70's... so what the heck? I am sure they'll give some sort of spin about a transference of favour or some such nonsense.

  I felt bad for any kids in the audience having to swallow this cultish dreck. It will give them nightmares.

  I know my mom is an intelligent woman but sadly is probably eating this kind of thing up part and parcel.
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  Does Bethel have a library? Is it open to you?

  by Fatfreek in

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  2. beliefs

  let's say you're a jw, you're curious about some quote you found on the internet -- some newer book slyly changes mention of a date prediction from 1874 to 1914 -- and you'd like to see the original pages of those books.

  are any of these publications available to: .

  1. anyone from off the street .

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  joenobody

  I seem to remember in around 79 a directive in the Kingdom Ministry to the literature servants to destroy all copies of "Your Lamp is My Footstool" or some such book. I was young, but I remember being really bothered by that. Never did figure out why they directed that.
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  Who else finds the internet slow

  by JH in

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  since a few months, it's on and off, but i find that the internet is very slow sometimes, like now.. i click on a site, and nothing happens, then i click on anoter site, and it's the same, then i come here and it's slow but i get it.. sometimes i think that the internet is under attack !!!.

  so this leads to this question.. if you couldn't access this site anymore or if you had no more internet service, would this bother you a lot?.

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  joenobody

  JH, it's not likely your connection, but rather your ISP DNS servers are overloaded. When you click on a URL, that hostname needs to be resolved by the DNS to an IP address in order to load content in your browser. If the DNS server is heavily taxed by numerous users (because your ISP is cheaping out?), then you'll see a delay when loading a site. It will appear that there is a pause when you click on a link followed by the site loading rather quickly (unless it has ads on it that also have links to different hosts requiring even more DNS lookups). As an experiment, go to a site and see how long it takes to load. Then go to another page on that same site and see how quickly it loads. Hope that helps.
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  I'd appreciate some insight on what my mother claims was said at assembly

  by free2beme in

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  okay, well my mother called this evening and was all emotional about her one day assembly.

  i was shocked she brought it up, as we just do not mention the religion anymore, but lately little things keep getting said at her conventions and assemblies that seem to be making this line something she wants to cross more these days.

  what she brought up, was something i had not heard mentioned on here and i wanted some insight from people who actually heard it or knew more about it.

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  joenobody

  Now hold on a second... follow me on this one. Some of speculation about the new announcement/big change etc is that it centers on directly charging publishers for literature. What if the spin on this is as follows: - preaching work is slowing down to a stop - donations not coming in from the world - because it's stopping, in the short term til the Big A we introduce this new arrangement brothers to charge you for the literature which will be used as communications as the end gets closer Pretty easy spin huh? It's self-fulfilling prophecy: nobody outside the JWs wants to read the lit; therefore the preaching is slowing down and hence the end must be near. It would actually excite the brothers to be told that while they have to pay for the literature and support the work moreso, it's because the end is so friggin' close. Turning a negative into a positive...
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  I'd appreciate some insight on what my mother claims was said at assembly

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay, well my mother called this evening and was all emotional about her one day assembly.

  i was shocked she brought it up, as we just do not mention the religion anymore, but lately little things keep getting said at her conventions and assemblies that seem to be making this line something she wants to cross more these days.

  what she brought up, was something i had not heard mentioned on here and i wanted some insight from people who actually heard it or knew more about it.

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  joenobody

  Wow! I'd be interested if anyone else heard this. The one thing that makes me doubt the veracity of her statement is that I don't think they would try to gain disassociated ones back. That's playing with fire since many of them left because of what the knew about the WTS. It's pretty amusing if they've gotten to that point - knowledge is power, don'cha know?
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  Where was Daniel?

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i was going to meetings i raised a question at the book study when the daniel book was being covered.

  when nebuchadnezzar had the image built all the people including all the rulers including the hebrew ones were commanded to bow to the image.

  it was brought to the attention of neb that three hebrews had not bowed down and it resulted in them being saved from the feiry furnace by an angel.. my question was then, where was daniel?

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  joenobody

  Macking on one of Nebbie's many concubine's no doubt!