I've heard of football players making touchdowns for the opposing team because they didn't realize they were running in the wrong direction. Perhaps it's not always a bad idea to raise ones head up and take a look around.
exwhyzee
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Terrible Analogy at a Convention
by ApostateDance ini'd love to know what you guys think of this.
brother jackson (from the governing body) had this "neat" analogy at the very end of the convention.
he said; "what if you were watching a football game on tv, and it was the trojans against the fighting irish, and it's been a good game.
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Why I didnt left JW an dont plan to do so
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in another thread i wrote: i didn't left the jw's and don't plan to do so.
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exwhyzee
I really can understand someone staying associated so as to remain in contact with ones network of friends and family members. It's a heavy price one pays for leaving. I can't however imagine what kind of mindset I'd have to develop to bring myself to the point of going from door to door honestly recommending this way of life to anyone else. Or even being able to comment honestly at the meetings. If you weren't actively involved in the congregations activities, you'd have to endure the constant "encouragement" to make comments at the meetings and join the strong ones in the field service. You'd either have to join in or be treated as a weak one, or as suspect even. I know several Witnesses who are in it because they don't have anywhere else to go. I know one long time regular pioneer who has chosen to ignore the "Generation" teaching and continues full time to draw people to an organization whos teachings she doesn't completly understand anymore. There are many who are going through the motions and it doesn't really matter what is taught from the platform. This is their way of life...a content little routine where they have pat answers provided for them on any topic and they'd cling to that at any expense rather than go it on their own.
I'd say you are in good company if you continue to stick with it because of the ill concequnces you'd suffer by leaving. If you can find a way to make it work for you and you can work out the internal struggle that will surely result....go for it, but you'll have to leave off visiting this site for sure.
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I have a question on the Circuit Accounts Scam thread
by gubberningbody ini didn't want it to get buried and i'd really like to know.. so i knew pretty much what he was saying was true, but what i don't get is how the creative accounting works.. i mean you have to show expenses on the ledger - and i mean real expenses, like the co/do expenses along with receipts.. you have actual costs for the power coming into the building.
the paper supplies and cleaning supplies.
the vacuum cleaners and mops and other sundry items, and you have to have receipts for all that.. i also know that when you made a "donation" it was off the books at the circuit level as far as accounts were concerned.. but how is money not being accounted for?.
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exwhyzee
I'm sure the WT has their behinds covered as far as tax and accounting laws. I think the scam part of it is "in house" when they "indicate" to the flock, who unquestioningly trusts them, that they'll need to dig even deeper into their pockets because the money needed to cover the assembly expenses hasn't been met. It would be a different story if they said up front that the assembly costs are X but we need XX to send to the society. That would be honest but they'd bring less in because the urgency wouldn't be there. Instead, they present it as an overall deficit which causes alarm and plays on the emotions of fear and sense of loyalty. Later , they make it look like Jehovah's spirit is at work when they have a surplus to send to the society. Everyone applauds and goes home feeling warm and fuzzy.
Can you imagine going to the accounts department during the assembly intermission and asking to review the books? Especially a sister, it would be unheard of. It's our own fault as much as it is theirs, for not asking questions...just blindly trusting....but that's what cult members do best.
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2011 District Convention Beware of Apostates Sound Clip Youtube Video
by andys ini don't know how to embed youtube videos on here but heres the link:.
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http://youtu.be/hjgzlpbjilw.
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exwhyzee
Couldn't help but notice that they didn't address any specific point or issue that a supposed apostate might be teaching. They also don't mention how they had their followers spend decades blanketing the globe with literature containing incorrect prophesies, miscalculation of dates and teachings that were later reversed, all of which were false teachings apparently.
They accuse the churches of being of the Devil because of their false teachings. When they JW's get it wrong, they gloss over it or ignore it altogether.
For me, their own words/deeds turned me away...not apostates.
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Top Ten Pickup Lines at This Year's Convention
by JimmyPage in10. if i said you had a nice governing body would you hold it against me?.
9. let's overlap our generations if you know what i mean.. 8. what do you say we lose this great crowd?.
7. i want to be your faithful slave.. 6. tonight we're gonna party like it's 1974.. 7. your breasts are like towers.. 6. would you welcome a shepherding call?.
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exwhyzee
Lets do like Isaiaha's parents...have a some fun while making a little prophet ?
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Top Ten Pickup Lines at This Year's Convention
by JimmyPage in10. if i said you had a nice governing body would you hold it against me?.
9. let's overlap our generations if you know what i mean.. 8. what do you say we lose this great crowd?.
7. i want to be your faithful slave.. 6. tonight we're gonna party like it's 1974.. 7. your breasts are like towers.. 6. would you welcome a shepherding call?.
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exwhyzee
1. Since neither of us believes in the hereafter....what are you here after?
2. I'm a Regular Pioneer...wanna check out my covered wagon ?
3. What's a nice girl like you doing in a Stadium like this?
4. If you'll be faithful...I'll be discreet.
5. World conditions have sure deteriorated haven't they?....the economy is so bad, even the wages of sin have been reduced.
6. I'd like to see your bound volumes someday.
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80% of all web sites are pornagraphic
by Sour Grapes induring today's witchtower study there was so much wisdom.
coming forth from the conductor and those in attendance that.
i could only say to myself "can't they hear what they are saying?".
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exwhyzee
80% of all web sites are pornagraphic
According to www.pathetic looser.com... 83% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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How can you spot an über-Witness?
by dgp inis there anything that would let you know, right away, that you're dealing with someone extremely witness?.
thanks..
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exwhyzee
If you have those matching engraved leather covers for the song book and Bible that are made in Mexico and those clear plastic holders for the house to house record slips and time slips...you might be a uber-witness
If your a siser that still wears 1980's "Golden Girls" type calf length flowered dresses with padded shoulders and little white collars, flat white pointed pumps and that "Wall O Bangs" hair-do with the bangs standing up in front and the hair in back either in one big braid or hanging down like you forgot to comb it, ...you might be a uber-witness.
If you wear your Assembly lapel badge a week before the assembly and or in public places before or during the assembly....you might be a uber-witness.
If your necktie is made out of the same material as your wife and daughters assembly dresses...you might be a uber-witness.
If you drive around with the watchtower in the back window of your car or with the letters YHWH on the bumper so other witnesses will notice and honk and wave to you....you might be a uber-witness.
If in normal conversation you use terms like, "thus far", "in view of the foregoing", "repetition for emphasis" and "thought provoking"...or end a letter with "agape" instead of " With Love"....you might be a uber-witness.
If you have the daily text and or the Hall cleaning schedule posted on your fridge....you might be a uber-witness.
If you have throw pillows on your couch that match each of the different colors of the publications including the mud brown bound volumes that you keep in your livingroom "library" I'm afraid you might be a uber-witness.
If your alarm wakes you up at 6am, you hit the snooze button and it goes off again at 6:07 and you immediately think about the fall of Babylon...you might be a uber-witness.
If you're sitting around talking with friends and you absentmindedly raise your hand to make a comment...well you get the idea.
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magazine supply reduction
by agent zero inat the meeting tonight was read a letter to all congregations in canada.
it explained that since most publishers end up with left-over public edition magazines that didn't get placed at the end of each month, they will now no longer continue to have an individual magazine order per publisher.
instead, the entire congregation's supply of service edition magazines will be in a stack at the back of the kh, and they are to be taken according to need, with whatever is left over after service to be put back in the stack.
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exwhyzee
The Bible has been the same for thousands of years yet the WT Society has felt the need to explain it over and over again, month after month year after year. Millions of miles of paper used yearly to say pretty much the same thing they said year before. I was often embarrased leaving magazines with the public that had to do with congregational matters and were barely of intrest to us. What must they have thought when they read about disfellowshipping matters and Assembly information and when inside lingo specific to JW's was used ? But without the magazines and literature, what would there be to talk about at the meetings or during home Bible studies ? They'd have to resort to reading the Bible on it's own as it was meant to be and that just wouldn't do. There would'nt be much of a connection between NY and the local congregations.
I imagine one day, each person will just download and print the study article on a couple of sheets of paper each week or read it off a Kindle or Nook right at the meeting. There'd be so much less waste and and expense. But what would a printing corperation do with all those idle presses and Bethelites?
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The next time a JW tries to tell you that natural disasters are a sign of the end...
by JimmyPage in... tell them to check this out:.
from weather.com, the 10 biggest natural disasters, 8 of which occurred before 1914:.
great hurricane of 1780 (barbados, st. lucia, 22,000 dead).
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exwhyzee
Save your breath, the facts from the past don't really matter. Anything that makes it appear that the end will come in their lifetime is the only truth. To think otherwise is unbearable. That's the way it's been for every generation and this one is no different.