i hate doing this type of thread.
none of us are perfect, least of all myself, and i would rather focus any criticism on the watch tower society for damaging people's lives.
however, in the short period since i've been a member of this forum i've noticed one member in particular deteriorate in his behaviour into the type of individual who threatens to undermine the credibility of the entire website.
Red21... so you're saying that it's perfectly OK for anyone to lie on this board??? I'm just asking so I can understand where you're coming from...
By the way, I don't think you'll find one person here who is against FREEDOM OF SPEECH... what you might find are a few members who get aggravated when they read sensationalism or false statements... why don't you let those folks have FREEDOM OF SPEECH and stop defending the liars on this forum? again, I'm just asking...
noroomforgeorge must be drooling over this wt illustration.
the (1950s) woman of his dreams.... .
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Yes… but at night, she'll are allowed to wear this while they vacuum in front of their non-believing husbands…
Just saying
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98 years later, the 1914 date is still important to the watchtower organization.. .
below is a screenshot of a portion of page 19 from the may 15, 2012 watchtower magazine.. .
Recently, I accomplished something I thought I would never acheive... I was able to convince a hardcore JW elder that 607 is incorrect... but he quickly shrugged it off by saying: "yes, but remember... Jehovah's servants in the past were not necessarily educated people. so why would you expect them to be educated enough to get this chronology right?"... that was followed by my biggest "WTF???" moment of my life...
yes, the latest watchtower is upon us.
it opens with a typically outlandish article on marriage.
here are a few of the headlines:.
What's next? No intercourse for pioneer wives that fail to meet their monthly quota?
i've heard lots of stories over the years of the wonderful job the jw's do in assisting those in need in disaster zones whether they be earthquakes or floods.
it would always be reported that the witnesses were the most organised in setting up camps etc and would out do the red cross and other such organisitions.
but also that they would quickly set up mini congregations to keep the disaster struck brothers spiritually fed.. has anyone here been involved in disaster relief work with the witnesses to clarify:.
If there is little or no potential for media coverage in a particular area, any organized aid from the WT will go exclusively to JW families... where there's potential for a significant "photo op", you might see some of this aid going to non-JWs so they can use it in their assembly boasting sessions....
That being said, most JWs are compasionate people anyway (just like members of any other religion) so they will tend to help their good neighbors whenever they can. But there's always the pressure to help fellow JWs first...
However, saying that JWs are the most "organized" in providing aid and that they even "out-do" the Red Cross is a bit of a stretch. Who would say this other than the WT or the GB themselves?
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Make sure you don't heat the miracle wheat in the microwave just before your organless transplant... it can severely affect the acceptable theocratic albumin-globulin ratio in your blood fractions.
the 2012 special talk is "is it later than you think?".
the outline can be found at this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/221623/1/anyone-have-the-outline-for-the-2012-special-talk.
at that above link, you can also see the october 8, 1968 awake cover that uses that exact same title.
I think the intent of this is to provoke apostates and then claim persecution or that the Great Tribulation has finally arrived...
this is what a lot of tired JWs really want to hear right now... it's all about "supply and demand"...
i hate doing this type of thread.
none of us are perfect, least of all myself, and i would rather focus any criticism on the watch tower society for damaging people's lives.
however, in the short period since i've been a member of this forum i've noticed one member in particular deteriorate in his behaviour into the type of individual who threatens to undermine the credibility of the entire website.
Whenever Rick Fearon gets "cornered" by people who are simply asking him to stop the lies and sensationalism, he resorts to school girl name-calling (i.e. whiners, cowards, watchtower operatives, criticizers, etc.)... but you'll never get Rick to come clean on anything... he has mastered the art of blame deflection as has the Watchtower...
i regard the information below as true until proven false because of corresponding with a young man in s. africa for a few years whose story i posted on my website: http://www.watchtowerdocuments.com/stories/caleb.html, "freedom from an unsafe haven, by caleb.
" although some of the accounts of abuse of children in s. africa in the story below are older, calab wrote me details of abusive treatment meted out to young people in his area that he chose not to put in his story for fear he could be identified.
calab in now in university in another part of africa and very happy after breaking the chains that engulfed his mind.. barbara.
NEGLECT AND CHILD ABUSE WORLDWIDE:
Forcing small children to endure two hours or more of excruciating heat and humidity while wearing uncomfortable clothing in Field Service (with no water breaks)...
i still go to meetings (sometimes) mostly to acompany my wife and kids.
i have known of jw friends of mine that have gone to elder's for family problems, dispute's with other cult member's or those hemroid's that just won't clear up.
whatever.... i personally never ever told an elder or elder's a stitch of info about my personal life or trouble's etc.
I have been in three congos in two different countries and my personal experience is that anything told to elders in confidence is known by the entire congo within a few days (via elders' wives talking to their "close personal firends")... but that's just my personal experience... I'm not saying or implying that this is necessarily a widespread problem...
