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  Wal-Mart Workers Plan Huge Protest on Black Friday

  by talesin in

  1. social
  2. current

  wal-mart, which pays a top wage of $12.00+ to its full-time employees, is under attack, once again, by its employees and those who would like to unionize them.. i can't speak to the usa, but here in canada, most wal-mart employees are not full time.

  it is mostly a part-time employer, so zero benefits.

  in my opinion, that makes the $12.00+ look a lot smaller when you envision the actual paycheque.

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  Listener

  Hoser

  Wal mart brainwashes their employees though their morning worship program. Some of them seriously believe that Walmart is a good employer and that they would fail if they tried to go elsewhere

  Sounds like the same stratedgy that the JW organization has and it works for them. The organization pays its workers even less.

  Great Teacher

  The US economy is built on it. It's perfectly legal to pay people $7.50 an hour. And that is just unacceptable.

  Why blame Walmart, what they are doing is legal, there are always going to be people in vulnerable situations that willingly allow themselves to be taken advantage of. There will always be businesses that take advantage and care little about people.

  It is the responsibility of the Government to ensure people are treated fairly. It has the ability to set the minimum wage at a higher rate. It chooses to subsidize employees on a low income rather than making businesses pay more.
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  Another subliminal picture in the WT!!!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just happend to wonder if the current issue had any hidden goodies.

  imagine my delight!.

  a gold star to the first person to correctly identify the image!.

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  The picture itself is pretty gloomy and overexagerated. There are two huge spikey and thorny weeds at the very front and on each side of the picture. It's not likely that you would see this scenery anywhere, it is unrealistic. There is no reason why they wouldn't add a few subliminal pictures in it as well.
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  E-Watchman: Sides with Tony III on the pants issue and more.......

  by AFRIKANMAN in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  stumbled upon bob the king's site and read some of his literary offerings.. .

  he is strongly of the opinion that the tony toids remarks re: the tite pants is straight down the line:"" i have to say i agree with brother morris.

  i dont think there is any question that gays dominate the fashion world, as well as the entertainment media.

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  Listener

  E-Watchman spends his time defending leaders of the Watchtower Scoiety. He has no idea about the Societies inner workings are or any ofl the information they withhold and keep secret. Even in his attempted defence of the Society being associated with the UN he has no more information than anyone else (other than the Society) and does a bad job.
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  A powerful JC recording from 1984!

  by Island Man in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this jc from 1984 features a brother and his wife, who were evidently about to be df'd for apostasy.

  but the brother knew his ttatt well.

  the elders really couldn't muster any half-way convincing arguments to refute the damning facts on 607 and 1914. even 1975 was touched on.

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  Listener

  A post was started asking what had happened to them. A one post wonder stated that she has breast cancer and he was now into his third marriage.
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  WT Study Article Nov. 23, 2014--Adam understood "day" to be 24 hours

  by Cadellin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  interesting admission in today's wt: adam may have understood "day" (as in "in the day you eat from it, you will positively die") to be a literal 24-hour period.

  i don't think the wt has ever said this before; the usual emphasis is that jah meant it as a figurative day, a day from his standpoint which is 1,000 years (and the article does state that, later).. however, if adam understood god's warning to be carried out in a 24 hour period, and god did nothing to alleviate that, then who did the lying?

  actually, regardless of adam's understanding, the question still stands but moving toward an admission of the use of day in that context to be 24-hours only makes the question even more valid.

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  Listener

  The bible says that Adam was not deceived, bit according to the Watcchtower he was deceived because he thought he would be dying that day.

  Would Adam really have eaten from the fruit if he believed his wife was going to die that very day?
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  We're not dealing with sincere anointed who genuinely believe their teachings but scam artists

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking at all the doctrinal teachings over the last five years, it's almost impossible for any person of conscience who originated such doctrine to do a complete u-turn and change it when the passage of time has proved beyond doubt that doctrine is no longer credible.. i say this with reference to the generation of 1914. they were so sure.

  it was part of the awake!

  masthead for decades that those who saw the events of 1914 would also see the great tribulation.. .

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  That's a very sobering comment AnnOMaly. Time has not run out for them.
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  No longer to use "house to house record" slips and "please follow up slips"!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a letter has just been read out indicating that effective immediately, witnesses are no longer to use the s-8 slip known as the "house to house" record slip, as well as the s-43 "please follow up" slip (usually used for foreign language people).. the letter stated that this is because of the changes in privacy laws etc that are becoming common in the world today.. i will try and get a copy of the full letter and post it asap.. .

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  There's a post here from 13 years ago and ExpatBrit wrote

  I heard that congregations in the UK can no longer use the not a home forms (S8)provided by the society, as they contravene the above mentioned act.
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  What should the WBT$ do to get on track?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it looks as if the gb are blundering around and really showing themselves up for the buffoons they are.

  all the stupidity about tight trousers is laughable and if the general public were to see these selfmportant cult leaders blabbing this stuff then the last shred of their credibility would be destroyed.........perhaps.. the wbt$ seem to have dug themselves into a deep pit of no escape with their lies, new light(tm), paedophile protection and all the other nauseating peripherals they have.. we also suspect that the wbt$ have their spies here because they are either predictable or get ideas form forums like this.. so!

  are you listening watchtower(r)?

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  Brand the JW.org product more. They're a printing group after all, print the brand on mugs, pencils, pens, iphone and ipad covers, T-shirts, bathers, shirts, ties, scarfs, and anything else that can accommodate the label. Branding works.

  Get the JWs to build schools, retirement villages and nursing homes, then sell them and build some more.
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  FDS & G.B. TEACHING DESTROYED

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  credit to vidqun for the direction given.. the watchtower november 15th qfr http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20141115/ blows the selection process/timing/individuals clean out of the water!.

  simply put, ask any witness these questions:.

  who is represented by the 'two witnesses' in revelation chapter 7?

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  Listener

  The teaching is that the Wild Beast of Rev 11:7 is the world organization of politics and that it is the same beast mentioned at Rev 13:1

  The crazy thing is that the prominent JWs were imprisoned by the American legal system, not by any worldly collaborating system.

  Insight Vol 2 'sea'

  The Abyss. According to Parkhurst’s Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament (London, 1845, p. 2), the Greek word a ′ bys·sos, meaning “very or exceedingly deep” and often translated “abyss,” is sometimes used with reference to or in making a comparison to the sea because of the sea’s great, seemingly fathomless, depth. (Ro 10:6, 7; compare De 30:12, 13.) In the symbols of Revelation, “the wild beast that ascends out of the abyss” (Re 11:7) is said, at Revelation 13:1, to ascend out of “the sea.”

  Paradise Restored 3

  That wild beast out of the abyss is later shown to symbolize the world organization of politics now millenniums old. In the spring of the year 1918, before World War I was over, this beastly political organization took advantage of war conditions to ban literature on the Bible as used by the “two witnesses” class and imprisoned dedicated Christians who were foremost in publishing it. Thus the free public work of the symbolic “two witnesses” was killed

  Revelation Climax 25

  Revelation 11:7-10.

  20 This is the first of 37 references in Revelation to a wild beast. In due course we will examine this and other beasts in detail. Suffice it to say for now that “the wild beast that ascends out of the abyss” is of Satan’s design, a living political system of things.—Compare Revelation 13:1; Daniel 7:2, 3, 17.

  21 From 1914 to 1918 the nations were occupied with the first world war. Nationalistic feelings ran high, and in the spring of 1918, the religious enemies of the two witnesses took advantage of the situation. They maneuvered the State’s legal apparatus so that responsible ministers of the Bible Students were imprisoned on false charges of sedition. Faithful coworkers were stunned. Kingdom activity almost ceased. It was as though the preaching work were dead
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  A Non J-Dub paying a visit to KingDumb Hall!

  by J-DUBBED in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was thinking of doing a pop-in visit when they're doing their thing(what ever that might be).

  to just see what it is that lures and hooks people, like our son.

  i was worried there is some sort of subliminal messages in audio or video that start to brain-wash a person.

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  Listener

  Hi J Dubbed and welcome.

  If you ask the question that Navytown suggests they may eventually get around to the comment that 'It is God who judges what is in a person's heart so we cannot say", then you could make the comment that 'it isn't necessary to become a JW then?'