Bungi Bill

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  Was there really a specific request for money in this week's meeting?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have seen a few comments about this week's meeting.. was there actually a part that specified an actual per-publisher amount that should be donated regularly?.

  can this be confirmed please?.

  i truly cant believe just how brazen the society seems to be getting - and how desperate they are!.

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  Bungi Bill

  And how they once used to lambast the "Churches of Christendom" for doing exactly the same thing!
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  Were you or someone you know sexually molested by a Jehovah's Witness ?

  by flipper in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  due to the fact there are about 27,000 members of this religion that are known pedophiles, and the information about it is kept in a secret database file, i wonder how many lurking jw's as well as others are aware of the severity of this problem?

  remember, it's 27,000 pedophiles that they know about.

  what about the thousands that don't get caught?

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  Bungi Bill

  A brother whom I once regarded as a close friend turned out to have been molesting one of his stepdaughters from age 7 to age 12.

  This only came to light some twenty-odd years later, when he was taken to court, convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. (By then I had broken with the JWs, and learned about this from a newspaper report).

  The scariest thing for me was that while we were close friends, my two daughters were still only children. At least he never got his filthy paws on them !
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  Did you ever buy into 1975?

  by tornapart in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those of you that can remember.... did you really believe that armageddon was going to come in 1975?

  i was a child of the 60s, in my teens in the 70s and can honestly say that i never bought into it.

  i saw brothers and sisters selling their homes and moving into rented property.

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  Bungi Bill

  I will say this - during the years leading up to 1975, I never heard anybody actually express any doubts about that date. Not one!

  If they weren't actually preaching 1975, then they certainly weren't expressing doubts about it either. Certainly none that I heard, anyway. If such persons were in the majority, then it must have been a silent majority (Make that a bloody silent majority!)
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  Make Your Excellent Point to a JW, But- Remember, it's a Mind Control Cult.

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i am reading from many that they have an excellent thought-stopper for jw's.

  (remember reasoning from the scriptures used "thought-stoppers?

  )"if you just show them [this scripture or use this logic or expose this problem with the organization], you will shut them down.".

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  Bungi Bill

  In this and in other matters, it can be all too easy to forget that human beings are not always rational - perhaps seldom ever rational. Hardly surprising then that appeals to the emotions are more likely to be effective!
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  How many members of Governing Body have college(or higher) degrees?

  by intropist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just wonder what universities they would have gone to?

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  if possible, former members and current ones separately.... .

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  Bungi Bill

  Former GB

  • Bachelor Degree & Master Degree

  • Lloyd Barry - Unknown College in New Zealand

  Lloyd Barry was a graduate of the University of Otago, in Dunedin.
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  The JW Blood Issue: Resolved!

  by loyal2truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i just completed writing a series of 8 blog posts dismantling the watchtower's blood policies.. it was my goal to prove that the blood ban is neither scriptural nor sensible.

  this is a rewrite of the series of articles i contributed some years ago to the now defunct jehovahswitnessblog site of james peyton (you may also know james as the founder of jwpodcast.

  ) even though this is a very serious topic, i tried to stay true to the humorous mood "tenny pajamas" always managed to maintain on his site.

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  How Rutherford did a backflip (flop) off the Great Pyramid

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in 1924, judge rutherford published an article which referred to the great pyramid as "the scientific bible" and added that measurements on the grand gallery inside the great pyramid confirmed the dates 1874, 1914 and 1925.. 1925 was the famous blowout date for the return of "ancient worthies" about which the judge said, "i made an ass of myself.".

  just four years later, rutherford did one of his famous about-face reversals.. whereas previously the watchtower had taught that the great pyramid was probably built by melchizedek, or shem;*.

  rutherford now said the great pyramid was constructed "under the direction of satan the devil.

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  Hard now to credit that "Pyramidology" was once considered a science. (Not for long, though!)
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  Will Watchtower target the inactive?

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if watchtower has no reason to df ones.

  they have just become inactive.

  do you all think wt will begin a witch hunt (df'ing) for these inactive ones?

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  Bungi Bill

  It has happened before.

  For a number of years during the mid-1980s, they did mount a concerted campaign to contact both those who had become "Inactive" and also those who had even "Studied" with the JWs. These efforts did appear to pay off, if the statistics in the yearbook are to be believed - i.e. during that time, the increase per year of "publishers" actually exceeded the number of those baptised.
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  How many do you figure are converted through the door to door ministry?

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i regular pioneered for 2 years and never have actually converted anyone through the door to door work, in fact, i only knew a few individuals that joined this way.

  most were born-in or at least had some type of family influence.

  i had several bible studies but they all got cold feet when things got serious and potential baptism was discussed.

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  Bungi Bill

  A lot of empty homes, coffee breaks and people uninterested in what we had to say.

  A carbon-copy of my experience, too!
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  Voyager 1 & 2 40th Anniversary of their Lift Off

  by smiddy3 in

  1. social
  2. current

  fourty years ago nasa sent two probes that were to go on a mission ,voyager 1 and voyager 2 in two trajectories through our solar system getting what information they could from the planets they passed close by.. 40 years later they surpassed all expectations and are still sending signals back to earth.. voyager 1 has actually gone into what is termed interstellar space that is it has exited our solar system free from the constraints of our own sun having travelled some 13 billion miles from earth.

  voyager 2 which was on a different trajectory will soon itself leave our solar system and go into interstella space having travelled some 11 billion miles from earth so far.. both of these satellites/probes carry messages from the world of humans / governments to whoever might find it (alien life forms ) if they exist and find these probes.. my attention is drawn to the bible account of the tower of babel which really couldn`t have been that high seriously.and yet jehovah god felt threatened by what man could achieve if they had one universal language ?.

  what must he be thinking now i wonder ?.

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  Bungi Bill

  Hang on he did act before the Tower of Babel was completed did he not ?

  Dead right! That's very obviously why it didn't get as far out as Voyagers 1 and 2.

  (Just joking!!!!!!)