The WT is doing exactly what they acused other religions of doing...building beautiful dwellings using money mostly donated for the preaching work...millions will be spent to settle lawsuits...and they will continue to take from the poor. Andre will sell his only chicken to pay for a light switch in the house of god in America...
Posts by NVR2L8
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17Warwick, Class 5 Building project, Why?
by DwainBowman inso what is a class 5 project?.
it is one done to the highest standards.
paint & drywall, fit and finish, of everything to perfection.
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Be honest post do all posters on this site believe the bible is 100% or has flaws?
by booker-t inwe in the psychology/sociology field have a saying "when people protest too loud usually they are overcompensating".
i did not understand that when i first started studying psychology but now i understand it completely and it is so true.
when i hear someone constantly bashing something or someone such as gay bashing or ethnic bashing or religion bashing sometimes i wonder what are they hiding.
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NVR2L8
For 5 decades I defended a book that I believed was the word of god...It was unthinkable for me to challenge what I had been taught by my loving parents and a brotherhood who guided me in the path leading to everlasting life. Even when I read something contradicting my beliefs I was always able to find a counter argument that made sense to me in the pages of the WT publications. Until the day I tried to verify a quote from a secular source that was used by the WT to support their claim of a steep increase in earthquakes since 1914. This particular quote was broken in two parts with (...) in between. From that very moment I started questioning every quotes, quickly realizing that I had been lied to. Quickly I came to realize I could no longer believe in anything I can't prove...including the existence of god. I had figured out the difference between belief and faith, and without faith the bible is only a collection of fables.
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One thing that's good about being a witnessi
by dothemath ini went to the mall recently .....omg!
glad i don't have to go through all the craziness over christmas shopping..
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NVR2L8
I hated and still hate that poor excuse used by the JWs to show how being in the truth spare them from the agravation of Christmas shopping and overspending on gifts. Not one of them considers that most people find pleasure in giving during the holidays...and when they say that they don't have to wait for a holiday to make a gift, how often do they actually do it? Never. Another thing that annoyed me was how they criticize how people support charities more during the holidays, when they should do it all year long...well JWs, when do you ever support food banks or toy drives? Never.
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Murder in Kingdom Hall Parking lot ...............Today
by Watchtower-Free inhttp://connecticut.news12.com/news/police-woman-fatally-shot-husband-after-dispute-1.9689688.
police: woman fatally shot husband after dispute.
bridgeport - police in bridgeport say they are investigating a deadly shooting that apparently stemmed from a domestic dispute.. the bridgeport police crime scene unit says a homicide occurred at the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, located at 245 huntington turnpike, at around 1:20 a.m. sunday.. police say 36-year-old griselle pizarro, of bridgeport, fatally shot her husband, jacob lopez, in a pickup truck parked outside the hall after he reportedly assaulted her.. more: connecticut crime coverage.
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A PARABLE for Jehovah's Witnesses
by Terry ina man buys a parrot from a pet store but returns it the next day.. he demands to see the owner as he places the brass cage on the counter with a loud thump.. "i wanted the best parrot money can buy.
i can afford it!
i'm a billionaire, you idiot!
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NVR2L8
In the ministry a couple challenged me to answer their questions by only using the Bible. I quickly realized they knew their Bible well while all I could do was to parrot what I learned from the WT. I couldn't reason on any of the scriptures they were showing me. I told them I would do research and return with the answers. I did some research but in the end I was still using the WT publications that provided prefabricated replies...Knowing that this wouldn't work, I never returned to that door because I was just a talking parrot.
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Any elders out there? How to Local needs talks work?
by Letts Party inso a local needs talk was lovingly given at our hall last week that i'm positive targeted me specifically.
it had to do with missing meetings for work.
they even had a demo on what we should do if our boss asks us to stay overtime on a meeting night (basically say "no" and risk losing your great job which you have no desire whatsoever to lose)... so i'm aware that there's a sort of protocol the elders follow when someone in the hall needs to work on something.
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NVR2L8
BOC....in my 50 years in the cult I never heard a marking talk for child abusers...
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Any elders out there? How to Local needs talks work?
by Letts Party inso a local needs talk was lovingly given at our hall last week that i'm positive targeted me specifically.
it had to do with missing meetings for work.
they even had a demo on what we should do if our boss asks us to stay overtime on a meeting night (basically say "no" and risk losing your great job which you have no desire whatsoever to lose)... so i'm aware that there's a sort of protocol the elders follow when someone in the hall needs to work on something.
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NVR2L8
Letts Party,
In my congregation an elder would have approached you first to discuss your situation and to provide council. If the situation persisted or if several members were missing meetings because of work, there would be a local needs talk. In my case, I was a MS and missed several meetings due to business trips. When I told the elders I wanted to step down they offered to give me 6 months to settle matters. I told them travel was part of my work and I had no plan to change my career. They were reluctant to accept my resignation as a MS, especially because I was well liked by the brothers and reaching out...I already knew TTATT and this was my first step in fading out. In the past we had a CO who removed any servant who had shift work that would cause them to miss even one meeting a month. He made it clear that your job should never be more important than serving the WT.
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Anyone know of df'ing for taking a br. to Court (esp. if Cdn)?
by berrygerry inmost jw's have been told that taking a fellow jw to court is wrong.. the shepherd book uses wts speak: "if an individual ignores god's word on this matter, it may affect his congregation privileges.
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the following are from an interesting case in canada ( link ):.
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NVR2L8
Same here...JW elders not honoring contracts and the other party had to abdorb the loss and keep quiet about it. In one case 2 brothers lost their homes and life savings to another brother in good standing. It wasn't his first swindle but no one knew because he was never taken to court and if he was privately reproved, all is kept confidential.
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Overlap what???
by dugout injust out of the blue i asked my wife whos been a jw for some 30 odd years can she explain the overlapping doctrine.
she said to me she never heard of this and said she will have to look it up.
i thought oh s#^%!.
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NVR2L8
It doesn't matter if you understand it or not. All you need is to believe you're in God's organization. How do you know you are in God's organization? The governing body tells you that you are: we are the only ones who preach, we are a united brotherhood, we don't go to war...God reveals his purpose through the GB...
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Gerrit Losch's "I DO NOT ANSWER TO WATCHTOWER"
by Newly Enlightened inin gerrit losch's public statement to the superior copurt of california.
http://www.watchtower.exposed/?p=364.
documents: https://www.dropbox.com/s/49zyexvagn7ux7j/losch%20public%20statement.jpg?dl=0.
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NVR2L8
Watch Tower is a corporation with a board of directors. Losch is a governing body member of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses..