Posts by mynameislame

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Watchtower Magazine

by poppers in

does anyone have a scan of a watchtower magazine article that shows the questions posed and answers on the bottom of the page?

Do you mean when they used to have the questions for the paragraphs at the bottom of the page? I don't think those ever included the answers, it would be a bit redundant. If you can't figure out the answer by reading the paragraph you might not be breathing.

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Blondie's Comments on the 11-8-2015 WT Study

by blondie in

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blondies highlights from the 11-08-2015 wt study (july 15, 2015).

excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

paragraph 11-15 recreation.

mynameislame

I found it interesting that they are talking about training your conscience but none of the scriptures they used seem to back this up. What would be the point of a conscience if it needed to be trained?

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Fake Reporting, Growth and Crap Blessings

by cookiemaster in

i think the numbers shown in the yearbook and with other occasions that are used by the gibberish buddies to boast about the blessings from jehovah are super fake and inflated, much of it even without their knowledge.

i think they like to take advantage of all sorts of technicalities and loopholes to report numbers as great as possible, but it's not like jws are super reliable sources of reporting.for example i have not been in field circus for something like two years.

i never talked about "the truth" with any non-jw, yet i've never been considered inactive.

mynameislame

An interesting change to the oranized book was pointed out on reddit recently. Probably originally cross posted from here but it is germane to this conversation so i'll cross post back.

The new version adds the following:

The Governing Body does not impose its conscience on the worldwide congregation as to how time spent in field service is to be counted, nor has anyone else been appointed to make a judgment in this matter.

It also deletes the following which was in the 2005 book:

There are essential activities for which time is not counted, such as ... traveling to and from the territory.

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Hidden From Jehovah's Witness videos

by Vortex in

this video deal with some really important information that i wanted to share with you all, looks like it may have hit a nerve in the watchtower, because the stock link he mentioned in the video has been taken down, it was up yesterday, he says he plays chess and anticipated they would do that, so he supplied a secondary link to the same information.

the entire 8 part series is very informative exposing alot about watchtower doctrine, and hidden elements.

here is the link to the video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lrdx3vpug.

mynameislame

Oubliette, what makes you think that list is from a fund?

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Hidden From Jehovah's Witness videos

by Vortex in

this video deal with some really important information that i wanted to share with you all, looks like it may have hit a nerve in the watchtower, because the stock link he mentioned in the video has been taken down, it was up yesterday, he says he plays chess and anticipated they would do that, so he supplied a secondary link to the same information.

the entire 8 part series is very informative exposing alot about watchtower doctrine, and hidden elements.

here is the link to the video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lrdx3vpug.

mynameislame

Granted, these are holdings in a mutual fund with a diverse portfolio of holdings.

Lets not forget that there are socially responsible funds to choose from. That these funds even exist shows that there are non-JWs that are more concerned with clean investing than the JWs are.

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Remember when you could wear casual clothes to the congregation book study?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

i would get home from work,eat dinner,shower and put on jeans,a shirt and gym shoes to the book study.

then,one day a letter was read where men would need to wear a suit and tie and the woman would have to wear dresses.

it was stated in a letter that the change was due to, '' giving a better witness to anyone who would watch us walking into our local congregation or a neighbor's house.''.

mynameislame

Must have been a local needs talk because it was never OK to wear jeans to the book study. Casual would mean business casual with a tie.

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JW.ORG Website Reviews

by Petraglyph in

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seems like a nice website.... http://www.webwiki.com/jw.org.

...it's got some good reviews ;).

interesting that jw.org appears to be hosted by amazon web services and based in amsterdam..

mynameislame

So what you are saying Robert, is that every visit by an apostate to jw.borg is costing them certain “valuable things”?

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What was the strangest off-the-cuff remark you ever heard from and elder or higher appointee?

by donny in

i showed up for saturday morning field service and i was partnered with an elder who had transferred to our congregation in the dallas, texas area from michigan.

i told him about a recent embarrassing moment where i had played a "worldly" song during the sunday meeting due to someone replacing the cassette i had placed in the cassette player late friday night that had the correct "kingdom melody.".

out of the blue he said "about 4 years ago i was giving the sunday talk and i kept sporting a boner from time to time which was bizarre since being horny and teaching about jehovah is typically not something one associates with one another.".

mynameislame

I was called arrogant by an elder once.

Every morning at the field service meeting it was the same thing. Who want's to drive? As a poor pioneer I was happy to use my car but generally didn't have a lot of money for gas. So I would say "We can use my car as long as people can chip in for gas". After a couple days of this he took me aside and told me he thought I was being arrogant by suggesting that we could only use my car if people gave me gas money.

Funny thing is I never saw him offer to use his car even once.

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Reasons for leak and building stop story

by Gorbatchov in

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i have some feeling about the am2015 leak and the recent building stop story going arround.. it wouldn't surprise me that the information is a calculated leak.. - jw's are informal informed about the changes and adopt them informal.. - the building stop influences the concience of jw's for donating more money.. at the other hand, maybe there has occured a financial disaster for example they invested bilions in volkswagen.. gorby.

mynameislame

Blues the quote is:

Zion’s Watch Tower’ has, we believe JEHOVAH for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support.”

Oddly they used this quote in the Sep 15 WT claiming that they had not wavered from this policy.

So are they finally admitting they don't have Jehovah's backing? Or maybe they are admitting that they have emasculated the JW men so technically it isn't men they are petitioning.

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The Borg going out of biz or a ruze, a time line.

by Crazyguy in

when one connects the dots it's very intriguing.

i don't have all the details or in order but here's just some of the events.

2008 global financial melt down.

mynameislame

I was wondering about the effects of 2008 as well. Could they have thought it was the end and sold all their investments at the bottom?

I have questions\thoughts on unemployment among the JWs.

Did a lot of the high earners lose their jobs and have to cut back on their donations?

Or maybe lots of JWs in general lost their jobs and can't afford to donate much of anything anymore.

And since college is almost a requirement to getting a job these days maybe a lot of the younger ones that actually stay are going to college instead of getting a low paying job. And now they have to put off donating because of it. If reddit is any indication the dubs are actually encouraging college by telling the young ones they shouldn't go.