Posts by Chariklo

One desperately struggling angel to another: "Quick, I'm sinking, let me through, got to get to the magic flying-porridge NOW, or my wings'll give out."

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Where is Outlaw?

by Iamallcool in

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he is one of my favorite posters, i look him up from time to time.

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Chariklo

No Outlaw.

No SweetBabyCheezits.

The world is a duller and a sadder place.

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Can the Watchtower Society survive without time reports?

by DT in

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there has already been much discussion about how the watchtower society has declared in australia that going door to door is part of a personal ministry.

this seems to be a lame attempt to avoid liability considering that they require time reports and have formal meetings for field service at the kingdom hall.. this is a bit of a dilemma.

reporting time and formal meetings for field service are important methods of control, however it's not clear if the organization is willing or able to handle the potential liability that may come from this.. imagine what would happen if they lost these methods of control.

Chariklo

Moshe, I think you might be on to something with that easy reporting on the web.

They've probably had that idea on the back burner for a while. Just as they were clearly developing the ideas of the new poliished revolutionary (not) website while they were busy at all last summer's conventions telling the sheep how evil the web is and how they mustn't go there.

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1919

by Chariklo in

can anyone explain to me just how and why the jw's confidently believe that jesus came and "inspected" all the other religions and found every one lacking and failing his expectations except the little group of bible students who went on to become the jw's?.

this is the biggest gap between history, logic and common sense and wt belief, to me.

more ludicrous than all the propehecies put together.. i'd be really interested to know all the different strands of this.

Chariklo

Later in Ratherflawed's time, these parallels were transposed onto the 1914-1918/19 period and built upon.

Yes, built upon and fantasised around, but all that reasoning is exactly how it was explained to me. I think I'd have asked a better question is I'd asked "Just how do they actually believe all this?" because it is so clearly ridiculous. Well, to me at any rate.

Yet the extraordinary thing to me is that they kept emphasising it, stressing it as a prime item of belief. And elder brought it up with me as recently as mid-February. And it was just one of the reasons I am no longer there!

Interesting 00DAD, especially about the Gentile Times. That too is made a big thing of in the local congregation. Or so it seemed to me.

All very strange.

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RIP Levon Helm

by undercover in

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levon helm (the band) died today at 71. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqdfk0fdtk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoi0tc00luc&feature=fvwrel.

Chariklo

Sad to hear that, Cedars.

Good memories and good music.

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Wikileaks style anonymous "JW leaks" dropbox anyone?

by Fernando in

this post was inspired by rory-ks' post at http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/224582/1/so-lets-kick-this-revolution-up-a-gear.. a general strike?.

in response to an open ended innocuous call like:.

"if you are not 100% satisfied with everything you see, hear and experience within the congregation please join your brothers and sisters in communicating this to the powers that be by means of a general worship at home strike starting from 21 dec 2012 until all your concerns have been satisfactorily addressed via www.jwconcerns.com"?.