Posts by ScenicViewer

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All New School for JW's

by KingDavidwasframed in

in order to combat the evils of having to educate our children in the schools of the world (what with all the evolution teaching and sex and sports out there - eww), the wtb&ts have decided to start their own private schools.

here is an example of what they will teach at this god endorsed school for his name people:.

math:.

ScenicViewer

Love the Social Studies program. Very funny!

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Victoria, Australia: Report on Sept. 13th hearing involving Steven Unthank

by AndersonsInfo in

i received the following information from the xjw in australia who agreed to keep us all informed of whatever takes place at court hearings that involve steven unthank and the five watch tower entities that were recently criminally charged in victoria, australia.. .

this is the report for the hearing held on september 13, 2011.. .

barbara.

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@Doug Mason

You are not misunderstanding. The Mormons, Catholics, Anglicans, and other churches have complied with this law, but for some reason that they are not saying, the Watchtower has refused. The original excuse was that they don't have Sunday School, so the law does not apply to them. Nobody seems to believe that will hold up.

You would think that a religion that claims to be the sole source and caretaker of 'truth' on earth would be open, transparent, hiding nothing, and should have been the first to comply.

Certainly the Watchtower tells it's followers they must be scrupulously honest in obeying all laws that don't conflict with God's law. It's a shame the organization doesn't do the same.

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Child Health Watchtower deception!

by Marvin Shilmer in

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child health watchtower deception!.

today i uploaded a new article addressing a particularly evil deception watchtower promotes in its july 15, 2011 watchtower journal.

when watchtower does what it does in this instance the higher-ups have to know they are misleading folks.

ScenicViewer

When it comes to Parental Rights, the Society is conflicted.

In blood cases it argues for the rights of the parent to decide for the child, even if death would result to the child.

In abortion cases the Society argues for the rights of the (unborn) child to live.

(I'm not making a statement in support of abortion, just pointing out a double standard.)

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2011 Bound Volume of PDF Watchtower Study Edition

by wannabefree in

if you would like a copy, i have compiled the watchtower study editions (including simplified) pdf versions into a "bound volume".

i know, sick, why in the world would you want that?.

here is the link if you do.. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=z48ids8b.

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I think many x-witnesses use the literature for research, while others have thrown theirs away. I kept mine and want to keep up with the latest. Many thanks!

(Do you have other years available?)

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Favorite games and toys as a kid

by littlerockguy in

one of my favorite toys when i was a kid was my spirograph.

i don't know whatever happened to it but i wanted to get another one and didn't realize they didn't make them anymore.

i went on ebay and got a super spirograph (complete except for the pens) for a real good price ($30) - i hit it at just the right time since most are listed for $50 to $100.

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Farkel said, "All I had was the "From Paradise Lost to Paradise Restored" book to "play" with. It terrified me..."

Now that is funny! Glad I wasn't in until I had experienced at least part of a normal childhood. I can imagine some Witness kids with nothing but their books to play with.

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Do you ever suffer from this in your sleep or is it just me?

by highdose in

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last night at 2am i was awoken by the sound of cuboards in the room next to mine being opened and iteams falling out of them.

it terrifiled me, i lay awake listening further for hours in case the burgalars tried anything else.... when the morning came i went into that room, to find it all as it should be... nothing disturbed at all... no break in at all.. this has happened several times to me over the past few years.

no its not the neighbours i live in a deatched house.

ScenicViewer

One other thought Highdose, how'd you get your nick name?

Just kidding!

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Do you ever suffer from this in your sleep or is it just me?

by highdose in

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friends

last night at 2am i was awoken by the sound of cuboards in the room next to mine being opened and iteams falling out of them.

it terrifiled me, i lay awake listening further for hours in case the burgalars tried anything else.... when the morning came i went into that room, to find it all as it should be... nothing disturbed at all... no break in at all.. this has happened several times to me over the past few years.

no its not the neighbours i live in a deatched house.

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Is this ever accmpanied by the inability to move? It could be related to narcolepsy.

(Awake 4-8-91 p19,20)

"Other symptoms often include sudden muscle weakness, sleep paralysis, and frightening hallucinations."

"REM sleep features may even intrude on a patient’s waking thoughts and superimpose a vivid dream—or a terrifying nightmare—on reality. He may awaken in bed, his body paralyzed in the REM state, and hear voices and see frightening things. Such waking dreams (called hypnagogic hallucinations) may also occur during the day, and about half of all narcoleptics experience them."

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Favorite games and toys as a kid

by littlerockguy in

one of my favorite toys when i was a kid was my spirograph.

i don't know whatever happened to it but i wanted to get another one and didn't realize they didn't make them anymore.

i went on ebay and got a super spirograph (complete except for the pens) for a real good price ($30) - i hit it at just the right time since most are listed for $50 to $100.

ScenicViewer

I can smell the glove leather now.

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God or Satan Pyramids?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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god or satan pyramids?

today i uploaded a new article to my blog addressing an instance where watchtower was flipping and flopping about a point of origin, whether god or satan.

my article is titled god or satan pyramids?

ScenicViewer

Your post reminded me of a remark in the Watchtower regarding what is and what isn't an 'old wives' fable.' It made smile.

(Watchtower May, 1881, p224 of Reprints, article “THE YEAR 1881”)

“Our expectations then, relative to this year [1881] are very different from those of others interested in it. As to “Mother Shipton’s prophecy” we of course give no heed to such ‘old wives’ fables.” But the teachings of THE GREAT PYRAMID are quite different. We have great respect for it…”

(FYI, Mother Shipton's prophecy supposedly was, poetically, “The world to an end shall come, in eighteen hundred eighty one.”)

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JW Funerals

by outsmartthesystem in

this is kinda out of the blue....but was brought on by the sad announcement from jwfacts of the passing of his father.

thankfully, that funeral talk was evidently a respectable one......but i have now been to two jw funerals myself in the past 2 years.

i have been extremely dismayed by the talk given in both of them.

ScenicViewer

The organization has actually pulled back on the sales pitch portion, and allowed more to be said about the individual. I saw a funeral talk outline in the early 1970s, and it was like a Public Talk at the KH. It covered the whole life, death, 144,000, other sheep/great crowd spectrum of Witness beliefs.

The idea was to 'take this fine opportunity to give a thorough witness'. Seems like it was a 45 min outline.

I look back on those talks and am definitely sickened by the memory of them, because they were geared to promote the organization, and the person who died was simply used as a spring board to advance the Society's interests.