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  The Last Time I Set Foot in a Kingdom Hall

  by Oubliette in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  saturday, september 19th, 2015: .

  earlier today snugglebunny posted a pic of today's "daily text" which is based on a paragraph from the november 15th, 2013 article.

  that magazine contains the now infamous maxim: .

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  Just reflecting on the title. . .

  US zone/branch visit, Saturday Nov 8, 2014. . . .. aaaaand I was done.

  Have not been back since.
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  Need Help with Blood Transfusion Illustration

  by Dissonant15 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  please, who can provide an intelligent rebuttal to the following illustration?

  i always thought it was bullet-proof:.

  "if your doctor directs you to 'abstain from alcohol' would you be ok to have it injected into your veins rather than drink it?

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  Even as a kid with a basic understanding of how the body works, I knew this illustration was bogus.

  Hearing it now make me want to reach for a drink.
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  Max Larson's archived experience on tv-jw-org includes an AWKWARD statement

  by Gilgamesh in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this isn't about anything sordid (or morbid, or reported that knorr did).. it's just that i found an odd-sounding statement in the archived interview that appeared at about 31m20s in the december 2014 monthly tv.jw.org broadcast (or at 4m35s in the stand-alone larson interview also on tv.jw.org).

  it seems to reveal an attitude that you'd think would be obsolete about the power of the anointed.

  in the attached image, as captioned by tv-jw-org, he said: "every overseer was anointed .

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  When I watched the video it was hard to believe that anyone would call JFR, "Pappy." But Knorr called him "Pappy." I remember at Bethel, you sometimes heard Knorr referred to as "Pappy Knorr." I can't see how anyone would give either of them such a nickname based on their natural personalities. Seems like a nickname they wanted to be called.

  Interestingly, some Catholics call the Pope "papa," eg "Papa Francis." So much for no hierarchy.

  I get the feeling that Rutherford would be more aptly named "asshole" than "pappy."
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  Death is not something to be feared!

  by iconoclastic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  science can explain how of things, but it cannot explain why of certain things (for example, why did life arise from non-life and evolved from simpler creatures to more complex life forms only to die and disappear?

  ) so are the conflicted religions whose chief concern is in safeguarding each ones separate identity..

  next option is to look for pearls among the stonesusing power of our own reason.

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  Oops! I accidentally hit the like button on the OP!
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  I'm sick of...

  by freemindfade in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sick of.... ...having an elder i barely know invite himself over to my house, and bring another asshole elder with him, you know, to "see how i'm doing" f-ck them.

  ...having same elder with all insincerity approach me at the beeting and before inviting himself over, ask, "how are you doing?

  " then when i say everything is great, go ahead and invite them selves over anyway.

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  Don't like unannounced visits from pesky elders?

  Knock on their door at 6AM or 10PM and ask them a stupid question like if it's going to rain tomorrow.

  If they give you any trouble, tell them stop calling unannounced at your house, and you will do the same.
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  Watchtard Dancing Around the Word "Rapture"

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there were so many things wrong with this weeks watchtower, its hard to pick one, but one that really bothered me was this watchtower business and their delivery.

  i have never seen them quite have to explain something away like this in a study article like this before.

  shows me they are battling people feeling confused.

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  Exactly ISLAND MAN. . . . they're not CREATIONISTS because they don't believe the earth was created in 6 days; when they ask for money it's not SOLICITING because that would mean they send you an envelope requesting a specific amount be sent in; they don't meet in CHURCHES, they meet in KINGDOM HALLS . .. . .

  The JW Newspeak knows no bounds . . . .
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  Canadian Bethel among the secretive charities

  by gone for good in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/15/audit_of_charities_encounters_resistance.html.

  interesting canadian information on popular charities.

  regarding the "cushion" factor that mentions how many years these charities could continue to function without a single donation remember that the wt brranches download all proceeds directly to new york.. classic cult conduct in handling donated fundswith minimal transparency.

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  This is really fascinating . .. . thanks for posting the link!
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  TV.JW.ORG (September 2015) - Generation explained again

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  guess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend.

  david spane does his best to explain it again.

  the cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that fred franz died.

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  Maybe they had second thoughts already.

  It seems like they never really thought about it in the first place!
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  Watchtower can cite their sources after all

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as far as i can remember watchtower has been notorious for not citing their sources in their literature.

  the most they will do is to cite their in house, long living expert by the name of scholar.

  after 40 + years all i've ever read is the mantra "one scholar says" ad nauseum.

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  Nice find WANNAEXIT!
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  Nearly Killing My Mother Wasn't Enough !

  by cookiemaster in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as some of you might have read last week, my mother had extremely low hemoglobin and without it, she would have died.

  i have somehow managed to bring her to reason and accept the transfusion.

  it saved her life.

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  Un-fucking-believable.

  They can all go to hell.