does the watchtower have some sort of dictionary for people to consult for words they use such as publisher, ministry, pioneer.. just wondering as i don't wanna just say what my version of those words mean if they aren't exactly true..
Farkel's list has a lot of sarcasm and satire. Here's a list that is a more serious attempt to define "jw-ese":
That page is a little bit dated. Some terms, like "Presiding Overseer," have changed recently. But for the most part it's a pretty thorough glossary.
i was reading the following page:.
http://ajwrb.org/currentwtpolicy/callingsociety.htm.
can a jw still be df or da for taking a blood transfusion, if they are not "repentant"?.
This was at the heart of the wt's deception in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian government didn't like that the witnesses sanctioned members based on their choice of medical treatment. So the wtbts deceptively changed their rules. Unrepentantly receiving a blood transfusion became an indication that the person was "disassociating himself." This allowed the wtbts to tell Bulgaria: No, we do NOT sanction anyone for their choice of medical treatment. (Of course, the end resut is still the same... if a person was found to unrepentantly accept blood, he would be announced as "no longer one of jw's.")
Pre-Bulgaria blood policy:
*** w61 1/15 p. 63 Questions From Readers ***
Questions From Readers
? In view of the seriousness of taking blood into the human system by a transfusion, would violation of the Holy Scriptures in this regard subject the dedicated, baptized receiver of blood transfusion to being disfellowshiped from the Christian congregation?
The inspired Holy Scriptures answer yes.
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If, however, he refuses to acknowledge his nonconformity to the required Christian standard and makes the matter an issue in the Christian congregation and endeavors to influence others therein to his support; or, if in the future he persists in accepting blood transfusions or in donating blood toward the carrying out of this medical practice upon others, he shows that he has really not repented, but is deliberately opposed to God’s requirements. As a rebellious opposer and unfaithful example to fellow members of the Christian congregation he must be cut off therefrom by disfellowshiping.
Post-Bulgaria blood policy:
(From the 2010 elder's manual):
Willingly and unrepentantly taking blood.
If someone willingly takes blood, perhaps because
of being under extreme pressure, the committee
should obtain the facts and detennine
the indjvidual's attitude. If he is repentant, the
committee would provide spiritual assistance in
the spirit of Galatians 6: 1 and Jude 22, 23. Since
he is spiritually weak, he would not qualify for
special privileges for a period of time, and it may
be necessary to remove certain basic privileges.
Depending on the circumstances, the committee
nlay also need to arrange for an announcement
to the congregation: "'The elders have
handled a matter having to do with [name
of person]. You will be glad to know that
spiritual shepherds are endeavoring to render
assistance." On the other hand, if the elders
on the committee determine that he is
unrepentant, they should announce his disassociation.
It's just a shell game by the wtbts. They will lie and even rewrite their policies to suit their own needs. Cult.
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this may be a different way of exit from the jehovah's mentality, for me it should work, first i want to try all the things that were verbotent to them, slowly at first a piece of black pudding, then donating blood, you see the progression.. then a little more flagrant in the laws, buying a pack of tarot cards, reading them and so on.. does anyone think that's a reasonable way of beginning to destroy the subconcious methods of programming, also i am very ocd so any way of destroying the jehovahs witnesses mindset is fraught with potential new ways of worrying me!.
star tiger.
I've done it, too. I was a born-in, so I never experienced anything in the world. Spent time as an elder, pioneer, etc. Finally saw the flaws in the borg and disassociated at age 41. In the year and a half that I've been out, I've done some desensitizing, too. And I've done it for the exact reason you gave. It has been a way of forcibly breaking my subconscious resistance to breaking the wt's rules.
The night my DA letter was read, I planted an American Flag in the front yard. I now smoke, even though I know it's a harmful and stupid habit. I have watched The Exorcist, Paranormal Activity, and several other "demonic" movies. I went to a fortune teller and had my palms read, plus had my tarot cards read. I registered to vote. I've donated blood as frequently as I'm able to. I participated in a Catholic mass (even though I'm atheist now.) I've done all of the holidays. My house had the most Christmas lights of any house on my block. (My neighbors were probably like... wtf?? Since when do we have to compete with THAT guy???)
One thing I haven't done is fuck around, but that's because I love and respect my wife. If I wasn't married to her, I would do whatever the fuck I wanted to do.
Basically, I look at it this way: I gave the first half of my life to the lies of the washtowel under the guise of worshipping j-ho. I am dedicating the second half of my life to disrespecting j-ho in any way I can.
i recently asked my jw elder brother (who thinks i'm just "inactive") what he makes of the reduction in pages of the wt & awake rags.... his response was something like:.
well this was something that has been discussed for a long time.
the society feels that the brothers need to start using the bible more in field service so they are slowly reducing the pages of the literature to encourage the brothers to read the bible more and not depend so much on the literature.
Householders will appreciate the smaller magazines. They will take up less space in their trash cans.
the entire special assembly day - this is a zipped audio file.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ryisdi.
or piecemeal.
Thanks for posting this.
I wouldn't have been able to make quality recordings of talks like this. You wouldn't have been able to hear the speaker over the sound of me snoring.
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that's right it should be "1970s"(without the apostrophe) not "1970's"..
Everyone here is WRONG. With four Super Bowl wins, the Pittsburgh Steelers clearly conquered the world in the 70s.
in he's nephews book i could not believe some of the things he mentions.
when his father died fred franz told his mother he could not go to the funeral because he was just too busy at bethel.
she spoke to rutherford who ordered him to go.
I like the one where he said, in court, that j-ho is the editor of the watchtower.
Question: At any rate, Jehovah God is now the editor of the paper, is that right?
Freddie: He is today the editor of the paper.
As far as I can tell, Fred Franz was an all-out douchebag.
a friend and i talked on the phone recently, and he read matthew 24:36-38 from 3 different versions of the bible.
the various renderings indicated that the citizenry were not aware of a coming judgment nor did they suspect anything, giving rise to the thought: what did noah preach (if anything)?
likewise, were people in areas far removed from noah's alleged ark building apprised of his monumental feat?
Included in the list of people who "took no note" were the following well-established cultures and civilizations:
Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Egypt, the Minoans, and the Chinese.
Not only did these cultures "take no note" of Noah's warning, they also "took no note" of the flood itself, since we can see through archaeological records that their civilizations proceeded uninterrupted right through the time when they should have been wiped out by Noah's flood.
The flood myth is one of the funnest bible stories to pick apart because it's probably the most ridiculous story ever, when you take it literally.
yes, friends, it's that time once more... when we clip some wt art to a post and try to find all the subliminal wt propaganda messages hidden in the illustration.
(kinda like, "can you find the differences between these two drawings" for kids in the sunday comics).
here's the illustration:.
I've noticed that they are doing a lot of the "cartoonized photo" effect with their pictures lately, especially in articles for young people. On the surface, I would guess they are trying to appear more modern, mainstream, etc.
But the cynical (and mentally diseased) me thinks that perhaps they're going this route because they are having such a hard time retaining teens and young adults, and they were really getting sick of having magazines that are full of photos of young people who are now disfellowshipped... so they cartoonize the photos, and now it won't matter if the kids get DF'ed, since you can't really identify who is who in the pictures.
yes, friends, it's that time once more... when we clip some wt art to a post and try to find all the subliminal wt propaganda messages hidden in the illustration.
(kinda like, "can you find the differences between these two drawings" for kids in the sunday comics).
here's the illustration:.
Is this what you mean by "have fun with the picture"???
