Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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Credit card machines at district conventions

by OneDayillBeFree in

so it's true they are real.

i never thought i'd see the day when the org.

would be so desperate for money that they would do this.

dropoffyourkeylee

Confirmation and update:

At the 2012 district convention just concluded in SW Ohio, USA, there were 6 credit/debit card machines in use at different places around the site. They were wireless (I presume there was a wireless router somewhere on site) so all the volunteer 'watcher' had to do was find an empty table and set up their sign and printed directions for use and put the device out there. I observed a steady stream of people donating in this manner. There was no minimum donation (I asked).

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Sparlock entry at Uncyclopedia

by IsaacJ22 in

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i created a brief entry at the uncyclopedia on sparlock.

it can be found here at http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/sparlock.

if you guys want to make it bigger, better, funnier, that could insure that the entry stays up.

dropoffyourkeylee

Thanks for starting this. I made a second contribution to the Sparlock entry at:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Sparlock

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Rick Fearon's interview with attorney Rick Simons and Barbara Anderson is now up on 6 Screens

by ScenicViewer in

follow this link, scroll down to entry dated 6-16-2012.. http://www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com/telenetwork/six-screens.php.

edit: warning, you will have to listen to several minutes of music before rick starts talking.. edit 2: this is a 5 hour program.

a progress bar will appear the allows you to fast forward, but it took many minutes for it to load on my computer.

dropoffyourkeylee

1. Was there a duty to protect Candace from somebody who was not an elder

No doubt at the appeal the WT Society will claim that the perpetrator was a rank-and-file member with no responsibility. My comment is that he was a 'minister' by the Society's own definition. In the 50's, they went to great length to assert in court that all members are ministers, and there is not clergy. The main reason for this stand was to support their military exemption in the US. I have a feeling that stand will come back to haunt them is they try to argue that this person is not a minister.

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Its on the Daily Mail Website!!!!!

by cantleave in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html.

dropoffyourkeylee

It hasn't come onto the main page of the daily mail on line yet here in UK.

I just looked at the 'home' site and the Conti story appears for me about halfway down the page at this link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

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If you got apostate vids on Youtube take em off now!!! Legal Dept to Sue!

by smithmandy1 in

i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.

legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!

my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.

dropoffyourkeylee

guessing it's some kind of Island language, not Tagalog, any thoughts on this?

Bubble, the language referenced here looks like Hindi

http://www.watchtower.org/hi/kn37/article_01.pdf

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If you got apostate vids on Youtube take em off now!!! Legal Dept to Sue!

by smithmandy1 in

i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.

legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!

my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.

dropoffyourkeylee

The WT has a new hotshot attorney, Brother S.P. Arlock who is really something, I hear. His powers are magical!

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NZ cult preparing to move into compound

by Black Sheep in

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4743327a11.html.

church wants to set up 'destiny city'wednesday, 29 october 2008. the leader of destiny church says plans are underway to create a self-contained "destiny city" for its followers in the middle of south auckland.. .

self-styled bishop brian tamaki made the announcement at the church's 10th birthday conference, held over the weekend.. mr tamaki said donations of more than $2.4 million had already been collected for the creation of the city.. the church was three weeks away from securing an eight-hectare plot "in the heart" of south auckland, tv3 news reported.. plans for the city include a 5000-seat church, maraes, medical centres and schools - eliminating the need for residents to ever leave.. "every child of every member of this church will never go to a state school again," mr tamaki said.. he urged the church's 7000-plus members to sell their homes and move to his city "for the purpose of god".. tv3 news said it had been contacted by a man whose mother planned to sell up six properties in order to donate the money to the church and secure a spot in destiny city.. the church could not be contacted for comment tonight.. nzpa.

dropoffyourkeylee

Observation: the first post say the site is 8 hectare (which is abt 20 acres), a later post says 10 acres. What strikes me as odd is that neither figure is near big enough to create a 'compound'. It sounds more in line with a convention center

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Can someone put Sparlock on WIKIPEDIA

by Witness 007 in

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i found it too hard but he should be in there!!!

anyone know how?.

dropoffyourkeylee

If wikipedia doesn't allow a Sparlock entry, the Unencylopedia site surely will. It is hilarious if you haven't seen it yet. Here is the entry about the name 'Jehovah': http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jehovah

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The new kids DVD - was it deliberate? What are we missing?

by cedars in

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normally i don't go in for these conspiracy theory ideas, but a comment by kurtbethel on another thread got me to thinking.

might this latest dvd actually be proof that there are operatives inside watchtower hq who are deliberately sabotaging the society's material?

dropoffyourkeylee

With the Sparlock video, the Society has forgotten one of the basic ideas from their cult indoctrination playbook, that is, don't introduce the weird stuff until the new member is already well along. There are so many positive Christian messages they could have chosen for the first video... showing love to grandma and grandpa, kindness to neighbors, even witnessing to a friend, but no!, they choose a goofy, negative message which only a fully indoctinated Witness would approve of. Just wait until they start to show this video to new or relatively new studies, young mothers with children who study, this is really going to backfire.

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24 baptized at Tucson, AZ today - attendance 5,670

by Gayle in

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a friend, non-jw, went to convention today.

she observed about 1/3 baptized were youth.. ***********************************************.

i read article:.

dropoffyourkeylee

24/5670 = 0.4%

50/10300 = 0.5%

By contrast I recently found in my old papers a convention program from the Divine Victory Assembly in 1973. The program is from June 21-24, 1973 in Tiger Stadium, Detroit Michigan. There were 982 baptized on Friday morning, with 49,114 in attendance.

982/49114 = 2.0%

Baptisms are only one fourth as much as they used to be.