Hilarious, whoever wrote this article, thanks.
Another site the WT is openly mocked (along with just about everything else imaginable) is the uncyclopedia:
check this out:
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Awake openly mocked on website...
by Tuesday inhttp://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/02/5_hilarious_social_media_image.php.
this is actually not a former witness or anything, this is a cracked style article.
i think it's pretty funny, i think it's evidence that the wt is not going to be around forever.
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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs
by Lady Lee inthw wts likes to play games with their statistics.
one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?
if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.
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dropoffyourkeylee
There was another thread a few months ago that I contributed to. I am going to repeat the same post, as I don't have the heart to add anything just now:
This subject has concerned me greatly, as I have lost 3 friends, 2 of them dear friends who I miss greatly, to suicide in the past few years. I have come to believe that the ridiculous policies and characteristics of the religion itself were largely responsible. This has occurred in two adjoining congregations located about 40 miles apart in rural midwest US, each with about 100-120 publishers.
The first was in 2007-2008. Elder and wife, mid 50's, children at the age of moving out, wanted to go into the Spanish speaking work. The Society and Witness culture - you know what I am talking about- influenced them to sell their house and serve temporarily in the Dominican Republic, with the idea of immersing themselves in the language to learn it better. After 6 months they returned broke and he was literally burned out, as they had him giving virtually every meeting part, in Spanish yet. Also he had been taking an anti-depressant, and without health insurance he decided he could do without it. He had returned to the home congregation for a few months before they were going to serve in a Spanish speaking congregation in the US southeast. He killed himself on a cold weekday afternoon in March. I think about him virtually every day, as he was at my house in the weeks before they went to the DR, and I got the feeling he wanted to talk about it, but I didn't take the time to sit down with him. It haunts me to this day and I have since resolved to never again let such an opportunity pass. He was an active elder in good standing at the time of his death.
The second was in 2009. A sister with a great deal of intelligence and drive, was unhappy with being a 'Stepford' witness wife... she liked to work and was of the type who should have gone to college and find a measure of fulfilment in a career. Her teenage son was disfellowshipped. She wanted desperately to move out of the area and start something different. She got an appartment 80 miles away and separated from her husband. She overdosed in the spring of '09. She was not actively associating at the time, but was not disfellowshipped. She was a dear friend and I thought the world of her.
The third was in 2010. An active ministerial servant, married with young children, took his own life. Depression over losing his job, starting a different job with lower pay, prospect of losing his house, perhaps other reasons I do not know about, as I did not know him really well.
I have not given any names or exact locations because, in agreement with the previous poster, we need to think about the surviving family and children, who would be pained to see their loved one's name pop up on a google search in this context.
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Southwest Ohio Assembly Fund
by 2tone inthere was an article awhile back that talked about the london, ohio and indianapolis, indiana assembly being sold.
there are going to build a new in southwest ohio near cincinatti.. the indianapolis isnt sold.
i just drove by it today and its got a for sale sign on it.
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dropoffyourkeylee
The London Assembly hall is likewise still unsold and being used as usual. There is no for sale sign there, yet.
The land for the new assembly hall planned near Cincinnati Ohio has not been purchased. There is no word yet that any purchase of land is imminent, nor has a specific site been chosen yet.
As far as the 'fund' is concerned, I highly doubt there is any specific fund set aside for this. The money received is most probably just another donation to the Society.
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The Children of Sanchez - Chuck Mangione
by cofty inmy best mate when i was a teen jw introduced me to music beyond the pop charts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzan_a1tzj4.
"take the food from hungry children, they won't cry.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I bought this album when it was newly released... haven't seen either the album or the record player since the early 80's. Even if I found the record I wouldn't have a way to play it anymore. A great recording, though - good times
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Whistleblower Watchtowers Dump
by Marvin Shilmer inwhistleblower watchtowers dump.
today i added a new article to my blog sharing the whistleblowers letter to new yorks department of environmental conservation (dec) disclosing watchtowers pollution sites and incidents related to it.
my article is titled whistleblower watchtowers dump and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/12/whistleblower-watchtowers-dump.html.
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dropoffyourkeylee
I don't think this problem will just go away, especially if there is as much contamination as is suggested by the comments on this site. The people in the Wallkill watershed are serious about water quality. For instance look at this website:
http://www.hudsonwatershed.org/plans09/wallkill.pdf
And this report is interesting, it seems to be a report produced by the Society to satisfy the local authorities concerning impact of changes at Wallkill.
http://www.timmillerassociates.com/publicreview/shawangunk/Watchtower_Farms_Improvements_FEIS.pdf
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dropoffyourkeylee
The shepherd looks like an after thought /photo shopped in.
That was my thought too, it looks so odd that either the shepherd or sheep or both are photoshopped. I wouldn't be surprised if the same shepherd or sheep has appeared before somewhere in a different background
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dropoffyourkeylee
I'll never find another EWE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Awake!: Sometimes You Just Have To Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor
by metatron inah, deception must be so-o-o-o-o-o- easy when you can deal with people who have no critical thinking skills.. an amazing example?
the past november awake magazine !
the cover asks, "is belief in a creator reasonable?".
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Concerning the quote about the Catholics from the Nov, 2011 Awake, p. 29, here is the full quote. It is just a blurb, and there is no context around it:
“Slightly more than
10 percent of American
adults (10.1 percent)
have left the Catholic
church after having been
raised Catholic.”
—NATIONAL
CATHOLIC REPORTER,
U.S.A.
Note that this is not saying that 10% of people raised as Catholics leave the faith. It is saying that 10% of American adults are former Catholics. This translates to saying that (.101 x 217 million adults) 21.9 million former Catholics in the US. Given that there are 35 million people of Hispanic heritage in the US, that is not really a surprising number.
This is a different measure than saying that 37% of people raised as JW leave that faith. The same pewform.org report contains this statement on page 7:
Approximately one-third of the survey respondents who say they were raised Catholic no
longer describe themselves as Catholic. This means that roughly 10% of all Americans are former
Catholics.
1/3 of Catholic youths leave their faith... 2/3 of JW youths leave their faith. Hmmmmm , which is worse?
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Awake!: Sometimes You Just Have To Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor
by metatron inah, deception must be so-o-o-o-o-o- easy when you can deal with people who have no critical thinking skills.. an amazing example?
the past november awake magazine !
the cover asks, "is belief in a creator reasonable?".
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The pewforum study has been discussed a few times on this forum, here is one of the recent discussions;
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/216889/1/A-couple-of-statistics-Im-looking-for
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Awake!: Sometimes You Just Have To Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor
by metatron inah, deception must be so-o-o-o-o-o- easy when you can deal with people who have no critical thinking skills.. an amazing example?
the past november awake magazine !
the cover asks, "is belief in a creator reasonable?".
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Page 29 tells us that "Slightly more than 10 percent" of American adults have left the Catholic Church after having having been raised Catholic"
Hard to believe they would have the nerve to say something like this, when almost 2/3 of Witness youths leave, as reported from pewforum.org a couple of years ago.