Posts by NotBlind

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JWs Assigned to Fetch Lost Sheep Here?

by HomebutHiding in

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i have been pondering the whys of jws who regularly, and not-so regularly post to the board.

the possibility then struck me that maybe they are assigned--have special dispensation--to associate here in order to retrieve any "misguided" or "lost" sheep and bring them back into their fold.

or are they, thenselves, on the edge, wanting the freedom we now have?

NotBlind

Can I ask a very honest question?

Sure!

I remember endlessly hearing "bad association spoil useful habits"....Is it still preached from the podiums like it was then?

You bet... More than ever, in fact.

Are you afaid of being found out?

Nope. Not at all. When I'm in the privacy of my own home, I do whatever I well please! That's the beauty of the internet. The censors are powerless when you sit in front of your computer screen, with the FREEDOM and the CHOICE to look at whatever information you want.

And what if you were, what would the BOE say now-a-days?

Ha! That shouldn't happen, because I don't surf this site when the elders are looking over my back, anyway... If they did find out, they wouldn't be too happy, would they?

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JWs Assigned to Fetch Lost Sheep Here?

by HomebutHiding in

jw
friends

i have been pondering the whys of jws who regularly, and not-so regularly post to the board.

the possibility then struck me that maybe they are assigned--have special dispensation--to associate here in order to retrieve any "misguided" or "lost" sheep and bring them back into their fold.

or are they, thenselves, on the edge, wanting the freedom we now have?

NotBlind

Well, I'm a JW in good standing, and have been one for several years, and I lurk on this board, and I even throw up an occasional post. I've been following this board for well over a year, now, and before that, I was a loyal reader of H2O. And before H2O, my eyes were opened thanks to the AJWR "Free Zone" graffiti board back in the summer of 1996. Dang, I really miss that board! Anybody remember reading the "Watchtower Unplugged" over there, over 6 years ago?

Not to get off topic too much, but I wish there were a site like that online today... Something moderate that even most 'loyal' JW's wouldn't mind reading. It was a 'kinder, gentler' way of having your eyes opened, if you know what I mean.

Oh well, just my two-and-a-half cents...

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College and home schooling statisctics

by land walker in

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hello everyone!.

i am looking for college attendance and home schooling percentage official statistics for jehovah's witnesses.

NotBlind

If I'm not mistaken, I believe I recall reading that the level of JW's with at least a bachelor's degree is 4.7%. That's just from memory, so don't quote me on it. I DO know that the numbers were recently released in a USA Today article (within the past year), and JW's were at the bottom of the list, making them one of the most uneducated religions in the world....

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Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

by Mister Biggs in

theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

NotBlind

Do you all remember, maybe it was just my hall, when they really pushed the sisters to have informal witnessing as a setting? (I got told-from the platform-that next time I should use that for my setting) YEAH RIGHT! Do you know how hard that is?Your topic is: "The signifgance of the bride class for modern day christians" Setting; Informal witnessing at a Bus Stop. ...PUH-LEEZE!

How true! It just goes to show how much fakery is introduced into the TMS. Very few of the talks were realistic. And why can't the Botch-tower Society come up with more reasonable talks for #3 and #4. The last couple of years, the talks have been out of the Reasoning book, and they are always over the dumbest things! I feel sorry for the girls who have to do those talks!

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Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

by Mister Biggs in

theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

NotBlind

I always would envision the brother speaking in mid-sentence and then....DoooDOdoooo....dooodoodooo

That actually happened to me once! I was giving a Number 4 talk in the 2nd School. In our hall it was customary to wait until the 2nd school was done to start the Service Meeting. But not this time!

The dope giving the instruction talk went over, so when I was about 3 1/2 minutes into my Number Four, the song started....and my talk? Well, it always helps to be in the Front School, doesn't it?

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Sweed midsummer day

by happy man in

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i gone a give you some exotic thing, today is the midsummer day in sweden, this is one of the most important days in our country, when peopel go out celebrate the day when the sun is upp almost evry our, in some places 24 our sun.. we use to putt upp a long woodstock , and then dance around it , this is ofcourse not anything for us as jw, something widh fallows symbols,as the gb say, but we look in stealthily...... greatings froom the land in north, where the sun always are shining.

NotBlind

On this day, you can pick 7 sorts of flowers, and putt them under your pilloow, and inn the night you have a dream who tel you who you gone to married.

Hmmm, this sounds a little like superstition to me, happy man. I thought JW's didn't believe in superstitions like that, unless there's been some NEW LIGHT on the matter in recent months. SOMEBODY CALL THE ELLLL-DERZZZZ !!!

Edited by - NotBlind on 21 June 2002 15:56:30

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Speech Counsel Point - TIMING

by Mister Biggs in

theocratic ministry school (tms) pet peeve of mine is found below.

please feel free to add any that you find as annoying and hypocritical as mine.... last night, brother gramaton* delivered the # 2 talk (bible reading).

he received all of this "wonderful, upbuilding" counsel from brother hank*, the school overseer.

NotBlind

Hi, Mister Biggs. Nice to meet you too. I pop in here every now and then. I want to start posting a little more regularly.... Call it a belated New Year's Resolution!

Anyway, I would love it when an elderly person would go overtime and wouldn't hear the overseer call TIME. They would just go on and on and on and on. I bet it really flustered the overseer. I think the world record is NINE MINUTES, 18 SECONDS, which I personally timed for an 80-something brother named Arthur.

GO ARTHUR!!

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Why the watchtower will fall.

by sleepy in

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because every thing made by jehovahs witnesses is so shoddily made its bound to collapse.

our kingdom hall was falling apart all the time.

thats what happens when you use the untrained witness slaves to build everything in order to save money.they build a pile of crap.edited by - sleepy on 16 june 2002 7:7:51.

NotBlind

Because every thing made by Jehovahs witnesses is so shoddily made its bound to collapse. Our kingdom hall was falling apart all the time.

Wow, this really made me think of the Kingdom Hell I attended back in the early 90's when I was a teenager. The hall was built in 1974, just one year before Armageddon came. Heck, I don't think a year went by when something structurally significant wasn't happening to that building. Just shows what can happen when you put your faith in a bunch of false prophecies.

BTW, that building ended up lasting the congregation over 20 years, until it was condemned by the city...

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Earthquake Shakes Silentlambs Country

by mikepence in

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clearly, jehovah is displeased with the handling of abuse.. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/.

NotBlind

Yeah, I felt this earthquake Tuesday. It was 5.0 on the Richter scale, which is pretty strong for this part of the country. No major damage, though, except for 3 Kingdom Hells which were completely destroyed by the quake.

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