I once saw a sister lead a group in prayer and she held a note book on her head...?
Posts by zeb
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Head Coverings for Women
by Diogenesister inwatchtower's ignorance around the historical background to many biblical directives has had a very negative effect on the lives of witnesses.. for instance paul said women should cover their heads because in corinth prostitutes walked the streets plying for business with their heads uncovered.
hence head coverings were never a symbol of headship but a directive very specific to that period, as was the blood directive!!.
watchtower leaders have been lawyers, businessmen, civil servants and door-to-door book salesmen, never, ever historians or biblical scholars.
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zeb
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Social Security/ Center link/ dept of human service or whatever name they are on this week
by zeb inthis large australian govt dept is the one that pays the pensions to the aged, the broken, the invalids, the unemployed.
they are running a campaign to claim back 'overpayment' from the least able to resist,and in recently revealed cases even the deceased.. no media org or politician will take up the challenge of naming the authors of this insidious action.
if the dept with all its resources overpays and that is a big if then that is their problem to deal with not screw the hapless, the downtrodden and the aged all in all the defenceless.. pensioners are now living in fear they will be sent the dreaded letter to say 'pay up'.
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zeb
This large Australian govt dept is the one that pays the pensions to the aged, the broken, the invalids, the unemployed. They are running a campaign to claim back 'overpayment' from the least able to resist,and in recently revealed cases even the deceased.
No media org or politician will take up the challenge of naming the authors of this insidious action.
If the dept with all its resources overpays and that is a big IF then that is their problem to deal with not screw the hapless, the downtrodden and the aged all in all the defenceless.
Pensioners are now living in fear they will be sent the dreaded letter to say 'pay up'. Some people have challenged the amounts claimed and had the amounts 'owed' reduced considerably.
Would you have all your bank statements and financial histories going back years?
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An old memory...
by Biahi inwhen i was newly divorced,still attending meetings, some of the younger married sisters got friendly with me.
we went out (to bars) after the meeting, we hung out, etc.
then one “ friend” asked me for a favor.
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zeb
This is a display of gross emotional immaturity and you could have been caught up in it. Avoid her like the plague!
Young witnesses in my experience are at least two years behind in their social immaturity and the wt legalistic thinking then authors such ideas.
Perhaps if she had shown him a ...'good time'.. a bit more often she would not have sort to lay in the grass over the fence..
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Our congregation will be deleted
by Rattigan350 inlast night was the co's visit.
prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.
it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.
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zeb
TL 123 Canada. Nothing to do with that class action that is under way is it? (oops I have already said that).
There is one kh in my town. I hope to heaven it gets sold and that perhaps in terrible hope might wake up my wife and I can have her back..
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Failure to report confession of child abusers offence created in Queensland, Australia
by naomidangerlee inthis happened in queensland, australia, today.
i am proud to be a member of the australian labor party and have worked in politics for the last two terms of their government in queensland.
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zeb
Good for you Queensland!
I see elders being thrown under buses.
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"Armageddon is imminent!"
by nowwhat? inremember top shelf tony da turd broadcasting that world wide 2 years ago at the end of the convention?
well 2 years later do we see the slightest hint of the nation's declaring peace and security or going after religion?
so how was it imminent?
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zeb
A son was born to us in 1974. The cong around us said he would never get to go to school . .. . .
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Ted Jaracz - the Cardinal Ratzinger of Jehovah's Witnesses
by Dogpatch intheodore ("ted") jaracz1925-2010.
about 7:30, june 9, 2010, theodore ("ted") jaracz, one of the members of the governing body ruling over jehovah's witnesses, died.
previously, on may 19, 2009, he had had a serious stroke, but recently seemed to have made a big recovery, giving some assembly talks.
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zeb
- WT hardliners are without doubt not subject to the daily disciplines of having to go to work
- Not having to face traffic
- pay therefore for all the vehicle costs and the stresses of parking
- face ever rising cost of living
- have to deal with insecure employment and employers wims
- living with a dark cloud of fear over not being able to meet the mortgage and there dispossession.
- they do not have children, they dont have the night of sickness so never have disturbed sleep then having to face daily the above
- so they dont face the harping criticism by the self righteous class for every facet they engage in child rearing
- they dont have to face their kids being bullied and assaulted at schools due to their proclamations and predictions
- They do not even have neighbours in any normal social sense as they live in a wt monastery
- they do have extended privilege with parking, hotels, airline travel, their housekeeping done, their meals cooked, they do live like grandees and in the disbelief they are chosen of God
- they are in fact institutionalized
- they do afflict on the jw masses their interpretation ever changing of rules to live by as modern day pharisees.
- they have had a now notorious history being revealed, the CARC and inquiries in other countries
- they will expect the masses to close ranks ever further against anyone who says, "Hey, wait a minute" and to fund them at every call with no accounting for where the funds go.
- despite denials they will go on the the policy of shunning with scant regard to its destruction of families.
There is coming hard and fast a day of reckoning for them the wts in all its variety and the GB.
I thank the legislature of New York for the recent re opening of the opportunity for victims to pursue justice and COMPENSATION whereby the victims can seek professional care on going and life reconstruction (education) as little enough for the abuses suffered. -
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Zalkin Law Firm flooded with calls from ex-JWs
by Roger Kirkpatrick inyesterday, i posted a question for a friend in texas as to whom he should contact to report sexual abuse from the 1960s by a jw pioneer/elder who is now deceased.
(incidentally, there are plenty of people who are still alive and in the organization who were very aware of the circumstances and who can be summoned to give testimony regarding these accusations.
) so, my friend called the zalkin law firm.
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zeb
I believe that any such a run to a 'safe-haven' by the gb will prove beyond any doubt that they are self serving snakes. If that doesnt declare the end of the wts nothing short of divine forces will.
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I have a cousin who moved to 800 Red Mills Rd, Wallkill, NY, 12589
by rickroll inso i know this is a dubber property but what do they do there?.
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zeb
from this distance i thought the new place would hold hundreds..