Posts by wallsofjericho

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How many former Jehovah's Witnesses bury their head in the sand when it comes to reasoning about the NGO "conspiracy"?

by Change Name in

hi all - sure sure, you can call me a troll or brainwashed cult member.

i am totally interested in how your answers to these questions.. .

do you find yourself ignoring anything that jehovah's witnesses bring out in regards to their former status as an ngo?.

wallsofjericho

I kind of got a sense that the Ted Turner quote a couple weeks ago was almost a teeny-tiny UN (NGO) article considering what a spokesperson he is for the UN

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2013 District Convention Program: Gods Word is Truth!

by bats in the belfry in

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unlike god's word, that jws believe to be absolute truth, any one of their directives given at the 2013 district convention could be subject to misinterpretation.. .

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wallsofjericho

wow this might as well be called "Don't listen to apostate lies!"

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My terminally ill friend will read this; please offer your love and support.

by compound complex in

jw
friends

dear friends:.

forty-five years ago i was out in service with an elder, and we came upon a house where the owners kindly received us.

this was not so unusual as the family was jehovah's witnesses.

wallsofjericho

Mike,

we are all a family and you are our brother. We love you. Please know we are all thinking of you at this time dear brother

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The 1954 Douglas Walsh Transcript--PDF!

by Atlantis in

the douglas walsh trial 1954. the watchtower under oath.

exposing the watchtower dictatorship over jehovah's witnesses.

most of the researchers here need no introduction as to the "exposing" testimony recorded within this 762 page court transcript.

Discussion with family member who is an Elder in our congregation

by Newly Enlightened in

so about a week ago, i showed my cousin & her husband [an elder in our congregation] the picture on pg 29 of our 4/15/2013 study wt and asked, "if jesus is head of the congregation then where is he?".

after several minutes of searching, dead silence.. i then asked if they had heard the part on the 2012 summer district conv the part about "our spiritual mother, where the c.o said that "the bible by itself does not shine thru as life-giving truths just by itself.

" they were shocked and said that i must have misheard it because that would be apostasy.

wallsofjericho

Me: Do you remember what you said that it would be apostasy?

E: I never said that

so typical

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I am totally confoused who is the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class?

by booker-t in

i have been hearing and reading on websites about some "new light" jws are saying concerning the faithful and discreet slave class.

it sounds like the same information they have been saying for years.

i was always taught the faithful and discreet slave class is the annoited governing body members dispensing food at the proper time for the non annoited jws.

wallsofjericho

yes it is amazing that they have been dispensing proper food at the proper time . yet no one encluding there own followers can explain any of it..

great point. The WTS prints blurbs here and there over multiple artciles and years but never puts it all in once place at one time. This creates the "I know I heard it explained before but I can't seem to rembember all the details" scenario among r&f. This contributes to the original poster's thought that this is what "they" always taught. Many J-Dubs feel this way about many things.

Cedars has it right about the F&DS. The other thing is that the great crowd are now included among the domestics. Previously the domestics = F&DS (typically those anointed not dispensing food)
Now the domestics are anointed and great crowd/other sheep obeying the F&DS (which is the GB only)

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At JW.Org, for kids, a connect the dots coloring page of Lot's wife turning into salt.

by Theocratic Sedition in

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friends

http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/picture-activities/lots-wife-becomes-salt/.

is it me or is this kinda sick?

i mean i can understand learning from the account, but this is kinda deviant.

wallsofjericho

disgusting

revolting!

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Forum Owner and Member Integrity

by Simon in

some people recently raised concerns about security of the site relating to whether forum members could be watchtower plants trying to obtain information about people.

apparently, this was because a previous forum that was setup was either owned by or later handed over to someone who used it to collect personal information about people which was then used to harrass them.

i don't know all the details, i'm just paraphrasing what i've heard and recognize that it's a concern to some people.. i want to first of all put people's minds at rest: i've been running this site for what will be 13 years next month.

wallsofjericho

The Watchtower has work camps disguised as religious institutions. Slave masters masqurading as religious gurus and slaves believing they are saving the world one door at a time.

very well put

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Forum Owner and Member Integrity

by Simon in

some people recently raised concerns about security of the site relating to whether forum members could be watchtower plants trying to obtain information about people.

apparently, this was because a previous forum that was setup was either owned by or later handed over to someone who used it to collect personal information about people which was then used to harrass them.

i don't know all the details, i'm just paraphrasing what i've heard and recognize that it's a concern to some people.. i want to first of all put people's minds at rest: i've been running this site for what will be 13 years next month.

wallsofjericho

thanks Simon for all you hard work! there are many of us here that would not know where else to go if it were not for you and JWN

you are right about divulging too much personal information. I had done this on another forum and a JW that knew me figured out who I was!

Regarding your comments about holding personal data, I am not interested in any data about individuals here. I AM interested though if you have any data about visits from WTBTS IP addresses. Not the actual IP's, just statistics. How many hits a year/month/day/minute? do you get from WTBTS IP's?

I would love to get a glimpse of those numbers ;)

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Creative Revenge

by Roberta804 in

i love this topic.... stole it from a female talk radio host dr. sonia freeman in the chicago area decades ago.

think and post a creative (not damaging, violent, or illegal) action that would piss off those who shun us.

here is an example: many years ago when my hubby was still an elder he collected the mail for the kh.

wallsofjericho

i like to collect multiple DVD's and books at assemblies. they are just handing them out and I act as if "oh yeah!" and they happily hand me one. I ask for two and they of course happily give me two.

I then throw them all straight in the bin since I know my wife has already picked up copies for us anyway. Of course I never donate, havn't in years

I joyfully threw out about 20 boxes of bound volumes this year. It made me wonder how many countless trees were tossed into land fill as WT bound volumes in the past 10 years with the prolification of the CD-ROM and now the online library. Of course I also threw out several new, unopened books and DVD's as well. Heck I pitched out our 2013 calendars!

Yes I'm pathetic, but it gives me a tiny little feeling of victory.