Posts by picosito

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Part 4: The Last KM School

by Amazing in

part 4: the last km school .

the average jw elder participates in extra exclusive activities over and above the rank & file jw: among them are the judicial committees, private meetings with the circuit and district overseer on various official occasions, possession of the secretive flock book, and kingdom ministry school.. of all these, the least frequently experienced is km school.

it is not all that exciting, because much of what is covered is admonition about what most jws already know that elders are supposed to be doing: examples in field service, regular shepherding calls, meeting preparation and attendance, study with the family, etc.

picosito

Re Sexy Teens's comment: "Now I understand why it was so easy for Ray to get into your brain."

Dear Sexy. Ray only "gets into" one's "brain" if that person is sincerely seeking the truth. One has only to read what he's written and observe/investigate the references he cites in his footnotes. Exhaustive references like his are the hallmark of a person who is a real publisher of truth.

The Watchtower Society's track record is quite poor in this regard if you only take the time to look for verifiable references cited in any Watchtower article. (wait wait wait wait). Did you find any? I don't think so. What does that tell us? It tells us that the WTS is NOT being truthful in lots or in most of what they say because they want people to believe what they say JUST BECAUSE THEY SAY IT and for no other reason. They don't provide easily verifiable facts because they want you to ACCEPT EVERYTHING THEY SAY based on gullible "faith," not on facts.

Ray's track record is truly exemplary. The WTS's is truly shameful, abusive and fraudulent, not because I OR ANYONE ELSE SAYS SO, but because of the facts that testify as faithful witnesses against them. Remember what Jesus said about "the stones crying out." FACTS, VERIFIABLE FACTS, can be compared to stones. Those Stones are going to make your "Crystal Cathedral" Organization all shattered to pieces, and why would you want to be in the way of all the broken glass? Jesus said about false religious organizations: "Get out of her my people." Remember?

Why don't you take some time to reflect on this and try to make some progress as a lover of Truth than to keep defending one of the chief modern-time Abusers of The Truth, The Great Watchtower Empire.

Ray gets into one's brain to help them think and reason, NOT to defraud them with carefully contrived stories about how one does NOT have to think, just support the Watchtower.

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Mother, wife, myself, DA'ing ourselves

by ashitaka in

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friends

well, i've finally had it.

i'm da'ing myself, along with a piece of my fam.

the unbaptised ones are refusing to go with my father now, and even my still devout father is leaning towards our opinion on things.. there wasn't even any screaming when i called the jw's the great hypocrisy last nite.. i just can allow myself to be associated with them in any way.

picosito

Thanks for sharing all that, Ashi. This process is part of how we all can "cause the most damage to the WT" (from Jim Dee's Jan 31 post), by sharing what we've gone through, what family members have gone through because of WTS' policies, and how we want all the world to know it, so that possible WTS converts can have a balance of info input, and so that faders on this site can be encouraged to assert their integrity as to what they want to do with themselves and the life they have left to live.

To paraphrase Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty to live, and do NOT give me spiritual and emotional slavery, abuse and death as a JW."

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Dreamt A Little Dream

by Valis in

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i think i had a vision the other night..or at least the after effects of staying up for too many hours in a row...there i was in my dream walking along and i came across this big house with a big dog on the porch reading a book.

i went up to the house and the dog told me to take my shoes off if i wanted to go in.

i did and walked into the house to find any number of freakish looking people/creatures talking and doing chores and eating and hanging out.

picosito

Your post gave me a visual image of the scene you described. It looked like a scene drawn by the guy that does Dilbert. Really neat visual effect. Thanks, Valis. Great post.

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Part 4: The Last KM School

by Amazing in

part 4: the last km school .

the average jw elder participates in extra exclusive activities over and above the rank & file jw: among them are the judicial committees, private meetings with the circuit and district overseer on various official occasions, possession of the secretive flock book, and kingdom ministry school.. of all these, the least frequently experienced is km school.

it is not all that exciting, because much of what is covered is admonition about what most jws already know that elders are supposed to be doing: examples in field service, regular shepherding calls, meeting preparation and attendance, study with the family, etc.

picosito

Well, they sure lost THIS elder. How nice not to have have the pressure on to kiss arses and lick boots.

Re calling Brooklyn: I did it all the time, from Texas, and nobody ever hassled me about it. I especially got a kick out of listening to Kingdom Melodies on hold (on my nickel).....except one time I was hassling HQ about their strict policy of not combining English and Spanish language groups so that there could be a congregational setup more typical of the mixing of cultures and languages in the Borderlands rather than keeping the groups rigidly segregated in the KH. I guess I called them so much one day the English CO and the Spanish CO came to town together to check things out and politely (they WERE nice about it) informed me that HQ prefers that I go through them -- the 2 CO's -- instead of calling Kingdom Melodies on Hold.

I thought that was great...I finally GOT to them and had some results in the bilingual situation (very small results, like treats thrown to the dog).

In another post I'll get on the bandwagon about the amazingly short-sighted organizational crap I waded around in as I tried to have some more SUBSTANTIAL influence on WTS's linguistic and cultural policies.....

Anyone in other countries have experiences about this intercultural phenomenon in their area? Aborigine-English, Spanish-French, German-Italian, Urdu-Hindi, etc etc etc?

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Are you a true apostate?

by sleepy in

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are you a true apostate?.

heres a test that has been put together by the worlds top scientists to determine your true level of apostateness.. you recieve the latest watchtower and awake do you,.

a.devour its contents eagerly.. b.have a look to find the errors.. c.throw it in the bin.. d.cover it in petrol, set light to it and dance around praising satan.. how do yo feel about the elders ?.

picosito

Hey, sleepy:

Please fill us 'mericuns in on the UK badwords W****S and W****R. The only way we'll get it, if we don't already know it, is if you fill in the ****'s and give us some contextual details. That will help us to enlarge our obscene vocabulary interculturally and will also help us enrich our posts.

Thanks.

Picosito.

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Demon-Inspired

by picosito in

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the jw organization is clearly inquisitional and demon-inspired.

their inventing "new light" is actually how satan works -- by transforming himself into an angel of light, different kinds of "light" according to the circumstances.. even the catholic church does not treat people as severely as jw's, with their shunning and disfellowshipping (at least now that the inquisition has been over for some time).. won't it be good if we all can see her waters dry up totally.

picosito

Hey, Unclebruce,

You're right on when you mention:

"the latest twenty first century body and soul abducting religions .. an endless array of wonderful new toys from the land of the brave .. it's all too much ..lol."

Don't us 'mericuns have lotsa stuff ta be proud of??? Maybe that's what happens when one's country is founded by Puritans. Convicts may have a better basis for sanity and reasonableness.

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95 FECES

by picosito in

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this is kind of a dumb post but it makes me feel good.

if martin luther were doing his thing today, he might call his dissertation "95 feces flung at the door of the kingdom hall.

i larf and larf when i remember watching apes at the san diego zoo pick up their piles of excrement, fling them at the crowd, and then roll on the ground in apparent glee and laughter as the crowd tried to avoid getting hit.. we have to keep up our joy as we fling our stuff at wts and watch them cringe.

picosito

Don't be swerved, Prisca. I liked your comments about "faeces" and 47%.

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95 FECES

by picosito in

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friends

this is kind of a dumb post but it makes me feel good.

if martin luther were doing his thing today, he might call his dissertation "95 feces flung at the door of the kingdom hall.

i larf and larf when i remember watching apes at the san diego zoo pick up their piles of excrement, fling them at the crowd, and then roll on the ground in apparent glee and laughter as the crowd tried to avoid getting hit.. we have to keep up our joy as we fling our stuff at wts and watch them cringe.

picosito

"With the risk of sounding pedantic, it's faeces."
PICOSITO: But then "faeces" would not look like "theses."

"... and it's not apparent glee.
Chimps have well documented senses of humour."

PICOSITO: I guess they actually looked like they were laughing after all. I just had to be pedantic (thanks, Prisca) considering my background.

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Demon-Inspired

by picosito in

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friends

the jw organization is clearly inquisitional and demon-inspired.

their inventing "new light" is actually how satan works -- by transforming himself into an angel of light, different kinds of "light" according to the circumstances.. even the catholic church does not treat people as severely as jw's, with their shunning and disfellowshipping (at least now that the inquisition has been over for some time).. won't it be good if we all can see her waters dry up totally.

picosito

The JW Organization is clearly Inquisitional and demon-inspired. Their inventing "New Light" is actually how Satan works -- by transforming himself into an Angel of Light, different kinds of "light" according to the circumstances.

Even the Catholic Church does not treat people as severely as JW's, with their shunning and disfellowshipping (at least now that the Inquisition has been over for some time).

Won't it be good if we all can see her waters dry up totally.

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95 FECES

by picosito in

jw
friends

this is kind of a dumb post but it makes me feel good.

if martin luther were doing his thing today, he might call his dissertation "95 feces flung at the door of the kingdom hall.

i larf and larf when i remember watching apes at the san diego zoo pick up their piles of excrement, fling them at the crowd, and then roll on the ground in apparent glee and laughter as the crowd tried to avoid getting hit.. we have to keep up our joy as we fling our stuff at wts and watch them cringe.

picosito

This is kind of a dumb post but it makes me feel good. If Martin Luther were doing his thing today, he might call his dissertation "95 FECES FLUNG AT THE DOOR OF THE KINGDOM HALL."

I larf and larf when I remember watching apes at the San Diego Zoo pick up their piles of excrement, fling them at the crowd, and then roll on the ground in apparent glee and laughter as the crowd tried to avoid getting hit.

We have to keep up our joy as we fling our stuff at WTS and watch them cringe. This site is a real blessing for us to do so. Thanks, Simon. And thanks, REAL brothers and sisters, for your shtuff!!!