Posts by NotFormer

Great seeing Caleb and Sophia's family celebrating! Of course, until the Mum guilts the kids into dumping all their presents into the garbage, like in the Sparlock episode. 🙄

Merry Christmas everyone?

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Merry Christmas Everyone

by jhine in

it's that time of year again .

in the words of the bard ( noddy holder ) " it's christmaaas " .

merry christmas everybody .

NotFormer

Can't he just participate, Riley, and say "To Sheol with them and their idiotic rules!"? Or is there some arsehole who might dob him in?

BTW, the "we don't do Christmas" feast by the Kingdom Hall dwellers is a nice touch. The hypocrisy is so tangible that you would think that they would trip over it.

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They are running out of people to do their stuff.

by liam in

this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

so it’s the current new light!.

what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

NotFormer

The last two times they came to our door it was two young blokes. I don't know if that has any bearing on or relation to the above discussion.

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They are running out of people to do their stuff.

by liam in

this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

so it’s the current new light!.

what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

NotFormer

Patrick's one of the new class of up and coming go-getters! 🙄

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They are running out of people to do their stuff.

by liam in

this is the watchtower study article being studied today.

so it’s the current new light!.

what are the new qualifications to be an “elder-aka older man...and circuit overseer?.

Wythenshawe Kingdom Hall - Sold

by AdamCzarnobay in

jw
friends

i was slightly surprised to see that wythenshawe hall has been sold.

it's now a mosque.

this one had an attached flat where the co and his wife lived, i wonder what accommodation they put them in these days..

dropoffyourkeylee, you're absolutely right. The problem is that the JW contractor is between a rock and a hard place. If he fulfills his legal duty and doesn't discriminate against another church who has hired him, he'll be disciplined in some form, perhaps even disfellowshipped, if someone in the WT hierarchy told him not to. He can't sue the Borg because basic religious freedom principles allow a religion to pick and choose who it's members are.

If he chooses to follow the Borg's instructions, he'll be sued by the contracting organisation for illegally discriminating against them. He can't further sue the Borg because, after all, he willingly followed their recommendations.

It's a lose/lose situation for the poor JW contractor. Of course, he could always hide behind the corporate veil

Brother Smith: It's not me contracting with that church, Elder Jones, but Brother Smith LLC. (Brother Smith smiles an innocent smile)

(Stoopid autocorrect turned "Borg" into "Body" 🙄)

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HOW TO BE LOYAL TO JEHOVAH

by liam in

a post from another exjw site, shows how throughout the years, in a regular, systematic fashion, the watchtower has influence thoroughly; an ideological point of view, in the minds of it’s members by using bible scriptures and examples, to get the members to do the unthinkable, even if it clashes with modern ethics.

february 2016 watchtower, paragraph 3 of the article titled .

"learn from jehovah’s loyal servants".

NotFormer

Just when I thought that they could go no lower in my esteem, they write this justification* for murder (presumably wrongful death, unfortunate [fatal] consequences of their various policies, etc.) at their behest! No, I won't have it ! They had no esteem in my eyes in the first place! Let me rephrase:

Just when I thought they could rise no higher in my contempt, they write this justification for murder (and so on and so forth)!

* Okay, written in 2016, but I only just read it.

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Wythenshawe Kingdom Hall - Sold

by AdamCzarnobay in

jw
friends

i was slightly surprised to see that wythenshawe hall has been sold.

it's now a mosque.

this one had an attached flat where the co and his wife lived, i wonder what accommodation they put them in these days..

NotFormer

"Perception, perception, perception, the trick the WTS uses often to guilt jws into not doing something that has no real scriptural basis. So it is not a blanket belief officially but it can up being that way unofficially."

1 Thessalonians 5:22 King James Version

"Abstain from all appearance of evil."

Because of its wording, the KJV version of the above verse was used as a blanket prohibition against pretty much anything in a former church of mine. The mere "appearance", whether ACTUALLY evil or not was enough to condemn a lot of actions by youth in our church. It was usually couched in references to how people outside the church (in the world) might wrongly perceive said actions. That's the "appearance" part. Most modern translations render it as every kind or all forms of evil, not the mere appearance of such.

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Wythenshawe Kingdom Hall - Sold

by AdamCzarnobay in

jw
friends

i was slightly surprised to see that wythenshawe hall has been sold.

it's now a mosque.

this one had an attached flat where the co and his wife lived, i wonder what accommodation they put them in these days..

NotFormer

"What would you prefer? Adolf?"

Harpo Marx's first name: why not? 👍👌🖖 (Leg pulling in return!)

(Yes, I know, he changed his name to Arthur long before the moustache man became a thing)