Sigfrid Mallozzi

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  When the WT study goes beyond what is written in the Bible.

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in today's wt study, 9th sept 2018, para 14. we learnt that jesus mother, mary, is one of the 144.000 anointed at penticost.

  just another classic, we know more than what is contained in scripture..

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  But how can we put ourselves in a position to be known by Jehovah?

  I'm surprised they didn't go even further to highlight your relationship with Jehovah is relative and based upon the support (financial) that you give to the Governing Body!
  
  
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  (How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.

  the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.

  the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  If they could just get the brothers who pay for all the gas in those Chevrolet Suburbans to donate the gas money every month there would be an end to the hour requirement.
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  Points From the December Study Watchtower

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 3, par.

  2 - "...a 19th century visitor cried out, “oh, what a paradise!”.

  (companion & useful guide to the beauties of scotland, by the hon.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  I'm sorry, I meant to add that with the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, that it is not only their discouragement of education but the massive amounts of time demanded by the Organization to demonstrate your loyalty. Time, that for the average person would be used generating income or pursuing a score of other beneficial things in their life for their personal benefit and future wealth.
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  Points From the December Study Watchtower

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 3, par.

  2 - "...a 19th century visitor cried out, “oh, what a paradise!”.

  (companion & useful guide to the beauties of scotland, by the hon.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  Page 19, par.1 - "Teachers, guidance counselors, or others may have encouraged you to pursue higher education and a lucrative career. Jehovah, however, advises you to take a different course."

  In Watchtower Writings, Jehovah=The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society/aka the present Governing Body. Read a study article about the publisher's disappointment that the end has not yet arrived and substitute WTBTS or Governing Body with all references to "Jehovah" in the article. You will then see, The man behind the curtains has a puppet named Jehovah.

  There is obviously "something" about "higher" education that with even a few completed courses unravels or at the least diminishes the strength of a cult upon the human psyche.

  Yes, it's a disgrace and a disservice to their followers for Watchtower to repeat such garbage, however, it demonstrates wt's selfishness perhaps awakening some.

  I don't believe that the University is the magic bullet or ticket for everyone for everything. If you want to make a living seeking an apprenticeship for a professional trade (Not window cleaning) the Unions and others give the opportunity usually with a four-year program. Currently, with the economy as it is, there is a great demand for skilled tradesmen (skills more advanced than residential work (similar to what is used at Quick Builds.) Union members have a livable wage, a retirement pension, and health care insurance as their employer pays for these benefits per each hour worked. There are many roads, I just use this to illustrate.

  The Federalist has an article, (http://thefederalist.com/2013/09/23/six-lies-most-people-believe-about-u-s-schools/) Six Lies that Most People Believe about U.S. Schools which I thought was interesting. Joy Pullmann says, Quote:

  Lie 6: Practically everyone should go to college

  This foolhardy demand rests on the false premise that the point of an education is job preparation. But any good education will treat a student as a whole person and not merely an economic unit. This is particularly important because the U.S. education system exists to undergird our unusual form of government: self-rule.

  Nowadays, however, we hear nothing about citizenship, the public purpose of public education.

  Check your state constitution. Mine says public schools exist because “knowledge and learning, generally diffused throughout a community, [are] essential to the preservation of a free government…” Notice it establishes public education to preserve a free government, not to get people the lifestyles they want. As famed economist Milton Friedman writes, vocational education generally does not create enough of a public good to justify direct government subsidy. “The individual is rewarded in a free enterprise society by receiving a higher return for his services than he would otherwise be able to command,” he says, meaning vocational education primarily benefits the individual, so they should pay for their own education. (Friedman also discusses ways for government to facilitate this for poor people without creating perverse incentives). Ultimately, Friedman agrees with the original rationale forAmerica’s public education systems—that they should exist to provide general education for citizenship.

  Nowadays, however, we hear nothing about citizenship, the ostensible purpose of public education. Education subsidies seem to have devolved into a mechanism for getting people enough money to make them happy. We hear things like this, from Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, just last week: “It’s clear that a high school degree is no longer adequate to gain a good job and access to the middle-class life.” Public schooling is considered everyone’s birthright to the middle class. But Gov. Fallin is just wrong. Brookings Institution research recently showed that a person’s chance of living in poverty is only 2 percent if he or she merely completes high school, works full time, and marries before creating children.

  The past several years have seen a deluge of demands that a high school diploma now qualify all bearers for non-remedial admission to college. The Obama administration has unilaterally required this of all states using No Child Left Behind waivers. This will only further dilute college academics, because everyone is simply not suited for college. As social scientist Charles Murray writes, “The refusal to confront the relationship between intelligence and success in college has produced a cascade of harms–to many students who try to go to college, to those who do not, to the system of higher education, and to the nation as a whole.”

  The impetus that unites these lies is that they promote ideas people want to believe. But lies, however pleasant for one’s peace of mind in the short run, damage people. Those who run our schools say they care about children but year after year they continue to perpetuate systems that are demonstrably harmful to our kids. Those damaged kids will one day grow up to be citizens who are ill-prepared to face our nation’s challenges. The future of freedom depends on our willingness to tell hard truths to our entrenched educational interests and demand accountability for their actions.

  
  
  
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  Article: Philadelphia Inquirer - Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses to protest sex abuse scandals at Pa. convention

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/jehovahs-witnesses-child-sex-abuse-protest-reading-chessa-manion-20180824.html.

  ex-jehovah’s witnesses to protest sex abuse scandals at pa. convention.

  by david gambacorta, posted: 2 hours ago .

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  Former2free, what happened to Barbara?
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  Trump's concubines -- so what? Jehovah loved Solomon and he had 10,000

  by ElderEtta in

  1. social
  2. current

  what say you.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  Perhaps at this level of society, it is understood as "normal" behavior and consequently expected.
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  FYI- Some KH Annoucements Aug 2018

  by stumbledbyothers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of these kh letters may have been mentioned already:.

  starting sept - $14 per publisher toward taking care of the needs of the co in us.. love never fails 2019 regional conventions.. memorial april 19, 2019.. there will be jw contact cards with blank space to write notes..

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  It's been that way for years. In addition to that they have another fund for their cars. The congregation pays for all their expenses each week.
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  Their Last Message of Damnation

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the leaders of the witnesses are preparing their flock for the day when they will have to give that last message of damnation.

  they will soon be announcing how their loving god jehovah will soon becoming to kill off the vast majority of mankind.

  billions of men women and children,.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  In the mid 80's they said that "we were in a warning work" not necessarily trying to find sheeplike ones. Then that slowly fizzled away. As if the preaching work separated the sheep and the goats. Jesus is supposed to do that.
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  What is the current pulse in the organization with the reductions?

  by SouthCentral in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have not seen jehovah’s witnesses in my neighborhood for several years now.

  it appears that the cart witnessing has taken over.

  congregations are being consolidated and witnesses are being forced to travel a greater distance than before.the burdens/privileges of elders seem to be ever increasing!.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  AnnaB, yes, you must have a Society approved UL listed cart. Standing there with literature in ones' hands is so Uncool and Untheocratic. This is not what the Governing Body is directing. Only approved UL Governing Body carts can "hold" literature. The angle of the eyes is all wrong if a human holds it in their hands at or below face level. Potential Jehovah's Witnesses should not have their head held so high as to the literature in a man's hand. All Jehovah's Witnesses that hold their head up that high to see literature in a man's hand are not subordinate or submissive to the Governing Body. This should be corrected without delay.
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  Zombie dubs

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently was on a job with the cobe and i would like to relate this experience.

  it goes to show how unthink these zombies have become.. during working, the cobe asks me “did you see that couple that died in the eritrean prison, the brother and his wife?”.

  i replied that i had not seen anything like that.

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  Sigfrid Mallozzi

  Lastmanstanding, the Cobe wife was baiting you hoping that you would agree with her and then she would have a story to tell her husband.