Posts by r51785

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The Privilege of Handling the Microphones

by minimus in

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one of the most unbelievable privileges that a brother could have was being a microphone handler.

elders would discuss brothers for hours and see whether or not we would allow them to mow the lawn or handle a mike.

i always felt that these brothers were doing us a favor but if they didn't get a minimum of 10 hours in per month, they were dog crap and couldn't have any privileges.

r51785

My first job as a newly appointed twenty year old ministerial servant was being in charge of the sound system and stage. I was given two assistants both of whom would use this wonderful opportunity as a springboard to becoming ministerial servants themselves. What a blessing!

Not only did I oversee microphone handling, but I had the privelege of adjusting the height of the speaker's microphone and moving around any furniture on the stage for demonstrations. Truly Jehovah blesses his loyal ones!

Boy, them was the days! Now I'm just a crummy apostate, cast out into the cold and darkness with weeping and gnashing of teeth...

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Communist Party vs. The WTS

by sunshineToo in

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list all the similarities, please.

r51785

One more thought:

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to listen to radio or television from the rest of the world, in the Theocratic Gulag it is illegal to use the internet. My how technology changes but human oppressors don't.

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Communist Party vs. The WTS

by sunshineToo in

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friends

list all the similarities, please.

r51785

Peoples Republic = Theocratic Organization
Kremlin = Bethel
Politburo = Governing Body
Comrade = Brother/Sister
Party Member = Anointed
Proletariat = Great Crowd
Capitalist Bourgeoisie = Worldling
Counterrevolutionary = Apostate
Workers = Publishers
Pioneers = Pioneers
Workers paradise = Spiritual paradise
Party line = Food in due season
Re-education = Bible study
Disinformation = Theocratic war strategy
Crimes against the State = Disfellowshipping offenses
KGB = Elders
Show Trial = Judicial Committee Meeting
Liquidation = Disfellowshipping
Party Congress = District Assembly
Religion is the opiate of the people = Religion is a snare and a racket

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Sign of the Last Days THEN!

by JanH in

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the last days in the 14th century

all through recorded history there have been people who have pointed to the calamities, horrors and disasters in the world, and preached that this signified an imminent end of the world.

this isnt even unique to christianity, which started off with strong millennial expectations in the 1st century, and for the most part retains the same expectations almost 2000 years later.

r51785

Barbara Tuchman's book "A Distant Mirror" had a huge influence on my leaving. I strongly recommend it to anyone who might think that the WT Society has "the truth."

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Levittown, Pennyslvania

by Shipkicker in

was raised jw attended levittown cong.

for a year but have been out for 20 yrs.

shipkicker .

r51785

I attended the Levittown congregation as a small child (age 3-7). I have been out for 22 years.

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``Jehovah'' This, ``Jehovah" That: Respect...

by Room 215 in

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i know, i know, the jws love to boast about ``honoring jehovah'' and having ``restored the divine name to its rightful place.

'' but my question is: is such casual off-hand use of the divine name really respectful?

i mean, the vast majority of us well know the names of our parents; but just how respectful would it be to go around referring to them as ``harry'' and ``alice?".

r51785

Witnesses love the exclusivity of the name, and they feel they are the only ones using it as it really should be used!

I believe that the JW's use the divine name almost like a brand. They use it to distinguish themselves from other faiths and believe that by using it they are proven to be the one true organization. The best way to honor God is not by constantly reciting his name but acting in an honorable way.

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Golf.....19th hole anyone?

by ISP in

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golf course 'dotted with prostitutes' tents during tournament'

police in california who raided a private golf tournament say they found prostitutes' tents dotted around the course.. they detained over 100 golfers and arrested six others during the raid on the hidden valley golf club in norco.. the times says an la restaurant booked the course under the name golf ventures, thought to be an alias for its real name.. as the 100 competitors and 19 women were taken off for questioning, six people were led from the course in handcuffs.. the club says it is as shocked as police.. lisa mcconnell of the sheriff's department in riverside county, east of la, said: "as part of a golf tournament, sex acts were offered to participants for a fee.

there were tents set up around the course where people could pay for sex.".

r51785

I am a salesman for a trucking company. My office is down the street on Mission Blvd. from the Mira Loma Assembly Hall. My sales territory is in Norco and Corona. Part of my job is entertaining customers and my favorite way to entertain is by playing golf. I have played the Hidden Valley Golf Club several times. I laughed when I saw that article because Hidden Valley was at one time considered one of the best courses in the area. But with new courses like Goose Creek, Eagle Glen and Trilogy, they have lost a lot of business. I guess this novel type of tournament is their idea for getting business back.

If you come to Riverside County to play golf, I can't recommend Hidden Valley. The guy who designed it did a poor job. I understand he's never built another golf course since!

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In all modesty...I "HOLED IN ONE" TOD...

by idaho in

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to golflovers.

i just had to write it.

today i holed in one on my local.

r51785

Congratulations Idaho.

Now get over to Bethpage real quick, the last group is about to tee off!

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DOOR TO DOOR ON D-DAY

by JamesG in

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gee, i guess you all aren't interested in my private life,and relationship problems, so... i wanted to post that i went out on service on d-day, the day after dateline day.

many of you warned me not to go out, including her, especially, because she cared about me so much,.

was i supposed to have tomatos thrown at me?

r51785

James,

The full effect of Dateline will not come into being until the end of the "Dateline Times." This period of seven times (a time equals 360 years according to the lunar calendar) corresponds to the 2300 mornings mentioned in the book of Daniel. According to the formula "a year for a day" we would expect the end of the Dateline Times to come in 2300 mornings from the original broadcast date. This length of time is confirmed by the distance from Scranton, PA to Brooklyn via the Lackawana Railroad tunnel as well as the distance of the main shaft of the Great Pyramid. With the end of the "Dateline Times" will come the second invisible presence of Dateline which corresponds to the showing of Dateline only on cable thus making it invisible to all but annointed members of the cable subscribers organization. Within the generation of the second presence of Dateline, a period of time which is firmly defined but completely unknown, there will be a cry of "Peace and Security" by all pedophiles at which time there will be sudden destruction of the pedophile paradise.

If you refuse to accept the foregoing you are subject to being disfellowshipped for apostasy.

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New Light on Armaggedon?

by tdogg in

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so i had a discussion with my jw father .

i was pointing out the fact that we were taught that only those who follow the watchtower would survive the end.

he told me that there is now a small period of time at the end that those who were not jw could be 'pardoned'.

r51785

I know of a prominent elder in Southern California (former circut overseer and current district assembly speaker) who has privately speculated that right before the end all the unbelieving family members of JW's will be swept into the organization in a last minute salvation binge right before the grand and glorious destruction that we all so fervently hope for.

Yeah right.