"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
r51785
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H. L. Mencken on Homeland Security
by r51785 in.
"the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Can't shake the feeling the end is near, help me
by m0nk3y ini hate this feeling .. i try and reason with myself thats its the life long programming that i have been through .. but the world events atm are really getting me nervous ... please people help me get past this :/edited by - m0nk3y on 12 february 2003 1:34:50.
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r51785
Prophecy is very clear:
The end cannot come until the Chicago Cubs play the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. If this day ever comes then know that we are doomed!
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Frightening news brings Armageddon blues
by Derrick ingeorge bush's administration and the government is at it again, warning americans to buy among other things sheets of plastic and duct tape, select a panic room in the home, and seal every orifice to prevent biological, chemical or radioactive agents from seeping through any cracks.
nevermind that those successful enough to seal a room completely air-tight will suffocate long before they become deceased from airborne agents of warfare.
how many of you are concerned the ugly turn of events worldwide portends the great tribulation leading to armageddon?
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r51785
How many of you are concerned the ugly turn of events worldwide portends the Great Tribulation leading to Armageddon?
I'm sure you are aware that the great tribulation started in 1914 with the beginning of the Great War in August of that year. Or so the Watchtower taught until 1969.
Probably the same number that thought for sure after Pearl Harbor we were heading for the GT
No Pettgrudger I think that all true Christians in Dec 1941 recognized that Pearl Harbor did not mark the beginning of the Great Tribulation but merely its resumption, it having been cut short by the armistice of Nov 11, 1918. Of course they were wrong. The Great Tribulation didn't really begin until 1975.
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WT's Worldwide Increase. What Does It Mean ?
by Explorer inregarding the wt's report for the period 2001 - 2002, i guess many here will agree the numbers seem to be coming back up again.
it was interesting to notice how the previous years many of the so called "developed" nations namely the u.s.a., canada, and many eu leading nations such as germany, the netherlands, britain, france, and so on actually reported decrease in their numbers.the only increase came back then from the called "under developing" nations.
this years there seems to be a very significant rebound to those negative figures.
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r51785
Make believe numbers of a make believe ministry supported by organizational pretense.
This reminds me of the old saying that factory workers in the former Soviet Union had: "They pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work."
The Watchtower pretends to reward its cultist with "everlasting life," and its cultists pretend to carry on a "life-saving ministry."
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One question that would make you think....
by Dawn inno jw's have been to my door for years because they all know where i live - my mom drives by with her "car group" and points out our house, even stops to use the potty or get a pop.
silly - i know, but mom doesn't seem to care about the shunning thing (thank goodness).. anyways - hubby and i have bought a new house and will be moving out of this congregation's area soon.
it's a brand new house in a new area so i'm sure it'll get worked fairly quickly (new blood on the block).
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r51785
Ask them if the Watchtower magazine is the word of God.
When they say no, then ask why people who express disagreement with it are disfellowshipped.
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What song sums up your JW experience?
by sleepy inits got to be rage against the machine, "killing in the name of" .
just had the bassline to this song rumbling through my head, havent heard it for ages though .
you need to know the chorus.
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r51785
I can't think of one for myself, but I'll bet J. R. Brown's song is "Lawyers, Guns and Money."
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Initial Reactions-Assisting Inactive Program
by twain30 ina tremendous push has been made to help the inactive in our cong.
there is now an official list assigned to each book-study conductor which they must follow up on.
to me the obvious intent is to jump start the inactive or to label them as bad apples.
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r51785
This is the way things are done in any sales organization.
Unproductive sales reps are worked with and if they don't improve a recommendation is made to upper management (in this case the Circut Sales Manager) to fire (df or da) them.
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The number of anointed
by Nordic in.
the number of anointed is virtually unchanged,.
over the past 14 years.
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r51785
Actually the fact that the number of annointed does not go down is in fullfillment of the bible prophecy,"Millions now living will never die." You see "living" in this scripture refers not to an individual's life span but to the life spans of an entire class of people living contemperaneously with each other. Just as when the scripture says,"this generation will by no means pass away," it means not a literal individual's passing a way but a class or group of people that will always be alive for seventy or eighty years or at least until they die but since they all won't die simultaneously than they will always be alive and therefore won't actually pass away and if they are always alive that means that the number of them will never decrease but if it actually did decrease this would prove that the bible prophecy pinpointing 1935 was indeed coming true just like the organization said it either would or wouldn't depending on light both old and new.
Don't laugh, it will probably say this in next month's WT...
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Blessings, Superstitions ..and Bull$**t
by metatron input down your new world translation.. stop quoting your time- worn texts.. look at your life, for god's sake, mr. average witness!.
all this obedience and constricted living is supposed to get you blessings!.
i simply gave up - both as an elder and a long-time witness.
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r51785
While I was thinking about the Society's condemnation of being 'easy going',
I happened to pass by a church that had Jesus' words carved into it
"My load is easy and my burden is light". !!!!!!!!Jesus' comment is my wife's frequent comment as she observes my mother who is in a perpetual whirlwind of watchtower activity. I think that besides my mother's semi-shunning of me, my wife finds the frantic dub lifestyle the most distasteful part of the cult.
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Long assemblies
by freedom96 inthere have been a couple of postings lately about long assemblies.. does anyone remember these, or maybe even attended them?.
i was just a young child in the early 70's and something tells me i remember a long assembly, but don't remember if it was 8 days.. how long were they exactly, and what times.
what the hell did they talk about???.
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r51785
How did you happen to end up in the UK? That is a long way from So. California.
Okay I confess, I'm not in the UK.
I'm in Chino...