Well, 1976 was quite a year here in the U.S. It was the nation's bicentennial and the merchandizing element went nuckin' futs. We had bicentennial-themed everything right down to garbage bags and toilet paper.
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The importance of 1975 or was that 1976?
by Listener ini came across an article in the feb 1, 1955 watchtower (questions from readers) which discusses 1976 as being 6,000 years since the creation of adam.
the question being addressed was -.
what are the reasons for changing the date of adams creation first from 4028 b.c.
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Email "Hey Mr. X, We Had A Elder Read A Spoof Story From The Platform!" ROFLMAO!
by ÁrbolesdeArabia indid you ever have elders forget to due their due diligence and read fake stories from the platform?
i got a great email i need to format about several stupid elders and ministerial servants who read spoof jw urban legends from the platform.
big brother said one of the clowns did this while the c.o.
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cobaltcupcake
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting!
When my born-in ex-husband was a kid he wrote his own ministry school talks and sometimes said some really offbeat things from the platform. Before he went up to give his talks his parents would always tell him, "Tell the truth, Dave."
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New Girl
by Gypsy Sam inhope everyone is having a lovely day.
i ended up here after spending the past few months researching jw, without the blinders on.
i was a born-in, baptized as a teen, pioneered out of high school for a couple years (turning down a 4 year scholarship).
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cobaltcupcake
From our group of about 25 jw friends that we regularly associated with, 22 have left in the past two years.
Wow! That's good news!
Welcome, Gypsy!
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Kingdom Hall pranks (or persecution)
by Dismissing servant inhere in sweden there has been som cases with changing the kingdom hall signs.
in some congregation the elders went nuts, in others they were calm and more or less laughed obout it.. but, someone probably discovered that it is possible to rearrange the letters in the word "rikets sal" (kingdom hall) into "skitarsle" ( direct translated "sh*t-a**hole", or freely translated: "a**hole full of sh*t, an invective) probably it were young boys doing this as a prank.
but it has happened in a lot of towns, and got some media attention.
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cobaltcupcake
What a hoot! I can only imagine the horror among the congregation members when they saw that.
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Brother placed 'Teach" Book to President Obama? WTF?
by Smoky ini just read a post on monday aprox 9pm on the "escuela del ministerio teocratico/theocratic ministry school" on facebook (posted in spanish).. it is talking about an experience given in a ohio, circuit assembly.. it reads that a brother that was a worker at the factory obama was visiting, was able to preach briefly to president obama and place the book 'what does the bible teach' during a quick meet and greet.. i think its bullshit.. anyone ever heard of this experience at a assembly?.
i dont have a cpu, and my phone is not working, for me to copy, translate and post on here for you all to see.
maybe one of you can?.
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cobaltcupcake
This sounds like the famous myth about President Clinton's helicopter hovering outside the GB's office window. We were told that the Prez would hover there with secret service because it was the only safe spot in NYC.. He knew he was safe near the JW's.
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Not doing good things for bad reasons
by dissonance_resolved inso someone made a comment on one of my other posts that got me thinking- they said "the non-jw you is better than the the jw you.
" that made me think of all the good things i've never done for whacked-out jw reasons:.
1) contributing to charity- united way (religious origin), red cross (has the word cross in it so it must be wrong), salvation army (forget it), greenpece (political), donating to food banks at the holidays (why help someone celebrate a pagan holiday?
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cobaltcupcake
Good point, DR. I hated the no-charitable-giving, no-volunteering thing. Especially when the annual United Way fund drive was underway and my company was dead set on 100% employee participation - talk about pressure. I finally found one charity under that umbrella that wasn't religiously connected - United Cerebral Palsy - and was able to participate.
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Hypocritical comments by JWs regarding the Catholic Church in light of the new Pope.
by Theocratic Sedition ini'm curious, what can you expect to hear from jws this week?
or have you heard anything already.
since awakening, i find it to be hilarious when jws badmouth catholics and the pope but are completely oblivious to how hypocritical they are considering the gb and other wt heavyweights..
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cobaltcupcake
When John Paul became pope I don't remember any discussion about it among the publishers. Wasn't our party.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Shunning at it's very best! SHOCKING Jw.Org
by BlindersOff1 infound this on youtube fyi.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8yu-r8g-8.
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cobaltcupcake
Well worth the time to watch the whole thing. That is the best example of what we all go through from being shunned! What an evil organization.
BlindersOff - Thanks for bringing that over here.
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Update on "DA'd/DF'd"...
by Suraj Khan insince many of you were kind enough to give your responses, or at least share in my confusion, i wanted to take some time to share things that went down in the last few days in my family.. to recap, i was born-in but thankfully the hogwash never took.
i was actively dodging meetings by age 13 by faking illness, usually missing 20 to 25 days of school per year.
i left my family to attend college and was told by a family member that an announcement was made in my local congregation the following year that i was disassociated.
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cobaltcupcake
Interestingly, up until 1988, unbaptized publishers could be da'd/df'd.
I remember a kid from my congregation getting DA'd "for conduct unbecoming a Christian."
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Disgusting characters in the Bible. Know any?
by punkofnice inin a recent thread zed is dead commented on lot being a scumbag.. it seems the wbt$ uses these filthy perverts as 'good examples(tm)'.. even when i was in i thought david was a piece of crap.. i vote king david as a lowlife scumbag.
murderous, adulterous, and treacherous.
(obviously he was copying that imaginary sky twat = god!!)..
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cobaltcupcake
The guy who was so in love with his runaway concubine that he traveled some distance from his home to retrieve her then the next day threw her out to a crowd who raped her until she was dead. Then he dismembered her body and distributed the pieces around the country, inciting a civil war that nearly wiped out an entire tribe of Israel.
