Posts by Calebs Airplane

10

A question about the Annual Meeting

by DATA-DOG in

is everyone invited to the annual meeting?

is it kind of like the memorial where everyone goes at different times?

or, are there only certain kh's invited from certain areas?

Calebs Airplane

I wonder which Governing Body member(s) are getting kick-backs from Dell on the sale of projectors... I'm guessing Losch and Morris "The Turd"...

26

Local Needs Talk: Brothers must repair dents and scratches on their vehicles...

by Calebs Airplane in

so about 8 years ago, we had a local needs talk about dents an scratches !!!!

it was given by the cobe and this guy was just your normal everyday elder.

except he had his occasional pet peeves... like (you guessed it) dents and scratches on some of the brothers' vehicles.

So about 8 years ago, we had a local needs talk about DENTS an SCRATCHES !!!! I sh*t you not. It was given by the COBE and this guy was just your normal everyday elder. Except he had his occasional pet peeves... like (you guessed it) Dents and Scratches on some of the brothers' vehicles. This guy could not stand the sight of any paint imperfections, scratches and let alone dents... I heard him on a few occasions voicing his opinion about vehicle appearance during Field Circus and I'm kicking myself in the head right now for not standing up for those brothers who simply couldn't afford to get their cars repaired...

Anyways, he started his talk with somehing like: "Imagine if one day, you're just getting home from work and a vacuum cleaner salesman pulls up to your house in a banged up and scratched up Honda Accord. What does that say about that salesman? Would you buy a vacuum cleaner from him?... Well if you hold him to a certain standard, shouldn't householders hold us to an even higher standard as representatives of Jehovah's organization?"

I never cringed so hard in my life since there was a young MS (who just got married and could barely make ends meet) who had a Honda Accord that fit the description... and he was sitting 2 rows ahead of me. I could tell that he just froze for the entire talk.

His wife, however, didn't take it so well and broke down in tears. She eventually got up and quickly walked to the bathroom to get cleaned up....

what a f*cked up cult !!!!!

83

There are more Jehovah's Witnesses in Portugal than there are Scientologists in the whole world

by cedars in

jw
friends

it would be nice if this little nougat of information could be more widely known - especially by journalists.. the quoted figures for scientology are taken from tony ortega's 2011 article in the village voice, which quotes former scientology pr executive jeff hawkins as saying.... "i know that event attendance internationally was somewhere in the region of 25,000 to 35,000. the international 'bodies in the shop' (people actually in the orgs that week for service) was 16,000 to 18,000. ias was struggling to get 40,000 members.

based on this and a lot of other information i was privy to, i estimate the actual number of scientologists at a maximum of 40,000. that's on the high side.".

portugal is one of 33 countries with more than 40,000 active jehovah's witnesses - demonstrating the gulf in size between the two faiths.. the following list shows all countries with more than 40,000 jws according to their reported peak publishers for 2013.. .

Calebs Airplane

Isn't the scientology cult intended for rich folk? (that kind of limits your potential membership pool)

24

Isn`t it ludicrous women can be king/queen preists in heaven and rule with jesus in heaven,yet be silent and submissive to males in the congrgations ?

by smiddy in

is this just another example of the bible being inconsistent/contradictory ?

or is it screwed up wt.theology.. what`s your thoughts.

smiddy.

Calebs Airplane

Very good question...

A typical JW answer to this question will be something like:

"Heavenly creatures don't have vaginas or penises."

So, when annointed women go to heaven, their vaginas will be sewed up. Likewise, males will have their penises cut off... ouch (it hurts just thinking about it)...

Anyways, they will always weasle their way out of questions like this...

17

Yet another JW child abuse cover-up in the UK news...

by cedars in

bradford pedophile massimo capazzo was disfellowshipped for grooming and abusing two young boys, but the elders never told the police.. he was only prosecuted after turning himself in.. not surprisingly, both victims now need professional help and wrestle with "feelings of worthlessness and guilt.".

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/10575701.bradford_paedophile_jailed_for_abuse_of_boys/.

cedars.

Calebs Airplane

keep em coming... the walls of the Tower are crumbling...

12

Traffic stats for JW-n

by Terry in

jw
friends

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jehovahs-witness.net#trafficstats.

alexa traffic ranks.

how is this site ranked relative to other sites?.

Calebs Airplane

My wife's real estate website gets hundreds of monthly hits from Romania as well (according to the monthly traffic report she prints out)... But I seriously doubt that anyone in Romania is looking at her site... just saying.

44

WT destroying old literature

by startingover in

i was approached by an elder about a year ago asking what i am going to do with my large collection of wt literature.

he told me the society had put word out that they were collecting old literature.

i asked him why but he couldn't give me a definite answer.

Calebs Airplane

HowTheBibleWasInvented... no... it's not pointless... a pdf copy of an old embarassing publication does not have the same impact that an actual hard copy has... far from it... I find that pdf copies quite often leave some doubt as to whether or not there were any clever "alterations" done... whereas an actual hard copy is hard to deny...

the Watchtower knows this all too well, which is why they're on a mission to bury their embarassing past.

31

Jehovah's Witnesses Couple died in murder suicide

by Watchtower-Free in

jw
friends

http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2013/07/25/couple-died-in-murder-suicide-police-say/.

july 25 2013. couple died in murder-suicide, police say.

suffolk police say the couple found dead in their nansemond river drive home wednesday were victims of a murder-suicide.. they have been identified as lucy celenia perry, 67, and her husband dennis joseph perry, 64.. autopsies showed dennis perry shot his wife before turning the gun on himself, city spokeswoman diana klink said in a press release.