the year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the bible with me drove by and had a full on "charles manson" looking facial hair and beard.
i asked tina, a friend what's up with him?
tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication.
I used to shave 9 times a week...
Everyday before breakfast including weekends (7 times)... plus 2 extra afternoon shaves per week for the meetings.
I've cut that by 4 shaves... no 2 extras "meeting" shaves and no shaving on the weekend.
1 shave = approx 3 minutes... so that's 12 extra minutes per week I have to myself...
Time is precious.
i have just finished an article misquotes, deception and lies and would like your comments, proof reading, and any other examples that you think are important to add.
most of these already appear on jwfacts.com within specific articles, but it is more powerful seeing them included together.
there have also been a number of requests over the years for such a collection.
jwfacts... Yes... that is the exact quote by Morris (minus the words in parenthesis)... maybe you can insert a video as proof?
at the site, click on the pictures to read lengthy diatribes against apostates lol.. apostasy "seeing oneself as a victim denied" .
as a result of seeing oneself as a victim denied, there can occur a powerful drive toward disaffection and apostasy.
as is almost inevitably the case, there is a great need on the part of a leave-taker to validate their oppositional stance, and the victim-victimizer scenario greatly assists a person in justifying their course of action.
These guys have apparently taken a page from the Westboro Baptist Church manual... this is hate speech on a whole new level...
i have just finished an article misquotes, deception and lies and would like your comments, proof reading, and any other examples that you think are important to add.
most of these already appear on jwfacts.com within specific articles, but it is more powerful seeing them included together.
there have also been a number of requests over the years for such a collection.
jwfacts... excellent article!
Regarding the 7 Gentile Times, I would have also added that the 2,520-yr calculation really originated with John Aquila Brown in 1823 (50 years before Nelson Barbour and CT Russell simply recycled it)...
... especially sone Anthony Morris the Turd made this comment in the 2010 DVD Faith In Action: "The fact that they (the Bible Students) were able to pinpoint that year (1914) is just phenomenal"...
(now that's deceptive)
last week a sister in my new hall made the following comment,.
"a brother once told me that it is better to be wrong with the organization, than to be right and be on your own without the organization.".
wow.
During a service meeting, there was a 15-min (or so) part about "headship" or something along those lines... I forget the question exactly but an extremely docile sister in her late 50's made this comment that made me cringe: "Jehovah would never approve of sisters who work on telephone poles, trucks or other jobs that are obviously intended for men." I felt bad for her family who were noticebly embarassed afterwards.
The elder giving the talk paused for what seemed to be an eternity (as if he were awaiting a punch line from this sister)... then, realizing that she had already handed back the microphone, he looked down and suddenly said: "Well, we do have sisters that do excellent work in KH quick builds, but we know what you really meant to say"...
I cringed again... I don't know which comment was worse... the sister's or the elder's...
check out this arriving in april:.
what bible principles apply to the useof cell phones while attending christian meetings and sharing in the ministry?.
for everything there is an appointed time.
But how our the "techy" j-dubs supposed to count their time and magazine placements on the Field Service App they have on their smart phones?? This will place undue hardship on pioneers who depend on this App... Now they'll have to spend some time at home doing math just to turn in an accurate time slip at the end of the month... how will they ever get over this crisis?...
just in the news: pope benedictus is resigning.
this should be a good example for the gb of our church organization.
there are reasons enough: child abuse (conti case etc), failed prophecies (slave classe, un/osce), killing doctrines (blood doctrine etc, shunning / suicide) and fraude (investment corporation instead of church).. so it would be nice to read on bbc news: governing body of jehovah's witnesses resigns and make way for a new generation that embraces christian freedom.. gorby.
Good example for the GB?
Are you kidding?
I can already hear them announcing the fall of Babylon the Great over the Bethel PA system...
their going to milk this until the cow's tits fall off...
the new light is a bit of give and take by the gb.
they have taken upon themselves the title of the faithful and discreet slave, in exchange for pushing the 'appointment over all of his [christ's] belongings' out into the future, and also in exchange for allowing the earthly class to be counted as 'domestics'.
the gb can now totally lord it as kings over the flock in exchange for having "dignified" them by including them as domestics.
Jesus is not the Mediator of all men. He is only the Mediator of the 12K anointed that are alive on earth.
But only 8 dudes in Brooklyn are the Faithful & Discreet Slave. So technically, they are the only mediator between Jesus and the 12K anointed dubs around the globe.
Wait... I'm confused... I'll come back to this later...
just flipped through the feb awake and the feb 1 public wat.
first time since they went to 16 pages.
my first impression was the large amount of blank space in both mags, really wasted space.
According to the GB, the reason for less pages (and less content within the remaining pages) is so that the "Translating Teams" can translate these mags into even more languages.
(With over 130 years of practice in the art of deception, I still can't believe they weren't able to come up with a better lie than this)
per a letter sent to all special pioneers in the us:.
previously the society reimbursed the special pioneers at a flat rate of x cents per mile, to cover the cost of gasoline and maintenance on their cars.
if i recall correctly, it may even have been the standard irs allowable deduction, something like 40-50 cents per mile.. beginning in 2010, the society will reimburse for mileage only, and strictly follow a mathematical formula, using:.
Either they're hurting for money or their GREED is steadily increasing...
Take for example the January 3, 2013 BOE letter (that Atlantis posted recently)...
In order to allow special pioneers, traveling overseers, etc. to attend the 2014 International Assemblies, they are basically asking congos worldwide to fork over $.15USD X 17 months X # of active publishers... Now, $.15 per month is obviously no big deal for any publishers (even in most underdeveloped countries). However, assuming only 5,000,000 publishers are counted for purposes of this collection... that's roughly $12,750,000 USD. Again, this is just a conservative estimate... The real amount will likely be somewhere in the $15M to $18M range... Possibly even more.
Now let's assume 4,000 special pioneers, traveling overseers, etc. actually qualify (because they DO have to qualify first) to get their travel expenses paid for; and assuming those travel expenses average around $3,000 per dub (which is obviously way too high)... That's still only $12,000,000...
So, by May 2014, they stand to pocket (at the very least), $6,000,000 free and clear... Now, according to the January 2013 BOE letter, whatever is left over will go back into (you guessed it) the "Worldwide Work" fund. Wait... isn't that the fund that gets all the surplus contributions? And isn't this the fund that's suppose to pay for ex-pat j-dub travel expenses? Something doesn't quite add up here... I'm sure quite a few j-dubs have already done the math and realized there will definitely be plenty of money left over...
just saying...
