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  Found a good video on Youtube about WTBT$

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  it's only about 8 minutes long.

  but he brings up the child abuse policies and cover ups and was disfellowshipped for being an 'apostate & liar'.

  it's pretty good:.

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  The reason he says the elders called him a "liar" was his assertion that the confidential so-called tele-memo document from the Society on Pp 67-68 (he cites a link to Barbara Anderson's website for reference, where a full copy of the document can be found) .. advises elders in states with no reporting requirements to phone in such reports ananymously and from a public telephone.

  I don't find any such reference to making an anonymous tip to the police there... does anyone see it in the text of that document? If so, please point it out.
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  Accused of thinking too much

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been officially accused of "thinking too much".. i've tried to quit thinking, but i'm hoplessly addicted to it.i just can't seem to turn my brain off.. at times duing my school years i was accused of not thinking enough.

  now i'm guilty of thinking too much!.

  the brother even went on to say "could you imagine what the witness organisation if everyone was thinking independently like you do"?

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  It's a corollary to the other label often pinned on awakening thinkers: "You're too smart for your own good."
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  Blondie's CommentsYou Will Not Hear at the 06-30-2013

  by blondie in

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  Thanks Blondie, get well quickly. So the GB self-describes itself modestly as "wonderful" (paragraph 2) and "incredible" (paragraph 18); paragraph 6 informs us that this assemblage of spiritual titans " oversees" -- not actually participates -- "in the researching, writing, etc." I also counted 27 exclamation points, about the same number that regularly appear in a typical Superman or Batman comic!! did I miss any? (my two don't count)
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  A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ukz5m-yo4&feature=youtu.be.

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  " I heard splane give the talk and the numbers were different. He said it was 50 chickens."

  So this chicken story is actually scripted into the DC talk outline -- institutionalized for use by all assigned speakers, and not just Tony the Turd's extemporaneous remark?" That's scary.
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  My first talk with JWs at the door while on vacation

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was the first time in almost eight years i have had a conversation with a jw .

  we were on vacation last week at my son and daughter in laws home .

  one morning the doorbell rang and as i went to answer it my daughter in law said she thought it was witnesses .

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  I give the two Jws credit for their willingness to continue their conversation with you, once you explained your personal situation vis-a-vis the organization.
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  The Flying Spaghetti Monster's The Eight "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts"

  by schnare in

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  2. friends

  i just found this kind of funny and wanted to share them.

  apparently there is even a flying spaghetti monster bible.. .

  1. i'd really rather you didn't act like a sanctimonious holier-than-thou *** when describing my noodly goodness.

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  Billy, that's a spot-on observation ... a truly underappreciated post, I agree.
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  A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third

  by cedars in

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  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ukz5m-yo4&feature=youtu.be.

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  So, 19 chickens died while they were away to the DC? Sounds like an actionable case of animal cruelty to me. Whatever happened to man's mandate for dominion over the lower animals?
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  We are "On the doorstep of the New World" (Awake!)

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone see that quote in the latest magazine?.

  in full it says:.

  "since the things are happening today that jesus told us about, we know that we are right at the very doorstep of the new world, the world to come.

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  Hey Irondork, there's attribution of the article to F. Franz? Interesting
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  Former COs that Become Inactive

  by Bob_NC in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some long years ago a circuit overseer told me that the area he was from had several former cos that had "left the road" as they call it and were just sitting on their laurels.

  he said that they don't pioneer and some were irregular publishers.

  a different co made a remark to the effect of "you think that servants or pioneers live a restricted life, cos are under the supervision of the service dept.

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  Even among those who "stay the course" while harboring misgivings, one wonders whether they regret how they've spent their lives and feel trapped by the folly of their youthful decisions.
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  Comparing GB to the past leaders.

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  charlie rissole had some weird ideas that were probably about par for the course in his day.. rutherford was a bullying propagandist.. knorr was a business man that spouted crap.. f franz was a crackpot theologian.. what of the gb today.

  are they any different to previous cult leaders?.

  yes, i can see they are self agrandising despots full of their own importance.

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  Rutherford was a conniving scoundrel, but also a spellbinding orator; Franz was an eccentric, wild-eyed screecher, but a writer with an extraordinary flair for imagery; neither of these two guys, nor Knorr, had an aversion to publicity or to cultivating a colorful public persona.

  The current lot come across as a singularly unimpressive, reclusive, unremarkable collection of nonentities, intellectual lightweights; mediocrities.