( someone / people ? ) are gonna have to kiss his ring. Is that another American tradition ?
Actually, for the past 4 years, the tradition has been to kiss....something else of Trump's.
Posts by Funky
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82Prediction: What Will Happen To Trump Now That Biden Will Be President?
by minimus ini think he will have to deal with the attorney general of new york amongst other things.
i do think he will not simply go away quietly ..
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Misheard song lyrics
by jhine ini thought that as there seems to have been some very serious sh-stuff being discussed lately maybe a light hearted thread might be in order .
i was thinking about misheard song lyrics ( climb every woman ) and it seemed a good topic for a thread .to start off for many years l thought that fat boy slim was singing about some very posh shoes with funk soul rubber on the bottom .
has anyone else realised that they have been singing the wrong words ?
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A couple of my favorites:
Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" --> "How'z about a date?"
AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" --> "Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief"
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New JW study book / method announced on JW Broadcast
by Funky inso did anyone catch the january jw broadcast?.
it's the "spiritual content" of what would have been introduced in the october annual meeting, had the october annual meeting taken place.. morris, splane, and jackson introduce a new jw study publication: "live forever eternally - an interactive guide".. details were sparse, but apparently it is a 256 page book (when in actual printed form), primarily designed to be used in its electronic form, stuffed with links to videos.. it is designed to be "just one book" to be studied prior to baptism, where "all 60 questions that baptism candidates have to know" are found in just one place.. the purported reason is to make jw "bible" studies more "productive", i.e., lead to more baptisms.. splane brought out the governing body's "great concern" that 10 million+ "bible" studies are conducted by jws every year, but the number of baptisms has been stuck at 200,000 - 300,000 per year for decades.
so the thinking is, this new book + a "new method of conducting studies" (again, no real detail, but apparently it involves more "discussion" and less "question and answer").. want to know my thoughts?
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A substantial number of these 'studies' are JW parents 'studying' with their own children.
Yes, absolutely.
When you consider that probably 70-80% of kids of JWs who are on the receiving nd of those "Bible" studies end up getting baptized, that indicates the success rate of the JW "Bible" study program is far more abysmal than the 2-3% indicated by just reviewing the raw numbers.
I'd wager that far less than 1% of "in the field" studies ever progress to baptism. How much less than 1%, I'm not sure.
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New JW study book / method announced on JW Broadcast
by Funky inso did anyone catch the january jw broadcast?.
it's the "spiritual content" of what would have been introduced in the october annual meeting, had the october annual meeting taken place.. morris, splane, and jackson introduce a new jw study publication: "live forever eternally - an interactive guide".. details were sparse, but apparently it is a 256 page book (when in actual printed form), primarily designed to be used in its electronic form, stuffed with links to videos.. it is designed to be "just one book" to be studied prior to baptism, where "all 60 questions that baptism candidates have to know" are found in just one place.. the purported reason is to make jw "bible" studies more "productive", i.e., lead to more baptisms.. splane brought out the governing body's "great concern" that 10 million+ "bible" studies are conducted by jws every year, but the number of baptisms has been stuck at 200,000 - 300,000 per year for decades.
so the thinking is, this new book + a "new method of conducting studies" (again, no real detail, but apparently it involves more "discussion" and less "question and answer").. want to know my thoughts?
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Correction - title of new book is "Enjoy Life Forever - An Interactive Bible Course".
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Wh a JW Paradise would REALLY be like.
by smiddy3 inwhere does one start ?
ok i`ll do my best and you can add some more if you like .. first off, wherever in the world you are that`s where you will stay.why?
because modern day transport as we know it will no longer be.
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But there will be plenty of fruit! On picnic tables!
Fruit fruit fruit! Gobs and gobs of fresh fruity fruit! Hope you like fruit! It's what you'll be eating for the next 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
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New JW study book / method announced on JW Broadcast
by Funky inso did anyone catch the january jw broadcast?.
it's the "spiritual content" of what would have been introduced in the october annual meeting, had the october annual meeting taken place.. morris, splane, and jackson introduce a new jw study publication: "live forever eternally - an interactive guide".. details were sparse, but apparently it is a 256 page book (when in actual printed form), primarily designed to be used in its electronic form, stuffed with links to videos.. it is designed to be "just one book" to be studied prior to baptism, where "all 60 questions that baptism candidates have to know" are found in just one place.. the purported reason is to make jw "bible" studies more "productive", i.e., lead to more baptisms.. splane brought out the governing body's "great concern" that 10 million+ "bible" studies are conducted by jws every year, but the number of baptisms has been stuck at 200,000 - 300,000 per year for decades.
so the thinking is, this new book + a "new method of conducting studies" (again, no real detail, but apparently it involves more "discussion" and less "question and answer").. want to know my thoughts?
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So did anyone catch the January JW Broadcast?
It's the "spiritual content" of what would have been introduced in the October Annual Meeting, had the October Annual Meeting taken place.
Morris, Splane, and Jackson introduce a new JW study publication: "Live Forever Eternally - An Interactive Guide".
Details were sparse, but apparently it is a 256 page book (when in actual printed form), primarily designed to be used in its electronic form, stuffed with links to videos.
It is designed to be "just one book" to be studied prior to baptism, where "all 60 questions that baptism candidates have to know" are found in just one place.
The purported reason is to make JW "Bible" studies more "productive", i.e., lead to more baptisms.
Splane brought out the governing body's "great concern" that 10 million+ "Bible" studies are conducted by JWs every year, but the number of baptisms has been stuck at 200,000 - 300,000 per year for decades. So the thinking is, this new book + a "new method of conducting studies" (again, no real detail, but apparently it involves more "discussion" and less "question and answer").
Want to know my thoughts? Well OK, glad you asked!
I imagined a team of restaurant owners gathered in their office late at night after closing.....
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"I can't figure it out, Tony. We only get 3% of our visitors ever coming back to eat a second time at our restaurant. It makes no sense to me. We serve the best $#!+ sandwich in town!"
"It certainly is a puzzler, Tim. I wonder what could be the issue?"
Grim faces and stares at the floor continue on for several minutes.
Finally David jumps up. "By Jove I've got it! I've got it! I know why people aren't buying it! Our methods are all wrong! We've been so focused on selling our $#!+ sandwiches we haven't seen how the world is passing us by! What we need to do is....
...now listen carefully....
...this is going to work, I know it....
...what we need to do is...
...instead of selling $#!+ sandwiches.....
...we need to sell $#!+ PIES!"
Rapturous applause and backslapping ensues as $#!+ sandwich-making equipment is rolled out and $#!+ pie-making equipment is moved in.
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That's pretty much what this latest change is - a different form of the same horse puckey. It never occurs to these bozos that the reason that of the 0.001% of the people they manage to talk into studying, only about 2% ever bother to get baptized, is not the form of teaching but rather the content.
Idiots.
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How many TRUE BELIEVERS do you think are left in the Organization?
by pistolpete ini have a few jw relatives who are true believers.
by this i mean, they believe with all their heart that 1914 was the beginning of the last days, that this is the last generation, that we are in the very last of the last hour of this system of things, and that you should obey the governing body even if it does not make sense.
all of them are in their 60s and up into their 90s there is nothing you can say or show them to convince them or even cause a small doubt that the wt is not god organization.
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I would agree with that, just substitute "overall picture satisfies them" for the last 4 words.
Ever notice the common WT pitch in their "literature"? They always talk about how the Bible gives "satisfying" answers to "life's big questions" - not "true", "honest", "reasonable", or "realistic" answers, but "satisfying".
That's their market - people who want to be "satisfied", even if that "satisfaction" is derived from anachronistic & self-contradictory interpretations of the ancient writings of a bunch of Iron Age goatherds and wanderers.
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How many TRUE BELIEVERS do you think are left in the Organization?
by pistolpete ini have a few jw relatives who are true believers.
by this i mean, they believe with all their heart that 1914 was the beginning of the last days, that this is the last generation, that we are in the very last of the last hour of this system of things, and that you should obey the governing body even if it does not make sense.
all of them are in their 60s and up into their 90s there is nothing you can say or show them to convince them or even cause a small doubt that the wt is not god organization.
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Believe it? Probably most.
Understand it, able to defend it somewhat coherently to a moderately intelligent non-believer? Maybe 10%.
By "belief", I would estimate that 80+ % believe the following:
1) There is an invisible God, Jehovah, with an invisible son Jesus Christ, who have selected JWs to give them exclusive access to "the truth"
2) There are 8 guys in upstate New York who have this special mystical connection with Jehovah and have it all sorted out
3) The earth is "soon" going to be a paradise, if I don't break the rules I'm going to live forever, and once again see my dead [wife / husband / child / parent / fill-in-the-blank]
4) Anything beyond this - "just look at our website, it explains everything" and / or point 2 above
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Given that I an unwilling to subscribe to an Australian newspaper , can you provide any highlights from the article?
For example, when is it supposed to happen? Does it mean that their income and/or assets are now taxable? Is there any reaction from the WTS Australia branch office? Can they appeal? Will they?
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Talking to a Jehovah`s Witness .Ask the right questions .
by smiddy3 inwhat questions should be asked to a jehovah`s witness when confronted with them.. a jw gives his sermon.
"you" immediately ask him by what authority he has from god that you should take notice of him ,seeing their are over 40,000 different christian religions in the world who claim to represent god,.
jw.
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"What would it take to convince you that the WTS does not have the truth?"
If they were to answer "nothing", most would recognize that makes them look like brainwashed cult members. Virtually any other answer, there is almost certainly something in the past (or present!) that fits.