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given the recent faked emails 'from' silentlambs and other emails that have been faked to come from me and others, perhaps it's time to tighten up our communications.. i suggest that anyone giving out official information sign their emails with a secure certificate that can verify that it is authentic.. either that, or post all announcements that are sent by email on a website as well which can be checked to see if an email is for real.. any thoughts ?
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governing body .
watchtower bible & tract society .
dear who ever you are, .
Instead of mailing a letter to one of the Gibbering Buffoons, why not have it delivered in a more personal manner? I suggest inviting one of the disaffected yet still resident members of the Bethel "Family" to help out. Imagine this: Each GB member wakes up in the morning and notices a envelope that has been slipped under the door. The Secret Apostate Delivery Service strikes like a thief in the night!
What would YOU write in your letter if you could get an assurance of that special delivery personal touch?
Note to Bethelites who have decided not to be sheep any longer: Advertise your rates here, you just might get a few customers.
if you are an 'old timer' and wonder why the watchtower and awake.
magazines are so bland and lacking in content, it may come as no surprize.
to you that it's often because a number of topics are 'off limits'.. that is, certain subjects are so troublesome to the watchtower leadership.
Thank you metatron for your interesting opening post.
Compared with the literature that was available back during my thankfully brief association that ended in 1973, the WTBTS has learned to some extent to avoid grossly incorrect statements dealing with science and medicine. Of course, the issues of blood transfusions and creationism are exceptions. But even these WTBTS battles are treated today more with "spiritual" (i.e., not subject to disproof) argumentation than with the psuedoscientific bluster of years gone by.
So, I would say that attempts to use scientific argument have become forbidden ground.
i've been looking a some conspiracy theories lately and i've just realised this site is a hoax!.
simon for a start does not exist.i thought i met simon at englishmans doo,but i was wrong it has suddenly dawnd on me that simon was not there at all, it was all done with mirrors!i noticed that some of the other guests were very 2-dimentional,i was suspicious when matty fell over in the wind ,when i picked him up and looked from the other side he was made of carboard, and englishman is scottish!.
in fact most posters on here do not exist and are generated by a master computer in manchester.i think that maybe the only poster that really exists is me!.
Alas, sleepy, it is you who is the computer program while the rest of us are real. A bit like _The Matrix_.
it's been just over a year and almost four hundred posts ago that i first hooked up with this board.
i have enjoyed reading posts from nearly all of you, but in particular: maximus, amazing, tr, and jt.
the time has come for me to take a break and devote time to other things.
Hello everybody:
It's been just over a year and almost four hundred posts ago that I first hooked up with this board. I have enjoyed reading posts from nearly all of you, but in particular: Maximus, Amazing, TR, and JT. The time has come for me to take a break and devote time to other things. I ask all of you to keep up the good fight against the WTBTS mind control publishing scam.
Best Wishes To All
-- Skimmer
i know they are a nuisance (esp when you hit them) but they do serve a purpose.
i though some statistics may highlight the reason for them - these are the number of posts per month since the forum started.
2000 mar 156.
Hello Simon:
I have a modest suggestion for an experiment in setting posting limits. For a one week trial period, set the limit per poster to one post per twenty four hours and one new topic every seventy two hours. It would be interesting to compare the relative quality of the content; certainly there would be an decrease in trolling and hopefully an increase in the amount of consideration each of us puts in our writings.
A more limited idea would be to create a separate forum where such limits were permanent.
i'm not planning anything..... but when they all pop off, what are the rest going to do?they think the ns will come before they all die, so how the heck will they cope with it ,scriptually speaking/ surely cause a few to 'desert'?
there was a thread a few days ago about elders being up graded to fds status by some out of context crappily applied scripture;do you think they'll explain the absence of god's action with' the fds is still here!.
or will they work everyone up into a horribly humiliating fever pitch of protelisizing ,the like of which we have yet to see?
I have to disagree with some of the opinions here that suggest that the advancement of time means a significant change in the 144,000/FDS doctrine.
First, we all know that the partaker count means absolutely nothing.
Second, we all know that the self-proclaimed anointed outside of the WTBTS elite also means absolutely nothing.
Third, I see no reason for the succession path into the WTBTS anointed elite to have to change as long as there are a sufficient number of long time, toe-the-line, pool of DOs and COs. Remember, their non-anointed status can be changed with a simple slurp and chomp at the next memorial. And they will do so if given a little hint or two from the established elite.
Can't you see it already? Consider the following plain talk translation of a governing body member to a DO:
GB member: "Brother Non-anointed DO, we've noticed that for the past thirty years that you've been a good toady and have kissed Brooklyn ass without question. Furthermore, we see that your tyrannical ways are a faithful imitation of what we at the top have always practiced. All you have to do is to have a little snack at the next memorial and there will be a cozy retirement spot for you where you can advance in your megalomania. And it's a lot better than that trailer you're currently inhabiting. Don't you feel that heavenly calling at last (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)?"
whats the 'wisest' one liner that you can come out with?.
peace.
celty
"Only prisons need watchtowers."
i saw a bumper sticker today that said " i was betrayed by the baptist foundation and aurthur anderson".
got me thinking.
a good bumper sticker gets read by a lot of people.
"If your religion has time slips and quotas, keep it to yourself."
admittedly it's been a long time since i've read an awake and i can't remember much about what's in it but doesn't it contain a bunch of superficial articles with a general interest theme?
like a poor mans readers digest?
i was recently wondering what the purpose of the awake is?
Of course, the main reason for the existence of _Awake_ (the successor of (the _Golden Age_) is to make money for the WTBTS. In my very brief (two months) term in the field service, I was instructed to use it as something that could be pushed on householders who would otherwise not be interested in any obviously religious offerings.
If the WTBTS really wanted people to keep up to date with the _Awake_ and any other literature, they would post complete copies on the Web at the same time paper copies were produced. We will never see this or any other thing that will cut into the cash flowing into Brooklyn.
