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  If you were a fly on the wall at HQ right now...

  by burnedout in

  1. watchtower
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  what would you be hearing about topshelf tony's liquor run?.

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  john.prestor

  Now that would be hysterical.
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  Holy Spirit - Present or Gone in the Congregations?

  by BourneIdentity in

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  2. experiences

  i was doing some reminiscing and remember the days back in the late 80s and early 90s where i truly could say the meetings were so encouraging and that i felt the holy spirit present and operating on all of us.

  today when i attend, there is nothing of the sort.

  is it because jehovah has withheld it?

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  john.prestor

  What holy spirit? What you're describing sociologists call emotional energy, any kind of successful interaction produces that feeling at varying intensities, anywhere from mild contentment to goosebumps coursing down your spine.
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  john.prestor

  Let's not blow this out of proportion guys. I agree, he comes across as sketchy in the video, and yes, his taste in alcohol sure seems pretty worldly and clashes with what he tells the faithful about 'keeping their eye simple.'. But just because the dude wants to drink some fancy liquor doesn't make him guilty of anything else.
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  Something different about the memorial invitation

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this memorial invitation quite different than the previous ones.

  i couldn't find a more recent posting about the invite, so i may be going over old ground.. at first i just looked thru it.

  but then on second look, i realized there was more going on than i thought.

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  john.prestor

  Nathan Mayas, I feel welcome already.
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  john.prestor

  Tony's gonna stumble all the way back to his room (apartment?) if he cracks those open in the parking lot.
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  The subtle , yet massive change of Matt 5:32 in the "New" New World Translation

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i noticed this change in the text of the new silver nwt compared to the older nwt at matthew 5:32. old nwt:.

  "however, i say to you that everyone divorcing his wife , except on the grounds of fornication makes her a subject for adultery...etc" .

  new nwt:.

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  john.prestor

  I don't see much of a difference either.
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  Something different about the memorial invitation

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found this memorial invitation quite different than the previous ones.

  i couldn't find a more recent posting about the invite, so i may be going over old ground.. at first i just looked thru it.

  but then on second look, i realized there was more going on than i thought.

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  john.prestor

  In my understanding campaigns like this serve little more purpose than busy work: they're recruitment drives where Witnesses hardly recruit anyone if anyone at all. They also invite faded or inactive Witnesses to keep alive their hopes their dear son or daughter will survive Armageddon (if they pick back up worshipping and obeying the Governing Body, of course).
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  john.prestor

  They get a monthly stipend of what at Bethel, 200, maybe? He spent half a yearish of his salary on booze... but I doubt that's his money he's spending. Sophia's ice cream money goes a long way.
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  john.prestor

  That's a lot of money he just spent on liquor, I think it speaks volumes about how he sees himself that he drinks top shelf liquor. Don't get me wrong I'm a little jealous, I would love to break open one of those bottles. But I'm not the guy who goes on television and tells other people to simplify their life and work part-time and not store up treasures on earth.

  And yeah, it's suspicious to say the least that when he ought to be at a meeting by everything we know about when congregations meet he's buying expensive booze. And correct me if I'm wrong, he drove to a pretty distant liquor store?
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  Preparing the sheeple for finally abandoning the significance of 1914

  by under the radar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all know the society would love to get rid of all the problems caused by clinging to 1914 and all they claimed it meant for the last 100+ years.. it looks like they are laying the groundwork for easing away from the whole concept of 1914. this would also let them do away with the ridiculous "overlapping generation" bullcrap.

  what a diaper load that has been.... anyway, the following is from their super secret marching orders for april, 2019. draw your own conclusions.... "3.

  “100 years of faithfulness”: the coordinator of the body of elders, or another elder, should be invited to read the following special announcement.

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  john.prestor

  Atlantis, thanks for pointing those out.

  I reread the letter and now I'm skeptical too. What caught my eye is where it says something about 'ascertain the meaning of prophecies.' Ascertain is a very large word for Watchtower. The rest of it on a second reading also doesn't sound like Watchtower... it's hard to explain why, but I get a different sense from it than I do from letters to the body of Elders, which always comes across like cheery well-polished propaganda, this seems more slapdash, it doesn't flow as nicely from sentence to sentence, it's awkward. And the spelling errors is very unlike Watchtower.