Posts by Dreamerdude

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I'm getting baptized

by BlackWolf in

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i know i've started similar topics before but this time i'm serious.

my parents have been constantly pressuring me and after yesterday's watchtower study they asked me if i was going to be baptized this summer... and i said yes.

i probably should have thought about it more before making a final decision, but they're pretty much forcing me to do it anyway.

Dreamerdude

BlackWolf, you are amazing. Stay strong and stay calm. You will make it through this.

Thousands of children and teenagers are facing the same pressure as you right now. The WT is hitting your generation with double barrels these last two weeks before the RC starts next Friday. It's despicable.

You have gotten some great advice already. Rather that try to criticize doctrine, I agree with some who have urged you to emphasize the parent daughter bond. Reassure them that you love and respect them.

Regarding baptism, it might be best if you use the current study articles to your advantage. I can assure you you parents are studying them extra carefully this week, looking at ways to "encourage" you, like they did last week. You need to study it even harder than they do, so you can convince them that you have given it serious thought and that you know you are not ready. It is easier to buy a few months than to buy two years.

Tell them you read the article and found there is a ton of suggested reading and you need time to fully digest this rich spiritual food from the Slave. Ask them to let you spend Saturday in deep personal study, so you can ponder this decision, which the most important decision of your entity life. Be really serious. They might suggest that you stay home from service to do it. If so, it could give you a breather. There is also plenty of material there to help you show that you are not ready for baptism this summer.

To keep you parents from flipping into cult mode, stay loving and respectful, and avoid anything that could remotely sound apostate. If you dad insists on studying with you, do not argue with him. Put the burden on him to explain things. The toughest and most indefensible doctrine is overlapping generations. There is no way a generation can last 120 years. If you can find a way to do so respectfully, ask how long your great grand parents lived. That's four generations.

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RC 2016 Leaks & Releases

by wifibandit in

in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.

now, on with the leaks & releases!

first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.

Dreamerdude

This video makes me think of 5 young self sacrificing couples in my area that have given up nice homes for the privilege of going to SKE, like the couple in the video. I love all of these 10 lovely young people. They are fortunate to have prosperous parents who can sponsor them financially and who can donate generously for the "free" education. Perhaps this video will give them comfort that the sacrifices they made to WT will give them a chance to ingratiate themselves with a COBE that will allow them breaks in his basement as they scurry about on mob-infested streets checking on other cult members.

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JWs sell 124 Columbia Heights to Florida Panthers owner

by betterdaze in

jehovah's witnesses sell 124 columbia heights to florida panthers owner vincent violavirtu ceo vincent viola pays $105m for jehovah’s witnesses building in bk heights.

Dreamerdude

The WT has this to say about it on their website, including some interesting history. Lincoln slept here. He did a lot of sleeping around.

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, Jehovah’s Witnesses closed on the sale of 124 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, New York. The over 152,000-square-foot (14,121 sq m) residential property, with its iconic watchtower atop the roof, is situated at the north entrance of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The property was listed in December 2015, and after a competitive bidding process, a first-time buyer for one of the Witnesses’ properties was selected.

The original four-story brownstone at 124 Columbia Heights was the home of Henry Ward Beecher, the renowned abolitionist and pastor of Plymouth Church, from 1856 to 1881. The New York Times reported on the property’s historical significance, stating that “it was in this house that President Lincoln is said to have visited Mr. Beecher shortly before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.” In May 1909, the Witnesses purchased the brownstone and subsequently obtained several adjoining properties to create the ten-story building that spans an entire city block today.

A spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Richard Devine, comments: “We consider 124 Columbia Heights to be one of our organization’s legacy buildings. As far back as 1909, it has primarily served as living quarters for our world headquarters staff. From 1929 to 1957, with the exception of four years, 124 Columbia Heights also housed our former radio station, WBBR, which aired Bible lectures and related broadcasts.”

Although the Witnesses have been a part of the Brooklyn Heights community for over 100 years, the original headquarters of their legal entity Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society was established in the 1880s in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. David A. Semonian, a spokesman at the Witnesses’ world headquarters, notes: “The move in 1909 to a port city like Brooklyn was crucial at that time for the expansion and acceleration of our global Bible education work.”

The sale of 124 Columbia Heights marks the latest step in the Witnesses’ relocation of their headquarters offices to their nearly 50-acre complex soon to be completed in Warwick, New York. Mr. Semonian adds: “The move to our new custom-built facility upstate is exactly what we need now. Brooklyn was our home for more than a century, and Warwick will be our home for a new era in our history.”

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“Quiverfull” Cult Plans Arranged Marriage Camp For Teens:"

by glenster in

"“quiverfull” cult plans arranged marriage camp for teens:" by the young turks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uar15gyfzmk.

population and demography.

according to journalist kathryn joyce, writing in the magazine the nation:"[t]he quiverfull mission is rooted in faith, the unseen, its mandate to befruitful and multiply," even if it "has tangible results as well.

Dreamerdude

Visit, yes they are getting more desperate. An example in point are the next two WT study articles prodding children to get baptized. The Mormoms have been clever to encourage maximum breeding to entrap children in their cult.

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JWTV May Broadcast is up. hosted by an old burnt hot dog

by Dreamerdude in

what's up with jw parents taking their minor children to such desolate places?

like the english family that took their little kids to the jungles of ecuador, and the australians that took their little ones to norfolk island where hardly anyone lives, and they are the only children in a congregation of 11 publishers?

is this a new form of child abuse?

Dreamerdude

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JWTV May Broadcast is up. hosted by an old burnt hot dog

by Dreamerdude in

what's up with jw parents taking their minor children to such desolate places?

like the english family that took their little kids to the jungles of ecuador, and the australians that took their little ones to norfolk island where hardly anyone lives, and they are the only children in a congregation of 11 publishers?

is this a new form of child abuse?

Dreamerdude

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May 2, 2016 Re: Entrance Time at Regional Conventions

by wifibandit in

may 2, 2016 to all congregations in the united states branch territory re: entrance time at regional conventions.

Dreamerdude

It's only fair that older ones can now be the first to reserve rows of seats, since they are more likely to donate. I prefer the free seats near the exit.

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RC 2016 Leaks & Releases

by wifibandit in

in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.

now, on with the leaks & releases!

first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.

Dreamerdude

There are clear guidelines about how much stuff we should take to our downsized apartment. A couple that keeps their eye simple should be able to fit all of their belongings into a single car and a small trailer.

if they can fit it all into a shopping cart, they will get extra praise.

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JWTV May Broadcast is up. hosted by an old burnt hot dog

by Dreamerdude in

what's up with jw parents taking their minor children to such desolate places?

like the english family that took their little kids to the jungles of ecuador, and the australians that took their little ones to norfolk island where hardly anyone lives, and they are the only children in a congregation of 11 publishers?

is this a new form of child abuse?

Dreamerdude

Fulano, I think it might be fun for couples without kids to spend a couple weeks of Winters away from Europe and North America on the beaches of the Dominican Republic, then go back in the summers to brag about it and get some gifts to help them spend more time near the beach.

It also seems like a good gig for single American and German women who go to Ghana. They can make some mighty fine catches among young men there. In the July study WT they advertise how Christina from Germany was able to snag a local brother named Gideon and Stephanie from the US was able to get Aaron.

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RC 2016 Leaks & Releases

by wifibandit in

in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.

now, on with the leaks & releases!

first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.

Dreamerdude

Wifi, thanks for the preview of things to come. In this video it sounds like they are trying to scare folks with the sounds of the GT. But that could easily have been a mass protest incited by a foolish move by WT.