Posts by Barrold Bonds

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Inactive ones are bloodguilty?

by dissonance_resolved in

i've been thinking about brother morris' statement at the zone meeting this past weekend that inactive ones are bloodguilty.

bloodguilt is defined as "guilty of murder or manslaughter.

" murder is #1 on the list of disfellowshipping offenses- all they would have to do is change the wording from "murder" to "bloodguilt" and suddenly there you have grounds to disfellowship anyone who's inactive.

Barrold Bonds

the ministry is a fucking joke anyway. what are the new ways to witness?

-stand in front of a cart and hand out lit, get people's info

-stand on their doorstep and play videos off your handheld device

-give people a paper tract about a website (wtf??)

-TEXT MESSAGE PEOPLE? Seriously. What's up with that. Zero effort shit. "hey how r u. did u rd the WT. want 2 talk?" holey moley. If i told an elder I sent a text to someone and i counted it as an RV, they'd flip their shit and have a meeting with me asap.

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Watchtower Fire Rescue

by startingover13 in

the organization just bought a fire engine at walkill.

pretty slick.. .

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/11017-watchtower-fire-dept-warwick/.

Barrold Bonds

they bought a firetruck for patterson years ago

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Nov 2014 KM - a text message counts as a return visit!

by EndofMysteries in

if you don't know, km's are now online too.

under the heading, "i cannot find him at home again!

" it mentions how a text message or email is to be counted as a return visit.

Barrold Bonds

so if the 3rd RV can be counted as a bible study, could a publisher conduct a study via text messaging? Does this also apply to some sort of instant messenger like facebook messenger or AIM?

Holey moley the ministry has become a fucking joke.

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i thought all the embarssing books were supposed to be thrown out?

by purrpurr in

jw
friends

i had a look in the library last meeting and my hall still has all the bound volumes going right back to the beginning.

including studies in the scriptures.

i thought the order from on high was that these were to be destroyed or taken away?

Barrold Bonds

Every once in a while someone claims that congregations have been ordered to toss old literature from the libraries. For the millionth time, here's the official policy:

-The LIBRARY should have as complete a library as possible, including old shit

-The LITERATURE counter should toss ooold shit or stuff that's not in good condition.

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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century

by Terry in

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.

excerpt:.

"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.

Barrold Bonds

Man, when I saw the trailer for that movie, I remembered someone telling me she was a JW.

The movie looks pretty good btw.

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Question for those attending mid week

by All for show in

do you all know how many attend vs sundays?

talking to friends and family all find it so boring/difficult to sit through they say their meeting midweek attendance is about 50 percent less than sundays, with at least 15 percent of those leaving at the half.

we have had 3 local needs this year on staying the entire meeting, but people still leave, happily.

Barrold Bonds

in the US attendance is always Sunday-->Midweek meeting-->Book study (when they had them)

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Jesus quoted the Talmud!

by objectivetruth in

"for if one says to him: remove the mote from between your eyes, he would answer: remove the beam from between your eyes!

" - talmud - mas.

arachin 16b.

Barrold Bonds

he also celebrated hanukkah, which is interesting since the books of maccabees are considered apocryphal.

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which book says it?

by sowhatnow in

my mom seems to railroad me into a debate at least once a week.. anyway long story short,.

she says 'there is no where in the literture that the wt writers claimed that a specfic year it was going to be armageddon.. well i thought there was, and id like to print it or show it to her, i have some older books but not many.. so, is there?

i told her that the wt claimed that 1975 was going to be the end, she said no, they said that was the beginning of the tribulation.. wow, she forgot about the most recent article ablout that already!.

Barrold Bonds

The WT did state the preaching work would wrap up by the end of the 20th century. That's supposed so be one of the things that marks the start of the great tribulation and all that other end of the world shit.

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Watchtower Library CDROM That Goes Back The Furthest?

by lambsbottom in

hi y'all,.

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can anyone give me the download for the wtcdrom that goes back the furthest (i think i heard it was 1993)?.

Barrold Bonds

Win 95 can run Win 3.1 applications IIRC

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What I really fear about JW.ORG

by StarTrekAngel in

much has been written, twitted and youtubed about the extent to which the wtbts may go in order to keep its members from peeking out of the box.

from name calling, constantly telling members about the dangers of apostasy, all the way to dfing anyone who dares to look outside.

many tools and theories have been brought forward.

Barrold Bonds

hooo boy lots of tin foil hat. Yeah, they're not going to build backdoors into their apps. If they want to publish their apps on the iOS store and Google Play, that ain't happening. They're not going to monitor your browsing habits or have you authenticate with a set of credentials when using KH wifi. That stuff is all setup at the local level. Even if they wanted to centralize that, WT would have to work with dozens of ISPs (and that's just in the US). Not going to happen.

I know a lot of people hate the WTS and have an axe to grind, but goddamn, it's amazing watching people lose their shit and come up with crazy theories about JW.ORG.