this is so true i couldn't have said it better!!!.
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lol unconditional. In the past two years I've gone to maybe 5 meetings and half a convention. I don't hear from ANYONE that I would still consider a friend. This is despite the fact they all know where I live and I've had the same phone number for 10 years. Not a word from them. If I do see them, it's always the same deal: a hug and 'I've missed you.'
I always reply with, "well you know how to contact me. Why didn't you?"
That shuts them up pretty quick and ends the conversation.
you must see the musical video at the end of this month program (aprox.
at 1:04:30).... i don't like to use "must" but this is wow... if you think they couldn't get any lower... just be prepared...
i can't believe i'm the first one to admit going to this meeting.
it was a 3 hour video stream from patterson.
the first bit was used to set up the need.
i watched this and thought hmm, so when getting a birth certificate, your handing your child over to be owned by the govt.
anyone with the 'stock certificate of manifest' [how much your worth] is owned by their govt.. the wt is ok with everyone including themselves being owned by 'satans govt' lol.. in theory no jw should have a birth certificate.
especially since they let people in the past, die over that refusal to have a govt issued certificate.. they assign you a bond /stock number, its the tiny red letters on your certificate.. and you are now property of that government , so you have no rights to your children, they can take them if they feel you are in the wrong.. they and we are slaves to a govt.. [our last names are a 'brand' creepy.
remember this and other threads a few months back, on the subject that some kingdom halls in chile acquiesced to govt rules that every building should display the national flag on the day of celebration?.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/262505/kingdom-hall-chile-has-national-flag?size=20&page=1.
many of us here and around the net, calling on our dub experiences cried "never would that happen!
remember this and other threads a few months back, on the subject that some kingdom halls in chile acquiesced to govt rules that every building should display the national flag on the day of celebration?.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/262505/kingdom-hall-chile-has-national-flag?size=20&page=1.
many of us here and around the net, calling on our dub experiences cried "never would that happen!
Wow.
So does this mean I can put an american flag up on my house somewhere? Let's see how fast the elders come knocking on my door if I did that.
It's so bizarre. How many talks have we heard from the GB that tell us how JW's don't back down or kowtow to the authorities. They want JWs to think they're all HAM when it comes to that stuff. Now it's 'welllll you're not realllllly violating christian neutrality'
the current jws do not cease to amaze.
here's their latest video on youtube and straight from bethel.. there is a lot of work involved in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwou6e5vwbo .
as was explained, it was for Family Night, which is basically a Bethel talent show. Probably someone with enough pull in the video production services department was able to get a camera and record stuff as he went to different facilities doing his job.
it wasn't supposed to be leaked to youtube. he probably sent it to a friend who sent it to a friend who uploaded it.
the current jws do not cease to amaze.
here's their latest video on youtube and straight from bethel.. there is a lot of work involved in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwou6e5vwbo .
yeah that's a family night video if i ever saw one.
sister pants rules: If their job is in a place where they will be seen by non-bethelites such as a lobby, they are not allowed to wear pants. That rule started around 2002. I remember A LOT of sisters being mad. It's a huge pain in the ass to clean and stuff when you're in a skirt.
there's a lot of dumb rules like that. you can't go in or out of a lobby wearing shorts. that was a huge pain in the ass in Brooklyn, since most bethelites lived in a building with a lobby. If you wanted to go running or any sort of fun, you had to bring clothes with you and change later (and then change back).
ok - here is your task for the day:.
go to jw.org and find their information email address.
then find their weekend support desk phone number.. there is a link at the bottom of many pages that says [ ] email link.
the outcomes of jehovah's witness court cases, to most first amendment scholars, the witness successes in court, especially the supreme court, were accidental.
legal scholars have uniformly dismissed the witnesses' methods for bringing about first amendment cases, referring to their legal successes as mere unintended consequences of fanatical preaching.
for example, legal scholar bernard schwartz noted that jehovah's witnesses, "who became involved in trouble with the law were only seeking to propagate their unpopular creed.
