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  Donations - how much is normal?

  by Frazzled UBM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how much would a well-off witness be expected to donate?

  my wife has just withdrawn a few hundred pounds from her account and refuses to tell me why so i suspect she plans to donate it as she hasn't donated for a while because she knows i don't want our money going to the organisation.

  is it likely that she is feeling under pressure to make a large donation?.

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  Donations - how much is normal?

  Just a little bit more than you will ever possibly be able to give!
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  Waiting on Jehovah(TM)

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember my dear old dad (r.i.p) saying that when he had questions he waited on jehovah(tm) and got the answer later.. for the life of me i can't recall this ever happening to me......... honestly, can anyone actually recall a question that the wbt$ jehovah(tm) cleared up for you?.

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  Exactly what The Searcher said.
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  Yesterday's WT "Study".

  by piztjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so here are some interesting quotes from the wt in yesterday's wt "study".

  i have printed some words in bold type to make my point.. par.

  12 "as part of that annual observance, children would ask their parents questions....".

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  So here are some interesting quotes from the WT in yesterday's WT "study". I have printed some words in bold type to make my point.

  Par. 12 "As part of that annual observance, children would ask their parents questions...."

  Par. 13 "As new generations grew up, important lessons would be emphasized, passed on by father to son."

  So obviously children were a NEW generation. The picture at the top of the page portrays a father, mother, son, and daughter. Evidently according to the new definition of generation from the WT&T$ the picture has only ONE over-lapping generation. But at the same time they printed in the paragrph that this would be TWO generations. I wonder WTF they are smoking in the Ivory Tower? Doesn't anyone see the total inconsistency?

  Then in par.14 they start off with this bit of "wisdom", "Christian parents do not each year recount to their sons and daughters the meaning of that Passover. The same picture of the phony family has the heading that asks, "In discussing the Passover, what lessons will you help your children learn?"

  Par. 16 gives the suggestion order to include a discussion of the Passover account in Family Worship Indoctrination.

  The forgetfullness of the sheeple is mind-boggling when they cannot, even from one paragraph to the next on the same page, spot total double-speak.
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  Future for conventions

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  evidently with the new light on the reduced time spent at circut assemblies.

  i put forward 3 theories for the future of assemblies.. (1) there will be a world wide fire sale of assembly halls, due to the 50% reduction of use.

  if this is the plan i reckon they will carry this out with in the next 5 years.

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  In my locality the BOE just coerced the congregation into approving the expenditure of $1,000.00 for a computer with all the fancy bells and whistles.

  The reason one of them gave for buying that, instead of accepting the gifts of no less than three FREE computers was that the new one could be used to project talks by [the] GOverning Directors. (See what I did there?)

  This is a small congregation made up of mostly elderly and disabled members on retirement income. The BOE is always yapping about how more money is being spent than what is taken in, and, "We are sure you brothers will prayerfully make sacrifices so you can better provide materially for the needs of the congregation elders ego's."

  The regional conventions will be handled the same way. Just an excuse to shear the sheep a little closer to the skin!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Say They Are The Most Educated In The World. How Would You Prove Otherwise?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.

  how would you counter that belief?.

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  I would show them a photo of my grandfather, my mother, me, and my daughter together and ask them how many generations they see?

  They can't count, and that is pretty basic education.
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  WT Video on how to handle JWs contemplating suicide

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.mediafire.com/watch/cvas6fcrc9zca94/shepherding_instructional_suicidal_widow.avi.

  i just watched beginning of the recently leaked video produced by the wtbts allegedly instructing elders how to treat jws contemplating suicide.

  i am so apalled i cannot even begin to describe it!.

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  And, what the hell does "integrity" have to with severe clinical depression?

  Everything? Evidently (see what I did there?) if a person is clinically depressed that would quite likely (I did it again) be a sure sign that they were not "integrity" keepers and more likely than not had committed some secret sin. In all probability (I just can't help myself) the sin is even a secret from the depressed person, and can only be discerned with the loving aid and interrogation provided by the eldurrs.
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  JW.org Bumper Sticker

  by A.proclaimer in

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  2. friends

  i saw this at the kingdom hall after the meeting.

  "advertise, advertise, advertise!- christendom style".

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  Their are too many people hurt by the policys of jw`s to walk by a car that promotes them and not be tempted to scratch the paintwork with a coin or whatever .I know I would.

  I can gaurandamntee that no matter what my personal feelings are toward jw's, IF it were any vehicle of mine that I happened to catch ANYONE vandalizing for any reason (and NO there is no way I would have a goofy jw sticker) they would not be moving under their own power for quite some time! They wouldn't need to worry about going to Hell because I would have beat it out of them!
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  WT Video on how to handle JWs contemplating suicide

  by Oubliette in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.mediafire.com/watch/cvas6fcrc9zca94/shepherding_instructional_suicidal_widow.avi.

  i just watched beginning of the recently leaked video produced by the wtbts allegedly instructing elders how to treat jws contemplating suicide.

  i am so apalled i cannot even begin to describe it!.

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  Just like to point out that the first part of the video was what you are NOT supposed to do (go alone into back room with sister, touch sister's hand, tell them suicide is murder etc).

  Perhaps she needed some additional "attention" and the eldurr was going to try to take advantage of her weakened emotional state to provide that "attention"? That's what they do with "worldly" people who are having troubles whom they meet in field serve us.
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  JW. org: "No, we are not a cult. We do not look to any human as our leader."

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this has been rehashed, time and again, but i saw this interesting blip on jw.org last night, and did a little thinking about it.... jw.

  org answers the important question that so many have... are jehovah's witnesses a cult?.

  jehovah's witnesses do not look to any human as their leader.

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  JW. org: "No, we are not a cult. We do not look to any human as our leader."

  They are right of course. In true jw speak they do not look to any human as their leader. They look to eight imperfect humans as their leaders.

  See how easy that was to justify their statement?
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  Moustaches vs. beards - one of the contributing factors to losing my cognitive dissonace

  by Pacopoolio in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a little background - i was born-in to being a witness, back in '79, in detroit, in mostly black and poor congregations.

  baptized when 10-ish, stayed around, was on the fast track to ms, but faded when i moved out at 24ish.. there was a combination of a few things that got me on the road to "freedom" from the cognitive dissonance that kept me "in the truth" for so long.

  the main thing was, being an artist and studying marketing, my thinking was patterned to constantly question if i was doing something "correctly," as constant improvement and questioning is what facilitates artistic and mental growth.

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  I have worn a moustache for the better part of five decades. A circuit oversneer told me I had to trim it shorter so that it wouldn't be longer than the corner of my mouth. I have worn it shaped down nearly to my jaw. His reason was that I looked, "to much like the Malboro man." And of course we wouldn't, "want to influence young men in the congregation to wear that style moustache." I still have it as it has always been. It really tweaks the opinions of the eldurrs when I refuse to follow human decrees.