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  December 15 Watchtower --- A New Low in WT Anti-Intellectualism

  by Room 215 in

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  2. beliefs

  i wonder whether any of you took note of the article in the 12/15 study edition wt "the simplified watchtower .. why introduced" i couldn't believe they actually had the temerity to put such tripe into print and onto the record.. i was flat-out astonished with its put-down of vocabulary building and self-improvement:.

  one egregious example: " the time spent looking up words and explaining expressions (ostensibly from the "smart people's" watchtower) is now spent gaining an understanding of the scriptures and how they fit into the lesson.".

  one jw cited in the article actually blames her college education for causing her to fall into the bad habit of "speaking and thinking a way that was more complicated than necessary.

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  alecholmesthedetective

  Sorry, I couldn't help. :)

  
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  Will you attend the Memorial this year? Why? Why not?

  by Open mind in

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  alecholmesthedetective

  In my case, I was stranged from my family before I awoke. And for years I had had problems, issues, and confrontations with the elders also before my awakening. I was a MS and I was only not kicked out because I had good friends to protect me. It pains me to death to lose these good friends because of the wicked policies of a wicked corporation.

  Well, because of the uniqueness of my situation, I just stopped attending meetings once and for all. As you all know when people have to choose between a friend and the WT, the WT usually has the upper hand due to their extreme cultish high-control techniques, brainwashing, and indoctrination of the R&F. Nevertheless, I must be true to myself.

  I can be totally out of the cult, I don't have a wife or children still in or anything like that. So I'm out.

  I am not going to the Memorial. I do not wish to insult God or Christ, if they exist.
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  A Few Questions and Hoping for an Answer

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i am still fairly new to this whole "apostate thing" and have only been on jwn for about a month, i have questions for those of you who have been "out" for awhile or have been on here for a long time.. .

  i have seen how many new people have joined since i joined, is that something that happens a lot?

  having so many people sign up on here?

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  Thanks Gojira_101, I wonder if future 'new light' will be test-driven on the jw.org first and then they'll take it from there. Of one thing I'm sure, the GB really is making it up as they go...

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  Once again, WTS reminds you that you are a *bleeping* idiot

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  gems from the latest km on how to behave at the 2013 dcs..... .

  if possible, care for restroom needs before the start of the session.

  turn off your cell phone so that you will not be distracted by calls or texts or be tempted to text others during the program.

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  alecholmesthedetective

  Christ Almighty, the WT takes micromanagement to a whole new level...I am so looking forward to missing the first of many conventions in years to come and I am not going to miss it at all.

  I can now see what many posters meant when they said that now that they are out they can see it ever more clearly what a numbnut crazy piece of crap cult this is...

  I may not post daily but I have a blooming laugh every day on this website. And I feel it really helps me now in the healing process of leaving the Borg as I can now see the funny side of it all.

  There are so many quick-witted and intelligent people here! You are all amazing.

  Thanks a bunch guys!
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  April 2013 Our Kingdom Ministry and other files

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  standing in for atlantis.

  i post as [vulcan] with my daughter [petra] who helps as typist.

  atlantis said that all of you would know about the download procedures.

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  alecholmesthedetective

  Thanks a lot Atlantis, Vulcan, and Petra!

  This is an amazing combo. I know more about what really goes on in the Borg than I ever did in 9 years of regular pioneering and I guess 7 (I serioualy can't be asked to remember it accurately) of ministerial servantship.

  Thanks!
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  A Few Questions and Hoping for an Answer

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i am still fairly new to this whole "apostate thing" and have only been on jwn for about a month, i have questions for those of you who have been "out" for awhile or have been on here for a long time.. .

  i have seen how many new people have joined since i joined, is that something that happens a lot?

  having so many people sign up on here?

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  Exactly Amelia, I agree. It's like they've done their big announcement about the 'new light' and are now waiting and gauging the reaction to it. They may even be test-driving this with the way they did it, on the Annual Meeting and online, instead of in a convention. That is so cowardly. It's really weird that Jesus wasn't sure who was the slave for all this time and now that he does, we don't get any explanation of how he arrived at his conclusion.
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  "Why Do Many Male Jehovah Witnesses Who Learn TTATT Grow Beards"?

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the bible with me drove by and had a full on "charles manson" looking facial hair and beard.

  i asked tina, a friend what's up with him?

  tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication.

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  My non-JW girlfriend said I looked good when I didn't shave for days before the next meeting and asked me to let my beard grow. So I did. This was before my awakening but even then I had heard of how you might find brothers wearing beards in some places and had tried to explain to my girlfriend why we couldn't have beards. Needless to say, I couldn't present a scriptural basis or logical reasoning for it.

  Of course, some people in my congregation looked scared when they saw me, others patronized me and only a couple of friends said I looked good. Well, I 'awoke', saw the truth about the cult so couldn't give a flying toss anymore whether anyone in the congregation likes it, especially since I haven't been to the meetings since the end of last year.

  My girlfriend likes it, she says I look better with the beard, and she reasons, "Didn't Jesus have one?"
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  Do we have an update on how many NEWBIES have joined in 2012 ?

  by smiddy in

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  2. friends

  i think with every year their are more and more newbies that identify with this site , would you like to say " hi ", if you have joined in the last 12 months ?.

  does anybody have a graph of the numbers of newbies who have joined in say the last 5 years ?.

  i think that would be interesting.

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  Hi! I joined 28 days ago, finally woken when the GB made themselves the popes of WT infamy.
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  QR codes: a way to stop APOSTATES !!!

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  interesting meeting today.the do had the last talk and he mentioned a couple of things i have not heard before :.

  1) the new lighter magazines are designed in a way to attract people to our website .

  2)the ministry will change to incoprorate preacing in town centres and and with stands as in manhattan and certain brothers will be allocated to do this .so it is done now in a big scale ,organised.. 3)the qr codes at the back of the magazines are there for smart phone users to guide them directly to jw.org ,unlike bad old internet via laptops and pc's that you have to look for the website on google and sometimes end up in enemy websites that look like our website but are spreading lies about jw's (he said exactly that!

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  alecholmesthedetective

  Jesus, that is so pathetic, Londo111 is right: it is way easier to just type jw.org.

  Now, when are we getting an article on "Young People Ask: Smartphones--Do I Really Need One?" and questions like,

  "Will I be able to afford the rates a 3G Internet connection? Will I have to work extra hours to pay for these? Would this time be better spent in the ministry? Will I be tempted to access pornographic websites and thus put my relationship with Jehovah in jeopardy? Even if I do go to apparently harmless websites, will I be able to control the time I spend surfing the Interweb [how some GB members sometimes think it's called] so as not to neglect more important things?

  Jehovah's servants do well to consider such factors before making such an important decision, 'because the days are wicked.' "

  That will be shortly before they publish the list of Websites Not To Go To and release an anti-apostate software that blocks you from accessing said websites...
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  VATICAN HIT BY LIGHTNING

  by Prefect in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hours after the pope said he was leaving lighting strikes.. see picture on link below.. .

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-21427713.

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  alecholmesthedetective

  Hours after the court reached the verdict on the Candace Conti case lightning strikes.