Posts by warehouse

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Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i am inactive for about 10 years now..

warehouse

active. almost an MS, lol. should i call it off?

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

Juan Viejo2 wrote:

But sometimes I do worry that someone may miss a warning or a critical piece of information because it was shouted down prematurely.

There's a clear line between missing critical information because of a lack thereof, and wild rampant speculation that confuses and does not inform. This thread unfortunatley has crossed that line. I saw some honest posts of people who were confused and could not discern the WTBS bashing from actual fact. I know it wasn't your intention, but it is what is happening. I have found myself doing the same thing, even inside of the borg. Sometimes people get carried away, sometimes people like to get carried away.

neverendingjourney wrote:

Healthy debate and the free flow of information is superior to groupthink.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSN5TPKMJ24

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

Oubliette wrote:

Hey, where do you think we learned it? At least here we can freely express our ideas without the risk of being labelled an apostate. Oh, I almost forgot: We ARE apostates! ... lol

This is true. At times I tend to forget the strange and symmetrical symbiosis that individuals here share with the borg. The dynamic is intriguing to say the least.

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

neverendingjourney wrote:

This happens every time the WT announces a change. What results in a 20 page thread on JWD typically elicits nothing more than a shrug from your typical JW.

Ah, you hit it on the head. And I certainly can't argue against disscussion for the sake of disscussion, or even meandering debates. But the comments in this thread in particular were so farfetched and outlandish that some were getting confused as to what was actually being changed.

I'm sure the well-meaning intention to inform was there at the beginning, but it has become almost laughable what some have said in this thread, I mean just way out in left field.

Lol, reading some of these posts makes me feel like I'm at a meeting listening to absurd comments . . .

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

Juan Viejo2 wrote:

That I am as fanatical as the Watchtower? That my contact who is trying to keep me and others reading this thread is somehow being "fanatical"?

In this case, yes to both. You, along with your contact and others in this thread, are filled with an excessive and single-minded zeal, or obsessively concerned with this idea. That makes you fanatical. Plus your contact is a JW, correct? Even more reason why this idea is susceptible to fanatisism. It was fueled by an unobjective JW who did not have all the facts.

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

Juan Viejo2 wrote:

I can see it being handled this way:

This is unfortunatley what JW's are guilty of; imagining something, and then saying or doing something else not based on solid facts. This thread has evolved a rumor into opinion, which then gave way to conspiracy, which is now quickly becoming hearsay. How is this not as fanatical as organizational JW doctrine?

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Is it common for Jehovah's Witnesses to turn to alcohol when they realize the Watchtower is a scam

by Watchtower-Free in

because they don't know what to do and they want to numb the pain .

especially for bornins..

warehouse

disposable hero wrote:

Fancy a stout right now. Stuff it, going to have one....

what kind?

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

We really are the pot calling the kettle black when we let unreasonableness and unobjective conjecture run rampant.

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

warehouse

undercover wrote:

Let's stick with facts and official documentation of what the WTS actually proposes to do, instead of letting imaginations run wild into some conspiracy theory universe, where reality doesn't exist...

Ah, the voice of reason. Thank you undercover.

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Is it common for Jehovah's Witnesses to turn to alcohol when they realize the Watchtower is a scam

by Watchtower-Free in

because they don't know what to do and they want to numb the pain .

especially for bornins..

warehouse

I am a born-in and yes, I regularly get hammered, especially drinking beer by myself. Instead of hanging out with some cute girl and having a family, I usually just sit at home and drink beers and then add them to my beer list. Bleh.

Though, for some odd reason, I don't get fat, I stay thin.