Posts by AndDontCallMeShirley

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The Books are Cooked: Grossly Misleading chart and graphic

by Tech49 in

are the charts and number graphics you see in the wt and awake articles factual?

or are they misleading?.

many have already discussed how verses, quotes, and facts are cherry-picked to fit a particular situation.. i came across another blatant misrepresentation of facts, in a grossly misleading chart-graphic.

AndDontCallMeShirley

WT loves to brag about numbers, but really, when you look at "growth", as in baptisms, it's stagnant. So what does an "increase" in Pioneers really mean if the results remain unchanged?? If a secular company tripled or quadrupled its sales force, yet sales saw no increase, I don't think shareholders would see it as "growth"- they'd see it as a huge waste of effort and resources.

As pointed out, of the 277,000 baptisms last year it's fair to say at least half are children of JWs. Of the remaining half, a very small percentage can be attributed directly to the door-to-door work. So, 1.7 billion hours a year yields maybe a few thousand bonafide converts?? Dismal at best. At the last DC I attended the Bethel speaker was bragging about the last year's tremendous growth: 260,000 baptisms. The audience clapped in awe. I laughed, because few, if any JWs in the audience, realizes it wasn't too many years ago when there were 360,000 or more baptisms every year.

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New Arrangement for Donations: What should it be called?

by Da.Furious in

following from a post by neverendingjourney.

we should come up with a new name for this arrangement.

feel free to post your ideas!.

AndDontCallMeShirley

The "It's None Of Your Business Why We Want Your Money Fund"

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New Arrangement for Donations: What should it be called?

by Da.Furious in

following from a post by neverendingjourney.

we should come up with a new name for this arrangement.

feel free to post your ideas!.

AndDontCallMeShirley

"We Need A Bigger Swimming Pool At Warwick Fund".

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New Arrangement for Donations: What should it be called?

by Da.Furious in

following from a post by neverendingjourney.

we should come up with a new name for this arrangement.

feel free to post your ideas!.

AndDontCallMeShirley

A Snare and a Racket

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Today's watchtower admits they appoint people who are sinners

by hoser in

from paragraph 12. one brother began viewing pornography at the age of 12, and he continued to do so in secret for over a decade.

he relates: it was very hard to admit to my wife and to the el- ders what id been doing.

but now that i have admitted it, i feel that a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Supposing the porn you're watching is a home movie of you and the wife?

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This is a sin for two reasons:

1. Even when married, a JW must deaden sexual desire (most do this very well),*

2. time spent making a home sex movie is time stolen from WT. You could've been out in field service, building an assembly hall, reading the latest WT, or going over your finances to see how much more money you can give to the GB so they can add more amenities to the Warwick Country Club.

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* sex is wrong unless you are a pedophile elder. In that case you can rape all the children you want, so long as there are not two witnesses to the rape.

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Have you noticed the common practice is to knock indivual's self esteem?

by stuckinarut2 in

in another thread, one of our members made a comment that caught my attention.. i have been trying to put my finger on a practice amongst the org and witnesses in general.... as soon as someone does something well, accomplishes something, or excels at something, the atmosphere effectiveley 'kicks them in the gut' to bring them down.. anything that makes a person grow or develop is blatently discouraged and therefore self esteem is squashed!.

the constant message telling a witness to be 'humble' is designed to suck any sense of growth or 'betterment' out of a person..... therefore this leaves the average witness to be a blubbering mess of insecurity and instability completely dependant on the organization...kind of like a 'battered-wife' scenario.... .

AndDontCallMeShirley

Aside from their obsession with control, I think the core of WT leadership's approach is really projection- they are empty and unfulfilled and fill that vacuum by projecting their emptiness onto the R&F, essentially making it their issue too.

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In truth, the constant bashing reveals how small the leadership really is. They have nothing to build a person up, so resort to tearing others down to make themselves feel better through pseudo moral superiority.

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Today's watchtower admits they appoint people who are sinners

by hoser in

from paragraph 12. one brother began viewing pornography at the age of 12, and he continued to do so in secret for over a decade.

he relates: it was very hard to admit to my wife and to the el- ders what id been doing.

but now that i have admitted it, i feel that a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.

AndDontCallMeShirley

The organization is guilty of not following some the very counsel it gave in some of the paragraphs.

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It's acceptable...as long as the is GB doing it. Isn't it a nice arrangement?? WT lives by the axiom, "do as we say, not as we do".

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Jesus and the Money Changers - Matthew 21:12, 13

by Oubliette in

it occurred to me that there is a particularly relevant scripture in connection with all the recent changes regarding donations, pledges, loans, tithing and all the rest:.

jesus entered the temple and threw out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.

and he said to them: it is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a cave of robbers.

AndDontCallMeShirley

So true. Yet, when the men-worshipping JWs are told by WT that it's "all for Jehovah", magically hypocrisy transforms to Theocracy, and all is well in the Kingdom of the Deluded Sheeples. As long as JWs hold onto the fallacy that the GB speaks for God, no level of absurdity or hypocrisy is too high to combat the self-imposed gullibility of the masses.

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Taking a blood transfusion is a worse sin than committing suicide

by EndofMysteries in

according to this news report http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27292918, a jw cut his wrist but was caught before he died.

if only a blood transfusion will save his life, he is refusing based on belief as a jw and is supported on that, including his jw father.

it's funny many religions put suicide as a really bad sin, but in this case it shows on jw standards taking blood is worse then suicide.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Where are the scriptures to support that?

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They don't exist....just like almost everything else WT bases it's ridiculousness on.

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Today's watchtower admits they appoint people who are sinners

by hoser in

from paragraph 12. one brother began viewing pornography at the age of 12, and he continued to do so in secret for over a decade.

he relates: it was very hard to admit to my wife and to the el- ders what id been doing.

but now that i have admitted it, i feel that a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Holy Spirit also appoints pedophiles, then makes sure WT runs interference for them to avoid being caught by the secular judicial system. Let's not forget that.