Posts by AndDontCallMeShirley

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Gods Kingdom? Who wants it?

by Jeannette in

if gods kingdom is anything like the laws of leviticus and other books, it will be tough on women and children.

a man gets into a fight with another man and his wife impulsively grabs the offenders testies.

her hands are cut off.

AndDontCallMeShirley

I'm going to do some research on how women were treated in the Bible.

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No need to read the Bible...just look at Islam. They really are a throwback to a 3,000 year old mindset and have much in common with Jehovah's™ methodology.

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When I decided to no longer turn in time...

by SG098 in

being my 1st post i figured i should relate a personal experience.

a few months ago i decided to stop reporting time.

i'm mentally out of this cult now but still trapped because of family.

What is truly ironic is that these elders grilled you for 28 minutes and stressed repeatedly that, 1) we cannot think for ourselves, 2) we must listen to and obey whatever the Governing Body tells us to do.

Then the elder says he "doesn't care if JWs look at porn, it's natural, we were made to procreate". Really? That's NOT what the GB says !!!

This is the hypocrisy of JWs, especially elders. While claiming to be fully loyal to the GB, when it comes to issues they personally are not in agreement with, they have no problem defying the GB.

Personally, at the point, I would've told the elder, "obviously you disagree with the GB on the issue of porn, and I disagree with them on the issue of reporting field service time. So, I guess we're both doing our own thinking, aren't we?"

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Welcome to the rest of you life. Stay with your new journey.

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Would God (Jehovah) really choose lying and corrupt religious Charlatans like the Watchtower Corporation ?

by Finkelstein in

the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.

books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.

many of the doctrines created by this.

AndDontCallMeShirley

@ Vidiot...are you suggesting that the live-forever-on-a-paradise-earth pitch just might sound like it's "too good to be true"??!!!

Lord Shirl sayeth: No, it's as believable as "I have some oceanfront property in South Dakota I want to sell you".

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@ James Brown: But the best I can see they are all kindergarden.

That's what I was hoping you'd say

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JW honored for civic service

by Mum in

check this out.

i once knew this guy.. www.topix.com/forum/city/johnson-city-tn/tir9m88gbacn79lmo.

AndDontCallMeShirley

@ Vidiot: Shirl, you promised you wouldn't tell!!!!!

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it was a WT-type promise, therefore non-binding and completely useless. I thought you knew?

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Funny devices used by the Golden Age editors, or: Do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?

by processor in

do you make use of the head-sweating apparatus?revised reprint from the witchtower, july 2010. .

in a family and in a house where it is available and used, this little all-purpose device surely will obviate the need for a doctor many times.

das goldene zeitalter [german edition of the golden age], december 1, 1931, page 359. .

AndDontCallMeShirley

I'm pretty sure Jesus used one of these all the time

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Would God (Jehovah) really choose lying and corrupt religious Charlatans like the Watchtower Corporation ?

by Finkelstein in

the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.

books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.

many of the doctrines created by this.

AndDontCallMeShirley

to JB....out of sheer morbid curiosity, maybe you can list for us which religion is:

grade school?

junior high?

high school?

college?

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There is no difference between people

by cassuk11 in

jw
friends

just to point out that there is no difference between those who are in an organization or church and those who are not.

it rains on us all.

the mistake some make is to think some people are more righteous than others.

AndDontCallMeShirley

The fact is God makes no distinction between people whover we are

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Really? Have you read the Old Testament?

Even the NT demonstrates clearly that god either approves or disapproves of a person based on their religious beliefs. Armageddon anyone?

Now before you launch off to where I know you'll next go, namely that events in the OT cannot be attributed to god, and that Armageddon is not a genuine Biblical concept, keep in mind that if you reject those two concepts then you must also reject the concept that god is impartial- because it's all in the same book.

Reject one and, by default, you must reject the other.

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Would God (Jehovah) really choose lying and corrupt religious Charlatans like the Watchtower Corporation ?

by Finkelstein in

the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.

books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.

many of the doctrines created by this.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Regardless of whether a person believes in the Bible or not, just read the record as it is written: has any religion or system god allegedly instituted ever worked?

Whatever system (formal or not) god set up was hopelessly flawed and corrupt from its inception, and slowly (sometimes quickly) circled to a death spiral. Even if (and it's a humongous if) WT was god's chosen religion, really- does it run any differently from any other system he's built???

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I agree with Oubliette's correct, but long-winded, answer

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JW.ORG Logo Denied Trademark Status by United States Patent and Trademark Office

by jwleaks in

jw
friends

the jehovahs witnesses official web site logo incorporating jw.org has been refused registration by the united states patent and trademark office due to similarity to jw player.. section 2(d) refusal likelihood of confusionclass 42. for the reasons set forth below, the refusal under trademark act section 2(d) is now made final with respect to u.s. registration no(s).

this refusal is limited to the class 42 services in the application.. applicants mark is jw.org & design, for use with, inter alia, providing a web site that gives computer users the ability to download audio and video recordings, dvds, music, digital print publications, online publications, documents, forms and web pages all in the field of religion, in class 42. the cited mark is jw player, for use with downloadable computer software for playing, viewing and streaming audio and video files in class 09.. .

documents available to download at jw leaks.. http://jwleaks.org/2014/06/19/jw-org-logo-denied-trademark-status-in-the-united-states/.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Oubliette: I don't know about you guys, but I'm really beginning to wonder if Holy Spirit has anything to do with this organization!

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Give it time to prove itself...WT has only been around for 133 years.

(6,000+ years if you count Abel as the first Jehovah's Witness). LOL.

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JW honored for civic service

by Mum in

check this out.

i once knew this guy.. www.topix.com/forum/city/johnson-city-tn/tir9m88gbacn79lmo.

AndDontCallMeShirley

Good for him for flouting the WT and yet remaining in their good graces!

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I agree. Any JW who actually makes it in life is to be applauded.

The irony is, of course, that if he was a successful, highly educated architect and civically-minded JW who is not an elder and is not promoting WT interests (i.e. selfishly persuing his own dreams sans WT), he would most assuredly be labelled as "weak", "materialistic", "worldly", "selfish" and "not seeking the Kingdom first" by the very same WT minions that are praising him. And the rank-and-file would be warned that he is not an example to be emulated.

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As the scholar and gentleman Vidiot so aptly observed, "They've taken "double standards" to an art form, that's for sure."

Amen, brother. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.