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  Very Offensive Statement Directed To JW Parents-Watchtower 4/15/2015 Page 11 Paragraph 9

  by JW GoneBad in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wt is insinuating, worse yet, blaming senior jw parents for there not being more younger brothers reaching out to be ministerial servants and elders.

  page 11 paragraph 9 reads as follows: .

  "elders in affluent lands may face an added challenge: how to motivate baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to get involved in congregation activities.

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  Good catch Searcher!

  So in 2013 there was "an abundance" of spiritual shepherds, but now there's not?!?

  What happened?
  
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  A Hummingbird in My House

  by Oubliette in

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  we just had a hummingbird in our house!

  it flew in through an open door.

  i had been cleaning my back patio and left the screen open for a few moments when i was putting stuff away.

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  We just had a hummingbird in our house! It flew in through an open door. I had been cleaning my back patio and left the screen open for a few moments when I was putting stuff away.
  
  The hummer flew upstairs and into our bedroom. After I discovered where it was, I closed the doors to all the other rooms and tried to shoo it out with a broom. Trying to "herd" a hummer is worse than trying to "herd" cats or teenagers!
  
  I finally had to wait for it to get so tired it passed out grasping a screen on a window. I thought it was dead. It's tiny little claws were still clinging to the screen. Gently as possible, I pried them loose from the screen.
  
  I picked it up, cupping it in both hands, and took it outside. Although it was still warm, it didn't move at all in my hands. But when I opened my hands it flew away!!!

  It was quite an experience to hold a hummingbird in my hands, if even for only a few seconds.
  
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  We are slowly moving away from that kind of preaching work

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  john hoyle--jws go knocking on strangers doors and try to get inside homes to preach.. wt rep--we are slowly moving away from that kind of preaching work, we do more preaching by using literature carts and personal telephone calls.. .

  the above quote is from john hoyle's website:http://insidethewatchtower.com/doctrine/phone-calls-to-bethel-jw-org-email-and-contacts/.

  it's interesting, isn't it?

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  Cart to cart we go, preaching of the Kingdom!
  
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  "Knock, Knock" --- My Poem

  by The Governor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is saturday morning and you hear a ring at the door bell, two men greet you looking quite swell.

  they say good morning and open up their publications and start reading without any hesitation.

  they tell you the world is getting worse, with death and human suffering you think the world must be cursed!

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  Um, just because phrases and sentences end with words that rhyme doesn't meant it's poetry.

  Try working on your meter and rhythm.

  Also, great poetry comes from great subjects. As fun as it is, ridiculing JWs is not a great subject.
  

  I suggest you get a collection of great poetry and read it out loud.

  I recommend this to get you started:
  

  The Norton Anthology of Poetry
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  Lipstick on a pig

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is how i look at the regional conventions with the video monitors.

  same crappy content just a little different delivery.

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  The incredibly white NAACP leader

  by Simon in

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  this is a bizarre story.. there is a woman who is the local leader of the naacp who is obviously trying to mislead people into believing she is black who is actually white.

  very white.. she obviously gets a tan regularly but looks more orange.

  yes, orange really is the new black!.

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  LUHE: why can't this woman be black - what kind of corrective surgery would achieve this?

  Black is a culture, not a genital.
  
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  An interesting theory on Stephen Lett

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  interesting theory i thought on stephen lett.

  if anything i would of thought tomo3 would of caused them more grief with his comments.. http://insidethewatchtower.com/governing-body/stephen-lett-dumped-from-governing-body/.

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  John Hoyle wrote: "But within the past few weeks, Stephen Lett seems to have become the true looney, the master clown, the odd man out of the current Governing Body."

  This is NOT a recent development. Lett has always been a fool.

  He is more responsible than any other person for my beginning to realize this religion is false.

  Back in the early years of this century he would give talks at our District Conventions. I could not stand to watch him because his style of delivery and mannerisms were just an embarrassment.

  My wife at the time would chastise me for not watching his talks, "You're being disrespectful to the anointed of Jehovah!" she would say.

  I would respond, "Look at him. He's a clown. I can't stand to watch him!" Even though she didn't like what I was saying, she couldn't disagree.

  His buffoonery were instrumental in my realizing that there was no way in hell that any god would choose THAT GUY to represent him.

  That was one of the first loose threads for me. Once I started to pull on it and a few more, the whole thing began to unravel.
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  The incredibly white NAACP leader

  by Simon in

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  this is a bizarre story.. there is a woman who is the local leader of the naacp who is obviously trying to mislead people into believing she is black who is actually white.

  very white.. she obviously gets a tan regularly but looks more orange.

  yes, orange really is the new black!.

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  Hey, if Bruce Jenner can be a woman, then why can't this woman be black.

  Apparently she was raised this in a racially diverse/mixed environment and self-identifies as black.

  What's the big deal?
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  Does The Governing Body Have Enemies At Bethel?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i would think that a lot of resentment is building up for these for these guys at bethel even though it may not be discussed openly for fear of being abused by the gb in some way.. any way looking at their personality and the extreme phoniness of rubber mouth/face lett, and am#3, and the chicken shit coward leosch who won't even show up in court when subpoena'd to defend his faith or policies, and i'm sure they have many more undesirable traits that repel people instead of attract and that has to work its toll on relationships they have at bethel.. and this shunning thing i'm sure must really erk some at god's house and while they may not be free to voice their discontent i feel it must be building because these guys are complete nincompoops when it come to reality and the only way they know how to give direction is with fear and guilt which i'm sure is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.. and let not forget the issues that are raise when they stole all the congregations savings and the pledge drive for more cash, ban on higher education, lawsuit pay out and etc.... what is this doing to the relation ship they have with legal and accounting i see trouble brewing right thier in the spiritual pair of dice..

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  BrokebackWatchtower, I also wonder about the amount of self loathing that goes on in the unconscious of each GB member

  Although, Jung’s work has made some contributions to mainstream psychology, generally modern psychologists do not employ his ideas into their theories of personality and mind. In particular, they do not give much credence to his theory of archetypes.
  
  Ernest Jones (Freud’s biographer) wrote that Jung “descended into a pseudo-philosophy out of which he never emerged” and to many his ideas look more like New Age mystical speculation than a scientific contribution to psychology.
  
  You might find this article written by Saul McLeod informative:
  

  • Simply Psychology: Carl Jung
    
    
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  The Case for Theism

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "theism" here means "belief in a god" or "the worldview that an intelligent designer created the universe and life.

  " ("god" here means a being with a mind who initiated and/or wound-up the universe, and designed life on earth)the most common claim that i see atheists making on twitter, is that "no evidence" exists in support of belief in a god.this post will remove any excuse atheists have for claiming "no evidence exists" in support of an initiator.

  atheists can still reject this evidence as "weak," but they cannot truthfully say it does not exist.now, it is true that we do not have "observable, repeatable, falsifiable, empirical, scientific" evidence conclusively proving that an initiator exists, but we do have many lines of philisophical, experiential, and logical evidence.and... here... we... go:1:) many leading scientists, including stephen hawking, say that the space-time-matter universe had a beginning at the singularity/big bang.

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  StrongHaiku, well said.

  Hell, it's all beliefs. The only thing that any of us can really know is that we exist. After that, it's all guesswork. We could be completely wrong about many, most, maybe even all of what we believe about our own existence.

  I'm just sayin' is all.