One Year Later - A Thank You to Tony Morris.

by cappytan in

jw
friends

dear anthony morris, iii:.

i wanted to send you a note of "thanks" on this special day.. why is this day special, you may ask?

one year ago today, you, tony, woke me up to the fact that the governing body could not have jehovah's blessing or direction.. last year, on november 8th & 9th, 2014, the united states branch visit was broadcast to over 1,000,000 jehovah's witnesses across the country.. as i sat at the kingdom hall listening to the "historic occasion," i was ignoring certain doubts that had surfaced in the few months prior.

Oubliette

Cofty: Isn't there a Proverb in the good book that says if you keep your mouth shut people might think you are wise? They should listen to that one.

Yeah, but I hope they don't!

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One Year Later - A Thank You to Tony Morris.

by cappytan in

jw
friends

dear anthony morris, iii:.

i wanted to send you a note of "thanks" on this special day.. why is this day special, you may ask?

one year ago today, you, tony, woke me up to the fact that the governing body could not have jehovah's blessing or direction.. last year, on november 8th & 9th, 2014, the united states branch visit was broadcast to over 1,000,000 jehovah's witnesses across the country.. as i sat at the kingdom hall listening to the "historic occasion," i was ignoring certain doubts that had surfaced in the few months prior.

Oubliette

Great letter Cappy!

It's interesting how something so relatively unimportant as the tightness of a man's pants or the color of his socks has had more power to wake people up than all the false doctrines and wrong-headed prophecies.

I guess it was simply the power of the WTF moment so many JWs had when they heard one of their leaders go off on such an obviously not-Biblical rant.

Keep it coming, GB members. You are your own worst enemies!

Let's review: It's a cult!

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How confident are you about various so called facts?

by slimboyfat in

no facts about the world are absolutely certain.

that being the case i wonder how others would rank amd rate their confidence in various factual statements about the world.

i am going to rate my confidence in ten items of "knowledge" as a percentage.

Oubliette

The earth is an oblate spheroid rather than flat in shape. - 100%

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EXTREME HYPOCRISY in this Sunday's study article!!!

by Divergent in

wow, what a disturbing study article this was!

this was by far the most difficult study that i ever had to sit through.

just take a look at what the article has to say about how blood should be viewed according to our conscience:.

Oubliette

A Christian who is reasonable does not impose his views on others.

This then is incontrovertible and unequivocal proof that none of the Governing Body members are reasonable. Thanks for the clarification.

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Micro-expressions! Fascinating!

by DATA-DOG in

while doing some research about micro-expressions and sexuality ( another fascinating subject/ basically gay-dar ) i came across this article: .

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/29/correcting-hollywood-science-the-microexpressions-of-mike-daisey-edition/.

i used to watch 'lie to me.

Oubliette

DD, I didn't say the studies would result in a "witch-hunt" but I could see someone claiming their abilities to "read people" could be used as justification for a witch-hunt.

Just imagine some elder reading the same article you did, taking the $20 online course on "lie detection" and then going full-tilt-boogie on some poor JW because they blinked or twitched or looked down when they were being interrogated by a Judicial Committee of window-washers and janitors. The elders already think they have "holy spirit" guiding their inquisitorial procedures.

Now you get the picture.

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Micro-expressions! Fascinating!

by DATA-DOG in

while doing some research about micro-expressions and sexuality ( another fascinating subject/ basically gay-dar ) i came across this article: .

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/29/correcting-hollywood-science-the-microexpressions-of-mike-daisey-edition/.

i used to watch 'lie to me.

Oubliette

Interesting stuff, although due to the inherently subjective, and highly interpretive nature of these skills, the process can easily turn into justification for a witch hunt.

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Bethel Germany, the same is happening here

by Driving Force in

this is just to mention that the same is happening in germany as with other countries, bethel family being reduced by 25%, which means 250 persons, and all the rest of the stuff, laundry etc.. i do not have any special privileged information this is from a german website .

http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/neues-aus-selters/#more-2475.

it is reliable.. there is a letter to the special pioneers which i have translated below:.

Oubliette

Be warm and well-fed.

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A question

by JeffT in

jw
friends

has anybody ever written bethel and just flat out asked for an accounting report on the society's finances?

we all keep batting around speculation about the wtbs and money, and actual information seems non-existent.

what would they do if somebody asked for a financial statement?

Oubliette

Good point. It always bothered me that each congregation had full and complete transparency of their financials with a monthly report read to the congregation but that the parent organization would never do the same.

Let's review: It's a cult!

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