Posts by Roddy

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Joel Osteen, Pastor

by new light in

has anyone else ever watched televangelist joel osteen, pastor of the lakewood church in houston, tx?

i believe he is aired pretty much throughout the u.s. even being the faithless slug that i am, his sermons never, ever fail to move me.

he is so inspiring, so positive.

I agree. I like him. He is really upbeat. I find him refreshing from the constant recycled egg-sucking themes in the public talk schedule in kingdom halls. One time I could swear that I heard the same talk subject about 10 times in the same year. And each time it was still boring.

I never figured out why elders couldn't make their own talks. I'm sure if one was allowed to give a talk that one can really specialize in or that comes from the heart, that can really benefit the listeners. I guess it's another one of those WTS control things.

Coming to New York City? I'll see if he has a website and if he is touring around to other places.

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new kingdom songs?

by ezekiel3 in

jw
friends

hi, my first post, although i've been lurking for some time now.

i am an active jw that continues my association with full knowledge of the organisation's tactics.

my main reason for abiding is my family and friends, although there is little i agree with in the way of doctrine.

Roddy

Hi Ezekiel! Welcome.

I've opened my eyes. I've been on WTS eye and ear candy and in their Land of Make Believe for over 25 years, and I'm not taking any more of it. I'm a JW dropout. So I'm technically still a JW but I try to tuck under the radar as much as possible. I have lots of family in the JWs and I don't want to loose them because The Borg has lost its assimilation of me.

The previous song book was released in 1984, if my memory is correct. Previous to that was a song book in 1967, 17 years earlier. So it has been 20 years since the last song book. I figured that they would come out with a song book in 2001 because that's 17 years after the last one. Three years later still nothing.

I'm sure this will be the year of the new song book. They got to keep the cattle grazing and entertained. They need to give them a new candy-coated "Gift from Jehovah!" to make the people dance, rejoice, and endure another repetitious boring summer convention.

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WT Library 2003 CD-ROM

by stillajwexelder in

i now have this on my hard drive so if anybody needs any information please ask and i will see what i can do

Roddy

<< Does someone have bandwidth to host the ISO image? I can upload it somewhere. The CD is about 350MB in size. Not sure what size it is compressed.

>>

What? Is that all??? The CD only half filled? You figure with all the trees they kill with all the paper they generate year after year, they'd be able to fill several DVDs at least.

Since it is a fact that most of the articles and information are just recycled from previous articles, I guess you can fit all the Watchtower's genuine information on a diskette and still have space left over to save a spreadsheet and a wordpressing document.

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My Catholic wife chastised the JWs coming to our door

by franklin J in

my wife just called me to tell me that as she was leaving the house this morning to run some errands, there were 2 " nice looking" ladies coming up our drive.

we have a 200 foot driveway and she encountered them already on our property approaching the house, just as she was driving out.

she said she knew they were jws because of the conservative looking clothes and cheap vinyl book bags.

Roddy

Let's hope that what your wife said to them would pinch their hearts to realize this truth before the indoctrination meetings hardens their hearts to standard Watchtower hardline.

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URGENT UPDATE !!! ON E-WATCHMAN

by SWALKER in

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e-watchman has just sent a letter to the governing body accusing them of apostacy and demanding a full investigation by an outside committee!

go to www.e-watchman.com and click on commentary for april!

Roddy

Addressing the letters to the WTS or the congregation will only fall on blind eyes. He's got to get the letters to the rank-and-file to do the most damage.

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Looooong Prayers!

by BigJ in

ok, who remembers all those long prayers?

especially at the district conventions!.

we had our convetions at a small hockey arena and the stairs were really steep.

Roddy

Somehow a GB member would have to say a long prayer - which was annoying.

I didn't appreciate long prayers for mealtimes. By the time the brother finished the hot meal cooled off.

Neither did I appreciate brothers who would use prayer time to rehash the talk just given, the assembly, the Watchtower article, etc etc.

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They're everywhere!

by Octavia in

jw
friends

i just found out that the woman in the cube next to me is a witness.

i came in from my break and she was reading a watchtower!

i said "are you a witness?

Roddy

I recommend you not say you are DFed nor that you know alot about the JWs. Otherwise she'll instantly have an attitude with you which you don't need from a coworker.

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More Ex-Witnesses than Witnesses?

by OHappyDay in

jehovah's witnesses use the number of the mighty 6 million (tm) to "prove" that god is blessing them over and above all other religions.

but with so many being disfellowshipped and leaving over the past decades, how many ex-witnesses are there?

with thousands growing wiser and more dissatisfied with wt doctrine, might the number of ex-witnesses over the years now equal the number of witnesses?

Roddy

I heard in a talk years ago that 40,000 a year worldwide are DFed. I suspect the numbers are larger as the org is larger and more people are on the Internet.

But what about drop-outs, inactive, irregular, and those just hanging-on? I'm sure that's a much larger number.

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The Watchtower - A Waste of Paper and Time? ( May 1, 2004)

by metatron in

often, when you pick up a copy of the watchtower, you'll notice some articles that.

give good counsel.

they may advise elders to lovingly care for the flock, teenagers to.

Roddy

Well said. Unfortunately many more trees will be wasted before the WTS becomes a dinosaur.

I think I'll start taking the Watchtower and Awake magazines from some poor lonely pioneer on the street. I'll use them for free toilet paper. At least it will be wasted paper put to good use. And it give my butt some color.

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Watchtower's 360 Furman Street Bldg. is SOLD!

by Nathan Natas in

http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?newsid=7751

watchtower building sold

the jehovah's witnesses have made a deal to sell their 1 million-square-foot building on the brooklyn waterfront to ral development services, a residential development company.

Roddy

Hey! I was just thinking. With 360 Furman street on the way out, does this mean that some residence buildings that the WTS have in Columbia Heights will be sold as well? Perhaps one or more of the smaller ones? After all, with the 360 Furman building sale there will be a decrease of their local labor force as the 360 Furman workers are either transfered to other areas or, most likely, laid-off. So I think this will not be the only WTS building in the area that will be up for grabs.

I wonder how the antagonized Columbia Heights residents must be feeling regarding this sale and the possibility of other sales? For a while they thought that the WTS was taking over the neighborhood.