@JW gone bad - I agree with your list in that 1 and 2 are one and the same in most JW's minds. Also I'd change 4 to "a dull yet inexplicably popular collection of old mystical writings" and 5 to "the most interesting fictional character from the second part of said book"
BobFlanagan007
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will the jw logo become a flag?
by losingit inwith the unveiling of the new jw logo, and all of the emphasis placed on it , will the borg dare to put it on a flag?
i hope they do!
imagine all whom would wake up with such an act!
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JW's just called at my door, simply handed me the JW.ORG tract and left! JW's now mere leaflet distributors.
by yadda yadda 2 ini'm off work today and its a monday morning.
a male and female jw just knocked on my door, i opened it, the guy just handed me their latest website promoting tract saying "hi, were just leaving these with people today", and then he made to leave.
i looked at the tract and then looked at him as he was turning to walk away and said to him "ok, thanks, but ummm you could've just left it in my letterbox.".
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I'd have pointed to the notice on my front door stating, among other things, "no cold callers, no leaflets, no religious cranks", hand back their silly little tract and (as I did last time they were arrogant/stupid enough to knock on my door) tell them to "Get the f*** off my property"
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Weird crazy rules imposed by your local Elders.
by stuckinarut2 inwe all know the sort of thing..... in many congregations, specific "rules" creep in...introduced by the local elders that become set in stone.. years ago, i heard of a congregation that sat down during the first song of the evening but stood for all others (the co changed that very soon after).
then there were the older accounts of congs that had rules to make the public speakers wear only white shirts.... in one cong now, i heard that brothers can only be used for sound or microphones if they do a minimum of 5 hours per month in the ministry!.
another cong has ruled that all appointed men must pioneer for at least one month each year in order to remain qualified.. .
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@RubaDub - Or the young lady on page 93 of "You Can Live Forever In Paradise On Earth"...
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Convention visit observations
by Gorbatchov inthis weekend we visited the convention.
my findings:.
- no jw.org marketing here at this moment.
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What's this "flatliner video"? It sounds awful and manipulative, what session of which day do they show it?
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Weird crazy rules imposed by your local Elders.
by stuckinarut2 inwe all know the sort of thing..... in many congregations, specific "rules" creep in...introduced by the local elders that become set in stone.. years ago, i heard of a congregation that sat down during the first song of the evening but stood for all others (the co changed that very soon after).
then there were the older accounts of congs that had rules to make the public speakers wear only white shirts.... in one cong now, i heard that brothers can only be used for sound or microphones if they do a minimum of 5 hours per month in the ministry!.
another cong has ruled that all appointed men must pioneer for at least one month each year in order to remain qualified.. .
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@ ducatijoe - You forgot "No petting" and "No bombing"
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Snare & Racket's Graduation Picture
by cofty inafter years of hard work and study, former bethel boy snare & racket is now officially a medical doctor.. his story is an inspiration that there can be life after the watchtower.
he has given me permission to post his graduation picture.. .
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The Rise Of The Brics Alliance
by metatron inhttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-19/brics-plan-become-political-alliance-reform-international-financial-system.
step by step, the chinese seem to be building a complete alternative financial system - independent of anglo-america.
this includes their own version of the imf and their own credit rating agency (which just downgraded the debt of the us).. meanwhile, the world obsesses with putin - which has all the appearance of the western world 'being played' by a "good cop, bad cop" routine.
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@metatron - Is real one of the three biggest warmakers? You lost me on that one. The Palestinians could have peace tomorrow (not to mention a shed load of Israeli aid) if they wanted it.
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National newspaper interview with JW's using the JW.org trolley
by Gorbatchov ina dutch national newspaper (trouw) published an interview with some jw's using the jw.org trolley near the trainstation of utrecht.. the local coordinator of the trolley work acknowledged that many witness are not enthusiastic about preaching.
it's a wide spread rumor in our organization.. but the witness elders will remind them personally that preaching is nessasery.
then there is an question asked about the witness selection procedure for the trolley work.. the good looking pioneer sister answered she can imagine the need for selection because nobody would take a book from an old age leaning forward woman without teeth.. g..
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@ fadetoblack - They did that to me, I asked them about 1975 and was told by the youngish man manning the trolley to look it up on JW.org. Bad choice really as nothing screams apostate louder than 1975 does it? Anyways, since that day I've been carrying a detailed list of 5 omissions/lies I found on JW.org (So you're not creationists? How comes the website implies that the work is only funded by voluntary donations? So you're not a sect? So you've not made any changes to the Bible? So people are free to leave your religion?) which I'm going to confront them with. Unfortunately the one time I got back to that part of town since then the trolley was being manned by a little old lady of 70+ and thinking of my own late grandmother I just didn't have the heart to confront her. Oh well, maybe next time...
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Sisters conducting meetings where there is a lack of brothers
by booker-t ini remember years ago when i was a little boy aroung 9 years old, our bookstudy conductor was in the hospital and at the last minute one of the elders asked my aunt to be the book study conductor.
this was the first time i have seen this happen.
my aunt did a very good job and the bookstudy acted as it was not something from outer space.
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@ OneEyedJoe - Can't express how amused I am by your comment. My god, what a f###ed up organisation we were/are all part of. Your comment is such a classic example of all that is wrong with the JW mindset.
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My Satantic Smurf Scratch n' Sniff Stickers Story (True!)
by Phaedra inback in the early 80s when i was around 9 or 10, my slightly-older best jw friend relished telling me all the latest scare stories she heard about the satanic smurfs popping off of wallpaper, cutting babies with sharp objects, and running through kingdom hall corridors swearing.
wide-eyed with no critical thinking skills at.
i listened and believed every single word.
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Re Fantasia. The Beethoven sequence featured pagan gods, mythical creatures and kinda sorta nudity. The Stravinsky section is about evolution and features heavy rhythmic music. For the section based on Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey uses witchcraft which goes out of control. As for the closing (and by far the best) piece, Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain, ghosts, gravestones, witches on broomsticks, skeletons and lightning flashes all presided over by Satan himself. Truly, in the eyes of the sisters who had a get together to watch this movie when it was rereleased on VHS in the mid-90's this diabolical Disney equivalent of Cannibal Holocaust was thoughly demonic and not fit for fine upstanding followers of Jehovah and spent many weeks informing anyone who would listen of this fact. Which made the movie all the more disappointing when I finally saw it a few years ago.