Posts by ColdRedRain

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If you could give a "local needs" talk what would the topic be?

by doodle-v in

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pretend you have a chance to get on stage and give a "local needs talk" what would the topic be?.

heres mine:.

"get out of this cult!!!".

ColdRedRain

"Sisters, make sure to bring bongs instead of hotdishes to the next congregation picnic!"

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All of the JWs in Finland are "CUTE"

by Quotes in

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friends

first of all, shame on these brothers and sisters for not following the society's strict prohibition against private, non-official internet web pages.

now, on a more funny note, check out the picture gallery: .

http://www.sunpoint.net/~turkuenglish/salo_060702.htm.

ColdRedRain

EEewwww....

I guess that's what happens when Aryan genes attack.

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This will be fun !!!!!! Calgary Flames make it to Stanley Cup Finals !!!!!!

by run dont walk in

just got back from the game tonight, wow !!!

!, what a night, town is upside down, estimated over 40,000 people decended on 17th avenue, (hot spot in calgary) to celebrate , it was a sight, the game was awesome, no voice left, drank way too many beers, but had fun.. it will be enjoyable attending the stanley cup finals, (hope to get tickets).

anyone been to a stanley cup final game ???????.

ColdRedRain

Thank you, Calgary, for disposing of a California expansion/relocation franchise. I as well as most of the hockey world would honestly puke if that San Francisco sattilite city were in the finals instead of a real NHL city.

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What tune or pic do you have on mobile phone?

by Brummie in

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friends

a bit of fluff, .

i have the fanta orange tune & pic.

i think i'm in need of an update, my mobile is a nokia and is 2 years old.

ColdRedRain

Personal Jesus-Depeche Mode

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Why JW Enemies Will Fail? - A Consultant's Analysis

by reason in

as an it business consultant, i always use michael porter's competetive forces model to assess whether a firm's e-business strategy will give them a competitive advantage against competitor's.. the competitive forces model identifies five forces in the industry that a firm needs to contend with to become successful.

these forces are the:.

1) bargaining power of customers.

ColdRedRain

FIVE FORCES
Bargaining power of customers (the members)The 'switching cost' is to high. If a member leaves the WTS, he/she will suffer from being disfellowshiped and loose friends and family.

People find new friends. Just like how the RCC abandonned my grandmother when she joined the JW church and she found new JW friends, I've found new XJW and Never-Been friends.

Bargaining power of suppliers (the apostates and other denominations)
The apostates don't really have a tangible product to substitute the WTS product. All they can do is try to prove the WTS is wrong, that's about it.

Actually, we've found other tangible products, some here are ministers in other churches, others are great figures in their communities, and still others are pagans and secularists.

New entrants into the market
There are no new religions around to match the WTS product.

Haven't you heard of the Seventh Day Adventists? They're pretty much the same religion as the JW's, except one is unitarian and another's trinitarian. Not to mention the 2X2 religion, other adventist sects and the Unification church (All, ironically share dangerous charachteristics with the JW's.)

Substitute products and services
Substitutes products (hellfire, immortality of the soul, trinity). JWs have learned to reject these doctrines. It is hard to deprogram them to embrace it again.

And assuming they're going back to Christian religions, yes. But that's the thing, Christianity isn't the only faith that's out there.

Existing competitors
Roman Catholic Church, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, Salvation Army. JWs are programmed to view them as false religions. It is hard to deprogram them to embrace it again.

Actually, it's not quite uncommon to see XJW's go back to those same churches. On this board in fact, we have many fundimentalist Christians (Don't worry, we're working on getting them to the good side :P).

Medicine on their side
For the blood issue, alternatives are coming up and the field of medicine is now buying the idea of bloodless surgery.

Except in times of dire need. It's estimated that over 50K JW's have died from a lack of blood over the past few years. And a lesser %age of that has had their lives saved because of the no blood policy.

Past mistakes of interpretation
The JW GB are now vocal in their admission of the past mistakes they did. After all, they are only humans.

Sir, before you have me heading off to the hospital for breaking my legs while falling on the floor laughing, you should read this site. http://quotes.watchtower.ca . Has all the WT quotes from WT history, like the time they played nice with the Nazi government, etc.

Management style As the management is changing and getting younger in terms of age, old 'beaucratic traditional culture' is slowly changing to a more relax management style.

What you've proved is that you have no idea about buisness rule #1, which is know thyself and thy enemy. You assume that your "enemy" is a religious denomination that's only goal is to preach against the JW's and "thyself" can be taken for their word. Therefore, your buisness model that you mentioned is going to fail no matter what. And it is failing. As of right now, the WT is hemmoraging members in developed countries (Ironically, the countries that have the internet, where dangerous sects are exposed daily) and when news gets around the developing countries, they're also going to hemmorage members too.

If I have a buisness, I would want a buisnessman like you to stay far, far away from it. You'd make me poor.

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BREAKING NEWS FROM GOVERNING BODY

by wannaexit in

recently the local congregation had the visit of the c.o.

the local needs talk he usually gives was replaced by a talk he said will be given to many congregations around the world.. this talk is targeting th very young.

kids are being strongly encouraged not to put off baptism and that children as young as 10 can make an informed decision to get baptized.

ColdRedRain

This actually works in our favor, for you see, if they baptize more people under the age of 18, they're legally able to sign baptismal recovation forms. And since the WT can't keep any members in their churches, this may be the beginning of the end.

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Apostates are contributing to the fulfillment of a JW interpretation

by reason in

by constantly irritating the un and other government organisations about their complaints against the wts as an organised religion, do you think these men are contributing to the fulfillment of the wts 'interpretation' of the prophecy regarding the wild beast turning against organised religion?

ColdRedRain

Actually, if you're going to go for proving the fufillment of prophecy, didn't the bible say that false prophets (1925, 1975, Generations teaching, etc.) and men having a form of godly devotion but proving false to it's power (Rise of legalistic religions that put their laws on an equal plane with the bible's teachings.) would be a sign of the endtimes?

Poor JW sap.

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Take a look at these beautiful winged creatures!

by scootergirl in

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friends

some of you know that we live way out in the country, deep in the woods of northern mn.

one of the great things out here is the abundant wildlife that we see everyday.

last week we had a huge porcupine in the yard (which our four year old calls a hamster.....lol).

ColdRedRain

You country folks aren't the only ones to have wildlife like that. Down here in the cities, you can see all those birds right by the forest on Lake Harriet.

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