Geesh, the more you dig, the more hypocrisy you will find with the WT or whatever other cover corporation they are using to benefit from. I'm not surprised if they did have their hand out to receive money from United Way or the Red Cross, but the R&F is made to feel guilty if we donate to United Way through work or use the pool at the YMCA after a long day at work. "For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven..."
JustVisting
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Did They Tell You?
by Atlantis ind id they tell you they were taking care of the brothers and sisters in need in other countries?..
did they tell you that your contributions were being used for disaster relief?..
did they tell you that your contributions were being used for humanitarian assistance?..
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Patterson New York JW Tourist Destination
by Pete Zahut ini saw a photo on facebook of a jw couple i know, apparently you can now get your photo taken with the stars of the jw animated children's videos, at patterson.
i've tried to share it here but it isn't showing up.. basically, you stand in different cartoon scenes of the door to door activity, holding a bookbag and the hand of one of the children's characters from the viedo.
the houses are pastel colored, the cartoon brothers are wearing brightly colored shirts and ties , no jackets.
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JustVisting
AKA: "Jumping the shark"
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Olympic Medals in the WT Land
by Quarterback ingold: special pioneering.
silver: regular pioneering.
bronze: auxiliary pioneering.
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JustVisting
Taking the visiting speaker, his big-eater wife and spaced-out kids out to lunch when asked by your service overseer because he got a better offer from Brother Pick-up DaTab: honorable mention, kind of like the good citizen award in grade school.
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I was a window washet...
by new hope and happiness inthete are a lot of derocatory comments sbout witnesses and cleaning windows.
as a former window cleaner i can say:-.
a. i started my self employment at 17.. b. i built the round with my own initiative.. c. i was soon making 4 times the average hourly wage.. d. i was afraid of heights, but as the round grew i employed 2 people.. e. it exspanded to gardening painting and decorating ect, ect,.
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JustVisting
No disrespect to you and other self-starters like yourself is intended. I think that the term window washer is meant to represent a class of person with zero formal training, education or motivation to better themselves. These people have bought into the fairy-tale that the can fritter away their youth pioneering at the expense of their middle-age future trapped in a physically taxing, menial job content because the end is just around the corner.
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Patterson New York JW Tourist Destination
by Pete Zahut ini saw a photo on facebook of a jw couple i know, apparently you can now get your photo taken with the stars of the jw animated children's videos, at patterson.
i've tried to share it here but it isn't showing up.. basically, you stand in different cartoon scenes of the door to door activity, holding a bookbag and the hand of one of the children's characters from the viedo.
the houses are pastel colored, the cartoon brothers are wearing brightly colored shirts and ties , no jackets.
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JustVisting
Don't they have accommodations at Patterson for visitors to rent at a discounted price
already?
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Governing Body and Security
by NeverKnew ini was told that unlike christendom's pastors of mega-churches, members of the governing body don't require a security team and that you can just walk right up to them and talk to them.. is this true?.
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JustVisting
yep, very large-framed brothers serve as body guards to GB members at conventions.
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BOE Letter: New Adjustments
by pixel in**this was predicted from some members here**.
to all congregations .
re: adjustments in organizational terminology and assembly arrangements .
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JustVisting
Wow, I wonder if that machine takes EBT (electronic benefits transfer) card payments as well. After all, if one is on public assistance, a person is still expected to tithe from those evil riches, right?
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regarding blood
by never a jw inas a father of a baptized jw 17 year old girl i am concerned about her stand on blood.
so i decided to do some research.
i found the following in the elders' book "sheperd the flock of god" pages 110-112.
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JustVisting
In JW-think it makes perfect sense. If you take blood and live, you have renounced the blood of Christ and are therefore worthy of spiritual "death". If you bang your fellow elder's wife, you can get off if shed crocidile tears or due some time by deing DF'd for a year.
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3 years of study, Just found out!
by impala63rag inhello friends, .
i would like some advice from those that are inpartial, and are familiar with the teachings of jw.
i studied with a wonderful jw couple weekly for 3 years.
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JustVisting
As Data-Dog correctly points out, the judging of the faithful slave is a future event. They has shown to be neither "faithful" (getting in bed with the UN, pedophile handling) nor "discrete" (do as we say not as we do).
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Sing Dirges to Jehovah?
by donny inback in 1985 my then-wife and i were having a lunchtime "gathering" at our place to show some support to the ones in our congregation who were full-time pioneers.
i had just recently received the vinyl collection of the songs featured in the song book "sing praises to jehovah" which had been released the previous year.. .
many of these melodies sounded depressing to me although i would have never admitted it at the time.
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JustVisting
DATA-DOG, You have flair my man. That's wickedly funny.
losingit, the FIRM AND DETERMINED song was in fact written in the concentration camps during WWII. There's a WT video where a German annointed sister gives some background information on that song.
I heard comments that the songs do not follow "standard" music chord progressions, melodic phrasing and so forth. That is what you get when your song-writers have no formal training (read: education) but are selected because they have the "spiritual" qualifications (read: full-time service). I read somewhere that one of the brothers that collaborated on the new song book actually had music/recording industry experience but quit half-way into the project when he experienced the pettiness and hypocrisy of the WT project overseer or something to that effect.