Pete Zahut

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  A question about WTBTS moles.

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. beliefs

  with all the info from videos to boe letters, to the flock book ( this is huge when you learn ttatt!

  ), why can't we find out who the wtbts hired to aid in their rebranding efforts?

  we know all about the rc and monica applewhite for jeehoober's sake, so why in the hell can't we find out who is behind the rebranding?

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  Pete Zahut

  When I was in Bethel, a good friend there was a recent college graduate (English major)  and became a JW after he had received his degree. His sister was a recent convert who turned him on to the JW's. We worked in the Bindery together and one day he was tapped on the shoulder and told to come to the Bethel office.

  Later that day he told me that he was being transferred to the Legal Dept and being sent to Law School. I was shocked, I had gone to Bethel instead of going to College as I had wanted to and realized that those of us who listened to the Societies directive to forgo a higher education were being discriminated against for having done so.

  They tell the rank and file that the end is near and not to waste time on pursuing a degree yet they use the donated funds earned by the sweat of uneducated publishers working at dead end jobs, to send a Bethelite to Law School. That was in 1977 and the end didn't come and that Brother left Bethel and "the truth" years ago and  is now in his early 60's.
  
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  Start your own Prince rumour!

  by purrpurr in

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  2. humour

  i see the jw rumour mill is going into mad overdrive about prince.

  the stories seem to be more and more unlikely.

  so i thought as a bit of fun how about us here try to make up our own rumours?

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  Pete Zahut

  1. As soon as the Governing Body got wind that they were named as major benefactors in Prince's Will, they had him "Whacked" by their sister organization" (The Illuminati ) so they could use his money to bail themselves out of their current financial woes. (Jehovah blesses in his own large way)

  2. Prince is still alive. He staged his own death so that he could drop off the grid and serve where the need is great.

  3. Prince's left his Paisley Park home to the Society and specified that it be used as an unleavened bread storage facility, a sign language training center and as a sound stage for the Societies videos and music recording needs.
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  Has Anybody Hear a Rumour That Prince Died?

  by cofty in

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  why do people care so much about celebrities?

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  Pete Zahut

  Has Anyone Heard the Rumor That Prince Died?
  

  ...and by Prince I'm assuming you're referring to "The Artist Formally Known as Alive"   (too soon?)
  
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  Any thought behind your " Avatar"

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think that's the correct phrase?

  anyway when i first came here, that little picture that "the rebel" hides behind, was a self portrait of a very sad man, who simply had too much knowledge.

  now i feel after 7 months here, i should repaint that " avetor" give some happiness to the eyes, and a contented smile to the lips.. in short my " avetor" was a self portrait of a man with too much knowledge.

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  Pete Zahut

  I'm far too busy with my chain of eating establishments to put much thought into my Avatar.

  -Pete
  
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  Prince was on the board of directors for the WTS

  by Barrold Bonds in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was talking with a friend of mine who knows a few people in the home department at bethel.

  apparently, prince was, as i noted in the title, on the board of directors.

  he apparently was sort of a silent partner or advisor in the whole thing.

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  Pete Zahut

  Prince was Tony Morris's go-to guy when he needed the low-down on Spanx and Tight Pants.
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  So apparently prince wrote most of the songs in the new song book...

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or so says the jw's around me who heard it from someone who apparently "knows".

  i'm no expert in the music of prince so perhaps someone else can tell me, does the songs of the wt sound similar to princes work?.

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  Pete Zahut

  Didn't Prince Write Song # 126    

  " Christ's Thousand Year Purple  Reign Is At Hand " ?
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  Did Jesus really suffer? Really?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so over the course of three days he had a trial which doesn't seem to have bothered him much.

  he got whipped ok that would have been agony and then put on a torture stake/ cross/ whatever yes that would have been hell.

  but he was on it for a day and the whole thing lasted for three days.

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  The thing that always threw me off and no one was able to answer satisfactorily,was the fact that Jesus HAD to die or be sacrificed in order to buy back the life Adam lost for mankind.

  If everyone would have listened to him and accepted him how would he have paid the "ransom" ? If he was perfect and no one killed him, would he have just lived on forever?
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  George Cook former DO, now just an elder at Prince's home congregation KH

  by oppostate in

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  2. current

  george cook, omg, george f'ing cook, whattttt!.

  caption: elder george cook (right), one of the nine elders of the small 90-person congregation, said prince regularly ‘witnessed’ alone in the community and in groups.

  he was very detail oriented and very eccentric.

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  Pete Zahut

  It's ironic that he said Princes drug dependency was a personal matter and that he was in good standing in the congregation, because George Cook reprimanded a group of Mothers in our Congregation (including my own) for putting on a 50's party for the teenagers. He said we shouldn't be emulating the world and it's dress with our costumes, rather we should emulate the Pioneers and Missionaries of that time period.

  My Mother told him he was being ridiculous and turned on her heel and walked off.

  Another time he told the Sisters that in Chicago where he was from, only hookers wore knee length boots and they shouldn't be wearing them so as not to stumble anyone in their ministry . My Mother quickly pointed out to him that his wife's long red fingernails were like those on the societies depiction of the harlot riding the wild beast and were quite distracting to the householders while turning the pages of the Bible and showing them scriptures about Oh...I don't know....modesty, well arranged dress and the external braiding of the hair, for instance.

  The Brothers knew better than to pull any of their B.S on my Mother because she knew her bible better and was more articulate and had a sharper wit than any of them and George Cook was no different. Funny how these years later, he views a 57 year old man who wears androgynous clothes and make-up, to be perfectly acceptable by the societies standards.
  
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  ANZAC day.

  by zeb in

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  2. current

  the 25th april in australia and new zealand is called anzac day.

  the word is from australia new zealand army corp.. on this day are commemorated the lives of those lost in war.

  the 25th april is the day in 1915 that the forces under incompetent commanders landed on the coast of turkey at a place called gallipoli or galliboli in turkish, in an effort to force turkey out of the great war.. the landings were an unmitigated blunder.

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  Pete Zahut

  So if you hear of the word ANZAC you now know now where it is from.

  And how Anzac biscuits came about.
  
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  Being Positive around family that are still in.

  by freddo in

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  2. friends

  if you are a fader or you have reduced activity markedly - say resigned as a pioneer or an elder or ms or gone inactive and still have some relationship with your immediate family or spouse - how do you stay positive around them when you feel like shaking them out of their stupor but believe deep down it would be counter productive?.

  thoughts from all most welcome..

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  Pete Zahut

  The best thing to do is give them the blankest look you can muster whenever anything JW related comes up. It really gets their curiosity up when they realize that it makes no difference to you anymore what JW do or say.
  

  Them: There was an earthquake in Timbuktu today...the end is really getting close...

  You: Blank look on face...eyes blinking.... crickets chirping in the background.... (do not answer no matter how uncomfortable the silence is) Count to 100 and change the subject.