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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  Pete Zahut

  Affect and Effect ....always have to think twice when writing those words in a sentence.

  Excuse.

  • He always has some lame excuse for his bad behavior
  • Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt.
    
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  Million Euro Scandal in Spain

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/testigos-jehova-agujero-empresarial-galicia_69908_102.html.

  the jehovah’s witnesses leadership (in northern spain) requested that a local material supplier (owned by rank-and file jws) not divulge that a million euros are unaccounted for.

  the cult leadership requested peace from the congregation so as to put pressure on the material company’s owners (who are jws) and thereby avoid any possible litigation.. this case affects a well-known construction supply company with its headquarters in a large northern city.

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  Now THAT is what I call solid documentation. Perhaps I should come up with "a very very good friend indeed of mine" and conjure up some FAKE NEWS too ..................

  Yep...everything I related in my post was totally fabricated, just like all those anecdotal stories we'd hear at the assemblies, about someone named Andre' and the unexplainable and miraculous things that happened to him and other JW's in lands where they were persecuted or banned.

  Truth is, I was hoping I could start a following of my own or somehow personally profit by relating my fake experiences....looks like I'm gonna' have to be a bit more clever.
  
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  Going, going, GONE! Another KH is sold....

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  down in south wales, over by newport / cardiff way.

  commercial street, griffithstown, pontypool, np4 5jf.

  sales details: http://www.dezrez.com/estate-agent-software/propertysystem/externalbrochureget.do?brochure=internet%c2%bfparticulars&pid=3740636.

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  Jehovah is sifting out all the spiritually weak, leaving only the truly righteous.

  Selling a Kingdom Hall out from under an entire Congregation just to get rid of a few weak ones, does seem like something he might do.

  Remember, how he supposedly covered the whole earth with water and killed all but a few of the innocent animals on the planet, just to get rid of a bunch of humans he didn't like ? He could have sent a few of his myriads of angels to kill them off but no.....that wouldn't have been drastic enough.
  
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  Business Slow at JW Literature Trolley

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i stopped at a local shopping center to pick up a few things.

  i arrived at 9:45 am and two jw ladies had already set up their literature trolley and had opened for business.

  but i didn't see anyone stopping by and taking advantage of their free literature.

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  visited a couple more stores, then stopped at a thrift store that has a huge selection of books. I spent over an hour there, so It was 11:30 AM when I left the store and stopped and visited the first JW literature trolley

  I've seen old discontinued JW literature in thrift stores and rummage sales. It would have been comical if you'd have found one of them, such as the "truth" book while you were browsing, purchased it and gave it back to them and pointed out the print date and then saying something like "Seems you folks have been saying the end is near since 1968".
  
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  Going, going, GONE! Another KH is sold....

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  down in south wales, over by newport / cardiff way.

  commercial street, griffithstown, pontypool, np4 5jf.

  sales details: http://www.dezrez.com/estate-agent-software/propertysystem/externalbrochureget.do?brochure=internet%c2%bfparticulars&pid=3740636.

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  Looking at those photos of the (funeral parlor decor) pastel blue and pink chairs and carpet in that kingdom hall, bring back bad memories. I can almost smell that odd paper and glue smell coming from the literature counter.
  
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  Million Euro Scandal in Spain

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/testigos-jehova-agujero-empresarial-galicia_69908_102.html.

  the jehovah’s witnesses leadership (in northern spain) requested that a local material supplier (owned by rank-and file jws) not divulge that a million euros are unaccounted for.

  the cult leadership requested peace from the congregation so as to put pressure on the material company’s owners (who are jws) and thereby avoid any possible litigation.. this case affects a well-known construction supply company with its headquarters in a large northern city.

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  A good friend of mine (best man in my wedding) went on to a position of oversite in the building of assembly halls in the U.S., the Caribbean and other island countries. He is an amazing individual who became a multi millionaire making his fortune building vacation resorts and commercial buildings. He ran his own business, worked on JW projects and was also flown around the country by the Watchtower to oversee some of the more difficult child abuse cases.

  He is no longer a JW because of what he saw at this level. According to him, while overseeing these projects, there were JW suppliers who regularly overcharged, double billed and or billed for goods that were never received. The likes of which he hadn't seen in his own company when working with "worldly" suppliers.

  What he saw during his handling of the various child abuse cases he was assigned to, was heartbreaking for him as a father and tender hearted man, to deal with. He was eventually removed because in one horrible case where the young victim committed suicide, he went against Betehels directive not to contact the local authorities.

  I couldn't help but wonder while reading this post, if the reason the Watchtower wants this kept on the down low is because a formal investigation might somehow implicate them as well.
  
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  Were You Ever A True Believer?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was raised in the religion and for the most part believed that my religion was truth.

  i recognized some mistakes were occasionally made but felt that nobody is perfect.

  then i smartened up and realized how dumb so many of the beliefs are....was there ever a time that you truly believed you had the "truth"?.

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  It was weird for me....I thought I had the truth and went through life as if I did but on some level I didn't believe it, yet thought there was something wrong with me for not quite "getting it" like everyone else did. Living that way eventually led to terrible free floating panic and anxiety issues that seemed to come out of nowhere, stuck around for a decade and didn't quit until a week after I left for good.
  

  Before leaving, I started asking JW's I knew, questions, trying to find out what they believed and where they stood. Turns out most if not all didn't "get it" at all but were going through the motions and were fine with that. It didn't matter to them in the least that they had to ignore all the gaps and holes they noticed. They had no problem being elders, pioneers or bethelites all giving talks, making comments and teaching others, beliefs that if they though too much, didn't make sense .
  
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  What food are you grateful for?

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll start: stilton cheese.. (it was a toss up between that and sweet pickled beetroot).. thank you folks..

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  Warm freshly baked bread of any kind.....especially if it has butter melting on it.
  
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  Parody of Song 113: "We're No Longer Witnesses!"

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

  1. social
  2. humour

  being in "the truth" forever, i keep (frustratingly) finding myself humming kingdom songs unintentionally.

  it frustrates me when i find myself doing it!.

  so today i got this song in my head, and couldn't get it unstuck, so i decided to write alternate lyrics to it... when i get that tune in my head now, i'll have words that work!

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  Love this....and I thought I was the only Weird Al Yankovic of Kingdom Songs out there !
  
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  Pharaoh tries to kill all male babies - later Moses orders the very same thing!

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so many things that i just discoved about the bible.. .

  so from the book my book of bible stories, we all know how little moses was saved from a cruel pharaoh.

  of course the king of egypt was afraid that those cute little babies would endanger his empire eventually.

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  A bit off topic but look at the proportions of that baby's head compared to it's arms...and what about the eyelashes and the size of it's nose, not to mention it looks to be caucasian. How did this picture ever get passed for production?

  One of my final conclusions as to whether the JW's have the truth, had to do with them still claiming these "stories" were literal.