Posts by zebagain

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Governing Body Are They The Faithful And Discreet Slave Or The Faithful and Discreet Shyster

by frankiespeakin in

this new 100th memorial year of the begining rule of the imaginary kingdom of the heavens is turniing out to bring windfall profits to the watchtower corporation.

already the gb are selling real estate like there was no tomorrow and the way it looks this is just the begining as they try to liquidate assets before the "great disappointment" gets in full swing, take the money and run seems to be the new tune for these charlatans.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wcfugcollu.

faithful to what?

zebagain

I am an Australian. I watched the speech by Dr. Carsen. It was moving as it was sound. He spoke of the need for education with an almost reverence.

His mother , one of 24 children was herself married at 13. They lived in grinding poverty. She saw to it that her sons were educated by insisting they read two booka a week and then right a report on those books to her. She critically studied those reports to engender ever greater desire in the boys to read more on all sorts of topics. She also could not read herself but they didnt know that.

He spoke of laws 200 years ago that said it was illegal to educate a slave particularly in reading..... why because reading liberated..

Some of the comments made of his speech criticised him for 'having a go' (as we say) at President Obama. He was not having a go at him he was openly and decently referring to the probs faced by America today and that is the use of free speech for honourable purpose.

Education is feared by those who would control. I leave this to you all to ponder.

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Another Shooting Massacre

by whathehadas in

http://abcnews.go.com/us/santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-calls-loneliness-darkest-hell/story?id=23855994&ts=true.

zebagain

Maybe the girls who rebuffed this guy so often would now come forward at the funerals of the deceased to lay flowers.

and having been involved in similar situations my professional sympathies to the deputies and ambulance crews who have to clean up the 'bits'

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Death in the Family

by sooner7nc in

jw
friends

today my extended family lost someone much too young.

my 18 month old cousin bryler fell in a swimming pool yesterday and was missing for several minutes before he was discovered.

his mom and grandmother and several other family members performed cpr and tried to revive him while waiting on the ambulance (which took quite a while as they live in the backwoods of southern oklahoma).

zebagain

My heartfelt condolences. May the memories of the little one at his best be warming to you all.

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"No more money, not one red cent!"

by Separation of Powers in

once you recognize that the contributions you gave for the upkeep of your place of worship have been given to the corporation and will only be used to upkeep your place of worship at their discretion...the caption will become your mantra!.

.

sop.

zebagain

bigmac:

heaven:

well done.

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'Jehovah's Witness elders who participated in this shameful activity should immediately remove themselves from any position of authority in the church,apologize to victims, ...' Snap Media Statements

by Sol Reform in

http://www.snapnetwork.org/ireland_jehovah_s_witness_allow_predator_to_grill_victim.

ireland--jehovah's witness allow predator to "grill" victim jehovah's witness elders allowed convicted predator to "grill" victims; victims respond.

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/donal-macintyre-s-crime-cafe/jehovahs-witness-elders-allow-paedophile-to-grill-his-victims.

zebagain

Ah this is some 'new-light'. Like a security searchlight on criminal activity..

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A glaring example of how Watchtower's insertion of "Jehovah" corrupts the NT

by Island Man in

"the rnwt replaces "kyrios" (lord) with "jehovah" in translating romans 14:8 as follows:.

"for if we live, we live to jehovah,*+ and if we die, we die to jehovah.

* so both if we live and if we die, we belong to jehovah.".

zebagain

I take this on board. Reminds me of some of the prayers said at conventions where the pray-er proceeded to "Jehovah" us endlessly with "Jehovah" used every second word.

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How do you study? What are your methods of memorizing big amount of text?

by will-be-apostate in

jw
friends

i'm having an exam in mineralogy in 20 days and need to learn 120+ pages of content.

i've learned a part of it so far.

i'm just curious how did you/do you study?

zebagain

I am dyslexic and bi-polar and this was not discovered until i was well past youth and school exams that would fill me with utter fear. I learned from a kindly gent years later at exams:

On the word go pick up the paper and read it through. Pencil mark the ones that you have instant recall on until you have read the whole paper over.

The answer those 'easy ones' making sure you clearly number them. By the time you have done these you will have ploughed through alot of the paper. AND, you will have calmed down quite a bit.

Look at the other questions and be surprised what you will now recall.

The questions that you have a blank on--leave.

Do the others come back to that real stinker last and write out just what you do know.

Dear Lord i wish i had known this method all those years ago. Please let me/us know how you go.

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JW 2014 YouTube Documentary

by kneehighmiah in

jw
friends

i had an idea.

i was reading about the success of the kony 2012 video and was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a documentary to coincide with the international conventions and the 100 year anniversary of gods kingdom.

the video would be less than 30 minutes long.

zebagain

if/when you do please ensure the sound is... clear.. and not recorded in an echoing room. Microphone near mouth.

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All this talk of Money

by zebagain in

would someone please layout for this simple soul what the wts is doing re 'donations' or 'pledges'.

is the box at the back of the kh to be done away with?.

zebagain

Would someone please layout for this simple soul what the wts is doing re 'donations' or 'pledges'. Is the box at the back of the kh to be done away with?

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Jesus's reign is how long?

by Splash in

jesus was enthroned and began ruling as king in 1914, which is why the wt are currently celebrating 100 years of kingdom rule.. but then we read in the feb 2014 study wt ("hail christ, the glorious king!

" par.

19): "he will complete his conquest by abyssing satan and his demons for the full length of the thousand year reign.".

zebagain

P: The same way an 'important' all together Australia wide hook up talk was held years ago except the jw in the east of Australia were not sitting around for 2 hours until the west was ready in their seats. It was not a nation wide hook up it was a recording but all together sounds more cosy.

This stuff is way over my head. Remember that the founders of wts were into the occult with the 'pyramidology' and other such. One of the books they produced had the wings of Horus across the cover. Since the heady days of Russell they have spent far to much time predicting the 'return' of the christ and "this means this and that means that ..and by that we assume that.. if we interpret...oops we made a F*** up, well we didnt really say that; what you sold your house now your broke well well...".

History shows that groups that secure themselves inside their own monastrys will become so self absorbed that they dont know what day it is.

"No man knows the hour or the day"-

There can be no doubt who really is the power behind the wts.

its all a hell of a long way from the sermon on the mount.

So what do you pay for petrol?