Random thought re: 144000
If the WT takes the number 144,000 literally, why have they not tried to apply some literal significance to the 12,000 members in each "tribe" as described in Revelation 7? My guess? They haven't...
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Holy crap! I just googled "miracle wheat"! Just when I thought the WTS' scamalicousness couldnt get any more obvious! It's like starting a religion around those phony breast enlargment pills they sell...
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Quote:It's been a scam from day one! Jody de La Rochefoucauld - There is nothing more horrible than the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts.
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Midnight... there is no mention of a LOT of this type of stuff in ANY JW publication. They have even sterilized the original "Jehovah's Witnesses in the Divine Purpose" book first published in 1958 (I...
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I guess before I thought that Russell was probably CRAZY, as opposed to a conman, and that the gb got into the SCAM part, when they realized all the money and power there is in the brainwashing...
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Quote:I feel like calling up my mother and screaming at her, would that be wrong?It has never gotten me very far. It is so hard not to scream when you realize all the SHIT you've been shoveled your...
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OMG Quote: The only purpose "worldly people" have, to quote one Governing Body member, is to make "good manure" for the Earthly Paradise that is coming.Who said that? That's truly evil. Deranged. I...
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Quote:none of them have benefited personallynone of them (that we know of) have benefited personally.Someone has their hands on the purse-strings. And it isn't the GB as a whole, it's whoever has...
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Well, if you think that living across the Huson River with a great view of downtown Manattan and being able to travel and vacation all over the world isn't a benefit, then I don't know what is.I was...
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Quote:Who said that?Don't want to mention any names here, but his initials were Lyman Alexander Swingle.Jody and Jeff, you make good and legitimate points. There are perks, and they are more about...
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I will bow to that Yammer. I know they work hard. That is almost ironic to me, but I do know that.I should say that not all of the GB treats there situation the same. I called out good ol Losch. I...
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Quote:Lloyd Barry. A very nice person, but boy was he a Knorr boy through and through. Very sly. He liked being behind the scenes and shaking things up. Ray Franz alludes to this in his book. Jody de...
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I didn't meet that many of them, and not Jaracz. My parents had a few of them as house guests when they were in town, Schroeder, (who once sent his then seventeen or eighteen year old son to go skiing...
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A poster on here (can't remember who) summed the GB up for me. He said they've got a tiger by the tail.I never met any of them personally and probably never will, but if its not money or prestige that...
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Yammer and Jeff, we sure do appreciate the inside look from you two who were closer to the everyday works of the organization. I don't think Russell started out to be a scam artist. You have to take...
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Quote:A poster on here (can't remember who) summed the GB up for me. He said they've got a tiger by the tail.Claire I think it was C.Bill that said that.In my book it is about courage. When one of the...
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I remember conversing with a bethelite over on the jw.com board and he said the governing body lived in expensive brownstones, had cadillacs with personal cheuffers, is that true?
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Quote:I remember conversing with a bethelite over on the jw.com board and he said the governing body lived in expensive brownstones, had cadillacs with personal cheuffers, is that true? No.They live...
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That clarifies things very clearly Mr. Mig!At least, it's alot clearer than the Revelation book's explanation, anyway!Stevie B
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