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The Great Recapture Program

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:53:43 GMT

I just found out that the Washtowel Slaveholdery wants to bring back people that used to be Jehovah's Witlesses but who have slipped out. Sometime in 2009, they plan a massive drive to get people back in that have left without notice, faded, or some that have turned apostate. Eventually, they want such ones to rejoin the flock.

There is a catch. Such ones would be hounded and harassed. The congregations have on file a list of everyone that used to be an active witless, and...

New Changes with the Book Study

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:48 GMT

Well, they did it again. They had another "big announcement" on April 27 this year. The announcement is that there is no more separate book study. Instead, it will be attached to the Theocraptic Misery "School(??)" and Circus Meeting. This is purportedly to save gas money and to ease the burden on the witlesses so they can tend to families.

However, I have made several observations. One is that all they really want is to tighten control. People are too free...

The Second Dark Ages Ahead?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:36:23 GMT

The Watchtower Society's recent embarrassments have been startling. Pedophile protection, shunning, harassment of individuals, and threats to ruin people have been reported. They have been suing people for bogus copyright issues (presumably to keep them from spreading the truth about the cancer). But, they are in the process of doing something that will make pedophilia look like a penny ante issue.

The copyright issue is one way to information control. All dissident web...

Server problems

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:47:43 GMT

The Big Board (which I will not mention by name to avoid unnecessary problems with the administration) has been experiencing frequent server issues lately. The forum would go down without warning, and stay down all night and all morning. You go on, and it takes forever for anything to come up, or you get that "Server Error" page. This isn't the first time they have had a bout of server related outages on a frequent basis--last year, they also had a plague of weekly server...

Upcoming Tract Campaign

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:34:49 GMT

This is a "top secret" campaign for now. This coming October, they are going to run another tract promotion drive. It, like the False Religion fiasco of 2006, is scheduled to run into the following month (presumably so that people can have easy field circus time for two contiguous months and hike the chances of getting their damn 7 million publishers out).

Unlike the False Religion disaster, this is going to be a permanent tract. Once the campaign ends, they will put...

Memorial Fiasco

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:24:15 GMT

Well, the 2008 REJECT Jesus Party is finally past.

During the first 3 months of March, the congregations were given strict orders to visit every single house in every single territory to give them invitations to the Memorial. They had only 3 weeks, and had to complete the whole assignment before March 22 at 4 PM. Every household was to be given an invitation to this "Black Sabbath", or REJECT Jesus Party.

This led to much hardships. When I was...

What Is THIS Supposed to Prove?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:52:14 GMT

April 1, 1995. The Puketower magazine with that date has an article trying to prove you worthy in Jehovah's eyes. But, how good a job does it actually do?

First, one example they use is that of Job. His "comforters" picked on him as if he were evil, and that is why Jehovah was causing all this trouble. (The real reason is that Jehovah was such a Tyrant that He wanted to prove a @@#$*@$ point, and then blame Satan for all the problems). But, what does that prove?...

A Classic Case of Envy

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:03:47 GMT

I can remember one of the hounders in the congregation of Jehovah's Witlesses I used to go to. This guy had quite a dull life. For one thing, he was quite fat (not hugely obese, but probably a good 75 pounds too fat). Worse, he was way out of shape, and it affected his health to the point where he needed medication and had one heart infection. This was probably because he didn't get enough physical activity.

His life was also wimpy. He had an ugly wife (also fat, out of...

Pushing Post only once

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:14:54 GMT

Originally, this was a double post caused by hitting Post twice.

The Gospel of Satan

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:14:54 GMT

In contradistinction to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches salvation by works. It inculcates justification before God on the ground of human merits. Its sacramental phrase is "Be good and do good"; but it fails to recognize that in the flesh there dwelleth no good thing. It announces salvation by character, which reverses the order of God's Word-character by, as the fruit of, salvation.

Note that this is an excerpt from an article I found about the...

Stagnation From the Tower

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:29:32 GMT

Has this happened to you, or does it sound familiar?:

I can remember the service years 1992-93 and 1993-94 as being stagnant. The summer of 1992 was relatively uneventful, aside the normal witless rules and field circus (it was slow, as people were on vacation and pioneers had their time in).

I had settled into a routine of going out in field circus on Wednesday and Friday morning, since I had those evenings off from work for the boasting sessions. And, if I had those nights...

Secret Societies?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:40:12 GMT

A while back, the Watchtower Society had a warning against secret societies. They were telling people that people getting into them were going to end up like the Freemasons (sounds like Charles Taze Russell?). They tell about the dangers of such societies. What they don't tell you is that, whether you accept that the Watchtower Society was started by the Freemasons or not, they are actually a secret society to this day. They have many secret documents that only hounders know about, and...

Absolute Obedience to the Watchtower Society?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:08:28 GMT

Here is a joke. Suppose you are a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. You realize that something they are teaching is blatantly wrong (not just questionable, but it is blatant). You have proof out of their own Bible. What are you supposed to do? There is no written instruction on the matter to clear it up at that time.

The correct answer is that you are supposed to continue to go by, and teach, the errant viewpoint until it gets...

Deja Vu

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:37:54 GMT
Anyone that has seen Jehovah's Witness magazines lately has noticed that they are taking a hard-line stand again toward certain issues. This has been going on since 2006, when they resolved to ban entertainment (of course, worded in such a way that most of them don't even realize it). In 2007, they slammed college, telling people that going to college can be compared to shooting oneself in the head. They have implied that it is wise to drop out of college (or not go) and spend the...

Doing Jehovah's Will Bringing Satisfaction??

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:54:27 GMT
The Watchtower Society prides itself in telling people that doing Jehovah's will brings satisfaction. Well, this is the "satisfaction" I got:

(1) Wasting my time going out in field circus, talking to people that I didn't even like (most were filthy, ugly, and it was in a bad neighborhood). The places were in poor condition, occasionally unsafe. And I am supposed to be drawn to that.

(2) Going to...

Can You Trust Prayers?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:48:16 GMT
How often you hear about trusting Jehovah to answer prayers. This is based solely on the incidents where He answered specific prayers in the Bible. The Watchtower Society cites various incidents in the Old Testament, throughout Israelite history.

Some of these include Hezekiah praying for his life to be allowed to continue, and for help in defeating enemies that attacked (I wonder why, since Israel was known for iniitatory force attacks on surrounding nations). Both cases were...

Salvation by Works--Or Grace?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:57:50 GMT
Here is a common problem that Jehovah's Witlesses face. Too often they misquote that scripture at James 2 (I forgot the exact verse) that faith without works is dead. Of course, they are going to say that those "works" means going out in field circus all the time, studying the Watchtower littera-trash, and going to all those boasting sessions all week long. But, is this the correct application?

First, the "works" that James was writing about did not refer to the...

2008 and 2009 Memorial Dates

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:25:05 GMT
I found the dates for the biggest wastefest of 2008 and 2009. They are March 22, 2008 and April 9, 2009. This year, it falls on Saturday before Easter. Next year it is a Thursday.

I do not recommend going to either of those wastefests. Instead, I would rather see people celebrating Easter at a real church, or doing it with secular celebrations like the Easter egg hunts. Children would rather take part in hunting for Easter eggs, going to see Grandma, or going to a real church...

Is MySpace Really Bad?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:27:05 GMT
I have seen a few threads on other forums about the Great Boasting Session. Usually, they bash computers in general and chat rooms, discussion forums, and of course apostate web sites in particular. But, until this year, they have never singled out any one site as being especially bad.

However, they are now cracking down on one particular site. They are telling people that they cannot have an account with MySpace if they want "privileges". There will be hounders lurking...

What's Next in the Tower?

feeds@yuku.com (WTWizard) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:04:56 GMT
OK, so now the Watchtower Society has had several Kool Aid Puketowers now. They put out January where they told people in school to forget college and hurry up and finish high school; adults were encouraged to quit working or go part time (with a Great Depression just ahead, at that), so they could pioneer. February had a poorly integrated article telling you to trust Jehovah to answer your prayers because He has answered pre-recorded prayers and had them showcased (they all had to do with...