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  Need help...Resurrection JW beliefs from the 50'6 and 60's.

  by Snoozy in

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  was talking with a gal that is most likely going back to the religion after 20 or 30 years.

  we got into a discussion about having babies after "armageddon ".

  she was talking about being normal ( she is practically bedridden but only in her 50's.

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  AFAIK it hasn't changed. When I was young, the resurrected didn't marry, so the best outcome was to stay alive til '75 so that you had a chance of a normal sex/married life, children, etc.. Second best was that your partner died, but you survived and could marry in the New World and make perfect babies. Third best, was that you died and were resurrected and were not able to marry anyone, including your ex partner, or even fiddle with their naughty bits, without being condemned to everlasting death.

  I'm sure most older JWs have had this old doctrine drummed into them, the same as they tried to drum it into me, and now they have to find a way to deal with it in their last days.
  
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  your last big assembly

  by stan livedeath in

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  2. experiences

  can you remember the last big assembly you went to ?

  by big--i mean bigger than a circuit job--so--district ?

  whole country at a stadium thing.. my last one was old wembley stadium uk..about 1969 ?

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  Black Sheep

  I think it was in Melbourne around 1969/70, possibly the same series.
  
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  Have you been vaccinated? Have you had any side effects?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi all.. i'm 42 years old.

  i have had two jabs of the oxford-astrazeneca vaccine.. after my first jab i experienced flu-like symptoms - shivering, wanted to lie down in a dark room, etc.. i experienced no side effects after my second shot.. how about you?.

  how many jabs have you had?.

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  Black Sheep

  Fully vaxed with Pfizer.

  No reaction

  None of my vaxed friends have had a significant reaction.
  
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  What do you do for living?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i am not currently working..

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  Black Sheep

  The end was so close that there wasn't enough time for me to 'fulfill a career', but I've been retired for a few years now and loving it, courtesy of the welfare system provided by 'This Wicked System of Things' that Dad loved to bash, but that looked after him and Mum very well in their later years.
  
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  Were You Ever Interested In Early Watchtower History?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i also was intrigued by the russellites and the break away sects that formed before and after charles taze russell.

  i can only imagine what the bible students were thinking when rutherford became the next watchtower president..

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  It was their early history that set off my alarm bells and stopped me getting baptised as a teenager.
  
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  dump google

  by phoenixrising in

  1. social
  2. current

  i have noticed as of late that google searches are heavily filtering searches and shopping.

  i know they keep track and monitor your activity but when i can not find things or articles because they don't fit googles bs naritive its time to leave.

  duck duck go is my replacement.

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  Black Sheep

  I mostly use Duck Duck Go, but when I don't get a clever result I try Google and often find what I wanted fairly quickly.
  

  Recently, I haven't been very impressed with the results from Duck Duck Go and I'm wondering why their search results are not displaying what I really want to find as high on their list as they used to be. I want resuts on the first page, not the third,
  
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  How Would You React if a Snake Started Talking to You?

  by RubaDub in

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  2. friends

  just an odd thought i guess.

  i saw a large snake in the back of my house the other day and it went on its merry way.

  i just asked myself, what if the snake turned around and wanted to have a philosophical discussion on life, the universe or the origin of creation and then began to ask me questions?

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  If I'd been manufactured out of a rib a few hours, days, weeks ago, and could only comprehend language spoken by two other entities, a talking snake would seem more like a friend than an aberration, especially one with legs.
  
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  How do you feel about identifying roughly where you are from ? Country, Region,State ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. friends

  hi friends ,.

  is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?

  what country state or region you are from ?

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  Black Sheep

  There was an interactive map here years ago. I miss it, but...
  

  I have spent time in S.E.Qld in the Redcliffe and Margate congs.

  Many years ago, I was contacted by a nutter from Redcliffe through this forum, so you do have to be very careful about what info. you put out there.
  
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  F. W. Franz epic talk May 11, 1975 (clip)

  by lastmanstanding in

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  2. bible

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vwxeenkkoary-efyhnt75iqmagx0yywf.

  f. w. franz "times in which we are particularly interested" may 11, 1975. ;introduced by kenneth a. little, a much younger man than now for sure.. the clip is 8 minutes.. unfortunately, some idiot recorded over part of this day many years ago.

  i am hoping to find another copy in the box..

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  *** Black Sheep fetches the popcorn***

  I would have heard the New Zealand version of that talk. It was probably the same transcript worldwide.
  
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  Do angels have genders?

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  many of them came down to have relations with women.

  does that mean there are male angels?

  if there are male and female, what makes them that with no physical body?

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  Black Sheep

  There was a very funny discussion some years ago titled something like 'Jehovah's useless penis', It was deleted and reinstated at least once and appears to be permanently gone, which is a shame because it highlighted the extreme lengths some people will go to, to massage sense from the ridiculous. Maybe my search skills aren't what they used to be and it is still here but I just can't find it?

  God made man in his image, so Adam didn't have a penis and there would have been no childbirth pain because Eve wasn't made with human kind's current female bits, etc....