Posts by stuckinarut2

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New "paradise" video preview? "Will you be there?"

by stuckinarut2 in

my wife (unstuck) just saw a new 2-3 min video in her ex jw facebook feed, depicting a "paradise" scene preview.. it was complete with aerial shots and slow motion montages, with moving music.. scriptures were quoted across the screen, such as rev 21:3,4. i shazamed the music, and it came from another "worldly" album called "world of dreams.future world music" (you should see the song titles from that album!).

is it an official wt video, or some private persons production?.

if it is official, they seem to have once again resorted to desperate emotional manipulation tactics..... anyone else know?

stuckinarut2

Yes, we have sent the link to wifibandit so he can extract and post the video with no link to anyone's Facebook page .

stay tuned.

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If we are further away from perfection, why are we more moral?

by stuckinarut2 in

as we know, witnesses teach that adam and eve were perfect and then committed the first act of sin and rebellion.. they in turn were cursed,and we all declined as their offspring.

humans supposedly lived shorter and shorter lives, and became more imperfect and sinful.. the further away in time humans go then, they should be getting worse.

so why is it then that as a society, humans have actually improved in so many ways?.

stuckinarut2

As we know, Witnesses teach that Adam and Eve were perfect and then committed the first act of sin and rebellion.

They in turn were cursed,and we all declined as their offspring. Humans supposedly lived shorter and shorter lives, and became more imperfect and sinful.

The further away in time humans go then, they should be getting worse.

So why is it then that as a society, humans have actually improved in so many ways?

Bible times and the Middle Ages were terrible times to live! Life was cheap and readily taken. Human rights were non existent.

For instance, in bible times, women and girls were simply property to be abused as men wished. Even Gods nation could fight the neighboring lands and take the women and virgins off as captives for their "use".

We rightly find such conduct deplorable nowadays!

Also, people could be brutally stoned to death for disobeying some sort of (often petty) rule.

We find that also deplorable today!

So why have we improved as a society even though we are now so "far from perfection"?

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New "paradise" video preview? "Will you be there?"

by stuckinarut2 in

my wife (unstuck) just saw a new 2-3 min video in her ex jw facebook feed, depicting a "paradise" scene preview.. it was complete with aerial shots and slow motion montages, with moving music.. scriptures were quoted across the screen, such as rev 21:3,4. i shazamed the music, and it came from another "worldly" album called "world of dreams.future world music" (you should see the song titles from that album!).

is it an official wt video, or some private persons production?.

if it is official, they seem to have once again resorted to desperate emotional manipulation tactics..... anyone else know?

stuckinarut2

Thanks for your comments everyone.

The video I was describing in the opening post was not the one from the 2016 convention.

It was a different one. I will try and work out how to upload it from the Facebook post...

Watch this space....

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New "paradise" video preview? "Will you be there?"

by stuckinarut2 in

my wife (unstuck) just saw a new 2-3 min video in her ex jw facebook feed, depicting a "paradise" scene preview.. it was complete with aerial shots and slow motion montages, with moving music.. scriptures were quoted across the screen, such as rev 21:3,4. i shazamed the music, and it came from another "worldly" album called "world of dreams.future world music" (you should see the song titles from that album!).

is it an official wt video, or some private persons production?.

if it is official, they seem to have once again resorted to desperate emotional manipulation tactics..... anyone else know?

stuckinarut2

My wife (unstuck) just saw a new 2-3 min video in her ex JW Facebook feed, depicting a "paradise" scene preview.

It was complete with aerial shots and slow motion montages, with moving music.

Scriptures were quoted across the screen, such as Rev 21:3,4

I Shazamed the music, and it came from another "worldly" album called "World of Dreams.Future world Music" (you should see the song titles from that album!)

So has anyone else seen this? Is it an official WT video, or some private persons production?

If it is official, they seem to have once again resorted to desperate emotional manipulation tactics....

Anyone else know? Anyone else seen it?

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Disfellowshipped people are dead people?

by snugglebunny in

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skimming though my iphone earlier today i came across a fb post - which i now can't find!.

basically it was a claim that a gb member had stated that associating with a disfellowshipped person was akin to sleeping next to a corpse.. so obviously i'm curious as to whether anyone else has come across this..

stuckinarut2

It was said by GB member Lett during a broadcasting episode a few months back.

Ill try and find the right one....

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Can you believe the opening song at the memorial tonight?!

by Indian Larry in

did anybody (who went to the memorial) notice the opening song?.

keep in mind that this is the most important night of the year for the witnesses.

it is supposed to be all about jesus christ.

stuckinarut2

Simply put, that song was drawing attention to and praising HUMANS, rather than God or Jesus.....

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The GB wants us to read this bible passage to you!

by StephaneLaliberte in

i had a brother visit me yesterday to invite me to the memorial.

as usual, despite the unspoken passive aggressiveness, i was polite,.

anyway, this year, he started his presentation by saying: "the governing body (gb) wants us to read this bible passage to you!

stuckinarut2

Yep, so rather than saying "Jesus or Jehovah would like these words shared with you", it is the GB?

So when did the GB overtake the 2 big J's in importance?

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Was it just me or was something different about the memorial last night?

by kpop in

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this was the first memorial that i declined to do any work for the memorial.

i was assigned as a parking attendant after getting downgraded from doing the sound and had no intention of doing either task but i had to attend for my family and continuation of my fade.

i sat there last night listening to the talk and couldn't help but shake my head as my brain attempted to process the bs.

stuckinarut2

Great thread!

This was our second year we didn't attend, and by the sounds of it, we did not miss anything!

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You Can Encourage An Inactive Christian!

by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-meeting-workbook/april-2017-mwb/meeting-schedule-apr10-16/encourage-inactive-christian/.

this is part of the clam meeting this week.. how contradictory is it?.

first, they instruct people to avoid inactive ones and to shun them and to treat them the same as da'd or df'd ones, .

stuckinarut2

Hypocrisy and double-speak at its finest!

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Can you believe the opening song at the memorial tonight?!

by Indian Larry in

did anybody (who went to the memorial) notice the opening song?.

keep in mind that this is the most important night of the year for the witnesses.

it is supposed to be all about jesus christ.

stuckinarut2

WOW!
Is that really the lyrics of the song?

I am honestly gob-smacked!