Posts by Absalom

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What is the point of the picture in this weeks study article ?

by stuckinarut2 in

i don't understand the relevance of the first picture in this weeks study article?!?!.

wt week of december 15-21 "cherish your privilege of working with jehovah".

can someone post the pic?.

Absalom

There were a lot of paragrapgh's in that lesson that had zero cited scrpitures. The lesson concluded with something about after Armageddon we will restore the Earth to paradise forever, NO scriptures are cited! I asked my wife, "If that is our hope, and clearly identified in the bible, why are there absolutely 0 scriptures cited?"

The public talked at my hall commented on the wastefullness and short sightedness of building your dream house now, sense it will be destroyed at God's day. I asked my wife, "then why are we building Warwick?!"

They have mastered the art of doublespeak

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Guilt, Regret or Denial

by game1914over in

in your time of being a witness, have you witnessed a jw experience death of a loved one due to refusal of a blood transfusion?

i know this is an extremely sensitive subject and can reopen deep emotional wounds.

if you're willing to share, i am interested.

Absalom

One of my friends died 8 years ago in a car crash. He was 23, they air lifted him to nearest hospital and begged him to take blood, but he refused. I have no idea if a blood transfusion would have saved him, and back then I was full on kool aid drinker.

Now after doing research and reading what the bible actually says, there is no way you can say that God wouldn't allow you to take blood for medical reasons.

I have no feelings of guilt or regret, I'm angry that I was raised in a cult, didn't realize that fact until I was 32, and am now in an unhappy marriage with a full on hard core dub, and whose very much prominent in family will shun me if I leave. So that leaves me stuck at the moment.

Welcome to the forum!

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November 8th Special Meeting

by Chris Tann in

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friends

anyone have any leaks on this three hour meeting we are having early november?.

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Absalom

I will be attending live again. However my wife gave me so much grief for the annual meeting, I can't update live. Will give a full summary as soon as it's over and I get space from my wife.

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Service meeting video....what a non-event

by sir82 in

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at our service meeting we saw the video of a jw explaining his beliefs about 1914.. it was.....well, "underwhelming" does not do it justice.

what is below "underwhelming"?

"boringly tepid"?.

Absalom

sir82- I completely agree. I told my wife that the witness in both the two articles we discussed and video come off very condescending. If you look at the first picture what do you see? He is talking to someone in their 50's with a relatively nice house, so he is moderately successful in his career, and you ask a question like he is speaking to a three year old. and when the house holder answers tree, he says that's right! Like that was a tough question that he really had to dwell on.

It's been mentioned before, but they play these convos out like the householder wouldn't have already googled 1914.

They are only targeting weak minded people anymore.

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NEW WATCHTOWER society image vs. CLASSIC

by Terry in

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on the 100th anniversary of coca-cola, the company's marketing division made a bold move.. trends in the sales of coke were headed in the wrong direction.

competitors were eating away.

at the soft drink market once dominated by coca-cola.

Absalom

Terry, another great post. Any update on that witness you talked to at the coffee shop?

What I have asked my witnesses, and my elder family members... Is IF Jesus inspected all religions in 1914, refined the bible students between 1914-1918 and declared them the one true religon teaching truth in 1919... why are we not still teaching what they taught then?

This past weekend after the annual meeting, my life long family members in private admitted that they do not think the end is near. They are losing the western world. Caleb videos and a monthly news magazine show is not going to change that.

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