Posts by tepidpoultry

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attended funeral.

by zeb in

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to show respects for the older bro who died.. first thing i noticed.

the noise!..

jw never learn to sit and do so quietly.

tepidpoultry

For my Dad who was in since 1950

Bro forgot his life info/story

So just the propaganda part

No apology

Crap thing could've been for anybody,

Family friend came up to me after and said

"This is wrong Tepid, you should go up and talk about your father!"

Considered it but I was a little distraught to gather everybody

back together and give an impromptu talk,

This "Thing" dehumanizes

It's sick,

An important reason that I'm out!

I know we all have our stories here

Thanks for listening to one of mine

:0)

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Occupations that will disappear

by joker in

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while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

tepidpoultry

Pyramidologist

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Beardless Jesus. Why?

by UnshackleTheChains in

beardless jesus in watchtower publications between 1930s and 1960s.

a simple detail 'deliberately' left out.

the question is why?.

tepidpoultry

Well look,

The man could raise the dead!

Why would a little miracle electrolysis not be within reach?

Have a little faith!!

:0)

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Beardless Jesus. Why?

by UnshackleTheChains in

beardless jesus in watchtower publications between 1930s and 1960s.

a simple detail 'deliberately' left out.

the question is why?.

tepidpoultry

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Beardless Jesus. Why?

by UnshackleTheChains in

beardless jesus in watchtower publications between 1930s and 1960s.

a simple detail 'deliberately' left out.

the question is why?.

tepidpoultry

Didn't want Jesus to look like a reefer crazed beatnik bastard, I don't think

they were very hep on jazz either

:0)

Oh also Rutherford hated beards too, he would 've given me a trimmin' he

would, Tepid unless you lose the unsightly facial hair, you will not, I say

NOT be allowed to clean Lord Rutherford's Master Toilet in San Diego,

now scamper off!!

ARRRRRRR!!!

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How Do JWs Reconcile Contradictions Between Mt. and Lk. and Their Birth Stories?

by Saename in

does anybody know how jehovah's witnesses reconcile the contradictions between the stories of jesus' birth as found in matthew and luke?

when i was a jehovah's witness, i wasn't even aware of this contradiction; i simply thought that all of it happen—namely that there was a census (luke 2) and the slaughter of the innocents (matthew 2) simultaneously.

but at the time i didn't know that the census took place in 6 ce and that herod the great died in 4 bce, thus placing those birth stories 10 years apart in time.

tepidpoultry

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

I await your thesis

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How Do JWs Reconcile Contradictions Between Mt. and Lk. and Their Birth Stories?

by Saename in

does anybody know how jehovah's witnesses reconcile the contradictions between the stories of jesus' birth as found in matthew and luke?

when i was a jehovah's witness, i wasn't even aware of this contradiction; i simply thought that all of it happen—namely that there was a census (luke 2) and the slaughter of the innocents (matthew 2) simultaneously.

but at the time i didn't know that the census took place in 6 ce and that herod the great died in 4 bce, thus placing those birth stories 10 years apart in time.

tepidpoultry

Vidiot:

I love your meme!

HELLOOOO?

ANYBODY THERE??

:0)

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"Don't listen to apostates!!"

by Schnufti in

next time a jw says that to me, i will ask him to read the following from "what does the bible really teach":.

watchtower itself uses this illustration.

so why is it that they throw apostates out of the congregation?.

tepidpoultry

Because illustrations can only be used to make THEIR point?

:0)

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Life is changing for me: no pioneering, got a job!

by Skepsis in

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a month ago i decided to register in this board.

i had decided to step down pioneering but was frightened about the consequences.

i had finished my university degree some months before (despite disaproval from brothers in my congregation) and i had to choose: continue pioneering and working in jobs with no future or starting a career, working full-time.. i was thinking to postpone the decisiton but... i was fed up with preaching.