Posts by tepidpoultry

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Short stay

by midnight in

after much research and prayer i am returning to being a jehovah's witness i can find nothing that eliminates them from being god's directed people , in the end they will reach the end of there journey despite mistakes and errors just like the israelites entered the promised land , thanks for your input and all the best on your personal journey ☺.

midnight..

tepidpoultry

65

Short stay

by midnight in

after much research and prayer i am returning to being a jehovah's witness i can find nothing that eliminates them from being god's directed people , in the end they will reach the end of there journey despite mistakes and errors just like the israelites entered the promised land , thanks for your input and all the best on your personal journey ☺.

midnight..

tepidpoultry

You seek God for the same reason everybody does

Comfort in the face of fear

And a sense of community

The two reasons religion was invented

It fills these two needs

It seems to work for many billions of people

Until

Just a few

Realize

It doesn't make sense

29

Watchtower Annulled My Baptism

by RICHT in

contrary to popular belief you can have your baptism annulled as i did by my local elders after my judicial hearing.. the watchtower of 1964 page 126 first paragraph clearly states that anyone that was committing a gross sin before, during and after their baptism is void.

in order to get right with the lord you would need to be re-baptised.

err no thanks, i'm not a believer!!!!.

tepidpoultry

You'd think that everything would be brought over to digital format at

this point

Otherwise,

Wouldn't cards be getting old and lost

Just sayin

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Another thought is I remember the Secretary asking ME when I was

baptized at some point

Gee, I DON'T REMEMBER, I WAS SO YOUNG

lol

26

Data for Partakers from 1935-2016. Latest number wasn´t this high since 1954!

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.

this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.

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tepidpoultry

Matzah's great with butter and jam, think they'd let me bring my own

If I was nice?

Body of our Lord with butter and jam

Oh probably not

Have to wait till we get home

Like with the wine

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18

Who is Gog/Magog?

by Cold Steel in

ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.

according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.

this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.

tepidpoultry

My spell checker keeps telling me that what you REALLY

want to know about is

Goggles of Magog

Your choice I suppose,

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18

Who is Gog/Magog?

by Cold Steel in

ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.

according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.

this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.

tepidpoultry

I would tell you all about "attack of gog of magog" but now that would

just be too painful

:(

18

Who is Gog/Magog?

by Cold Steel in

ezekiel spends two chapters (38-39) describing a war that either will never take place, or which has yet to take place.

according to the prophecy, the warlord gog, of magog, will 1) sweep down on israel, covering the land like a cloud.

this will happen in 2) the latter years when israel will 3) be a people “gathered out of many nations” and peoples.

tepidpoultry

Ok I'm going to break with tradition THIS ONE TIME

and pause my trademark snark

Long story short

Satan the Devil

Ref Ezekiel Book "The Nations Shall Know Blah Blah"

(Theyve probably burned them all as per incriminating stupid information

contained therein)

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6

An Obvious Omission in the J.W.'s Good News!

by The Searcher in

as baptized or unbaptised witnesses, no one ever discussed or even mentioned (at least in my jw experience) this topic: .

"we are preaching about the good news of the kingdom.

why do we preach about only one hope - living on earth?

tepidpoultry

Um "we are preaching the good news of the kingdom"

Did you actually say this at the door?

I was always trying to figure how Matt 24:14 was going to be preached

When would what we said was anything but lol

Almost always some WT/AW cover article as rehearsed at the service

meeting,

Sigh

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10

The reality we must face.

by The Rebel in

jw
friends

my dearest dad is 90 years old today.

we are far away, separated by geography, but never will i allow an organisation that indoctrinated false love separate me from my dear dad.

i love my dad and we had our differences but never will i allow that organisation take away my love for my dad.. happy bithday dad.

tepidpoultry

I hear you Rebel

A principle reason I faded

Which wasn't easy

Was to stay in contact with my 85 yr old mother

Best wishes

Peace

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5

NWT cross references

by Steel in

lately i have been really interested in the idea of who jesus was in the in old testament.

i have reading an author named michael heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.. i was reading the first chapter of jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ".

this actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.

tepidpoultry

There is no academic consensus on the existence of Jesus Christ,

Reference: "On the Historicity of Jesus" -Richard Carrier Phd

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