Posts by sowhatnow

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Still pointing your Finger when having a Rafter in your eye?

by DocHouse in

yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.

many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.

but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.

sowhatnow

wow, lol, I just read every post here, and have not a freaking clue what the heck is being discussed,

let alone asked. i just had to reply out of morbid curiosity. yes you may giggle and call me naive.

what nonsense is this? mr docHouse WHAT are you asking? use plain english. what is the whole point of this post? seriously, more riddles here than in the bible itself. troll? or not, what is your question? and omg what are these answers? secret codes, lol.

let me say this. I am here now, after having no one in the org with any claimed intelligence in jw doctrine, answer my questions for the past 20 years, learning by myself, how people may reason on some things, as to understand, and get a hearing ear possibly. i accept what makes sense to me personally. and this post sure makes no sense.

i can honestly say, I have never accused or pointed a finger at anyone, I have no rafter in my eye, never have. who is my accuser? I have none.

im not df, i have been 'ignored' out of the jw org . Im sure no matter what good i did, it will never be remembered the moment someone who is a jw learns that I know more about what is wrong than right in the org.

no one, not even the Lord. not even God , accuses me of a thing. I am innocent to any 'sin'.

I sleep at night.

[So people what the heck?]

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

sowhatnow

if at all possible allow the poster to choose. that way everyone is happy

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Proud JW.ORG Photos everyone needs to see! The Watchtower Sanctified the Internet for Preaching!

by Trailer Park Pioneer in

i am proud to be a jehovah's witness in the last days, what religion has done this much to proclaim the message about the organization?

other religions are preaching about jesus, some wear the crucifixion, other's wear shirts with fishes but we wear shirts with jw.org!

no other religion has our courage!.

sowhatnow

wow. just wow.

its funny,

I clean for a woman who works for Unitours,inc. shes the associate director of religious and cultural tours.

shes got flags and tiny wooden symbols and brochures she hands out at her table during these events.

shes working on the popes visit to Philadelphia pa. She arranges pilgrimages. [of all places, why Philadelphia pa?]

whats so ironic is that i answered her Craigslist ad for help . who'd have thunk it.

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what DO current Jws say at doors?

by sowhatnow in

i mean, anyone with a real bible and half a brain doesn't need to log onto a website and read nonsense.. its not a bible study when you present someone a book or magazine to read along in.. its not the gospel, when its not about jesus.

so what is being pushed in the service meeting to be done at doors?.

and with what result expected?

sowhatnow

I mean, anyone with a real bible and half a brain doesn't need to log onto a website and read nonsense.

its not a bible study when you present someone a book or magazine to read along in.

its not the gospel, when its not about jesus

so what is being pushed in the service meeting to be done at doors?

and with what result expected?

I mean it would have been more successful if people who are believers in Jesus, [Christians] simply went to a door

knocked on it, and said to the householder

'do you accept Jesus as Lord and savior?'

if the answer is yes, then say

May you have peace my brother [or sister] and have a nice day!

if the answer is no, then say

perhaps you may wish to consult your bible to find out about him, this is my mission. thank you,

and have a nice day.

ta da.

lol

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Recommended Lodging List

by piztjw in

just a few instructions orders from mother about motels.. please use only hotels that appear on the recommended lodging list.

(one page, with only one motel locally).

one nights deposit (credit card, money order, etc.,) is required, and should be sent to the hotel within ten days of making your reservation.

sowhatnow

or you can save yourself a whole lot of stress and money and stay home.

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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!

by wifibandit in

http://imgur.com/a/e6dos.

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sowhatnow

so, was Fred a secret apostate? lol.

are the current writers of the articles secret apostates trying to dismantle the society from the inside?

does the GB actually READ THOSE ARTICLES?

the definition of discreet Is lost on the GB.

Observe who leave early from those studies come those Sundays

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The overuse of adjectives tells me they don't understand a thing.

by Rattigan350 in

the w 3/15/2015 page 8 para 5 says:.

"one faithful anointed brother with a record of decades of loyal service commented: i just read the book of job in the new edition, and i feel as if i understand it for the first time!

" many have made similar comments.".

sowhatnow

so then they go door to door to teach truth about what?? apparently nothing they understand.

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NEW LIGHT ALERT! TARGET 2015 END TIMES! EVE WAS CREATED 40 YEARS AFTER ADAM! THE END IS NEAR!

by Trailer Park Pioneer in

this is going around the kingdom halls now, i thought it was a hoax but are not all the end time dates produced by the organization some hoax or con?

the reason why the end did not come in 1975 was the watchtower society had not put eve's creation in their equation.

i was told when we had a "meet and greet" if "we knew the date of eve's creation we would know the year jehovah was going to destroy the earth.. it's been 40 years since 1975, can you believe it's been 40 years since "stay alive till 1975!"?

sowhatnow

end of what, I ask, in revelation ch 22 vs 10 john was told not to seal up the words of the prophesy,

because the time was near.

for them. whoever they were.

in vs 14 after alllllll the crap that happened, we read nothing of people living through anything. [Armageddon is a place where the kings were gathered its not an event that apparently involves everyone.]

why do we assume Armageddon is an catastrophic event? like the term, 144000, its mentioned how many times??

once.

we see there is still an 'outside' where the 'dogs' are, [who I ask were refereed to as dogs in those days???]

14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

so inside the city is where people who wanted to have this life and eat from the trees of life , and this is apparently separate from earth, which apparently is still with us, full of 'dogs'

all symbolic of the house of Israel considering itself Gods special chosen nation,,andthe rest of the world are the dogs outside, who only after converting and accepting whatever it is that they need to do to qualify can go IN to that city of God.

interestingly the judging of the dead is not done till after the 1000 years, and after the unknown period of time that Satan is let out to mislead, AGAIN, so there is no resurrection IN the 1000 years that i see.

according to the wt teaching where are we supposed to be now in time in revelation??

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Everlasting Life on Paradise Earth - My musings of why it cannot be true

by leaving_quietly in

actually, just one musing.. there are a number of scriptures that wtbts uses to support their doctrine of everlasting life on paradise earth.

the vast majority come from the hebrew scriptures.

using just one verse, i believe i can disprove this doctrine quite soundly.. the verse is john 6:68.. simon peter answered him: lord, whom shall we go away to?

sowhatnow

well , the way i see it, according to 2 corinthians 12 vs 2 and 4 paradise is in the third heaven.

and jesus said you will be with me in paradise, which is apparently in heaven.[interestingly he said that to a criminal, but hey, he believed jesus was lord, so he got saved right then and there]

and in Matthew ch 24 vs 35 says heaven and earth will pass away [because men will ruin he earth, and so they must be ruined too] but his words will not,

so when he comes, no one will know anyway, [like in Noah's day, no one knew it came, until the flood came and they all died , see no one told them, they were not warned they were already judged as bad.]

two women grinding at the mill, he takes one and leaves the other, he read the heart apparently and knows who to take,

and then the earth i guess will be burned up and there will be a new heavens and earth in which righteousness is to dwell.

so do we need to fight? can we hide in a cave [pointing a gun at whoever] ? no. but oddly, the bible also says lift up your heads and see ,

something , bla bla bla, so whatever .

but i asked someone once, where does it say in the bible that people will survive or live through Armageddon? they survive a tribulation, but Armageddon is a place. not an event.if its Gods war, its not ours right?

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Recommended Lodging List

by piztjw in

just a few instructions orders from mother about motels.. please use only hotels that appear on the recommended lodging list.

(one page, with only one motel locally).

one nights deposit (credit card, money order, etc.,) is required, and should be sent to the hotel within ten days of making your reservation.

sowhatnow

growing up my mother was always too poor to pay for hotels.

we got to stay at real peoples homes.

for free.

when and why did that ever stop? that's how people could have made some friends.

my mom always offered her two bedrooms for every convention in our city. and the co stayed at our house a lot. and my dad wasnt even a witness . he tolerated it.

[ but deep inside I knew he did not like it.]

the last few conventions i went to i just drove back and forth over the three days or two then one. cost too much for a hotel. could never sleep in those things.