Posts by sowhatnow

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Does Anyone Know Where This Picture Came From...
by MADMARY in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it couldn't be from a watchtower cover, right???

does anyone know?.

mm.
sowhatnow

i can honestly say i have never seen that photo.
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What I Learned Today
by OneFingerSalute in
1. jw
2. experiences
just thought i would share what i learned today sitting for several miserable hours at the circus assembly.. while i took "notes" i just cannot stand trying to type out all the details.

so suffice it to say the entire program can be covered with these few observations.. do more!

give more!
sowhatnow

id like to know what the 'menu' was for the day.
in some of your notes notice a pattern of self importance by any chance? and by the mentioning of the governing body or faithful slave in the prayers?
i left after prayers often had ones saying 'and we thank the faithful slave for all our spiritual food..' and the constant mention of the group.
little if any mention of Jesus being the king, our leader ,our mediator, our example.
good way to reason that being discreet is lost on the leaders.
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They're spying me on facebook
by cookiemaster in
1. jw
2. experiences
most of you have probably seen the apostasy trial video posted on youtube (and all over social media) recently.

well, there's a "wordly" woman from another country that i had worked with some time ago and she's posted it, tagged me, and asked "wtf?

", knowing i'm a still a jw just for family reasons.
sowhatnow

yea facebook is a spy network, lol were not hiding anything on there. which is why mine is boring. juts photos i take, recipes, links to jokes and articles, yup boring. im not putting anything on there I wouldn't want the world to know,lol for me there is no one chasing me down for any explanation as to my absence , nor is my son, were just forgotten. that's ok by me, I barely notice the difference. id say get off facebook. just use private email. and never a cell phone.
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Summarize every the meeting in 20 seconds
by Sour Grapes in
1. jw
2. friends
the world is full of wickedness.. the end is very near.. we must do more.. how thankful we are for the governing body.

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sowhatnow

lets sing song ......
now for our prayer....
lets listen to bro browneyes discuss a fascinating subject, ' how to survive the end...'
here in Isaiah ch ....
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
well thats the end of a fine talk, lets turn to song.....
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What I Learned Today
by OneFingerSalute in
1. jw
2. experiences
just thought i would share what i learned today sitting for several miserable hours at the circus assembly.. while i took "notes" i just cannot stand trying to type out all the details.

so suffice it to say the entire program can be covered with these few observations.. do more!

give more!
sowhatnow

rinse repeat
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"Your bad attitude is evident, because you don't bring a meeting bag to the meetings anymore!"
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yes friends.....this is the comment said to me by an elder!.

"your bad attitude is evident because you don't bring your meeting bag anymore!".

i calmly replied: "but everything i need is on the tablet now......".
sowhatnow

wow, what area are you from? here where i live, the cong my mom goes to is all about the tablets, she barely carries a book bag anymore she was asking me where she can get a little purse to hold her tablet! years ago when i was still going out in sqirmish, I carried my purse, in it i put three magazines a few tracts and my bible in my hand and not a single person ever said a word to me.[
of course it was a 'fruitful' day if one person was home and took a magazine]
so these people who are making comments about book bags must be old , lol and clueless to the fact that people are not impressed by the amount of junk that someone carries around and cant use.
rules & regulations If I was there and heard that aid to you, lol, Id have certainly voiced my opinion, using scriptures, lol. and that would have been the end of it. [i know from experience how to end something]
all in agreement? worldwide harmony amongst the jws? I think not.
gosh what next.
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Huge Shift in Doctrine?
by Lemonp in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am not sure why more people aren't talking about this?.

the march 15 study edition of the wt has some major changes!

- all unbiblical "types and antitypes" are now dropped.
sowhatnow

well if you saw the same thing I did, they contradict themselves in one those very study lessons, by once again trying to explain what something represents, right after they tell you not to do that, lol! the questions from the readers is clearly not from a reader, and is not at all clear. I sat at teh table at my mothers house and read several paragraphs to her and tried to get her to grasp what they were doing. she still didn't get it. oh well.
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Did Jehovah's Witnesses dishonestly insert the word "Apostate" in their custom version of the Bible
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
interesting article.

http://doctrinesoffaith.com/more-errors-in-jehovahs-witness-new-world-translation-bible/.

more intentional repeated errors in new world translation bible: a study on apostates.
sowhatnow

of course, and then they needed to alter all the other scriptures to fit that idea. its amazing the scriptures they changes claiming they mean the same thing. thanks for the list of scriptures too.
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How many here gave up having a family for the sake of the "truth"?
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is a sensitive topic for many of us i know, but i am wondering how many here actually gave up the idea of having a family "in this system" for the sake of "kingdom activity or service"??.

start the count here with my wife and i.
sowhatnow

well, just think, If everyone who became a jw never had kids and avoided marraige, the org would have disapeared a lot sooner...once everyone died off...
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New Avatar
by mrquik in
1. jw
2. friends
i can't help but think how many committee meetings this photo would have generated.

this is on the caribbean side of cozumel at a quaint bar called mezcalito's.

this side of the island is virtually deserted.
sowhatnow

ok so shall all of us put our real self for our avatar? lol,
um, I recall, someone wanted us girls to model those yoga pants?