Yes indeed. Heard my own PO father read out the misdoings of a 15 year-old girl - fornication of course - and the restrictions that she was now under. The list was long and even included how much TV she was allowed to watch and what time she had to be in bed (no joke intended).
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How Many Here Remember Hearing Details from the Platform on Why a Person was Reproved or DF'd ???
by RubaDub ini just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.
at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.
the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.
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If you're "anointed" don't seek out other "anointed" so says the Watchtower January 2020
by RolRod inwhen i was affiliated with the witnesses, there were barely 6,000 who profess to be of the anointed remnant.
i recently read somewhere that today there are over 20,000 who profess to be anointed.
that figure may be more when you consider those who meet and partake privately for fear of the stigma of claiming to be anointed.
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The whole anointed thang has become a distinct embarrassment to the JW's. It had always been linked to the timing of armageddon. As armageddon came ever closer - "just around the corner" - so the numbers of anointed diminished year by year as heaven filled up as they died off, every year getting closer and closer to the magic figure of 144,000 dwelling upstairs.. Indeed, going back to the 60's (my teenage years!) a new anointee was not a subject for rejoicing - it was greeted with sadness because it meant that a former member of the anointed had fallen away from The Truth and this new member was simply a replacement.
Just nuts when you think about it.
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Dumb things JWs believed
by JimmyYoung ini am not talking about the usual crap from the cult writings, but rather things idiots believed on their own.
maybe even helped on by the cult but not directly taught.
i knew an old man now long gone kunde in michigan.
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George Orwell got the title for his book 1984 by adding a generation - then believed to be a 70 year period - to 1914.
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Anyone ever get blow back for owning and riding a motorcycle?
by JimmyYoung inmy wife's family rode motorcycles all their life.
her grandfather was an elder.
i was told by some dubbers that it was not christian to use a motorcycle.
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I can mimic the noise of a Harley perfectly. Just repeat 'potato potato' over and over again.
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the Watchtower guide to sex.
by stan livedeath init occurs to me the gb probably dont have much experience when it comes (!
) to marital sex guidance, so i think its only fair and reasonable we should put together a few hints to help them publish a suitable guide.. it is well known a lot of jw's get married in order to have sex, and all to frequently the marriages fail, possibly due to sexual problems, so the watchtower guide to sex should prove to be very worthwhile.. any jw courting couple intending to get married should be allowed to have a copy of the guide, and should only be available by a special order through the body of elders.. copies are not available to any single bros and sisters.. all and any advice in it must adhere to bible principles, and certainly no salty language or smut will be allowed.. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
so--to get this started--and in no particular order--here is my first suggestion:.
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Their obsession with sex is just nuts. My JW momma approached me years after I'd left to inform me that the original ban on oral sex had been lifted and would I now like to re-associate? Actually she even phrased it along the lines of "Some men like to treat their wives as a homosexual". I was stunned. She'd lost track of the fact that the original ban on oral sex hadn't even been implemented until well after I'd left. Apart from the fact that momma was the last person on earth with whom I would want to have a dialogue with about my sexual preferences, such a conversation with anyone would have felt like a betrayal to my partner. This is private stuff and as such discussion about one's bedroom activities should remain right there - in the bedroom.
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UK Islamic fanatic shot dead...
by The Fall Guy in...having been released half way through his sentence from prison only weeks ago - for terror offences.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51351844.
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The law needs to be changed - pronto. At present virtually anyone convicted of a criminal offence gets a 50% reduction in their prison sentence for good behaviour - whatever that means.
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Doctor Who: Massive Slump in UK Viewing Figures
by snugglebunny incould this be because - *gasp* - because this whole transgender scene is a big turn off?.
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Could this be because - *gasp* - because this whole transgender scene is a big turn off?
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I have a small garden railway with around 60 feet of track. Making a suitable base was a problem. Eventually I discovered that artificial grass provided an ideal base and also because it's possible to pin the track to the artificial grass. I'm running just one loco: an LGB Stainz with 2 coaches.
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Why Are There So Many International Words to Poop and Pee?
by RubaDub inhere, in the us, we go to the "bathroom".
am i taking a bath?
we either poop or pee.. when we go to canada, we go to the "washroom".
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Point Percy at the porcelain.
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Richness of personality seems to work against spiritual-mindedness,
by snugglebunny inare you bland enough?
just incredible imho.
wt 63, 2/15.
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Are you bland enough? Just incredible IMHO. WT 63, 2/15
"Clearly, not all dedicated and even mature Christians possess the holy spirit to the same measure. There is no doubt that unselfishness, depth of devotion, self-control, humility, mildness of spirit, studiousness as regards God’s Word and zeal in God’s service have a bearing on how much of the holy spirit we have. It also appears that inherited qualities have no small bearing on the extent to which we permit the holy spirit to have a free flow in our lives or tend to obstruct its activity. Thus the more colorful the personality the more difficult for the holy spirit to saturate it fully. The colorful personality has more need of self-control and must in particular guard against the snare of creature worship. Richness of personality seems to work against spiritual-mindedness, as the colorful person tends to lean more on himself, even as those who are rich in material things tend to put their trust in them instead of Jehovah God."—Ps. 52:7.