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  1975 failed prediction?

  by Garrett in

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  heyo,.

  your favorite garrett here.

  so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.

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  Village Idiot

  Stuck in the middle, how soon did they take the sign down?

  By the way, welcome.
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  At the Kingdom Hall

  by paradisebeauty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking of starting a topic on thoughts that go through your mind while attending meetings.... right now i am at the meeting and thinking ... we study about jesus's courage to stand by rightness and truth, about him getting in conflict with religious leaders who thought of themselves as experts of the law, jesus understood truth and god differently of them and he had the courage to speak out!.

  so we study this, but after that we draw the concluzion that courage is to go preaching and identify yourself as a witness .... well, this in not what i understand from jesus's courage!.

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  Village Idiot

  The Searcher,

  "If it was virtually any other church in Christendom, I could challenge/question what was said..."

  I think you overestimate the tolerance of quite a few other sects. Only amongst liberal Christians is there any tolerance but amongst most Fundamentalists there is none.
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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......".

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  Village Idiot

  Next time make a dramatic entry like this:

  
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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......".

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  Village Idiot

  I was once criticized by the Circuit Overseer for having a case that was too big out in field service. I used to have a wide variety of literature that I could place with different kinds of householders.
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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......".

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  Village Idiot

  So put your tablet inside a meeting bag.

  Here's one that should be big enough.

  
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  A coordinated effort to bring up Watchtower pedophelia to the public's attention.

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a statement that phizzy made on jonathan drake's thread on flyers gave me the following ideas.. we should make a flyer on the issue of the watchtower pedophilia issue written with the object of alerting the public about the jw door to door activity.

  phizzy suggested the title, "the paedophile at your door".. on that flyer should be the contact information of our most informed member on the subject who's willing to talk to the media.

  barbara anderson perhaps?.

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  Village Idiot

  Lisa Rose,

  "There really is very little danger to the public, because the vast majority of people are completely uninterested in Jehovah's Witness are are hardly going to allow one to allow one to gain access to their children."

  The public in general may not be interested in the Jehovah's Witnesses but show them the video clip below and they will develop an interest. Start at the 22:20 minute mark:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ywY4mKoubws#t=1340
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  Who REALLY believed in the idea of living forever on earth??

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  seriously.....even when you were 100% in "the truth", did you really believe in living forever?

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  Village Idiot

  I believed in it, as a teenager, though I had a detached attitude towards it. The elder who had studied with me said that I should picture myself in the "New Order". That would supposedly keep one faithful. It didn't work for me.
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  1975 failed prediction?

  by Garrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heyo,.

  your favorite garrett here.

  so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.

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  Village Idiot

  cha ching, "I mean we really, really, really wanted Armageddon to 'hold off' so that we could see the next one!"

  Did they wish for the brutal death of all the actors who entertained them?
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  A coordinated effort to bring up Watchtower pedophelia to the public's attention.

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a statement that phizzy made on jonathan drake's thread on flyers gave me the following ideas.. we should make a flyer on the issue of the watchtower pedophilia issue written with the object of alerting the public about the jw door to door activity.

  phizzy suggested the title, "the paedophile at your door".. on that flyer should be the contact information of our most informed member on the subject who's willing to talk to the media.

  barbara anderson perhaps?.

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  Simon,

  "If someone else has a higher rate then why not warn about them - aren't they a bigger risk?"

  Would this someone else be going door to door seeking converts?

  Talesin,

  "Note: It's illegal to put flyers in mailboxes in Canada."

  In the United States as well but it's all right to leave them on doors.
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  A coordinated effort to bring up Watchtower pedophelia to the public's attention.

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a statement that phizzy made on jonathan drake's thread on flyers gave me the following ideas.. we should make a flyer on the issue of the watchtower pedophilia issue written with the object of alerting the public about the jw door to door activity.

  phizzy suggested the title, "the paedophile at your door".. on that flyer should be the contact information of our most informed member on the subject who's willing to talk to the media.

  barbara anderson perhaps?.

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  Village Idiot

  steve2 and Simon,

  Irrespective of whether a particular religion may have the same rate of pedophilia as others the danger is high enough to forewarn others. I know from experience that public service employees and private businesses that deal with children require a background check which the Watchtower does not. I have no problem with legislation. The two could be done together.

  In my opinion the flyer should state that the rank and file Witness are not made aware of these issues and that the problem lies on the elders and their hierarchy.

  As for the flyers trying to attach other issues I completely agree that other issues should definitely not be mentioned even in brief. They are irrelevant and not of any interest by the public.

  Down below is an interview by anchor woman Connie Chung of CNN. I consider it an example of how to handle these sensitive issues.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wH7j2TrjXUc