Posts by IWillBeDubbedNoMore

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Halloween- When you were a JW did you answer the door?

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i am watching the movie "the perfect world", and they have a scene of a jw family eating dinner and then the doorbell rings and the mother answers the door with her kids following behind.

she opens the door and there are several costumed children saying "trick of treat".

the jw mother says that they don't participate in such activities.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

I am watching the movie "The Perfect World", and they have a scene of a JW family eating dinner and then the doorbell rings and the mother answers the door with her kids following behind. She opens the door and there are several costumed children saying "Trick of Treat". The JW mother says that they don't participate in such activities. The man who is accompanying the costumed children says "Pardon me" Then she says "We are JWs" and the man tips his hat and apologies.

Has anyone ever or knew someone who answered the door on Halloween as a JW and told them that you didn't celebrate it?

All I know of is people shutting off their lights and not answering the door, including myself.

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

When I was a Dub I beleived that the men at the top were honest and if they found something to be false would correct it no matter what the consequenses, because we were all trying to serve God and teach truth. But now I realize that they would be the last ones to want to rock the boat. For example, if they were to acknoledge that 1914 is false then their authority is lost. Who in power willing gives up their throne when they don't have to do it? They will hold on to it as long as possible.

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

The youtube film about The World Tomorrow was quite interesting

At about 5:27 Armstrong says the following:

God says, if a man tells you what is about to happen, wait and see. If it doesn't happen he was not speaking the word of God. He was speaking out of his own mind. You wait and see if these things happen.

He was proved false by his own words and so is the Society proved false by its own words. Arguing about the definition of a prophet is pointless. Whether you believe the Society is a prophet or not doesn't really matter, the evidence is conclusive that they have spoken falsely.

What struck me about the film was the humbleness of the men in charge. They realized that what they had been taught and consequently went teaching it to others was wrong. They humbly sat down and with an open mind, re-examined the scriptures and let the scriptures speak for themselves. I can't imagine that ever happening at Brooklyn.

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

reniaa, do you believe the Watchtower?

Watchtower April 1,1972 p.197

"This "prophet" was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah’s Christian witnesses. They are still proclaiming a warning, and have been joined and assisted in their commissioned work by hundreds of thousands of persons who have listened to their message with belief"

Even they admit they are a prophet. Are you going to call them liars with the rest of us?

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-23-09 WT Study (SPEAK TRUTH)

by blondie in

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16 years ago

comments you will not hear at the 08-23-09 wt study (june 15, 2009 pages 11-20)(speak truth).

review comments will be in red or comments heading.

wt material from today's wt will be in black.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

Thank you Blondie. I always enjoy reading your commentary

p.16 So to maintain a clean conscience before God and men, Christians obey the laws of the land, including those pertaining to the paying of taxes

I always see the Spanish Cong. out preaching and when I do I think of the ones that are here illegally. I can't understand how they can go door to door with clean conscience. Just as an example, one sister has been hear cleaning homes for ten years. She hasn't been back home since coming here because she is afraid she won't be allowed back. She works off the books and pays no taxes. With the money she has made she has built a nice two story house and is now building another one next door to it in her native land. Going by the Society's teachings, I don't understand how she can have a clean conscience. What do they think about when this is discussed at the meeting?

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

DaCheech: It can't be stated any plainer than that

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

Quandry: The society is stuck with 1914. It they admit that date is bogus, then the whole belief system crumbles. They can no longer claim that they were chosen by Jesus after his enthronement. The 1914 generation is quickly dying off and they had to do something, so they changed the definition of generation. In their haste, they didn't chose a definition that fit their needs, so they changed it again a few years later. Now the word has no meaning at all. So if the end doesn't come for hundreds of years, it is fine, all Jesus meant was that there would be anointed ones around when it came. Not that it would happen in an individuals lifetime from 1914. Total rubbish.

All those years that we spent out in service thinking we were part of a great separating work. Being told how privileged we were to be living at this special time in world history. How we were being used to find the sheep and that time was running out.

When they changed the teaching of the separating of the sheep and goats from now to the future with Jesus doing the separating, I couldn't understand it. Why would Jesus pick out a group to gather together people if this in actuality wasn't to be done until a future time? I couldn't make sense of it, but I still stuck around. Then the generation change came and that was the beginning of the end for me. I knew that was total nonsense and I started doing my own research and now I am free.

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

Reniaa: I was working in the field for many years until I realized my employers weren't who they said they were and I recognized that the payment they were offering wasn't to be. If you are happy working for them, I wish you well.

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How Fast Can You React?

by Robdar in

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16 years ago

a friend of mine sent me the email with the link below.

it's fun and i hope you enjoy: .

the automobile driving manual says the average driver's reaction time is: .

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

ambling armadillo

That is the best I could do

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I was a False Prophet

by IWillBeDubbedNoMore in

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16 years ago

i was a false prophet.

i would spend many a waking hour proclaiming to others that i had special knowledge that i was willing to share so that they could survive the impeding doom that was shortly coming upon mankind.

i proclaimed to the world, or at least anyone i came in contact with, that the world would end within a generations time from 1914. i spoke this vile falsehood for years without any remorse.. i falsely spoke telling them that i was participating in a special separating work being done all over the world.

16 years ago

IWillBeDubbedNoMore 16 years ago

reniaa said: hi satanas

that was a mistaken understanding from JESUS'S OWN WORDS.

Matthew 24:34
I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

Where did Jesus ever say that 1914 had any meaning at all. The scripture you quote is quite easy to understand. The destruction of Jerusalem came within a generation, which in the scriptures lasts at most 90 years. The false sayings spewing from the Societies lips were not a misinterpretation of the word generation, but of the false teaching of a convoluted belief in the year 1914 having some kind of importance.

I don't think you have read the older literature, but you should. You will see that on many occasions the writings of the Society stated that what they were proclaiming wasn't from man but from God himself. They said on more than one occasion that the dates weren't man's dates but God's dates. Since they claim to be speaking for God as his channel for mankind, his mouth piece as you will. than if they proclaim something will happen and it doesn't, than they are false prophets.

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