Posts by bavman

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lyman swingle... tape recording... death.... farkel

by Cygnus in

responding to an old post of mine regarding jw funerals, farkel wrote:.

"but here is the problem: i have a tape recording of governing body member lyman swingle's funeral.

it was five-odd minutes of bible discussion about the hope of the resurrection for second class wt citizens and immortality in heaven for first-class wt citizens, and a full forty minutes of eulogy and anecdotes about swingle.".

bavman

Funny...no other Witnesses get that long of an eulogy at their funerals.

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Scandal: Local Witness Is Traffic Warden!

by ballistic in

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i can't believe this guy goes round slapping parking tickets on people's cars by day and slapping "you can live forever" leaflets through people's doors at the weekend.. it would be funny if he got mixed up one day and started booking people with messages of a paradise earth.. well, i guess jesus loved tax collectors too.

bavman

LMAO Professor! Looks like an old school teacher dub I use to know.

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WELCOME Mr. Blue!!!

by RichieRich in

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everyone say hi to our newest member, mr. blue!

bavman

Welcome Mr. Blue and nice meeting you last night!

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New member of the Governing Body from Australia

by jwfacts in

jeff jackson has just been appointed to the gb.

he is a family friend from tasmania, a little island at the bottom of australia.

he is about 50 and claimed to be annointed when i think he was in his late 30's, as a great shock to everyone.

bavman

Exactly, the blood issue not being mentioned in something like the Worship book is deceitful. As I recall it isn't mentioned very much in the Knowledge book either. But then most of the doctrines now are barely talked about ahead of time. I wonder about the new OM book?

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Do Apostates Fulfill Prophecy

by bavman in

do you remmeber in your mind's eye (lol...i love that...mind's eye) the picture in the revelation book which showed after the 1000 years were ended that a large crowd of people who rejected jehovah's ways would surround those faithful ones?

they thought they were powerful enough to overtake them.

this was of course applied to the future however i have heard ideas in the past where some would say that perhaps even the "new scrolls" had been opened already.

bavman

Do you remmeber in your mind's eye (lol...I love that...mind's eye) the picture in the Revelation book which showed after the 1000 years were ended that a large crowd of people who rejected Jehovah's ways would surround those faithful ones? They thought they were powerful enough to overtake them. This was of course applied to the future however I have heard ideas in the past where some would say that perhaps even the "new scrolls" had been opened already. With that in mind I wonder if the society would ever try and make this application. Can't you just see after the Brooklyn protest many being upset and then the society uses that scripture in Revelation to show tey will be victorious? I don't know, just being weird here. If nothing else maybe I could get a job in the society's prophesying department...

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New member of the Governing Body from Australia

by jwfacts in

jeff jackson has just been appointed to the gb.

he is a family friend from tasmania, a little island at the bottom of australia.

he is about 50 and claimed to be annointed when i think he was in his late 30's, as a great shock to everyone.

bavman

I really see the religion changing over the next 20 years. There will be a lot of softening of doctrine and eventually the religion will become more mainstream. The last release 'what does the bible really teach' is written in a very broad and soft way.

I will believe it when I see it. I remember thinking things were becoming more liberal and were getting better in the borg 10-15 years ago. In recent years they totally reversed this swing and have gotten way more hard core. If this guy really is a good guy he is still only 1 man. (remember Ray Franz)...

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Hey! Is this encouraging masturbation???

by starfish422 in

from http://quotes.watchtower.ca/women.htm : (highlighting mine) it is high time for girls to understand the make-up of their bodies and its functions, especially with regard to sex.

then if a girl understandingly takes care of herself while the ovum is at large and is causing sex disturbance and cravings within her, she will be able to act like a true lady of irreproachable morals at all times.

she will avoid the violating of her virginity and the shame and conscience-stricken state due to this; and wisely she will direct her young life so as to end up in the position of a clean, happy wife and mother of legitimate children, journeying to the new world of righteousness, where there will be no sex problems amid a sex-crazy population.