Posts by Hecklerboy

today while unloading my groceries, i witnessed a random act of kindness... someone in a ford explorer was waiting for a car to leave a parking spot so they could pull in there, they had been waiting for several minutes when finally the car in that spot backed out and left.

before the person in the ford explorer could pull into the spot, a lady in a ford taurus pulled on into that parking space.

the person in the ford explorer who had been patiently waiting, just sat there, they didn't honk or flip the person off, then the lady in the ford taurus realized that the other vehicle had been waiting for that spot and backed out to find another spot, letting the guy who had been waiting have his spot.

Hecklerboy

Funny, you never see any experiences like this in the Watchtower

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Abstaining from Blood-Eating meat etc.

by JWdaughter in

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when we consider the entire blood issue, does any jws consider that everytime we eat any meat at all we are partaking of blood?

heck, my understanding of nursing is that babies often get a good dose of mothers blood-you would not believe what the lactation consultants say you have to nurse through!!

so then, after looking at the bible instructions about blood, would not one need to consider the context?

Hecklerboy

I ask an elder once why it was OK to eat lobster since it was cooked alive and not bled propely. He said there wasn't enough blood in a lobster to worry about.

Funny how they bend their own rules when they want something.

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Continually pounding the "Deliverance at Hand" drum...

by bennyk in

brothers!!!

surely we rejoice to know that "deliverance is at hand"!!!

how grateful we are that the faithful and discreet slave has given us such timely warning!!!

Hecklerboy

Ever hear about the boy that cried wolf.

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Lets go to the church but stand outside

by Wordly Andre in

i am so sick of this!

i have a split family, some non-jw and some jw, and ever since i was a young kid, ive noticed this silly fear of entering a church, i remember i must have been about 9 years old when my uncle died and my family went to the funeral, but we stood outside, and even at that young age i remember it felt wrong, like we were disrespecting my dead uncle and his family.

like ive wrote on this board before, i told my parents when at 15 i didnt want to go to meetings anymore and was never baptized, when i was 18 my great uncle died and at the funeral i went into the church for mass, when it was over i walked outside all the rest of my family were outside waiting, they all gave me dirty looks like i was just caught with a prostitute.

Hecklerboy

my family did not attend the ceremony I couldn’t help but look down at the grooms side and feel horrible, the space left open for my mom was empty, the flower bouquet that was suppose to be for her was left on the seat.

Man I feel for you. When I got married I made sure to have the wedding outside so my mother and sister wouldn't have to enter a church. My mom was excited and was even planning on buying a new dress. A few weeks before the wedding they informed me that they were not going to attend because I was marrying a "worldly" girl. At the time I had not went to a meeting in over 6 years. They said coming to my wedding would mean that they approved of me marrying out of the JW's. I knew that an elder had got to them. However they went to my "worldly" brothers wedding and my mom was even in the ceremony. Makes no sense to me.

I remember looking on the grooms side as well and not seeing any family. Just a few of my friends. My wifes side was packed. I have to admit it was a little embarassing.

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100 reasons to love Canada.

by jeeprube in

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1. crown royal.

Hecklerboy

20. Tegan and Sara

I second that!!!

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A bit reluctant

by saki2fifty in

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i'm a bit reluctant in writing this post, for i dont feel i should be here.

even a bit nervous... .

i've never officially dedicated myself to jehovah, but i was brought up in the truth, very strong, and at times when getting older, there were lulls in my attendance... yet to this day i still attend.

Hecklerboy

I guess one of the biggest things for me was when I learned that the Society teaches that they are the mediator between you and God, Not Jesus. They say that Jesus is just the mediator for the 144,000.

Nowhere in the bible did I ever read that.

* Watchtower 1979 April 1 p.31 Questions from Readers *

Questions from Readers

• Is Jesus the "mediator" only for anointed Christians?

The term "mediator" occurs just six times in the Christian Greek Scriptures and Scripturally is always used regarding a formal covenant.

Moses was the "mediator" of the Law covenant made between God and the nation of Israel. (Gal. 3:19, 20) Christ, though, is the "mediator of a new covenant" between Jehovah and spiritual Israel, the "Israel of God" that will serve as kings and priests in heaven with Jesus. (Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24; Gal. 6:16) At a time when God was selecting those to be taken into that new covenant, the apostle Paul wrote that Christ was the "one mediator between God and men." (1 Tim. 2:5) Reasonably Paul was here using the word "mediator" in the same way he did the other five times, which occurred before the writing of 1 Timothy 2:5, referring to those then being taken into the new covenant for which Christ is "mediator." So in this strict Biblical sense Jesus is the "mediator" only for anointed Christians.

The new covenant will terminate with the glorification of the remnant who are today in that covenant mediated by Christ. The "great crowd" of "other sheep" that is forming today is not in that new covenant. However, by their associating with the "little flock" of those yet in that covenant they come under benefits that flow from that new covenant. During the millennium Jesus Christ will be their king, high priest and judge. For more detailed information, see Aid to Bible Understanding, pages 1129 and 1130 under "Mediator"; also God's "Eternal Purpose" Now Triumphing for Man's Good, page 160, paragraph 10; also The Watchtower issues of February 15, 1966, pages 105 through 123; November 15, 1972, pages 685 and 686, under the subheading "Leading the Way to a New Covenant"; and April 1, 1973, pages 198 and 199, under the subheading "The New Covenant."

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What did the Watchtower Soceity REALLY say about 1975?

by Elsewhere in

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well, read for yourself!.

click here to download the oct 8th, 1968 awake!

magazine that talks about the year 1975.

Hecklerboy

Yep, I can see how silly it was for the R&F to get all excited about 1975.

I mean the society did come right out and SAY that the end was coming in 1975. They just said that according to all of this overwhelming evidence it MIGHT come.

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Assemblies: Queues (Lines) at the Ladies, and taping over mirrors

by Duncan in

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this topic sufaces here every now and again, with people reporting on the way that in some locations, the brothers tape paper over the mirrors in the ladies toliets, in order to speed things up and reduce queues.

i posted this a couple of years ago, but i'm resurrecting it now because i think this is relevant and interesting:.

this link:.

Hecklerboy

I would just rip the paper off. If they said something I would just say I had something in my eye.

Man I am so glad I'm out of the messed up religion.

Hecklerboy

Posts by Hecklerboy

*** Watchtower 1979 April 1 p.31 Questions from Readers ***

Questions from Readers

* Watchtower 1979 April 1 p.31 Questions from Readers *