Brigido

Joined

• started 5 topics
• posted 38 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Brigido

• 
  5

  Anyone Here From the Lorain, Ohio Area??

  by Brigido in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering if anyone here in jwd spent any time in the lorain area.. let me know...thanks.. brigido.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  Just wondering if anyone here in JWD spent any time in the Lorain area.

  Let me know...thanks.

  Brigido
• 
  19

  1975 end of times i found this link:

  by ania in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone asked if anyone had a post of one of the awake declarations of 1975 end of times i found this link:.

  http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/danny29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/colitis.htm&h=380&w=630&sz=35&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=addhbznxbnrscm:&tbnh=83&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3fq%3djehovah%2bwitness%26svnum%3d10%26hl%3den%26lr%3dlang_en%26safe%3dactive%26sa%3dg.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  Hey thanks fokyc for the uploads...well worth the read.
• 
  43

  Matt 22:23-30--no sex for resurrected ones?

  by M.J. in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the wts promotes the idea that in the "new system" members of the great crowd, who are not resurrected, will be able to marry and have children.. but what about those that are resurrected?.

  does the wts apply matt 22:23-30 to people resurrected on earth?

  (the passage is obviously applied to people who were pre-new covenant).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  Am I wrong on this because I STILL can't get a straight answer about this out of the Dubs

  Isn't that how it always is? No one seems to have a straight answer about this. I have always had my doubts about this one as well.

  It makes no sense. What I could never understand is the fact that you will know/remember the dearly departed once you saw them

  after they were resurrected. But what never made sense is if this was your former spouse, how could you be able to remember them,

  the life you had together, and knowing they would recognize you for the same; how could know all of this and yet be fine with the fact

  that this is all you are ever going to have...just memories, nothing more. How is that loving? I have heard it explained away that one

  should just be glad for the promise of a resurrection. I know older ones that continue to remain unmarried after their spouse died, just

  in case this "JW Thought" was wrong. They all want a chance at getting back with their former love. Can't say I blame them. What is

  paradise if you can't have the ones you love close to you? Everlasting life is nothing and worthless without having those close to you

  to share it with. I know myself, if I wasn't able to reconnect/remarry the love of my life, I wouldn't want to be there.
• 
  19

  1975 end of times i found this link:

  by ania in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone asked if anyone had a post of one of the awake declarations of 1975 end of times i found this link:.

  http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/danny29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/colitis.htm&h=380&w=630&sz=35&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=addhbznxbnrscm:&tbnh=83&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3fq%3djehovah%2bwitness%26svnum%3d10%26hl%3den%26lr%3dlang_en%26safe%3dactive%26sa%3dg.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  If anybody wants it I could scan and certainly put up the text on the site.

  Fokyc...

  Please DO scan that insert...would love to read that one!

  Thanks

  Brigido
• 
  19

  1975 end of times i found this link:

  by ania in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone asked if anyone had a post of one of the awake declarations of 1975 end of times i found this link:.

  http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/danny29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/colitis.htm&h=380&w=630&sz=35&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=addhbznxbnrscm:&tbnh=83&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3fq%3djehovah%2bwitness%26svnum%3d10%26hl%3den%26lr%3dlang_en%26safe%3dactive%26sa%3dg.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  Hey Penny

  Thanks for the info on the exact article and many thanks to Atlantis for the link to rip the entire mag.

  It just makes me sick to see how "sure" they were that it was coming then. As I said in the earlier post;

  we're still here, 31 years later, and nothing...nothing has changed.

  Thanks to all for their posts in this regard.

  Hope everyone has a great weekend.

  Brigido
• 
  6

  Barter system?

  by looking_glass in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  does anyone remember jws and their barter system phase?

  i was thinking of this the other night.

  i remember when i was pretty young, the jws doing the barter thing where a jw would clean a restaurant and they would get their meals covered or they would clean a dry cleaners and they would get their dry cleaning done in exchange.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  I remember the "barter system". I remember hearing this as a kid at the field service meetings. It was said that if people

  didn't have money for the mags then you could barter them off for a bar of soap or a can of soup.
• 
  12

  Why is knowledge wrong?

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok adam and eve sinned by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and bad.. why weren't they allowed to eat from the tree of knowledge?

  isn't knowledge a good thing?.

  i am one of those people who can't stand not knowing the answers to everything.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  Knowledge if freedom. The "Society" can't allow that because then who would follow them? Thus they beat this story

  into the minds of their believers so that they will believe that it is wrong to question and to think for one's self.
• 
  19

  1975 end of times i found this link:

  by ania in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  someone asked if anyone had a post of one of the awake declarations of 1975 end of times i found this link:.

  http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/danny29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/colitis.htm&h=380&w=630&sz=35&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=addhbznxbnrscm:&tbnh=83&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3fq%3djehovah%2bwitness%26svnum%3d10%26hl%3den%26lr%3dlang_en%26safe%3dactive%26sa%3dg.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  So does anyone actually know the exact month in '68 that this article came from. Funny, when you try to access this year of Awake in

  the Library CD, it is only archived as far back as 1970. Hmmm, could this be a cover up to hide their own stupidity and false claims?

  I feel so sorry for all of those that gave so much of their lives for nothing but a false hope. I am so glad to be away from all of that.

  What cracks me up is how the article portrays that "things are so bad and critical now". Wow, 31 years later and guess what?

  Nothing! We are all still here! Anyway, that's my thoughts...thanks for posting that article.
• 
  38

  You mean to tell me, normal people don't get married at 17 or 18?

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a witness, most if not all of my friends were married by 18, with many woman married by 17. it was so normal, that when i left the religion and met all these people married in their 20's and later, that it seemed like they were starting late.

  i actually was a late person in getting married, i was 23. i remember being one of the few people my age in the congregation, not married yet.

  i actually remember thinking, where am i going to find someone to marry, that is not yet taken.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  I have found this to be true from what I can remember as well. So many got married way too young. It was either that or 36 year old brothers marrying 18 year old girls. As mentioned, I truly believe this was done simply because it was the only way to get laid if you wanted to stay in and not catch hell by being publicly humiliated with the whole DF'g thing. Funny, I thought getting married at 25 was "old". Looking back, even that was too young. That only lasted 8 years. Yeah, so much for the three fold cord. Even when you try so hard, if one changes their mind, it's all over and there is nothing you can do but live beyond it and learn from it. I'm for the wiser now. It kills me how it is taught that only the JW's have a good life. Hell, I was in, and I married one. What do I have to show for it now? NOTHING!

  And that is just it. Being in that organisation means nothing. You are no more protected then anyone else. You are just made to believe you are.

  ESB
• 
  9

  Jehovah's Witnesses - Do they really...

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  know god and understand the bible or.... do they know the faithful discreet slave and study literature?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Brigido

  And if you think about it, what is always said from the platform: "Per the Organisation" - "The Society Says".

  One day I got to thinking...the JDubs worship a business, not God. Think about it, I'm sure any and all here can remember when they went, this is all you heard.

  It's all just business, it's not worship.

  ESB