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  The Great Tribulation must be at least 3 years away

  by BourneIdentity in

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  since they’ve announced the dates for the next 3 memorials, no talk about this “may be our last one!”.

  since they’ve announced the patterson construction project will take 3 years to complete.

  let’s also not forget when they designed warwick, they spent money on expensive energy saving technology to save millions in the long run, years and decades in the future.

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  blondie

  I always wondered how the WTS would have water, electricity, etc., after the big A. Is god going to make the infrastructure survive too miraculously?
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses religion is a pretentious fraud.

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup that's right the jws religion is a pretentious fraud orchestrated by men running their own religious publishing house.. these men cultivated a semblance of power around themselves through their own propagation of being chosen by god or being more righteous than other christian leaders by their self supporting acclaim that they have truer and more accurate bible interpretations.

  another known fact is these top leading men were not academically trained bible scholars.

  the first leading executive writer of the wts was a professional clothing salesman/ businessman.

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  blondie

  Actually, Rutherford had a son Malcolm. Yah, I was surprised too.

  Proclaimers book

  Brother Rutherford was survived by his wife, Mary, and their son, Malcolm. Because Sister Rutherford had poor health and found the winters in New York (where the Watch Tower Society’s headquarters were located) difficult to endure, she and Malcolm had been residing in southern California, where the climate was better for her health. Sister Rutherford died December 17, 1962, at the age of 93. Notice of her death, appearing in the Monrovia, California, Daily News-Post, stated: “Until poor health confined her to her home, she took an active part in the ministerial work of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
  
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  New Kingdom Hall at Flowery Branch, Georgia USA

  by darkspilver in

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  2. friends

  external photos have previously been posted here.

  4442 j m turk road, flowery branch ga 30542. from the gainesville times:.

  jehovah's witnesses open new kingdom hall in flowery branch.

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  blondie

  https://www.thereminder.ca/news/local-news/new-home-under-construction-for-jehovah-s-witnesses-1.23964617

  Flin Flon, Canada

  According to statistics supplied by Jehovah’s Witnesses Canada, about 85 Jehovah’s Witnesses live in Flin Flon, with around 100 people coming to each of the group’s biweekly meetings.

  “We needed a new hall because the congregation has outgrown the old hall,” said congregation elder Kelly Flodell in a press release.
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  When is the AGM for this year?

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure that the agm is in october but has a date for it been released?.

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  blondie

  Anna Marina, thanks for sharing that additional info. I was just sharing the WTS view, since we are talking about why the WTS might schedule the AGM in October. I am aware that other people/groups think differently.

  Sometimes, people think I share the WTS viewpoint but I say:

  Reporting not supporting
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  Petting Tigers: My Life as a Witness of Jehovah Shelley Smith Jones

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  https://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/community/high-plains-book-awards-finalist-petting-tigers-my-life-as/article_df1bd1bb-7800-5385-aeb8-3845c1e6f8de.html.

  shelley smith jones’ memoir, “petting tigers: my life as a witness of jehovah,” is a finalist in the creative nonfiction category of the high plains book awards.

  the title is taken from an appealing vision of paradise that smith jones saw in a jehovah witness book when she was a child.

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  blondie

  https://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/community/high-plains-book-awards-finalist-petting-tigers-my-life-as/article_df1bd1bb-7800-5385-aeb8-3845c1e6f8de.html

  Shelley Smith Jones’ memoir, “Petting Tigers: My Life as a Witness of Jehovah,” is a finalist in the Creative Nonfiction category of the High Plains Book Awards. The title is taken from an appealing vision of Paradise that Smith Jones saw in a Jehovah Witness book when she was a child. It promised a paradise where the saved would play with tamed — previously wild — animals, and young Shelley dreamed of a heaven where she would pet the orange and black stripes of a tiger. Petting Tigers proceeds to detail Smith Jones’ life as a child, teenager, mother, and wife within the constraints of a religion variously called the Organization, the Truth, or Jehovah’s Witness, the...
  
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  Need help in finding some information regarding the Adam and Eve tale.

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am finally at the point in my life i no longer believe in the tales of the bible.

  my husband feels for the most part that it too is stuff made up.

  there are just a few things that he wants to get cleared up, and one of those being the story of adam and eve.

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  blondie

  My husband uses this point, talking snake, to point out that Adam and Eve were supposedly perfect, directly taught by God, having information and understanding beyond what we imperfect people today cannot begin to understand. But we are smart enough to know if a snake started talking to us, we should run to the next person who has lived longer than us, and ask WTH is going on.

  Definitely meant to be allegorical not literal.

  Added: the great oracle and self-described expert in Greek was Fred Franz, and Rutherford deferred to his opinion on those type of topics.
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses religion is a pretentious fraud.

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup that's right the jws religion is a pretentious fraud orchestrated by men running their own religious publishing house.. these men cultivated a semblance of power around themselves through their own propagation of being chosen by god or being more righteous than other christian leaders by their self supporting acclaim that they have truer and more accurate bible interpretations.

  another known fact is these top leading men were not academically trained bible scholars.

  the first leading executive writer of the wts was a professional clothing salesman/ businessman.

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  blondie

  Here's a quotation from the text of a letter to all elders: (not sure which one)

  "The Kingdom Ministry School textbook emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation on the part of the study conductor. But this does not mean that he should introduce additional material from his own personal research and thus possible overshadow what has been published in the magazine. Extensive research has already been involved in producing the study article, and the points to be emphasized are those included in the paragraphs under consideration. When outside material is introduced, it often detracts from what "the faithful and discreet slave" has prepared for the congregation. (Matt 24:45-47) The impression may be given that the additional information from the conductor's research is of equal or greater value."
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses religion is a pretentious fraud.

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yup that's right the jws religion is a pretentious fraud orchestrated by men running their own religious publishing house.. these men cultivated a semblance of power around themselves through their own propagation of being chosen by god or being more righteous than other christian leaders by their self supporting acclaim that they have truer and more accurate bible interpretations.

  another known fact is these top leading men were not academically trained bible scholars.

  the first leading executive writer of the wts was a professional clothing salesman/ businessman.

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  blondie

  While the WTS are not scholars, and tell us to not read outside material, the WTS does it all the time, quoting from non-jws, supposedly well-known and respected. That is if the WTS gives us enough identifiers so we can figure out from their saying "some scholar says" but does not give his/her name and just a snippet of the quote so we can check if it really says what the writer intended.

  Almost all the Awakes are material from non-jw articles or carefully chosen interviews with scientists. The WTS is not bashful to use a source that is over a 100 years old but not reveal that and pretend it is current, and that pretend that nothing new has been found or proven differently from then on (but discourage you from checking their source.
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  When is the AGM for this year?

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure that the agm is in october but has a date for it been released?.

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  blondie

  Yes, Atlantis, on Halloween, 10/31/1916, at Pampas, TX. Probably, he was disappointed that the end did not come in 1914, and actually adjusted the fulfillment to come in 1916.

  Supposedly that day was to pay homage to those who died during the flood of Genesis from some sources I have read. I have it hard to find credible historians who say this. If anyone knows of one, can you tell me? thanks.
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  How Long Did It Take To Finally Leave The Organization Once You Realized It Was Really Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  it actually took me a few years to finally leave the organization so i was mentally out for a while before i simply stopped all meetings altogether.. how long did it take you to finally make the break?

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  blondie

  @Wonderment

  What I really learned was the lack of love in any congregation I had been at for the last 40 years, and at Bethel, the circuit/district overseers, the publications saying to show love, and then making abusive comments about how to treat people in your congregation. Occasionally, there was one or two individuals who actually exhibited the kind of love the gospel seemed to talk about. But they were jws who were considered on the fringe by the more elite jws. Elders who beat the sheep, and never felt going after the one lost one, was more important the 99 still "in," going through the motions of shepherding but doing as my husband, who observed this in the elder meetings. He was taught the drive-by technique. Drive up to the house, determine from the street if anyone was home, hope to catch someone doing a df'ing offense, such as smoking outside, and then driving on to the next drive-by on their list to check off as done for the CO.

  Here is a quote from a 2006 WT Comments about how I left at the announcements in the morning on the first day of the circuit assembly. I left in 2001 never to return.

  I can say that when I stopped attending all meetings at the KH and conventions and assemblies that my despondency disappeared. How quickly the oppressive fog lifted. No more hearing that I was an elephant conditioned to stay chained to a post, that non-JWs were only corpses, and that Jesus only picked up shiny new quarters and left the dirty pennies on the sidewalk. No more wondering why the love of God and Jesus weren't seen at the WTS gatherings. If you haven't already, why not take a vacation from the WTS grind?