Posts by slimboyfat

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God and the afterlife. Do you need to believe in both

by moley in

i consider myself an atheist, i completely reject the idea of a totalitarian desert god/any god and the bible is a book of fairytales and folk legends.. i do however sort of believe that this life is not all there is.

i’m not talking about heaven or hell but in a tangible state of being.. there are a few experiences i’ve had in my llife.

could be imagined could be real.

slimboyfat

Transhumanists seem to believe in a sort of afterlife without God.

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Anyone notice there has not been any announcement for the annual meeting broadcast this year?

by nowwhat? in

let the speculation begin!.

slimboyfat

A new Ezekiel book? Interesting possibility. Would that be the first since the “nations shall have to know” book?

But I thought they had stopped publishing major new books?

Where did the rumour come from I wonder.

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Watchtower History

by vienne in

some of you read our history blog and have read our first two books.

we're pushing to finish volume 2, separate identity.

a rough draft chapter from volume 2 is up on our blog.

slimboyfat

Thanks, I thought the video was inaccurate. It gets a lot of views however. Entertainment is viewed above accuracy these days.

I wonder if Russell and White had anything to say about each other.

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Watchtower History

by vienne in

some of you read our history blog and have read our first two books.

we're pushing to finish volume 2, separate identity.

a rough draft chapter from volume 2 is up on our blog.

slimboyfat

Can I ask a basic question? At the risk of displaying ignorance, I was wondering if you know whether Charles Taze Russell met and had dealings with Ellen White? Because I watched this video yesterday that claimed Russell knew White very well and they even attended the same church. Which is news to me!

https://youtu.be/YSTmGN4ND2w

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Anyone notice there has not been any announcement for the annual meeting broadcast this year?

by nowwhat? in

let the speculation begin!.

slimboyfat

You’re extracting the urine.

Is it this weekend?

Will they count coloured people at the meeting this year?

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5709541519917056/composition-members-watch-tower-society-annual-meeting-1945

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Anyone notice there has not been any announcement for the annual meeting broadcast this year?

by nowwhat? in

let the speculation begin!.

slimboyfat

When is it?

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Who Do You Think Will Be The Nominees For President In The Next US Election?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i think trump will be the nominee for the republicans and the democrats... i have no clue.

i hope bernie sanders runs again and wonder if hillary would dare go for a rematch..

slimboyfat

Never mind 2020, what about 2024? Michael Moore says Trump will stick around as long as he can, including changing the constitution or whatever it takes.

“We’ve cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration, whether it’s four years, eight years or, in one case, 16 years,” he said. “Should we go back to 16 years? Congressman, can we have that extended? The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying 'he's got despotic tendencies!' No, I'm not looking to do it, unless you want to do it.”

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Adding insult to injury when the WT kicks out a congregation from their hall

by nowwhat? in

not only does the organization confiscate the hall the congregation owns.

but then the former congregants are told to continue to pay for utilities and they are still responsible for upkeep and maintenance.

so they still have to cut the grass etc.

slimboyfat

How does that work and where did they go? Pictures?

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Who Do You Think Will Be The Nominees For President In The Next US Election?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i think trump will be the nominee for the republicans and the democrats... i have no clue.

i hope bernie sanders runs again and wonder if hillary would dare go for a rematch..

slimboyfat

I heard it’s a run off between Kanye West and Lisa Simpson.

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What was the EXACT exJW website you first visited and why EXACTLY did you visit it?

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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friends

i had two episodes of visiting exjw websites:one time around 2007 when i just googled "jehovah´s witnesses" and dared to look at those sites.

i was scared and i promised myself i would never come back to them.

however, that one didn´t really count.the moment that woke me up was this:i got to know that whitney heichel was a jw and murdered by another jw, because i overheard that conversation in a kingdom hall.i looked up the news and in one of the news comments, there was one where an exjw was complaining that they were hijacking her funeral and they were really trying to downplay the fact that her murderer was a jw... and then it said "visit jwfacts.com"... which i did.and the rest... is history.what exactly got you onto an apostate website when you woke up?

slimboyfat

Can’t remember exactly, it was 1999/2000 and some of the first I read included:

Reachout Trust (in particular the forum)

Freeminds

Beyond Jehovah’s Witnesses (I don’t think this exists any more)

Carm (an American countercult website)

Watchtower Observer

Rick Ross

JWD (this forum, as was)

But actually more important were some of the pro-JW sites I was visiting at the time: Jehovah’s Witnesses United, Heinz Schmitz’s “theology” website, Great Crowd forum, Brenton Hepburn (what happened to him?), In Defense of the New World Translation, and more.