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  C/O's in the UK

  by jookbeard in

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  anyone got any info of c/o's in the uk ?

  a small list etc?.

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  BluesBrother

  Punk....

  We had Paul Presland back in the day as a D/O . At the time he was a good speaker with an interesting way of putting things . Many years later in a different area he can around as a C/O . By then he was old and pretty much a spent force. We went up and started talking about the old ties but he didn’t want to know us....

  Richard Jessup , yes I first knew him years ago when he was just learning the C/0 role and again many years later as an older man in a congregation having finished the travelling work. He was always terribly awfully British in his manner with an attitude above the rest of us. You could not warm to him
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  Is a belief in GOD only found in the Bible ? Of course not .what about all of the other religious sects? Do they not count ???

  by smiddy3 in

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  the world is made up of many religions christian and otherwise .. whose to say which religion is more superior than another religion ?

  or has the approval of a god ?.

  none that i can think of.. since humans have been on earth god has kept silent as to who represents him , if any at all..

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  BluesBrother

  Do they not count?

  If I was a believer in JWism, I would say “ NO” . Babylon theGreat , and all that....

  Since I was working with good people who were Hindu and Sikh ,and a few Moslem at the time of my awakening, that was all a part of my realisation that the WT was just plain wrong....
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  Is Bible chronology true?

  by Fisherman in

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  according to jw interpretation of bible chronology, the earliest human, adam, came into existence some 6,048 years ago compared to scientific dating of human fossils believed to be much older.

  since jesus validated the creation of adam and eve as historical people and jc’s own lineage is traced all the way back to adam, bible chronology is certified as true and there must be something wrong with scientific dating.

  what proves scientific dating as accurate that humans are much older than what bible chronology says?.

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  BluesBrother

  The Bible does not really provide chronology, only in certain cases where it states a time period for something.

  Nowhere does it say that Adam was formed around 4000 years before Christ came. It does give ages of some people and age when they produced a child, but was that intended to be a complete record of mankind ? Are the numerologists reading more into it than they should?
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  I find it interesting that after the cult people still hold on to religion....

  by BeaverEater in

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  im not an atheist, makes no mathematical sense, nor does the buy(more) bull(shit) god make any logical sense... maybe a deist on my best day, in the end you cannot get something from nothing, paradox if you ask me... but in reality i just dont care.

  while in, and moving out of the cult, its like a roller coaster, emotionally, yet, for me, over time, i just take it one day at a time, and if appeasing some special deity is required, well i guess i failed.

  lol.

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  BluesBrother

  The o/p asked why people may retain Christianity after seeing through the falsehood ofthe WT.?

  I have done that, simply because what I can see wrong about the WT does nothing th shake my basic belief in Christianity. I took exception to the doctrine that only JWs were acceptable and the time scale shows the 1914 to be unbelievable now... later on other man made teachings of theirs became obviously wrong.

  Why should that shatter my belief in God? No reason to. I have no wish to debate with the diehard atheists on here , each one is entitled to their views and there is no reason to fall out over it.
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  JWs view of Lord of the Rings VS Harry Potter

  by serotonin_wraith in

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  i'm sure this will vary between jw to jw, but their choices are:.

  1) they won't watch/read either.. 2) they will only allow lotr, not hp.. 3) they will only allow hp, not lotr.. 4) they will allow both.. in my experience, 3 never happens and 2 happens the most.

  with the similar theme of magic, the occult, fantasy and monsters, i wonder what lets them think one is okay and the other is not.

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  BluesBrother

  In my household the sincere dubs love LOTR but denounce Harry Potter as demonise.

  I enjoy LOTR but because of the above I have never seen Harry Potter, not that I really wanted to. This is not a universal view among dubs , I have had a bro. Tell us how “dangerous “ it is to watch LOTR .

  It is one of those things that ,thankfully, are left to a “ Christian conscience “
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  Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  who were your past circuit overseers?

  i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

  ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

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  BluesBrother

  Thank You Journeyman for that link to Mike Seidler’s online obituary. The picture it gives of a warm heated fun loving person is not what I remember. He was rather cool and businesslike with us . Him and his wife were not the most popular C/O couple by a long way.. Still I guess there was more to him ........

  George , this Circuit has had Sean Smart . It shows I am getting old because he looked very young to me..
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  Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

  by mentallyfree31 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who were your past circuit overseers?

  i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

  ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

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  BluesBrother

  I heard about Mike Seidler , I never rated him highly as a C/O... and his wife even worse. Still that was a long time ago . I suppose I should be sorry for her loss.
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  DISSOCIATION - Based on Covid 19

  by gavindlt in

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  dear friends,.

  i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.

  it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.

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  BluesBrother

  A very well written letter. We all know it will not matter one jot to the Bethel automatons but that is not the point. It gave the writer the chance to say what is in his heart for perhaps the first and only time. I especially liked his excellent summary of the UNO scandal.

  Personally I do not agree about the vaccine thing , but I respect others right to disagree.
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  How oblivious are your typical jdub ? Facepalm alert

  by nowwhat? in

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  so talking with friends and they mentioned they just visited their daughter at bethel.

  so i asked did she say why anthony morris is no longer on the gb?.

  he had no clue about that.

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  BluesBrother

  How are they supposed to know if they don’t listen to anti JW stuff? The announcement about AM3 was easy to miss and would only be seen by those delving into that corner of their site.

  Ignorance is bliss.
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  Watchtower (Study) August 2023 gaslighting and deflecting again.

  by was a new boy in

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  'they turn the story around to make it seem like you are at fault, deflecting attention and blame away from them to make you feel guilty.

  this type of emotional manipulation is called gaslighting.. .

  deflection is manipulation, and if it's coupled with other toxic relationship behaviors, it may be necessary to remove yourself from the situation.'.

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  BluesBrother

  All the above comments are so very true. I am one of those baby boomers who learned it young and believed for too many years . Now I am forever linked because of family but at least I have my own mind.

  They are the masters of deflection and wriggling out of responsibility for their errors. Remember Tony Morris sneering at those of us who believed that kids of the 60s /70s would never grow old in this system... Good riddance to him .