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  How did you learn the truth about the truth?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?.

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  BluesBrother

  I worked out that something was wrong before I dared to venture on the net or read opposing material. I had been faithful for decades, but time was passing by. I could not see how the world could enter the 21st century if the time scale was right. I was troubled also by the teaching that all non believers would die at Armageddon. That just seemed wrong.

  I was sat at my desk at work one break time just mulling things over. This time I dared to think the unthinkable, “ Suppose it is all just not true?”

  That was it . An epiphany moment and I never looked back.
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  LOTTERY+STRIPPER+BIBLE STUDY = a Jehovah’s Witness Sister!

  by Terry in

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  lottery+stripper+bible study = a jehovah’s witness sister!don’t most financially-strapped blue-collar people buy lottery tickets - what’s so special about that?vivian, mother of 4, a factory worker - it was her husband who played the pools and won £5.5 million pounds!viv and her husband lived in yorkshire and in the u.k. they call it playing the “ football pools.”they were the biggest winners in history (at the time) and the year was 1961.the first question winners are asked is: “what will you do with all that cash?”viv’s honest reply later became the title of her book (and later - a musical!

  ) “spend spend spend!”who doesn’t imagined winning such a sudden fortune would be the end of life’s problems?not so fast!four years after hitting the jackpot, her husband died at the wheel of his new jaguar, leaving an estate of only £42,000.

  i mean that is all that was remaining after a mad spending spree.

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  BluesBrother

  Yes , she was famous at the time in the U.K. after winning all that money. Incidentally the “Pools” are not really a lottery, it is betting on the outcome of football matches.

  There were tv interviews with her in her later life and she seemed then to be a lady leading a quiet life as a “normal “ dub . You would never guess she was the same person.

  I don't know but I’d guess she must have passed away by now
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  Judicial Committee Meetings

  by Iamallcool in

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  do you know of any judicial cases that is very trivial?

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  BluesBrother

  I am always cautious when experiences are related unless they actually happened to the person relating it. You never know all the circumstances......

  I was ,however, called to sit on this committee to hear the case of a bro. we were told was guilty of gambling. Fair enough, I took my place and we heard what had happened. It turned out that all he had done was to donate to a local charity, in a pub. collection tin and was handed a ticket with lucky numbers to scratch off. The guy then did so and tossed the ticket away. For that he was hauled before the committee.

  In any other congregation I had been in , if such a complaint was made an elder would have a quiet word and that would be that.

  Sitting there I did not feel able to contradict my fellow elders so I had to go along with it and the guy was duly reproved... A complete waste of time in a vindictive congregation..
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  The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

  by Sea Breeze in

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  2. beliefs

  can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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  BluesBrother

  All interesting stuff. It is good to know about the archaeological findings . I am glad this was posted.
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  2021-September-27-Announcement-COVID Vaccinations!

  by Atlantis in

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  2021-september-27-announcement-covid vaccinations.

  https://www.filemail.com/d/nvhztnqzuiyilhb.

  https://we.tl/t-jn7l6rjrxa.

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  BluesBrother

  I am in favour of vaccination but if I were an elder I would not like to be told what my opinion should be or what to say about a personal family decision.
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  What Do You Think?

  by Atlantis in

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  do you think the tower is getting money from the government for encouraging people to get vaccinated?

  or is there just too much lemon in my tea?.

  https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/27/biden-harris-admin-provides-121-million-in-arp-funding-to-local-communities-for-covid-19-vaccines.htmlbiden-harris administration provides $121 million in american rescue plan funds to support local community-based efforts to increase covid-19 vaccinations in underserved communities.

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  BluesBrother

  Maybe, of course.. since they did get involved with the Govt. food aid programme.

  However, if they have any savvy they would not do so. It would risk their credibility as an independent adviser acting solely for the good of their members. Also they have not come out and actually said “take it” , except leaning heavily that way in a letter to full time servants.

  ( Edit.. I have just read the new announcement to elders, which is pretty strong. While not insisting they get vaxxed they definitely must not talk against it or be accused of spreading dissent. Hmm . That may have affected what I wrote above, but I still doubt they are claiming a handout , although I have been here too long to say “ of course not”)
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  Is the Bethel Farm in Wallkill Co. still there?

  by Etude in

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  i've been out of this loop (or any other) for a while.

  can someone tell me if the bethel farm facilities are still there in wallkill county, ny?

  i was there for about a year.

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  BluesBrother

  It is still there .. alive and printing according to their official website. You may download a tour brochure although tours are suspended during Covid.
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  Does anyone have a copy of the Jan 1st 1989 Watchtower I can buy

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i want to buy a copy not a copy of one but the actual copy of a 1989 jan 1st watchtower.

  let me know i would like to have one to show someone i am talking to about it.

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  BluesBrother

  There is another quote that is still to be found on Watchtower On Line (wol.org) . This is the “Know Jehovah “ book

  The Nations Shall Know That I Am Jehovahp. 216

  "Shortly, within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom."
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  Does anyone have a copy of the Jan 1st 1989 Watchtower I can buy

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
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  i want to buy a copy not a copy of one but the actual copy of a 1989 jan 1st watchtower.

  let me know i would like to have one to show someone i am talking to about it.

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  BluesBrother

  I see what you mean, Diss JW . We always took it that it was referring to the Global Ministry that would, we were told, continue to the very end of the system. We used to use the scripture at Isaiah 6.11

  “At this I said: “How long, O Jehovah?” Then he said:

  “Until the cities crash in ruins without an inhabitant”

  (NB. Nobody was thinking of Covid at that time ! )
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  Does anyone have a copy of the Jan 1st 1989 Watchtower I can buy

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i want to buy a copy not a copy of one but the actual copy of a 1989 jan 1st watchtower.

  let me know i would like to have one to show someone i am talking to about it.

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  BluesBrother

  Isn’t this the one where they said that the ministry work would be completed in the twentieth century.?

  At a group study one Tuesday in the early nineties an old sister commented that we knew this because the Watchtower had said so. We all said “ no, they would not say that “ but she insisted. After the study someone got a bound volume and it did not say it. She was perplexed, “ I keep it and read it over for comfort, she said” A bro. Got his car out and ran her home to get it.

  Sure enough, the single original mag said it but the bound volume didn’t!

  Reminds me of Orwell’s 1984 when he was employed doctoring past newspapers to make it look as though the Government had achieved their commitments.

  “He who controls the past controls the future”