Posts by geevee

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revelation study

by loulucy in

i am new at studing revelations and am wondering if someone could explane the ednic prophecy to me.

geevee

How new are you? Welcome to the forum.
Are you new to the JW's? How much have you studied?

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Why don't JW friends come over and say hello?

by JH in

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i always wondered why jw's didn't stop by to say hello, just to encourage or by friendship?.

but if i showed up at the hall, after many months, they would be happy to see me, and would come to talk to me, and ask what,s going on in my life as if they were really interested in me.

so, if they were happy to see me at the hall, why wouldn't they be happy showing up at my place too.. why is it that only the elders come over to see me once in a blue moon?.

I had been thinking along these lines the other day. So some may know that we fade due to reason XYZ. Leaving the issue aside, what if they just called in, rang...only to say hello [not addressing XYZ] but worked hard to stay in touch, would that make fading harder?
Most seem scared to even say hello down the street, shopping etc, like we are some kind of monster [the monsters are still allowed to go to meetings!].
Like you, I dont get it. Very thin veil called friendship!

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microphone duty

by praiseband in

ok, for those of us non-, and never before-jw's, will someone please explain what the big deal is about having responsibility for microphones is all about?

we do use microphones in our church, but ....i mean whoever is in charge of any technology that day sets up microphones.

it could be anyone in the church, male or female, young or old, the pastor, the janitor.

geevee

I was one of the first two to do mike duty in our hall. We did it to perfection. Sat in a chair adjacent the isle, and jumped up and ran to each commentor keeping the mike a regulation 4-6 inches from their mouth, and holding it there until my arms bled if necessary. We did it with absolute precision.

Then when some newbie....from then on did it and it wasnt as good, we would bag the sh*t out of them...not to their faces of course!
But I would sit there and get hot under the collar if I thought it wasn't done just as good as when I did it! We got annoyed with the long leads so my wife and I donated a set of fm mikes! What a suck!

My son who was about 8 or 9 was asked if he would like to fetch the mikes from the platform at the end of the meetings. He has to wipe them with some disinfectant and put them back in their little boxes. Another young lad thought it should be his privelege and used to race my son for the platform as the prayer concluded. Some other guy thought he was using too much disinfectant and had a go at him. So he just stopped doing it. Stuff it he said!

Lisavegas420.....some of the elders wives did have balls I am sure of it, one I suspect may have had even more...but even they didn't get to use the mikes!!

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Snippet of a JW letter.

by jeeprube in

here's a snippet from a letter my sister in law recently wrote my wife.

enjoy:.

hope you two are doing well!.

geevee

My advice for what it is worth.....Store the email, then forward it back to her every year for as long as you can be bothered!

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Sharing Your new light with your Parents

by pratt1 in

every so often i get to share some of my thooughts about the borg and my new found beliefs with my mom , who is a die hard pioneer for over 20 years.. we actually have had decent conversations about doctrines and interpertations of the scriptures, and she has admitted that at times the borg may have misapplied certain scriptures over the years.. her excuse is that imperfect men sometimes make mistakes and jehovah makes allowances for this.. but what really gets her upset is when i bring up certain aspects of my childhood, that because of her belief in the borg, she made some unwise decisions for not only me be her family.. me getting baptized at 13, her not being fully supportive of higher education, cutting off family members, pushing me into an early marriage when i was clearly not ready, teaching me that all "worldly people', including my father woiuld die at armageddon, these are just a few examples that when we discuss them, she becomes extremely angry and then accuses me of making her out to be a bad mother.. i got me thinking, do you think that many dubs refuse to acknowledge the problems with their religion because it would mean that they made some really bad decsions in their and their families lives.. are they afraid to accept the responsiblity for this because of the guilt they would suffer?.

what are your thoughts?

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geevee

JayHawk1 I like this point: Jehovah managed to get men to write the Bible without their making a mistake.
I sure hope that when the time comes......I remember it! Nice piece of reasoning!

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Panic Away

by xjw_b12 in

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panic away by joe barry.

has anyone read this book, and if what were your opinions?.

regards:.

geevee

Any more info? Havent heard of it....

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Bible Teach: Baptism does not indicate dedication to an organization

by M.J. in

from "what does the bible really teach?

", p. 18 (emphasis mine).

*** bh chap.

geevee

Only on the surface. as has been pointed out, this book is designed to hook the newbies, who then later get to discover the real rules....only when it is too late!

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Lurkers! Proof that the Organization is not "Clean"!

by metatron in

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the greatest proof that the organization is not "clean" by its own definition, is this website!.

consider the number of people - elders included - who post here, thereby associating with "apostates" or expressing their own disbelief.

in whatever nonsense the watchtower is teaching.

geevee

HI Lurker, you live up to your name!! 5 posts since may 05. Someone in the last two days has ben asking if someone high up in the structure could abuse the position and benefit personally from all the dollars that flow thick and fast into the society's coffers. It would seem on the surface that there are many checks and balances that would prevent this, but you are suggesting that this is not the case? I have read where Knorr used to have a first class ticket for his meeting bag, but this may go a bit deeper?

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YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS!! ONE OF THE JWs THAT EGGED OUR HOUSE KNOCKED

by Lady Liberty in

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friends

unbelieveable!!!.

well, that was unbelieveable!!

just after i posted our latest ordeal with our jw neighbors, and their jw friends pulling down our frosty, egging our house and car, we got a knock on the door!

geevee

Thanks for sharing your story and the article on the catacombs as well as the simple but effective chart on 607. I had a guy who studied years ago bring this up. The SDA's had called on him and he mentioned he was studying with JW's.
The guy raised the 607 thing. The study went to the library, got out some books and couldn't find 607 any where. So he asked me. He said if it is such an important date, I should be able to prove it fairly quickly. I couldn't.
I took a most studiuos guy back with me, he ahd done his wts research, and thought we would hit this guy with both barrels....alas we couldn't. I took two other people and still no proof, we couldnt convince him.

Were my alarm bells ringing? NO....... blinkers on solid. I said to him, that where history is different to the bible, I have to stick with the bible and it is solid on 607!!!!!! What a d--- h--d [me].

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hey expioneers and exelders what goes on during......

by 5go in

the co visit during those meetings you guys go to.

geevee

Wasanelder Once has summed it up nicely. The real bitch fights took place away from the "official" meetings. Just before I "stepped down" I went to the c/o and bitched about a pain in the ass elder who had shifted in, was dictating the show and living in the "wrong" territory. So I whined and bitched and .........the c/o transferred him to another local cong cause they had an exceptional need for elders!!!!
hahaha