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  Specific Comments By R&F About May Broadcast

  by freemindfade in

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  i know there are many posts discussing the may money requesting televangalism...er... broadcast i mean!

  but i wanted to start one where anyone can put what they have heard any non-exjw, non-apostate witnesses say good or bad about the broadcast.

  i don't see how it can't rattle followers... but then again i might be surprised how they can twist things (2+2=5).

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  Wow.

  They used to have a short list of things that distinguished them from Babylon The Great. We can cross "asking for $" off the list for sure now.

  They've backed off on 1914 recently too. What's left?
  
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  Informant-I consent for my relevant medical records to be shared with HLC!

  by Atlantis in

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  from an informant who contacted atlantis:.

  .. i consent to my relevant medical records and the details of my condition being shared with.

  the emergency contact below and/or with member(s) of the hospital liaison committee.

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  What is particularly interesting about the above medical directive is that it has the UN logo on it, and it refers to a United Nations Act of 2000.

  Wow!
  
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  Eighty-Four year old drives her disfellowshipped son to meetings and sits inside Kingdom Hall.

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  i have a customer who's son is a jehovah's witness.

  he was disfellowshipped over a year ago.

  this is the second time he's been disfellowshipped.

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  We provided rides to a dfd person when I was a kid. It was awkward silence the entire time. I had forgotten about that. So bizarre.
  
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  behind the curtain: literature offer for the month

  by Magnum in

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  2. beliefs

  i was an extremely sincere, zealous pioneer.

  i really cared about the people in the field.

  i thought their lives were in danger.

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  My take on it as a teenaged pioneer was the old geezers thunk them up with no concept of what would really appeal to or be useful to non-jws at the door. I found the choices a little irritating--wondering if they'd make the same choices if they were the ones who had to peddle them. Some of them--omg, Revelation books? Give me a break. That just makes dubs look batsh!t insane.
  
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  Giant fruit in Canaan/TNS

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  ok bible scholars, do i have this right?.

  jehoopla promised the israelites lots of great stuff in the promised land, but they didn't believe him so they sent spies to check it out.

  they came back with fruit so large it had to be carried on a branch by 2 men.. from this, dubs believe they are going to have strawberries the size of king king's skull when they get to their own promised land (the new system).

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  The first time I can remember this jw teaching was maybe around 1980 at the Tuesday night book study. We were studying some book about paradise and it mentioned the petting zoo and giant fruit. They said it was one of the reasons there'd be no hunger--one strawberry would be the size of a softball, etc. Something along those lines.

  Found a little about it here.
  
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  My Last thoughts in Field Service Before the Elderly Man Shat Himself and Pissed his pants in My New Car!

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

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  2. beliefs

  debating this was going to be the last day in field service was not hard after dealing with a nasty mess because i was grouped with the misfits of the kingdom hall!

  i was reading this website on my phone while something started to stink in my car and one of the weird kids nobody wanted to work with yelled "hey, you leaking all over my seat, he was freaked out too!

  " the older, retired elder, his pioneer daughter had forgotten to put his depends on and that became my problem.

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  omg. So gross. Poor guy--how humiliating.

  I once found a partially full orange juice bottle, the rest of the contents having baked onto the upholstery over the prior day and night.

  I was told I was materialistic for being concerned about how to get the stain out. This was one of many red flags about the borg.
  
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  What to say to JWs at a funeral

  by dogon in

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  my father passed away this week.

  we are going to have a funeral for him.

  he was not a witness for many years but a lot of his family is still associated.

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  Sorry you lost your dad.

  I've thought about this many times myself. I imagine myself being uninterested in holding back. I imagine telling them it's rude to preach and they need to move away from me immediately.
  

  When people preach to you, they are the ones being rude--especially at a wake. For Pete's sake, do these people have a clue about how to be polite? (rhetorical question)
  
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  Giant fruit in Canaan/TNS

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
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  ok bible scholars, do i have this right?.

  jehoopla promised the israelites lots of great stuff in the promised land, but they didn't believe him so they sent spies to check it out.

  they came back with fruit so large it had to be carried on a branch by 2 men.. from this, dubs believe they are going to have strawberries the size of king king's skull when they get to their own promised land (the new system).

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  I don't remember a teaching that dubs will become giants in TNS. ;0
  
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  Giant fruit in Canaan/TNS

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok bible scholars, do i have this right?.

  jehoopla promised the israelites lots of great stuff in the promised land, but they didn't believe him so they sent spies to check it out.

  they came back with fruit so large it had to be carried on a branch by 2 men.. from this, dubs believe they are going to have strawberries the size of king king's skull when they get to their own promised land (the new system).

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  Ok bible scholars, do I have this right?

  jehoopla promised the Israelites lots of great stuff in The Promised Land, but they didn't believe him so they sent spies to check it out. They came back with fruit so large it had to be carried on a branch by 2 men.

  From this, dubs believe they are going to have strawberries the size of King King's skull when they get to their own Promised Land (The New System).

  They posit the reason our fruit is smaller is that we are destroying Earth with all of our sinful wind chimes and wizard toys. Once that horror has stopped, the fruit will get bigger. You'll be able to eat a single grape for lunch!

  Giant produce is why we won't have a problem with hunger. (I wonder if this doctrine originated when Miracle Wheat was a thing.)
  

  I've been looking for evidence of actual giant grapes in Canaan, or something it could have been mistaken for, but I can't find it.
  
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  Christ in You The Hope of Glory:Being Realized

  by hopeofglory in

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  2. bible

  the mystery of the ages was revealed to the gentiles 2000 years ago.

  the mystery is "christ in you, the hope of glory" (colossians 1:27).

  the churches do not and never will teach this even though it was revealed to the gentiles.

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