me and my brother used to try and make each other laugh at the hall by drawing stupid pictures etc. One time I got his watchtower that he hadn't studied and highlighted words in each paragraph to make funny sentences. The one that made him lol at the hall was 'jehovah has eyes like a sheep'. Everyone turned round to see what was going on.
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Demon attacks on JW in past, where'd they go?
by thedepressedsoul inin the 80's and 90's (maybe even earlier) i remember hearing lots of witnesses talk about "demon attacks".
whether it was someone studying the bible who then started having strange things happen in their house to people bringing stuff home from yard sales and getting personal attacks and horrible dreams resulting in them dystroying stuff they brought home or getting rid of it.. .
i also remember hearing a sister say she had to pray in a home with a study because the study started to get attacked.
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I remember at a district convention in the 80's there was an experience read out where a medium or some kind of mystic was telling some JWs that she couldn't contact the spirit world any more. When she did get through the spirits said they were too busy focusing on snaring JW children!
Whoever wrote that talk was kind of a dick for inventing a bs story just to scare kids.
We used to have a CO whose talks were mostly about the devil years ago. They were actually quite entertaining, he used to liken the devil to an anaconda coiling around you. I think he was called Bro Oldroyd.
I can see why the org would want to tone down the demon stuff though. It was given greater emphasis than god and Jesus a lot of the time.
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Stay Alive till '75
by John Chapman in"stay alive till '75.
" remember that?
note: this is the year 5774 not 2014. why didn't they tell you that in 5735 (1975 ad?
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All this 'research' is just an elaborate word association game.
I showed this thread to David Ike and Alex Jones. They both agreed it was rather far-fetched.
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Stupid Illustration
by piztjw inso this morning a young gun elderoid type of about twenty-five gave a pt about faith.. he used what i thought was a real stupid illustration:.
you are told that you must leave in your car this afternoon and drive to florida.
you would be verrrrrrryy worried.
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The problem is the notice in the bible must be pretty opaque considering all the different ways religions have prepared - fitting wheels of cheese, filling up with ketchup and checking the upholstery for ghosts, and that's just the liberal CofE.
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There's no fool like an old fool.
by jam ini realize there are ones who know it's not the truth and.
they are stuck, family.. as we go through life, we sometimes have the furtune to encounter.
people who are similar to ourselves in some respects, but older.
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my mum is 62 and has been jw all her life, my gran longer. If she thought about it in any depth she'd see the cracks after so many disappointments. The problem is all my family have forfeited this life for the promise of a better one. There is actually no point the older family members leaving. Psychologically they couldn't handle life without it.
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I'm reading Capital in the 21st century by Thomas Piketty, The condition of the working classes in 1844 by Engels and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.
Also some manga - Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue and Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi.
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the forbidden fruit was a pine cone. If it's open it will be a fine sunny day, if closed you'll slowly die.
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Thoughts on the new 'God's Kingdom Rules!' book
by sd-7 ini was feeling a little melancholy earlier this week and i decided to start reading wt literature again, just to see what was new and improved.
and it seems that, as has consistently been the case, the more i read of the literature, the more i see that i made the right choice to leave.. the first chapter goes into explaining what the kingdom is, then it looks like they must've essentially cut and pasted from the recent wt study articles about the 'harvest' illustration and about the two groups of anointed = one generation, but there's a third group of anointed who aren't part of 'this generation' (but, i imagine, probably will be someday, i mean, if two groups decades apart in age can be part of one generation, why not three?).
it's interesting, looking at it again after all this time.
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wow, this generation stuff is getting ever more convoluted. With fred franz as a theological cornerstone as well, lolz. Thanks for the chart Oubliette.
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God listens and RESPONDS to your prayer if you know how to log on to Him! Here is the proof.
by exWTslave inall my family members and friends (that include some elders) advised me to divorce my wife whose only joy was to pick up fight with me for everything i do, except my grand-mother who said: when you married her, you looked for only her good pointher regular pioneering despite having an opposing family.
for being good, you will ultimately reap something far better through her.
stick on to her.
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Cheese and rice, I have so many passwords and usernames to remember don't tell me I need more to 'log on' to god.
just tried logging on... Gotta 404 error.
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I look like a balloon with a face painted on it 6.5
this is me http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/asa-stewart