Posts by sir82

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My kids are watching Atheist Content on Youtube!

by Miriam in

i was looking at my children's watch history on youtube when i saw that they were watching atheist content!!!

what should i do?

.

sir82

Watch it yourself? You might learn something.

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2/10/20 20 hindsight: the wt fiction fig tree

by waton in

this week's, 2-10- 2020 jesus lesson 103, parables of the fig tree, prematurely spreading leafs, cursed because of raising false expectations.

what a perfectly fitting facsimile for the fruitless fiction that the wt corporation has produced during "christ's presence" .

!8xy, 1914, 1925, 1975, 2000, 2075. by their [prophetic] fruits you will know them, or the figurative fig leafs, not even covering the bare wt facts.

sir82

Wt got only number 1914 right,

What did the WTS get right about 1914? Exactly and verifiably? What did they predict would happen in 1914, and what did happen?

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Coronavirus: Punishment from Jehovah and a sign from Jesus!

by lastmanstanding in

the watchtower has taught for over a century that plague is part of jesus’ sign letting earth know he’s lurkin’.... combined with the recent acceleration by the chinese gubmint of ejecting jws from china, it’s no surprise that dubs are of the belief that ‘jehovah is punishing china’.. dubs must be expecting a few large earthquakes to strike china in the next weeks with possibly a war or two, to round out the pain of jesus’ sign to these wicked jehovah haters..

sir82

He didn’t believe me.
I would love to show him the studies.

Wouldn't make a difference.

"Studies? From the world controlled by Satan? You don't think he can influence scientists to lie? Or even manipulate the results of their experiments so that it works out to make Jehovah look like a liar?"

Seriously - it would be more productive and less painful to have someone drop cinder blocks on your head.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Mega Halls

by RolRod in

i was thinking about this recently.

the society owns all the kingdom halls and with desperate need of money, their closing down and selling off properties.

consolidating congregations seems to be the order of the day.

sir82

I think it is the amount of money that we donate.

Well, yes, but...

Those who have faded don't contribute.

Step 1: Control control control - keep them in the fold.

Step 2: Once in the fold, guilt them into donate, donate, donate.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Mega Halls

by RolRod in

i was thinking about this recently.

the society owns all the kingdom halls and with desperate need of money, their closing down and selling off properties.

consolidating congregations seems to be the order of the day.

sir82

The larger the congregation, the easier it is to slip thru the cracks and fade.

Congregations are kept small, and field service groups are kept very small, on purpose. It's all about control, control, control.

Mega-congregations? Would never happen.

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How Many Here Remember Hearing Details from the Platform on Why a Person was Reproved or DF'd ???

by RubaDub in

i just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.

at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.

the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.

sir82

Did the "publicly announce the sin of the guilty one" thing last into the 80s? I definitely remember it, but I thought it had stopped some time in the 70s.

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Animals as vegetarians thread continued

by Crazyguy2 in

i found out just last night that back in 2015 scientists discovered a piece of amber estimated to be over 15 million years old.

inside the amber was a flea, very similar to the size and kind that attack and eat our blood today.

whats even more astonishing is in the mouth they found bacteria that has the same make up as bubonic plague.

sir82

Do they ever explain what happened to all the heat produced by collapsing a few hundred million years worth of
radioactive decay into just the last few thousand years? Why wasn't Noah boiled alive bobbing about in his coffin
on a boiling sea?

Excellent questions.

And you know what the JW answer would be to such a question, don't you?

"Where are you getting these ideas? That sounds like apostate reasoning. Are you an apostate?"

If they are especially mild, you might get a "let me do some research and get back to you", and from that point on you will never hear from them again.

As I noted earlier: If you are looking for an intelligent conversation, your better bet is to talk to the gravel.

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