Posts by Wild_Thing

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Settlers of Catan
by Wild_Thing in
1. social
2. entertainment
anybody else here love the game settlers of catan?

i love it!

there is an online version that i like to play, too.. "does anybody have any wood?
Wild_Thing

Anybody else here love the game Settlers of Catan? I love it! There is an online version that I like to play, too.
"Does anybody have any wood?"
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Assimilation day: Imitate Jokeovah!
by Darkknight757 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so today was the one day assembly or whatever it's called now.

fun times.😳.

use resources wisely:.
Wild_Thing

My family went to their one day assembly, too. I wonder if you were at the same one.
A few questions for you ...
1. Was there any mention of shunning family members?
2. They really said to watch no superhuman shows???? My God! The JWs I know in this area go to Comicon every time it comes to town, including my sister's family. Her elder husband's favorite shirt is his Superman shirt.
3. Anything about education?
Thanks in advance!
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More sad news for Music - first Prince, now Kayne West
by Simon in
1. social
2. entertainment
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http://imgur.com/gallery/wos91xl.
Wild_Thing

I would be okay if he stole the spotlight from Prince, like he did Taylor Swift. Let them switch places!
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Prince will Be Resurrected
by Wild_Thing in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm sure prince has already been talked about to death on this site, but a jw family member just liked a video posted by a jw group on facebook that is an interview of prince about his conversion to jw.

it's the comments made by jws that this post is about.. prince was a great artist!

and the world has lost a musical genius in my opinion, but he lost me after he converted.
Wild_Thing

I'm sure Prince has already been talked about to death on this site, but a JW family member just liked a video posted by a JW group on Facebook that is an interview of Prince about his conversion to JW. I'm sure everyone has seen it. It's the comments made by JWs that this post is about.
Prince was a great artist! And the world has lost a musical genius in my opinion, but he lost me after he converted. He has always been weird, but after converting, he just became a different shade of weird and I didn't like his new music ... post JW. I still have his old albums on my iPod though and love them! This is not anything against him as a musician.
But reading the JW comments are making me feel a little nauseated. They are talking about how they can't wait for him to be resurrected and how they will see him in "just a little while" in paradise. And they are all so excited to finally meet him when he is resurrected! I am pretty sure they are hoping for a post paradise concert or something.
And then there's this gem:
Food for thought my spiritual family. We have to be careful with what words we use when someone dies. Unbelievers get confused when the word passed away is used thinking we believe in after life.
Yes, yes ... that has always confused me, the whole "passed away" phrase ... not! I couldn't read anymore. If you need a good purging of your dinner: https://www.facebook.com/Jehovahs-Witnesses-Examiner-241479099370852/?fref=nf
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Review of Dr. Chryssides' new book on Jehovah's Witnesses
by Old Goat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-review.html.

the book costs 140.00, but i bought it.

i agree with dr. de vienne's review.
Wild_Thing

Thanks, Old Goat! Wow! I never knew the Watchtower claimed he was born before the time keeping of A.D. began.
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Review of Dr. Chryssides' new book on Jehovah's Witnesses
by Old Goat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-review.html.

the book costs 140.00, but i bought it.

i agree with dr. de vienne's review.
Wild_Thing

So I was looking on what is available on Google docs and in her list of dates, she claims that JWs date Jesus's birth at 2 B.C.E.
How is that? I was always taught his birth marked the beginning of the Common Era and that he was 33 when he died. By her calculations, he would have been 35.
Anybody know of any Watchtower publications to back up this claim? I am going strictly off of memory regarding what I was taught.
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Question About the New Headquarters at Warwick
by Wild_Thing in
1. jw
2. friends
the jws are known for building kingdom halls and assembly halls with slave ...er i mean ... volunteer labor, but this new self sufficient headquarters seems a bit more complex.. so who's building it?

did they hire a firm with educated engineers and architects who know what they are doing?

or are they still using billy*, who learned how to lay tile from his uncle bob*?.
Wild_Thing

Sometimes inspections mean very little. There is a Kingdom Hall in my area that was deemed unsafe 10 years after it was built. The roof was starting to collapse. Come to find out ... they used the wrong tresses. It seems like having a trained structural engineer involved in the whole process would have prevented that.
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Under WT rules, can JW women file for a divorce? Or can only men file?
by JimmyPage in
1. jw
2. friends
the reason i ask is because while watching the "dateline" episode about ralph candelario, the claim was made that only jw men could file for divorce, not women.

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i had never thought about this before.. also, how does this apply in cases where a husband is "apostate" while the wife is faithful to wt?
Wild_Thing

Yep! Makes sense! We escaped from him in the 90s.
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Today the two elders did not appear to declare at prosecutor's citation
by opusdei1972 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
today the two elders who stalked my sister were absent at the prosecutor's citation.

they were waited for 1 hour, but they did not come.

this attitude favors their culpability.
Wild_Thing

Persons who make themselves "not of our sort" by deliberately rejecting the faith and beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses should appropriately be viewed and treated as are those who have been disfellowshiped for wrongdoing.
I was wondering about this statement. Is this statement in the latest elder's book?
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Today the two elders did not appear to declare at prosecutor's citation
by opusdei1972 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
today the two elders who stalked my sister were absent at the prosecutor's citation.

they were waited for 1 hour, but they did not come.

this attitude favors their culpability.
Wild_Thing

Does anyone know if it still says that in the most current Elder book?