So... what WAS "the news about the end"?
Just that "we are close"?
Sounds like the typical "big announcement" to me...
-K
Posts by Kudra
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18News about the end at the yearly business meeting
by ocsrf inthat's right folks, the fds in convinced that we are so deep into the end of the system of things they feel it will happen at any moment.. it's funny that this should be taken serious since this sort of thing has been said many times in the past.
however, many of those at that meeting are so drawn in that they believe it as if they saw god himself speak it.. this came from someone who attended, perhaps someone else has direct quotes or other tidbits they can share with us.
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Disfellowshipping for Gluttony?
by Smoky inis that possible?..have there been any cases like this?.
my family have been on my case about me hanging around with people (non-jw family) that like to drink alot.
they went as far as to call me "a drunk"...now i do admit that i have been gotten drunk before on occasion, but i am not a drunk or an alcoholic.. so, i told my mother (obese) that if i were "a drunk" for getting drunk from time to time (not every day), then can she be considered "a glutton", for eating to much, obese, having health problems, all because of the way she eats?
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ALL dubs are gluttons for PUNISHMENT...
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Latest films you saw?
by greendawn inwhat's the latest film that you watched on dvd or cinema and would you recommend it or was it bad boring film?
i haven't watched any films for months now but i will when i restart my satellite tv subscription next month.
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"Buffalo '66" and "Y tu mama tambien"
Both excellent, especially "Y tu mama tambien"
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Meetings are BORING!
by 5thGeneration inwhy do the brothers take such offense when someone says that the meetings are boring?.
i can't possibly fathom how people who have been going to the meetings for decades can sit at the kh and listen, for example, to yesterday's wt study for an hour about adam and eve, cain and abel, how we are all allowed to pray, blah, blah, blah... and not be bored out of their minds!.
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I used to like them.
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Going to Kingdom Halls on Holiday
by solo indid anyone attend meetings when they were on holiday?.
my parents used to find out where the local kingdom hall was and drag us along to the sunday meeting when we went on holidays.
did anyone else have to ensure this torture?.
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Garybuss,
You're the one who writes "Armageddon Oakies", correct?
They were one of the few pieces of written comedy that made me laugh out loud for large portions of the story. You have this subtle ...something. ??? It just captures the essence of the dubs (especially back woods ones -I've experienced a few...) SO well.
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I sent him a letter, here is his reply!
by Matt_fs inhey folks,.
for those of you who dont know, i sent my jw friend a letter " http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/121182/1.ashx " after about 3 weeks, i got his reply in my inbox.
i was pretty excited to read it, but only was i disappointed with some of the things he said, and ill explain that after you read it, so here it is: .
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Kudra
It should encourage you that most of us here on the board now, could have, at one time written that EXACT letter.
Look at how far we have all come since then. He is just not as far along the path to finding out the truth yet.
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Possible clue to the "Big" Announcement!!
by Lady Liberty inmy husband, the black pearl, had a interesting conversation with his mother today.
she was trying to be all kiss butt nice, for today that is, to tell him about the new tract that is coming out in october.
apparently they don't have it yet.
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Kudra
Aww crap.
That whole "some witnesses aren't going to like this announcement" was just over the fact that the tract is heavy hitting and some might be upset by it?
I was all excited for some announcement about how you have to kill your unbelieving kids or something really galvanizing that would make my mom want to get the heck outta Dodge.
Big effin' disappointment.
I HATE "BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS"!!!!!!!!
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how many atheist and agnostics on this site
by dannygwalsh inhi everyone just a question to satisfy my curiosity , and if you are a non believer are you happier for being so
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BTW, I am an agnostic (just because I can't definitely PROVE that there is NO god).
For a belief system, I would say I am a secular humanist. :)
I have been taking Buddhist classes for a couple of weeks but I see that they have a lot of teachings that are a little too paranormal for me to ever believe in. So while I enjoy the Buddhist philosophy, I could never be a "practicing Buddhist".
Any Buddhists here truely truely believe in the whole kit n kaboodle of Buddhist teachings? Like, Maras, hell-beings, hungry ghosts, reincarnation, knowledge of past lives, existing enlightened beings etc ...?
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how many atheist and agnostics on this site
by dannygwalsh inhi everyone just a question to satisfy my curiosity , and if you are a non believer are you happier for being so
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Hey Little Drummer Boy!
I have a theory too...
I think that humans DO have a need for spirituality/god because of their evolutionary history:
Back in the Pleistocene or when the human race was first showing up, when we didn't understand the mechanisms for ANYTHING (natural phenomena etc) we needed someway to make sense of the world... so gods of rain, thunder, lightning etc were created to explain the unexplicable and comfort people who were trying to survive and interpret the world around themselves.
As humanity evolved over 10s and 100s of thousands of years, the things we didn't understand changed and so did the gods we came up with. War gods, gods of the harvest etc.
I think this last iteration of deities is explaining one of the last things we collectively don't understand- suffering. We now have a really large world view and have developed empathy and knowledge that there is suffering elsewhere and also in our own lives. We are at a place in the development of our minds where we constantly contemplate our own eventuality. This calls for the savior/everlasting life thing that the most common of religions today claim to have the answers to (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism).
I think that the last century or two has solved SO many questions that we humans have about our origins, the origins of the universe that on one hand we don't need to look to religion for answers to mysteries -because there really aren't any mysteries left, but on the other hand has left us with a huge problem: our minds/psyche has evolved over 100s of thousands of years to turn to supernatural powers for moral guidance and answers only to have that part of our mind come up against a brick wall in this 21st century.
So we have this evolved NEED for spirituality in our mental development but now all of a sudden intellectualism and materialism have cropped up as an answer to all of our modern problems: questions about your origin or eventuality?- bam! evolution and no "afterlife". Feeling sad or lonely or unfufilled? -bam! buy more crap and if that doesn't work, go out and drink your worries away.
I don't know if those ramblings were all too original, but thats what I've been thinking about lately on the subject of the need for god/spirituality...
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Possible clue to the "Big" Announcement!!
by Lady Liberty inmy husband, the black pearl, had a interesting conversation with his mother today.
she was trying to be all kiss butt nice, for today that is, to tell him about the new tract that is coming out in october.
apparently they don't have it yet.
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Wait--
A question: Do the dubs HAVE the tract yet? Or do they get it Oct 16th?
-K