Posts by Praetorian101

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Did you know of any JW elders or JW pioneers that were "racist"?

by booker-t in

i know this might sound like a question from "la-la" land but as a black ex-jws most of the white jw's that i did have contact with were really nice.

i was talking to a hispanic ex-jws the other day and he was telling me of some of the racist experiences he had as a jw.

i did not contradict him but i never experienced racism from caucasian jw's.

Praetorian101

I came across underlined tones of it. I came across it, in a little click (by click I mean - the little groups who seem to stick together within the congregation and form they own bizarre options about the whole world of JW's - and we all know THEY exist) within one Kingdom Hall in Queensland. I was shocked sometimes to hear one of the elder sisters of a Ministrial Servant talking about her sons wife as a 'slope eye.' The woman she was refering to was Chinese and she didnt like her daughter in law too much - probably because they kept right away from the old fogey. This sister also squirmed when her own (widowed) mother - who was also in the truth - talked about getting an nice 'black boy' for a husband. And I would like to know why there seems to be no representatives of other ethic backgrounds - who make up the majority of JWs not respented in the Governing Body? I mean can you imagine the Governing body as all black or all asian or even half? Hmm that will be the day. Obviously it seems only Europeans are good enough for that job? Right? Humbug!

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Within Our Lifetime Again?

by GermanXJW in

my father showed me a watchtower, i thing it was feb 1st 2006. the last sentence of the first article said something like the reader could live to see god's judgement.

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anybody has the latest issues at hand?

Praetorian101

From the way they conducted themselves it was probably an elder and a new publisher - because it seemed knock one more than the other. The elder stood behind - said nothing - but "thanks for your time." The one who was offering some tract (didnt bother to study it) - was speechless. I think what i said should become policy. I mean wow! - what a door stopper!. Thanks for reading the post. I'm off to work.

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Within Our Lifetime Again?

by GermanXJW in

my father showed me a watchtower, i thing it was feb 1st 2006. the last sentence of the first article said something like the reader could live to see god's judgement.

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anybody has the latest issues at hand?

Praetorian101

I just had a visit and I told them the real truth straight up and as nice as possible. It made them think, it shocked them into some kind of reality check .... it dont like hurting people by destroying their dreams ... but it had to be done ... It's a simple fact that proves the watchtower and the faith is nothing but childrens dreams. And what was this simple fact? Why pure logic and maths ... you see the "TRUTH" has been preached for over 100 years now and to a lot of people (or so it seems) so the end days must be on the door step right ?... wrong - the "TRUTH IS" is that it's taken over 100 years to get this far and they haven't even scratched the surface of countries like CHINA and NORTH KOREA who do not tolerate any religion at all. (I speak from experience after living there). They tolerate nothing. So maybe in about another 100 or 200 years after they have managed to individually speak to over 2 billion people - yeah - 2 BILLION (not to mention over coming the language barriers of over 20 dialects of Mandarin, Wu, Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Jin, Hui, Ping, Cantonese, etc ... Just maybe they might dare to say the preaching work is really done in "all the inhabited earth" and then the end will come. Can you now see the folly of it all. How simple the real truth is. Paradise delayed? DEFINATELY. What a folly.