Posts by sparky1

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What does CLAM stand for?

by QuestioningEverything in

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i've seen this in a few posts and not sure what it means.

:) please help..

The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children

by pale.emperor in

i dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.

but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.

in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.

sparky1

"teenagers were coming home with stories so bad that the silly parents fell for it and pulled the kids from school." - zeb

Ha ha.....................I had an older sister that pulled this trick on my mother back in the late 1960's. She showed my mother a Timothy Leary poem ( I think it was him) that they were studying in English class. Needless to say, my sister was allowed to quit school before the week was out!

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Jehovah is sending a warning to Putin--so say jw's

by wannaexit in

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dubs in a pro-jw forum are talking about the earthquake in kamchatka russia.

they are speculating that this is jehovah's warning to putin.

what kind of twisted logic is this?.

sparky1

Seems like he warned them quite strongly already in 1952. Putin and the Russian government are like Pharaoh .........they are just hardening their hearts against Jehovah's judgments. We are now in the final seconds of the final moments of the final hours of the final days of the prophesied overlapping generation of the final judgment of the 'last days' of the time of the end!

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My mom is into "The Secret"

by BlackWolf in

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lately my mom's gotten into all kinds of weird "power of positive thinking" kind of stuff.

she watches "the secret" and bob proctor videos all the time, and now she's trying to get me into it.

to me her being into this sort of thing seems kind of hypocritical.

sparky1

Jehovah's Witnesses love magical thinking. That's why they are religious nuts!

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Red Alert - Propaganda is Being Used!!!!!!!!

by The Searcher in

check out the latest watchtower:.

"your defense?

be determined to stick to jehovah’s organization and loyally support the leadership he provides—no matter what imperfections may surface.

sparky1

Great catch, LevelThePlayingField! Many of the old timers here no doubt remember the cover page of the July 1, 1979 WATCHTOWER. This WATCHTOWER was the special centennial edition and it's cover stated in bold print:

1879 1979

Keeping Watch For 100 Years

So which is it? "Nearly a hundred years now" or 138 years counting from the WATCHTOWERS inception in 1879?

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GB asks every JW to give Putin their home address

by MrHappy in

jw's around the globe have been encouraged to write letters to putin and the russian government.

they are expected to give their personal details on the envelope.

i appreciate that this might be normal when writing to your own government if they are tolerant, but is this not a bit strange that the gb want to give putin the address of every jw in the world?

sparky1

I can see why the Governing Body members would be afraid to deal with Putin directly themselves. A Polonium 210 cocktail didn't sit well with Alexander Litvinenko. Imagine the effect it would have on Mark Sanderson. It would probably wipe the smirk right off his face.

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Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses launches worldwide campaign againt Russia

by jwleaks in

jehovah's witnesses mobilize global response to threat of ban in russia.

march 21, 2017. https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/jw-mobilize-global-response-to-threat-of-ban/.

new york—threatened with an imminent ban on their worship in russia, jehovah’s witnesses are responding with a direct appeal to kremlin and supreme court officials for relief through a global letter-writing campaign.

sparky1

A high control religion versus a high control government. That should make for some interesting 'head butting'.

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ARC - Case Study 54 - All Exhibits have been released

by jwleaks in

all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

exhibit list.

joint statement of o'brien and spinks.

sparky1

"What's going on is Brother Richard having a stroke he seems to be repeating himself?" - sparrowdown

Perhaps he's suffering from repeated strokes?

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Old JW friend of my wife stoped by.

by dogon in

an old jw friend of my wife stopped by here in fla. i knew there would be some subliminal bs.

i had to keep quiet through all the this old system can not go on much longer and are you going to the memorial?

gag.

sparky1

"I had to keep quiet through all the this old system can not go on much longer" - dogon

In the Spring of 1974 I was out in service with the kindest, most down to earth Elder you would ever want to meet. He said 'Sparky, hang in there. It won't be too many more months before Armageddon comes.' That Summer I was 'called' to Bethel and he died in the Fall of 1975 while I was still there.

In the first week of March 2000, my mother was in intensive care in the hospital. She had been in the hospital since November 1999. She said to me 'Sparky, just get me home. I know that Armageddon will be here in a few weeks. I have been watching the news and things can't get any worse.' She died on March 20, 2000 never going home again and never seeing her beloved Armageddon.

I have been hearing that Armageddon will be here 'any day now' since I was a baby.If I had a dollar for every time I heard that inane phrase, I'd be rich beyond my wildest dreams.

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Is Stephen Lett an alien imitation?

by LoveUniHateExams in

i've been watching quite a bit of gb member stephen lett on youtube recently (no, i'm not thinking of going back to the jws).. i just find him compulsive viewing, like when people slow down to see a car crash.

i find his facial expressions and intonation spell-binding.. it reminds me a bit of john carpenter's the thing, a film where an alien life-form infects a host and imitates it, spreading throughout camps of remote workers in the antarctic.

if i were a bethelite living in close proximity to lett, i'd be thinking about giving him the blood test to see if he was normal, lol.. why does lett speak in public the way he does?

sparky1

"It reminds me of John Carpenter's The Thing."- LoveUniHateExams

By God, I think you're on to something!