Posts by SirNose586

samantha bee on the daily show just recommended that tiger woods become a jehovah's witness (they were playing off brit humes suggestion that tiger needed to become a christian to achieve redemption for his infidelity); "serena williams, prince, ... it's like scientology for black people".. .

the clip should be online soon @ the daily show site..

SirNose586

It is like Scientology for black people! I never got that connection 'til now...

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Brother "Prince" not happy with "Black eyed peas" swearing at his house! Praise JAH!!

by Witness 007 in

so i heard an interview with the "black eyed peas" who mention they jammed with prince at his home recently, only to have one excited member yell to prince....."your the sh#t man!

" well how would a witness react to that????

a staff member later told them prince did not like swearing in his house.

SirNose586

I hate these rock-n-rollers who suddenly clean up their act and get all high and mighty on other folk.

Prince, the real question is why did you let the Black Eyed Peas into your house? I hope that tramp Fergie didn't get her paws on anything.

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Friend got sucked in, then back out again

by SirNose586 in

just a little good news story for y'all... .

back in high school i had a friend who was a little weird, but he was cool enough and i liked him.

he was really into martial arts.

SirNose586

JWoods is right- there are probably many more like your friend who by luck and insight of their own just avoided wasting their lives away in a mind control cult !

I wish I knew. But the statistics aren't published (and probably not even counted) so we can only hope there are many more like Joe out there.

You really never know what one little thing might get these new ones to see the control aspects just before they go off the cliff.

Part of it may have been that he didn't really have any youth in his hall. And the ones who did meet him treated him like crap. Sometimes it really is just a few surface things.

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Friend got sucked in, then back out again

by SirNose586 in

just a little good news story for y'all... .

back in high school i had a friend who was a little weird, but he was cool enough and i liked him.

he was really into martial arts.

SirNose586

Just a little good news story for y'all...

Back in high school I had a friend who was a little weird, but he was cool enough and I liked him. He was really into martial arts. After graduation I lost contact with him. At the last circuit assembly that I will everattend, I was surprised to see him there and we caught up on things.

It turns out that after graduation, he'd been partying a lot (just drinking), and getting tired of the same neighborhood idiots. He didn't go to college. There had been a JW man in his 50's calling on his mom for a long time, and now this friend (let's call him Joe) began to look up to this guy as a father figure. Joe wanted to clean up his life. He began studying and was hooked quickly.

I met up with Joe at a time when I was on my way out, so it was a little bit painful to hear him so enthusiastic about the religion I didn't really care for. For a month or so after the CA meetup, we hung out for a bit. After a particularly drama-filled JW boozefest party, we didn't talk for many months.

After I got my revolver and started a little gun club on Facebook, Joe joins and mentions something about "some toys needing attention." I thought he had guns of his own. It turns out that he didn't, but he wanted to go shooting anyway. We went shooting yesterday; it was very fun for the both of us. He really liked the Remington 870.

After the shooting and catching the Chargers beat the 'Skins at a downtown bar, he opened up about how he wasn't studying anymore, and he knew that I wasn't going to the meetings anymore. He was tired of the controlling doctrine, and the fake friends. I agreed with him.

It was good to know that he quickly figured out that the Witnesses weren't worth his time.

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Photo of GB 2006

by Titus in

jw
friends

please, compare this photo with the gb photo in the book "bear thorough witness".

gb2006.

isn't that the same photo?.

SirNose586

Not to comment on the people in the photo, but that's a pretty crappy shot. Focus!

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Worldwide Report out - memorial partakers increased 871. Worldwide publishers up 3.2%

by yadda yadda 2 in

jw
friends

seems the 2010 yearbook is out now in audio.

it's reported there was an 8.7% increase in memorial partakers to 10,857 in 2009, up from 9,986 in 2008.. worldwide publishers for the 2008/09 service year increased 3.2%, to 7,619,270 publishers.. thanks to information posted by possible-san at the end of this thread:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/186746/2/the-increasing-number-of-the-anointed-comments-anyone.

SirNose586

Wow, that was a little more than I expected. I'm really glad this seems to be picking up steam! So much for the "decreasing anointed" eh? I smell some NooLight coming down the pike.

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Trotting Out Old Light and Making it New Again- 1975

by OnTheWayOut in

wts is great at rebooting old doctrines and rewriting their own history.

they need the members to feel that armageddon is imminent, so i have a proposal for the gb members reading this forum.. .

when the end failed to come in 1975, wts offered their explanation that eve was created some time after adam, and that some time passed before she and adam sinned.

SirNose586

My grandpa still holds out on that 6,000 day thing. I explained one of my problems with the org (after they sentenced me to a "study" with him) was 1975, and with a smile he said, "We still don't know how long Eve was created after Adam."

So he'd be very much interested in any rebooting of the 6,000 years thing.

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Husband finds missing wife dead in the snow (in Kingdom Hall parking lot)

by betterdaze in

husband finds missing wife dead in the snowby lisa demer.

[email protected].

published: 01/01/10 5:41 am | updated: 01/01/10 5:41 am.

SirNose586

I always feel bad when I read stories about suicides.

With that in mind, I wonder if there is more to this story than meets the eye?

Like.....DF'd for drinking and making sure she died near the Hall that df'd her?

I'm just wondering.

Hubert

You might be right. The story says "Someone thought they'd seen her Sunday afternoon at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses." The two most plausible explanations (IMO) seem to be that either she came late and left early, or was DF'd and would consequently be ignored. The latter would certainly provide reason for her to feel absolutely worthless.