Posts by tim hooper

always had time for me and seemed to keep thigs real.. heard that on a zone vist he told the governing body the branch was told old and grumpy or something like that!.

worst was michael purbrick.

tim hooper

Ernie Beavor - armageddon Ernie - he was a pleasant old boy. Daft as a brush of course, he was also Wilf Gooch's FIL.

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What the Watchtower needs to do to survive.

by jwfacts in

drop its teaching on paradise earth.. the primary issue facing the watchtower results from it's teaching that members will never die, but live forever on this earth in paradise.

this teaching is cause of most of the doctrinal failures, and will be its eventual demise.. the promise of never dying is one of the foremost motivations for people that join the religion, and the message of living forever in paradise is compelling.

however, it is also the watchtower's achilles heel, as it forces false predictions of the nearness of the end.

tim hooper

From what I have seen, the devoutness of the average JW has become diluted over the last couple of decades, particularly since the generation change

Hours required in the ministry - reduced.

Group study - gone.

Meetings reduced in length.

Publications - down to 16 pages.

Their music, once rather militant, is now thin and reedy.

I see witnesses appearing in social scenes that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. A local elder sings with an Irish folk band in pubs and bars. Another wheels and deals in rental property. Still another has been bankrupted and forbidden from becoming a company director for years to come.

Few local witneses now actively shun the disfellowshipped either.

IMHO, the urgency has already gone and the average JW has little of the fanaticism of his predecessors.

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How Long Did You Wait On Jehovah?

by God_Delusion in

howdy guys and gals!.

here is my latest article on "waiting on jehovah" because the organisation is run by "humble imperfect men.".

http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/jehovahs-witness-beliefs/wait-on-jehovah/.

tim hooper

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JW FAMOUS CLICHE SAYINGS

by strymeckirules in

what saying made it all around the country?.

the ones that were passed around, word of mouth.. for example.

"donations basis proves jehovah is behind the work!".

tim hooper

Loving kindness

Undeserved kindness

Each and everyone of us

How upbuilding

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My Story - Abbreviated but still way too long

by jamesmahon in

when my mum returned after 6 weeks she had also been converted.

i am sure the twenty years younger and big boobs had nothing whatsoever to do with it and cannot think why he both could think of no other way of leaving and why if it was so bad it was alright to leave his kids in it.

she beat me so bad i found out afterwards my brothers thought she was going to kill me.

tim hooper

Amazing story here too. I also feature in it to a limited extent.

englishmanspub.freeforums.org/englishman-s-story-t6.html

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HDR photography anyone? (pics inside)

by Jourles in

jw
friends

does anyone employ hdr(high dynamic range) photography in their bag of tricks?

in a nutshell, you take several photos of the same scene but at different exposures - from dark to very light(your aperture needs to remain exactly the same).

you then merge them together.

tim hooper

Some of those shots look very artificial. Still, each to their own!

tim

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have u ever wonder why sisters wear skirts to the meeting?

by XOCO in

someone had told be the reason b4 but that was billions of years ago.

any way so why?.

xoco (ur annoyin' lilttle youngin').

tim hooper

For easy access?

tim