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  Rutherford's last book "Children" 1941- Advice DONT HAVE KIDS...Where it all started!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  watchtower 1941 sept. 15 p.283, 288 "in front of the convention platform the children recieving there free gift (copy) not as a play thing but as the lords instrument for the work in the remaining months before armagedon..." so what lovely message did the kids get from judge rutherford?

  children 1941page 281 "no children were taken onto noah's ark...it is proper to wait until after armagedon to have children...its only afew more years till armagedon..." the book concluded.

  "(john and his girlfriend talk) ...armagedon is surely near our hope is within afew years our marriage will be consumated and we will have sweet children...we will defer marriage and pioneer ...we will not see each other for a time.." thats why i dont have kids it all started with this fools book!.

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  Dagney

  Yep, 3rdgen. (waves ) My sister was 3 I think, and she was with the crowd of kids getting her book. She has no good JW childhood memories. Long days in FS, even going alone from door to door very very young.

  It was a dark time. It was so frowned upon to get pregnant. My mom just barely told me before she died that my father wanted her to get an abortion but she couldn't do it. Such a cruel phoney religion. Like they really care about kids now because they have cartoons. The same hateful message to them but in a modern format.
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  Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

  by 3rdgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

  break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

  the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

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  Tal None such things happened to me. My dad was an angry alcoholic with a trigger temper, but I got his better years. My other sibs did not. And I was a late in life baby raised almost like an only child, so not hard to manage. My heart goes out to the kids from families that forced an abnormal military lifestyle demanding perfection. We don't forget our childhoods.
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  Finally Free!!!

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife and i are finally free of this horrible cult we will be leaving the south east for the north western part of the us to start anew!!!

  our friends and family have no idea of our new beliefs and feelings on the cult so it should be a nice clean break!

  hope to connect with some in that area pm me if you'd like.. .

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  Dagney

  Congratulations! How nice to be able to start fresh in a new place. Welcome to the rest of your life.
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  Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

  by 3rdgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

  break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

  the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

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  Dagney

  People never mattered to the WBTS, and especially children. Now I quite like the idea of "Sunday School" for kids where there is freedom in learning. I have a friend with two autistic children and I shudder to think what their life would be like taking their kids to meeting at the KH. Now the kids look forward to the routine in the Sunday School area and the parents have a break. My mother told me when I was a kid I used to "play meeting" and line up the dolls and proceed to beat the crap out of them. She told me she cringed knowing that was my take-away of "going to the meeting" at 4-5 yrs.

  Magwitch, 3rdgen, Talesin, .
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  Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

  by 3rdgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

  break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

  the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

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  Dagney

  Ann beat me to it. I remember ice cream during the break also. No morning meetings because we went in service of course! like Gregor said, those afternoon meetings were long and difficult to keep awake during.
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  The great Jack Bruce of Cream passes

  by designs in

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  2. entertainment

  the premier bassist of his generation, his songs made many love babies.

  rock on forever jb..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdo0juekqm.

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  8th grade "worldly" graduation party, "White Room," "Sunshine of Your Love." Thanks for the memory and the music Jack. RIP.
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  Mormon Church Founder had 33 wives

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  we know russell, rutherford franz and knorr wer kooky but joseph smith takes the cake.. the salt lake tribune of all newspapers has run an article on the lds founder's 33 wives, most of whom were teenagers.. http://www.sltrib.com/news/173364-155/plural-smith-joseph-marriage-lds-says.

  would you stay an lds after knowing this, how would you rationalize staying with this knowledge.. .

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  I think people that need religion can justify anything about their religion. They need to be "special," have "inside knowledge." It doesn't matter to them how outlandish certain behavior is or how crazy the dogma. They have faith. The 33 wives were part of a grand scheme they have the privilege to be a part of. Works for them.
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  Rated in top 10 on iTunes

  by Dagney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay.

  it makes sense to have access through itunes, but still it was a bit of a shock to see the wt logo pop up in the top 10 popular podcasts in "religion.".

  boy is it a new day.. did anyone ever find out who the pr firm or inside person with this vision for the wbts?.

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  Yes. Absolutely. Of course Jah was waiting for the perfect moment to wage the internet war...after they have lost about 2-3 million people already.

  I can see the happy-dappy-ness of a loyal looking around iTunes and voila! Jah must have made electricity, Steve Jobs, computers, internet just for WBTS!

  They will never win this battle. The apostate army is too diverse and established.
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  Rated in top 10 on iTunes

  by Dagney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay.

  it makes sense to have access through itunes, but still it was a bit of a shock to see the wt logo pop up in the top 10 popular podcasts in "religion.".

  boy is it a new day.. did anyone ever find out who the pr firm or inside person with this vision for the wbts?.

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  Dagney

  Okay. It makes sense to have access through iTunes, but still it was a bit of a shock to see the WT logo pop up in the top 10 popular podcasts in "Religion."

  Boy is it a new day.

  Did anyone ever find out who the PR firm or inside person with this vision for the WBTS?

  Edited to add: The podcasts were for the WT study and issues of the WT and Awake, and in numerous languages.
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  PART DEUX: AN ALTERNATIVE CONVERSATION WITH A NEIGHBOR - Watchtower, November 2014

  by AnnOMaly in

  1. social
  2. humour

  the second contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of jehovahs witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the november 2014 watchtower will not be reproduced here.

  instead let us imagine the other witness named andre (sorry, i meant) cameron has returned to the home of the other man also named jon.. nebuchadnezzars dream a tortuous recapcameron: hi there, neighbor!.

  jon: whoa!

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  Dagney

  Bril Ann!