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  1000 Years is Like 1 Day?

  by Sorry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anyone else hear about this.

  as all j-dubs know, whenever someone complains about how long the "new system" is taking too arrive, they use the excuse that jehovah works on his own time.

  quite a few times during the public talks, i've heard speakers say the phrase "1000 years to us is only one day to jehovah" (my parents never stop talking about this).

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  ShirleyW

  What I don't get is that they always say one day is like a thousand years, then how come they've been saying the Big A is just around the corner? I've heard that growing up back back in the 60's till the day she died from my mother, just like the rest of em' always said. Yet they acknowledge the scripture about no man knows the day or hour, plus the one day is 1,000 years, yet they all still sound as phony as Fred Sanford and all those phony heart attacks he has everyday, you can cry wolf just so much until folks don't want to hear from you anymore.
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  Trick or Treat, tells you where my head is at

  by carla in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i always have a nice bowl of candy ready for trick or treat, we don't get many so you usually have a short conversation with the parents.

  so a mom & 3 kids come and the two boys were dressed in suit and ties!

  i am laughing because my first thought was they were dressed as jw's!

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  ShirleyW

  that's true
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  Trick or Treat, tells you where my head is at

  by carla in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i always have a nice bowl of candy ready for trick or treat, we don't get many so you usually have a short conversation with the parents.

  so a mom & 3 kids come and the two boys were dressed in suit and ties!

  i am laughing because my first thought was they were dressed as jw's!

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  Carla, here in U.S. Halloween is celebrated tomorrow, Monday, on the 31st, where country are you in where Halloween was celebrated today?
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  If the GB changed a major teaching, would all witnesses just go along with it?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if the gb changed its "bible based beliefs" on some teaching, would witnesses all of a sudden change their individual beliefs too?.

  witnesses like to claim that "their bible trained hearts and minds" make them believe as they do, but we know that the reality is that all witnesses hold their "deep seated beliefs" according to what they have been told to believe.. so what would cause the average witness to question those that dictate their "personal convictions"??.

  thoughts?.

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  ShirleyW

  If the GB changed a major teaching, would all witnesses just go along with it?

  That's what being a JW means, the old guys in Brooklyn think of something new, write a newfangled letter about it, throw in a few scriptures and they all say "oh, what a loving provision Jah has provided us with", otherwise known as new light, or what we call it here, flip flopping.

  Their minds are closed, that's why I say JWs would make great Trump supporters, all that BS he spews out his followers just eat it up and defend him, just like the Dubs do.
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  What Were Your Elders Real World Jobs?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know that education is severely demonized in this religion.

  and that the elders are appointed based on how many meetings they attend, hours they put in on the ministry and general attitude to other elders (as apposed to, you know, actual theological training and counseling) - so my question is, what were your elders occupations outside the kingdom hall?.

  in my old congregation our elders consisted of:.

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  One was a member of MENSA and had a good job in IT

  You mean one elder was so darn smart he was a member of MENSA, but yet he was a JW? Just goes to show, smart people are crazy.
  
  
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  What Were Your Elders Real World Jobs?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we all know that education is severely demonized in this religion.

  and that the elders are appointed based on how many meetings they attend, hours they put in on the ministry and general attitude to other elders (as apposed to, you know, actual theological training and counseling) - so my question is, what were your elders occupations outside the kingdom hall?.

  in my old congregation our elders consisted of:.

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  ShirleyW

  The majority were employed by NYC Transit, most of them being bus drivers, a few subway conductors
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  Robert 'Big Sonny' Edwards of The Intruders Dies at 74

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  robert “big sonny” edwards of the intruders -- the soul vocal group best known for the chart-topping r&b single “cowboys to girls” -- has died.. as one of the first acts signed to gamble & huff’s fledgling gamble label, the intruders scored a string of r&b hits from the mid-’60s through the early '70s -- and simultaneously set the stage for the writing/production duo’s pioneering philly soul sound and the establishment of the legendary philadelphia international label.. memorial services will be held on oct. 29 at kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses (noon et) in philadelphia.. .

  http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7549038/the-intruders-robert-big-sonny-edwards-dead.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtepd1af4_i.

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  Did you know him?
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  Is Watchtower now loosening the bedroom rules?

  by OneGenTwoGroups in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was at my assembly when this was discussed last week.

  of course i hadn't prepared and i heard "no rules about limits", or at least i thought i did.. here's the direct quote from the watchtower study article.. "although the bible does not provide specific rules about the kinds and limits of love play that might be associated with natural sexual intimacy, it mentions displays of affection.

  the watchtower (study edition) august 2016 : making christian marriage a success, paragraph 8.. what say you?.

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  Giordano - I remember during a talk the Brother said that "on the wedding night the couple should offer a prayer to Jehovah" before doing the deed, one of the most eye-rolling, craziest things I've heard to come from the podium
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  Petty Rules

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did your congregation have any petty man made rules?

  i remember the elders in my cong didn't like if a single brother and single sister walked in the parking lot together after the meeting ended, to their car.

  you couldn't hold the mic or give a talk without a coat (that might be a universal jw rule).

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  I know a sister who while growing up went to a Congregation in Baltimore and she said that at wedding receptions playing records (this was back in the 70's) wasn't done at JW weddings, one of the dumbest rules I've ever heard.
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  If a JW Came To Your Door How Would You Handle It?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses have never come to my door but they have come to my girlfriends door.

  i have coached her as to what to say or ask but it appears that they always seem to come when she's not there.

  .....just curious would you get into it with a jehovah's witness at your door especially if it was someone you did not know?.

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  "If a JW came to your door how would you handle it?"

  Tell them to get the F**K away from my door . . and don't come back