Posts by ShirleyW

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My JW Elder Brother Passed Away

by minimus in

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he was basically a good man, just a believer in the religion.

when we were both elders we were best of friends and then things deteriorated when i was not an elder for a while.

then after becoming an elder again, i slowly drifted away from the religion and he drifted further away from me.

ShirleyW

Sorry to hear Minimus.

Now you will have to deal with how you'll be treated at the memorial

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dear,everybody,how are you?my name is john moro i join jevoah wittness.com this year 2018 in april in order to be jevoah wittness i live in yokine wa australia,i like to meet friends and share jevoah message to evangelize the word.thank you may god bless.

yours sincerely john moro.

ShirleyW

I think you joined the wrong website Br. Moro,

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Did You Ever Luke ANY Songs From The “Songbook “?

by minimus in

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i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.

did you ever like any of those songs?

.

ShirleyW

Anyone remember when the pink first came out? At your KH did they have special mtgs on Saturday night to practice the new songs? I remember my KH did that, not a formal mtg, just the songs, no talks are anything.

Also at our KH for a while, along with our piano player when the pink songbook came out, we also had a sister playing the violin, then another sister joined in who could play the flute and a brother joined with his bass guitar. I don't think that little jazz combo lasted longer than a year. Was just a kid then, but now I'm probably sure that a Circuit Servant put an end to that.

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Did You Ever Luke ANY Songs From The “Songbook “?

by minimus in

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i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.

did you ever like any of those songs?

.

ShirleyW

Summer Angel - Quite a few were blatant hymn rip offs

As far as the pink songbook and the green songbook before the pink one, that's not much of a secret. That's why,for the old timers here who remember #1 from the green songbook "Hail Him" they kind of let that one go, I remember when we sang that one back in the 60's, that one was almost like a Baptist Church hymn that had folks running up and down the aisles speaking in tongues, it got you going.

As far as the other songs, "from house to house, from door to door" I remember the melody and those words, I remember #19,the Hawaiian song. Take Sides with Jehovah seemed to be a popular one. Keep your eyes on the prize. Since I was a born in and a child when these songs were sung of course I remember the melodies and a few of the words.

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Craziest Speculations You’ve heard about the end and paradise

by Addison0998 in

we’ve all heard them all our life.

my two biggest stupidest ones i think are, “ we can really tell the end is almost here with the way people drive on the highway.” and a girl who said she wants to hurry up and marry her boyfriend because she’s scared if the end comes before their married, she’ll have to wait 1000 years to marry him.

oh and also a poor old lady saying that she hopes jehovah wipes away the memory of her disfellowshipped sons that he will have to destroy.

ShirleyW

Our resurrected spouses wont be married to us anymore.
Our resurrected spouses will be married to us still.
Our resurrected spouses wont be married to us anymore.
Our resurrected spouses will be married to us still.

I remember a year or so after my dad died and my mom was talking to one her friends who lost her husband a decade previously, she was saying the above " well I heard the brothers are now saying that we will still be married in the new system". "The Brothers" have the insight to know what's going to happen in the new system? What she should've said was seven old guys in Brooklyn are playing with the hearts of all their followers who blindly follow any BS they just happen to come up with.

sometimes he was and other times he wasn't so every couple of years he'd stop partaking
one time when he thought he wasn't anointed and my then-gf asked him why he said "because I've just thought, i'd quite like to ride on an ostrich in the new system".

Yup, that sounds exactly like the kind of faithful servant Jehovah wants to be surrounded with floating around up there in heaven

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Craziest Speculations You’ve heard about the end and paradise

by Addison0998 in

we’ve all heard them all our life.

my two biggest stupidest ones i think are, “ we can really tell the end is almost here with the way people drive on the highway.” and a girl who said she wants to hurry up and marry her boyfriend because she’s scared if the end comes before their married, she’ll have to wait 1000 years to marry him.

oh and also a poor old lady saying that she hopes jehovah wipes away the memory of her disfellowshipped sons that he will have to destroy.

ShirleyW

I remember my mother told me that at her Tuesday night bible study mtg, the conductor went around the room and asked everyone there what kind of animal did they want in their back yard when the new system was here, mind you she told me that, like that was going to interest me in attending the mtgs again - smh

I posted this last week in another thread (someone else posted it first but I keep busting out laughing and shaking my head every time I read it) but this quote below still takes the cake for me, First Prize in the looniest thing a JW has ever said:

A sister told me that since she had worn a bathing cap when she was baptized, she was afraid her head wouldn't make it into the new order.

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Again - another measles exposure at Watchtower locations in New York

by OrphanCrow in

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http://abc7ny.com/health/heres-how-to-find-out-if-youve-been-exposed-to-measles/3376832/.

two tourists from europe sparked a local measles scare.new york state health officials say anyone who visited the following locations may have been exposed:- kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses in brooklyn (april 15th)- watchtower facilities in orange and putnam counties (april 16th and 17th)health officials say the risk of developing measles is low for anyone who has been vaccinated or is immune.symptoms include fever, rash a cough and runny nose.anyone who thinks they may have been affected should call their doctor if they experience symptoms.. this is the second measles exposure at wt locations in ny.

the last one occurred 2 months ago:.

ShirleyW

this was also covered by WNBC here in NYC too, I knew I heard this happened before up at Warwick a while back like it says it happened two months ago, what's up with foreign JWs and the measles?

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Secret Societies involved at the very top of the Org

by Formerbrother in

are all the gb members past and present, part of skulls and bones and other masonic secret societies?

we know the first few top brass were, like br rutherford and br russel.. they all have several expensive watches.

like literally more than one for everyday of the week, rolex and omega, where did they come from?

ShirleyW

I know that RIck Fearon is not thought of in a positive way here on this board, but as some of you know he has a weekly conference/video call with different folks hosting their own hour, there's one former Sister who has a part on his show every other week and her main theme every week is pointing out the Borg is affiliated with the Masons, says her dad was in on the whole deal about it and she shares points of how the Borg is definitely a part of Masons.

Now this same sister also claims that the story that was going around a while back about the Smurf doll that supposedly got up and walked out the KH cursing all the way was really a doll that belonged to her, now I don't think she stands by the part of it getting up and walking out, but she claims that rumor got started because of doll of hers . . . hey, I"m just saying what she said. I don't believe it either and think she's one sandwich short of picnic myself after her hearing her Smurf theory.

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KH hall 4 sale just whose waters are supposed to be drying up again?!

by nowwhat? in

avon lake ohio.

while new mega church being built right down the street!.

ShirleyW

ToesUp - I can't do any work for a church and it's up to my conscience if I want to go to a wedding or funeral at a church but it's ok for WT to sell a dedicated KH to a church? You just can't make this sh*t up!!!!

Back in the 70's or 80's we had our Circuit Assembly at an old Jewish Temple the Society obviously purchased in upper Manhattan, so before they purchased it and you knew someone of the Jewish faith and they had that persons funeral there, you wouldn't have been allowed to attend, but then the Borg goes and buys it and now an old Jewish Temple is now in good standing with Jah, makes no sense at all

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Lies from the watchtower

by StephaneLaliberte in

i am interested in getting a list of lies that the watchtower has said or wrote in the past that could actually be proven to be as such, or, for the very least, deliberately misleading.

1. in a morning worship lecture in 2015, stephen lett said .

"rejecting false stories designed to separate us from jehovah's organization.

ShirleyW

In the end, I believe they will have to either come clean about things they are lying about, or pay up eventually

"come clean" about their lying? If you mean put another spin on it, then yes, like they're doing as to why the number keeps going up of the anointed every year, but totally admit their lies? Never.

As far as paying up, they are being sued for covering up sexual misconduct by those that were molested by Elders, etc because it was never reported, that's the only "pay up" they will every do and they're being forced to do that