If I have never welcomed you before Dunedain , I welcome you now .
And I concur with all you say ,I could not have said it better .
smiddy
Posts by smiddy
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29Governing Body went from anonymous secret group to T.V Stars??? How?
by Witness 007 inwhen i grew up in the 1980's -90's it was rare to see a faithful slaves picture in 10 years of watchtowers.
everything was anonymous.
no one really knew there names except for the "holy oricle" fred franz.. now they are full on t.v stars with there own show.
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Lady drives car into Kingdom Hall
by Sugar Shane inright smack into (what looks like) the front entry!.
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-13/78yo-female-driver-crash-jehovahs-witnesses-church/7243268.
this was in australia, but the khs i've seen (in the us) are designed so that you'd have to almost intentionally want to ram a building to cause this kind of damage.
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Luckily the car was driven by a lovely 78 year old sister of the Congregation and she escaped unscathed , and nobody else was hurt .
Had it been driven by a mentally diseased apostate the kingdom hall would have been demolished ,again with no injuries to anybody.
Just saying
smiddy
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Interesting article about the evidence of the Jewish Exodus
by cappytan inthe reality is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the jews were ever enslaved in egypt.
yes, there's the story contained within the bible itself, but that's not a remotely historically admissible source.
i'm talking about real proof; archeological evidence, state records and primary sources.
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The Jew`s were slaves in Egypt right ? I don`t think slaves would have owned camping equipment , tents , ropes ,pegs ,utensils , etc.etc.to take with them on their banishment from Egypt do you ? They were just told to go not knowing they would spend the next 40 years in the desert.
With at least a million people wandering around the desert for 40 years , think of the sanitary conditions , with no running water on tap.Did they have portable latrines with them ?
The area of land covered with a million or so people in living arrangements , those living in the middle of such an environment , do they take a crap on the outskirts of their encampment ? Think of the logistics of these scenarios .
Just my 2 cents worth
smiddy
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Urgent assistance needed for Barbara and ARC!
by Atlantis inmy contacts are assisting in this effort but the more people the better!.
.. information needed in assisting barbara anderson with arc... barbara needed a boe for arc and i have already sent it to her so that problem is solved.
however we are in need of the following information:.
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It sounds like something interesting is in the pipeline via Barbara Anderson , I hope it`s another nail in the coffin for the WTB&TS /Jehovah`s Witness Publishing & Real Estate Empire.
smiddy
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I luv the sense of humour found here .
smiddy
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Judgment handed down by Court of Appeal in legal challenge to Charity Commission inquiry opened in 2014
by OrphanCrow inthis is good news.
the wt have lost in their attempt to stop the uk charity commission's inquiry into their affairs.
however, the wt is still digging in their heels about turning documents over to the charity commission.https://www.gov.uk/government/news/court-of-appeal-gives-judgment-in-court-case-by-jehovahs-witness-charityjudgment handed down by court of appeal in legal challenge to charity commission inquiry opened in 2014.today, the court of appeal handed down its judgment regarding the commission’s statutory inquiry, opened in 2014, into the watch tower bible and tract society of britain (the leading jehovah’s witness charity in the uk).
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Well we can only hope for Justice , can`t we ? The trouble is secular authorities seem very reluctant to prosecute religious institutions , no matter how questionable their practices are .
We can only hope things / attitudes have changed .
smiddy
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Would you have married your spouse if you weren't both JWs?
by 3rdgen inok, i've had some wine, but i'm curious.
objectively speaking, but for the religion, did you have enough in common with your spouse to have met and married as non believers?
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I was going with my girlfriend for about a year when I was contacted with the "truth" and convinced her it was the "truth" a year later we were married in a K.H.
33 years later we both left the religion .
And just recently we celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary .
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Gross! Grooming of young brothers in the KH to do more for Jehobadahhh and his organ-nigh-say-shun! I saw it myself.
by macys inso there is this young brother probably 14 or 15 and the elders are already grooming him to do more for jehobadahhh.
most of the elders in this kh are old like 60+ and sometimes there are not enough brothers to do the mics or sound so you will see a 70 year old elder forced into action.
almost comical to see a brother who thinks instagram is an email service try to operate the sound system and projector as he plays the wrong song or brings the screen down during a prayer.
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I think it is commendable that macy has apologized for her comment on him being a pedo.
However my wife thinks women`s intuition is spot on
I`m not wholly convinced .
macy I have to question why you would ever want to get reinstated ? to get closer to family members who so easily discard you ? because you no longer believe what they want you to believe ? How shallow they are , if that is the case .Who needs family like that , your better off without them ,if that is the case.
If you do jump through the hoops and navigate the maze of B.S. to get reinstated , I give you six months at the most before you dump them again , and this time for good.
All the best to you girl ? and take care .
smiddy
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Has anyone any contacts in Australia specifically Jehovah Witnesses
by tor1500 ini hope i added this topic so everyone could read & comment.
i was just thinking, since this arc thing, does anyone here know any one in australia, that knows about the arc or how it's affecting the jw's there.
i used to go to a site that had a really nice person who is a jw, he never argued or debated, never sent back hateful comments, & he lives in australia.
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tor1500
Don`t expect anything to happen soon my friend as J.W.`s are only part of the ARC investigation into Institutions of Child Sexual Abuse .
The final report is not due out until December of next year I believe .
I think their were seventy plus recommendations the ARC put to the J.W.`s and they have all been challenged
That`s about it as far as I know how it stands at the moment.
How it`s affecting the average J.W. ? Apart from the few who have obviously woken up to TTATT because of the screening of the ARC ,the majority , as jwfacts suggests ,just brush it off as an Apostate conspiracy to defame the true religion , and simply dismiss it.
We Aussies would like it all to come to a head as soon as possible , however its going to take time, and we just have to be patient.
Their is also an enquiry taking place in the U.K. that should prove very interesting .
smiddy
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