Posts by smiddy

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Brother Bradford's comment at the April 29 ,2017 Watchtower Study

by NCC-1701 in

hope this works .

was listening to this on youtube today.

check out brother bradford's comment about the picture of the governing body at about the 1:11:38 mark.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_jnua-ua0.

smiddy

You guys could sit through 1 hour 40 min. of this ? I take my hat off to you ,you have more intestinal fortitude than I have thats for sure.

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RC 2017 talk: Safeguard Your Children From “What Is Evil”

by wifibandit in

you read that right.

there is a whole talk on the topic.. .

outline: safeguard your children from “what is evil” co-tk17-26-e. .

smiddy

The Almighty God Jehovah /Yahweh/ Allah The Eternal ,or whatever else believers in the books of the Biblewant to call him is the one who allowed Evil to be brought into the world .

As the many scriptures have been brought out in other posts the God of the Bible is both good and evil.

This is also demonstrated in Gen.3:22 where God said "here the man has become like one of us knowing good and bad " or good and evil to put it another way.

If God hadnt put such a tree, of "knowledge of good and bad" in the garden of Eden in the first place ,Eve and then Adam couldnt have know bad/evil.

So God knows what good and bad/evil was before he put that tree in the garden of Eden ,so within God himself is good and evil , he is both good and evil.and he put that temptation in front of the first human pair.

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This is a great video! Must watch..... "Intelligent people beleive in God"

by stuckinarut2 in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg&app=desktop.

smiddy

It certainly is a great video ,so very true on all points covered.In my case the person who witnessed to me ,I was a convert,was a trusted workmate who was "different" from everyday normal people and he used JW speak that I was unfamiliar with that intrigued me.He was spanish had a persecution complex about what was going to happen and so was somewhat secretive about everything.which also intrigued me.

I was also in a vulnerable state at that time also which made the conversion easier .

I think an alternative title should read intelligent people believe in God/ cult religions that way they would be covering two birds with one stone.

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Turning 60 today (Happy Birthday to me)

by NewYork44M in

jw
friends

it is my birthday today.

given that i turn 60 today means that i graduated high school in 1975. time flies when you are having fun.. i remember the council i got about not worrying about a career because this wicked system was rapidly coming to a conclusion.

now i am 60 and most of those bastards are dead and the end is still in the future..

smiddy

Happy birthday to you NY44M have a great day

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what is the rarest JW book?

by dogon in

what is the rarest jb book ever printed?

i just bought a copy of the finished mystery and it can be a bit rare.

but i bet there are others much more rare.

smiddy

Does the KH still have a library where you can borrow books ? if so what is the earliest book you have access to ?

Just curious.

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The Official Jehovah's Witness guide to RESEARCH!

by stuckinarut2 in

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smiddy

That fact coupled with the fact we were in a vulnerable state at our conversion is that we wanted to believe the JW message regardless of how it may have seemed bizzaar to normal people.

The bottom line here is we WANTED to believe and closed our minds to anything that challenged that belief.

I `m speking here from my own experience as a young adult who was converted at age 19.

And of course all the research you then did was publications provided by the WTB&TS .that discouraged outside sources.

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Children in classroom

by ollied28 in

hello.

i was wondering if someone could tell me where i might find the example of a young jw standing in front of the class to (boldly) defend creation vs. evolution.. i would like to contrast it with the example from the "bible teach" book about the student challenging the teacher,.

i believe there was an illustration of a young boy standing up in the classroom for his "beliefs".. thanks..

smiddy

Geez I am getting old , I hope somebody here can resurrect It ? It was a female wasnt it bohm ?

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Children in classroom

by ollied28 in

hello.

i was wondering if someone could tell me where i might find the example of a young jw standing in front of the class to (boldly) defend creation vs. evolution.. i would like to contrast it with the example from the "bible teach" book about the student challenging the teacher,.

i believe there was an illustration of a young boy standing up in the classroom for his "beliefs".. thanks..

smiddy

bohm ,that is the one I was thinking of ,however using the search option I came up empty.I`m sure it wasnt too long ago surely within the past year or two.

Was it also on U-Tube ?

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Soon will be no choice but to invade North Korea.

by Witness 007 in

there is no way in hell that these brainwashed fools will cease making nukes.

their doctrines are based on "death to america"..."never surrender" they are much more messed up then iran!

war will be the final solution..

smiddy

I cant believe Kim Jong -un is the total dictactor of North Korea he is made out to be.

Seriously ? , none of his Generals , Advisors ,those that are close to his personal safety just go along with whatever he says or is about to do ? and they all agree and do whatever he says ? without question ?

I dont think so .he will be reigned in just like any other leader of any nation , its just that dictators have a far more leeway than western leaders

Do you honestly think his Advisers ,Generals ,etc are not aware of the consequences that North Korea would suffer if it all came to shit ?

This crises will subside like all other crises do .

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RUMOUR - Regarding future memorials

by Listener in

i heard this on the youtube channel - bad jw round table discussions and i normally don't give much thought to rumours, i did find this one interesting.one of the guys on the channel said that there are plans that 'the other sheep' will be told not to attend any future memorials.he was asked how credible was this and he said that it is talk going around by those in the know, just like there had been those that knew about the fairly recent new edition of the bible being in production.even if this is probably just a rumour, the idea has a lot of merit.

the benefits for the organization outweigh the negatives and would fit in with their current direction.here are some of the benefits, for the org.

that could come from it- the biggest benefit would come from not having to accommodate so many attendants, which are more than double a normal meeting.

smiddy

While Jehovahs witnesses like to highlight how many people attend the Memorial celebration ,what , something like 3 times the number of active JW`s ? worldwide ,the fact is the majority of those attending are sub-mariners they only come up once or twice a year ,probably 3 times at most. And that is not a good look for the GB.

These people are JW`s in name only

JW`s are no better than those in christendom who only attend Xmas , Easter celebrations .and are christian in name only.

Because of this reason I could see a change in the way the memorial is conducted .maybe they could have a video link of those "annointed" around the world who partake and the rest of JW`s around the world can observe it watching on a video stream on JW.Org from their own homes .

It wouldnt have to be visualised ,maybe audio /visual coverage even over a couple of days seeing the different time zones around the world.

And they can still blow their own trumpet by saying how many tuned in to JW.Org on memorial night.and how many partakers their were if they so desired .