Posts by smiddy

When Jah created the garden of Eden ,he obviously created thorns and thistles ,weeds , etc, outside the garden of Eden , because Adam was supposed to cultivate the ground and expand the garden of Eden outwards.

Not to mention the fact he would have had to cultivate the ground with his bare hands , as no tools had yet been invented ,except for the flaming sword that Jehovah apparently invented a little later on.

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2017 Yearbook - Still Waiting

by berrygerry in

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t06777k65p11e53/20160521e.pdf?dl=0.

may 21, 2016. we are pleased to inform you that electronic versions of the annual items for 2017 will be made available for download on jw.org beginning in october of this year.

this includes examining the scriptures daily—2017 and the 2017 yearbook of jehovah’s witnesses.

smiddy

They could also come up with "WT spin" that the early Christians didnt count numbers , and they have now disbanded such a practice in line with a new truth .

On the other hand they could print a significant downturn of publishers reporting , a negative growth overall , and very few baptisms for the year 2016 .

Pointing to the scriptures that in the last days "the love of the greater number will cool off" showing just how much closer we are to Gods Judgement on the world at large.

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Canada - Macleans article, Oct. 28, 2016: A Jehovah’s Witness and her deadly devotion

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.macleans.ca/news/a-jehovahs-witness-and-her-deadly-devotion/.

a jehovah’s witness and her deadly devotion.

did a jehovah’s witness die after refusing a blood transfusion, and should the state have let it happen?.

smiddy

Thanks for your help Barbara , much appreciated

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So the Elders want to get together, and I kinda want to.

by Darkknight757 in

so the wife and i were uninvited to another jw get together which we didn't want to go to anyways.

finally we find out that something on my facebook account is getting some people's in my old halls undies in a bunch.

so i was thinking of meeting with them to at least clear my wife's name and give them some much needed hell.

smiddy

Why dont you and your wife DA yourselves from the religion of JW`s , in that way you take away their percieved control over you , because you are in effect DF them out of your lives once and for all.

Who cares how they word it to the congregation , you know you have disowned them ....End of story.

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What Comes After the Watchtower Collapse?

by schnell in

i was going to put this in my thread about pyramid schemes, but i thought it's discreet enough to warrant its own.

1) there are many faithful jws.

2) there are many men and women who could take control and fill the void if the watchtower collapses.

smiddy

Your right steve2 , my bad.thanks for the correction , I must be getting old.

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New movie by Mel Gibson 'Hacksaw ridge'

by barry in

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i just went to a pre screening of this movie about an adventist guy who didn't want to kill but joined the army as a medic on the front line.

desmond doss saved 75 men in one operation singlehanded on the island of okinawa where desmond worked lowering men down a 400ft cliff to safety.. i thought this may be of interest to jws because of the pacifist stand they also have.. the movie comes out on the 4 th november..

smiddy

I live in Australia , born in 1939 ,if all Christian religions in my country refused to go to war in the year of 1939 I hate to think of what life would be like now People think of the Japanese as they are now

I remmber the Japanese as they were during the war years,

And the same can be said of the germans with Nazis in control

I hate to think what the world especially Australia would be like if we were all here pacifists.

For Christians the Bible in Rom .12 authorises the powers that be Govts,Police ,law enforcements to render judgement and executioner for those who go against the authority of the existent Govt and sanctioned by God.

While I can admire the heroic events of this one soldier in doing what he did , in his circumstances I would be appalled if the whole country took the same stand and allowing an invading force to do what they liked with this country.

Is that a contradiction ? its just my observation at this time.