Posts by smiddy

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Thank You Watchtower Society

by snugglebunny in

thank you watchtower society.. thank you for converting my parents into jehovah's witnesses.

i really was getting bored with christmas and birthdays and the 5 meetings every week were so much more fun than boring old children's parties.. thank you for getting me out knocking on doors solo at age 10. much better than kicking a football around.

it was a pleasure to see the astonished looks on my school mates faces when i knocked on their doors, especially on christmas day.

smiddy

Thanks snugglebunny for reminding me of what an asshole I was for dragging my 2 boys out in FS when they were school age .I cant think of the horror it would have been for them to meet their schoolmates in the D2D work

I cringe when I think about what I put them through when I made them come with me.

Thankfully we are all out now and that happened about 30 and more years ago and we all get on well today and even laugh about it.

Their not the worse off for it and are even succesful in where they are today .

And finally..thank you to ME for having the balls to get out of that awful cult, marry a good woman and bring up a family free from guilt and manipulation!

Good for you sb ,that is the best message you can give the GB leading a successful life outside of the religion and bringing up children that the WT wont get their hands on.

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1 John 5:13-20 Jesus is the true God?

by NikL in

one of the main things i am trying to wrap my head around after waking up to the nonsense of jw.org is the deity of christ.. jws go out of their way to ignore him, it seems to me.

they make him out to be an angel or something.

yet, if one simply reads the scriptures, you get an entirely different picture.. doing some bible reading this morning i accidentally (long story) read the latter part of 1 john 5 and it's good stuff.. after reading it in the niv i read it in nwt and it is still pretty amazing even in that abomination of a translation.. it says.... 13 i write you these things so that you may know that you have life everlasting, you who put your faith in the name of the son of god.

smiddy

2000 years later and people are still debating what God actually said or meant when he said it.

And its all left up to imperfect human interpretation to what he was supposed to have meant.

And God hasnt bothered to clear up the confusion one way or another in all this time.

In this day and age of technology /communication it doesnt fare well for an Almighty God who created the Universe does it ?

Apparently sholars can study Ancient greek ,Aramaic ,and Hebrew ,and they are still none the wiser as to whether Gods word says what he meant ,or meant what he said.

He sounds like a God of confusion to me observing all this 2000 years later.

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Over 300 DFed apparently went to a northern U.K R.C!

by Isambard Crater in

that's what i've been told by a family member (elder) who went to one of the regional conventions in the north of the u.k lately, who told me the 300 or more disfellowshipped who returned to jehovah by attending show that the end is so close, just like the final talk says..

smiddy

If true it certainly doesnt mean the end is just around the corner still. What it does mean is that these people are motivated by their feelings and not by their intellect .

Many people leave the religion however the religion never leaves them.A people with low self-esteem and would rather someone do their thinking for them rather than they use their own brain to analyse what is being said to them by the WT.

When their is a percieved crisis in the world the fear of Armageddon takes over their rationale and they flock back to the KH.

When things quite down they leave off again until the next crisis in the world.

If they took the time and effort to educate themselves doctrinally in the first place they wouldnt fall into this never ending cycle.

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What Is the JW Belief Regarding the Millennium?

by Cold Steel in

most christian religions believe it will be a thousand-year period of peace.

jws, however, seem to believe in the resurrection and then life on paradise earth.

but do they believe in the millennium the way other christians do -- where the lion will lay down with the lamb [bzzzt...mandela effect correction] wolf will lay down with the lamb?

smiddy

Jehovahs Witnesses dont believe anything the same way other Christians do thats why they are Witnesses of Jehovah and not Witnesses of Jesus as the Christian Greek scriptures instructs Christians to do.

how will life in the Millennium be any different than life after the Millennium?

Simply stated instead of Jesus being King and ruler forever, after his thousand year rule , he hands it all back to Jehovah to be THE TRUE GOD and RULER over mankind as it was in Eden .

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White supremacy is an ideology of peace

by OneEyedJoe in

i'm tired of hearing these constant attacks on white supremacists after the events in charlottesville.

why are moderate white supremacists being lumped in together and sharing the blame for the actions of one reprehensible man that misinterpreted the ideals of white supremacy and became violent?

clearly the motivation of such attacks on white supremacists is nothing other than racism.

smiddy

I'm sure there'll be a few that misinterpret this, but here's a hint: it's satire. I agree with nothing I'm writing in favor of white supremacy. I'm honestly interested, though, where the real difference lies between the ideology of white supremacists driving them to violence vs the religion of islam driving them to violence. They're both obviously wrong. They're both rooted in violent histories.

How many people commenting missed the point of the OP , its

SATIRE.

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Set the record straight!

by Colinconfused in

i would like to state publicly, on this forum, i no longer hold the views i had a year ago.. with much thought, research, study and logical examination i have come to a better understanding of my beliefs and where i stand on all these issues.. i'm very happy to announce i have returned to healthful teaching of the holy scriptures and i firmly believe that the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is the faithful slave.. sorry if i have contibuted to any kind of stumbling and know that if i can turn things around then there's hope for all who come to there sence.. phill4:6,7.

smiddy

Colinconfused claimed to be mrs Amadou Gloria in one of her/his posts.

google the name.

What do you think ?

We are being had ?

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Humourous reasons to go back

by usualusername1 in

jw
friends

in my stand up comedy routine tonight i want to list humourous reasons why i shd go back to jws.. how about nobody throws parties like jws.. how about jws being at the cutting edge of fashion.. how about it being easier for men to get a date.. any ideas?.

paul.

smiddy

God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that you all might be saved however if you dont join JW`s you can kiss your ass goodbye.

And if you do join JW`s you can kiss your individual freedom,plus your wallet goodbye.

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Current JW Go Fund Me requests

by Listener in

this topic was discussed a few years ago and i thought i would have a look to see what is going on with go fund me's by jws.

i am astounded that there are a great deal more jws requesting money than there were a few years ago and even by pioneers.i've only looked in detail at a few jw go fund me requests but came across this one that i am stunned about on a number of levels.. my little maryhello friends.

meet my wonderful girlfriend mary, a 23 year old "need greater pioneer"serving in the english field in san marcos nicaragua.

smiddy

Why dont these people just keep pestering the GB for money ,their making Millions and Millions of $$$$$$$

Oh thats right their too busy running scams of their own fleecing the gullible JW`s.

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This might be my last post

by Akid48 in

so my aunt hates pcs but works in a office job and uses a pc to do work she has worked there for 23 years she taking me and my brothers laptops etc and she said i have to earn it doing jw things studying listening at meetings etc.. so if it is the last time i post hear i thank you all for you have told me i wish the all of you the best life you can have.i will try to post hear this will start when im in school..

smiddy

I had the same thought as Listner about public librarys allow you to use PC`s for free.

Take care and have a great future.

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Next years special talk

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

as you may be aware, next years "special" talk is to be given 1 week before the memorial.

they have just issued the following instruction as well -.

please note that bodies of elders should not take steps to assign a speaker for the special talk until further information is provided by the branch office.. .

smiddy

My tip is it will have to do with the steady increase over the years of partakers and they are going to try to put an end to it once and for all with new light.