Posts by ldrnomo

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At last a new Truthbookblues video. This time Russell speaks.

by Wasanelder Once in

i hope you find this entertaining.

anyone have the quote where rutherford was asked to leave bethel before he came back to take over?

here's the link to the video:.

"Do you still feel Jehovah is directing the Organization?"

by outsmartthesystem in

jw
friends

for those of you with experience being asked this question.....or those of you that are/were elders........ what would happen if you responded to that question by saying "i don't know"?.

what would happen if you responded with "i choose not to answer that question."?

and then when they ask why, you say "because i wish to invoke my 5th amendment rights".

ldrnomo

I would say, "Jehovah is definitley directing the Organization"

Then I would think to myself:

Jehovah is a concept that the organization excepts and they follow the Bible that Jehovah supposedly had written and they percieve these writings in their own way. They in fact allow themselves to be directed by their conceptual god jehovah.

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What's the strangest thing you've heard someone seek counsel with the elders about?

by keyser soze in

personally, i never went to the elders with anything(not voluntarily, anyway).

but a friend of mine once asked a couple of elders whether it would be acceptable for him and his wife to make a sex tape, for their own personal viewing.

needless to say, the idea was frowned upon..

ldrnomo

damn, I wish I would have thought of that.

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What's the strangest thing you've heard someone seek counsel with the elders about?

by keyser soze in

personally, i never went to the elders with anything(not voluntarily, anyway).

but a friend of mine once asked a couple of elders whether it would be acceptable for him and his wife to make a sex tape, for their own personal viewing.

needless to say, the idea was frowned upon..

ldrnomo

I was asked to counsel a young man who felt guilty because he was haveing nocturnal emissions. The wierd thing was that his father who was also an elder asked me to talk to his son. I explained to the son that it was quite natural occurance and that he should concern himself with it.

The boy was probably about 20 some years old and now he is a stuff shirted elder of about 40 years old

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Are you an athiest and why?

by LouBelle in

i'm interested in finding out people's reasons as to why they are athiest.. i have simply through life experience, my research into religions over the years come to that conclusion.

never thought i would come to a day that i did not believe in a god.

believing in a god is like believing in super man, it would be great if he existed but well it's just a fairy tale.

ldrnomo

Good essay

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For those who think THEY are in financial problems

by therevealer in

jw
friends

use google earth to view patterson and wallkill (watchtower farms).

ldrnomo

Are you infering that because the Watchtower Bible and Tract society have all these buildings and property they are not having financial problems?

Consider some other examples of organization's that have or are having financial problems

1. The United States (lots of buildings and land)

2. General Motors (lots of buildings, land, and machinery)

3. Chrysler (same things a General Motors)

4. California (Lot's of land and quite a few buildings)

5. Many other states with the same things as California

etc. etc etc

At this point, I don't think the watchtower society is having financial problems at present but I think (and I think they do too) there business model points to financial problems ahead. IE

lower rates of contribution

more members from third world countrys who need finanical help

Cash flow at this point is not a problem because of all the real estate recently sold in NYC but if expenditures continue as they are, and income being what it is, they could be facing some financial problems in the future despite all the land and buildings.

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An Elder's honest opinion...saw this on another site...thoughts?

by MsGrowingGirl20 in

by "shadow elder".

before i express my opinion to the readers and contributors to this website (www.ex-jw.com), i would like to explain who i am and to present my bona fides as someone qualified to comment on this website and jehovah's witnesses in general.. first of all, i am an active jehovah's witness living just outside of new york city.

being a large metropolis, new york has many kingdom halls located within the city and several more in surrounding boroughs, counties, and suburbs.

ldrnomo

If he's waiting for the holy spirit to correct things, he's got a long wait, maybe he thinks he's going to live forever.

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Be Honest---Describe your most prevalent feeling as a witness in ONE WORD!

by MsGrowingGirl20 in

lets's go!!.

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suffocating.

ldrnomo

phoney

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How do JW's and their apologists' explain this?

by ldrnomo in

http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html.

when i was in, articles like this always used to rub my cognicent dissanence the wrong way .

how can jw's and other fundamentalist religion's except adam and eve as the start of all mankind some 6000 years ago?.

ldrnomo

Of course baltar447 why didn't I think of that logical explanation

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How do JW's and their apologists' explain this?

by ldrnomo in

http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html.

when i was in, articles like this always used to rub my cognicent dissanence the wrong way .

how can jw's and other fundamentalist religion's except adam and eve as the start of all mankind some 6000 years ago?.

ldrnomo

http://news.yahoo.com/study-ancestors-used-fire-million-years-ago-190741815.html

Just saying,

When I was In, articles like this always used to rub my cognicent dissanence the wrong way

How can JW's and other fundamentalist religion's except Adam and Eve as the start of all mankind some 6000 years ago?