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  Attention Governing Body: October 2, 2014 is only 940 days away...

  by Alfred in

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  in 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.

  oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.

  but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.

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  all quiet here in a muggy overcast day in South London, the "Big A" must be cancelled
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  How many born ins actually stay?

  by lostinthought in

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  i was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization.

  i think i have read it before on here but i can't really remember what it was.

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  add me to the stat, born in, dreadful
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  October 2nd, 2014: The World Ends Tomorrow, Taking all Bets!

  by Oubliette in

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  2. beliefs

  on october 2, 1914, charles taze russell, founder of the watchtower, announced that the gentile times have ended!.

  tomorrow will be exactly 100 years since his historic announcment.. to commemorate this centennial occasion, i will gladly take bets in any amount of money that the world will not end tomorrow and that on friday, october 3rd, 2014 gmt, we will still all be here, for better or worse.. any die-hard jws interested in taking the other side of this friendly little wager?

  still hoping the big "a" is coming tomorrow and your loving god, jehovah, is going to commit mass genocide and execute 99.9% of earth's population because they don't follow the dictates the 7 members of the "faithful and discreet slave," aka, the governing body of jehovah's witnesses?.

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  an extreemly pivotal date and thanks for starting a thread on this , I just want to know what Jesus Christ has been doing "ruling" from heaven for 100 years?
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  Lurker no more

  by DaleRivers in

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  hi folks:.

  i've been lurking here all summer and i finally decided to take the plunge and join you all.. i'm a single, 53 y/o black woman living in the nyc metro area (usa).

  i was brought up around jws:mom's mom, mom and my favorite auntie were all in.

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  welcome, you've made a perfect life choice
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  Craziest demon/magic/supernatural stories you heard when you were a JW

  by EndofMysteries in

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  share yours, i'll start if off, i have a few i heard from the platform or from other jw's.

  one from the platform, a witch was studying with jw's, and she had a relationship with demons/spirits.

  when she was studying they turned on her and threatened her if she didn't stop.

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  love the story of the headless floating nun ! too many of them watching horror movies I think
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  Autumn...

  by new hope and happiness in

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  2. friends

  i've just glanced out my window and i saw the most picturesque countryside.

  i do believe we're entering autumn.

  so summer has had its day and like an old friend slipped away and we moves on...how do you feel about entering autumn?.

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  autumn is my favourite season as well, those cool breezy nights wonderful
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  My Elderette returns for a final Bible Study session, after I avoided her for 2 months (very long post)

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  some of this will be repeat, since it's been a little while since i posted about my "bible study" sessions with miss k, my elderette.

  we are talking about the name of jehovah.

  thanks for talking with us today.

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  any updates FW?
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  The WT's biggest deception?

  by BU2B in

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  it just dawned on me that one of if not the most deceptive thing that the wt convinces the members of is that the truth does not stand up to investigation.

  they teach that lies trump truth.

  the reality of course is something entirely different.

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  tons really , to claim to being the mouthpiece of God on Earth to holy spirit being responsible for the appointments of sexual abusers and deviants into positions of authority, to the fabled tales on calling out the name of Jeehovah to avert demon attack, madness in all honesty
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  Special Meeting at Bethel by GB just before Annual Meeting

  by notsurewheretogo in

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  i see there is a special meeting held by the gb at bethel a week before the annual meeting.. .

  wonder what that will be about?.

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  stab in the dark, a dig deeper talk by any chance?
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  Brave Ex Elder sues over defamation over fraud claims.

  by Slidin Fast in

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  this looks interesting, this guy is bringing the right to family life into his case.

  many have thought of doing this.

  maybe a good test case.. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/jehovahs-witness-sues-for-150000-after-church-snubbed-him-over-fraud-claims-9750062.html.

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  vaguely knew him, but I knew his half or step brother Jason Adu Jampfi very well he used to play football with us , this guy must have moved in after I faded , Laika make no mistake John Morely is a poisonous lying piece of crap, he was instrumental with the other idiot Ted Sallows in arranging the speaker phone converstaion that got me dumped out.