Posts by jookbeard

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Thanks to member The Searcher

by Brainfloss in

this was posted by the searcher a few months ago in response to member sauvojr regarding topics to speek with his wife about in their bible only study some how i missed it before but excellent!!!.

suavojr, why not start with the big one - the gb!.

the circumcision issue.

Still nothing credible?

by Separation of Powers in

i can hardly believe that anything new is gonna be announced at the annual meeting.

i mean, there is absolutely no one i know in this organization capable of keeping a secret and we haven't heard anything but "big changes are coming" "just wait and see" "big things are in the works" and my personal favorite posted by one of our members who was told not to diassociate because "things are gonna be announced that will change your mind".. no one i know at the hall or in positions of responsibilty has ever been able to keep anything confidential.

it's always been like the character on in lving color, "i aint one to gossip...but you didn't hear that from me.".

jookbeard

nothing SoP dead a dodo, the Big A never came, they must be scratching around trying to think of something

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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

by FlyingHighNow in

i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

what did you love about the 80s?

jookbeard

what about the fabulous XTC?

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JW email making the rounds: He doesn't serve Jehovah

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

this is making the rounds.

he doesn't serve jehovah.

i'd like to tell you a story, about true love at last.

jookbeard

I couldnt read it all , as Suavojr says sick evil twisted fuckers, looking back on a vast percentage of sisters who married "brothers" of my age group only a handful are still married

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

by Alfred in

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.

jookbeard

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

jw
friends

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.

.

jookbeard

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

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?.

jookbeard

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

jw
friends

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.

jookbeard

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

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.

jookbeard

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

jw
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?.

jookbeard

autumn is my favourite season as well, those cool breezy nights wonderful