Posts by jookbeard

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Craziest Yearbook experience EVER brother silences talking snake????
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yearbook 1967 p.105 chad africa- "..a large crowd were following a man with a talking serpent.

the serpent gave greetings and spoke in foriegn tongues.

a brother went to the house and as soon as he entered the serpent went silent.
jookbeard

maybe he thought Dr Doolittle had called on him?
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Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

maybe, but their are still hypocrites, show double standards and have an agenda driven obsession with another activist
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Literature being discontinued, including Isaiah's Prophecy and Reasoning book
by Richard_I in
1. jw
2. friends
congregations get an annual letter that tells what can be ordered for literature (it's mainly a list of audio cds/dvds for the deaf), but this time it included publications that will be discontinued, and this included the isaiah's prophecy book and the reasoning book, and i think i saw the draw close to jehovah book.

i meant to take a picture of the letter but forgot.

the branch is only going to give what they have on stock, when that stock depletes that's it, you won't be able to order those publications anymore.. this is in canada so i don't know if this is worldwide..
jookbeard

to think when I was an active uber dub the Reasoning book never left my side when out in the FS! how times change
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Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

David, I think you need to chill out a bit pal, plus your rants are off topic
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Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

SBF and Cofty, other issues I had with RoT was Dougs obsession with the New Age, it seemed to get to the stage where he viewed the New Age as a bigger threat to Christianity than the high control Christian groups he campaigned against, another was their promotion of EXIT counselling and deprogramming techniques which he promoted and are very dangerous areas indeed, thankfully these techniques seem to have been dropped by counter cult groups in recent years and rightly so.
73
Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

SBF RoT's HQ was originally in Morden Garth Road, they moved to Richmond I believe to be closer to Dougs home in Twickenham
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Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

very interesting paper SBF, I'll read it later, Stephen Hunt is the author of that paper , I dont know him
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Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

SBF! there must be a full moon tonight, we've been agreeing far too much with each other !
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Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

David I dont really have the inclination nor do I really care why Marc( you're him aren't you LOL) has taken this stance, I was a member of the ukexjw FB page in which he( you) was an "admin" I posted some very innocent memes and he(you) quickly removed them, so clearly showing his(your) true colours which I found childish, stupid and an overreaction so I promptly removed myself from the group, but I am entitled to make an objective decision in all this mess, and my summary is that you Mike and Kim and others have jumped on this "attack Cedars Bandwagon" which I equally find childish and irrelevant,and the common denominator is that you are all exjw's that have embraced evangelical Christianity, a toxic mix which I dont mind speaking about, another thing is that you all show this same persecution complex that jw's do, its like you haven't left the WTS at all, in fact why dont you go back to them? you never hear much of exjw atheists attacking their fellow exjw atheists in this way. I really dont have much to say on this matter TBH.
73
Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.
jookbeard

Cofty; it was an interesting few months in the time I spent under RT's radar, their office in Morden was very close to where I lived so I would pop in there for a couple of hours a time, purchase books etc and chat with Doug and Derek but as soon as it became obvious I was to have nothing to do with their form of christianity I was dropped like a hot brick and at a time when I was hoping for friendship and support I found this very confusing, the issue I found was that RT a counter cult minstry became a cult within a counter cult group, Doug was very bright, charismatic, good speaker and they were morphing yet didn't realise it, the one disturbing thing I found out personally though was that they had left my personal details with some pastors of churches in the London area(so called experts in reaching out to jw's , they were'nt at all and were not even exjw's) and I started to be called at times that were very awkward and unexpected ( the time before mobile phones and internet) and bear in mind I was in a crumbling marriage to a jw this really heightened her paranoia ( she was suffering from mental health issues as well) I found this completely unacceptable but not "out of the blue" in the way they operated, I in time dropped them like a hot brick and I didn't regret it