My old man visited his cong in the late 1980's as the visiting speaker , Woking in Surrey, we met briefly, I was always led to believe he was a competition body builder not a wrestler
jookbeard
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Kenneth Richmond - Wrestler and former Circuit Overseer Dies
by eyeslice ini was only young but i do remember ken and his wife (valentina) being our co. he was a mountain of a man but it would appear from the bbc obituary he was a man of peace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword.shtml .
olympic wrestler and actor who became the last of the men who struck the symbolic j. arthur rank movie gong has died aged 80. .
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Lack of zeal
by road to nowhere ini hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.
waste of a whole morning.
isolated.
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jookbeard
I watched my zeal waver and dwindle away into inactivity and atheism,I was very aware of it, it was a self monitoring process, but secretly quite enjoyable, and to think I was praised for my zeal,enthusiasm and public speaking LOL
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Sexual Morality In The Old Testament Differs From That In The New Testament
by AlanF inconservative christians like the jehovah's witnesses often claim that, like the new testament, the old testament forbids all sexual relations outside marriage, including relations between unmarried people.
that is not quite true.
to see that patriarchal and israelite culture adhered to a different standard, we must first understand just how the old testament treats marriage, sexuality and related items.. the old testament view of women as property.
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jookbeard
I wonder whatever happened to AlanF? the amount of time and energy he put into his work here can never be commended enough
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How Many Here Are Estranged From Your Family Because Of The Witnesses?
by minimus indo your jw relatives still talk to you?
are you now not very close?
are you avoided?
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jookbeard
only my hard nosed sister left haven't spoken to her in over a decade, still shunned
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What Did You Do With All Your Meeting Clothes?
by minimus ini literally had dozens of suits.
i still have more dress clothes than anyone i know.
i did give some suits and clothing away and to be honest, i still like wearing a nice suit.. brothers and sisters, are all your “ meeting clothes” still in your closet?
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jookbeard
I had some nice smutter, I wore my Hugo Boss wedding suit for a while when I was a R&F dub, but that was 29 years ago and I was a 32inch waist, even if I'd had kept that stuff none of it would have fitted me now!
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2020 Memorial Talk points for "interested persons" to raise.
by The Fall Guy in1) "what jesus gave was equal to what adam had lost—a perfect human life.".
jesus said that he came as a ransom, (matthew 20:28) but according to jw dogma, jesus' ransom gained far more than what was lost – 144,000 immortal king/priests in heaven to be precise!
adam was never going to produce such super-human offspring!
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jookbeard
the spiritual submarines, they surface once a year for the memorial
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How Much of the WT Teaching Did You Believe?
by Ding insome people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".
i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.
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jookbeard
a very small percentage, I thought naively that were were some genuinely well qualified Hebrew boffins in HQ that could interpret the more complicated biblical doctrine and for a short time it interested me, but the biggies were the destruction of all non jw's at Armageddon, the 1914 Generation never sat well with me nor did the blood ban,the original sin the serpent deceiving Eve to this day just does not make any sense, its an insult to the intelligence, if God worked hard on this project of creating the Garden of Eden putting two perfect humans into it why compromise all the hard work? they were destined to fail the tests, its stupidity,nonsense,madness,and the "sovereignty" issue how much more suffering do we need to see, children/babies being murdered,people freezing to death on the streets,famine,etc how much longer FFS? its madness,insanity,a perverted voyeuristic,angry all powerful being sitting in the heavens watching all this depravity? words cant do this lunacy justice, when I was a young 21 year old getting baptised in 1988 I was mainly interested in the social scene and meeting chicks, just a social club really, by the very early 1990's and the vast amount of research that I had engaged in I was done, I was out.
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Matt Dillahunty From The Atheist Experience vs A Jehovah's Witness
by pale.emperor inthis was cringe worthy, and yet hilarious to watch.
i'm sensing that this was a person studying with jws because she's so bad at defending the very basics.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rcmjczeb8.
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jookbeard
he's great
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No Need To Preach In Every Country Anymore
by pale.emperor inspeaking to a pimo from my hometown yesterday.
he told me that in the watchtower study (10 nov 2019) regarding “the great tribulation” the elder on the platform said that there’s no need for jws to preach in every country in order to fulfil the prophecy, and therefore the org has already fulfilled that prophecy.
and that there’s nothing else left to wait for now but for “the great tribulation” to come.. gasps of delight came from the audience.. has anyone else heard this?
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jookbeard
pionsneers to be axed next?
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No Need To Preach In Every Country Anymore
by pale.emperor inspeaking to a pimo from my hometown yesterday.
he told me that in the watchtower study (10 nov 2019) regarding “the great tribulation” the elder on the platform said that there’s no need for jws to preach in every country in order to fulfil the prophecy, and therefore the org has already fulfilled that prophecy.
and that there’s nothing else left to wait for now but for “the great tribulation” to come.. gasps of delight came from the audience.. has anyone else heard this?
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jookbeard
any jw with a brain cell in their head surely know there are billions of folks on this planet that have never heard of the WT and their stewardship in preaching the kingdumb of god, or will never likely hear it, I would of thought it is even more important to be preaching globally!