Posts by jookbeard

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

jw
friends

i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

A call from family - Armageddon this month!

by kaik in

i very seldom receive a call from my jw siblings, i mean seldom.

i can count them on my hand in past 10 years.

while we talk about mom a lot and i am in touch with her, i was very surprised when i received this call.

well the month of October has passed and I think Kaik's sister should be eating a large slice of "humble pie" of course she wont she be probably saying the end will come next month, TBH I've heard some crap over the years regarding biblical prophecy but the Syrian refugee crisis is up there especially as the Russians became involved! just exactly what section in the bible shows this as a biblical prophecy?

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CO Comes Up With A New Way To Be Judgemental...

by JW_Rogue in

at the latest co visit something very strange happened.

during the meeting with the elders and servants he passed out a copy of a hypothetical publisher card and asked us what we could learn from it.

upon receiving it i saw that the average hours were pretty good, it had return visits and quite a few bible studies.

jookbeard

and they wonder why so many are leaving or why there so so much inactivity, lack of motivation etc , the idiot probably doesn't see as far as the end of his nose.

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Curiosity killed the cat.

by James Mixon in

don't you think with all the talk about apostate sites, this is having a reverse.

effect for the rf.

if i was a jw today i would wonder what are all the lies these people are saying.. and i would try defending their truth on these sites, but in each case those that come here.

jookbeard

of course always has done, anything that is banned , outlawed treated as taboo only makes the curiosity to look into it even more likely, that's why they have so many "double lifers" and the fear of being found out makes them even better equipped to hide it, another example of why so many are waking up, the GB members constant attempts to to label every single dissenting issue and "apostate lies" makes them look more and more foolish.

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Dissenters in Watchtower History: Differing Departures

by slimboyfat in

i'm reading an excellent book about defectors from the mormon church called differing visions: dissenters in mormon history.

through a collection of essays from many academic authors it looks at the life stories of dissenters and reasons for departure, as well as analysing the impact of their dissent on the church itself.

fascinating stuff and makes me wish there was a similar volume looking at the key dissenters from jws/watchtower and the impact they had.

jookbeard

John Merriman, Chris and Norma Sanchez

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Dissenters in Watchtower History: Differing Departures

by slimboyfat in

i'm reading an excellent book about defectors from the mormon church called differing visions: dissenters in mormon history.

through a collection of essays from many academic authors it looks at the life stories of dissenters and reasons for departure, as well as analysing the impact of their dissent on the church itself.

fascinating stuff and makes me wish there was a similar volume looking at the key dissenters from jws/watchtower and the impact they had.

jookbeard

Duane Magnani, Leonard and Marjorie Crietein , David A Reed, Ed Decker,Lori MacGregor ( I wonder if she is still with us) made some very instrumental contributions from the late 1970's, SBL I'm surprised that you've noticed the amount of WT dissenters through the years considering you view them and the biggest and fastest growing group on the planet

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2015 Jehovah's Witnesses Annual Meeting Lett warning about apostates CLIP

by Watchtower-Free in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja4z2-sf4ky.

jookbeard

I cant bear to listen for one single second of the bile that spews from that dipshits mouth

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If JWs Were More Tolerant Would It Help Their Money Woes?

by minimus in

jw
friends

they don't want you bettering yourself.

they hate college education.they applaud you if you quit full time secular work and instead, "pioneer".

they cry that they have money problems.

jookbeard

agree with the OP, but since when have they done anything in their entire history that showed common sense and logic? they only thing I can really think of is the reduction in meetings and pioneer hours and only because it was forced on them, they stay obsessed by their "persecution complex" and seem to love doing so.

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Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

by Dunedain in

there were always all types of speakers in the org.

myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

jookbeard

we had another brother who seemed to be numerically dyslexic is there is such an affliction , he was an MS and for some strange reason was often given the role to give the announcements in the SM, first the KH accounts , if there was say £500 in the bank he's say there was £5000, the 144.000 was often called the 14,000, and if he had to reel off figures on the world wide report of a country having 6000 pubs he's say they had 60,000 pubs I think the UK had 400.000 pubs at one stage, I think the BoE's used to give him the announcements on purpose

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Special Pioneer Couple Living at a Kingdom Hall In Miami FL, get the dreaded Letter

by James Jack in

just got a phone call from an older sister saying that a couple that got re-assigned from bethel 4 years ago to live at their kh apartment as special pioneers, just received a letter saying "as of january 2016, your special pioneer assignment will be discontinued".. they live in a south miami kh(snapper creek congregation).. this couple had only served in bethel for 15 years before they were sent out into the special pioneer work.

they are now in their mid 50's and the sister said that they have to find part time jobs to support themselves.. the older sister (does not have a pc or internet), says that the couple are just devastated!

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jookbeard

whats happening to the flat ? is being sold as well?