Posts by jookbeard

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Explain why you are happy if you believe there is no afterlife vs when you joined JW's

by Bad_Wolf in

one thing that has intrigued me are so many who have left, who are wholly convinced everything in existence is merely by chance now, also claim they wouldn't want to live forever, and perfectly fine if this is the only life.

now, i would understand that if you were raised into the religion.

i was raised into it.

jookbeard

SWAT, I just prefer to see Mother Nature take its natural course, you me and a pack of wild horses cant change that nor will it ever change, there is something quite beautiful,sobering, powerful seeing an Apex predator, stalk,prepare and execute its plan when its comes to feeding time, your angry evil bloodthirsty perverted voyeuristic Hebrew god of the OT would have devised other tests that Adam would have failed, plus he had issues with angels that rebelled that she/he didn't address properly, he/she likes to use the "blame game" you know, never admits to screwing up which he/she has done numerous times

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Explain why you are happy if you believe there is no afterlife vs when you joined JW's

by Bad_Wolf in

one thing that has intrigued me are so many who have left, who are wholly convinced everything in existence is merely by chance now, also claim they wouldn't want to live forever, and perfectly fine if this is the only life.

now, i would understand that if you were raised into the religion.

i was raised into it.

jookbeard

it was like leaving the asylum when I woke up and faded, the prospect of playing with ferocious animals that had become tame in a paradise earth even when I was a member of the R&F was ridiculous to me, utterly stupid, I moved on and didn't for one second regret it.

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The Latest Thing Waking People Up...

by pale.emperor in

since i woke up and left i've been contacted by others i knew from my youth who've also left the cult.

also people around the world on facebook adding me out of the blue because we have mutual friends and they occasionally ask me stuff or share their story.. what i've noticed in the vast majority of cases, is that people are waking up not because of the arc or doctrine but apathy.

active jws are becoming less and less interested, less and less bothered.

jookbeard

apathy has always affected them, its like a cancer clearly visible by their hopeless recruitment stats globally, I've never met a bunch of more downtrodden demotivated physically and mentally worn out people in my life, the cracks cant be covered over.

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Has Cart preaching over taken door to door?

by blownaway in

i have not had a jw at my door [don't get me wrong this is great] for a few years.

is cart preaching the why its all done today?

jookbeard

I have no doubt that the D2D work must be close to being finished in the area I live and many of the surrounding suburbs, you simply dont see them anymore, and I'm more than qualified to be looking out for them, unless you have been invited or are awaiting a parcel Londoners dont answer their doors to jack

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Has Cart preaching over taken door to door?

by blownaway in

i have not had a jw at my door [don't get me wrong this is great] for a few years.

is cart preaching the why its all done today?

jookbeard

the two ladies I speak with once every couple of weeks who operate the carts in my town also have a cart situated at the train station where the commuter trains disembark and I see them but when they are there at these times its busy with the passengers trying to head away ASAP, they stand there like they are handing out information that could be the answer to the ageing process or other such answers to our ills, or the winning lottery numbers, they almost shove the rags in peoples faces, naturally no one takes a blind bit of notice to the rags, FF a few yards up the road and earlier in the day. and if I see the ladies in a more suitable setting I'll stop have a relaxed chat etc, I commented that I often see them at the exits of the train station but as its busy I dont stop to chat as I understand its a busy time of day for you, last week one of the ladies replied " oh we really shift a lot of our magazines with those commuters getting off of their trains, only yesterday we shifted 60 of the rags in the space of a few minuets" I wonder why she would lie to me, there is not a chance in a million years they'd shift that amount especially in a boring dull commuter town like where I live and a part of London where KH's are being sold congs merged or disbanded etc, I present myself as a once interested person who's uncle was a jw and studied with me, if only she really knew what I know.

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Do Circuit Overseers outrank Elders? Why can't they talk to disfellowshipped people?

by garyneal in

jw
friends

last sunday, our family went to the kingdom hall and i realized that this was the week that the circuit overseer was in town.

when we sat down, i noticed he came over and talked to her then he walked away i guess to talk to others.

a few minutes later, he returned to tell her that he could not talk to her because he was informed that she was disfelloshipped.

jookbeard

talked to who?

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Obviously Jehovah and Christ Jesus never felt the same way about Satan as Jehovah`s Witnesses do ? or other Christians for that matter .

by smiddy3 in

simply put , jehovah tolerated satan coming and going before him in the heavenly realm for six thousand years before having him cast out of heaven .. think about that, six thousand years .!

and having conversations jehovah and satan .no shunning of him in all this time .6000 years.

we have an example of that in the book of job.and elsewhere.. the same is true with jesus christ ,according to the jehovah`s witnesses he was the first born of all creation and he also obviously tolerated satan for six thousand years .their is no example of shunning their either .. jesus was tempted by satan for fourty days { why was he with him for fourty days anyway ?

jookbeard

what a loving god, and what a kind gift for all mankind casting down Satan and his demons to the earth, as if mankind didn't have enough problems to contend with, I think I know who the evil one really is and it isnt the guy in red with horns and a fork.

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Do You Think The Mayor of London Is Doing a Good Job?

by minimus in

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friends

his city seems pretty dangerous especially since he has taken over and of course he just loves trump.

lol .

jookbeard

I live in London, its a very very dangerous city, we have a crime wave of moped gang robberies skyrocketing, postcode gang murders at the highest in Europe and Operation Trident dealing with black gun crime constantly ongoing, anyone liking or thinking this useless waste of space Sadiq Khan is doing a good job come and live here for a few months and come back and give me your answer, some of the teen gang murders just beggar belief, a "hit" can be put out on a young teen just because they may have made an Instagram or Snapchat comment that could have been considered disrespectful, its reality.

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Ministry experiences

by Freedom rocks in

hi does anyone have any bad ministry experiences to share or really funny ones?.

some of mine were:.

- having water sprayed on us with a hose.

jookbeard

we had met for FS one morning and we had this particualry awful old hag in our cong who rarely came to the meetings but used to go out in the FS! I hardly knew her, my mate an elder/pioneer assigned me to work with her and I noticed a subtle grin as he paired us up, well it started bad and continued to get worse as the morning progressed, she was rude,arrogant, wouldn't take no as an answer, a real "foot in the door" merchant, an awful woman, I couldn't wait for the hour to finish quick enough, we had a laugh after about it though.

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Ministry experiences

by Freedom rocks in

hi does anyone have any bad ministry experiences to share or really funny ones?.

some of mine were:.

- having water sprayed on us with a hose.

jookbeard

my mate had nicknames for his RV's one elderly guy who used to cough a lot was called The Cougher