I remember some sort of change in understanding including an invisible fulfillment ,they stated that they now had an invisible spiritual paradise rather than than the paradise earth . Don't know if that's in any publications tho .I also read the explanation in the WTBTS publication that it was the R&F fault for starting the hype when clearly it was in the magazines that they didn't plan on being in this world post '75 .Even Rutherford had a millions now living will never die fiasco so how can they just blame the followers? Some sick stuff there.
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Chapter 2- 1975 -Excerpt from the upcoming book, "The Kingdom Hall No More"
by Kingdom Hall No More in"so, the society was putting out that 1975 was the year that this system of things will come to an end, meaning the wicked were going to be destroyed.
discussions at circuit and district assemblies, and local kingdom halls were given.
conversations about 1975 were every day talk.
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What happened when Jesus didn't COME BACK QUICKLY? History shows...
by Terry inclearly people in the 1st century who were jews and christians obviously felt they were living in the last days.. they lived in the roman empire.
jewish apocalypticism influenced such thinking.
it was a time of foment, upheaval and insecurity.
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The WTBTS has at as , I am coming quickly to mean ,when it's time to take action there will be no more delay ,since that's what it says , there is a period of delay from executing judgment that has been preached about by the prophets and ministers . So far world conditions have not reached the point of distress to where God feels the need to intervene and save his people from complete annihilation .IMO
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OBEY! T-Shirt Design for Ex-JW's
by sacolton ini couldn't find my earlier post, so .... here i am wearing my t-shirt:.
get yours today!.
http://www.cafepress.com/xjwtees.
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Like the T but can't read the entire line at the bottom , ushering in a totalitarian ........ ?
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Atheism - The next and final logical step
by sam_sane_now init is with great pleasure that i have found this forum, being an ex jw myself.
after leaving when i was 17 i still held some belief in the notion of a "god," even though i didn't believe in jw teachings, then when i was about 21 and thought about it properly; i realised that evolution is the only real alternative to all religion.
when you get to this point its very liberating to see that its not just jw's that are clouding and brainwashing peoples minds, but all religion, whether organised or not.
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Whatever makes you happy . Don't believe atheism myself but totally hate religion . There are physicists that are saying that whatever math they use for the big bang does not prove anything . Then you're right back to discussing invisible forces molding life when the fossil record doesn't support the tiny changes over long periods of time .They make huge leaps in logic to conclude it happened , that's why it's still called a theory of evolution , (unproven hypothesis).
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What are some of your memories pre 1975?
by karter ingoing to an international assembly 1974 and one of the gb leo greenlees saying"this will most likely be the last international assembly this side of armageddon".. poeple selling their houses.. storing up food.. wondering what went wrong on dec 31 1975!.
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I remember never having heard of the j-ho's or kingdub hells or the WTBTS. I think they hit our house just after the big let down in 75. Of course nobody mentioned it either.
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Myspace is bad
by JimmyPage insomeone told my wife that the myspace site is bad.
they said it will be brought out more in the upcoming assemblies.
a lot of dubs have gotten themselves in trouble on the site.
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We are talking a very worldly activity on line , there are way too many temptations . I'm always getting porn people wanting an add . I don't get how people let their kids communicate with strangers and get in trouble as they do .
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BIG WATCHTOWER ANNOUNCEMENTS>>>>>>>
by oompa injust don't happen enough.......i miss the chatter.
we need something new already....new light or something.
i can't just sit idly by anticipating the death of the 1914 thingy.....oompa
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Even jesus wept when lazarus died and he knew he could raise him from the dead , it's the feeling of losing something that can't be replaced by you, I think .An empty spot in your life that won't be filled until later sometime and nobody can say exactly when .IMO
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BIG WATCHTOWER ANNOUNCEMENTS>>>>>>>
by oompa injust don't happen enough.......i miss the chatter.
we need something new already....new light or something.
i can't just sit idly by anticipating the death of the 1914 thingy.....oompa
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Man that is so strange that you'd feel that way BTL . Of course if someone you love dies you'd be upset .You don't always think of resurrection , you think of them not being around for you.
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Feb. Thread about UN association
by Muney insorry to bring up an old dead thread found here http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/152761/1.ashx .
website: http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.
i was just wondering if anything that the guy located in the link has to say is true.
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Oh common sarah , they were in the wrong obviously . Even that site mentioned how a DPI NGO would have to give information about the UN , now the WTBTS condemns the UN as satans organization in opposition to jehovah , so what kind of info are they going to give out about the UN? Obviously the information that opposes the organization .DUH!
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Simple question: JESUS WAS THE SON OF (which?) MAN
by Terry injesus had no dna from joseph.. a case could be made that jesus was the son of woman.
but, seriously...folks...... here is the real point:.
within the hebrew bible, the first place one comes across the phrase son of man is in book of numbers 23:19:.
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I believe jesus was a cloned baby. He had to be equal to adam when he died thus canceling out the original sin of adam and redeeming mankind from the grave . I don't believe he was genetically related to mary or joseph and they adopted him after his birth (without actually saying anything about it) . Adams offspring would all inherit the sin, so in order for him to be born without sin there had to have been a separate lineage of DNA.I also believe the arch angel Michael explanation given by the WTBTS .