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  Question #9 of this week's "oral review" of DVD "Faith In Action"...

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this week, the service meeting will have an oral review of the dvd faith in action which was distributed in the 2010 district assembly worldwide... as many of you probably know, the intent of this dvd is to present a "white-washed" version of the history of the watchtower by omitting all the scandals and cover-ups.... i no longer go to meetings, but i would have loved to raise my hand and answer question #9 which reads: "what did the bible students expect would happen in 1914?".

  my response would have been the following:.

  even though the geoffrey jackson admits that the bible students expected a "heavenly reward", the dvd avoids mentioning that russell categorically predicted armageddon would come in october of 1914. what's even worse is the fact that the narrator lied on two occasions by saying that the bible students expected or reasoned that jesus would take the throne in 1914. this is completely false.

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  Magwitch

  Black Sheep - Thank you so much for that newspaper article. Parts of it were so funny! I love the follow ...

  Furthermore, the uncovering is worthwhile because it will put a check to the cartloads of ‘Millennial Dawn’ literature which have dumped into Brooklyn homes since Pastor Russell came to the city. The street cleaning department has enough to attend to without having its burden increased by even the weight of the paper upon which the Brooklyn Tabernacle effusions are printed. I am assuming of course that the cleaning department and the Atlantic Ocean are the speedy recipients of most of the papers which are thrown at us week by week.
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  Cult Psychology Workshop in Florida - May 5 - 6 2012

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am planning on attending.

  it will have other "cults" represented as well.

  http://icsahome.com/pdf/event_florida.pdf.

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  Magwitch

  This same organization is having a workshop in Colorado at the end of July. I am seriously thinking of attending. Diest or Ziddina - Do you want to go?
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  My son was murdered today

  by truman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.

  i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.

  maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.

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  Magwitch

  This is heartbreaking. I am so very, very sorry for your loss.
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  Fun with the July 15th WT illustration

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, friends, it's that time once more... when we clip some wt art to a post and try to find all the subliminal wt propaganda messages hidden in the illustration.

  (kinda like, "can you find the differences between these two drawings" for kids in the sunday comics).

  here's the illustration:.

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  Magwitch

  This illustration seems way over my head. Please help me out here...If I put my feet up while talking on the phone, I am enjoying the "Freedom of the world"? And if I drink from a straw I am "Making the truth my own"?

  This seems a bit DEEP for me.
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  Are you attending the Memorial this year?

  by XPeterX in

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  2. friends

  dunno about you but i'm going..

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  Magwitch

  Stroke of good luck!!! Came down with a cold - way too sick to make it. But many thanks to DIEST for singing that lovely kingdom song on my voice mail - it was almost as if I was at the KH. So wish I could post it here.
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  Are you attending the Memorial this year?

  by XPeterX in

  1. jw
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  dunno about you but i'm going..

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  Magwitch

  It would mean so much to my very elderly parents if I went. I hate that religion so much, but I adore and love my mother and father. My sister and I, along with a couple of good friends have decided that we will tell my parents tomorrow..."We will go to the Memorial to honor you, but absolutely no other reason."
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  What's the strangest thing you've heard someone seek counsel with the elders about?

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  personally, i never went to the elders with anything(not voluntarily, anyway).

  but a friend of mine once asked a couple of elders whether it would be acceptable for him and his wife to make a sex tape, for their own personal viewing.

  needless to say, the idea was frowned upon..

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  Magwitch

  An adult publisher asked my father (in the 70's) if it would be okay to buy candy cigarettes.
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  Judicial Committee Meetings – Sexual Matters

  by Celestial in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anyone had three elders (judicial committee) question you on sex before marriage?.

  case in point, being raised as one of jehovah's witnesses, i partied with peers that were witnesses by tradition, inherent faith.

  at the age of eighteen (1992), i was conversing about the elders with a group of witnesses, and a girl who had been before a judicial committee chimed in and said, they ask questions that are none of their fucking business.

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  Magwitch

  When the 300 pound, 65 year old brother (with terrible hygiene and suspicious skin disorders) confesses to adultery, the JC have zero interest in the details.
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  So What Would You Do If You Won $550,000,000?

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.

  if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?

  other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........

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  Magwitch

  I'd end up living in a kennel

  Wha Happened...that is why it is very important to be on your best behavior with us crazy cat women.
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  So What Would You Do If You Won $550,000,000?

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.

  if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?

  other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........

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  Magwitch

  I would first have to answer to my father as to why I would disobediently buy a lottery licket when it is so clear that Jehovah hates the lottery. After that I would...

  • Save all the homeless cats in the world
  • travel the earth with my girls