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  1988 Devine Justice convention

  by Dwnundah in

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  i would like to confirm when (month?

  ) and where the 1988 devine justice assembly (lang park?

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  Ah the 1988 Divine Justice convention ,my memory is it was November too but I lived in Adelaide and had to travel to Melbourne Victoria for this with my wife and children where I was assigned to work in the "Security "department.

  Perhaps Lang Park was on at the same time but don't recall. But what I do recall in Melbourne is it was pretty hot and alot of us were sitting on our own chairs on the sports oval as there were so many people there.

  Some clown in the security department from Adelaide had a bright red station wagon prickled with antennae and cb radios with a large sign on it saying "SECURITY" and full of self importance!

  And up till then I thought Jehovahs org was so smoothly operated till I sat in our car in the heat for 2 hours or so trying to get out of the carpark at the end of the convention days, what a disaster it all was.

  It was one of those magic moments that helped me leave the delusion of the JWs behind years later.
  
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  Is Flipper OK?

  by Iamallcool in

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  https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/us/california-earthquake/index.html.

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  They said one guy had a 10 - 15 second warning on his phone ,phew not much time but maybe enough to get under something solid

  or try to finish your game of solitaire
  
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  MY GOSPEL

  by pistolpete in

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  has anyone ever read the new testament- critically- and not theologically?

  by theologically i mean not reading the bible with the intention of understanding the nature of god and religious truth.

  but instead, reading the bible by analyzing only the facts of what is written, in an unbiased frame of mind to pull out what is actually happening in the written stories.. first of all, if you were to read the nt in chronological order, paul’s 7 authentic letters would come before the gospels of matthew, mark, luke, and john.

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  wozza

  Good read Pete ,I think it is hard to read the new testament and study it to make sense of it because people have pre- concieved root beliefs which could account for different understandings of what is read.

  Yet what if an extremely powerful computer of AI ability (as far as science is capable of today) were to analyze the NT with as few as possible programmed predjudices and define the text and explain the meaning and if there are any real truths to the text. Now that would be interesting to see ,an explanation of the text without human predjudice and corrupt interpretation.

  Some christians might say what the computer came up with is wrong because it has no soul or human mind to fathom gods things. But that is the thing is'nt it? No human is perfect so the very writings themselves are corrupted by who put them down and who deals with the copies afterwards, and in the future who corrupts the original thoughts by believing in the text the way they want to like Paul.

  A computer readout of it's analysis and explanation of the texts failures would be illuminating. Why do I say "the texts failures" ? Well with 40 odd thousand christian beliefs all catering to human belief systems self serving their own narcisisstic ways, the core of the problem may well be the HUMAN condition that created the text.
  
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  Governing Body Update #9...Jehovah is guiding his people during the pandemic

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  david splane starts off with, ''i thought we might reflect on jehovah's goodness and the way he's been guiding his people during the pandemic.''.

  not once in his talk does he mention that jehovah would give all members a super immune system that would fight off the virus.

  neither does he mention that jehovah would reduce positive covid-19 numbers, hospital admissions and covid-19 deaths of his people.. mr. splane: how does the almighty, all knowing jehovah guide his people during the pandemic?.

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  " Just how is jehovah guiding his people...."?

  Good question when considering the above ,the GB is saying nothing more than what doctors and politicians are advising people to protect themselves!

  So How is it that there is a higher than the general populace infection and death rate among JW's

  Could it be that Jah's people are a rebellious lot who don't listen to practical advice from the world ,nor even their own GB who are now parroting the words of the world?

  Maybe because Jw's have ingrained in them that they are something special ,well that's what the GB have told them for so long , but really the only ones of them that have stayed safe from a pandemic is the priveleged who lock themselves in a compound and don't have to go into the world and earn a living and pay for that protective compound of the GB and it's associates.

  There has been no special information from the GB that actually has been followed by their drones to protect them in a pandemic. So therefore where is the protection promised by the bible? Even stopping the Jw's from meeting and visiting peoples homes with their message has still lead them to be infected and die more than the general populace. So once again the GB says something and yet the sheep are at fault ,the rebellious lot would have been better to not go out into the world and provide for their families and a safe compound for those GB members.
  
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  I`m astounded by this number ,what`s your thoughts ? definite benefits for sure ,but what of the future ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  by 2020, 114 launches carried around 1,300 satellites to space, surpassing the 1,000 new satellites per year mark for the first time.

  but no year in the past compares to 2021. as of sept. 16, roughly 1,400 new satellites have already begun circling the earth, and that will only increase as the year goes on.

  just this month, spacex deployed another 51 starlink satellites into orbit.. right now, there are nearly 6,000 satellites circling our tiny planet.

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  Holy crap , no wonder we don't hear of many UFO sightings ,the traffic is too thick to get in !
  
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  QUESTION of the DAY (a brain teaser)

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  question of the dayeach man chosen of the twelve jesus selected had been called disciples, or "students" (meaning "one who learns").

  (latin discipulus; greek μαθητής mathētḗs; hebrew לִמּוּד limmûdh;jesus is stated in the bible to have sent out the twelve using a new description: apostles, "whom he also named apostles" (luke 6:13), first before his death "to the lost sheep of israel" (matthew 10), and after his (resurrection to spread the message of the good news to all nations (matthew 28:16-28:20).with the above firmly in mind, the question arises: “why aren’t the governing body called apostles?”.

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  Perhaps it is because they can't speak in tongues or heal people miraculously or just plain not make mistakes when they prophesy. OR the word Apostle sounds too much like Apostate.
  
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  The looney left is at it again

  by mickbobcat in

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  so we all know california is one shit hole idiot state.

  now gov.

  asshat has banned gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers.

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  Typical fuckwits ! If they want to seriously stop pollution .global warming etc stop the planes flying in California .oh but they don't want that do they the hypocrites and that goes for all the Greta worshipping fucks as well.

  Jesus, next they will be stopping Americans from shooting their guns at each other coz they is noisy and pollute !
  
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  What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

  in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

  her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

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  So many but I won't be greedy

  1: The hall near me ,a wealthy business brother in dry wall industry,new to congo kissed a lot of arse bought a block of land , sub divided it and gave part to to the congo to build a kingdom hall but presented it to the authorities as housing and hall on the plans, put some plumbing illegally from the housing sector of the original part onto the kingdom hall block .All to save money I suppose but the brothers swallowed the BS and appointed him an elder not long after. A few years later I found out thru a sister her best freind was his daughter and he was a pedophile.
  

  2:In the hills of Adelaide South Australia another brother on the regional Quick build commitee and a builder himself tried to use hall funds to prop his business ,he also was not paying tradesman on his companies jobs ,for one night someone planted a bomb on his freshly laid concrete slab and blew it up , what lovely people!

  3:When I moved to the state of Queensland I was asked to audit the congregation books as soon as I started at their meetings ,apparently the last servant had ripped off thousands of dollars .

  Like others I could write a book so glad to have left .
  
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  Four Corners: Bearing Witness airs Monday 13 September at 8.30pm on ABC.

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. scandals

  abc 4 corners tv here in australia to be seen on monday 13th september.. i`m looking forward to seeing it.. ex witnesses have their say ..

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  wozza

  Just saw the ad on ABC TV for this tomorrow night ,going to record this as I always hear about events like this after it shows.

  I really hope they give a balanced view in the time they have ,there has been so much damage done to peoples lives .JW people need to focus less on how little time there is before Armaggedon ,and focus more on how much time they have to be honest with themselves about how the organisation is corrupting their conscience.
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  The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

  by Sea Breeze in

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  honda vfr 750.

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  @ Waton yes I may have been boasting and yet I can still remember the feeling of laying on the tank and feeling the fear and beautiful excitement of that one time and still exhilerated by the memory 50 years later. I can also remember the sick feeling of close calls ,yet here I am an old man with the wonderful knowlege I took a chance and succeeded ,the alternative was living a life of regret that I was too fearful to enjoy the thrills of life ,the only one you get.