Posts by freddo

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Pshycos! - 2016 "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" Regional Convention Program

by thedepressedsoul in

wow this is interesting!

i think how much emphasis this puts on "loyalty" shows their is an issue.

they're trying to plug the wholes as much and quickly as possible.

2016 Memorial Done & Dusted

by steve2 in

well on this side of the planet, the southern hemisphere/ new zealand, the 2016 memorial service in local kingdom halls will be over for another year.

another great big anticlimax.

some family and relatives will have gone - but unless i ask my sister, i generally have no idea about attendance and partaker numbers.

freddo

Yep. That little dance where the servers (who have had the chance to quaff the cup and crunch the biscuit at the end of each row they pass "emblems to") serve each other.

And then the speaker who has handed the cups to all the servers and has them all handed back to him to put on the table then has his own little to and fro cup and plate handling opportunity from a server all by himself before putting them finally on the table.

Anyway, good news - our hall was down from 118 to 112 this year. A small decrease but a decrease nevertheless.

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Pshycos! - 2016 "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" Regional Convention Program

by thedepressedsoul in

wow this is interesting!

i think how much emphasis this puts on "loyalty" shows their is an issue.

they're trying to plug the wholes as much and quickly as possible.

freddo

What? No "Disloyal" Korah? I love Korah - old swallowy uppy earthquaky Korah.

Pah. Lightweights.

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My Personal Invitation to the Celebration of the Lord's Evening Meal

by TMS in

by no means is this a heartwarming "experience" illustrating how an ex-jw skillfully "reached the heart" of a current jw, moving them to re-examine their belief system.

that won't be my take on my half hour visit with an elder's wife last sunday.

no one scored points here as is almost always the case in these interactions.. we live at the extreme southern tip of texas, on the u.s.-mexico border in a city of about 200,000. twenty years ago there were 20 spanish language congregations, 2 english.

freddo

Trust me, her head will be spinning and what you said will "pop up" from time to time in the future. Whether her comfy well-ordered existence or her desire to see a dead loved one in paradise will be overcome by a crisis big enough for her to act at any time I don't know.

I've heard it all before but your take on the only innocent in the David and Bathsheba situation being killed by Jehovah touched me ...

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Well I spilled it to the elders (elder)

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

an elder came over for a visit the other night (he couldn't get a partner) personally i consider him a friend and have revieiled many things to him an figured the tie has come to step out of this religion slowly.. well i finally told him i have no believe in the bible (other then the confirmed history in it) or god.

i did it slowly and tactfully and even non-agressive.. his response to learning i believe in evolution was that evolution doesn't happen now i respectfully disagreed and pointed out lactose and alcohol tolerance among the last thousand years as well as tibetian lung/hearts.

he refused to believe it.

freddo

If you're not ready to be df'd then be careful what you say; even alone to a lone second elder - actually, a lone second anybody - who will stand as a witness in a J/C against you.

One is enough!

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Is everything that doesnt add ud explained as a vision, a parable or a "poem" ?

by Bolthof in

hi.. i meet up with a couple of jw once a week and it seems to me that every time i show them a verse that says something that contradicts their doctrine they say that it is a parable, a vision.. or a poem of some sort.

what are your toughts about this ?.

freddo

Tell 'em the "faithful and discreet slave" is just a parable too. That'll get'em jumping.

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Article: "JWs door to door pamphlets are actually alright." Journalist's mistakes corrected in Comments by XJWs. Read his reaction.

by AndersonsInfo in

jw
friends

https://www.the-newshub.com/general/jehovahs-witness-door-to-door-pamphlets-are-actually-alright#comment-section.

jehovah's witness door to door pamphlets are actually alright.

and their religion isn't that bad either.

freddo

Good man. A rating of "2" would seem about right to me.

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Child Abuse

by MicaSmith in

hello, i am new to forum.

i want to thank you for allowing me to post my concerns.. you are a lively, intelligent, empathetic community.

i have read many of your posts and comments.. i have two concerns that i would like to discuss here.

freddo

Superb post MicaSmith. Welcome.

You express yourself very cogently and what you have written chimes exactly with my beliefs about many JW's and the Governing Body. "Whitewashed graves" comes to mind.

From your description your mother was/is a wicked self serving abuser. Look up Eunice Spry a jw from England who manipulated others and was even allowed to be a foster parent, so skilled was her manipulation, to see how this type of person behaves.

Keep the toxic ones out of your life, even (especially) blood related ones!

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Is Reading/Writing about Mythologies bad?

by Messhy in

as the topic title says, is reading/writing about mythologies bad?

i read alot of mythologies and enjoy it.

should i stop?.

freddo

@Messhy

Welcome. Enjoy what you do.

@Xanthippe.

Homer is good but he spends too much time lazing around on the sofa for my liking.

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Urgent assistance needed for Barbara and ARC!

by Atlantis in

my contacts are assisting in this effort but the more people the better!.

.. information needed in assisting barbara anderson with arc... barbara needed a boe for arc and i have already sent it to her so that problem is solved.

however we are in need of the following information:.

freddo

Atlantis - you have a pm.