Posts by freddo

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Stuck

by Cindy in

i feel so stuck.

i am married to a wonderful man.

i have been married for almost a decade and adore my husband.

freddo

Oh it's so not easy - this waking up when you love your spouse dearly but they are devout.

Don't rush, don't blurt out things that can come back and be used against you by those your husband in all sincerity seeks help from.

Rather than attack "God" - how about inconsistencies in the literature that has made it impossible for you to trust "imperfect men" anymore.

Go on jwfacts to find some real beauties.

The "overlapping generation" is dealt with using the WT literature and scripture to great effect. ONLY USE WT literature and the Bible - no reference to "apostate websites" or the "apostate sources card" will trump the truth you tell and close you down.

Another:

Remember at the convention that hate filled video where the scandinavian young woman is forced back to Jehovah by her deluded parents whose father scowls at her contemptuously across the KH when she is df'd and ignored when she phones her mother?

Now look up on jaydubya dotorg under FAQ's about "do JW's shun?" and see how it is portrayed there and ask your husband to explain why one thing is portrayed on the website and another at the convention?

Stick to WT literature, take your time, cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Oh and seek advice here! There are some crazies but most of us understand completely and want to help.

Freddo

P.S. You can trust "The Searcher" - he knows his stuff!

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WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

i was really puzzled when i opened this edition of the wt magazine at the above “study”.

what on earth has this picture at the top of page 13 got to do with christian watchfulness?

i wasn’t making a connection at all.

freddo

@vidiot

Yes it would be a good satirical "innocent" comment to make but trust me this old girl wasn't being satirical; her mother got baptised in the mid-1940's and she (the daughter) would have been at meetings from then on, getting baptised herself about 1950.

She has (as an adult) seen the unfolding of 1975, the generation, the non generation, the overlapping generation too. Where else can she go at her age?

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WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

i was really puzzled when i opened this edition of the wt magazine at the above “study”.

what on earth has this picture at the top of page 13 got to do with christian watchfulness?

i wasn’t making a connection at all.

freddo

Classic comment at our hall from an 80 year old:

"70 years ago we were told to keep on the watch because the end was close; and 30 years ago we were told the same ... so now we know it must be really close don't we?"

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Handels 'Messiah'

by zeb in

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i had been watching handels "messiah' on computer.

i mentioned this to my wife (uber) and got a "oh oh!

" reply so it looks like this most wonderful work of choral music is proscribed.

freddo

I had similar with "All things bright and beautiful" a hymn that was a favourite with small children in English schools. Hymn of Christendom? Big No-no.

However I reasoned that "If God chose His Organization in 1919 (I know ... I know ...) then stuff written prior must be OK especially if there is nothing unscriptural about the words."

Now no-one started singing non-jw hymns around me but it does put another perspective on the Hallelujah chorus doesn't it?

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Anthony Morris III Autobiography ... The Real Truth

by Wild_Thing in

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the watchtower published anthony morris iii's autobiography last year ... "remembering my first love has helped me to endure" by anthony morris iii.

i absolutely cannot believe how quickly he became a jehovah's witness.

in the span of less than a year, he attended his first meeting, studied, got baptized, became a pioneer, and married a jw girl.

freddo

I'll not forget the line in his autobiography Watchtower; something like "My boys make me look good".

And that is what it's all about isn't it? Looking good on the outside.

Whitewashed Grave at its best.

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Japan's branch office. began to crumble?

by nakanozzi in

ebina assembly hall, where the japan’s branch office is located,need to be fixed all over inside, but they have no money.

ameblo.jp/c00-c00/entry-12198348850.html.

.

freddo

I dunno "dropoffyourkeylee" that does look like a dried up baptism pool and if you go down far enough in the linked site there is a jw.org symbol and the look of a Japanese jw discussion type website.

I'll take it at face value but with a helping of Berean investigation needed to confirm.

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Melita Jaracz

by hirotaka in

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don't read or post here very often anymore.

have moved on from all things jw from my former life it seems.. just an announcement to whomever it may concern that melita jaracz, surviving wife of form governing body member theodore jaracz, has finished her earthy course passing away yesterday.. simon, i don't know if you're still involved, but this site was invaluable to me when i was leaving the org.

some years back.. thank you and all the others who have me guidance that i needed at the time.

freddo

Please post occasionally hirotaka ... it all helps.

So Melita has gone to the great Hairdressing Salon in the sky eh? Perhaps she'll give Teddy J a big slap around the face now he's not her spiritual head anymore!

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The 1914 doctrine: How long it will last?

by opusdei1972 in

one hundred years have passed and the society still supports this lie, which of course, is the basis of their other lies, like that of the unfaithful and not discreet slave appointed in 1919. however, i wonder, what will happen after 50 years, when the overlapped generation will pass?.

and if you want, what will happen with this religion in 2100?, could it survive with the same lie??

?.

freddo

Look. There are idiots with an agenda who have followers believing that the Holocaust didn't happen; if the GB told the JW's that WW1 didn't really happen and to ignore any evidence for it because Satan changed the words in the newspapers and the images on the cine films some of them would believe it and even more would go along with it.

Their brains would fry as they "waited on Jehovah" and they continued to trust "imperfect men", but they'd accept it and bob their heads and answer up in the Watchtower study.

Just like they will bob their heads (including those that preached it and who lived through it) and answer up when they study the overlapping generation change bollocks in the "(Obey) God's Kingdom Rules!" book later this month at the CLAM meeting.

RANT Over!

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Lets be honest we will never expose the danger to the world of JW.org

by James Mixon in

i thought, ok the case in australia would open the eyes of the world about this dangerous cult.. well that passed without a ripple.

we talk about the un and the wt link, none jw's don't.

understand the significance.

freddo

Depressing isn't it?

Especially when you've been brought up in it - brought kids up in it yourself and/or married in it and none of them are on the same page as you.

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Genesis 6 verse 3 - "man's days will be one hundred and twenty", so explain this.............

by cantleave in

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/worlds-oldest-person-man-mbah-gotho-indonesia-145-years-old-a7213191.html.

freddo

As LUHE says: Are the records verifiable? If he was born early 20th century Indonesia he would have been registered under Dutch Colonial control and that would give a semblance of credence to any record he has.

But in 1870 the Dutch control was tenuous and only in coastal areas would their records be reliable.

Then there was Japanese occupation and the fight for independence in the late 1940's where things would have been more fluid and records lost.

If it was a woman and the age 120 or even 125 I might believe it possible but I reckon 110 - 115 tops. which makes me think he may have his father's or older relatives birth records.