Sour Grapes

Joined

• started 146 topics
• posted 635 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Sour Grapes

• 
  58

  World Conditions Continue to Improve

  by zarco in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  startfragment.

  as we enter into a new decade, it might make sense to look back to view the progress than mankind has made in these last days.. about 200 years ago everyone on the planet lived on the modern day equivalent of about $400 a year.

  the exceptions were tiny nobilities.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  Thanks Zarco--good post. I agree so much. My mother

  often tells me that we must be so close to the end because

  of the bad conditions we live in. I tell her I think that conditions

  were worse during WWI and WWII.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  16

  The look in my mothers eyes

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i asked my mother today, who is in her late.

  80's, if she ever thought that she would ever.

  get this old and see 2010 on this side of the.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  The Witchtower Babel and Trick Society have

  blood on their hands and are responsible for the

  dumbing down of millions of people who check

  in their brains outside the KH before they go

  thru the doors and then they forget to pick them

  up when they go home.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  16

  The look in my mothers eyes

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i asked my mother today, who is in her late.

  80's, if she ever thought that she would ever.

  get this old and see 2010 on this side of the.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  I asked my mother today, who is in her late

  80's, if she ever thought that she would ever

  get this old and see 2010 on this side of the

  Great Tribulation? She had a very sad look

  in her eyes and they teared up and said "No."

  She said that when she was studing to come into

  the truth in the late 1950's that she was

  told then that the end was close and that her

  son would not even graduate from high school.

  (PS: I graduated in the mid 1960's) She

  has lived the last 55 years of her life dreaming

  of the future while ignoring the present. She

  gave up living her life in the present for a life

  in Paradise. Now at her age she can not say

  that she was wrong to believe what she does

  because that would be admitting that she

  believed in a lie.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  17

  Do NOT go to college, system is coming to an end, EVEN in 1969!!!!!

  by Jez in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that.

  you will never grow old in this present system of things... .all evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... as a young person you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

  if you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  Gayle,

  Your post was well written and appreciated. I also never

  got to ride on the elephant and pet the lion that were in all

  of the pretty pictures in the Watchtower rags. It is surprising

  how many modern day Witnesses don't even know of the

  1975 hysteria and now 35 years later they are doing it

  again.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  13

  Opened a Watchtower Today!

  by treadnh2o in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's been a few years, i had some time to spare and it was there.

  not considering the actual message, here is what hit me, hard:.

  the font is larger than that used by any secular publication that one would consider intellectual.. the language is so basic that it would bore the educated but would be embraced by those who were "simple" or perhaps mentally challenged.it alsowould not promote thinking as their was so little substance.. i then checked an awake and it is much the same.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  I fully agree with you. I tried to read the latest Awake and public

  Watchtower and could not believe the lack of substance and the

  third grade level of brain power required to comprend the articles.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  34

  Who's the best JWN liar? I'll start -- "we shun you cuz we love you"

  by Fatfreek in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a wisconsin man won top prize in the "world's best liar" contest.. the burlington liars club gave its top award to 58-year-old public health inspector jerry legro of sun prairie.

  his lie: ""i just realized how bad the economy really is.

  i recently bought a new toaster oven and as a complimentary gift, i was given a bank.".

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  We give gifts all year long.

  We did not say the end was coming in 1975.

  The end is near.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  20

  Why Would Someone Like me Leave the "Truth"? Part 2

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as stated in part 1 the latter part of the 1980s and 1990s were very good for my wife and i. we are doing well spiritually and both had good jobs.

  our increasing income allowed us to move at a relatively young age to a nice area.

  we wanted to stay in our old congregation but i was told as an appointed man i should support the congregation in my new territory.. this new congregation had a completely different feel about it to our old one.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  Thanks for sharing. Oh the blessings of the spiritual paradise!

  Sour Grapes
• 
  31

  Goodbye, Lois.....you were a good JW

  by journey-on in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the woman was on her deathbed.

  she was painfully aware that her days were coming to a close and she was feeling so many conflicting emotions that she found herself wishing it would just hurry up and be over with.

  you see, she had been a jehovahs witness for her entire life.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  Thank you for the post! This is really happening in many JW families.

  They are sacrificing the only life that they have for a future life that

  is a pipe dream. My mother who is in her late 80's keeps telling me

  that I never thought that I would get this old in this old system.

  Again thanks.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  20

  Was there one single thing that told you non-JWs were not that bad after all?

  by dgp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when you people were witnesses, was there one thing (or many) that really told you non-jw's were not that bad people after all?

  was there anything other people did to you that got you thinking or, better yet, feeling that you hadn't been told the truth about us?.

  thank you for your answers..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  I was impressed by my wordly friends that had happier

  families than what I had and did a lot to help the homeless

  and hungry. I actually thought at one time in my life that

  giving a hungry person a set of magazines was better than

  giving him food because I was offering everlasting life.

  Man oh man was I a true blue JW sicko.

  Sour Grapes
• 
  5

  1975 - 2010

  by core in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  seems so long ago, 1975, lots happened to us all since but not the promised big a and a new system - what we get now is bethelites made redundant, no sign of a promise fulfilled, and yet millions still adhere to the wt.

  and still in front of us is 2014 - how will; the wt big that up'.

  1975 has been made redundant like hundreds of bethelites - as far as i know the year has not been mentioned for - well 35 years now.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Sour Grapes

  What has Jesus been doing for almost 100 years?

  Sour Grapes