Posts by Sour Grapes

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3/09 Study WT- new light on 'annointed'??
by isaacaustin in
1. jw
2. friends
my mom got a call from a friend who told her the 3/09 study wt has new light on the annointed.

anyone in the know?

?.
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Why doesn't the WTBS just report numbers that are
going down? Who could prove them wrong?
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2009 Memorial Partakers is Highest Since 1967
by ThomasCovenant in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
to the best of my knowledge if.

10857 is the latest number for memorial partakers then you have to go back to 1967 to get a higher number, 10981.. i wonder why they they don't print this in the january magazine anymore.. will they omit it even from the printed yearbook and only leave it as an mp3 online download?.

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I think that many Witnesses do not want to live in a Paradise
earth run by elders and if they have a chance to go to heaven
that they will take it.
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Do JW's Put More Faith in the Watchtower or in the Bible?
by Sour Grapes in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it just drives me crazy when the brothers giving the public.

talk on sunday morning will say "the june 1, 1984 watchtower.

on page 10 paragraph 6 says........" the witnesses, in my.
Sour Grapes

It just drives me crazy when the brothers giving the public
talk on Sunday morning will say "the June 1, 1984 Watchtower
on page 10 paragraph 6 says........" The Witnesses, in my
estimation put more faith in the Watchtower than in God's
Word. I have heard various ones talking about a subject when
a question comes up. What I hear is "well what does the
Watchtower say?" I don't hear "well what does the Bible say?"
The Watchtower has ruined my sex life. The Bible says nothing
forbidding oral sex, but the Watchtower does. My wife will quote
the Watchtower articles to me how wrong it is. The Bible says
nothing about blood transfusions, but the Watchtower does,
with the results of thousands of Witnesses dieing needlessly.
All of this just makes my brain bleed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.".
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We give gifts all year long.
We did not say the end was coming in 1975.
The end is near.
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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.
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Thanks for sharing. Oh the blessings of the spiritual paradise!
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