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  Are they clones?

  by cookiemaster in

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  2. beliefs

  anyone else notice this about jw public speakers.

  they all seem like clones.

  they have the same mannerisms, try to use the same style of speaking, similar jokes, etc.

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  I agree. Dry, monotone, boring, and insincere.
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  144000 The numbers don't add up

  by LevelThePlayingField in

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  2. beliefs

  in 1935 there were 63,146 who attended the memorial and 52,465 partook.

  (proclaimers book page 717).

  according to the bible teach book on page 78, it says, “since the days of the apostles, god has been selecting faithful christians in order to complete the number 144,000”.

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  There is no room in God's true organization for an individual to think and reason things out. JDubs let the 8 popes figure things out for them and the JDubs count it a blessing to be a bobblehead.
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  Life in Paradise

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so we all survive the great tribulation and now as the dead bodies of 99.9% of the world's population begin to stink up the place, the bodies become bloated and the flesh begins to fall off of the bones what happens when the elders tell us to grab a shovel and haul the corpses to a mass grave site for burial or perhaps a mass cremation and you tell them that you will not bury dead bodies.. what will the elders do?

  (i guess they are princes now since we are on the other side of the gt) will they haul the person into the back room of the candlelit kingdumb haul for a judicial meeting?

  if the person is unrepentant and doesn't follow direction from god will they be disfellowshipped or forced to move to a colony for troublemakers?

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  Sour Grapes

  Just one big winner roast.
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  Life in Paradise

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so we all survive the great tribulation and now as the dead bodies of 99.9% of the world's population begin to stink up the place, the bodies become bloated and the flesh begins to fall off of the bones what happens when the elders tell us to grab a shovel and haul the corpses to a mass grave site for burial or perhaps a mass cremation and you tell them that you will not bury dead bodies.. what will the elders do?

  (i guess they are princes now since we are on the other side of the gt) will they haul the person into the back room of the candlelit kingdumb haul for a judicial meeting?

  if the person is unrepentant and doesn't follow direction from god will they be disfellowshipped or forced to move to a colony for troublemakers?

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  So we all survive the Great Tribulation and now as the dead bodies of 99.9% of the world's population begin to stink up the place, the bodies become bloated and the flesh begins to fall off of the bones what happens when the elders tell us to grab a shovel and haul the corpses to a mass grave site for burial or perhaps a mass cremation and you tell them that you will not bury dead bodies.

  What will the elders do? (I guess they are princes now since we are on the other side of the GT) Will they haul the person into the back room of the candlelit Kingdumb Haul for a judicial meeting? If the person is unrepentant and doesn't follow direction from god will they be disfellowshipped or forced to move to a colony for troublemakers? Perhaps Jesus with his bow and arrow will just shoot them dead.

  What happens when a survivor claims the rights to a house that he had his sites on for several years while going from door to door and one of the elders tells the person to exit the house because it was his? What happens if the person puts up an argument? I don't think that anyone will be able to override the wishes of an elder or a ministerial servant.

  I have no desire to live in a paradise run by elders. It will be a living hell.
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  I am sure that this last video for the day will be the highlight of the convention. Well, at least somehow the JDubs got out of the basement bunker with the doors blocked by soldiers. So they went from hiding to proudly being in the middle of an open field like they are begging to be found.

  I don't think the soldiers have a chance against Jesus with his bow and arrow.

  I feel sorry for the children who have to watch the video. They will be scared and emotionally scarred.

  The Borg is getting better at their fearmongering and pulling the heartstring videos.
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  "World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.

  of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.

  he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".

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  So which religious members get happier when there is bad news? They almost have a religious orgasm when people die coupled with a dash of destruction.
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  So what would "Perfect Life" REALLY be like?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wonder sometimes just how jws try and comprehend what perfect life would really be like if "adam and eve" had not sinned?.

  how would we live?

  what would the realities be like?

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  When the toilet paper runs out the Jdubs will fist bump rather than shake hands.

  When shaving razors are all used up the brothers, at last, will be permitted to grow a beard and the sisters will then have a good reason not to shave their legs and armpits.
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  "World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.

  of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.

  he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".

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  I think that Jdubs just want things to get worse to validate what their 8 popes teach. How terrible to wish for bad conditions to befall people.
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  "World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.

  of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.

  he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".

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  Sour Grapes

  I went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a JDub. Of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the JDub gloom and doom mode. He said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.

  I looked straight into his eyes and said, "I think that world conditions were a lot worse during World War Two."

  The look on his face was priceless. It was like he knew that was true and never thought about it before.
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  Role Reversal: Placing 1969 Awake with JW's Manning the New Portable Literature Displays

  by snapdragon4 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in recent weeks the jw’s here in the uk have been setting up their new portable watchtower literature displays in my local town square on a saturday morning.

  as they hadn’t knocked on my door for at least five years, and consequently feeling somewhat neglected, i thought that i would pay them a visit instead.. .

  the first thing i needed to do was arrange my literature.

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  Sour Grapes

  I was a victim of this 1969 Awake article. I was promised by Jehovah's mouthpiece that I would not grow old and die. I am in my 70's now and dying from cancer. I struggled financially for many years living from payday to payday because I did not go to college. Well, I guess that the great theocratic slaughter of mankind is closer now than back then.