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  Some thoughts on the message of doom

  by JeffT in

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  one of the recent threads on the talk about the hailstone message got me to thinking.

  the problem with putting out a message like that is what to do when nothing happens.

  i have to think that somebody will be asking that question.

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  The Borg said the same thing back in the early 70's. The JDubs have the most depressing religion on the earth. The Borg scares both the shit and the money out of the JDubs who are now grasping for straws hoping and praying that something terrible happens so they can say, "See, we told you so."

  It is just like one big broken record. They have the memory of an ant. They forget that originally 1914 was supposed to be the end and then when nothing happened 1914 was changed to the beginning of the time of the end.
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  1969 Awake on Education - A Sore Spot for Me

  by NotBlind in

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  my father would have started college 49 years ago this week.

  about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!

  magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.

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  I was a victim of the article. Elders talked me out of going to 2 year school in the medical field.
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  How many JDubs would believe this ridiculous statement?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a circuit overseer or a member of the gibbering body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "there was an elder in a congregation in california who let his 8-year-old daughter watch disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery.

  many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment.

  well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the public talk and watchtower study.

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  When I was a young elder I studied with a younger married couple. We talked about how Satan and his demons don't want them to study and learn about Jehovah. The couple lived in a mobile home and at night they heard creaking noises and thought the demons were after them.

  They told me about the noises. I assumed that they bought something from a store that sells used items which can serve as a bridge for the demons to the persons home. Nope....but I did find ceramic praying hands that belonged to a grandmother. Aha, that was the culprit. I took the praying hands outside the trailer and smashed them with a hammer.

  The creaking noise did not go away, now something that belonged to a grandmother was destroyed and they stopped studying a few weeks later.

  I guess at that point in time I would have believed the smurf story if a CO gave the story.
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  How many JDubs would believe this ridiculous statement?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a circuit overseer or a member of the gibbering body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "there was an elder in a congregation in california who let his 8-year-old daughter watch disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery.

  many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment.

  well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the public talk and watchtower study.

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  If a JDub would believe that a smurf could walk because one of the 8 popes said so I think they would also drink the koolaid.
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  How many JDubs would believe this ridiculous statement?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a circuit overseer or a member of the gibbering body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "there was an elder in a congregation in california who let his 8-year-old daughter watch disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery.

  many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment.

  well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the public talk and watchtower study.

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  A Circuit Overseer or a member of the Gibbering Body is giving a talk about demonism and he says the following, "There was an elder in a congregation in California who let his 8-year-old daughter watch Disney movies that involved witches, gremlins, magic, and sorcery. Many may feel that they are harmless movies and are just entertainment. Well, the 8-year-old daughter actually brought a blue smurf doll to the Public talk and Watchtower Study. When the name Jehovah was mentioned by the brother giving the talk the smurf doll jumped to the floor and ran to the back of the hall."

  How many JDubs would actually believe that happened? I would have to say that since it was stated by a CO or GB Pope that 50% to 60% would actually believe that it happened.

  What do you think?
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  Here is what silly looks like

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for shits and grins, i looked at an online sunday meeting a few days ago on youtube.

  i was in disbelieve on just how silly everything looks with the watchtower reader reading from his little iphone and the watchtower conductor holding up his iphone to ask the questions.

  then the conductor asked the reader to read a bible verse and of course, he reads from his little phone.

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  It just doesn't feel like you are holding the Word of God when you looking at your smart phone especially when a few minutes before there may have been some porn on the screen.
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  Here is what silly looks like

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for shits and grins, i looked at an online sunday meeting a few days ago on youtube.

  i was in disbelieve on just how silly everything looks with the watchtower reader reading from his little iphone and the watchtower conductor holding up his iphone to ask the questions.

  then the conductor asked the reader to read a bible verse and of course, he reads from his little phone.

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  For shits and grins, I looked at an online Sunday meeting a few days ago on YouTube. I was in disbelieve on just how silly everything looks with the Watchtower reader reading from his little iPhone and the Watchtower conductor holding up his iPhone to ask the questions. Then the conductor asked the reader to read a Bible verse and of course, he reads from his little phone. I think that the iPhone use says, "look at me, I am too cool for a big iPad."

  I guess that I am old fashion and I would miss actually holding a Bible and turning the pages to the verse. I remember how when a Bible verse was turned to there would be the sound in the Kingdumb Haul of paper pages being flipped through as 60 people thumbed through their Bibles. That sound will soon be gone. Do they still say "Let's turn in our Bibles to....?

  It just looks all too silly for me. A Bible study without a Bible.
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  Why are they announcing 2019 conventions so early?

  by Richard_I in

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  i was just told there will be international conventions in canada in 2019. .

  so i looked at jw.org and i see that there's a whole bunch of conventions now listed on the site for 2019.. isn't this odd?

  normally we were told the location of conventions during the first week of january.. did they realize there was less in attendance in the 2018 conventions, and want to give ppl more time to make travel arrangements??

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  My wife was discouraged when they announced the Memorial date for the next three years. She said, "Well, I guess Armageddon is coming in the next three years." I am sure that she was not the only JDubby to think that.
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  Circuit Overseer's Outlines

  by AverageJoe1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here's the outlines in english and spanish, grouped together in order for september 2018-february 2019.. english: https://we.tl/6orrqltrya.

  spanish: https://we.tl/6w0acsdefr.

  as per usual, these links will expire in 7 days from the date of this post so get them whilst they're hot!.

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  The JDubs sure love to talk about sex and you don't have to be skin to skin to be pornia. I guess it is just a hell of a lot safer to be around pillows for some good old dry humping. Why does the Borg always talk about surfing the net late at night? I think that porn is available 24/7. It is really sad when the circus overseers have to be told to be warm and don't forget to thank them elders for being elders. What a lame religion to need instructions on what to feel, what to say, what to do, and when to do it. The internet is full of lies except for Jehovah's website.
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  How can we leave Jehovah?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jdubs talk about their loved ones or friends leaving jehovah.

  how can one leave some one who they never saw, some one who is invisible or some one who never talked to them.. what they mean is they no longer obey the borg so the borg is the same as jehovah.. long live the 8 self licking ice cream popes!!

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  The JDubs talk about their loved ones or friends leaving Jehovah. How can one leave some one who they never saw, some one who is invisible or some one who never talked to them.

  What they mean is they no longer obey the Borg so the Borg is the same as Jehovah.

  Long live the 8 self licking ice cream popes!!!