Posts by Sour Grapes

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I'll pray for you

by I quit! in

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one thing over the years social media has made me painfully aware of is how many times i see someone use the phrase "i'll pray for you" and the outcome is bad.

recently a friend of mine who at one time was my manager where i worked got cancer.

a lot of people were praying for him.

If someone has received prayers due to sickness and gets better that is proof that he listens to prayers. Wouldn't a loving god want to make someone better without being begged to do so? Would you need to be begged to help a loved one or even a stranger to feel better?

If someone has received prayers and doesn't get better and dies then it is just time and unforeseen occurrences that befall us all and it just points to the need of a paradise earth that is just around the corner. We are so close you better not buy any yellow bananas.

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Jehovah intervened in Russia

by Sour Grapes in

i saw the recent video that the borg put out about the trial in russia and how pleased the russian brothers were that a member of the gibbering booty, brother sanders, came to support them for six days.

well, there was a one-day delay in the trial which enabled the russian witnesses to have the memorial in their kingdom halls.

well, brother sanders was very quick to point out that it was very evident that jehovah intervened to enable the brothers to celebrate the memorial.

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I saw the recent video that the Borg put out about the trial in Russia and how pleased the Russian brothers were that a member of the Gibbering Booty, brother Sanders, came to support them for six days. Well, there was a one-day delay in the trial which enabled the Russian Witnesses to have the Memorial in their kingdom halls. Well, brother Sanders was very quick to point out that it was very evident that Jehovah intervened to enable the brothers to celebrate the Memorial.

The problem is with the millions of letters sent to the Russian officials and the millions of prayers that were offered to beg Jehovah that the Russian court does not rule against the Witlesses, they did and now they are taking over their properties. So God could delay the trial by a day, but he could not alter the decision by the Russian court.

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How can elders say how Jehovah feels?

by Sour Grapes in

when we look at the total universe imagine a jar of sand.

just one grain of sand would be our galaxy so we may be able to see our earth with an electron microscope.

with that in mind, it always made we cringe when at the meetings an elder would say "jehovah has prepared a spiritual banquet for us tonight," or "it makes jehovah happy that we made the effort to attend the meeting tonight.

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One of my favorites for Jehovah's direct intervention would be the interviews at circuit assemblies, There would be a part of putting your trust in Jehovah. There would be a pioneer sister who needed $22.50 to fill her gas tank up so she could travel to the district convention so she prayed to god. And viola, the next day she gets her mail and she finds an envelope with cash in the amount of $22.50. Everyone breaks out in loud applause. Hallelujah! When always bugged me is she should have prayed for $45.00 because won't she need gas to get back home?

Then there are the endless stories of being in service and one was going to stop for the day but Jehovah encouraged him to take one more door and the householder took the magazines Now he is in my magazine route now. Praise god.

The Witlesses prayers are powerful. I wish they would pray that god would provide some food for the 20,000 people that die every day of starvation. Certainly, if Jehovah can produce $22.50 he could provide some food.

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Field service even when parts of town are flooded.

by StephaneLaliberte in

yes, you heard right.

this morning, jehovah's witnesses in gatineau were preaching door to door when parts of their city are under water.1500 volunteers (not jws) showed up to help their fellow citizen in need.

meanwhile, jws were knocking on the doors in areas that were not flooded talking about how the weather is messed up and how it is a sign of the end.

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It always bugged me when the Witlesses say how bad world conditions are now which proves how close the end is. Such stupidity is hard to fathom. All one has to do is look at WWII where over 60,000,000 people died in a few years and cities were bombed and there was food rationing. Today is a cake walk.

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How can elders say how Jehovah feels?

by Sour Grapes in

when we look at the total universe imagine a jar of sand.

just one grain of sand would be our galaxy so we may be able to see our earth with an electron microscope.

with that in mind, it always made we cringe when at the meetings an elder would say "jehovah has prepared a spiritual banquet for us tonight," or "it makes jehovah happy that we made the effort to attend the meeting tonight.

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When we look at the total universe imagine a jar of sand. Just one grain of sand would be our galaxy so we may be able to see our earth with an electron microscope. With that in mind, it always made we cringe when at the meetings an elder would say "Jehovah has prepared a spiritual banquet for us tonight," or "It makes Jehovah happy that we made the effort to attend the meeting tonight." I always liked, "It makes Jehovah's heart rejoice when our youngster's comment." Who in the hell do the elders think they are to say what Jehovah feels? Oh, how it makes them feel so special.

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Does God really care about mankind?

by Sour Grapes in

i am dying of cancer.

yesterday i asked my full blown jw wife if she could snap her fingers and make me well would she do so?.

she replied, "yes.

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I was the go-to guy to say the blessing over the food when we had non-JW family meals. I stopped this 5 months ago and told them I can no longer thank God for the food we have when so many people starve to death each day. He provided manna for the Israelites so there are no excuses for people dying today unless he lost his power.

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Does God really care about mankind?

by Sour Grapes in

i am dying of cancer.

yesterday i asked my full blown jw wife if she could snap her fingers and make me well would she do so?.

she replied, "yes.

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All of this brought back to mind a post that I made eight years ago under a different name. I thought that it may be interesting for any newbies or JW lurkers:

I remember one picture in the Watchtower of a pretty little girl holding a plastic bucket in paradise next to a tame lion.

I asked my wife if there is going to be pollution in paradise? Of course, the answer is no!!!!!.

I asked her where did the plastic bucket come from? To make this bucket you will need plastic

injection molding machines. The cast iron castings that make these molds can weigh up to 3,000#.

Which means that you will need foundries to make the molds and we will need pig iron,

manganese, iron ore, magnesium, silicon, and sand. Who is going to dig up the paradise earth to get

all of this stuff out of the ground? Who is going to make the earth moving equipment to dig these minerals

out of the ground? Who is going to process the ores to get the final elements foundries need to make the castings that will be machined to make the molds to make the plastic bucket? Who is going to make all of the machines that do the machining? How are we going to transport the 3,000# castings to get them to the machine shops?

Will there we trucks and roads? Who is going to maintain the roads? Who is going to make the road paving

equipment? I doubt if elephants will just use their trunks to pick up the castings. Then we have the problem of

what are we going to use for power to melt the castings for the molds and to machine the molds for the buckets?

Are we going to have electricity or oil? Will there be oil refineries or coal-fired electrical generators? Who is going to drill for the oil or mine the coal not to mention who is going make all of the equipment to do this? The picture I just painted sounds like what we have now. Maybe we are in paradise. Maybe it will just be easier if we don't have plastic buckets in paradise. The final answer my wife gave me of where did the plastic bucket come from was "maybe Jehovah will just snap his fingers and it will be there."

Now you can see why you can not reason with witnesses. They have a fairytale dream. I also wanted to know why doesn't the Watchtower show the inside of the beautiful houses in paradise? Maybe because there won't be refrigerators, stoves, or running water without the old fashion hand pumps with outhouses behind the house. I hope that I won't get stuck with the job of picking up all of the lion and elephant crap in the neighborhood. I wish that God would hurry up and kill 99.9% of mankind so that I can see how that plastic bucket gets made.

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Does God really care about mankind?

by Sour Grapes in

i am dying of cancer.

yesterday i asked my full blown jw wife if she could snap her fingers and make me well would she do so?.

she replied, "yes.

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I appreciate your messages. ttdtt we are both wrong on the number of births per year. You got me thinking and I just checked the latest numbers. There are 131 million babies born each year and there are 55 million deaths per year for a net growth in the population of 76 million. Either way that is a hell of a lot of people that god won't have to kill if he would just do what the Witnesses have been preaching for over 100 years. If god waits 10 more years for the JW's to make sure that the good news of the kingdom is preached to all of the inhabited earth he will have another 760,000,000 people to kill. With the cart witnessing it may take more that 10 years. Tick tock, tick tock...the only problem is each year they are 76 million people to reach.

Concerning my cancer, the hard part for me was I was one of those young people in 1969 who passed on college because the end was so close. I felt invincible. I believed the lie "you will not die" because the end was so close. I had "stay alive to 75" on the bumper of my car. I think that Eve fell for the same lie from Satan. Well my grandmother thought that she would not die and she did, my mother believed that she would not die and she did, I know that I will die. Four or five generation of JW's believed that they would not die.

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Does God really care about mankind?

by Sour Grapes in

i am dying of cancer.

yesterday i asked my full blown jw wife if she could snap her fingers and make me well would she do so?.

she replied, "yes.

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I am dying of cancer. Yesterday I asked my full blown JW wife if she could snap her fingers and make me well would she do so?

She replied, "Yes." Then I asked her why and she told me because she loved me. I told her that she can't make me well but God could and he won't because he doesn't give a rats ass about me. Hell, even the third president of the Witchtower Society, Nathan Knorr, died of a brain tumor. Can't you imagine the millions of prayers that were said on his behalf by the Witlesses in the 1970's and yet he died of brain cancer.

I stopped thanking God for the food I eat. Everyday 20,000 children die of starvation. Am I so blessed that God gave me food and yet doesn't provide for the 20,000 daily casualties? I am not blessed, just had a job and I live in the right country.

If God cares about mankind, why doesn't he bring on the great tribulation now? Every year that he delays there are 30,000,000 more people on the earth so there are 30,000,000 more bodies for the JW's to bury. If he would have brought it on 10 years ago 300,000,000 lives would have been saved. Let's see, there are over 8,000,000 JW's who will survive. If he loved the world of mankind so much he would have saved over 37 times more people if he started armageddon 10 years ago.

I would like to mention a pet peeve of mine. JW's believe that only they will survive the great tribulation; however, if you ask them so you are telling me that your god is going to destroy 99.9% of mankind, they will say that it is up to god who survives because only he can read hearts. So among themselves, they rub their hands together in eager anticipation of god destroying this world while they hid in their bunkers with their secret door knocks, but in public they sing a different song.

All of this just makes me sour grapes.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-2-17 WT Study (January 2017)(ENTRUST)

by blondie in

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blondie’s comments you will not hear at the april 2, 2017 wt study (january 2017) (entrust).

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-january-2017/these-things-entrust-to-faithful-men/ .

excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

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The younger males ones don't want the grunt work. The Witchtower Bable and Trick Society doesn't come out and say that so they want elders to pull, push, and shove the young males to force them to become ministerial servants and then after their slavehood to become an elder. It is the same principle to shame the youth to get baptized, so later on, they will have second thoughts about leaving the witnesses when their brains start to think.

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