Posts by Sour Grapes

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All this speculation.....

by pontoon in

here's mine... wat corp is flush with money.

there product is a hope--obey us and god might let you live.

gb knows they can say and change beliefs,doctrine, twist scripture without losing more then they gain.

I don't see the Watchtower Company going down the drain anytime soon. I would guess that what they have done to lower costs far exceeds the costs of losing thousands of Witnesses every year. In fact, the lost of Witnesses has lowered their costs more enabling the sale of kingdom halls. Just think, after two years they are just going to reprint the same public Watchtower and Awake rags with no new information.

If the scandal for child molesters gets worse and more well known, that will cause an increase in the people leaving, but they will survive. Look at the Catholic Church to prove the point.

The Witnesses are so gullible...anything the Gibbering Body tells them is like from God's mouth. The majority of them will not believe any negative news reports. The witnesses that I know are very upbeat about the latest information.

I think that the new instructions to not waste the rags on people who aren't coming to any meetings will be a big problem because most Witlesses can't defend what they believe, many don't even know what they believe. There will be a dampening on the preaching work.

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I would like to thank the Lord I am OK

by Sour Grapes in

i saw this on facebook: "i would like to thank the lord i am ok. had a serious fall yesterday from my garage landing to the cement floor and landed on my back.

i suffered a closed head wound, severe cervical sprain, 2 broken ribs and multiple contusions on hand and arm and shoulder.

could have been a lot worse.".

Sour Grapes

I saw this on Facebook: "I would like to thank the Lord I am ok. Had a serious fall yesterday from my garage landing to the cement floor and landed on my back. I suffered a closed head wound, severe cervical sprain, 2 broken ribs and multiple contusions on hand and arm and shoulder. Could have been a lot worse."

It just gets me when people who have accidents and are injured are thankful to God that it wasn't worse. If they thank the Lord then they imply that he was overlooking the situation and prevented the situation from being worse. A loving God would have prevented the whole thing.

It is like a parent is watching his young child playing at the top of a steep stairway. Rather than removing the child from the danger of falling down the steps, he goes to the bottom of the steps to catch the child as he falls to soften the fall.

I don't think that god gives a rats ass about individual people.

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For ELDERS: Kingdom Ministry School for the 2018 Service Year (Picture)

by pixel in

i know wifibandit will post the pdf soon, this is just a snack for you guys and girls.... .

Sour Grapes

Don't share the program with the ministerial servants is just to make the elders feel smug and important. Now hundreds of apostates will see the program before some elders do, I feel like making a copy of the elder's program and putting a copy under the windshield wipers of all of the cars at the next meeting.

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Wt's long term time speculations.

by waton in

last week's wt study, sept. 25 - oct, 1 , contains a wording often repeated in old publications, that is at variance with the bible's reading , (no surprise here), wherein wt writers have consistently insisted that the universal sovereignty issue will be settled by,- or at the end of the 1000 year reign.

this erroneous rendering of the events following satan's release after the millennium is again used in par.

"--it will not be until the end of his thousand year reign that all his enemies will be completely destroyed.." .

Sour Grapes

At the end of the 1,000-year reign of Jesus then will be the final destruction of the evil ones. My God, how many armageddons do we need? The first one was the Flood when all of the wicked people on the earth and not so wicked animals were destroyed by the hand of God. Then we have the fast approaching destruction by God that has been heading our direction for the past 103 years and finally the third Armeggedon at the end of the 1,000 years.

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When God takes a day off!

by eyeuse2badub in

it’s really a bitch when god takes a day off.

he’s supposed to be watching over all things-except when he doesn’t and he can control any situation-except when he doesn’t.. so he gets all the credit for the good things that are and that happen due to his “dynamic energy”.

it must be tiring because he obviously takes days off.

Sour Grapes

It always bugged me when some people from a large group would die and the survivors would say that God protected them. Why didn't God protect the ones that died? If God protected people in Las Vegas then he was just as bad as the shooter...picking winners and losers.

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"The shootings in Las Vegas show how much we need God's Kingdom"

by Sour Grapes in

my jw wife, like all of us, was saddened by the senseless killings in nevada.

she said, "the shootings just shows how much we need god's kingdom.

" i replied, "yes if it was armageddon, jehovah wouldn't have left any survivors.

Sour Grapes

If you die the day before Armageddon breaks out you will be resurrected. If you die the next day during Armageddon you are a goner. The first Armageddon (the flood) did not have a happy ending and I can't see why the second Armageddon will be any better.

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October 2, 2017 BOE US Re: Contributions Received at the 2017 Annual Meeting

by wifibandit in

october 2, 2017 to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: contributions received at the 2017 annual meeting.

Sour Grapes

The continuous begging for money is embarrassing.

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"The shootings in Las Vegas show how much we need God's Kingdom"

by Sour Grapes in

my jw wife, like all of us, was saddened by the senseless killings in nevada.

she said, "the shootings just shows how much we need god's kingdom.

" i replied, "yes if it was armageddon, jehovah wouldn't have left any survivors.

Sour Grapes

Since October 1914 we have been in the last days. By my calculations that has been about 37,595 days so far and counting. 103 years sounds so much better and shorter. Maybe God is waiting for the body count to go up since every day over 250,000 people are added to the world's population. The longer he waits the more dead bodies the witnesses will have to bury.

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When is the last time you saw an educated middle class family become Jehovah's Witnesses?

by xjwsrock in

we know from casual observation that if anybody does respond to their preaching/recruiting work it is usually someone that is a social misfit in some way or a person that was indoctrinated early in life.. think about all the nicer neighborhoods witnesses preach in.

if a family of four with a father that is an engineer and a mother who is a medical professional ever walked into a kingdom hall for the first time and said they were studying, people would faint.

lol.... this of course isn't what you would expect from a religion backed by the ultimate intelligent creator.

Sour Grapes

In the early 1970's we had entire normal families come into the troof. By 1977 they all left because they were lied to.

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"The shootings in Las Vegas show how much we need God's Kingdom"

by Sour Grapes in

my jw wife, like all of us, was saddened by the senseless killings in nevada.

she said, "the shootings just shows how much we need god's kingdom.

" i replied, "yes if it was armageddon, jehovah wouldn't have left any survivors.

Sour Grapes

My JW wife, like all of us, was saddened by the senseless killings in Nevada. She said, "The shootings just shows how much we need God's Kingdom." I replied, "Yes if it was Armageddon, Jehovah wouldn't have left any survivors." That made her stop and think for a moment.

I am sure that all JW's will say how terrible the killings were but they don't bat an eyelash when they pray for God's Kingdom to come and usher in a paradise earth where 99.9% of the world's population will be murdered by Jehovah.

With glee, they are in eager anticipation of surviving Armageddon into a world with billions of dead rotting bodies everywhere, no power grid, no running water, no heat or air conditioning and having the elder window washers barking out orders on who gets to bury the dead. I am sure that the pioneers and ministerial servants will get to supervise while the elders wait for instructions from Tony Morris and goofy Lett.

Who is going to be in charge of rationing out the toilet paper? My guess it will be the Special Pioneers.

This just makes me Sour Grapes.