I like how the cart sitters will work in shifts. It is like a job...get our one hour of service then let's go get some coffee. We can leave a tract on the table and keep our time punched in.
Sour Grapes
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The next time I see the cart babysitters
by Sour Grapes inthe next time i see the jdubs standing or sitting by their carts sipping their coffee lattes or updating their facebook pages, i am going to approach them with the following thought process acting as an interested person.. do jw's believe the end is near?.
do you consider your preaching work to be urgent?.
why do you just let people walk by if their very lives are at stake?
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How soon is soon?
by Sour Grapes ini guess if the jdubs have no clue how long a generation is they also wouldn't know how long a time period the word "soon" refers too.. 60 years ago my mother would hammer into my brain how soon the great tribulation was.
soon jehovah would destroy the wicked.
then a few years later there was no need to go to college because the end was so soon.
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I guess if the JDubs have no clue how long a generation is they also wouldn't know how long a time period the word "soon" refers too.
60 years ago my mother would hammer into my brain how soon the Great Tribulation was. Soon Jehovah would destroy the wicked. Then a few years later there was no need to go to college because the end was so soon.
How long is the time period for soon? If you have to work late and you call your wife to let her know that you will be home soon, when will she expect you to be home? In hours, weeks, months, years, or decades?
If you are driving to see relatives in another state and the children in the backseat get restless and ask, "How much longer until we get there?" Of course, the answer is "soon." Hold on kiddies, in Watchtower Land lingo you could be on one hell of a long drive.
If you are single and you find the love of your life, then later you propose to the person. You proudly announce to the parents, "We are getting married soon." What time frame is in their mind?
You are in the car driving a long distance and your wife tells you that she needs to stop and use the restroom soon, how much time are you going to give her?
I was going to write down how the dictionary defines the word soon; however, everyone reading this already knows. Now if I knew that the Gibbering Booty would read this then I would have done that since they don't seem to know how soon is soon.
The saddest thing is that JDub children today are saying how soon the end is. Only in God's Organization could grandparents, parents, and children die during a single time period of soon.
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My last Memorial
by Sour Grapes ini missed my first memorial last year in 60 years.
it always amazed me on this special night that the jw's forget how to park their cars in the parking lot.
i would pull in with my wife and there are 5 brothers giving directions on where and how to park my car.
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Sour Grapes
I missed my first Memorial last year in 60 years. It always amazed me on this special night that the JW's forget how to park their cars in the parking lot. I would pull in with my wife and there are 5 brothers giving directions on where and how to park my car. For God's sake, the parking spaces are marked and the cars are parked no differently than the other 364 days of the year.
I walked inside and you can tell which JW's have Bible students there because they have the biggest smiles and wear these individuals like badges of honor. Look what I have accomplished and look who I have with me. They have bragging rights. They are not introduced as this is Mrs. Jane Doe but rather this is my Bible student. Then there were the ragtag visitors in blue jeans and t-shirts. I kept thinking what on God's green earth would make these people want to come to the KH one night out of the year? Of course, there was the love bombing that you only get until you get baptized. I could tell that those who were getting bombed enjoyed the attention.
The talk was the same as last year. "We are here to observe the Memorial of Christ death but you will not be partaking of the emblems." Jesus said to keep doing this in remembrance of me. When Jesus gave his instructions in the first century, all that heard his words drank the wine and ate the bread even though they were not yet anointed with holy spirit. That would not happen later until Pentecost.
So the emblems are passed like in some sacred ritual. You could hear a pin drop as one by one everyone in the Kingdom Haul rejects the blood and body of Jesus. Even children 5 years old, under the watchful eye of their parents, have the opportunity to reject the Son of God.
Then there was the funny and awkward dance of the emblem servers as some sat down putting the emblems on the table, then some stood up to get the emblems to serve the servers to make sure that everyone gets to firmly reject Jesus with a shaking of their head and their oh so solemn expression on their faces. Then, of course, the speaker also gets to reject Jesus but he usually shakes his head with a big no before the server gets to close to him.
I am so thankful that I will never go to another meeting and sit through the sadness of rejecting Jesus.
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The next time I see the cart babysitters
by Sour Grapes inthe next time i see the jdubs standing or sitting by their carts sipping their coffee lattes or updating their facebook pages, i am going to approach them with the following thought process acting as an interested person.. do jw's believe the end is near?.
do you consider your preaching work to be urgent?.
why do you just let people walk by if their very lives are at stake?
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It certainly appears that worldly people don't give a rats ass about the JDubs and their cart sitting. We exdubs are the ones that care the most about the Watchtower's Companies activity. I guess the reasons for this is because they stole our childhood, took away a higher education, isolated us from our nonJdub relatives, and gave us false hopes and dreams.
SG
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The next time I see the cart babysitters
by Sour Grapes inthe next time i see the jdubs standing or sitting by their carts sipping their coffee lattes or updating their facebook pages, i am going to approach them with the following thought process acting as an interested person.. do jw's believe the end is near?.
do you consider your preaching work to be urgent?.
why do you just let people walk by if their very lives are at stake?
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Sour Grapes
The next time I see the JDubs standing or sitting by their carts sipping their coffee lattes or updating their Facebook pages, I am going to approach them with the following thought process acting as an interested person.
Do JW's believe the end is near?
Do you consider your preaching work to be urgent?
Why do you just let people walk by if their very lives are at stake? Shouldn't run up to them and tell them of God's plans to destroy the world? Wouldn't that be the loving thing to do?
Are you counting time just standing here watching the world pass by?
Sour Grapes
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Who is going to make the earth a paradise?
by Sour Grapes inwhen i was a jw elder and dreamed of living in paradise, i pictured all of the animals, beautiful people, perfect weather, welcoming back the dead and teaching them about god.
the only problem is to get to the point of making the earth a paradise first there will be around 8 billion bodies to bury.
then how are we going to dig through all of the rubble and collapsed buildings using what tools?
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The older I get the angrier I get to think that I at one time believed in the pill of steamy bull shit being spoon fed to the JDubs by the Gibbering Booty. The sad thing is that you can't even have a serious conversation with them about it. They just clam up and you now have the sign "apostate" hanging around your neck.
The Watchtower Company knew what they were doing when they started enforcing shunning. A very smart move.
SG
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Good-bye Jehovah (poem)
by SunnyOne026 init has been several months now, since i learned ttat and the shock and grief is slowly lifting, although some days are harder than others.
after 40 years a devout believer i guess i should not be surprised that the transition has been challenging and the losses immense, and i am sure very many of you can relate to my struggles.
i frequently read the posts on here and my heart goes out to all of you, who grieve and struggle each in your own way, and i wish all of you continued courage and peace.
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Sour Grapes
Very nice. Thank you for sharing.
SG
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Who is going to make the earth a paradise?
by Sour Grapes inwhen i was a jw elder and dreamed of living in paradise, i pictured all of the animals, beautiful people, perfect weather, welcoming back the dead and teaching them about god.
the only problem is to get to the point of making the earth a paradise first there will be around 8 billion bodies to bury.
then how are we going to dig through all of the rubble and collapsed buildings using what tools?
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Sour Grapes
When I was a JW elder and dreamed of living in paradise, I pictured all of the animals, beautiful people, perfect weather, welcoming back the dead and teaching them about God.
The only problem is to get to the point of making the earth a paradise first there will be around 8 billion bodies to bury. Then how are we going to dig through all of the rubble and collapsed buildings using what tools? Who is going to dig the landfill where all of this rubble goes? Maybe we will just dump it into the ocean. I can't imagine that God will start resurrecting millions and millions of people to an earth that is not a paradise yet. I guess that turning the earth into a paradise will fall on the backs of the great crowd that survive the just around the corner great tribulation. I think it may take a 1,000 years of hard work before the earth even looks like a paradise.
I don't think that God will lift a finger to help unless he just waves his magic wand and presto the dead bodies and rubble are vaporized.
I think that the great crowd will make the earth a paradise not God.
Sour Grapes
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The earthly resurrection pipe dream
by Sour Grapes ini woke up this morning thinking about when my mom died about 10 years ago.
she was an avid jdub and was confident that she would be resurrected to an earthly paradise petting zoo.
if i would today go to my mom's house and because god brought her back to life, saw her sitting in her favorite chair, would she really be my mom?
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There is not one shred of evidence that there has even been one resurrection on earth unless you believe in the Bible that was written 2,000 years ago.
Let's not forget that this is the same book that says there was a worldwide flood, a snake and a donkey talked, the red sea was parted, and the sun and moon stayed motionless so the Israelites could win a battle.
Maybe I am just too pessimistic. I have lost my faith but no my mind.
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The earthly resurrection pipe dream
by Sour Grapes ini woke up this morning thinking about when my mom died about 10 years ago.
she was an avid jdub and was confident that she would be resurrected to an earthly paradise petting zoo.
if i would today go to my mom's house and because god brought her back to life, saw her sitting in her favorite chair, would she really be my mom?
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I think that God would have to make clones since as JDubs think, the resurrected will have the same DNA as when the person was alive. A copy would not have to have the identical DNA, just look like the person and give them some memories.
So if we die, our clones may get to live forever. Will the colony of earthly clones be thankful that the original source of DNA before the Great Tribulation was faithful to God even in the face of death?
Long live the clones !!!!!!!