Posts by linp24

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Video- JW Stutters a Presentation and Partner Stands Silent

by OnTheWayOut in

here's a video that shows how they just go through the motions.

one jw is totally not the type to do the door-to-door work, yet he stutters through it and the partner knows it ain't her turn so she offers no help.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93fpl84gvs.

linp24

Never been a Witness -- but I am guessing that he has been told that his salvation will depend upon his field service. Apparently there are very few physical limitations that will stand as an excuse for not going door to door. I imagine perhaps if you had Lou Gehrig's disease and were confined to bed with a breathing assist machine --- that maybe you would be excused from field service?

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LOL Daily Show mentions JWs

by beksbks in

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linp24

yeah.....just watched that sketch. Was a great show as usual.

Also liked his poking fun of Fox and Friends.....he always nails them good.

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Question for Titus

by Albert Einstein in

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titus, you today made a statement regarding an essential wt doctrine: .

i am an active jw.. can i tell you what that doctrine is?.

bullshit!.

linp24

Hey comrade.

Glad you are staying.

When I come to this forum, I hunt specifically for your postings above all others. ----- because they are always distinctive and tangy.

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Auchwitz Video

by man in black in

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this was on the news last night, it seems many people are having a hard time figuring out how to deal with it.. the man in the middle is a survivor of this camp, and he is surrounded by his children/grandschildren/great-grandchildren.

is this video an insult to the people who died at aushwitz, or a celebration that life went on for the survivors ??.

personally, i look at it 50 - 50, but a more time appropriate song might have been a more positive thing.

linp24

it is amazing to see how spry and limber the elderly gentleman survivor is. I am decades younger than he but could never bust those moves.

I guess I will come down on the side that this is a "celebration that life went on." They are mocking death and the evil thing that Auchwitz was.

But yes there are better songs that could have been chosen.

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"THE EVIL SLAVE" exposes the Watchtower....Four Bible Student elders speak up !

by koolaid-man in

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the largest schism in watchtower history involved the bible students in the 20's and 30's.

it was not so much that bible students "opposed" the work of the society, the issue was the bible students and the society were no longer in harmony doctrinally, the 3,000 or so who "dropped" out by 1918, eventually grew in the coming years, by 1930 seventy-five percent of the original bible students had abandoned the society.

the bible students or "the evil slave" as the jehovah's witnesses refer to them as, are now coming back to haunt the org.

linp24

I hope I can get in on this discussion. Thanks for posting this.

My father and grandmother were bible students. As a teenager, I sat in on many of their bible studies and met several bible students. These meetings involved lots of give and take and laughter. These people were relaxed and easy-going. There was never any pressure placed on me. No door knocking. No shunning. Birthdays and Christmas celebrated. College encouraged.

Nothing at all like i read about on this site.....the experiences folks on this forum have had with Witnesses. A totally different atmosphere.

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