Posts by Diogenesister

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If You Had The Choice To Live Anywhere In The World or Any State Where Would You Be?

by minimus in

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i do like the usa but winters suck!

florida has some charm but it gets brutal with heat and humidity.

california is too looney.

Diogenesister

Cornwall. Can’t beat it. Padstow and trebethric. Polzeath beach*

The Isles of Scilley.

Italy is gorgeous.

I love Bordeaux, too. Place called Lacanau . South of France, too, of course. I speak some French so I know I’d pick it up again pretty quickly.

Never been to the States but Oregon looks nice. The Rockies, Washington State? New England looks nice too. I’ve always wanted to visit New England because of Johnathan Richmond lol.Id also like to check out Vermont and Maine They look lovely, summer and winter.

But if I could live anywhere, and I was rich, I’d probably move to Switzerland. And in the summer I’d just live on a boat. Nothing like messing about in the water.

*since the bloody royals started going there, David Cameron et al it’s gone downhill though.

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Department Store Santa Claus - Do They Still Exist?

by RubaDub in

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i remember when stores would advertise that santa claus would be there from 2-4 pm on a saturday or something for several weeks before christmas.

you would see them everywhere.. do they still exist in your area?.

maybe parents finally realized that having a drunk guy with a white beard getting his jollies off with young children on his lap was not a good idea.. just my thoughts.

Diogenesister

the alternate reality that Minimus lives in, it is true that department store Santa's no longer exist and have been nearly banned by liberals as well as Christmas as a whole.

🤣🤣😂😂😂 yeah and in that world Starbucks managers will give you the SACK for saying “Merry Christmas” to customers!!!

Come to think of it....don’t a lot of dubs work in Starbucks??! Doo do doo do, doo do do do......

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Pray before sex just like you do for food-W62 3/15

by krismalone in

the governing body has lovingly provided instructions and reminders to couples that they should pray before having sex.

please be obedient and follow the wise counsel from the gb leaders who never stick their noses into other peoples business and are not creepy cult leaders at all....not!.

"had he not created the first human pair so that they could cohabit, planted in them an attraction for each other and then commanded them to "be fruitful and become many"?

Diogenesister

So they could “CO HABIT?” Well I certainly don’t remember God performing a marriage ceremony.

So co habit it is then Watchtower 🤣

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Did You Know Any "Genuine"" Old School Anointed?

by Number 6 in

growing up in scotland in the 1970s in scotland the anointed were few and far between, but we had one old dude in our cong who claimed to be one of the anointed.

in the days when it was taken seriously.. i'd be curious how you viewed them.

thing is, he wasn't an elder, or even a ministerial servant, just a plain old publisher.. but he was revered like he had a hotline to jesus.. the other week i was talking to a friend of similar age to me but who hung around the wt a lot longer than i did, and he just commented "oh him... he was a doddery old fool who used to just sit and piss himself.

Diogenesister

Stan One of my pals came out with the line.." he may be going to heaven...but he will be leaving a great crowd on earth"

Stan you kill me🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

we had a couple of very elderly ones. I think “prickly” is probably the best way to describe them. But then so would you be if you’d sacrificed marriage and kids to sell books for no pay.🤨

We also had the wife of one of our elders....the one playing a first class game of “Elder turf Wars”all over our territory.

You know that feeling you get when there’s a partial solar eclipse obscured by cloud? That’s how it felt when she walked into the hall🧛‍♀️....you could actually feel the temperature lower by a degree or two🤣

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Upon learning of a terminal illness would you return to being a JW to appease your family?

by NVR2L8 in

this is an hypothetical question...i am doing well.

but i was thinking about how my jw family, grandchildren and all will feel when their inactive grandfather dies with no hope of being reunited in paradise.

of course there would be immediate rejoicing if i came back to the "truth" and a surge of conditional love from the "friends".

Diogenesister

Good question.

Im sort of in that situation with my poor dear brother. He’s a believer, but not a JW. In order to comfort him, I go along with what he wants to believe, even though I didn’t use to do so. 😰

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November 2019 Watchtower Study....Exaggeration at its finest

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the watchtower—study edition | november 2019. lessons we can learn from the book of leviticus.

16 satan and his world have done much to make the work of that faithful slave challenging, even impossible, to carry out from a human standpoint.

despite two world wars, relentless persecution, global economic crises, and unjust treatment, the faithful and discreet slave has continued to provide spiritual food for christ’s followers on earth.

Diogenesister

Satan never prevented them from taking out televised advertisements or infomercials that within seconds would help people around the globe understand their message so that when it was delivered to their doors by local JW's, they wouldn't be blind sided when they showed up

Good point!

Except adverts cost money! Watchtower won’t spend ONE PENNY of its own money to gain converts and “save lives”. They prefer to keep their slaves in busy-work.

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The name Jehovah in the New Testament

by Jerome56 in

among the reasons the watchtower society gives in appendix c of the new world translation for inserting the name jehovah in the new testament is the following:.

· " in greek, is the definite article missing from before kyʹri·os (lord), where it would normally be expected grammatically, thus indicating that a proper name may originally have appeared in the greek text?

d. does anyone know if this is a valid argument?

Diogenesister

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Does anyone know if this is a valid argument? It sounds like the copyists would not have known Greek grammar in order to have made such a blunder by replacing the tetragrammaton with Kyrios and neglecting to put in the definite article.

All I do know about this is that the experts, who speak read and write the language, as well as other ancient languages, say that the authors of the gospels were very well educated, Hellenised Jews. In fact they were so well educated they even know what prestigious ancient school they are likely to have attended merely due to the way they write and the way they formulate their stories. The stories are layered, like an onion.

In fact I believe it’s Mark people say has slightly ‘rougher’ Greek. Well the experts say that’s not quite true. In fact they say it’s a very stylised Greek, written intentionally that way by a very educated person. Much like, for instance, some authors will write in a colloquial style for entertainment value.

So to answer your question it’s doubtful the author made a grammatical error.

Edit: oh sorry I see you were asking if the later copyists made an error? Sorry I as referring to the original authors and very early copyists.

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Do You Think Prostitution Should Be Decriminalized?

by minimus in

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in the us there is a bill in the house of representatives to decriminalize prostitution.

what do you think about that?.

Diogenesister

If they do, women should be at least 25 in my opinion. Anyone under that should be in school. They also need to ensure her money is her own, ie no violent boyfriends taking it. And that the women is psychologically healthy and sexually healthy.

Some extremely disabled men (&women)have no choice. It’s a disgrace that such ones should be penalised and made criminal because of it. I’ve even known nurses pushed into such a role through pity, with no experience and far from psychologically prepared.

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What Are Your Predictions for 2020 and Beyond?

by The Bethelite in

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2020 the society will continue to have financial problems with massive pay outs because of their lack of protecting their young people from a religion that harbors thousands of pedophiles.

thus this and other religions that has an 1800's mentality will continue to lose their young people.

with the religion's lies easily found on the internet the smart ones will continue to leave in droves.

Diogenesister

I also can definite say what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be my birthday, and my brother, who is going for an endoscopy tomorrow to see if his pancreatic cancer has spread, will find it has not and he will be getting out of hospital in time to be with his 1 year old first child for Christmas.

Thats my 100% guaranteed prediction.

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What Are Your Predictions for 2020 and Beyond?

by The Bethelite in

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2020 the society will continue to have financial problems with massive pay outs because of their lack of protecting their young people from a religion that harbors thousands of pedophiles.

thus this and other religions that has an 1800's mentality will continue to lose their young people.

with the religion's lies easily found on the internet the smart ones will continue to leave in droves.

Diogenesister

I look forward to the UK investigation into CSA within Watchtower UK. We can prove the uk branch has a database of nonces.

Also, I believe the IRS is likely to investigate how much Watchtower spends of charity work.

I believe the big media centre is a tax write off because they are no longer producing Bible literature for education, per sa. So what are they doing with the money exactly?

Maintaining a large war chest with no intention to spend that money for charitable purposes is against the law.