Posts by Diogenesister

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Diogenesister

MsAHe made it clear this was just for filming purposes and he has his regular flat elsewhere.

You're right that's Cobblers!! He's living with Dijana rent free and using this as his knocking shop (he hopes).Unless he's going to sub let a room to someone else...??👯

ToH He wasn't really angry that people thought he was using a green screen.

It's literally the only example he can use of something we've said, that probably wasn't correct - "A LiE!!!" 🤪🤪

TOHI sure hope he's not bringing any 'dates' into a place where he's got a lot of recording equipment...

😁🤣🤣 If Tibor is doing a master's, paid work down Sisak way can't be that bountiful for video editors🤔. How tempting would it be for Tibor to 'accidentally' leave the camera on when he knocks off for the night....
Guess it depends how weird things get....😭 (Forget I ever posted that😈)

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A question about the contemporary generation teaching following a conversation with a JW apologist

by Giles Gray in

i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

Diogenesister

TD Because the generation teaching it its current is an ad hoc explanation. --A definition of convenience specifically formulated to fix the predicament the JW's find themselves in today.

It makes no logical sense outside of that context and isn't meant to

Yes I've always found that to be rather selfish. The younger members of the GB are likely to be the ones left with egg on their faces when we eventually have a GB totally comprised of those anointed after "this generation'".*

I know for sure Mr Cook was NOT anointed when Ray Franz was alive. Therefore, though anointed, he is not part of 'this generation'.

So neither are any new GB likely to be (unless particularly old, which is not likely given watchtower's recent propensity to kick out older Bethelite's).

*Unless the Great Trib begins immediately!!

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'In Search of Christian Freedom'

by riblah in

i cross-posted this on reddit:.

i would love to have a hard copy of this book.

does anyone know about how to go about persuading the person who has the rights to print a batch?.

Diogenesister

Has anyone tried contacting Debra via the publisher of Crises? I believe she takes Rays legacy very seriously, though I've never met her myself.

Newly Enlightened I understood she wasn't well, so ....😔??

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'In Search of Christian Freedom'

by riblah in

i cross-posted this on reddit:.

i would love to have a hard copy of this book.

does anyone know about how to go about persuading the person who has the rights to print a batch?.

Diogenesister

ran across an older thread about this subject on Reddit (it was started by Lloyd Evans, lol!).

It sounds like Deborah Dykstra is not interested in publishing it, for some reason.

I wouldn't listen to ANYTHING Lloyd Evans has to say on the subject.

Despite going through a major bereavement and long illness with her husband, despite her own illness Debra did a marvelous job of fulfilling RAYS wishes in updating crises of conscience with the correct addendum etc and ensuring it was correctly edited etc

In other words doing FULL justice by the book and the author. It is neither quick nor easy to do a proper job of updating and publishing a book like that

Unlike Lloyd who merely did knock off copies, charging for them and adding his own website to the cover. For shame.

I think it really took it out of her so I don't know what's going to happen with "In search". I believe she's not young nor is she well?

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Had to laugh.

by Lost in the fog in

i had to laugh.. i bumped into a friend who has started going back to the meetings and who has that enthusiastic arm-waving way of talking about the stuff they're hearing from the platform.. in part he's wittering on about some talk they'd had about king david and all of his ups and downs.

and says, "and as the speaker emphasized over and over again, we can imitate david because he was a man just like ourselves.".

" i finally interrupted.. that shut him up.

Diogenesister

Punky Was this geezer running around naked at the time?

🤣🤣🙌😭

Yup....try doing a David getting up on the platform singing praise to Jehovah buck naked waving a spear and with a beard like Santa Clause! See where THAT gets yuz🤪😜

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Diogenesister

Vin Where is Mark O'Donnell active these days? He is really brilliant on legal commentary, and had himself been a victim.

Yes he's excellent at written legal commentary but I don't believe he was a victim himself.

(all up in my) DMs Look at that absolute path of destruction created by one miserable fat a$$....

Couldn't agree more. It's so infuriating, frankly.

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Vince Deporter has passed away.

by Las Malvinas son Argentinas in

jw
friends

exjw and artist (sponge bob) vince deporter has passed away at 63.. vince was an intense yet sweet guy.

we didn’t always agree but he’d always swing by later and either smooth things out or just move on.

he held no grudges.. he’ll be missed...

Diogenesister

Vince was known on this site as Brain cleaned https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/users/45885/braincleaned

Who has a photo of him

Joe134cd There's a photo of him as his avatar

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Diogenesister

Bet Yes. It is."

TiM Okay, Lloyd thank you for your reply.

I'm Lloyd!!

......no I'm Lloyd!!!

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Will Ukraine win?

by Fisherman in

i was under the impression that it was going to be a short war, that russia’s military would indeed subdue ukraine’s forces quickly but that is not happening.

seems that russia’s military power is much less than it’s reputed to be.

no guess how it will all end..

Diogenesister

Bet all they have to show for their time on earth is a cellar full of shitty dried food and 100,000 rounds of moldy ammo spilling out of every closet.

TonusOH3 minutes ago

On the bright side, no JW has managed to make it to his doorstep alive in the past eleven years.

Betty, TonusOHYou're both a gas😂😂🙌😭😭

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Vince Deporter has passed away.

by Las Malvinas son Argentinas in

jw
friends

exjw and artist (sponge bob) vince deporter has passed away at 63.. vince was an intense yet sweet guy.

we didn’t always agree but he’d always swing by later and either smooth things out or just move on.

he held no grudges.. he’ll be missed...

Diogenesister

Vince was a sweetheart. As talented and successful as he was, he would encourage me with sketch work. Humble and warm.

Too young to go, too. Anyone know how? Very tragic.