Posts by JeffT

We completely ran out of oil once in the past. Yes, by 1858 we were running out of oil! In 1859 a guy named Drake started pumping petroleum out of the ground in Pennsylvania and we didn't need whales anymore. The US was saved. When petroleum gets as rare as whale oil, I think we'll find something to replace it with, hopefully hydrogen fusion.

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Why is this an APOSTATE site?!?

by LaraK in

i made a big mistake when signing up at this supposed website for jehovah's witnesses.

after reading some things on this site it has become apparent to me that this site is nothing put another pathetic site for apostates: people who betrayed jehovah, left the truth, and are so bitter about their experiene in the truth, and they are angry just like satan because they know they will very soon be dead at jehovah's hand!.

this website should be renamed something more fitting like "satan's playground" or a similar name that would get across the message of your site.. sincerely,.

JeffT

Dang, I was hoping I'd get to the last post and find out she'd joined us 19 years later. Oh well.

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How do you feel about identifying roughly where you are from ? Country, Region,State ?

by smiddy3 in

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friends

hi friends ,.

is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?

what country state or region you are from ?

JeffT

Live in Woodinville, Washington, USA. We're a few miles NE of Seattle. While a dub I lived in Pullman, Spokane and Bellevue; also all in Washington. A long time ago I grew up in Cooperstown, NY

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Field service national average - what do you think it is now?

by BourneIdentity in

it’s always been 10 hours when door to door was active.

i’m curious of how it’s changed with only letter writing and phone witnessing approved.. i’m curious if they are able to do it for 3 hours like a typical door to door morning.

i would be surprised.

JeffT

Just out of curiosity where do they get addresses and phone numbers for letter writing and calls? I haven't even seen a phone book in at least six years. (Sometime before we moved into current house). Now, if I need to call some one I have their phone number stored in my phone, if I need a business I google it. I think if you're a spammer you just have your computer call every possiible phone number in a given area code.

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Why Do You Think People Become Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

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friends

besides growing up in the religion, why do you think people turn to jehovah’s witnesses?

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what made you become a witness?

JeffT

None of my family growing up was religious. I was curious about it for a very long time. Through high school and college I explored a number of believe systems.

My senior year in college I was depressed, and adrift in the world. I got into a conversation with a roommate from my freshman year. His mother had been a JW for a long time. He and his sister both joined while in college but decided to finish and get their degrees. So he and I started a Bible study and I was baptized a few months after graduation. This was in 1973, the JW view of world conditions lined up with mine (anti-war anti-government).

Fifteen years later I got out. I think the guy I studied with may have left before I did as I lost contact with him in the early eighties. This all took place in Pullman, WA if anybody was around that area then.

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Need input: JW brainwashed fantasy vs. real world reality during evacuation

by goingthruthemotions in

hello all, hope everyone is doing good!!!!.

so my wife tells me yesterday....on saturday we having a emergency disaster class on saturday.

kinda like most corporation have and it's through zoom.

JeffT

When Mt. St. Helens exploded in 1980 (Monday is the 40th anniversary) my wife and I were living about 250 miles downwind. By late afternoon the sky was completly blotted out, and the ash started falling. For the next week at least the roads were impassible, the state patrol was handing out tickets to anybody that wasn't driving an offical vehicle. In the middle of all this I get a phone call from an elder who tells me they had "called Bethel and had permission to cancel the meetings and field service."

Looking back on it, I wonder what would have happened if none of the local guys even thought of calling NY. Maybe we'd have tried to all get to the meetings and gotten busted in the process.

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Kingdom Hall Scheduler

by Thetruthhurts in

i'm sure there's already topics on this but i couldn't find one so i'm starting my own.

is the kingdom hall scheduling program new?

is this where they are entering all of the members data now?

JeffT

I smell a rat. I'd think that your phone number is all they need to send texts. I supect somebody is cooking a tell with a carrier, unless there's something about mass texts I don't understand.

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Cardinal George Pell Acquitted Of Child sex Abuse !

by smiddy3 in

cardinal george pell the australian catholic who was the 3rd most senior person in the vatican was acquitted by the high court of australia of all sex charges against him this morning.. after serving about 400 days behind bars he is now free to walk out of jail, to the shock of many.. this should make news headlines all around the world judging by past experience..

JeffT

Simon, I don't know about elsewhere, but here in the US the education unions have a lot of political pull. I can't find current information, but a few years ago about 1/4 of all delegates to the Democratic convention were members of education unions. With that kind of clout it isn't hard to get your dirt swept under the rug.

Like the saying "follow the money," if you want to find pedophiles follow the children.