Posts by The1975Blues

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One hope for ALL christians - interesting video on heavenly hope

by paradisebeauty in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7qe6fqac4.

a short video with proof from the bible that the ones going to "heaven" are not meant to stay there forever, but just to meet jesus there (at the rapture) and be with him forever, on earth, not in heaven!.

The1975Blues

Dr. Bart Erhman on his blog had some surprising but not unknown ideas what the First few century Church Fathers believed in. Papias enjoyed hearing from anyone who has connected or was part of a second gen person who knew what Jesus and his Apostles were teaching while on Earth. Eusebious did not agree with Papias, as for me, all I can do is look for the Master until he arrives and than we will know. Keep busy preaching his name through his conduct, helping your fellow man, helping those in need and baptizing them as taught by the Lord's Son.

Papias was under the impression we were going to live on a New Earth and that's what he claimed the elders and other holy men heard from the Source. Check out Erhman's Blog or look up the information yourself, makes the struggle to seek out truth even harder, its a lifelong quest as Jesus Christ stated!

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This just happened within last 15 mins......

by Lied2NoMore in

i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.

the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .

i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.

The1975Blues

Why did the United States attack Iraq over their invasion of Kuwait, why involve themselves in Kuwait when other countries were not given the same support Kuwait had? In Iraq's view, they were reclaiming something the West took away, the Russians made their move on Crimea knowing they too needed to act less have Western Missiles n the backyard? .Someone made a very excellent comment how YHWH cleaned the land from morally repugnant nations, they had earned elimination if they chose to fight for the land. The Nazis were bad, just as bad as those nations in the past so why would JWs think they had no right to defend the Western Christian lands from Evil like Nazis?

This ISIS situation is going to bring out more people attacking innocent citizens because they feel their countries are nothing more than a natural resource grab by the Super Powers of the World bucking horns there, USA vs China and you see after China had secured Oil Rights that's when moves were made to punish their dictator. The same with Libya, all confusion keeping people's minds tumutous as ISIS looks for a foot-hold in areas where people have more value on life, that's what ISIS is looking for, they want fear instilled in various regions because their not afraid to die for their cause.

Satan must enjoy having men and women willing to practice the ancient Assyrian practices of putting heads on a spike and skinning people alive. Would you allow Jehovah to remove all of ISIS from Earth or do personal and moral based ethics prevent you from allow YHWH from eliminating all of ISIS?

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Remember Going Out In Field Service Before Thursday and Friday's Heat-Stroke Convention at Dodger Stadium?

by The1975Blues in

i don't think the kids will remember going out in field service at your convention's city location helping the fiends do their territory.

on top of the horrendous heat-stroke sitting at dodger stadium we had to preach earlier in the week!

i heard some elderly witnesses speaking about "those were the good old days they thought" the grand old time they had while visiting the city of los angeles!

The1975Blues

During the 1960s-1970s the Watchtower rented a sports stadium for District Convention (Regional Conventions), the seats were hard as a rock(Plastic or steel soft seats that made your butt hurt bad!). They had a pretty decent baseball team when I was a kid. You could take showers in the Dodger's locker room and walk through the arena because we had full access and the witnesses were trusted, one quality we did display or you got removed pretty quick if you stayed overnight i the parking-lot. I won't deny we did get access to Yankee and other Stadiums of fame, because the Witness did not ruin those convention centers, we had full roam, a quality you won't find now!

You had to be there, playing hide-and-seek as a seven year old kid with others (mom taught us about sex perverts and dad was a gun junkie, we had no fear of sex perverts because dad would have killed them and people who knew dad knew that fact as well!). We did have a few good times at night, running around the stadium, goofing off and campfires with fellow friends, like you have a the Apostafest in Tahoe!

http://watchtowerwatch.com/blog/my-path-out-of-the-jw-cult

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They dared !

by coalize in

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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!

!.

The1975Blues

When do you plan on helping me with battered children or cooking meals for the homeless? I would love to have you join us on Friday as we shop at the Food Bank and get all the goods ready to feed them. After that you might enjoy helping us at the Women's Shelter or if that troubles you there are programs for kids needing support because their parents beat the hell out of them.

Which values were you talking about, the one's that tell you to "live like there's nobody else but Jehovah's Witnesses on planet Earth(those don't help witnesses because JWs don't even donate enough cash to keep their congregations going as reported by the Governing Body now!)" or "Shun or Mark anyone you think has committed a sin against the rules and regulations, non-biblical rules you adhere to? Next, don't help the poor because "Jesus said you will always have the poor but you won't have Christ's Brothers to serve, stay on target and don't get distracted with the World and all its problems, your job is to hand out LifeSaving Tracts" that distort the Bible and give glory to mankind while systematically siphoning out anything good to say about my lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

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They dared !

by coalize in

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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!

!.

The1975Blues

coalize10 hours agoCoalize, another one is that the Faithful & Discreet Slave is no longer all of the faithful anointed but the Governing Body only

LOL!

That's why we see their pictures everywhere now. I don't remember to have seen such a smugness picture before, when I was active. I didn't know who they were at all..."

I was talking with my elderly JW dad about the Governing Body being so camera friendly as opposed to the days of Freddy Franz who did not enjoy the spotlight. How many of you knew the names of all the Governing Body members(Not counting Bethelite or Groupie JWs, just regular witnesses) back in 1975-2000 before Brother Barr dropped his dump on us all? I don't remember seeing so much Governing Body footage, why is there such a push to be like all the 1980s TV Televangelist? The Witnesses think their ahead of Christendom, they about 30 years behind because Jim and Tammy Faye were collecting more money in those years than the entire Watchtower Corporation pulled in! Jim and Tammy Fayed could teach the Governing Body how to act so the Watchtower Leaders can Crocodile Tears their Bank Accounts up!

I tried to "strike out" Tammy Faker only to fail is there any reason why my tools don't work? Thanks for the advice!

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Remember Going Out In Field Service Before Thursday and Friday's Heat-Stroke Convention at Dodger Stadium?

by The1975Blues in

i don't think the kids will remember going out in field service at your convention's city location helping the fiends do their territory.

on top of the horrendous heat-stroke sitting at dodger stadium we had to preach earlier in the week!

i heard some elderly witnesses speaking about "those were the good old days they thought" the grand old time they had while visiting the city of los angeles!

The1975Blues

I don't think the kids will remember going out in Field Service at your Convention's City location helping the Fiends do their Territory. On top of the horrendous heat-stroke sitting at Dodger Stadium we had to preach earlier in the week! I heard some elderly witnesses speaking about "Those were the good old days they thought" the grand old time they had while visiting the city of Los Angeles! Arg! Arg! Arg! Preaching in a smog filled city before cars had all the smog equipment, Stage 3 or Stage 4 Smog Alert in some barrios or favelas of Los Angeles sucked! I did not enjoy preaching in those cities we attended, can you imagine preaching in East Los Angeles, Baltimore or some wild city we arrogantly and smugly strutted through because we thought we had Jehovah's Protection Plan?

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This just happened within last 15 mins......

by Lied2NoMore in

i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.

the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .

i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.

The1975Blues

How do we know his name is not Satan? There's no evidence God has changed Satan's name, over time it's taken on a negative connotation like residents of Crete can attest to. These claims made by the Watchtower Branch near "Bull Shit Mountain" can't prove anything they say!

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Local Elders whip the Congregation into a frenzy about donating to the Organization

by James Jack in

because of the may broadcast about how funds are down, our elders have been in their talks "encouraging" or pressuring everyone to donate more to the world wide work.. it freaks me out how we already give them a set amount of $600 a month, plus what is contributed by the congregation(usually $400 to $500 a month).

heck, our local congregation bank account even got below $500 for the first time this past may since i have been doing the accounts(4 years now).

for june, we raised a whopping $2400 to send into the branch.. the most amazing part, is that only a select few contribute on a regular basis every month.

The1975Blues

"While WT is able to cash in on the JWs, I think it is actually a rather small amount in comparison with what other churches and charities are able to raise. Even a rather small Jewish group around where I live (sorry if this sounds stereotypical) is able to raise massive amounts of money that would make the GB faint out of sensual desire.

As far as JWs go, either they don't have money, or if they have money they realize that they'll get more fun out of spending the money on themselves before this wicked system ends."

Yes, when we see a few Jews or Muslims donate more money than two circuits combined on a annual basis, you know we suck! Circuit Assemblies would provide the costs associated. There are small Christian churches who donate far greater than JWs do, it's just how they act! Here's a example of the accounts we had to contend with, always made the friends sick-

Beginning Balance $4,265.23

Expenditures -$7,423.33

Donations $0,189.00

Operating Loss $-6,465,00

If you followed the numbers they don't add up, they would read the accounts reports on Day 1 before Lunch and tell us we were $6,400 in the hole, where did the $4,265.23 go? How did we incur an additional $6465.00 in debt after burning through our surplus-balance of $4,265.23? Where is all the cash, did we really spend $10,000+ on a Two Day Assembly and why, where's the cash? They explained we had costs associated with flying the Bethel Speaker out here, we emptied the account to give to the Watchtower and the local Elders on the Assembly Committee decided they would speak on behalf of the friends and donate another $3,000 even though nobody on the committee were the sort that wrote big checks to cover their spending habits!

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They dared !

by coalize in

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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!

!.

The1975Blues

I don't get this, who thought of co-mingling common sense with insanity on this doctrine? Using their logic we can now expand "the generation" to the year 2525 or 3535, right?

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Local Elders whip the Congregation into a frenzy about donating to the Organization

by James Jack in

because of the may broadcast about how funds are down, our elders have been in their talks "encouraging" or pressuring everyone to donate more to the world wide work.. it freaks me out how we already give them a set amount of $600 a month, plus what is contributed by the congregation(usually $400 to $500 a month).

heck, our local congregation bank account even got below $500 for the first time this past may since i have been doing the accounts(4 years now).

for june, we raised a whopping $2400 to send into the branch.. the most amazing part, is that only a select few contribute on a regular basis every month.

The1975Blues

If you worked on the accounts or were the Account Servant how often did you get the receipts for donations of $250 and above? How often did you and a witness have to write a letter acknowledging a donation of this amount? Over five years of handling the accounts it was rare to see people give above $50, most put a few $1 bills or a $10, some $20s but it was rare to see $50s or $100s, almost never did we come across large bills.

JWs spend more money at Coffee, Donuts and Lunches than providing donations to the World Wide Work or basic Kingdom Hall expenditures. If anyone did accounts like me, how often were receipts written to acknowledge donations above $250. Elders and Publishers taking $20,000 Vacations blasting the Kingdom Hall's members with limited to "give till we can pay for the utilities and monthly payment of $1300 a month. The loan on our Kingdom Hall went from being paid off to $430,000 to build several houses for the CO and do a Remodel. The brainchild of our Chief JW, he is very good making people feel guiltily. Guilt the publishers to give more money while the idiots who got us in financial problems take big vacations and several mini-vacations every year! Those who got the Hall in debt, it's their responsibility to pay if half the Kingdom Hall said "No!" twice to "each family paying $50 per month for the COs houses!" Again, if the Elders are backing these grand ideas to get the congregations in deep debt, they should be responsible for making sure that $1400, 5% loan is paid off! The entire loan is around $2500 a month, this will be to "Infinity and Beyond" since the Watchtower put them in perpetual debt!