Posts by MrFreeze

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1 year ago today they announced I was "no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses"

by confuzzled777 in

just thought i would share.

i am going out with my bff and a few other good friends for dinner, drinks and cards tonight!

looking forward to a night out with the "girls" who have been by my side since day 1. .

"True Grit" remake. Review

by Gregor in

i really love a good western.

the remake of true grit by the coen brothers (fargo, o' brother where art thou?, etc.

) was a pleasant surprise.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks John Wayne is totally overated. He's the same character in every movie. At least other people who acted in war and western films were able to be a little diverse. Clint Eastwood, for example.

That being said, I liked the True Grit remake but it's a little overhyped. I didn't see anything special about it. There were several movies I'd say were better movies this year.

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What is he up to?

by MrFreeze in

okay so jesus started his invisible rule from heaven in 1914. what in the hell has he been doing all this time?

is he just twiddling his thumbs right now?

c'mon man it's been almost 100 years.

MrFreeze

Okay so Jesus started his invisible rule from heaven in 1914. What in the hell has he been doing all this time? Is he just twiddling his thumbs right now? C'mon man it's been almost 100 years. Get your act together! I sure hope he got more done as a carpenter than he has as king.

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1914 to be abandoned around 2016

by Alfred in

the other day i was doing some research about "1914" for a friend on my wt cd library (spanish) and i found it quite interesting that the number of times "1914" is mentioned in the watchtower magazine during the previous 3 decades has been dropping exponentially as follows.... 1980-1989: mentioned 854 times.

1990-1999: mentioned 492 times.

2000-2009: mentioned 222 times.

MrFreeze

They will probably begin to fade it out more and more eventually they'll get to a point when they say "we shouldn't focus on the date of jesus' return. We need to focus on the end of this system."

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Do JWs Participate in Wars By Funding Them?

by cameo-d in

jw
friends

i think there are a lot of ways to get your hands bloody without actually joining the military or shooting a gun indiscriminately at foreigners in their own country.. can you think of ways that jws are participating in sponsoring wars without "going to war"?.

MrFreeze

I did hear something about that Outlaw but I don't think the OP was referring to that.

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Should the Watchtower get an official facebook, twitter or youtube page? (Cause people dont read magazines nowadays)

by Joliette in

jw
friends

i was thinking about mormons .

(they have a channel on youtube) and how other religions seem to be moving with the times, while jw's are still stuck on going door to door witnessing, street corner (while people are trying to get to work, not trying to be bothered with someone giving them a magazine about religion) passing out magazines, doing telephone witnessing, and letter writing.. most people dont even read magazines anymore (most people dont even have magazines subscriptions anymore) the majority of people are on the internet (or on their cell phones texting and chatting) on these websites (ex: facebook, twitter, youtube, etc).

if the message is so urgent, lifesaving, and life altering, why wont the watchtower 'get with times' sort of speak.

MrFreeze

Because they don't want people digging deeper into them. If they get a lot of people looking into tv ads, and then people do research on the truth behind The Truth, it's bad publicity for them.

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I just want a "normal" family

by Hangin_on in

jw
friends

i have a mother in law that doesn't like me because i'm not an elder and i don't study enough.... i think worldly people have bigger problems in their marriage!

did you ever just want a "normal" family?

i don't have to celebrate christmas, but i just want people that care about and accept me for who i am!

MrFreeze

There's no such thing as a normal family, I'm afraid.

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Do JWs Participate in Wars By Funding Them?

by cameo-d in

jw
friends

i think there are a lot of ways to get your hands bloody without actually joining the military or shooting a gun indiscriminately at foreigners in their own country.. can you think of ways that jws are participating in sponsoring wars without "going to war"?.

MrFreeze

Do you mean by paying taxes? I wouldn't say that's funding war.

For instance, would you say you are funding somebodies drug habit if you buy something from a convenience store that employs a drug addict?

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Whats your opinion on why so many WT Branch offices are closing around the world ?

by thetrueone in

just caught that yet another branch office has closed in hawaii.. its getting to a point that there seems to be one closing almost one per month now.. is this the future of the wts.

why is this all happening ?.

the wts moving completely out of brooklyn is another big change for the organization.. maybe this is the eventual but gradual demise of the wts.

MrFreeze

Probably a money issue. I'm sure the funds coming in aren't what they once were.

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...I need You to Send Me a Million Dollars...

by OUTLAW in

my latest fortune is at my finger tips... this is my nigerian new best friend... .

i have a palm v hand-held computer from which i am sending you this mail.

before my arrest, i went ahead to dispatch the sum of us$1 billion in cash under special arrangement into the custody of different offshore banks and private security and trustee companies for safe keeping abroad.

MrFreeze

I laugh that anybody ever fell for this.

As Michael Scott said "When the prince of Nigeria asks you for your help, you help. His father ran the freaking country." Nice response by the way.