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  Why the "worldly" thought of heaven is more comforting than Paradise

  by kneehighmiah in

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  one of the worst and best things about waking up is realizing that despite what you've been taught as a child, you are going to die one day.

  that was easy for me to handle, as i've had near death medical emerigencies.

  the hardest part is the thought of losing your parents.

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  I also felt the paradise earth hope was more realistic then going to heaven, a place for spirits. I have seen pictures of paradisaic surroundings that people now have and it seemed to make sense that the earth could one day be made like that.

  All of my life I feared losing my beloved Mother in death, and that horrible time came in April 2000. I reread everything I could about the resurrection, but thinking I'd have to wait till towards the end of the 1.000 year reign, hundreds of years from now, to see my dear Mom, was very discouraging. And Armageddon never came, thus the new world and seeing my Mom again became further and further away. Not comforting at all. My Dad died in 2006 and I had realized that Armageddon and the new world will not come in my lifetime, if ever.

  Then I discovered the tatt and lost faith in ever seeing my dear parents and other relatives ever again.

  The witnesses told me when I began studying back in 1976 "you will always be a teenager' because the new world was so close and I would never grow old. Now I am 56 with no future to look forward to.

  I have not been able to believe in an afterlife in heaven as there has never been any proof of it and the Bible teaches that when we die, that is it, we are dead, UNLESS Jehovah resurrects us, which I no longer believe he will do. (IF he exists).

  I think those who DO believe in an afterlife in heaven feel comforted in their beleif but it is just not realistic to me. I wish it was.
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  Brooklyn Eagle Video Asks: Which Brooklyn Heights Properties Will The Watchtower Sell Next ...

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/65880.

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  the brooklyn eagle posted a video today exploring the fate of the remaining watchtower properties in the brookyn heights area..

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  Thank you Barbara!

  Today jw.org also released a new video about moving out of 117 Adams Street. It makes me feel so sad those idiot gb.2 members sold it. I have memories of a very happy part of my life visiting that printery, it was at one time a very special place to me, and I feel nostalgic seeing the video. I have not been able to be there since 2003 and now it is sold.

  I have not been able to get to Wallkill since 1997 and wonder if I will ever get to tour the printery there.

  I think it will be several years before the other Brooklyn Buildings are sold as they have to be able to relocate the operations and personal.

  I wonder where the laundry/dry cleaning operation will be moved to which is currently still at the Adams st complex, Bldg 3, 55 Prospect street.

  But as sad as I am about the salesof these Bethel buildings by the moron gb it just helps me to see that the jw religion today is not the one I became part of back in the 70's.
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  Picking on Harold Camping- again

  by A.proclaimer in

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  Of course they don't mention their OWN false prophecies!

  Outlaw- you are so right! The average person has no idea what the witnesses life saving message is. They do not know WHAT witnesses believe. The kingdom preaching work is a joke, a total failure.
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  No more circuit assemblies

  by justmeok in

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  i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.

  anyone heard this yet?

  supposed to start new service year.

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  I agree that soon the regional conventions will be just two days.

  I'm wondering when the wt study will be shortened to 30 minutes like the other meetings. Then the study w can be reduced to 16 pages like the other magazines.

  Awake! will become bi-monthly and the public Watchtower too, then quarterly, then internet only.

  Publishers will have tracts to use door to door to encourage householders to read the publications online.

  But I wonder if any witnesses see the shortening of assemblies as a reduction of spiritual food? Most are probably glad they will only have to sit through one day of boring repetitive vomit!
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  Patterson New York JW Tourist Destination

  by Pete Zahut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a photo on facebook of a jw couple i know, apparently you can now get your photo taken with the stars of the jw animated children's videos, at patterson.

  i've tried to share it here but it isn't showing up.. basically, you stand in different cartoon scenes of the door to door activity, holding a bookbag and the hand of one of the children's characters from the viedo.

  the houses are pastel colored, the cartoon brothers are wearing brightly colored shirts and ties , no jackets.

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  I was always interested in seeing the books and magazines made. Bethel was facinating to me for that reason- book and magazine production on a huge scale.
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  How many changes since you have been out?

  by done4good in

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  pixel's boe letter made me think of this.

  i have been out since january 2006. here are the ones i can think of:.

  1. deletion of cong.

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  No more mail subscriptions to the magazines

  softcover books, very few books still hardcover

  book production moved to expanded wallkill printery

  Brooklyn presses shut down

  US magazine production moved to Canada

  Bible Teach only book offered door to door

  No new books published for the public

  Credit card donations solicited

  in addition to what everyone already listed.
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  The New WT Headquarters and APOSTATES

  by suavojr in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it is amazing how bethel is the best at making apostates!

  i wonder how many new up and coming apostates the new wt headquarters will generate?.

  what nice and fresh stories will surface from the secluded and private wt hub?

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  Designs- there are still 12-15 properties remaining in Brooklyn including the 25/30 CH Office Complex, the main complex of the Bethel home, and they are still using 90 Sands Street and the Laundry/Dry Cleaning facilities at 55 Prospect Street- part of the former 117 Adams St printery.

  They will not be out of Brooklyn til after the Warwick complex is complete sometime in 2017 and they can sell all of their remaining Brooklyn properties.

  I had lunch as a guest at Brooklyn Bethel many times in the late 70's-early 80's, I enjoyed it.
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  The finances of the JW in Canada

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes, revenu canada now has a service to display all of that information for free: click here!.

  you can also have the finances of all the circuits, congregations and assembly halls over there.

  wonder how much your kingdom hall is worth?

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  Interesting. Thanks!

  I wonder when the 2013 report will become available.
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  My Former Congregation is Dead

  by Nosferatu in

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  2. friends

  when i left the jw organization, there were about 80 publishers in my congregation.

  within the last month, the congregation was abolished because it only had 29 publishers in it.

  the apparent reason for this was one elder on a power trip.

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  There were two english language congregations in the hall I went to, now there is only one.

  In a nearby town there were two, now it seems there are none, the congregation listing on jw.org does not mention them.
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  Patterson New York JW Tourist Destination

  by Pete Zahut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a photo on facebook of a jw couple i know, apparently you can now get your photo taken with the stars of the jw animated children's videos, at patterson.

  i've tried to share it here but it isn't showing up.. basically, you stand in different cartoon scenes of the door to door activity, holding a bookbag and the hand of one of the children's characters from the viedo.

  the houses are pastel colored, the cartoon brothers are wearing brightly colored shirts and ties , no jackets.

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  The kids just won't get to play with toys, toys make Jehovah's heart sad.