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  How to peddle Doomsday for Fun and Profit

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. scandals

  james ussher (1581-1656).

  your name is ussher – james ussher – and you are the archbishop of all of ireland.. you are living in the 1600s and are obsessive-compulsive when it comes to speculative ideas.

  you are convinced that you alone have the intellect to figure exact dates of all the major events in the bible actually.

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  You are such a gifted writer and your threads are always a pleasure to read, this one especially so.

  A great many clever and imaginative Christians had their own unique ideas. Some printed and published those schemes along with charts and dates and all sorts of crackpot speculations."

  Edit (This is my comment and shouldn't be in quotes) Immediately the current 'generation' chart came to mind, they can't help themselves because they have let themselves be influenced by them but they lack any credibility.

  I am wondering if the Warchtower ever printed a chronological breakdown with precise dates as to how they determined that man has lived on earth from Adam as being 6,000 years to Sep/Oct 1975?
  
  
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  Anthony Morris's talk "Beware of the Birdcatcher. " He does tend to exaggerate just a little

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  massachusetts saturday afternoon fall 2005. .

  here is a talk that anthony morris gave at a local congregation in 2005, titled ''beware of the birdcatcher.

  '' he has everyone laughing in stitches in the first fifteen minutes.

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  Why doesn't he mention their names? There could be a number of reasons

  - it didn't happen

  - it did happen but the story is exaggerated

  - now 14 years on, are they still JWs today?
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  THIS IS IT Tony Morris Identifies King of Norht

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is the announcement we have heard “about” but now it has been released to the whole world.

  its in the 2nd of a three part serries about the jw annual meeting (oct 2018).

  to minute 52. .

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  Morris got one thing right. He told the rank and file not to be gullible.
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  Does any other denomination change Doctrines as often as JW's?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  would i err in stating most religions and denominations have set doctrines?and yet, the watchtower's version/rendition of christianity is riven with contradictions which stem from changing predictions, policies, doctrines, and interpretations seemingly adrift from foundation or principle.wouldn't you think the constant upheaval, sifting, churn, and reorganization bespeaks whim, mood, uncertainty, and wilful speculation more than divine guidance?there's something endemically jittery and insecure about this religion which i would opine has more than a little to do with unstable mental affect than mere whimsy.what's your take on this?.

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  Zeb re the CARC -There was no defence uttered no holy spirit evident.

  Great point. The CARC also demonstrated that there was no HS evident with the policies that they already had in place.
  
  
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  Hooray, smiddy and smiddy3 has got his old self back again as Marvin

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks to my son i have the avatar of old back on once again .

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  Looking great Smiddy, as young as ever 😀
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  "This system will probably be over in about 5 years"

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't think i shared this story yet, it's strange and although i did a little detective work trying to figure out who said what and when i never found out much, big surprise, jehovah's witnesses love their secrets as we all know... but i thought other posters might find this interesting both in and of itself, because of what an elder told me one sunday back in 2011, and because of what it could imply as to high-ranking jehovah's witnesses prophesying the date of armageddon.

  specific dates went out the window in 1975, although governing body helper ken flodin hinted at 2040 in a talk uploaded to jw.org a couple years back, and the governing body hinted at 2034 in a watchtower back in the 90s.

  but it might be, just might, that more specific date-setting still goes on behind closed doors in certain circuits.... so after i went to "meetings" and talked to witnesses for a couple years at a rural congregation in the eastern united states an elder pulled me aside one service into the vestibule at the hall, in other words, into a private area where no one would overhear us.

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  In the past they've always had the 'within this generation' to use as a biblical basis for their stance but now they have nothing, other than their frenzied suggestions.
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  I Am Still Here! Another Birthday look back at one helluva lifetime

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.the world of 1947--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

  everywhere you found telephone booths!

  a call was a nickel.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

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  Thanks for the walk into the past and happy birthday.
  
  I'm a little younger but can remember the clip clop of the horses with their carts of milk, delivering in the early hours of the morning. Washing our glass milk bottles so we could leave them out front for him to replace with full bottles and going out early in the morning on hot summer days before it went sour.
  
  
  
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  Rape by Elder led to a life of sexual abuse

  by Asian sister in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raped by two brothers when i was 12 in vancouver.

  one was an elder who i trusted beyond belief and the other was his 18 year old son, who i had a huge crush on.

  it changed my life forever, i became a slut, sleeping with every brother i could of which there was an endless supply.

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  Asian sister, other than sleeping with you is there any other way that we could assist you? Could you please advise what exactly it is that you are looking for from us.
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  Tony Morris Talk: "This Is It!"

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can anyone direct me to the tony "tightpants" morris talk he gave in the agm where he revealed the new king of the north?

  i'm told via the jw grapevine it was entitled "this is it!"..

  is there a video?

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  Listener

  They played the first part of the AGM as the January 2019 Broadcast and I think they said that they would play the next two episodes within a couple of weeks from that, so it should be out soon.
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  Just wanted to share my little bit of good news.

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. family

  i haven't been posting here much lately, i think i only created one topic in 2018!

  but this is worth it.. i am a grandfather 😊.

  it happens all the time but damn, it feels good.

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  Listener

  That's wonderful news Nic, congratulations.