Posts by Amelia Ashton

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Party in the kingdom hall!

by StephaneLaliberte in

check it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.

These people have so little real happiness in their lives that this video needs to go viral and make them realise that fun is allowed and the KH will not be struck down by Jah for using it for "entertainment".

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The Complete Scammer's Guide - by "Pastor" Russell (New Light!)

by Focus in

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friends

most of us are reasonably familiar with reports of scandalous goings-on of that old jellyfish lecher, the founder of the watchtower cult, the one and only charles taze russell.. but, are these stories true?.

this thread is going to be devoted to his allegedly scurrilous activities.

so, bookmark it, please, bro' focus is in possession of noo light, and we're going to explore russell like you've never seen him explored before.. we're approaching his 100th death anniversary, and for all i know this virtual exhumation may lead to a real one.

Amelia Ashton

Wow! Keeping this article for my WT scrapbook, or perhaps I should change the name to my JW.ORG scrapbook.

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Who Donates Blood For Jehovah's Witnesses That Accept Blood Fragments?

by SanLuisObispoTruthSeeker in

the elders say "its very wrong to donate blood because you never know what the medical community is going to do with that blood.

" i asked one of the brothers who is a consultant at one of the medical centers, "why are we allowed to take blood fragments if were not allowed to donate blood?

" he/she refused to answer, just shook their head and walked away all red faced!

Amelia Ashton

They try to justify taking from non JWs but not giving especially if it is to a non JW.

Good Samaritans they are not.

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so is the BORG now the WORG ?

by bigmac in

j.worg.

Amelia Ashton

They have pins with the logo JW. ORG now so to get one with J.WORG would be funny.

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The people i least get along with are EX- J.Ws

by new hope and happiness in

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i am not talking about posters here on this board ( otherwise i wouldn't be here would i) but in general.. si i am talking those ex j.ws in my community and we just dont get on.

well ok its a bit of an exaggeration to say i don't get on with them, we just dont associate.

this botherd me at first as i thought we would have much in common, but it wasn't so, and it's just the way it is.

Amelia Ashton

My exjdub friends are now my family and apart from my children I love them more than any other people on this planet.

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Has anyone ever saved another persons life?

by LogCon in

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i don't mean you advised them and they changed their lives around, kind of saving a life.. i mean right before your eyes, right now, you had to do something to save a person or they would be dead.. how did it make you feel?

did it have any affect on you?.

forty years ago i was working on a construction site and a back-hoe had loosened a large boulder.

Amelia Ashton

I saved a woman who couldn't swim from drowning. The current was so strong though that by the time I managed to get us both to shore we had been swept along the coast half a mile and she was unconscious. As soon as I was able to stand I started yelling for help and some German men sunbathing heard me and helped get her onto the grass. I thought we were both going to die because everytime I managed to get us to the surface another wave crashed over us forcing us down again and even when I managed to get to the surface there was so much surf in the air I was breathing it in.

One of the worst experiences of my life!

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Donation of blood fractions

by why144000 in

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this may be the wrong area for this but here goes.. if you went to a bank and told them " i don't have an account with you, i never will have an account with you and i will tell people you are a terrible bank" then ask not for a loan from them, but a gift of a lot of money, how do you think they would respond?.

yet, witnesses now have the the ability to take blood fractions from the blood bank without ever contributing to the blood bank.

there is a process that the blood bank takes just the plasma from a donor to be used for fractions only.

Amelia Ashton

I am a blood donor now.

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How old were you when you left the Watchtower - SURVEY

by usualusername in

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i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .

i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .

uun.

Amelia Ashton

First contacted at age 22 ish through d2d work (I was a depressed single mum) studied, moved house, recontacted again at 30, still a depressed single Mum, got married and divorced so now a single Mum of 3 and got baptised at 37 ish, but after movng house and doubts never went again after the memorial and another house move in 2009 age 49. Not been missed yet. Lol

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As a parent, did you ever have a swimming pool and invite neighbor kids?

by 4thgen in

being 4th generation, i realize that am socially stunted, in regard to those that are not jws.

i am forging ahead and endeavoring to build a life outside of jw's.

i am trying as i can to socialize my child to make friends and be a normal kid.

Amelia Ashton

My kids could only go in the pool with their friends if I was outside too but usually parents were invited as well and we did a barbeque. It was up to the parents to watch their own kids not me.

Sunburn was the biggest problem with one little red-head who would not wear her t-shirt.

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Daniel chapter 9

by Doug Mason in

i have scanned daniel chapter 9 as it is rendered in english by the hebrew tanakh (masoretic text - mt) and by the greek septuagint (lxx).. http://www.jwstudies.com/daniel_9_in_mt_and_in_lxx.pdf.

read verses 24 to 27 carefully.. doug.

Amelia Ashton

THE NWT

(Daniel 9:24-27) 24 “There are seventy weeks that have been determined upon your people and upon your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, and to finish off sin, and to make atonement for error, and to bring in righteousness for times indefinite, and to imprint a seal upon vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. 25 And you should know and have the insight [that] from the going forth of [the] word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si′ah [the] Leader, there will be seven weeks, also sixty-two weeks. She will return and be actually rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in the straits of the times. 26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Mes·si′ah will be cut off, with nothing for himself. “And the city and the holy place the people of a leader that is coming will bring to their ruin. And the end of it will be by the flood. And until [the] end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations. 27 “And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease. “And upon the wing of disgusting things there will be the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, the very thing decided upon will go pouring out also upon the one lying desolate.”

The new NWT

(Daniel 9:24-27) 24 “There are 70 weeks that have been determined for your people and your holy city, in order to terminate the transgression, to finish off sin, to make atonement for error, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. 25 You should know and understand that from the issuing of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until Mes·si′ah the Leader, there will be 7 weeks, also 62 weeks. She will be restored and rebuilt, with a public square and moat, but in times of distress. 26 “And after the 62 weeks, Mes·si′ah will be cut off, with nothing for himself. “And the people of a leader who is coming will destroy the city and the holy place. And its end will be by the flood. And until the end there will be war; what is decided upon is desolations. 27 “And he will keep the covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week, he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease. “And on the wing of disgusting things there will be the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, what was decided on will be poured out also on the one lying desolate.”

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