Posts by Amelia Ashton

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"Jehovah will satisfy all our desires in the new system!" Are you sure about that?

by nowwhat? in

bill ,a non witness is killed driving home after work, providing for his family.

he left behind his wife and 3 kids all under 8 years of age.

armageddon comes the very next month.

Amelia Ashton

I had a jag in this system.

Don't wait. If you want one get one. I loved mine. :)

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Chaos at Gatwick Airport

by The Fall Guy in

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754.

perhaps all major airports will eventually employ their own industrial sized drone, operated by a trained/authorised pilot who can track and pinpoint the nut-jobs who cause such disruption and possible catastrophe..

Amelia Ashton

It is incredible how all Gatwick flights are cancelled until further notice because of maybe 1 or 2 individuals. Who knew it would be that simple to disrupt an airport.

This situation must have been considered a possibility before now but no solution or plan of action appears to be in place to deactivate or immobilize the drones.

Is it a protest, a terrorist act or someone got their Xmas present early and just having fun regardless of the misery and inconvenice caused?

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"Jehovah will satisfy all our desires in the new system!" Are you sure about that?

by nowwhat? in

bill ,a non witness is killed driving home after work, providing for his family.

he left behind his wife and 3 kids all under 8 years of age.

armageddon comes the very next month.

Amelia Ashton

My heart's desire is to fly and breathe under water not pet pandas.

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Many Jehovah's Witness Leaders and Followers Customize Their Religion to Suit Their Needs

by new boy in

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friends

after observing my jehovah's witness friends and family members for over 50 years it became apparent that the vast majority of "the brothers and sisters" pick and choose the rules and laws that their church/organization what them to follow.. tough the society may state these admonitions as definite "do's and don'ts" many of the church followers put these admonitions in the the "grey zone.".

the reason being jehovah will give them special dispensation.

yes, for some odd reason jehovah will cut these people some slack for the same things he must punish others for.

Amelia Ashton

In Spain the ruling was ordinary publishers could sunbathe naked on a nudist beach but not pioneers.

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Xmas, love it or leave it??

by DATA-DOG in

i have to say that i’m not enjoying the xmas season.

i have no emotional ties and i’m spending money that i have not set aside for xmas during a slow work season for my trade.. i’m not happy about it, because it’s foolish to spend money when you aren’t making any.

then i feel like i’m expected to do all this, and to be happy about spending money and time on persons that i’m not that involved with.

Amelia Ashton

After hating xmas in my pre JW days and then not really "feeling it" after leaving the last few years we have really embraced it and it has now become a 3 day event. :)

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What Are Ways You Can Tell Someone is a Jehovah’s Witness?

by minimus in

jw
friends

is it something they do?

how they say things?

how do you spot a jehovah’s witness?.

Amelia Ashton

A young couple who have been supporting my hedgehog rescue for a few years now I would never have known they were JWs if they hadn't told me last time they visited.

They go to folk festivals to perform their own songs so I would never have guessed.

I certainly didn't tell them I am an an apostate.

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JW elders stumped by Watchtower Publications

by Roger Kirkpatrick in

i was approached by two jehovah’s witness elders who handed me a pamphlet advertising the jw .org website.

each man carried a bible and an apple ipad.

they told me that they enjoyed visiting with people about the bible, and asked if i was a bible reader.

Amelia Ashton

Revelation Ch 19 v 1 has the great crowd being in heaven.

Real mental gymnastics trying to prove otherwise when originally even JWs believed all those saved were going to heaven. They tripped themselves up by limiting the amount to just 144,000.

New light new truth or new understanding had to be introduced when expansion exceeded their expectations. Where to put all those new members?

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Do you have any assembly memories/stories?

by RisingEagle in

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friends

on an earlier thread about ice cream i remembered a snack that was sold at assemblies and that started me thinking about some of my memories of childhood at conventions/assemblies.

i guess it was the taste/smell association because even today when i go to various convention halls for home improvement expos, car shows and the like it takes me right back to the past.

i have many memories wrapped around the conventions and experienced different things because i have lots of elders in the family that were used, literally, for food service, the accounting office, security and dramas.

Amelia Ashton

I hated assemblies and out of all the assemblies I only actually remember one good thing.

Concorde flying over Twickenham. That was awesome. :)

On the 3rd day we were actually counselled against being distracted by it "because we wouldn't want to miss something important or potentially life saving would we?".

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The Reasons for Cart Witnessing

by Simon in

whatever we think of it, you have to admit that it's quite "genius".. the door to door ministry as done in western developed countries where the jw quirky religion has probably reached their saturation level was a complete and utter waste of time in terms of the effort expended to recruit people.. at the same time, it was rarely something that anyone enjoyed which led to people being labelled as inactive, being pressured to doing more and maybe ultimately deciding jwism wasn't for them and leaving.. there was also the issue that many jws are actually pretty bad at knowing and articulating their beliefs so were pretty incapable of getting any meaningful message across.. they solved all this with the cart witnessing.

the real point isn't to recruit, it's to make life easier for jws.

now they can stand and chat with their friend, have a coffee, not talk to anyone or make eye contact and still act as a walking billboard for jw.org.