Posts by iamwhoiam

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If the WT dumped 1914 tommorow ...?

by faithfulslavedriver in

this is my first post here.

i've been a lurker for awhile but had no particular desire to join until the other day.. anyways, do you think that if wt decided to face the fact that 607-1914 is an indefensible pile of crap that has been artificially kept steaming for way too long, would it really kick off a mass exodus or anything?

in the short term the fds/gb might lose some authority, but they are hemorrhaging people anyways keeping it around (607 started me on the road to this place).. if wt stopped talking about 1914 for awhile then later killed it, blaming it on "further research" or something, and acknowledged some uncertainty in 607/587, i really doubt that very many of the r&f would think much about it.

iamwhoiam

I hope they factored in Leap Year for thier calculations. :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

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Is it possible that Jesus was a Cult Leader???

by iamwhoiam in

..thoughts??

?.

iamwhoiam

..thoughts???

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Help! Strange request for info I heard in a Recorded (gasp!) Talk.

by PaintedToeNail in

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i heard a recording of a talk by a bro.

who's topic was something to the effect of 'coincidences in the history of wtbts and jehovah's direction'.

i believe it was an american bro., who claimed that a woman who owned a mansion in atlanta, at the time of general sherman's march to the sea, and subsequent burning of atlanta, had her mansion saved.

iamwhoiam

I heard this exact same example in a talk i heard last year...exactly like you just described it.

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WWAD?

by iamwhoiam in

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friends

what would andre do?.

this would make one hell of a bracelet.

.

iamwhoiam

What Would Andre Do?

This would make one hell of a bracelet.

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Prelude to a disfellowshipping

by rory-ks in

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i was 25 years a congregation member; ten years an elder; all told, up to 18 years an appointed man; a decade or so as a full-time minister; assembly speaker, with the pinnacle giving the public discourse at a district convention.. .

i stopped being an active member of the congregation in november 2010, but it had been brewing for several years, with the customary gradual drifting away - all the necessary mental gymnastics as my spiritual views changed and doubts set in; quitting the theocratic ministry school; ceasing to answer; sitting quietly off to the side.

i think the straw that broke the camels back was when family worship inevitably became family worship.

iamwhoiam

The Mormons have a better idea. They have "Family Game" Night

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My Son's Wisdom

by TOTH in

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my youngest son is now in college and while he has always had an extraordinary ability to call it like it is, he is now even more likely to mouth off.

he is honing his deductive reasoning and objective thinking skills very nicely and with his "don't give a shit attitude" when it comes to pointing out hypocrisy, well he is just a walking bs caller...especially around the jw's.. so we were talking this evening about some stuff that used to be taught in the hall back when i was a kid.

no college because young people would never grow old in this system.

iamwhoiam

I played a video of GB member Franz actually saying the words that the end of 1975 would usher in the destruction of babylon the Great ad the Great tribulation and then by the beginning of 1976 PARADISE would be here. He shook his head and said that it is impossible to understand how anyone still trusts a single word the wt prints.

Do you or anyone else have a link to this video?

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