Posts by punkofnice

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Have you driven in a country that drives on the opposite side of the road?

by FondaCox in

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did you drive?

if so, how nerve wracking was it for you?

i'd be terrified i'd stop concentrating for a moment and out of habit make a right turn at a red light into oncoming traffic.

punkofnice

I live in one.

I've never driven in a country outside the UK. I've been in a bus and car in Canada. It was weird being on the opposite side to a degree but not a bad experience.

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Did you ever meet someone born in the 1800’s?

by Fisherman in

i met freddie franz who was born in the 1880’s and many others from the 1880’s.

but as a very small child i remember someone very old aged 106 and that person was born around 1856 which means that he was around people from the 1700’s..

punkofnice

Yes. My Great Grandmother who was the daughter of the Rt Hon. Mrs Rawlings of Warwickshire. Born on 1 September 1879 in Brentford, Middlesex. Died aged 90 (I'm showing my snobby side now).

Her life 'overlapped(tm)' mine.

I will have met others, but they're all dead now so it doesn't matter. I'm glad I didn't meet Bro (tm) Franz, he was a nut job.

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New and improved?

by tenyearsafter in

i have a family member who had been df'ed for 15 years or so...recently they reinstated as a jw.

when i asked what motivated them to make that decision, the response was to be able to see family and old friends.

they insisted that things were different now.

punkofnice

HT - If organisation has become more loving and less judgemental, why is Tony Morris still a GB member and haven't been kicked out yet?

This!

Your family member is a bit starry eyed I'm sorry to say. I'd like to see the evidence of this.

JWs and Love are not two things I associate with each other. If there is love, then why do they protect paedophiles?

Love in the Organisation(tm) = Oxymoron.

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New and improved?

by tenyearsafter in

i have a family member who had been df'ed for 15 years or so...recently they reinstated as a jw.

when i asked what motivated them to make that decision, the response was to be able to see family and old friends.

they insisted that things were different now.

punkofnice

TYA - The organization is all about love for one another, and that the judgmental elders have been removed or no longer in their positions.

My Maths teacher is Colin Hodgkinson's wife. He played with TYA not so long ago. He used to play in a jazzy band called Back Door.

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Jehovah's Witnesses resume sidewalk carts after pandemic pause, soon will do door knocking

by Bangalore in

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jehovah's witnesses resume sidewalk carts after pandemic pause, soon will do door knocking.. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/08/05/jehovahs-witnesses-resume-sidewalk-carts-door-knocking-next-list/10168175002/.

punkofnice

How annoying for them. Just when they thought Armageddon(tm) was about to happen.....

Nothing!

Back to the thankless busy work.

DOC - Have you heard of anyone studying and reaching baptism from cart witnessing?

Nope. I bet the propaganda machine of the WBT$ will make claims about it which they can't evidence. We know they're lying about Andre again.

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A new generation of anointed that will not pass away.

by Fisherman in

obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.

and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.

in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.

punkofnice

I think fisherman is sometimes being contrary just to play and have fun. I'm not convinced he/she/they are really being serious.

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A new generation of anointed that will not pass away.

by Fisherman in

obviously, the older “ anointed ” from 1914 died.

and because they were anointed, they hopefully went to heaven.

in the first century though, a newer generation did not replace the old.

punkofnice

FM - The great tribulation will “shortly” hit any day now

Is this an 'overlapping(tm) day?

It all sounds a bit bizarre.

Nothing will happen any time soon, you know! I'm willing to bet on it.

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Free Will - Does It or Does It Not Exist?

by truth_b_known in

being born-in and raised as one of jehovah's witnesses i remember a common theme or phrases used by the watchtower in its theory of why things are the way they are -.

jehovah created humans.

jehovah created humans as free moral agents.