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  Did You Know Any "Genuine"" Old School Anointed?

  by Number 6 in

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  growing up in scotland in the 1970s in scotland the anointed were few and far between, but we had one old dude in our cong who claimed to be one of the anointed.

  in the days when it was taken seriously.. i'd be curious how you viewed them.

  thing is, he wasn't an elder, or even a ministerial servant, just a plain old publisher.. but he was revered like he had a hotline to jesus.. the other week i was talking to a friend of similar age to me but who hung around the wt a lot longer than i did, and he just commented "oh him... he was a doddery old fool who used to just sit and piss himself.

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  To me, “genuine, old school” would suggest that they felt the calling before the old rules changed — before 1935. Thus they would have had to have been born before 1915. So they are all dead. The ones I knew as a child seems like any other JW, just older.

  Whereas any “new partaker” that I have known has had issues with mental illness, usually bi-polar. Additionally, I think that anyone who really thinks they have this special personal calling from God to rule over all their JW peers has to at least a bit narcissistic and an inflated opinion of themself.
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  Favorite Bumper Stickers!

  by The Bethelite in

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  one the jws like.. "get busy!

  god is coming and he is pissed.".

  one the that people who are not jws like.. "please god protect me from your people".

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  DesirousOfChange

  “Put down your damn phone and drive!”

  .......

  During the Reagan administration:

  ”Jane Wyman was right!”
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  When was it time for you to walk away from your congregation meetings and the WTBTS?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .

  ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.

  i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Doubts in 1985 — generation change. More doubts 2010 — another generation change. Packed it up that same year when I realized there was really no divine (Holy Spirit) direction in the Borg. (Yes. I really did believe that BS.) 😡 Totally embarrassed and feel like a gullible fool.

  It’s all a sham.
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  DesirousOfChange

  I think most are “based on real events”. Kinda like any Hollywood movie that makes that statement. (HAHA) IOW, lots of “poetic license”. Not quite absolute lies

  Things like “lost my job” get changed to “sought early retirement” (to pioneer, etc).
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  Joe Biden and Push-up Contests

  by minimus in

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  in the past, the former vp has challenged trump to a push-up contest and today he did again , only this time to an 83 year old man who told biden that he thought he was too old to run for president.

  it appears biden called him fat and unlike the man he wasn’t sedentary.

  then he challenged the man to a push-up contest.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Yes, there are plenty of Dem VP candidates. Of the 23 in the debate, I suspect about 20 of them were hoping to be selected as VP for Biden or Sanders. That would give them about a 50-50 chance of being president in the next four years as both of them are old enough to die in the White House.
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  WT study 8 December

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  had to look.

  first paragraph mentions that most of were probably born after 1914. most?

  i bet the dubs 105 and older can be counted on your fingers..

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  The reason they call them the Last Days -- because they last.......and they last......and they last.......and........
  
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  What Your EAN ? (Evil Apostate Name)

  by Sea Breeze in

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  My immediate reaction, Simon! It certainly narrows down one's birthday to 2 days.
  

  Thanks for the warning.
  
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  105 yrs.of Jesus Christ Rule is About To End ....What has Been accomplished ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
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  at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.

  been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?

  and what he has accomplished ?.

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  Question for Current and Ex Elders

  by Iamallcool in

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  have you ever reinstate somebody even if they are not that repentant?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  What Fulano said.

  If they were attending meetings, "highlighting" their WT with multi-colored markers (so the bro's walking the microphones could see), singing, and following along in the Bible, then you assumed repentance.

  Either that or the Holy Spirit would sent a message to you in your sleep to reveal their repentance.
  

  Still, more recently there is talk of it needed to be a year before reinstatement (+/-). They are wanting to try to be sure that a person isn't just faking it to sneak back in and the just disappear.
  
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  105 yrs.of Jesus Christ Rule is About To End ....What has Been accomplished ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
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  at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.

  been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?

  and what he has accomplished ?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  What is the general feeling among JW`s that it has gone this long and still no G.T. ,or Armageddon ?

  For some reason, they don't even seem to think about that fact.
  

  

  BTW -- They call the The Last Days because...............they last and they last and they last and ........