Posts by DesirousOfChange

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Had to laugh.

by Lost in the fog in

i had to laugh.. i bumped into a friend who has started going back to the meetings and who has that enthusiastic arm-waving way of talking about the stuff they're hearing from the platform.. in part he's wittering on about some talk they'd had about king david and all of his ups and downs.

and says, "and as the speaker emphasized over and over again, we can imitate david because he was a man just like ourselves.".

" i finally interrupted.. that shut him up.

DesirousOfChange

I always thought using King David as the standard for a "righteous man" was a pretty low bar. I think I'll be OK based on that.

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UK Tax cut for the wealthiest

by BettyHumpter in

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friends

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DesirousOfChange

Without knowing how much those men are making, it's difficult to determine how fair the system was

Interesting comment, but true.

Who decided that I should give "Society" a greater percentage of my earnings than the guy next to me who works part time because he wants to do it that way because it gives him the opportunity to help out on maintenance at the Ass Hall?

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Annual Meeting 2022: Geoffrey Jackson: Why Jerusalem mattersem Matters

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/pdtwglldsza.

DesirousOfChange

Forty two minutes?

Sorry. Can't do it.

Of course, I realize it could be worse. It could be Stephen Bozo Lett.

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Jehovah's Witnesses 2022 Annual Meeting

by JW GoneBad in

damn....october 1, 2022 already upon us!

yesterday's jw annual meeting was held without a word...without any prior mention of it.

anyone on this forum attend the event supposedly held via zoom?

DesirousOfChange

Were is the time we had a lot to talk about new light and changes after the AM

Ahhhh, the "new light" is dim and flickering these days. Probably a rolling brown out.

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ARMAGEDDON

by Lost in the fog in

can i ask please especially for all who are pomo?.

we've taken a decision similar to revelation 18:4 to get out of the watchtower and not share in its sins.. how many of you still believe that god will one day terminate the world's many systems by means of an armageddon?.

DesirousOfChange

I'm betting we get wiped out by an asteroid sooner than the Big A. Or, a bit worried about the F*cksticks around the globe that have nuclear capability. Even that seems more likely than Armageddon at God's hands.

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which Translation Now?

by enoughisenough in

for those of you who still respect the bible, which translation/s are you using now?

why?.

DesirousOfChange

I usually go to the NIV online, but I caught myself pulling out the Diaglott recently when "online" wasn't available.

(Yeah you read it right. No internet in the heart of the USA [admittedly very rural heart of the USA] even though we've been paying a tax for it since Al Gore introduced the idea.)

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2022-10-04-Documents!

by Atlantis in

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friends

2022-10-s-147-announcements and reminders.

2022-10-04-mandatory reporting training.

2022-10-04-questions and answers concerning the online course for mandatory reporting.. .

DesirousOfChange

You're a fine elder with outstanding spiritual qualifications when you "take one" for the "Team" -- The WTS/GB Team

This is about when they pull out Heb 6:10 -- The Governing Body is not so unjust as to forget what you did to save their asses.(Tho they forget about you as you're being billing $100"s/hr for your personal attorney or while you're ass is rotting in jail -- with a bunch of felons you think you protect child abusers. NOT a good scenario. Even they have little kids.)

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ARMAGEDDON

by Lost in the fog in

can i ask please especially for all who are pomo?.

we've taken a decision similar to revelation 18:4 to get out of the watchtower and not share in its sins.. how many of you still believe that god will one day terminate the world's many systems by means of an armageddon?.

DesirousOfChange

We could have been so much better. ~ Punky

Yes! That is sad to contemplate. What if . . . . . .

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A question about the contemporary generation teaching following a conversation with a JW apologist

by Giles Gray in

i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

DesirousOfChange

Sadly, that video is "spot on"!

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YouTube's 'Colder Pizza' Reads Hilarious Proselytizing Letter by Awakened PIMO JW

by Roger Kirkpatrick in

for the record, 'colder pizza' is the fifth youtuber to read this incredible letter.. jws hate this letter because it accurately expresses current watch tower teachings which they have embraced as "the truth" in language commonly used by jws in private conversation but would never express so candidly to non-jws.. most people have known at least one jw at some point in their life, but nobody knows what jws actually believe; therefore, they view jws as basically a harmless religion.

this letter is designed to correct that common misapprehension.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7099bfvhvs&t=378s.

DesirousOfChange

And we used to believe all of that to be The Troof.