Posts by tomrobbins

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This has to be from an "Awake!", right!?

by tomrobbins in

jw
friends

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it was posted on that icanhascheezeburger site.... at first it didn't load all the way as i was surfing their site (slow internet at my house), but the font of the title question struck me as reeeally familiar and i kept clicking on refresh to see the rest of the image... good lord.. he's got hella mexican wool blankets though.

i'd invite him to my party.. .

tomrobbins

Kojak: Yeah I know... it is that way for a lot of JW kids... I was fortunate enought to have a lot of fun growing up though. We were in a fairly rural area that was close enough for a day's drive to a big city so we had the best of both worlds. A lot of fun outdoors activities, dance parties and driving to the city. Some of us got into trouble, some of us didn't. I had a lot of fun, drank a little, didn't get into much trouble.

I was stifled a little by the whole college thing and only did community college and moved out of state to put my awesome Associate of Arts degree to work. Finally decided that I'd like more college and after a few years of that decided that the JW religion was full o' hot air.

I have had a good life since. I try not to think of the way I was held back by buying into the whole JW thing for the first ~26 years of my life (with a little residual "remedialness" in the education/social area for a few years after that). I am really lucky for all of the opportunities that I have had.

TR/K

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This has to be from an "Awake!", right!?

by tomrobbins in

jw
friends

.

it was posted on that icanhascheezeburger site.... at first it didn't load all the way as i was surfing their site (slow internet at my house), but the font of the title question struck me as reeeally familiar and i kept clicking on refresh to see the rest of the image... good lord.. he's got hella mexican wool blankets though.

i'd invite him to my party.. .

tomrobbins

wasblind- nice recall. So... were you a lonely-on-Sat-nights kind of guy?? ;-)

hey B o C :) Nice taste in books! I totally wanted to marry Tom Robbins :-P

I'm actually the poster "Kudra". Signed in on another person's account... I need to get my original password back...

Not many books were banned at my house except the "spiritistic" ones... I was WAY into Lois Duncan (if you were in middle/high school in the 80s/early 90s you would know her...) and the like, and those books were verboten around my place. Boohoo.

"Where do you come from?" Are you talking physical location? CA, CO, and AZ. Where do you come from?

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This has to be from an "Awake!", right!?

by tomrobbins in

jw
friends

.

it was posted on that icanhascheezeburger site.... at first it didn't load all the way as i was surfing their site (slow internet at my house), but the font of the title question struck me as reeeally familiar and i kept clicking on refresh to see the rest of the image... good lord.. he's got hella mexican wool blankets though.

i'd invite him to my party.. .

tomrobbins

It was posted on that ICanHasCheezeburger site...

At first it didn't load all the way as I was surfing their site (slow internet at my house), but the font of the title question struck me as reeeally familiar and I kept clicking on refresh to see the rest of the image... good lord.

He's got hella Mexican wool blankets though. I'd invite him to my party.

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Scans of WT vs. bound volume: Paul saying work finished "by end of 20th century" changed to "in our time"

by tomrobbins in

hello, looking for the actual scans.... i have looked through the search function here on jwn but can't find the actual scans of the magazine that states something like: "paul said that this preaching work will be finished by the end of the 20th century" and then scans of the bound volume of that same issue where the wording is changed to something like: "paul said that the preaching work will be finished in our day".

there are the direct quotes available in the jwn search but i'd really like to have the actual scans of the pages.. does anyone have the pdfs that they could post?.

my jw mom was ripping on the mormons for changing their doctrine in printed word the other day... so this would be interesting to have on hand if she brings stuff like that up again.. thanks!.

tomrobbins

Ray Publisher -another great find! Thanks.

Leolaia, thanks for the additional information! Hope all is well with you.

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Scans of WT vs. bound volume: Paul saying work finished "by end of 20th century" changed to "in our time"

by tomrobbins in

hello, looking for the actual scans.... i have looked through the search function here on jwn but can't find the actual scans of the magazine that states something like: "paul said that this preaching work will be finished by the end of the 20th century" and then scans of the bound volume of that same issue where the wording is changed to something like: "paul said that the preaching work will be finished in our day".

there are the direct quotes available in the jwn search but i'd really like to have the actual scans of the pages.. does anyone have the pdfs that they could post?.

my jw mom was ripping on the mormons for changing their doctrine in printed word the other day... so this would be interesting to have on hand if she brings stuff like that up again.. thanks!.

tomrobbins

Ah, perhaps, JWFacts -I'm not sure that she would think that. But perhaps.

FatFreek, that is another gem, thanks.

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Scans of WT vs. bound volume: Paul saying work finished "by end of 20th century" changed to "in our time"

by tomrobbins in

hello, looking for the actual scans.... i have looked through the search function here on jwn but can't find the actual scans of the magazine that states something like: "paul said that this preaching work will be finished by the end of the 20th century" and then scans of the bound volume of that same issue where the wording is changed to something like: "paul said that the preaching work will be finished in our day".

there are the direct quotes available in the jwn search but i'd really like to have the actual scans of the pages.. does anyone have the pdfs that they could post?.

my jw mom was ripping on the mormons for changing their doctrine in printed word the other day... so this would be interesting to have on hand if she brings stuff like that up again.. thanks!.

tomrobbins

Great -thanks a lot, JWFacts!

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Scans of WT vs. bound volume: Paul saying work finished "by end of 20th century" changed to "in our time"

by tomrobbins in

hello, looking for the actual scans.... i have looked through the search function here on jwn but can't find the actual scans of the magazine that states something like: "paul said that this preaching work will be finished by the end of the 20th century" and then scans of the bound volume of that same issue where the wording is changed to something like: "paul said that the preaching work will be finished in our day".

there are the direct quotes available in the jwn search but i'd really like to have the actual scans of the pages.. does anyone have the pdfs that they could post?.

my jw mom was ripping on the mormons for changing their doctrine in printed word the other day... so this would be interesting to have on hand if she brings stuff like that up again.. thanks!.

tomrobbins

I am interested in getting the above scans after reading this great post on changes in the "Truth Book", complete with scans of the offending pages.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/174077/4/1975-coverup-Compare-the-68-and-81-Truth-book-scans

-K

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Scans of WT vs. bound volume: Paul saying work finished "by end of 20th century" changed to "in our time"

by tomrobbins in

hello, looking for the actual scans.... i have looked through the search function here on jwn but can't find the actual scans of the magazine that states something like: "paul said that this preaching work will be finished by the end of the 20th century" and then scans of the bound volume of that same issue where the wording is changed to something like: "paul said that the preaching work will be finished in our day".

there are the direct quotes available in the jwn search but i'd really like to have the actual scans of the pages.. does anyone have the pdfs that they could post?.

my jw mom was ripping on the mormons for changing their doctrine in printed word the other day... so this would be interesting to have on hand if she brings stuff like that up again.. thanks!.

tomrobbins

Hello, looking for the actual scans...

I have looked through the search function here on JWN but can't find the actual scans of the magazine that states something like: "Paul said that this preaching work will be finished by the end of the 20th century" and then scans of the bound volume of that same issue where the wording is changed to something like: "Paul said that the preaching work will be finished in our day". There are the direct quotes available in the JWN search but I'd really like to have the actual scans of the pages.

Does anyone have the PDFs that they could post?

My JW mom was ripping on the Mormons for changing their doctrine in printed word the other day... so this would be interesting to have on hand if she brings stuff like that up again.

Thanks!

-Kudra (signed in on someone else's account)