joey jojo

Joined

• started 71 topics
• posted 1,213 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by joey jojo

• 
  27

  News story claims: "Jehovah’s Witnesses" are QAnon believers"

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was googling the subject and came across this story.

  i just had an incredible phone conversation with a long-time jw who has strong "q-anon" "sovereign citizen" beliefs.

  the wife(first gen) says she is not surprised.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  'it is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled'.
• 
  9

  What are the benefits of doubts?

  by psyco in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what are the benefits of having created the human mind being able to have doubts inside (or regarding) the true religion (jude 22)?.

  because if you have doubts, you are not sure, so it is difficult to believe and trust.

  and if it is difficult to believe and trust, it is even more difficult to have faith since it is the "assured" expectation of what is hoped for (hebrews 11:1).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  Doubt can keep you alive.

  For example, 'I doubt I can take that hairpin bend at 100 miles an hour'.

  
  
• 
  23

  Does he really have a sex problem ?

  by ozziepost in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  like many, i’ve been bemused at lloyd evan’s excuses/reasons for his lusting after prostitutes.

  apparently, as he claims in his disastrous video, he blames his wife for being inadequate between the sheets.. could the real answer to his ‘problem’ be closer to home?.

  perhaps if he consulted a medical person or even a sex therapist he may learn his “problem” is not down to the borg at all, it may simply be caused by his weight i.e.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  I once watched an interview with an escort and guess who most of her clients are?

  Married men.

  There are many reasons men use prostitutes, Im not here to defend, or legitimise those reasons but here is something else the escort said:

  "ladies, if you dont f*ck your husbands, they are going to come and f*ck me".
• 
  35

  Jehovah Witnesses lost in Court. Disfellowshipped Sister Reinstated by Court Order?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine the "faithful" jws who are now having to talk to this person by court order or face the consequences----legally.. exjws are spreading the news and now some exjws who have been disfellowshipped for years are starting to research to see if this is an option in their country.

  here are the articles, you need to translate in google.

  https://www.nrk.no/norge/gry-nygard-ble-ekskludert-fra-jehovas-vitner-_-vant-i-lagmannsretten-1.15570621.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  No one should be forced to speak to another person if they dont want to.

  On the other hand, is it right for any religious organisation to tell its members who they can speak to or not?

  The jw's go too far when they expect people to shun immediate family members and produce videos to demonstrate exactly how to do it.
• 
  32

  Can you list the positive points of being a JW as against the negative points of being a JW in your experience ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was a twenty y/old when i converted to the jw religion and was a problem drinker and i was a chain smoker .when i was baptized at a circuit assembly a year later , my conversion and change in lifestyle was given as an example of the effectiveness of incidental witnessing to the audience.. so i can point to the 2 positives becoming a jw .. 1.i gave up smoking.

  2.i gave up drinking for a while ,but because i still had association with my wife`s and my family who were not jw`s ,i learnt to control my social drinking when i started again.. and i have been a responsible drinker ever since ,even though i left the religion 29 years ago.. the negative points of being a jw in my 32 years of being one ?

  are far too great to list here .. love to hear your thoughts..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  Interesting post Smiddy.

  A JW elder told me once that I should be grateful because of what I had gained from the org, for example, my wife, who I adore. For those of us born-in's, we simply dont know how our lives would have turned out, or what paths we would have taken - good or bad.

  How do I know I wouldnt have got an even better wife outside the org?
• 
  20

  Caleb & Sophia - The Watchtower gets weirder

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the latest video release 4/4/22 (lesson 44 'don't give up') in the comic series of caleb & sophia just got weirder.

  the plot is about caleb & sophia preaching door to door, caleb with his father and sophia with her mother.

  it shows each of them having doors slammed on them four times.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  Pale emperor:

  Ouch, that must have been brutal.

  Do you still speak to your Aunt?
• 
  134

  How far do we get away from 1914

  by PimoElder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how far do we get away from 1914 before they have a new light and admit it was all wrong?.

  they cling to the old theory of the 77 week prophecy from the wrong date that jerusalem was destroyed .

  with the overlapping generations nonsense still we are getting too far away from 1914. what will they say if we get to the 2030s and they still cling to 1914?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  JW kids born around 1995 don't see the 1914 generation in the same way us older ones did. These ones are now almost in their 30's and have families of their own. In the meantime, the older generations have long reconciled the change and performed whatever mental gymnastics they required to help them cope with the change.

  The GB just has to wait for the older generations, along with their inconvenient memories to die and it's a clean slate all over again for the org.

  Good to see scholar back again, always nice to have some comedy relief once in a while. 😀
• 
  9

  Some developements toward microchipping humans

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many people took the covid vaccine and the boosters.

  looks like those controlling such world wide campaigns have more in store for the humanity.

  the powerful organization world economic forum says that the covid pandemic has started the digitalization and surveillance of everything.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  Digitalisation and surveillance started a long time ago. We all freely gave our information away without understanding the consequences just by signing up to platforms like facebook, or browsing google.

  We dont really need microchips because we already have these:

  https://www.wareable.com/fashion/best-smart-rings-1340
  
• 
  26

  Rutherford and dinosaurs

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sorry if this has been discussed before but on quora someone asked if rutherford had said that dinosaurs had been taken to venus .

  i assume that the questioner had heard it somewhere and wanted to check it out.

  i've never come across this before is it true ?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  "It will be very apparent to readers of Judge Rutherford's book Creation that the present condition of Venus is about what the earth was prior to the Flood, and it is significant that some astronomers have advanced the idea that animals like the dinosaurs that once roamed this planet are now finding Venus a happy place in which to live.”

  The temperature of Venus can reach close to 500 degrees C and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times more than on Earth.

  Noah must have had some awesome tan lines under his sheepskin t-shirt.
  
• 
  33

  Response to "The Flood is Real, Because ..."

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember one of the flowchart responses to people questioning the biblical flood was something along the lines that "every culture has a flood story".. of course, nearly everywhere has flooded at one time or another and we know there are minor floods and then there are the 1-in-1000 year kind of weather event, that tend to get a mention (anyone from the uk will still talk about the summer of '76, and that's probably nothing in comparison to a decent flood).. but the inference is that the flood must be real, because every culture has a flood story.. the best response is "now do dragons".. because apparently, nearly every culture also has a dragon legend.. does it mean dragons exist?

  some desperate jw may show their ignorance by suggesting that man lived at the same time as dinosaurs and they are what the stories were based on.

  fun fact: stegosaurus was a fossil when t-rex was alive for longer than it's been since t-rex has been a fossil to us - we're talking old, and no overlap (ignore the map in the cover of the old green bible).. do jws still even bother trying to defend the cray-cray aesop-fable kind of ot beliefs?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  joey jojo

  The real mystery is how people still believe there was a literal, global flood, given the overwhelming evidence that it didnt happen.

  Science: form a theory, follow evidence,test it, invite others to criticise, modify understanding to form a sound conclusion.

  Belief: form a conclusion first, look for any information that supports your belief, ignore everything else.