Posts by Nathan Natas

i was kind of raised to believe that missing the memorial was a sin in itself.. by 2013 memorial season, i was missing most of my meetings (even though i was still technically part of my foreign language congregation), and i had just come off the pioneer list.

i still made plans to attend the memorial (god forbid if i missed that lol).. i knew that typically our memorials were around 9 pm, since we usually got last priority (being a foreign language hall and all).

Nathan Natas

NoviceLocs14 confessed, "I was kind of raised to believe that missing the memorial was a sin in itself."

This is interesting.

Did you then, or do you now, partake of the emblems as an indication that you are anointed?

I'm going to take a statistical leap and guess that your answer to that question is "No."

Which means that like hundreds of thousands of JWs around the world, you REJECT the bread and wine when it is offered.

So... do you now, or did you then, believe that it would be a SIN for you to REJECT the emblems in the privacy of your own home?

Personally, I am QUITE HAPPY to reject the emblems from the comfort of my comfy recliner in front of my glorious wide-screen TV.

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Can't find "hot" article through the WT Library Search?

by StephaneLaliberte in

i just saw a video from mike and kim where (@6:00) she says:.

you know what i noticed in the new watchtower cd-roms?

is when you do a search for certain things that they would deem maybe apostates or certain questions, you can't find them in the search.. i know that sometimes, they get carried away and are not always factual.

Nathan Natas

Ah,yes, Tilde has always been a tricky one...

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Is 1975 explicitly written in old publications ?

by SlappySlap in

i've been hearing about 1975 for decades but i've never found a publication where this date is explicitly written.. do somebody have references ?.

Nathan Natas

SlappySlap, you were able to post your message here, so I will assume you are not illiterate.

Thus I have to conclude that you are either REALLY BAD at doing research or that this, your second post on this discussion board, is disingenuous, and/or insincere, and/or dishonest, and/or untruthful, and/or false, and/or deceitful, and/or duplicitous, and/or lying, and/or mendacious; and/or hypocritical.

Or maybe you're "lining la vida troll-a" under a bridge near you.

I think that either you will tire of this site soon or the site will tire of you soon.

SlappySlap, we hardly knew ye!

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Darkspilver/Spliver has a grudge for some reason!

by The Searcher in

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removed.

Nathan Natas

And... WE HAVE A WINNER!

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Reached a milestone today!

by Bungi Bill in

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today represents for me something of a milestone.

after breaking both bones in my lower left leg nearly four months ago, i am now able to walk without the aid of crutches.

also, the orthopedic specialist has cleared me to once more drive a motor vehicle.

Nathan Natas

May your recovery proceed apace to completion. I hope you're taking some vitamin D and getting enough calcium.

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Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore...

by _Morpheus in

had the misfortune of stopping by the "regional" convention yesterday.

i promised my daughter i would come to sunday afternoon so she wouldnt have to ride home with her mother.... holy crap it was weird!

im sure all of this has been covered on the forum but to actually see it.... just wow.

Nathan Natas

This is what happens in a dictatorship when you have an abrupt change in the clowns who run the circus.

Fred Franz remained alive until he ran out of tana leaves, then he went to Sheol in a handcart.

Soon after Ted Jaracz followed suit.

Nature abhors a vacuum, so a clownfight ensued and the vacuum won! Figuratively... the clowns in charge now are as vacuous as can be, so twerking and jerking are the approved form of worship now. All that matters is that the twerks and jerks are SINCERE and that the checks don't bounce.

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the Great Cntraction continues

by never a jw in

i just learned that my wife's congregations will soon be disbanded.

her congregation will disappear (cahuenga spanish in north hollywood in southern california).

all the members will be added to other neighboring congregations.

Nathan Natas

One-upsmanship is a game best played in public.

jst lrnd tht my wf's cngrgtns wll sn b dsbndd. Hr cngrgtn wll dspp (Chng Spnsh n Nrth Hllywd n Sthrn Clfrn). ll th mmbrs wll b ddd t thr nghbrng cngrgtns. ctlly wtnssd wth my wn ys th grt xpnsn f Spnsh cngrgtns n th 90's. Ths vry cngrgtn ws sd t cntrbt hlf f th mmbrs f nw cngrgtn n th lt 90's t th sm tm mny thr cngrgtn wr splttng t crt nw cngrgtns bcs thy wr rcrtng mny nw mmbrs. 20 yrs ltr th xpnsn prcss s bng rvrsd, vn n th mmgrnt, pr, nslr cmmnts f Clfrn..

Thnk y l Gr fr nvntng th ntrnt!!

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The GB members of the Watchtower Corporation are cunning decisive crooks

by Finkelstein in

i think its now easy see the long standing and continuous operation of the watchtower corporation and its commercialized corruption as a religious publishing house.

the core centralized intent was to increase the circulation and distribution of the wts's own publications.

they exploited the basic belief in the bible as holy spiritual writings and used the end is near proclamation all throughout the 20th century and even back toward the end of the 19th century.. these leaders also devised special engaging public talks at assemblies and local kingdom halls which were also devised to support those specific core doctrines of christ's return and a imposing question of who's worthy of being saved or not at the soon to come day of judgment armageddon.

Nathan Natas

They are such cunning linguists for a bunch of frightened boys, aren't they?