Posts by Darkknight757

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What a fader can say to a sleepy witness?

by Darkknight757 in

i have a question.

yesterday while the wife and i were hitting garage sales we seen a house selling tools.

this house happened to be a witness couple getting rid of some old stuff.

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And that's what I try to do ToesUp, just be happy and positive. Even when we were going to the meetings and doing all the JWBS I was always a happy person. It seems more and more even the die hard witnesses are depressed as all hell. You're right though. The hope that they held right in front of them seems farther and farther away now. The last meeting I went to a few months back there was an old lady there that has cancer. All she said was that she hoped the kingdom would come before she dies. The look in her eyes were unforgettable. The tear-filled look of dispair. I gave her a hug and that was it. These people know they will die without their hope being fulfilled.

Maybe this topic should be: What to say to a sleepy witness to subtly wake them up and start enjoying the life they have left?

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What a fader can say to a sleepy witness?

by Darkknight757 in

i have a question.

yesterday while the wife and i were hitting garage sales we seen a house selling tools.

this house happened to be a witness couple getting rid of some old stuff.

Darkknight757

Zeb I agree with the fact that they all seem to run on the same script. And yesterday I tried my damndest to cheer these two up but nothing seems to work.

His dad is a long time elder who is in constant pain from a long life of hard work. This elder now can hardly do anything without being in severe pain. I told the son that his dad has lived a long life and he has a great family. He should be proud of that and reflect on the good he has done. (Although he wasted a lot of it in the org)

These people's misery doesn't affect me personally but I do feel sorry for them. (Oxymoron)

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What a fader can say to a sleepy witness?

by Darkknight757 in

i have a question.

yesterday while the wife and i were hitting garage sales we seen a house selling tools.

this house happened to be a witness couple getting rid of some old stuff.

Darkknight757

I have a question. Yesterday while the wife and I were hitting garage sales we seen a house selling tools. This house happened to be a witness couple getting rid of some old stuff. It's a beautiful day mind you. The wife and I just hit the local farmers market and then we were going to get a Biggbe coffee and do some more errands.

We go to the house and talk to the couple who are long time friends. All these people can talk about it how hard life is and that they are "just barely hanging on...." My response to that is "Don't let go."

I find it amazing that this family really has it made. He has a great job, a beautiful home in a fantastic neighborhood. Yet they are visibly miserable.

What do you say to try to cheer up these sleepy culties? Since the wife and I have been out we have really been enjoying life again. Visiting family. Spending weekends doing whatever we want. This couple has it made and they are miserable. I could give them a million dollars and they would still be depressed.

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Not shunning even after the regional

by poopie in

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friends

so i have been told that a bro i know that is df is being greeted even after the convention on shunning he finds it refreshing that witnesses can use their own conscience seeing that shunning is not a law but a principle that only a privilege that applies only to antichrist some still do not believe in shunning even after that talk i happened to be at a regional on sat gb member went off subject and started to expane why a patent must shun the child nobody clapped ..

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Good to hear more and more people aren't letting the bumbling body have power over them. These guys are clowns and for anyone to shun their own child is mentally damaged.

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Each and every member of this board reaches more people than they ever did going from D2D , with more effect.

by smiddy in

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friends

i was just reflecting about this site and it`s influence on me and what i have got out of it and it came to me that whatever subject i bring up , or others bring up , the obvious thing is we engage in discussion .that`s what it`s all about .. however , the feedback we get or the input we give , far outweighs anything we ever achieved going from d2d for the wtb&ts./ wt real estate agency /publishing house .. how many times did you have a meaningful discussion with a person at a door ?, as a jw ?

not many i would think.. the majority of times , they were not home or not opening the door to you , so even if you did meet people they were too busy to talk to you or they just were not interested.. whereas , here on this board you engage with many people from all over the world , and we can discuss a subject as long as we want.until it runs it`s course.. i think anybody who posts here has had far more satisfaction in their interaction with other people on this board than they ever experienced in the d2d work as a jw.. and i hope that people who just lurk here can see the benefits of open discussion in a forum like this without judgement and recriminations that occur in the jw religion for speaking your mind.. smiddy.

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I have more meaningful bible discussions now that I am no longer a witless than when In the Borg. (although currently non-religious)

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Why have there been so many people blind to the corruption of the Watchtower Corporation ?

by Finkelstein in

based from many of the doctrines the wts has come forth with since its existence as publishing house which were obviously incorrect or false and propagated doesn't make you wonder why there were so many who embraced this organization with full devotion and acceptance ?

even back in the late 1800's there was scrutinizing skepticism to what the leaders of the wts theologically taught.

millions of people since then have accepted the teachings of a really couple novice bible theologians, who brought forth many weakly supported doctrines such as and concerning that mankind was living in the end times and all of mankind should be prepared for its imminent destruction.. very view other christian based faiths from catholicism or protestantism have made these kind of outlandish doctrinal assertions and they make up an overwhelming greater amount of practicing theologians, to those who achieved a high a level of academic training in bible theory.

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27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Matthew 23:27 | NIV

For an outsider, these people look incredibly inviting. That is why the org wants people at the meetings so they can see how beautiful it is.

I think in people's minds they can excuse the false teachings because "there is no other brotherhood in the world like ours (theirs)".

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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

by flipper in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLl68Llf8E

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A Bright Future with Stephen Lett, Chiangmai Special Convention, Nov., 6-8, 2015, Thailand.

by oppostate in

with stephen lett???!!!

a bright future with stephen lett???.

a bright future with stephen lett, chjiangmai special convention, nov., 6-8, 2015, thailand..

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Nobody at work knows what JWs believe

by Athanasius in

recently susie, one of my co-workers mentioned that her husband's family were all jws.

the family converted after susie's husband left home, so he never joined the jws, nor does he intend to.

anyway another co-worker asked her: "what do the jws believe?".

Darkknight757

It's all a test of their loyalty to the organization. Most witnesses can't keep up with all the changes unless they are constantly plugged in. I recon even those who are plugged in wouldnt know that earthly hopers don't believe Jesus is their personal mediator.

With all the changes since 2013 I was really surprised how little I knew about my own beliefs until I left.

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Judge sanctions WTS - $4k per day penalty for not producing sex abuse documents

by Simon in

judge sanctions jehovah's witnesses.

imposes $4000-a-day penalty for not producing documents in sex-abuse case.

by dorian hargrove, june 24, 2016. a san diego superior court judge has ordered the church of jehovah's witnesses, also known as the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania, to pay $4000 a day for every day that it fails to produce documents requested in a civil lawsuit brought by former parishioner, osbaldo padron, who claims a church elder sexually abused him when he was seven years old.. in a june 23 ruling, expected to be made final today, judge richard strauss admonished the church for willfully ignoring a court order to produce all documents associated with a 1997 body of elders letter that church leaders sent to parishes around the world in a quest to learn about sexual abuse of children by church leaders.. over the course of the past year, the watchtower society and its lawyers have fought hard to keep the letter confidential, claiming that turning over the documents would infringe on the privacy of those mentioned in the letter that were not associated with the case.. in march 2015, the church turned over a heavily redacted version of the letter.

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