Posts by cappytan

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Wife fully awake.

by cappytan in

i learned this past week that my wife is now awake.

i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".

she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.

cappytan

Kairos: Any updates to report, Cap'?

She likes reddit better for some reason. She lurked here for a while but lost interest. Haha
no updates other than she's still exploring her personal beliefs. She's leaning more towards agnosticism now.
She's past the anger and anxiety of initially waking up and turned her first fake time report in last week.
We're planning on saving as much cash as possible and moving after a year.
In the meantime, we are fading quickly. Haven't been to a meeting since the Memorial. No one called us about it until this week (when they were begging for time reports..."real concern" right?)

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Does Anyone Know Where This Picture Came From...

by MADMARY in

it couldn't be from a watchtower cover, right???

does anyone know?.

mm.

cappytan

The hourglass could be from a watchtower. But doubt the text is genuine.

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"Your bad attitude is evident, because you don't bring a meeting bag to the meetings anymore!"

by stuckinarut2 in

yes friends.....this is the comment said to me by an elder!.

"your bad attitude is evident because you don't bring your meeting bag anymore!".

i calmly replied: "but everything i need is on the tablet now......".

cappytan

Bring a big briefcase with a tablet plus a bottle of jack Daniels a six pack of coke, some ice cubes and a couple of rocks glasses.

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Regional Convention 2015 - Program

by Designer Stubble in

friday morning9:20 music9:30 song no.

5 and prayer9:40 chairmans address: imitate jesuswhy and how?10:20 symposium: lessons from jesus word pictures observe the birds and the lilies have salt in yourselves build your house on the rock11:10 song no.

120 and announcements11:20 follow jesus patternkeep on asking, seeking, and knocking!11:45 keynote address: concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom12:15 song no.

cappytan

I have a feeling this is the part about apostasy:

9:40 SYMPOSIUM: Imitate Jesus, Not Satan
˙ Be Loyal

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Huge Shift in Doctrine?

by Lemonp in

i am not sure why more people aren't talking about this?.

the march 15 study edition of the wt has some major changes!

- all unbiblical "types and antitypes" are now dropped.

cappytan

They are still teaching 1919. See paragraph 9:

In the time of the end, particularly from 1919 on, Christ’s faithful anointed slaves on earth have been doing business with the Master’s talents....

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Having Faith in the Bible

by william draper in

i know many on here have lost faith in the bible , is it possible that is because ones do not have the right perspective regarding it .

we have usually been taught by bad teachers , or ignorant .

i believe if we take an honest look at the bible , we will see that it gives us the best answers to crucial matters , it gives us some amount of bearings ( understanding ) , which without having such knowledge we would all be more like walking zombies in amanner of speaking , we would be lacking hope in something better , for surely something better is to come , how can we be sure , .

cappytan

...the fact is we know that [a] God [of love] allows bad things to happen....

Do you not realize how irrational that sounds?

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Having Faith in the Bible

by william draper in

i know many on here have lost faith in the bible , is it possible that is because ones do not have the right perspective regarding it .

we have usually been taught by bad teachers , or ignorant .

i believe if we take an honest look at the bible , we will see that it gives us the best answers to crucial matters , it gives us some amount of bearings ( understanding ) , which without having such knowledge we would all be more like walking zombies in amanner of speaking , we would be lacking hope in something better , for surely something better is to come , how can we be sure , .

cappytan

In regards to the warfare where the women and male children were taken captive and later killed under the order of Moses , in the previous chapter it speaks of these people as having acted wickedly against the Israelites , the women turning the men to Baal Worship , and much more surely took place , note that before this many of the Israalite men were killed for Baal Worship , is this right , the worship of Baal involved child sacrifice I believe , at least at some point of time . WAS THAT A GOOD THING , NOT AT ALL . Were the Baal worshipers ever warned , yes they were by Balaam NUMBERS ch 24 , and probably again that we do not know about ,

So, basically, Moses and the Hebrews were ISIS.

Stop trying to defend God and the Bible. If a God exists and were all-powerful, why can he not defend himself? This amazing being, with limitless power, needs to rely on Moses and his armies to defend true worship and execute judgement? The God that parted the red sea couldn't be bothered to lift a finger?

Not to mention all the other bullcrap creation we have to deal with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo

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Having Faith in the Bible

by william draper in

i know many on here have lost faith in the bible , is it possible that is because ones do not have the right perspective regarding it .

we have usually been taught by bad teachers , or ignorant .

i believe if we take an honest look at the bible , we will see that it gives us the best answers to crucial matters , it gives us some amount of bearings ( understanding ) , which without having such knowledge we would all be more like walking zombies in amanner of speaking , we would be lacking hope in something better , for surely something better is to come , how can we be sure , .

cappytan

Lets look at the rape of Tamar found in 2nd Samuel 13 , how was this dealt with , the one that violated her was killed , be sure to read it all , if you don't you may think that many others were also killed , but there is a clarification that only Amnon was actually killed , for the rape of Tamar .

Regarding the example of Tamar's rape that you mention, William, it's a little bit different than what you describe.

That was an incestuous relationship. By law, Amnon should have been executed for the incest anyways, not necessarily the rape. If it wasn't rape, Tamar should have been executed too, but the bible says it was rape.

Anyhow, Amnon wasn't executed by the priests or divine intervention...Absalom had him murdered against the wishes of Jehovah's anointed one, King David.

What a heartwarming story about theocratic justice! Are we not blessed to have this understanding?

*clap clap clap clap clap clap* /S

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Having Faith in the Bible

by william draper in

i know many on here have lost faith in the bible , is it possible that is because ones do not have the right perspective regarding it .

we have usually been taught by bad teachers , or ignorant .

i believe if we take an honest look at the bible , we will see that it gives us the best answers to crucial matters , it gives us some amount of bearings ( understanding ) , which without having such knowledge we would all be more like walking zombies in amanner of speaking , we would be lacking hope in something better , for surely something better is to come , how can we be sure , .

cappytan

So Moses was a believer in the "God of the gaps" concept?

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Setback

by EdenOne in

i saw this coming since my mother-in-law's funeral .... the congregation's "love-bombing" over my wife had its impact.

i watched her drawing closer and closer to her friends in the congregation.

then she decided she would attend the memorial.

cappytan

I am sorry man. I can only imagine how disappointing this must be for you.

That's my biggest fear in this whole mess...that my wife will decide it's not worth going down the rabbit hole any farther and climb back out.