I think Jesus looks more like a celestial Rick Wakeman. He should be playing a grand piano backwards whilst resting one foot on the top. Or perhaps stabbing his light sabre into the gaps between the piano keys.
Prester John
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Jesus in a Super Hero Cape
by iloowy.goowy inhave you see the latest fashion for jesus in the wt?.
he's sporting a cape, just like superman!maybe caleb can get a t-shirt with a j logo instead of an s.. .
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50 Years since the first moon landing
by eyeslice2 inin july of 1969, i was 16 years old and was pretty excited by the prospect that the us would shortly land a man on the moon.
however, i remember, vividly and older brother at the time confidently stating that man would never walk on the moon, quoting psalms 115 - "as for the heavens, they belong to jehovah.
but the earth he has given to the sons of man.
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Prester John
Quite a few young American, Australian and NZ men were facing their own Armageddon in Vietnam whilst Man was landing on the moon.
Seems ironic, looking back at it now.
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Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah
by Sour Grapes inmy pimi wife listens to a lot of the meetings on the phone with the speaker on.
when i am watching tv i hear the meetings in the background.
i just cringe with how a witless can't give a comment without having said jehovah at least two times.
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Prester John
Reminds me of a sister who would work Jehovah into every little bit of any conversation she was having.
One evening at her house for a dinner party, after a few hours of Jehovah this and Jehovah that, she was serving dessert and offered us a slice of pavlova. My mate quickly whispered to me,
"Pavlova. That rhymes with Jehovah!"
Still makes me smile nearly 30 years later!
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I'd like to find a single female bible lover to read the Bible with me.
by littleyohane inbut i believe in jehovah god, and i read the bible every day.. i believe the bible is god's word.
and i pray to god every day.. it's somewhat off topic.
but i'd like to find a friend who loves the bible and want to read and find the truth of the bible together with me.. i live in japan and i am a japanese.
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Prester John
Any minute now Phineas will arrive at the tent with his spear...
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Governing Body - Time in Ministry
by Peeringin inis there any transparency in how many hours on the ministry the governing body members do on the ministry?
by this i mean the physical act of going door to door in their area.
i guess it is plausible that they would count overseas trips and working on publications as part of their ministry, but this is not what they encourage from the jw on the street.. is it possible for a gb member to be reproved or otherwise for not going out in service?
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Prester John
Martin Poetzinger - he was held up as an example when I was a kid. No doubt with his German tinged accent,
"Zis von zing I do - seek first ze Kingdom."
Can't help thinking that if he were in a cong today he would be a consuming fire
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Magic
by Rattigan350 inthe april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.
it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.
it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.
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Prester John
Blondie
Thanks for that story about American Football. This sort of thing goes on all the time, and young naive people are particularly vulnerable, as you know. In fact something like that happened to me when I was a kid growing up in the UK.
For most of the 20th century, American Foorball was virtually unknown over here, being seen as another example of those 'crazy Americans'. You might get some brief highlights of the Superbowl on a sports programme, but the rules were never explained and so you literally had no idea what was going on. To a young sports obsessed kid like me it seemed unfathomable.
That all began to change in 1982. Suddenly, the UK had a new TV channel, Channel 4 (4 TV stations- wow!).
One of the programmes on their schedule was a new weekly NFL highlights show, with the rules properly explained and ex players as occasional guests. Now we could begin to understand all that was going on. And I was quickly hooked. American Football became another sport to talk about at the KH.
But there was a dark cloud looming on the horizon. Our congregation had a Gilead graduate and his wife parachuted in, and this elder from Kansas clearly had an issue with American Football. He took me to one side on a few occasions telling me that it was wrong to watch the sport because it was so violent and that the brothers had been warned not to watch it.
When you're 10 years old, you ain't gonna argue with a Gilead graduate. So I had to carry on watching the NFL for a long time with a sense of secret shame.
It makes me sad when I look back that elders with authority can force their personal views on young and vulnerable ones in the congregation.
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Happy Fathers Day
by Still Totally ADD init felt so good to read a card from my youngest son today.
it was a funny card about duct tape and cussing.
it was a day of joy for me being it was my first fathers day card from my son since he and his family left the cult.
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Prester John
I may be wrong here, but it was my understanding that there is nothing pagan in origin about Father's Day. It's a relatively modern invention which was designed to counterbalance Mother's Day. And no doubt to make more money for retailers.
So, in theory you should be able to mark Father's Day even if you're PIMO or PIMI.
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Magic
by Rattigan350 inthe april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.
it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.
it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.
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Prester John
Don't want to get too off topic, but wasn't there a big rumpus over chess some years back?
It was definitely perceived as a bit dodgy for a time thanks to an article in the Awake which highlighted its origins as a game of strategy and war. I'm sure that some felt forced to destroy their hand carved chess sets.
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Did anybody call 'child services'? 🤔😏
by Nathan R. Koppe innow, jw's and children if you don't do what jehovah (organisation) says, this is what will happen to you..... did anybody call 'child services'?
🤔😏.
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Prester John
I got beaten regularly both at home and at the meetings, as did many other kids. It was the way it was, unfortunately.
I thought I had dealt with the past and moved on, but when my own children came along so did a lot of repressed memories. Still dealing with those.
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Wedding Rings.
by Lost in the fog inwe have long queried why so-called things of pagan or religious origin like christmas or easter are banned by the wts but the use of wedding rings were not.. i was talking about this with a friend who follows a wiccan path of belief and he has sent me the following information from one of his magic magazines.. quote: .
" why do we wear our wedding ring on our ‘ring finger’ ?
thus, to properly activate the ring finger we need to wear a golden ring on it.
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Prester John
Add the classic board game Snakes and Ladders to the formerly pagan but now acceptable list.
I am too lazy and beerily hazy to provide links, but look it up. It is thoroughly rooted in ancient Indian and Hindu philosophy. Karma, and all that.
I hereby declare that any JW found playing Snakes and Ladders shall be liable to the ultimate sanction. And don't think that Ludo gets you off the hook either.