Posts by John Aquila

About 40 years ago we pioneered together until finally she found a husband and they both went to Bethel. As far as I know they never had any kids. If they are still in Bethel they are in their 60s. They were Hard-core jdubs.

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Please help me figure out my dreams

by Socrateswannabe in

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hi everyone, this may be the stupidest post ever.

i am stumped for an answer and would love to hear your opinions, though.

every week or two for the last couple of years, i have a dream--or at least that's what i'm calling it--that consists of me waking up or thinking that i've waked up, and seeing the ceiling of my darkened bedroom filled with algebraic equations.

John Aquila

Man I have no idea. The only dream I continue to have over and over is me and three girls, one brunette and two blondes. The brunette does her usual stuff when all of sudden the two blondes......

never mind, I don't want to get off the original subject.

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BART EHRMAN answers my question

by TerryWalstrom in

as a member on bart ehrman's blog, i am able to ask him direct questions.is jehovah in the bible?.

question:.

how firmly grounded in reality is the claim of jehovahs witnesses that the divine name (jehovah) belongs in the new testament?.

John Aquila

Do these authors actually say what the evidence *is*?

From what I can remember, the WTS has never admitted that there is any historical written evidence available that the NT authors used the Hebrew letters for the tetragrammaton. Because it was removed in the 3rd century by apostates guided by the devil.

They said it was “Assumed” that the NT writers used the divine name. Reason being that

1st God’s Son would not be bound by man-made superstitions and

2nd Their love and respect for the Divine name would compel them use the name freely.

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BART EHRMAN answers my question

by TerryWalstrom in

as a member on bart ehrman's blog, i am able to ask him direct questions.is jehovah in the bible?.

question:.

how firmly grounded in reality is the claim of jehovahs witnesses that the divine name (jehovah) belongs in the new testament?.

John Aquila

So it just dawn on me that for some 45 years I was praying to a made up Name. No different than praying to Mickey Mouse or Scooby-Doo.

There is no way any of my JW relatives will buy this. If I even suggested any of this information, they would reenact the scripture in Mark and have me institutionalize.

Mark 3:21 But when his relatives heard about it, they went out to lay hold of him, for they were saying: “He has gone out of his mind.

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IDENTITY and Fairies; The Salem Witch Trials and JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

by TerryWalstrom in

two ball bearings manufactured at the same time, in the same factory, by rigorous engineering standards, and produced to serve the same function inside a particular machine.. question: are they identical?.

answer: no.

there is one on your left and there is one on your right.. these do not occupy the same space.. you can remove one and the other will not follow.. _________________.

John Aquila

QUESTION: Are all JW's identical or "identical"?

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Jehovah's Witnesses are "not even wrong" and here is why.

by TerryWalstrom in

a magician can demonstrate an empty hat from which, seconds later, he pulls a rabbit.

a rabbit in that empty hat?

in pre-enlightenment times, the easy answer was: magic was real--but--it was accomplished.

John Aquila

Hey Terry,

I’m new here and as I’ve been looking at some of the past postings on different subjects. I noticed some of your posts and got hooked. I really enjoy your writing. When I start reading some of your stories or ideas, it’s like you take me to places I’ve never been before and leave me there and I have to find my way back all by myself.

Now when I pick up a Watchtower magazine and skim through it, it’s like picking up a kindergarten book that reads, “Run Spot Run"

And to think we were told that four years of reading the Watchtower was the same as getting a four year University degree, and eight years of reading was the same as getting a PhD.

Keep up the good work, look forward to you next post.

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The JW's were right!!! The government is starting its turn against RELIGION!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

this is what obama recently had to say about religion and how it is causing problems in the world... the prophecy is coming true!!!

we apostates are doomed!!!.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=afndil42e20.

John Aquila

The WTS teaches that the Woman is the 144,000 which includes the Governing Body.

(Revelation 12:1-6) . . .And a great sign was seen in heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon was beneath her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars, and she was pregnant. And she cries out in her pains and in her agony to give birth.

After giving birth to the Messianic Kingdom in 1914 according to the “Revelation grand climax publication”,

The Bible says

THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS.

To be fed spiritually by God which the Revelation book explains as the conventions in the early 1900s

What I find Interesting, is that John saw a pure woman go into the “WILDERNESS" but notice what John saw coming "out" of the wilderness:

And he carried me away in [the power of the] spirit into a wilderness.

And I caught sight of a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast that was full of blasphemous names and that had seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and was adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls and had in her hand a golden cup that was full of disgusting things and the unclean things of her fornication. And upon her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.” And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.

Well, on catching sight of her I wondered with great wonderment. (Revelation 17:3-6)

Why did John "wonder with a great wonder"? He had been seeing all kinds of crazy visions. (fire and blood, creatures, and all kinds of weird stuff.) Why did this one in particular make him "wonder"?

Could it be that he wondered why the woman coming "out" of the "wilderness" was a Whore when what went "into" the wilderness was "pure"?

So if the Governing Body admits they are part of the Woman that went into the wilderness to get fed by God but came out a whore, then they will be among the first to be wiped out and we apostates will be at the ringside with popcorn seeing it all play out.

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Those who have not defiled themselves with women

by Doug Mason in

i am seeking a copy of this article:.

those who have not defiled themselves with women: revelation 14:4 and the book of enoch, daniel carl olson, catholic biblical quarterly, 59.3, 1997, pages 492-510, issn: 0008-7912.

if someone is able to locate a copy, you will find my email address at:.

John Aquila

"Those disgusting women, they are revolting, if you touch one you are filthy forever."

What if I touch two, or three?

Ok, how about three or more?

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21 Years as an Elder, 5 as an MS, I will never be that guy again.

by James Jack in

i was deleted as the cobe after i let my adult child move back home and he admitted that he fornicated under my roof while my wife and i where away on a rbc project.

of course the elder mode in me kicked him out of the house.. the elders moved quickly to remove me because i was too involved in "theocractic activities", i had neglected my adult son.. i accepted this primarily because i didn't want to serve with a boe that did not want me.

i was devastated however because it was the only life i knew.

John Aquila

Welcome to the Board J.J.

I was in the Organization since 1975, I was an elder for 20 years, Pioneered, talks at conventions, and all the other stuff that labels one a spiritual giant. I’ve only be out a little over a year and I’m not sure why I feel this way but I am so freaking happy I can’t believe what is happening in my life right now. I compare my life now to all the politicking I had to do in the organization with other elders and COs and I can’t help but feel sorry for all those still in having to set up shields around themselves and their families from idiotic individuals who demand you live by certain rules.

Once you start realizing what you missed all those years you were in, trying to walk a fine line and keep everyone happy, you will start enjoying what you missed and forget what you left behind. You will be like a 20 year old kid that just found out he has a 10 million dollar trust fund.