What exactly is it that you WANT the Society to do?
Just 1 thing!
John Aquila
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Damned if they do, Damned if they don't
by FusionTheism ini see an attitude among some people here which is not very helpful.
i can understand it, but still, it's not constructive or helpful.. if you condemn the society for not changing, but then you also condemn them when they do change in a positive way, what incentive or motive does that provide for the people at the society to ever want to change for the better?.
also, what does that attitude look like to current witnesses who are having doubts?.
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Why BOGUS PREDICTIONS and CHANGEABLE TEACHINGS only strengthen JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
by TerryWalstrom intoday's jw knows less about the history of the watchtower religion than ever before.. there is no need to know.
only the present moment of new light has meaning.. there are too many enemies surrounding jw's to risk learning something faith-weakening.. such as facts.
the watchtower religion (jehovah's witnesses) has been 'getting away with it' since 1874.. setting dates built on false chronology, pyramidology, slanted quotations about world events, and misrepresenting their own authority, (channel of jehovah) is a profitable enterprise for the watchtower org.. how do we know they 'get away with it'?.
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John Aquila
Great post Terry, thanks!
But now---one hundred years after the failed 1914 prediction, when every ex-J-Dub with a YouTube account has pounded them senseless---they finally admit to a wee stench.
If it wasn’t for YouTube, I would still be in that stinking, foul-smelling organization inhaling its wee stench. And it’s true that the WTS is still growing, but not like when I came in the early 70s, when growth was around 15-18% a year. Now it’s only 2%
. So people can smell the stench and they just can’t stand it anymore. The only ones that continue to stay are the ones that have smelled it so much-(Sunk Cost fallacy) that they love the smell.
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Can This Be True?
by Hold Me-Thrill Me ini was very tired today, still am.
age is getting to me.
that video will be shown to millions of parents around the world.
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John Aquila
While it is the plan to get every last cent from every child, things like this tend to be quickly forgotten by the sheeple
I agree with Billy, the kids will remember the video for about 1 day and then life will get back to normal and their interest will shift to Jurassic World, the Ant Man, Minions, and all the other movies that will come out in the summer. And when they go to the movies, they will be thinking butter popcorn and not contributions at the Kingdom Hall. So I wouldn't get to worked up for it. Maybe what would help you more not to get so upset to stay away from the JW Broadcast and their videos and see something more uplifting.
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If you can’t put two and two together------
by John Aquila inif you cant put two and two together, (the bachelorette having sex before marriage and the fact that we are living in the last days) then youre just going to lose your life.
period!.
thats what i was told by two old jw ladies working the bus stop with their magazines.my question;.
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John Aquila
Worrying about who has sex on a reality TV show,while peddling Everlasting Life..
By 2 people who don`t have much longer to live.........??!!..
Yea, I would say they were in their 80s!!
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At the RC now part 2
by All for show inok... my other thread i cant respond.
we went to shut up our family... but myhusband is seething and said his brain has shut off.. the stupid is amazing.. they are playing videos that are lame and pointless for the first symposium.. for the first symposium... they asked why the bible has no pictures.
because it was before photography...jesus used word pictures!!
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John Aquila
they asked why the bible has no pictures. Because it was before photography.
That is just cracking me up!
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If you can’t put two and two together------
by John Aquila inif you cant put two and two together, (the bachelorette having sex before marriage and the fact that we are living in the last days) then youre just going to lose your life.
period!.
thats what i was told by two old jw ladies working the bus stop with their magazines.my question;.
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John Aquila
If you can’t put two and two together, (the Bachelorette having sex before marriage and the fact that we are living in the last days) then you’re just going to lose your life. Period!
That’s what I was told by two old JW ladies working the bus stop with their magazines.
My question;How did they know the Bachelorette had sex? Do they watch the TV show? Heck I didn’t even know until I google it. LOL!
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help catagorize my wife: I truely believe she suffers from cognitive dissonance and other things this stupid cult causes.
by goingthruthemotions ini find it hard sometimes to get a good idea has to how to communicate with my wife when it come to this stupid cult.. she is born in and stopped attending for many years and got baptized later in life.
i truely believe she suffers from cognitive dissonance and other things this stupid cult causes.. here is a breakdown of what i gather to be where she is mentally.. * she calls the borg her faith.
here are actions that she does that go against her thoughts:.
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John Aquila
She is going through a mental and emotional battle. It's not the truth- yes it is- no it's not- yes it is!
You're just going to have to be patient and try to help her along. It's not easy learning the Real Truth for some people. And since it involves deep seated emotions like, living forever in paradise earth, the answer to why there is suffering, an end to wickedness very soon, it makes it even more difficult to let go since no other religion teaches those things exactly like the WT does.
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Crap Shoot
by John Aquila inwhat would have happen if i was not home when jehovahs witnesses knocked on my door?.
there was a group of us living in a small trailer in the mid 60s when and old pioneer brother knocked on our door and placed all kinds of books and magazines with us.
all of us took it seriously and studied and started attending the kingdom hall.
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John Aquila
I will say to anybody that thinks the religion is "good" because of a success story here and there, this is NO excuse for all the bad that we know is in this religion!
Totally agree LongHairGal
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To My JW Brothers and Sisters
by Hold Me-Thrill Me into all brothers and sisters reading this site: "and i love you so" (remember the don mclean song?
)...is the feeling most of us had with regard to the watchtower and the brothers leading it.
but truly, who did we get baptized for?
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John Aquila
The Governing Body has lost its way.
They were never in the right way.
The governing body has always taught Jerusalem was destroyed in 607 BC
They have always taught there was two exiles, one in 617 BC (See insight book under Daniel)
Another in 607 BC and after that Jerusalem was desolated for 70 years and the 2520 began to count that ended in 1914
But the bible says that there was another exile 5 years after 607 BC ------or 602 BC
So there was no 70 year desolation, no 1914, no appointment of the Faithful and discreet slave. They are just a puny religious cult that is less than 1% of the world population. Less of 1% of a dollar is not even a penny. So no one cares.
So the whole premise that God is using the WT to direct his people is wrong. If anything and if you believe in the Bible, it is part of Babylon the Great Harlot. And the Bible says “GET OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE”
(Jeremiah 52:28-30) . . .These are the people whom Neb·u·chad·rez′zar took into exile:
in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.
29 In the eighteenth year of Neb·u·chad·rez′zar, from Jerusalem there were eight hundred and thirty-two souls.
30 In the twenty-third year of Neb·u·chad·rez′zar, Neb·u′zar·ad′an the chief of the bodyguard took Jews into exile, seven hundred and forty-five souls.. . .
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Strange but Sad!
by John Aquila ini had a couple of elders come visit me about an hour ago.
they wanted to inform me that a brother who was well known throughout the circuit had died.
(i actually knew about it but did not go to the funeral) he was about to hit 90 years old, missed it by a few weeks.
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John Aquila
They were not bad people, they were very kind and honest.
You say that and then you describe the way in which they treated their own flesh and blood.
The (parents) were kind and honest---to me and several others- considering that hundreds attended the funeral.
They treated their daughter like that because they were under undue influence.
Just like most of us here were at some point.
I feel the elders are a different story because of their words, “That's what she gets” showed no compassion, “After the fact”
I’m willing to bet if the father knew beforehand he was going to die, he would have called his daughter to say goodbye. And I have a feeling the mother will call the daughter and not wait till January.
