Posts by Phizzy

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New blood card

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

“language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.

Phizzy

I am not an expert in U.K law, but I don't think this card will be recognised in law as a Power of Attorney, it may, probably does, in the USA.

Do the very parochial and closeted GB realise this ?

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Response to RWC's Atheist Questions

by Liberty in

hi rwc,.

i'm sure you're a very nice person and i don't want to get into an argument but rather a civil debate.

i just wanted to point out that as ex-jws many of us are a little obsessed with truth (not to be confused with "the truth" tm) and that after being burned by the watchtower society and hating ourselves for being so stupid to have fallen for its bs we have now become highly skeptical of the bible as well.

Phizzy

Thanks for Posting this Thread ! Some wonderful comments from " Liberty" , and all this stuff is still SO relevant, we still get exactly the same shite from believers, almost word for word.

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Pawn to Queen 2034 anyone?

by Fisherman in

not a hint of a new date for the great tribulation.

the attitude of jw is that they expect it immediately although the inter-lapping anointed allows for any additional extended time.

given the time of the end, the end comes after the good news is preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations with the internet and 108 years and tons of publications even in finnish.

Phizzy

" I mean what high - control group would come to the realization that ''we're no different than any other high - control group'' or ''what if we are even a little bit wrong''.

The group as whole never will, but those are the questions that come to mind when you are in, add to Cognitive Dissonance, and as in my case, eventually lead to a proper examination and scrutiny of beliefs. Then an Exit, hopefully.

It is a mystery as to how the org. will play it in the near future, all this End Times stuff is already seen as bullshit by young JW's, but sadly they look no further, and carry on being "in" because ALL their friends are.

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200-Year Anniversary of The Even Tide (1823) by John Aquila Brown

by Chevelle in

this is my first post.

i am a pimo who has been lurking for a while and i hope to make new friends here.. for now, i would just like to highlight that this year marks 200 years since john aquila brown wrote that crazy book(let) of speculations that charles taze russell practically copy/pasted into his "studies in the scriptures" which eventually affected all of our lives in one way or another.. cheers.

chevelle.

Phizzy

A warm welcome Chevelle ! I think the start of "belief" was at least before 9,000 BCE, the finds in Turkey show that "belief", and if you like "organised religion", was already strong enough by that time to build Temples etc.

John Aquila Brown was no doubt as guilty as William Miller in influencing C.T.Russell, an Adventist, to proceed with his own version, highly plagiarised, of predictions. Russell learned nothing from "The Great Disappointment" of 1844/5, and proceeded to make the same mistake as Miller at least twice, following in his footsteps Boozer Rutherford did the same thing with 1925, and Mad Freddie Franz with 1975. JW org are Serial Offenders in Committing the religious Crime of False Prophecy !

Looking forward to hearing more from your good self !

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Removing verses form the NWT

by Phizzy in

the jw org has removed certain verses from their nwt version, claiming usually that what is removed is not found in the oldest mss, that claim is fair enough, until you ask a simple question, this :.

" if you are going to remove interpolations from the bible, where do you stop?"..

the org.

Phizzy

I agree fully with the point made above that the NWT is not unique in this removal of verses not found in early MSS, and my question applies to all who do it,

I know of course the selection of the approved Canons of Scripture excluded a lot of whole Works and other bits no doubt, but working with what we have, as I said, where do you stop ? Why exclude just a few ? there are hundred of interpolations from beginning to end, Gen. to Rev.

I think they should be included, but marked off in some way, with an explanation.

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What novels would you recommend?

by LoveUniHateExams in

i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

let the old dreams die.

Phizzy

I've just started reading Thrillers by Linwood Barclay, very good , if you like a good Thriller. His first and latest Books are exceptional, the ones in between are excellent. There is a trilogy,obviously you will need all three, they run one in to the other. The first one comes to no sort of conclusion, you need volume 2 to hand !

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Removing verses form the NWT

by Phizzy in

the jw org has removed certain verses from their nwt version, claiming usually that what is removed is not found in the oldest mss, that claim is fair enough, until you ask a simple question, this :.

" if you are going to remove interpolations from the bible, where do you stop?"..

the org.

Phizzy

The JW org has removed certain verses from their NWT version, claiming usually that what is removed is not found in the oldest MSS, that claim is fair enough, until you ask a simple question, this :

" If you are going to remove Interpolations from the Bible, where do you stop?".

The org. does not recognise/acknowledge the many hundreds of interpolations that there are, but the question above is valid, and poses a problem for them, and all who do this in their Bible versions.

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I miss this from A$$€mb£i€$

by punkofnice in

hellas chocolate bars.

Phizzy

Small World ! Me and about five other guys from our Congo. were camping on that same Rec. ground as Stan! because it doesn't get dark fully at night that time of year in Bonnie Scotland, we used to go out for a few beers etc then we would play football until about 3 in the morning, stagger noisily back to our tents, then get rudely awakened by nearby Bros getting up about 7am !

It was up those stairs we went Cofty ! I didn't witness the incident you had with the cakes, I would have laughed no end, and probably you would then have thumped me, so probably a good thing !

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I miss this from A$$€mb£i€$

by punkofnice in

hellas chocolate bars.

Phizzy

Beth, Punky is in the U.K., as am I. So food available to us was not the same as you got, and vice-versa no doubt.

In 1965 IIRC, at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, for an "International Assembly" they cooked fresh doughnuts every morning, us lads knew a sister who was cooking 'em, and used to pick up a good few Doughnuts that were still red hot ! (The sister cooking 'em was NOT hot, and married).

We travelled up there from Kent on a Special train, hired by the Org, all J.W's, us lads had a bet as to how many different young sisters we could snog on the return journey !

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“Lazarus, come out!”

by Fisherman in

many people here have expressed faith in evolution and in other theories—but in all honesty, do you have any hope whatsoever in your heart or in the back of your mind ?

truthfully..

Phizzy

" It all depends how you see it ."

It all depends on whether you view it through the prism of Facts and Evidence, or if you ignore those two things. But each to his own !