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  So the Witnesses still believe in rapture

  by eyeslice2 in

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  according today's watchtower, all the remaining ones of the anointed ones will be in heaven when the great tribulation breaks to join jesus in the battle against evil.

  the watchtower was making the point that at that time god's organization will be ran by members of the 'other sheep'.

  it didn't say how these remaining ones find themselves in heaven, but presumably they will be taken, i.e.

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  So when the GB are all dead, "the helpers" will run the show as GB Lite?

  And so it goes on. The next step is immortalizing the dead GB like the North Koreans do with Kim il Sung.

  
  
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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  There's lot of young people just like her who get no media attention at all. I dont know why she of all people got to be the face of enviromentalism.

  She's young and feels passionate about something and I think it's good that someone speaks out for something that they genuinely believe.

  But she doesnt make me want to start using paper bags or carrying around my own bottle to fill up at work. Greta has zero effect on my way of dealing with the enviroment. I mean, seriously, are we all to stop travelling by plane and get on a boat now?
  
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  Talking Snake

  by NoAbuse in

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  2. friends

  jehovahs witness yearbook, 1967 p.105: cameroon"on one occasion a large crowd was following a man who had a talking serpent.

  the serpent gave greetings and spoke in foreign tongues....a brother was passing by, attracted by the commotion, he went to the house to see what was happening.

  as soon as he entered the room the serpent stopped talking.

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  Oh please.

  They'll be telling us to hide in bunkers next.
  
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  Watchtower Trolleys With Added Bling

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife and i were in edinburgh on saturday (did a ghost tour) and around dusk we passed two trolleys on the high street — aka 'the royal mile' — that both had two rows of led lights under the little shelves.

  has anybody else seen this or is it a local innovation?

  i'm happy to report their pimped-up trolleys were attracting no attention as usual.

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  How... festive?

  
  
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  Living in the last of the last days - A new prophecy

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  although not a new concept by the watchtower, particularly in public talks and at assemblies, they have now put this prophecy in writing.watchtower oct 2019 page 8 -13 study no.40 titled -keep busy during the last of "the last days".

  the first paragraph asks '1.

  what convinces us that we are living in “the last days”?

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  I remember the Watchtower study one Sunday when I was about 8 years old. The study conductor, all wide eyed and frothing at the mouth, assured us that it will definately come before my generation left school.

  I'm 35.

  It was "the last seconds of the last minute of the last days" then.
  
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  Scowled At By A JW

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday i got home from work and decided to buy a case of beer because, why not?

  it’s monday.

  the shop is conveniently round the corner from my place.

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  The worst I get is where they look at the ground or pretend to be looking at something else.

  Ah yes, the "take out your phone and pretend to text" routine. I love making them feel awkward. I make them notice me and make them go out of their way to ignore me. If they think I'm going to "humble myself" and obey JW rules they can F off.
  
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  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

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  If I remember rightly it's somewhere near Liverpool or the Wirral??

  You must be from ol' Blighty surely.

  Fazakerley is one train stop away from where I was born and raised - Kirkby, Liverpool.

  There used to be a great independant guitar shop there called FRETS. A little Chinese man owned it who could play guitar like the ghost of Hendrix. You had to see it to believe it.

  Except over here we pronounce it "faz-achk-lee" It takes a mouthful of phlem to pronounce it correctly over here. Scousers are used to it.
  
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  Scowled At By A JW

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
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  yesterday i got home from work and decided to buy a case of beer because, why not?

  it’s monday.

  the shop is conveniently round the corner from my place.

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  I'm sure Paley is rushing to go back to meetings now. I know I would be.

  I'll never set foot in a Kingdumb Hell again. Not for my own mothers funeral, not for anything.
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  When was it time for you to walk away from your congregation meetings and the WTBTS?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the basic virtue for a human being is to be true to yourself – the integrity of thought, emotion, and action.. .

  ten years ago ( after 32 years as a jehovah's witness), i finally decided that my own mental sanity and being true to myself was more important than attending congregation meetings and serving the watchtower society.

  i stopped (years before) field service, the ministry school, answering at the watchtower studies, missed numerous meetings and walked in minutes before the meetings started and left after the closing prayer, i knew it was time to leave.

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  I was only 11 when the 95 generation change came in, as such, I dont remember it.

  For me, it was turning the page in our study books and seeing this...

  

  That was the beginning of the end for pale.emperor. I tried to explain it away by convincing myself that surely this is a temporary "idea" and new light will come in soon to correct it, right?....... right?
  
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  Looking back at the people I knew in the Jobos.....

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...there are very few if any, that i would have willingly associated with.. my 'worldly(tm)' friends are all brilliant people.

  they are nothing like the weirdos i had to put up with in the congregations.. what is your take on the people in the jobos as opposed to your associates now?.

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  Oh god, there’s loads of people I would never associate with in the real world.

  Since leaving I made it a rule to raise my standards of who I associate with. Closed minded people are out. As are homophobes and people who go out of their way to remain miserable.

  Some of the asshats I used to associate with in the congregations over the years:

  A guy who used to get very annoyed at other guys who managed to get girlfriends. He was a joy to be around as you can tell.

  A family who used to turn up to conventions in African clothes. And they weren’t even African. They were white.

  A girl who went to university in secret while her elder daddy told others she was only doing an apprentiship while pioneering where the need is great. (In Hull?)
  

  There were some (some) who were great people and I hope they leave so they can enjoy the real world. My ex-brother in law or example and some friends from my late teens.