Posts by FreeTheMasons

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How to get help within the hospital.

by was a new boy in

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FreeTheMasons

@DisgruntledFool...

Lol...I just checked out your other comments - this one is from what you said on the "Who Was the Biggest Jackass Circuit Overseer You Ever Met?" thread...

Alan Hood...and his son ran a close second although he couldn't hold a candle to the arrogance of his daddy.

I remember my husband saying when he was a kid in the Kingdom Hall in Rumford they'd joke about the Kingdom song "Thank you for our Brother Hood" ("brotherhood" "Brother Hood") and everybody would smirk😜

As regards the Maine Health System, they've taken two organs out of me - one organ that they had messed up with two decades of meds that didn't help and I didn't need in the first place (the meds, not the organ); the second organ that wasn't needing to be taken out but they figured "while we're in here." And I've known other people where it was the same thing, they were doing "exploratory" surgery and just decided to take out an organ "while we're in here" since they couldn't find anything else to charge for.

My husband worked at CMMC until recently and now he's at a local nursing home (haha, he works there, not as a patient/resident😁)

I've had other friends/acquaintances/family work in the medical field enough to know not everything is as it appears on the surface.

The hospitals are disgusting and dirty. They're falling apart. Elevators are broken down for months. There are mold issues, fire hazards (the hospital caught fire and part of the building evacuated but others didn't even know until they found out from a different hospital - how's that work when you're in the middle of an operation?) mixing up of drugs, shootings, theft...the place is falling apart and they're going bankrupt. The nursing care facilities are just as bad or worse. They're putting on a good face for the public, but the inside is ridiculously falling apart - and this is in the supposedly "best" health care country in the world.

Whatever.

It's a facade. I'm not buying it. I know too much about it.

I'm glad you feel good about your pills. You can keep 'em. The local WT people think the meetings make them feel better too. I used to be indoctrinated into WT and I also used to be indoctrinated into the medical doctrines, but then I did more research and also my own experiences with the medical field woke me up.

The same people who own stock in the medical industry are often the same ones who make the products that lead to the diseases in the first place. Too scammy for me.

Nice to meet you, by the way.🙂

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How to get help within the hospital.

by was a new boy in

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FreeTheMasons

I hate the medical indu$try.

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

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in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

FreeTheMasons

Being a human is a gift.

It's such a cool gift that some of the angels coveted it.

Being "redeemed" has nothing to do with whether a person is changed into a spirit creature or not. The "changing into a spirit creature" is illustrative of how the priests had to change their clothes to work in the temple then they'd change back for secular duties.

Angels can materialize. Spirit creatures can materialize, but they aren't supposed to have sex and procreate.

The 144,000 are to be changed into spirit creatures for a specific purpose. They lose one gift and get another, but they are not any more "special" than anyone who stays as a human.

The heavenly government comes down out of heaven which means the 144,000 and Jesus and Jehovah will all materialize bodies and hang out here on earth with humans.

"All things are possible with God."

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How to get help within the hospital.

by was a new boy in

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FreeTheMasons

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-over-700-doctors-who-were-paid-more-than-a-million-dollars-by-drug-and-medical-device-companies#:~:text=Prosecutors%20Say%20the%20Payments%20by,other%20doctors%20about%20important%20medications.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/summary-by-state

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov

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The Question of the "Great Apostasy" and the Historical Continuity of Christianity

by aqwsed12345 in

1. the continuity and visibility of the church.

the true church must be continuous from the apostolic age.

there is no room in christianity for a "gap" or interruption of thousands of years during which true christianity ceased to exist and then was revived in the form of another movement.

FreeTheMasons

Thank you, I just responded there.🙂

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

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in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

FreeTheMasons

There is a difference between "being redeemed" and "being assigned to do a job."

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The Question of the "Great Apostasy" and the Historical Continuity of Christianity

by aqwsed12345 in

1. the continuity and visibility of the church.

the true church must be continuous from the apostolic age.

there is no room in christianity for a "gap" or interruption of thousands of years during which true christianity ceased to exist and then was revived in the form of another movement.

FreeTheMasons

Regarding the links between Christendom and paganism - examples from the Catholic church:

https://templarpriests.weebly.com/initiations.html

https://merrywitch.weebly.com/black-preceptory-of-haiti.html

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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

by careful in

... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

FreeTheMasons

(Here is a video clip featuring part of last year's "opening prayer" at the Annual Meeting, which is not typically published for the rank-and-file to hear, just like the decision making part or the "voting" part of the meeting isn't public either.)

https://x.com/Larchwood20/status/1712803140003659784

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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

by careful in

... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

FreeTheMasons

Lol, when I was a kid I read Roald Dahl's "The Witches."

In that book there was an Annual Meeting of horrid ladies who ate children while publicly claiming to be "The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children."

Kinda reminds me of the Watchtower Annual Meeting!😜

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The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

by Kelley959 in

an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

FreeTheMasons

@NotFormer...

Here is what one of the older WT publications said:

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1985128?q=anointed+partake+later&p=par

(Of course, their whole Watchtower way of doing the Memorial is based on straining out the gnat and gulping down the camel. A person can be faithful to God and a follower of Christ without ever having partaken of any emblems.)