Posts by NotFormer

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Was anyone removed from Bethel for suggesting the Governing Body were the "Faithful Slave"?

by Brainfloss in

i remember reading somewhere a reference to ones at bethel being removed for suggesting that the governing body was the faithful and discreet slave, years before the org.

made this change.

am i wrong about this?

NotFormer

I only just discovered this and brought it BTTT. I had no idea that they were so vehement in denying that the GB alone was the FDS. Especially in light of the 180° turn. White is black and black is white and the faithful JWs are expected to follow along and get run over on a pedestrian crossing.

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Mark Sanderson's ''ROCK STAR'' fake Gilead Graduation program experience

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

https://youtu.be/lkwl5frew08?si=qj_gvlhfc4bkspbh&t=91.

mark sanderson's fake and vivid imagination experience starts at the 1 minute 30 second mark:.

goes out with local brothers and sisters in door to door service.

NotFormer

I know that the GB say that it's okay to lie, but surely this is pushing the envelope beyond the limits of sanity! Do PIMIs really buy these outright porky pies?

Now I'm waiting for the story of the GB member crossing a crocodile infested river, while being protected by his African brothers. 🙄

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Celebrities Who Hate Jw's?

by Ron.W. in

do you recall any?.

i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.

also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.

NotFormer

SydBarrett: This! "How can we make our small group look important on the world stage?" 🙄

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Celebrities Who Hate Jw's?

by Ron.W. in

do you recall any?.

i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.

also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.

NotFormer

"Jw’s do work in the industry, it’s a big industry."

I just thought that Hollywood and the broader industry might be a bit morally ambiguous* to attract the average JW.

https://www.jw.org/open?docid=2015649&prefer=lang&wtlocale=E

*And requiring a lot of time better spent elsewhere 🙄

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"Slave" is confused about the start of judgment!

by BoogerMan in

(1 peter 4:17) "...it is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of god.".

w04 3/1 p. 16 par.

15 - "....christ jesus...in 1918, he came to god’s spiritual temple and fulfilled peter’s words: “it is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of god.” (1peter 4:17).

NotFormer

Thanks, BoogerMan!

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Awake 1976 - Should a Pocket Calculator Be in Your Pocket?

by Ron.W. in

awake 1976 - should a pocket calculator be in your pocket?.

somehow this totally zany 'bible based' article passed me by first time around!.

anyone remember it?.

NotFormer

"I'm sure the real reasoning behind that article was more medical quackery intimating one shouldn't have anything electronic too near your body bits - hint hint! 🍆🍒"

"Should a Pocket Calculator Be in Your Pocket?" ...or are you just glad to see me? 😻

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Celebrities Who Hate Jw's?

by Ron.W. in

do you recall any?.

i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.

also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.

NotFormer

"The “Johnny Carson” epilogue where Johnny kicks John off the stage for hating JWs was pure JW fantasy."

The idea that there would be that many JWs working in Hollywood is pretty damned far-fetched in its own right. Luckily, they've got their own Hollywood now. Well, they will if they ever get it built.

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JE-sus making a comeback at the 2024 Convention

by dropoffyourkeylee in

attended the friday sesson of the 2024 summer convention.. july 5, 2024 summer convention crowd photo; they invited quite a lot of empty chairs.. .

the facility usually has 5500-6500. they spun it saying that fewer congregations were assigned.

there were 6 of the smaller, more distant sections blocked off with tarps to lessen cleaning, which i understand.

NotFormer

In honour of 1914, a lot of attendees attended "invisibly".

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Celebrities Who Hate Jw's?

by Ron.W. in

do you recall any?.

i was told that john denver hated jw's with a vengeance - any truth in that?.

also, annie lennox - i was told before a concert she asked any jw's present to leave?.

NotFormer

I don't know that any celebs would outright hate the JWs, even if they are an ex. They'd probably see the current ones as simply misinformed, as were they, and be reasonably tolerant. It'd be the current JWs who'd be shunning them.

M.J. would have been somewhat justified if he had an axe to grind, but he never seemed to go there. I doubt many JWs went to his concerts anyway*.

* "Bad association" and all that 🙄

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What would happen if the religion just straight out gets outed as bad? The ORG admits to it and all the members get told to disperse

by Starlight.vee in

like the org just gives up and comes out saying that all of what they are saying is untrue and that there is no armageddon, nothing.

how do y’all think the the members still in it would react?.

there be a mental health crisis i perhaps.

NotFormer

To a certain extent that happened to Armstrong's lot after he died. Unfortunately for the JWs the WT is not a single weirdo directing it any more. It's a large amorphous monstrosity that has been designed to outlast the death of any individual. Which is totally paradoxical, when you think about it. Millions then living were supposed to be alive under the new system and the current arrangement would be obsolete.

They'll not be voluntarily dispersing any time; the system is too entrenched. If it collapses, it'll be due to external pressure.