I'm here in buffalo! this storm has mainly affected the southern part of the city and southern and Eastern suburbs. I live in the northern part of the city. I only have around 9 inches of snow to deal with. 10 minutes down the road they have almost 7 feet in some spots! Cars are buried, snow coming up to the top of peoples front doors! The same areas that have the 5-7 feet are expected to get 2 more feet today! The nature of lake effect snow here is such that on one street you can have bare pavement, a few blocks over disaster! So far 8 deaths have been blamed on this storm. One man was found dead in his car buried under 20 feet of snow. a few miles to my north there is just a dusting of snow. some people have been trapped inside since Tuesday and probably will be for a couple more days. I hope they have enough food. Half the area has a ban on travel. The national guard has been deployed. The good news is, very few power outages.
Posts by BU2B
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5Anyone in Buffalo?
by Simon insnow storms look intense.
natural disasters and weather extremes can hit hard and fast.. hope you're all staying warm and safe if you're in the middle of it.. be careful of trying to shovel the driveway - even a couple of ft of snow is a lot of weight to move.
when it's 6ft there's little point (roads will be impassible).. .
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How Do You Answer Someone Who Says JWs Are Not False Prophets?
by minimus init used to bother me that people would say that about my well meaning religion.
how do you prove that witnesses are indeed, false prophets?.
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BU2B
I would answer that they are false prophets by their own definition!
Awake!, October 8, 1968, p. 23 " True, there have been those in times past who predicted an 'end of the world,' even announcing a specific date. Some have gathered groups of people with them and fled to the hills or withdrawn into their houses waiting for the end. Yet, nothing happened. The 'end' did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? Missing was the full measure of evidence required in fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Missing from such people were God's truths and the evidence that he was guiding and using them. But what about today? Today we have the evidence required, all of it. And it is overwhelming!
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Who is copying who? Jws or Mormons?
by stuckinarut2 init amazes me!.
witnesses go on about how "blessed we are to have the website and all the content from jehovah etc".
but i have been noticing the parallels between jws and the mormons!.
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BU2B
I think the JWs are jealous of the Mormons success and copy them. The Mormons had family home evening, then the GB copied it and instituted family worship evening. Even the name is almost identical.
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Examining Genesis . Would your JW's ?
by Phizzy ini was talking to a jw a short time ago and it emerged in conversation that he believed in the literal truth of the bible's first book, genesis.. no great surprise there, but he said something pertinent, he said, "if you don't, then the whole of our belief falls apart".. i was wondering if this may be of use to those who are endeavouring to "wake up" jw family or friends.
a proper examination of genesis could be encouraged in a gentle way, raising questions the j.w's must answer, ( you may have to insist they answer them, not shove them aside as they love to do ), and eventually they will have to get to the point, if they are at all honest, that genesis is simply not literal truth.. then, their whole body of belief is undermined.. simples !.
well, the idea is, the execution may be impossible, but i just thought the idea may be helpful ?.
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BU2B
This tactic strikes at the heart not only of JWism, but also belief in the Bible and Christianity. You would be saving them time by killing "3 birds with one stone" if you can pull it off. Some though will dismiss everything and just say its a miracle! God could do anything!
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
He looks for signs that the king of the north may be awakening. He is excited by US Russian tensions. Its sad to see.
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
His unemployment has already run out!
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
They hve got to be depressed growing older and older and poorer and poorer in 2014! If someone told them in the 80s or even on 9-11 that armageddon wouldnt be here yet, they would have called you a faithless person that needs immediate spiritual help!
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
If they end up in a studio apartment in the ghetto I will be sad, but that is the wages of delusion. The end of the system has been "months" away and a "few years at most" for 100 years. I think the young JWs today will be planning much more for the future than any prior generation.
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
My parents delusions are not my problem. If that makes me a bad person, I really dont care. I will help them however I can, but they will not move in, nor wiill I give them money. I view it like giving money to a junkie. I am trying to fade and have not been out in field service for months. Last Saturday, I explained some of the reasons to my wife. I told her that I feel uncomfortable teaching things to people as facts that I am unsure of, or are not true. I gave her the examples of a global flood, with some details why, the tower of Babel being built 100 years after and why it is impossible, and how 144000 cannot be a literal number. She already knows my issues with the blood doctrine. My point was that I cannot teach things that I do not believe to be true. At the end, she understood somewhat and did not know what to say. We are still on good terms, and I attend most meetings so far. I know that sooner or later she may want me to speak to the elders so that they can help me with my doubts. She does not view me as a raving apostate, but as someone who is "trying". If she asks me to go to them, I plan to agree and share similar reasons for my inactivity with them. They may not care about the flood stuff, but when I talk about the 144,000 thing or Blood issue they may move for the DF. I hope they do. Nothing so far has truly broken through to my wife but me getting DF for trying to "get help" for some doubts may be what she needs to see how cruel and bizzare this group is. It has worked for others.
My point? I cannot have Die hard JW parents around to counteract my plans. I cannot have them indoctrinating my kids on a higher level.
We are not in a position to help them if we wanted to. My whole childhood I never was given money or many gifts or anything else. When I was in highschool, I couldnt even get decent clothes or sneakers unless I worked for them, so I got a paper route. They gave me 5 dollars a week when I was 16! I am not affluent now, in fact my wife is thinking of picking up extra work on top of the daycare she co-owns. We have 2 kids, work full time, are very busy and tired. I dont have thousands or even hundreds to give even if I wanted to.
My whole childhood, EVERY assembly was talked about as maybe being the last one on the car ride home, I remember him saying that Bill Clinton would usher in the GT, I wont make it to High school, get married, have kids etc. He was and is still the #1 person for scouring the news looking for ways the WT interpretation of Bible prophecy is coming true. My parents recently told me that the reason they never had anymore kids is because they thought the end was so near in the early 90s. Looking back at the literature from that time, along with the Generation teaching, its not hard to see how gullibe people who think God is speaking through the GB could be fooled. He actually got excited by the announcement that the toes on Daniels Image mean nothing! That should give some Idea He never planned for retirement because there was NO WAY the system could have lasted this long. Its the mentality I was raised around. Its 2014 and no Armageddon is apparent. Steve Lett talks about JWbroadcast being used in the YEARS ahead! If they were students of WT history, they would have taken the "END IS NEAR" pronouncements with a grain of salt.
I dont mean to sound mean, but they will reap what they have sown. I do not think they will want to live with an "apostate" anyways. I will help them apply for public assistance, find jobs, etc but they must take responsibility. I cannot bear their heavy burden. I will not let the WT f*&k me over this way too.
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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BU2B
I am pondering the idea about talking to his elders about it... Just for the record, he is an elder too. DOes that make a difference?