Posts by Splash

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A Cry for Help
by Thoughtless in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have been lurking here for months now, and i just decided to post here and actually interact with this community.

i have a very specific/unordinary life, so i will not divulge too much information to protect my privacy.

i am a baptized publisher who is under the age of 25 who attends college, and i do have responsiblities within the congregation.
Splash

Hi!
Don't feel you are under obligation to explain yourself to everyone who are not entitled to pry into your business - take advice from the Insight Book:
*** it-2 p. 244 Lie ***
"Lying generally involves saying something false to a person who is entitled to know the truth and doing so with the intent to deceive or to injure him or another person."
Basis this you can, with a clean conscience, plan your exit strategy and misdirect those who are trying to interfere but have no business in interfering.
If you are young and still in academia then why not try moving. The change of circumstances and environment will make everything so much more easy.
Splash
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It's All Your Fault - 9.15.13 wt Study Ed
by breakfast of champions in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"in a similar way, at the beginning of the 20th century, there were a number of wrong expectations among true christians regarding the last days.

(2 tim.

3:1) for instance, in the year 1914, some thought that their being taken to heaven was imminent.
Splash

Regarding "tacking" the WT later said:
-- WT 8/1/92 p.17: "...to run "not uncertainly" means that to every observer it should be very evident where the runner is heading. The Anchor Bible renders it "not on a zigzag course."
Another reversal.
Splash
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Pronouncing things differently so they don't sound rude. Typical CULT persona. Political correctness?
by punkofnice in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i noticed over the years how bros & sis(tm) would pronounce words/names differently or totally substitute them so as not to sound offensive.. egs:.

instead of 'bible aids' a bro(tm) said 'bible helps' thus avoiding aids disease!?!.

instead of sodom the bro(tm) pronounced it 'sow dom'.
Splash

I once had the announcements halfway through the Thursday meeting.
The brother on the sound had screwed up the song I introduced by playing the wrong one, playing another wrong one, then finally getting it right.
At the end of the song I said: "Well we finally got it right, Third time..." (pause for effect, audience do a collective intake of breath) "...successful". (Congregation let out a sigh of relief).
Oh I love to tease.
Splash.
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A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ukz5m-yo4&feature=youtu.be.

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cedars.
Splash

Given their propensity to quote mine and spin, I wonder what they left out of the story.
"Now one year later their small flock had increased to more than 60 chickens".
How many chickens were they left with after the 19 died? They could have been left with 59 chickens - we just don't know.
Did the chickens reproduce as we are being led to believe, or did they have to buy some more - we just don't know.
As usual, all unverifiable.
Splash.
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A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ukz5m-yo4&feature=youtu.be.

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cedars.
Splash

But everyone clapped !!
(They were hesitant though)
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A Chicken Story, by Anthony Morris the Third
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ukz5m-yo4&feature=youtu.be.

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cedars.
Splash

That's some blessing for that family.
Although it doea make me wonder why an elderly sister had a heart attack and died at our DC last year.
Who's going to look after her chickens?
Splash.
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It's All Your Fault - 9.15.13 wt Study Ed
by breakfast of champions in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"in a similar way, at the beginning of the 20th century, there were a number of wrong expectations among true christians regarding the last days.

(2 tim.

3:1) for instance, in the year 1914, some thought that their being taken to heaven was imminent.
Splash

Same old same old:
*** w90 10/15 p. 19 par. 20 Be Thankful—Jehovah’s Messianic Kingdom Rules ***
For 38 years prior to 1914, the Bible Students, as Jehovah’s Witnesses were then called, pointed to that date as the year when the Gentile Times would end. What outstanding proof that is that they were true servants of Jehovah! Yet, like first-century servants of God, they also had some wrong expectations. For example, they expected that the full number of anointed Christians would be raised to heaven by October 1914. They also thought that the war that started in 1914 would lead directly on to the end of Satan’s world.
Splash
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We are "On the doorstep of the New World" (Awake!)
by Splash in
1. watchtower
2. bible
anyone see that quote in the latest magazine?.

in full it says:.

"since the things are happening today that jesus told us about, we know that we are right at the very doorstep of the new world, the world to come.
Splash

http://wtarchive.svhelden.info/english/the-golden-age/
It's all in there, 1927, pages 729 - 733.
Splash
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Pronouncing things differently so they don't sound rude. Typical CULT persona. Political correctness?
by punkofnice in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i noticed over the years how bros & sis(tm) would pronounce words/names differently or totally substitute them so as not to sound offensive.. egs:.

instead of 'bible aids' a bro(tm) said 'bible helps' thus avoiding aids disease!?!.

instead of sodom the bro(tm) pronounced it 'sow dom'.
Splash

We always used to say that the best wedding song from the old song book would be
"Stay awake, Stand firm, Grow mighty!"
or maybe "I Want To"
Aah, those adolescent days were such fun.
Splash.
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Another bash at education - wt13 9/15
by Splash in
1. watchtower
2. bible
page 20:.

the unwary may adopt the same view of theocratic arrangements.

they may be unwilling to go along with congregation procedures and may even complain about anything not to their liking.
Splash

Page 20:
The unwary may adopt the same view of theocratic arrangements. They may be unwilling to go along with congregation procedures and may even complain about anything not to their liking. Or they may have reservations about Bible based counsel on entertainment, use of the Internet, and the pursuit of higher education.
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Bible based counsel on higher education? 'Bible based'?
(sigh)
Splash.