The JWs I knew must have been a rather straight-laced lot ; I never knew of any of these type of occurrences.
Rivergang
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Fellow exElders: did you ever get to hear of ...
by no-zombie inwhen i was serving as an elder, it because relatively common to hear of wild drunken house parties of witness youths.
i investigated one, it was so bad that the cops turned up and found empty bottles of whiskey on the lawn and smashed out on the road.
but every led went cold, with all the kids clamming up.
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Regarding new "Morning Worship" video - John Ekrann: "The Love of Money" (2 Tim. 3:2)
by EasyPrompt inthe man spends nine minutes and sixteen seconds condemning all the behaviors that the wtbt$ is guilty of without even realizing he's doing it.. .
(as he sits in a studio in a compound build with "voluntary donations" where they are fed and clothed and cleaned and insured with "voluntary donations" and drive cars purchased with "voluntary donations" all associated with a corporation founded on a selling-literature-business and now often funded by building/restoring real estate with slave labor and then selling it to pay for some elders at bethel to live on a lake and take jets to give talks to worshipful doting masses at convention centers in various parts of the earth.).
"but know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.
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Rivergang
Oh yeah - they are all the bloody same, without exception.
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Are we living in the LAST DAYS?
by Fisherman inare we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?
if this is true then how long should it take?
as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.
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Rivergang
THE LAST SAYS will indeed take place - some four billion years from now, when the sun finally runs out of nuclear fuel.
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Is WT Teachig on Hell Biblical?
by Sea Breeze ini guess you could say jesus was the first christian, since he was the christ.
and as the first christian, jesus spoke more about hell that any other biblical figure.
but, he is also the figure that said that he didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.
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Rivergang
Honestly, who gives a F#ck?!
I certainly don’t
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If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!
by mikronboy in.
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Rivergang
Discontinued about the time the Elder arrangement came in.
10 hours, one “bible study”, 12 magazines per month, so many books and so many “back calls” - or else you received The Pineapple.
Talk about Salvation by Report Card!
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Did anyone really enjoy assemblies?
by SydBarrett inthe twickenham post made me think of this.
i have a few jw family members on facebook and being summertime, their pics of the convention have shown up in my fb feed.
along with their comments about "i wished it would never end" or "what a glorious weekend".
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Rivergang
The time I most looked forward to was when the bloody thing was over and done with!
(Apart from the 1973 Divine Victory International Assembly, when I fell in love for the very first time. That did add a bit of gloss to it).
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If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!
by mikronboy in.
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Rivergang
This practice ceased in the early 1970s, just before the elder arrangement was introduced. Afterwards, it was described as being when “The Society used to set goals for us”.
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How do you feel about Brexit?
by SydBarrett inthe "independent scotland" thread got me thinking on this.
there are a lot of brits on this board.
what are your thoughts on brexit?
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Rivergang
The violation of Belgian neutrality provided Britain with its official excuse for entering WWI. However, would it really have kept out of that conflict had things been otherwise?
Ever since the Jameson raid on the Transvaal (1895), British relationships with Germany had been deteriorating. These were irrevocably damaged by the 2nd Boer War (1899-1902) - a war in which Germany was always on the threshold of joining in as a belligerent. Afterwards, King Edward VII (“Edward The Peacemaker”) was able to shore up relations with France. That led to the Entente Cordiale with “The Old Enemy”.
However, anti-British feeling in Germany was by then so strong that he had no success in repairing damaged relationships with Germany. By 1914 (if not earlier) there was widespread feeling in Germany that armed conflict with Britain was in fact inevitable.
Also, being then the world’s dominant naval power, it is highly unlikely that Britain would have tolerated German possession of the channel ports.
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God and Unicorns
by Sea Breeze inatheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.
all they had to do was read their bible to know that.
job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.
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Rivergang
King James himself believed that there was such a creature, having in his possession a horn which was said to be that of a unicorn. That may have influenced the KJV's use of the word!
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PROOF Mormons have the truth
by neat blue dog indaniel prophesied that god would “set up a kingdom” that would “never be destroyed” and would “stand for ever” (daniel 2:44).
in making this prophecy, he spoke of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints... and it will continue to progress until it has “filled the whole earth”... hundreds of thousands of people are baptized every year.
the book of mormon is being translated in many languages.
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Rivergang
Particularly when the goal posts keep shifting!