i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.
so, they did... with parental consent.
he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.
Firstly, the usual - i.e. an elder who had sufficient sway over my father was able to prevent me from going to university.
Not being content with that, though, some 12 months later this same prize act then told me to throw in my apprenticeship. (After being stopped from attending university, I had got a job as a trainee telecommunications technician).
Damned fool that I was, I actually listed to this F#ck-wit!
it took 117 days in 1914 from when uranus and jupiter met on march 4, till the start of ww i on june 28,1914.. another conjunction today; 117 days from today is aug.16, 2024.. .
https://www.astropro.com/features/tables/geo/ju-ur/ju-000-ur/ju000ur6.html.
https://avoidjw.org/archive/magazines/1900-1909/.
By Crikey, they have broken out in a fresh place!
1982 was supposed to see a major catastrophe, caused by a planetary line-up.
In 1974, the astrophysicist John Gribbin predicted in his book, "The Jupiter Effect", that when the planets lined up, the Earth would be caught in the middle of a huge gravity struggle between the Sun and the planets, especially the giant planet, Jupiter.
These stresses, he claimed, would change the speed of the Earth in its orbit, and shift the centre of the solar system. He warned that geological fault lines would be ripped open, causing massive earthquakes. In fact, he went far enough to predict that " in 1982, when the Moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars and with the other seven planets of the solar system, Los Angeles will be destroyed"!
Well, as predicted, the Grand Alignment happened, with the planets scattered over some 90 degrees. Los Angeles was not destroyed, life as we know it went on, and earthquake activity that year was completely normal. Recently, some of Gribbin's predictions have been dragged back out again, and various sensationalist magazines and TV shows are warning that we are all doomed.
To the best of my knowledge, nothing much untoward happened during the year 1982!
i read a comment somewhere that having a beard ( before such was allowed) was never a disfellowshippable offence.
but does that mean that no-one who grew a beard was ever eventually disfellowshipped?.
growing a beard when such was frowned upon would surely attract the attention of those with nothing better to do, and possibly lead to sniffing around to try and find things that the "disobedient" one was up to.
Not a disfellowshipping matter, but would count against a brother being considered for “privileges”.
(This did very , though, from congregation to congregation . Anyone here from Australia remember Newmarket congregation in Brisbane?)
secret recording 14th april:ralph walls: more changes are coming!.
( broadcasted to all british congregations today).
https://youtu.be/owg4bqj7pd0?si=yvfpkkos_qoy9u10.
They are all one island. Same with Ireland and Scotland And Wales.
Huh?
England, Ireland Scotland and Wales are all on the same island?
Somebody else here that needs to update their knowledge of geography!
(Particularly about a certain body of water known as the "Irish Sea").
probably everyone else thought of this long ago, but i, being an "independent thunker" thunk of it just a coupla weeks ago.. we all know that since the year zero (on the fredfranzian calendar) the wtb&ts has defied archaeology and insisted that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, even though the physical evidence shows that 587 bce is a more likely date.
in fact, the book "the gentile times reconsidered: have jehovah's witnesses been wrong all along about 607 bce?
" by carl olof jonsson and rud persson made this conversation public.. it is a difference of 20 years.
As in
”APATHY?
Who cares!”
probably everyone else thought of this long ago, but i, being an "independent thunker" thunk of it just a coupla weeks ago.. we all know that since the year zero (on the fredfranzian calendar) the wtb&ts has defied archaeology and insisted that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, even though the physical evidence shows that 587 bce is a more likely date.
in fact, the book "the gentile times reconsidered: have jehovah's witnesses been wrong all along about 607 bce?
" by carl olof jonsson and rud persson made this conversation public.. it is a difference of 20 years.
A bit like trying to play chess with a pigeon.
It ignores the rules, knocks the chess pieces over willy-nilly, craps all over the board, then struts around like it has won the game!
probably everyone else thought of this long ago, but i, being an "independent thunker" thunk of it just a coupla weeks ago.. we all know that since the year zero (on the fredfranzian calendar) the wtb&ts has defied archaeology and insisted that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, even though the physical evidence shows that 587 bce is a more likely date.
in fact, the book "the gentile times reconsidered: have jehovah's witnesses been wrong all along about 607 bce?
" by carl olof jonsson and rud persson made this conversation public.. it is a difference of 20 years.
WT scholars?
I suppose it is possible - if their “scholarship” was all carried out at Tasmania’s University of Lower Crackpot!
Otherwise, we are seeing here a lot of “That’s my story, and I am sticking to it” talk from one certain poster (who shall remain anonymous).
i now view jwlite like the trekkie conventions.
star trek is fiction and all the fans know this full well.
but they find it beneficial.
With one important difference - Trekkies don’t require one to throw their lives away in refusing a blood transfusion during a time of serious illness or injury.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/former-jehovahs-witness-elder-to-stand-trial-accused-of-rape/103612422.
For those who previously raised the question, this report also confirms Brother Low-life as having formerly been a JW elder.
burning heretics alive was a common practice in medieval europe.
i cannot begin to imagine the depravity of the mind that invented this cruelty, let alone the inhumanity and callousness of those who carried out the act.
sometimes an individual would take pity on the victim and hide gunpowder among the wood faggots to hasten their death.. there is only one way to make this scenario even more depraved, infinitely depraved in fact; and that would require magic powers.
Of course, the irony of that comes out when you follow the history of many of the so-called “saints”.
A lot of them did more than their share of sinning, somewhere along the line. (Something like sowing a few wild oats - then praying like hell afterwards for a crop failure!)
