It' absolutely insane that an expansion team in it's first year of existence makes it to the Stanley Cup Finals. It's like something from a Hollywood movie.
Posts by Steel
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9Stanley Cup (Hockey)
by LV101 inanyone watching the stanley cup?
so exciting with las vegas golden knights playing second game against the washington capitals?
can't wait for it to start.
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144000 The numbers don't add up
by LevelThePlayingField inin 1935 there were 63,146 who attended the memorial and 52,465 partook.
(proclaimers book page 717).
according to the bible teach book on page 78, it says, “since the days of the apostles, god has been selecting faithful christians in order to complete the number 144,000”.
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Steel
The more research i have done about the subject, the gathering of the 144000 in revelation it is a reference to a military census done in the book of numbers before the Jewish people moved into the promised land and the great crowd is a reference to this new multi ethic family of both jew and gentile called the body of Christ.
It's really just the theme of the new testament. Old conevant to new constant, Jewish people to body of Christ etc etc.
The 144 is most likely just a symbol for the body of Christ or church.
Of course it's all very subjective like all propheic writings
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Why are there more sisters than brothers at the Kingdom Hauls?
by Sour Grapes ini have always wondered why there are more females than males in all of the congregations that i have visited?
some of these females are in their 70's so maybe their husbands have died and women just live longer.
or could the reason be that years ago men were the breadwinners and women stayed home to raise the children thus they were home during the week when the jdubs came a knocking?
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Steel
It's easier to suck a bored house wife into an absolute time wasting soul sucking cult, than a man living in the real world , making a living to support his family.
My hall is literally a female social club.
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My last Memorial
by Sour Grapes ini missed my first memorial last year in 60 years.
it always amazed me on this special night that the jw's forget how to park their cars in the parking lot.
i would pull in with my wife and there are 5 brothers giving directions on where and how to park my car.
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Steel
I just love the giant theological holes in the memorial talk every year. I think anyone with even a basic understanding of the new testament can see it's mocking what Jesus did on the cross.
if you believe in that type if thing.
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Memorial Attendance: The Single Most Impactful TTATT "Witness" to Family and Friends
by AMNESIANO inanyone who has awakened to ttatt and conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent individual from a prominent multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.
by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dimissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".
nothing blasts a louder, clearer, and more deliberate message to the jws who personally knew you and those familiar with your jw bona fides that you are not merely "not making the meetings" or "spiritually-weak" but that there is a conscientious reason you have rejected the entire watchtower society life than choosing to forego what they know you know to be their one-and-only holy and sacred event of the year, the lord's evening meal.
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Steel
The so called memorial makes my skin crawl. It's literally a satanic cermony about pledging your allegiance the governing body.
Yuck
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Preaching From The Platform While Secretly A Satanist
by Teufel inhello one and all.. i've been a lurker on here for a few weeks now and i am finally starting to post on some threads.
a lot of the subjects that i wanted to talk about have already been covered so i wont bother restarting a topic that's been done to death.. im a 3rd generation, born-in, jw.
currently faded.
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Steel
Satanism according to my understanding is it actually an extreme form of atheism that actually goes so far in it' belief there is no god , it actually mocks the Christian faith. It's all based on mockery not actually the occult or devil' and such.
I have seen this mockery in the kingdom hall many times. From the disgusting so called memorial to white washing a history of doctrinal flp flops while running down other churches to the abortion called the new world translation.
Jehovah witness to Satanist isn't really that big a jump.
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suicide
by zeb inwho among us has known a jw who has committed suicide.
i believe this as a separate subject has not been covered..
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Steel
One lady mid 40s and single. All she really wanted was a family. She came from an uber family and going off the reservation for a mate wasn't an option.
I guess when that last egg dried up and she realized she wasted her entire life being an unpaid telemarketer.
Well. I guess we all know how it ended.
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Memorial Invite
by littlerockguy ini moved back to my hometown almost a year ago after being away for almost 20 years.
since that time it's gotten around to others in the area and my relatives how i view the organization, not to mention that my brother and sister have outed me to some people about my sexual orientation and that's all it takes.
so now i feel estranged somewhat from relatives i used to be close to even though i have not been outright shunned by them.
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Steel
I am still trying to figure out the point of hosting it since they changed the meaning of the faithful slave.
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I was quite tolerant of this guy until now
by never a jw inpresident trump is definitely a demagogue, a populist, and not a great extemporaneous speaker, just to mention few of his more conspicuous flaws.
however, i was going along because "it's the economy stupid".
now that has changed.
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Steel
The strange part about Trumps policies is when he threatens tariffs against Canada and Mexico , he actually lowers the value of both the Canadian dollar and Mexican peso to the US dollar thus making it harder for the United States to export and making it more attractive for an Americans to buy from other countries.
I live in a border town and no one cross the line to shop anymore. Especially Building supplies which he already put tariffs on. I just priced out a garage package at Home Depot in the US and my local lumber yard and the mom and pop shop was actually cheaper.
idiot.
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I was quite tolerant of this guy until now
by never a jw inpresident trump is definitely a demagogue, a populist, and not a great extemporaneous speaker, just to mention few of his more conspicuous flaws.
however, i was going along because "it's the economy stupid".
now that has changed.
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Steel
I am not really sure how a country that feels its getting a raw deal exporting there products is going to make this better by making there products even more expensive.
Hey you don' want buy my car at 15000, well fuck you buddy, now I want 17000.
Any jobs Trump protects will be wiped out if inflation takes hold even just 2 percent. If my mortgage went from 3 to 5 , my payments would jump 500 dollars. That is 500 dollars I don't have to spend.
Times 100 million households. Not good.