Posts by FFGhost

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Has anyone still in or otherwise heard anything about JWs think we only have 12 months before Armageddon?

by blablabluh in

i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.

i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.

anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.

FFGhost

Seriously, when my parents were baptised in the 1940's, they were told that their Little George would not have to go to school in this old system.

In a previous congregation, we had a guy who made a deathbed promise to his mother - in the late 1930's - that he would never marry "in this system" because Armageddon was so close.

Guy was still a member of the congregation - and still single - 60+ years later.

One of the saddest things I think I've ever seen was when he showed me a faded black & white picture of his sweetheart from 60 or 65 years earlier.

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Has anyone still in or otherwise heard anything about JWs think we only have 12 months before Armageddon?

by blablabluh in

i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.

i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.

anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.

FFGhost

JWs think we only have 12 months left before Armageddon

JWs thought that way in

1913

1914

1915

....

1924

1925

1926

....

1938

1939

1940

...

1974

1975

1976

...

1992

1993

1994

...

Sense a pattern here?

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Can Elders or MS have Goatee?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

just wondering!

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FFGhost

USA, fuggedaboutit. Totally and completely verboten.

Elsewhere, maybe. In some Scandinavian countries, full beards (well trimmed) are OK, but not for assembly or convention speakers. I would imagine a well-trimmed goatee would also be OK.

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Further thoughts on the thread dealing with wandering Jews pooping outside the camp

by Doug Mason in

i think the excellent thread on the wandering jews having to defecate outside the camp could have explored further implications, such as animal faeces, and also the fact that when women are in a group they cycle (menstruate) together.

imagine what the place was like with their attitude towards a menstruating woman, or with the disposal of the "rags".how did they dispose of all the placentas, etc.

?where are the skeletons of the millions of people and animals?

FFGhost

Link to the thread referred to here:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5087628499091456/camp-israel-problem-pooping

"Some of my best work"

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It took a lot of lies, ignorance and corruption to create CHURCHIANITY!

by TruthMatters in

have you gone back to that- or lost you faith because of 'brothers'?.

FFGhost

Have you stopped beating your wife yet, TruthMatters?

Something tells me TM is not quite at the age where he could legally drive a car, let alone get married.

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The Covid-19 Vaccines do NOT Alter Human Genes, despite the myths to the contrary

by Disillusioned JW in

["covid-19 vaccines can’t alter your dna, here’s why"]

can covid-19 vaccines alter my dna?

no, covid-19 vaccines do not alter your dna.

FFGhost

Just popping in to note how fascinatingly close the attitude and reasoning of anti-vax proponents on this site parallels the anti-vax attitude and reasoning of literally one century ago, as (tying in the JW connection for this JW board) written up extensively in the "Golden Age" magazines from (yes) a full century ago.

Perhaps a few radio biola treatments will prevent or cure COVID?

10

Bethelout?

by road to nowhere in

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friends

the sunday speaker was one of those very smooth younger ones with the "look".

store bought haircut and a very pretty wife ( the kind that makeup isn't needed, side point).. i tongue tied a comment to my wife about maybe he was a bethelite who was reassigned and said bethelout by mistake.

i like the word.

FFGhost

very smooth younger ones with the "look".

Oh, the "my career path is to be a JW Broadcasting superstar within 20 years, then move up to GB helper, then maybe I can get onto the GB at an age even younger than Sanderson was" look?

I'd bet you $1,000,000,000 he is "partaking" with that goal in mind.

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Non Believers, how do you respond ?

by Phizzy in

i recently had this in a message from a jw, a lovely person, but mind controlled, he wrote " a life without hope is no life for me".. how should i respond to that ?

i am an atheist, but want to respond in as kindly a way as possible.. i was thinking along the lies of saying i got no comfort from what i knew to be false hope, but need to say it in a kindly way.. ideas please ?.

FFGhost

" A life without hope is no life for me".

What if that "hope" is demonstrably false and in fact impossible?

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

FFGhost

Reminds me of the conversation I had with a JW elder. He was telling me about all his study projects, trying to apply numerology (of course he didn't use that word) to try to figure out when the "end" would come. He went into great detail about this number of years counting from such and such date, and this implies that which, when you consider what Artaxerxes told his cupbearer, the "end" must come between November and January, now we just need to figure out the year....

I simply asked him "so how have your calculations panned out so far?"

I just got a dirty scowl and a change of topic.

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Degree of Effectiveness of JW Letter Writing Form of Witnessing

by Disillusioned JW in

a newspaper article quotes a jw as saying "every (letter) i put in the mailbox, i feel, 'ah, this could reach somebody.

'" the article also quotes her as saying "we are accomplishing even more now than we were door-to-door because this way everybody in the house gets a chance to pick up that letter and respond to it.

it just feels good.

FFGhost

as my wife has been reminded just 15 minutes can be counted per month now.

Actually there was a letter last year - you don't even need 15 minutes now!

If you had any time at all during the month - even, I guess, 30 seconds - you just tell the elders you were "active" during the month and they will write "active" on your publisher card.

This is one of the COVID adjustments, I imagine this "loving provision" will end once things approach normal. But then again maybe not, who knows?

Note, if you have an hour or more, you are still expected to file the "normal" report. And of course a "30 second publisher" wouldn't qualify as elder, MS, LDC volunteer, etc.