Posts by FFGhost

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2021-June-Announcements And Reminders!

by Atlantis in

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2021-june-s-147-announcements and reminders.

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FFGhost

How can "video showings" be higher than before the pandemic?

Since JWs can't go door to door, they do a lot of "phone witnessing" including whatsapp.

They'll send links to jw.borg videos via WhatsApp to their return visits, studies, etc. Then they'll ask "did you watch the video?"

If the answer is "yes", cha-ching! More gold leaf to make their monthly report look shinier.

It's actually far easier to achieve a "video showing" now. It avoids the utterly bizarroid phenomenon of using a 19th century sales tactic (knocking on doors) to try to sell a 21st century invention (streaming video).

It just makes me cringe, trying to imagine myself knocking on someone's door and asking if they'd like to watch a video on the handheld device I happen to be carrying with me. Every "householder" would have to be thinking "WTF kind of loon walks from door to door trying to get people to watch a video? Why aren't they on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or whatever?"

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Party tunes

by jhine in

as usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .

i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .

as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .

FFGhost

"The Shulamite Remnant"?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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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

Oh, here's another one:

Sometime in the late 90's a pioneer told me she had calculated that Armageddon would start no later than 2005. There was something in the old Aid book about how Cain had been born when Adam was 30 years old, or at least you could "back into" that age.

IIRC, I think the Aid book said that Cain must have been "about 100" when he killed Abel, and Seth was born to Adam at age 130 as a "replacement".

Thus, the pioneer's reasoning went, Adam had been alone in the garden of Eden for 30 years, then Eve came along, was tempted & sinned shortly after her creation, then soon after that Cain "must have" been born.

And, so, continuing on, the idea was that Jehovah's "rest day" was still somehow supposed to last exactly 6000 (or 7000 when you tack on the "1000 year reign") years. She still accepted that 1975 was the date for 6000 year's since Adam's creation, so 2005 would be the 6000th anniversary of Eve's creation - the last of Jehovah's "creative works".

I grant it was creative. It still used good ol' Freddy's chronology and "logic" that the "old system" had to last exactly 6000 years, and still fit conceivably within "one generation" of 1914, while also mitigating the failure of the "1975" prediction.

It was a pretty good "last gasp" for Fred's chronology and calculations - and, obviously, just like the 100+ years of failed expectation that preceded it, utterly wrong.

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Governing Body; Villians or just Deluded?

by pistolpete in

are you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.

thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.

the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.

FFGhost

If you live in a bubble (aka Bethel), and no one ever provides you with information from a different perspective, and if anyone contradicting "the truth" is at best "disloyal" and at worst an "apostate"....

It is in fact quite easy to believe your own delusions.

And, in the case where somehow something does get through that provides evidence that it's all horse-puckey:

-- "where else would we go"

-- "if I rock the boat, I'll get expelled from Bethel and DF'ed. I'm [60+] years old with no practical work experience or skills, no savings, no retirement fund. My life quite literally depends on me never getting DF'ed. So..."

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Watchower and BMG agreed confidential settlement ?

by keinlezard in

i just read that watchtower pennsylvania and bmg music ave agreed to a confidential settlement .

about "listen,obey and be blessed" by aled jones ?

anybody have more information ?

FFGhost

Well, if it's a "confidential settlement"....that would be, um, no.

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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

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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.