Posts by Chook

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Contradictory Information on the Life of Geoffrey Jackson

by Wild_Thing in

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in geoffrey jackson's autobiography published in in the watchtower, he states that him and his wife went to serve as missionaries on the island nation of tulavu in 1979, and there were only 3 baptized witnesses in all of tulavu, and he translated all of the witness literature into the tuvaluan language in 1980, printing it right there on the island.

the article says they served as missionaries there until 1985 when they were assigned to the samoa branch.. .

in july, 2008, the watchtower society penned a letter to the un human rights council about the treatment of jws in tuvalu.

Chook

Geoffrey Jackson apostatised the JW church when he said it "would be presumptuous to think JW only chanel." I would love to see them all in front of royal commission ,it's like the before a judicial committee. Karma.

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interesting question

by jayjay78 in

firstly i'm a df'd witness.. i was in the org all my life.. vividly remember out witnessing as a kid in the 80s with my mum and having apostates jumping houses before we could get to them ..all the way up the street.. remember it because the guy looked like tom baker from dr who - frizzy hair and long colourful scarf.. i think the people at the doors were made more curious by them actually, so when we knocked ,they were inclined to have a listen.. anyway i'm out and cant see myself ever going back,because my family has fully shunned me..and even if i was to go back and be a member..i don't think i could forgive them...totally scarred me.. anyway my question is :.

if you were head of this religion and you wanted to keep it clean and pure etc..how would you deal with people who delib broke the rules?.

no shunning of course..but whats the alternative?

Chook

Water finds its own level. If a religion promotes a clean life and you belong to it and live contrary lifestyle you are not going to have much in common unless you've got a partner in crime at church or KH. Your not going to promote charity if your a selfish bastard.

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Latest Ancient Coin - 660 Year Old Fourpence

by cofty in

after a very quiet couple of hours detecting this afternoon i was chuffed to find this silver coin.. it is a groat of edward iii of england.

for a long time the only coin available was the silver penny.

if you wanted to spend half a penny or a quarter you literally cut it up.

Chook

I've done in past but the bullet shells and old nails and cans kill me. My 2 children were born in Bendigo . The big nuggets are in dunnolly and kingower.

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Can GB be guilty of sinning against Holy Spirit

by Chook in

the crime is ,condoning the removal of and shunning of jw children ,who when older want to express freedom of religion and attend another church.

god created family unit ,gb destroys lives on all levels of family tree.

can this be the unforgivable sin?.

Chook

The crime is ,condoning the removal of and shunning of JW children ,who when older want to express freedom of religion and attend another church. God created family unit ,GB destroys lives on all levels of family tree. Can this be the unforgivable sin?

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Latest Ancient Coin - 660 Year Old Fourpence

by cofty in

after a very quiet couple of hours detecting this afternoon i was chuffed to find this silver coin.. it is a groat of edward iii of england.

for a long time the only coin available was the silver penny.

if you wanted to spend half a penny or a quarter you literally cut it up.

Chook

What brand of detector, in Australia they make a good gold detector called minelab

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Why start preaching work in 1876? Something to ask JW's who are still in

by fedup in

we learn from the bible that the characters that preached doomsday messages, such as lot, noah, etc all got to see the result of the message they preached, we studied that the final judgement from god was seen by the preacher as well as the people that heard and ignored the message.

my point is this, it would have been ridiculous for noah to start preaching to people, put the fear of god in all the listeners that the flood is coming, build the ark and then as a result, nothing happens to them.

even if the flood would have happened later, let's say 50 years after noah and all the people that heard him have died from natural causes.

Chook

I ask an elder in field service one day that a house holder said we have cried wolf for so many decades how can we be believed. Then I thought even a broken clock is right twice a day. Just because they seem right twice a century does mean their clock is working.

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By Way of Announcement, Darlene Jefferson Has Been Disfellowshiped

by Cold Steel in

i was watching a jw video where the announcement was made of a young lady's being disfellowshiped, and it happened in a regular kh sunday meeting.

this struck me as being a bit...cold.

is this when the shunning begins?

Chook

It's usually announced mid week meeting, yes shunning begins that day, the ones who show up for announcement believe this shows repentance for quicker return. I just can't get my head around how WT headquarters equates this embarrassment to love. WT needs to be sued for non compliance of freedom of religion.

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Belgium does first doctor assisted suicide of child.

by Chook in

they are 70 years behind wt assisted suicide by refusal of life saving blood..

Chook

Not real good on computers ,its on daily mail Australia .

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Australian freelance writer on The Everyday Life of a Jehovah`s Witness.

by smiddy in

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lewis edwards is an australian freelance journalist / writer who has written a series of articles about jehovah`s witnesses in "the news hub" , the latest on the 9/15/ 2016. very well written on " the everyday life of a jehovahs witness".

i reccomend you read it.. jarrod booth also has an extremely interesting article in this publication .

"the news hub".