Posts by road to nowhere

i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

road to nowhere

You cannot make sense of gibberish. That is why jws cannot articulate an explanation. Most just reiterate word for word the official dogma.

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4 Letters Arrived--English and Spanish! (as of 2020-06-19)

by Atlantis in

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1.--2020-06-18-- english--instructions for our online meetings.. distractions.

noisepreparations.

personal appearance .

road to nowhere

May I please have my dauly entertainment? Thank you

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Noah’s flood

by dothemath in

a few years ago at one of the conventions, there was a talk on gods remarkable creation.

one of the slides showed a giant sequoia tree, approximately 5000 years old!.

later another talk was about noah etc.

road to nowhere

you don't get it... the tree survived the flood. I know its stupid, but that's what I was told and I believed it for a long time

Yep. Told by the same authorities that claim the weight of the water pushed everest up and carved tg3e grand canyon

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Craziest books or magazines printed by the tower.

by rockemsockem in

what are the craziest books or magazines the tower ever printed?

i know of the millions now living is crazy the finished mystery.

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road to nowhere

I dont know about crazy, but they had boring down.

Some of the magazine covers were absolutely embarrassing.

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Sued by inmate, North Carolina concedes Witnesses are distinct faith group, not subset of Protestants

by Corney in

last thursday poyner spruill, a prominent north carolina law firm, announced a victory in a pro bono case involving religious freedom of incarcerated jehovah's witnesses.

the poyner team was appointed by the u.s. district court for the western district of north carolina to represent an inmate challenging the state’s policy governing how and when jehovah’s witnesses can worship in prison.

the state’s policy classified jehovah’s witnesses as a subset of christian protestants and, on that basis, prohibited separate jehovah’s witness meetings—an infringement on religious freedom under the first amendment.

road to nowhere

Can the pentecostals have snakes?

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JW.ORG delivering food to JWs in California

by NikL in

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so a couple of weeks ago my wife (who is an active jw) got a delivery of apples, oranges, potatoes, carrots and onions.. the story i heard was that the "branch bought a bunch of food that would go to waste and was delivering it".. i am in california and a friend of mine in another cong.

50 or so miles away had the same thing happen.. a few days ago we got another delivery and as a matter of fact my wife was asked if she could "help jehovah with delivering his gifts".

unfortunately she is in poor health and unable to so so.. anyway, the story seems fabricated to me and i am wondering what is really going on.. does anybody have any ideas?

road to nowhere

Our circuit thing fell apart. I hear there is a lot of rice and beans left. The little produce was old and sometimes moldy.

The city is running a distribution, no qualifications, just show up

The dishonest part is claiming it is a special provision from Jeh (GB). The catholics, baptists, lutherans, jews, muslims, Hindus, Mormons, all do it, abd usually better ou organized

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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.

by phoenixrising in

i hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.

if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.

well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.

road to nowhere

Kel Tech makes recoil operated guns. Very accurate as a rule, and smaller price, reliable. The one drawback is weight as they use a zinc slide to compensate for the pressure and recoil. That gets into a discussion of physics and how higher pressure cartridges work. A 9mm is high, a. 380 isnt, a. 22 isnt.

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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus in

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i agree with people who say all lives matter.

i think blm is a racist group.

if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..

road to nowhere

How about american culture? But choose the better parts to encourage. Family picnics, visiting grandma, going to church, having feasts on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, 4th of july. I know this is Ozzie and Harriet. .... You look at families picture with people in their Sunday best, bric a brac on the mantle, all you should see is people

I have a black friend who had the exact experience I did; going to convention laying on the floor of the station wagon because there wasnt enough room, with a WT in the window.