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  Memorial Letter Invite 2022

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my friend ( who knows that i was a witness at one time ) showed me a letter sent to his house by one of his neighbors.

  he barely know the person, and this letter shows in his mail box.

  does this witness really believe that anyone who receives this letter will attend the memorial?

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  road to nowhere

  That is the basic format everyone uses. Not much different than an in person call.

  The " I give the talk" wasnt necessary. (I am important)

  I have never heard of non jws attending except for family that is Invited
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  Response to "The Flood is Real, Because ..."

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember one of the flowchart responses to people questioning the biblical flood was something along the lines that "every culture has a flood story".. of course, nearly everywhere has flooded at one time or another and we know there are minor floods and then there are the 1-in-1000 year kind of weather event, that tend to get a mention (anyone from the uk will still talk about the summer of '76, and that's probably nothing in comparison to a decent flood).. but the inference is that the flood must be real, because every culture has a flood story.. the best response is "now do dragons".. because apparently, nearly every culture also has a dragon legend.. does it mean dragons exist?

  some desperate jw may show their ignorance by suggesting that man lived at the same time as dinosaurs and they are what the stories were based on.

  fun fact: stegosaurus was a fossil when t-rex was alive for longer than it's been since t-rex has been a fossil to us - we're talking old, and no overlap (ignore the map in the cover of the old green bible).. do jws still even bother trying to defend the cray-cray aesop-fable kind of ot beliefs?.

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  "Its almost like a lot of the worlds cultures share a common beginning."

  Very much. It is interesting to read the stories of Polynesians, chinese, Norse, europeans, navigating oceans and land, leaving unexpected dna in far flung areas.
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  Are You Concerned About Inflation?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

  that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

  they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

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  I spent my 8.5% on groceries.

  Ww2 had an impact with desperation followed by conversion to peaceful production, rebuilding, and a cold war. 2 things I think of are Grumman canoes using aircraft technology, and jeeps morphing into the things we have now....going past exploring without a horse to desecration of any historical sights.
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  Response to "The Flood is Real, Because ..."

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember one of the flowchart responses to people questioning the biblical flood was something along the lines that "every culture has a flood story".. of course, nearly everywhere has flooded at one time or another and we know there are minor floods and then there are the 1-in-1000 year kind of weather event, that tend to get a mention (anyone from the uk will still talk about the summer of '76, and that's probably nothing in comparison to a decent flood).. but the inference is that the flood must be real, because every culture has a flood story.. the best response is "now do dragons".. because apparently, nearly every culture also has a dragon legend.. does it mean dragons exist?

  some desperate jw may show their ignorance by suggesting that man lived at the same time as dinosaurs and they are what the stories were based on.

  fun fact: stegosaurus was a fossil when t-rex was alive for longer than it's been since t-rex has been a fossil to us - we're talking old, and no overlap (ignore the map in the cover of the old green bible).. do jws still even bother trying to defend the cray-cray aesop-fable kind of ot beliefs?.

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  There are flood stories, true. Passed down orally. We can speculate on glacial dams breaking, earthquakes, lots of things. Mother of all tsunamis from a meteor? All within the last 5000 years? There is evidence of huge inland seas, but part if that evidence is a shoreline.

  Some of the related stories dont fit. Mature olive tree? Clean animals defined before the law? Tower of babel having a huge population in 200 years? (Rabbits!)

  My take on pyramids/ minarets is a migration for unknown reasons converging, disagreeing, and dispersing. Post Columbian records show a mobile society in america pushing each other out. Same for the world, look at DNA dispersal.

  Once I thought I would ask resurrected people about it.
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  THIS MAN Changed your life - Did you know that?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this man changed your life - did you know that?.

  our story begins 6 years later in 1782 in pittsfield, massachusetts.

  there is a family of 16 children called the miller family.

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  Now it is mispronounced crishtendum. Repeatedly.

  They make it so easy to be a grammar nazi
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  is it pImo ?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  is it peemee or pie mie ?.

  peemo or piemo ?.

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  Few of us hear, pronunciation, just write on here.

  Physically in, mentaly out. I say peemo in my mind. Physically in, Mentally in. Peemee. and pomo

  I usually default to spanish pronunciation if I do not know.
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  THIS MAN Changed your life - Did you know that?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this man changed your life - did you know that?.

  our story begins 6 years later in 1782 in pittsfield, massachusetts.

  there is a family of 16 children called the miller family.

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  The start of american adventism. Of course there is one religion that started then which was examined and found true. Ignore the Miller roots, other Adventist teachings borrowed, and pyramidology.

  Part of the phenomena was the freedom of religion (no state church] and the industrial revolution which gave some free time. Greater literacy helped too as did printing presses.
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  Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie (redux)

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  in september 2004, farkel posted an article on this forum called "rutherford exposed: the story of berta and bonnie.

  " his essay, which subsequently was translated into several languages and which received over 10,000 views after the first month, spawned a thread that ran 28 pages and contained the collaborative research efforts of many in jwd.

  this thread was thought by some moderators to be the best in the forum -- not necessarily because of the claims in the original essay but because it inspired a staggering amount of research aimed at assessing the credibility of the claims made in the essay, as well as adding to our knowledge of this fascinating yet obscure chapter of watchtower history.

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  Back in the 50s my mother knew about these scandals. It was harder then to prove things than now. Even then as a child I could weigh the likelihood that it was true.
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  I'm Back--Blondie

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, i am posting again.

  i could not for awhile technologically and it is now fixed thanks to simon.

  thanks, simon!

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  road to nowhere

  ++ me too
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  Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.

  by pistolpete in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.

  so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.

  last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.

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  road to nowhere

  In person meetings only. No FS, no committee meetings or elder meetings at hall from what I hear.