Posts by days of future passed

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EVERY Religion has Hypocrites- even the TRUE One!

by MuchCloserLook in

so, if you expect to find 'saints' with halos, you will never find real christians.. after over 30 years of being a jw, there are many things about the org that disturb me- yet no one else even acknowledges the only true god, as jesus referred to him.. not a 'they' or 'them' ('trinity')- but him!and he has always had the name jehovah (yehovah in hebrew)- even though the koine greek had no version of it when the nt was written.. so among the many things real christians have to endure- is often each other!

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days of future passed

I sat in a stadium in 1974 and listened to the keynote talk on Sunday. In 1975, 6,000 years of Adam will have come to it's completion in fall. Whether it's a few months or weeks after that, the nations will know..... What will you be doing? Will you be out in service? etc.

What I really liked several years ago at another assembly, was the fact that they mocked those that had listened to that talk (and others) and believed that 1975 was Armageddon. They linked them with that guy who had a date for armaggedon to arrive - Harold Camping. hahaha yes those brothers had credit card debt hahaha except most loyal Jw's had sold houses and businesses to intensify the preaching - all the while being praised by the GB.- and then suffered afterwards because of listening to them. hahaha the joke was on them. And the last video the GB made on the subject - painted them as spiritually weak for believing them that 1975 was an important year.

Just goes to show that they rationalize, excuse and blame others for their own mistakes. And God? He must accept that hypocritical stuff from them because he's done nothing to correct them. Just like he accepts all the other religious hypocrites.

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I watched/listened to the Sandman's vid (Sanderson)

by days of future passed in

yes, i listened to it.

my sister has received the invite to watch this from a hopeful relative.

it's been talked about here and on reddit.

days of future passed

Yes, I listened to it. My sister has received the invite to watch this from a hopeful relative. It's been talked about here and on Reddit. So I listened while doing other things.

Near the end of this heartwarming speech, he quoted the August 15, 2015 WT. He read this paragraph:

7 But how bad do you expect conditions to become before “the great tribulation”? (Rev. 7:14) For example, do you expect that there will be a war in every country, no food on anyone’s table, and illness in every household? Under those conditions, even skeptics would likely feel compelled to admit that Bible prophecy was undergoing fulfillment. However, Jesus said that most people would take “no note” of his presence, carrying on with life’s normal activities until it is too late. (Read Matthew 24:37-39.) Thus, the Scriptures indicate that world conditions during the last days would not become so extreme that people would be forced to believe that the end is near.—Luke 17:20; 2 Pet. 3:3, 4.

So this is describing about any time in the history of man. There doesn't need to be full blown badness, just enough to make life difficult and there you go, the Time of the End. And I love the part about the skeptics - God wouldn't want to force people to know it was the end or to be too noticeable otherwise some people might believe him!

And lest you think that this isn't serious ignoring the signs, Jesus will show up and:

10 Many of us have been keeping awake spiritually for decades. However, let us not allow the passing of time to weaken our resolve to keep in expectation. We need to be ready for Jesus’ arrival as Executioner to end this system of things.

The rest of the article gives examples of people who waited years for the end to come but are still going out in service. Habbakuk is touted as someone who also waited a long time and didn't tire out and lose his favored position in God's eyes.

It's right in peoples faces that the WT is using a publication from 5 years ago to send them into a do or die situation. 5 years ago they said the same thing. 5 years from now, they will tout the Covid pandemic as another reason we know it's the end.

Sigh.

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Find the Beatles Songs in the Picture

by Simon in

some light entertainment ... there are apparently 39 beatles songs hidden in the picture, but depending on how to interpret some of them you may come up with more.. please post one each, to give everyone a go, and describe where the song is in the picture (so it's not just coming up with a list of beatles songs).

also, check for existing answers - i'll post summaries to show the ones already identified.. .

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Ok since we can guess again. On the long and winding road, there is a truck with pigs on the side - is it Piggies?

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Epicurean Paradox

by Tahoe in

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Some people say that if there wasn't suffering, we wouldn't appreciate the good or be better people etc. Even Capt. Picard said something like that. A Space 1999 episode had the crew find a "living" asteroid with a being imprisoned in it. Once released he causes suffering to them all on the same pretext. Guess why he was imprisoned in the first place? Yes it was a reference to God and Satan.

Either we need evil for the above reasons or it's our fault for not listening to God.

I like the chart by the way.

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Curious to know the Zoom attendance figures for for the memorial

by joe134cd in

i’m just curious to know the local attendance figures for the memorial.

my father told me they had an attendance of 140. not flattering for a cong of 100 pubs.

i was sort of surprised at this considering the quarantine measures and everyone being forced to stay at home.

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They'll just take the numbers they got and spin it up. No one will be able to say otherwise. The only downside for them will be how to include "new" ones. No new one is going to group up with their witness study partner and there won't be any "drop ins" Wonder if they'll come up with some amazing "stories" about how Jehovah made it possible for these new ones to watch a zoom.

"I was uh, just standing outside their window because they looked all neat and perfectly dressed while they were staring at a screen. So I listened in and I could tell that God was with them!"

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Find the Beatles Songs in the Picture

by Simon in

some light entertainment ... there are apparently 39 beatles songs hidden in the picture, but depending on how to interpret some of them you may come up with more.. please post one each, to give everyone a go, and describe where the song is in the picture (so it's not just coming up with a list of beatles songs).

also, check for existing answers - i'll post summaries to show the ones already identified.. .

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And because I zoomed in - there is a truck with pigs on it.

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Find the Beatles Songs in the Picture

by Simon in

some light entertainment ... there are apparently 39 beatles songs hidden in the picture, but depending on how to interpret some of them you may come up with more.. please post one each, to give everyone a go, and describe where the song is in the picture (so it's not just coming up with a list of beatles songs).

also, check for existing answers - i'll post summaries to show the ones already identified.. .

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Ok, I finally got one. The car on the curvy road "The long and winding road"

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Find the Beatles Songs in the Picture

by Simon in

some light entertainment ... there are apparently 39 beatles songs hidden in the picture, but depending on how to interpret some of them you may come up with more.. please post one each, to give everyone a go, and describe where the song is in the picture (so it's not just coming up with a list of beatles songs).

also, check for existing answers - i'll post summaries to show the ones already identified.. .

days of future passed

When I was trying to figure out the merry go round song, I found this lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duf3cPQuyL0

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Plagiarized song?

by cookiemaster in

hey guys, so, i went to the hall today with my parents (they needed a ride) and there was this song that i wasn't familiar with.

must be a new song or i might be simply ignorant of jw songs (i hate them).

to my surprise i actually liked this song.

days of future passed

One of the old songbooks had music written by the man who did some work for movies. You could plainly hear parts that were influenced by that in his music. But given that the WT steals pictures for their own use, it isn't surprising that music is also stolen. Most of the music is so dreary that anything that stands out as melodic, has a great likely hood of being "inspired" from other music.

And I agree that this music is heavily influenced by another piece of music. If there wasn't singing going on, it might be easier to figure out. I haven't watched a lot of movies for several years so I am behind on this.

The other thing - gray songbooks that match the music

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The virus and how it's affected life

by days of future passed in

since i've never lived in time with dire events, this virus and it's effects, has taken me by surprise.

not that i should be surprised by how people responded, but until you experience it first hand, you just don't get the scope of it all.. all the hoarding.

i've always taken things in a more rational way.

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frozen2018 - I was watching someone play The Walking Dead on Youtube and I had the same thought. To be realistic they should show the survivors going thru houses and find rooms full of toilet paper.