days of future passed

Joined

• started 48 topics
• posted 1,003 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by days of future passed

• 
  4

  Jehovah's Witnesses are like science fiction

  by BottleGate_ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  without that pesky science part.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  So many sci fi stories are like a commentary on religion or politics. Orwell's Animal Farm is correct on so many levels about the JW's and others.

  I wish it was a fiction story that I missed. The JW one that is.
• 
  6

  A Veblen good?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please forgive me and do not castigate me for overthinking this.. there is a marketing "law" named veblen good (goods, effect) which says that if you make something very expensive, that will make it more desirable.

  i know that sounds counter intuitive but think of the dyson fan, ferrari car, expensive perfume, and so on.

  put the price really high and people will clamour for it.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  My jw sister falls for that all the time. It has to be good because it is expensive.

  The JW religion offers a paradise and the feeling that you are special because you know the truth but the rest do not.

  Remember the commercials for BMW? It was all about being a snob and affording the very best. Then the economy tanked and suddenly BMW's became "affordable and the best" Just after that, I noticed that the worse drivers on the road - speeding and cutting you off - were the BMW's. Cause now they could be bought by the young and reckless.

  Hasn't the JW religion done the same thing? Instead of being a snob to tv and electronic media, they now swallow it down and force the regulars to buy it. They do everything that they scoffed at what other religions were doing. Because they have also tanked and need the money and recruits.
• 
  45

  Living in the last of the last days - A new prophecy

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  although not a new concept by the watchtower, particularly in public talks and at assemblies, they have now put this prophecy in writing.watchtower oct 2019 page 8 -13 study no.40 titled -keep busy during the last of "the last days".

  the first paragraph asks '1.

  what convinces us that we are living in “the last days”?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  This reminds me of an older ploy of the WT. Remember the statue of the world powers? It showed the stone from the mountain very close to the feet. One elderly sister told my sister "Look how close it is! It is almost touching the toes!" She was sure it was going to come soon.

  Just after the overlapping generation, there was Armageddon coming "just around the corner"

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCf5Wy9PJs

  After the last of the last days has lost it's usefulness, the new phrase will be "any second now, we will be in the final days"
• 
  16

  Talking Snake

  by NoAbuse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovahs witness yearbook, 1967 p.105: cameroon"on one occasion a large crowd was following a man who had a talking serpent.

  the serpent gave greetings and spoke in foreign tongues....a brother was passing by, attracted by the commotion, he went to the house to see what was happening.

  as soon as he entered the room the serpent stopped talking.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  Wow the demon snake must have been terrified when he uttered god's name. Yeah that must have been it.
• 
  70

  'Experiences(tm)'! Made up or totally true??

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one assembly(tm), i was asked to relate an 'experience(tm)' which i did.

  however, during rehearsals, the geezer in charge elder or co or some such title, told me that i shouldn't tell it the way it was.

  i did a 're-enactment(tm)' with another 'brother(tm)'.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  My Favorite Fake Experience found in the Literature was the JW who witnessed to a businessman on a train. The businessman took the truth book and threw it out the window. The book sailed thru the air and hit a man who was going to commit suicide. He read the book instead and became a JW!

  You just can't make it up - oh wait you can!
• 
  10

  2 Requests: 2019 October German Elders Manual--2017 Watchtower Scan of Elderly Sister!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  two requests we received for:.

  https://docdro.id/gyjzpiz.

  elderly sister looking in her refrigerator with almost nothing to eat, yet still contributes to contribution box.. .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  Really. Encouraging a senior to give away their money when they don't have enough for themselves is elder abuse.
• 
  20

  How Many of you Remember Mr. Rogers Neighborhood?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  just saw the movie "a beautiful day in the neighborhood" with tom hanks as fred rogers.

  excellent acting and story-line.

  it brought back many fond memories as a child.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  Never did like Mr. Rogers probably because I was older. Romper Room was my childhood show.
• 
  11

  "Do Religions Today Feed or Fleece The Flock?" March 22, 1988

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i pulled this magazine out of a box of "never placed and never will be" from the 1980's and 90's.

  of course it is hypocritical (like most articles) but especially now since the jw religion has their own channel.. it is an article about tele evangelists - the four prominent ones.

  it takes up 3 1/2 pages and it is full of the misdeeds and greed of these preachers.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  Yes fleecing and sometimes eating.

  Ezekiel 34:2-4 New International Version (NIV)

  2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? 3 You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. 4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

  You see, the WT does follow what's in the bible
• 
  5

  I am Santa rockin' out...

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you may wonder what my stance on christmas is now that i'm not a jobo.. well, i am santa.

  yes, i know, hard to believe....and you thought i didn't exist.. here is the proof......... https://www.youtube.com › watch.

  i'm miming for this polish singer beti gie (beata).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  
  
• 
  10

  Churches criticized for accepting donations via credit card- W75 11/1

  by krismalone in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the phrase “pray now, pay later” appeared in a headline of the philadelphia “inquirer” in reporting on a church experiment due to go into effect shortly.

  a group of ten u.s. religions, including some major lutheran, episcopal, methodist and baptist denominations, have decided to try church collections by credit card.w75 11/1 p. 651 - the watchtower—1975.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  days of future passed

  I remember being at a two day local assembly after finding out that the WT was not what they said they were. I said to my ex friend witness, "Pretty soon they are going to be like the money changers in the temple and let you use a credit card" My ex friend kinda laughed (in that "I don't want to know the truth" way) and said "Well that's a good thing because sometimes I don't have the money on me or a check"

  What did I see the very next assembly? Money changers in the lobby. One brother manning the credit card charger had a sheepish smile on his face which said it all.