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The urban legends we heard as JWs!

by stuckinarut2 in

how often have we heard some sort of sensationalist urban legend as jws?.

here is an example i was told as a kid:.

the experience of a sister who knocked on a door and was greeted by a big fierce looking man- intimidating and mean.

blownaway

This one comes from the early 90s. There was an elder in East Germany, He was struck by lightning while doing covert witnessing. He died and the other elders knew that in communist Germany everything belongs to the state. So they went to his apt. to get anything incriminating toward the congregation. When they got there they found he was a Stasi agent working as a mole. They could tell he was about to report in and so gathered up the evidence and took it before the other Stasi agents could. So Jehovah killed the Stasi agent. LOL

Now this goes to another story. After I heard this from the platform at a district convention the elder who I worked with I started to ask him a question. I said you heard the story at the assembly about the stasi agent? Yes he said. Well Jehovah killed him, but I had asked you before about the elders being appointed by Jehovah, so Jehovah appointed this guy knowing he was a Stasi agent. Well he said, Jehovah must have seen something good in him. Shit how do you argue with this kind of mind numb?

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The urban legends we heard as JWs!

by stuckinarut2 in

how often have we heard some sort of sensationalist urban legend as jws?.

here is an example i was told as a kid:.

the experience of a sister who knocked on a door and was greeted by a big fierce looking man- intimidating and mean.

blownaway

This one came from the stage at the 1970s Detroit Tiger stadium assembly Can not remember exactly what year. A father and son were on their way home walking in south America, can not remember what country. But it was dark and they stopped by a catholic church and got a candle to light their way home. The son got really sick on the way home. The father started to hurry to take the son to get help and was blocked by some entity. He knew what was going on and took the candle back to the church and the son was not sick and the way not blocked bla bla bla.

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Drop Off in Mentioning 1914

by steve2 in

videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

paranoia rules supreme!.

curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.

blownaway

This has always been the cults MO. They don't say we were wrong, but they just stop talking about it and when they think its faded enough change. I worked with an elder for over 15 years every day. We had a business together. I asked what he would do when they changed the 1914 date. He said they never would. Well they gave it some time by the convoluted overlapping BS. But my bet is they did this to distance themselves form it and then have a change plan waiting in the wings. This time its a bit different people on the outside are watching, they have connections through the web. I don't think they can fade out a belief like before.

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The Telephone we take for granted!

by TerryWalstrom in

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march 10, 1876: “mr.

watson —come here—i want to see you” the voice of alexander graham bell is transmitted.

he wasn't the first to invent it but the first to own a patent.. in 1910 telephone "subscribers" had 4 digit telephone numbers.soon, larger cities had 5 digit numbers.mark twain was one of the first to have a phone in his home.. the first phones had no dials or buttons.

blownaway

The phone booth still in operation today.

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The Telephone we take for granted!

by TerryWalstrom in

jw
friends

march 10, 1876: “mr.

watson —come here—i want to see you” the voice of alexander graham bell is transmitted.

he wasn't the first to invent it but the first to own a patent.. in 1910 telephone "subscribers" had 4 digit telephone numbers.soon, larger cities had 5 digit numbers.mark twain was one of the first to have a phone in his home.. the first phones had no dials or buttons.

blownaway

Funny, but I own a 1940s payphone converted to use on a land line but I don't have a land line anymore. A brass candle stick phone by Western Electric. and a 70s Rotary phone. Always loved them. Also there is a working phone booth about 30 miles from my home. I actually saw some kids being told what it was on some kind of field trip, there is a brass plate out front like a historical marker.

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To big to fail

by pepperheart in

some people think the watchtower is to big to fail.

i dont because a lot of the branch offices around the world (about 70 i think) are in the third world they are not paying the full cost of running them and so the american branch is having to find the money,so if they got $1 billion dollars betwwen 70 branches that is only$ 25 million a year.per branch.if each branch has 500 people working there and they spend just $1 a day for food each person that works out at £35,000 just for the food alone .

blownaway

Sears, Kmart ect. Takes time

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Drop Off in Mentioning 1914

by steve2 in

videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

paranoia rules supreme!.

curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.

blownaway

Pay no attention to the dates behind the curtain.

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JW Elder quits & sends 900 emails

by snare&racket in

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an elder in quebec, has just quit as a jw.

he did so by emailing nearly a thousand jw’s with the explanation for why he and his family are quitting.. i have spoke to him quite a bit, interesting guy.

he’s quite the loss to wt, he’s an elder with a serious career in chemistry, a professor no less.. catch his story here, apologies if this has already been posted;.

blownaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

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Medical marijuana

by Mikethegreek in

hey everyone.... i'm new to this but i would like to run my experience with medical marijuana past you.

i'm 48 years of age and have been in the truth for my whole life.. i suffer from ankylosing spondilitis and have for many many years.

it's a debilitating form of spinal arthritis and the symptoms of this auto-immune disorder affect more than my spine.

blownaway

Marijuana does not belong on Schedule 1 list. It has many uses. The same people who call it a gate way drug will sip on their scotch and think nothing of it.

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Family members return to the cult years after not being assoicated.

by blownaway in

i have a couple of family members who not so much went back but never were associated and joined.

one is a cousin, he is about 60 now.

maybe a bit older.

blownaway

Millie, that is true and messed up on so many levels. LOL