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  Prayerfully Considering or Seeing What Sticks

  by scotoma in

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  tony says the magical words “prayerfully considering”.

  presumably, this has been done many times even when they have gotten things wrong.

  have a urim and thummim method of knowing the correct interpretations?

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  john.prestor

  Probably Mark Sanderson's, it's the biggest
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  So I read the the gog of magog chapters from the new restore true worship book...

  by nowwhat? in

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  and what a heaping nonsensical freddie franz like bunch of crap.

  as i told my pimi brother.

  it's all based on assumptions and assertions that the ezekiel gog of magog account has a 2nd fulfillment in our day.

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  john.prestor

  Wow is rhat picture... stereotypical. You got Chairman Mao hanging out in the background and a Joseph Mugabe type calling the shots from the boardroom table, that and some balding James Bond wannabe smoking a cigarette all poised and proper in the shadows. It's like a movie poster just even more melodramatic, Lord.
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  "Finnish court orders Jehovah's Witnesses to end illegal data gathering"

  by treesthroughtheforest in

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  who remembers taking field service records?.

  "finnish court orders jehovah's witnesses to end illegal data gathering".

  https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_court_orders_jehovahs_witnesses_to_end_illegal_data_gathering/10558162.

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  john.prestor

  Bet you good money they collect it anyway.
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  Something more than physical life.

  by Charles Gillette in

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  most every night, where i work i transport dead persons to the morgue.

  others i work with have told me that around 3:00am they hear voices in the morgue.. i asked them have they experienced something more than physical life?

  just the voices inside the cold morgue.

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  john.prestor

  I wouldn't say this except online but on rare occasions, real late at night, if I'm sleep-deprived and want to sleep but can't I might hear a snippet of what sounds like a voice but it's just my brain playing tricks on me, and it's always gibberish, it's not like I hear coherent words. Late night shifts, I could see that happening to others. Or they're just trying to be all spooky, who knows?
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  I realized today what I am, and why they look at me with contempt

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today my inlaws wanted to meet their new great-grandson.

  they hadn't been in our lives since we left the jws back in 2001. but every time, even though very briefly, i was around them, they always had this same look on their face.

  it was of utter and complete disgust.

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  john.prestor

  Definitely. My family still pretty much believe in the Baptist faith and I find it hard to talk to them sometimes, they don't get that bad but they do make little comments that hurt. Sounds like today's progress in the right direction even if it's a small step forward.
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  I realized today what I am, and why they look at me with contempt

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today my inlaws wanted to meet their new great-grandson.

  they hadn't been in our lives since we left the jws back in 2001. but every time, even though very briefly, i was around them, they always had this same look on their face.

  it was of utter and complete disgust.

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  john.prestor

  It can't be easy seeing your family look at you like that. You doing okay?
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  Watchtower Study Edition - April 2019....Thank you for not doing enough in the field ministry

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  watchtower study edition- april 2019. are you fully accomplishing your ministry?.

  the study article starts off with praise and admiration for members who are out in the field ministry.

  the wtbts understand that you have family responsibilities, work, get sick, and have pains due to aging.

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  john.prestor

  They talk out of both sides of their mouth, but you see through that, and I'm glad you're showing that same thing to others on here.
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  goads?

  by road to nowhere in

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  the part this in the midweek meeting had a lot of questions about what a goad is.

  probably 10 of 15 minutes spent on it.

  and they said it was a stick with a metal point, which i doubt what with metal being costly, and a sharpened stick would do as well.. maybe next week we can learn about whips as in "we will keep whipping you until morale improves".

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  john.prestor

  What was the point of talking about that exactly? They fixate on the weirdest stuff...
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  So I read the the gog of magog chapters from the new restore true worship book...

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and what a heaping nonsensical freddie franz like bunch of crap.

  as i told my pimi brother.

  it's all based on assumptions and assertions that the ezekiel gog of magog account has a 2nd fulfillment in our day.

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  john.prestor

  I think you're right DesirousofChange, the kingdom can't really do it anymore, they've been predicting it for so long it's not exciting anymore, so they got to rile them up by feeding into their persecution complex and at the same time making them feel special, the government's are going to come after us most of all, others yeah, but mainly us, that's how meaningful we are.
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  If you had to

  by rolliepollie in

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  if you had to follow one religion, what would it be and why?.

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  john.prestor

  rolliepollie, thanks for clarifying that. People come on here to preach sometimes and it gets old. An inquiring mind on the other hand... welcome aboard.