I remember seeing Joe Cocker concert at World Expo 88 in Brisbane 1988 I was still very much "in" at that time and enjoyed it very much the concert that is.
smiddy3
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Thank you, George Couch!
by charonsdog ini just thought i'd share this story from my past.. back in the 80s i remember the big problem seemed to be about music.
(today, it's tight pants, i guess) the organization, society, whatever they were calling themselves, were always going on about the music we listened to.
disco, heavy metal, the whole "backwards masking" thing...couldn't escape hearing or reading about how satan was corrupting us unless we were listening to kingdom melodies or elevator music.. i was assigned to wtf in the late 80s and remember one of the articles stating that "young people know that the rhythm of rock music is the rhythm of sexual intercourse.
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Fake News By Jehovah’s Witnesses 🐑
by minimus inmuch has been said about “fake news”.
regarding the witnesses, they would always ask, “ did you hear the latest”?.
since the witnesses claim to have the “truth”, can you express anything that turned out to be truly “fake news”?
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smiddy3
They admit it themselves that they preach fake news everytime they come up with the excuse of nu-lite admitting their previous lite was fake.
And they have been publishing fake news for well over a hundred years.
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disfellowshipped and looking to find someone in the same possition
by whatisgoingonpls inwhere can i find a disfellowshipped wife ;)
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smiddy3
I fail to comprehend why you specify you want to marry a DF person ? Do you plan to get reinstated at some future date and believe you can bring your future wife back in also ?
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Natural disasters cause the most grief and misery today
by nowwhat? inits not wars caused by satan and man.
its hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and tornadoes!
so the logical question is jesus showed he can control the weather when on earth.
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smiddy3
Good point nowwhat the least God could have done when he knows these disasters are imminent is warn people at least his people JW`s of the impending disaster.
The fact that he doesn`t do so is either because he is incompetent or he just does not care about humans.?
Or he doesn`t even exist.
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backward masking on DVD`s oops CD`s is that still a thing with the GB ? WTB&TS ?
by smiddy3 inbackward masking of cd`s / vinyl records etc opening up to demon influence way back in the 60`s-80`s do they still talk about this ?
and how about dvd`s is that the new scare ?
of demon influence /control over you ?.
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smiddy3
Backward masking of Cd`s / vinyl records etc opening up to Demon influence way back in the 60`s-80`s do they still talk about this ?
And how about DVD`s is that the new scare ? of Demon influence /control over you ?
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It saddens me to know that marriages break up because of religion and the blame, whose fault it is ?
by smiddy3 ina jehovah`s witness couple who have been married for many years and some with children of various ages and have been serving in their congregation meeting attendance, fs and bible studies with their children for many years .. and then one of them begins to have doubts about what they are being taught and what they actually are supposed to believe now that some changes have been made with nu-lite.. the doubts grow and then the the use of the internet to investigate further some of the claims of the gb/wt religion .. with the wealth of information available on the www it now becomes impossible to continue to be an active member of the jehovah`s witness religion without being an utter hypocrite .
you no longer believe them anymore that they alone are gods chosen people in this day.. however your spouse does not see things the way you do not at all and after many months of arguments bickering threats the ultimatum is something like if you don`t believe what i believe that you have left jehovah we can`t live together anymore ,i want a divorce unless you come to your senses.. who is the one here breaking up the marriage ?.
isn`t it in the majority of cases the jw who ends the marriage ?
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smiddy3
Thanks Crazyguy for your input and that is that JW`s break up marriages
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It saddens me to know that marriages break up because of religion and the blame, whose fault it is ?
by smiddy3 ina jehovah`s witness couple who have been married for many years and some with children of various ages and have been serving in their congregation meeting attendance, fs and bible studies with their children for many years .. and then one of them begins to have doubts about what they are being taught and what they actually are supposed to believe now that some changes have been made with nu-lite.. the doubts grow and then the the use of the internet to investigate further some of the claims of the gb/wt religion .. with the wealth of information available on the www it now becomes impossible to continue to be an active member of the jehovah`s witness religion without being an utter hypocrite .
you no longer believe them anymore that they alone are gods chosen people in this day.. however your spouse does not see things the way you do not at all and after many months of arguments bickering threats the ultimatum is something like if you don`t believe what i believe that you have left jehovah we can`t live together anymore ,i want a divorce unless you come to your senses.. who is the one here breaking up the marriage ?.
isn`t it in the majority of cases the jw who ends the marriage ?
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A Jehovah`s Witness couple who have been married for many years and some with children of various ages and have been serving in their congregation meeting attendance, FS and bible studies with their children for many years .
And then one of them begins to have doubts about what they are being taught and what they actually are supposed to believe now that some changes have been made with nu-lite.
The doubts grow and then the the use of the internet to investigate further some of the claims of the GB/WT religion .
With the wealth of information available on the WWW it now becomes impossible to continue to be an active member of the Jehovah`s Witness religion without being an utter hypocrite . You no longer believe them anymore that they alone are Gods chosen people in this day.
However your spouse does not see things the way you do not at all and after many months of arguments bickering threats the ultimatum is something like if you don`t believe what I believe that you have left Jehovah we can`t live together anymore ,I want a divorce unless you come to your senses.
Who is the one here breaking up the marriage ?
Isn`t it in the majority of cases the JW who ends the marriage ? because of religious differences ?
Is it even a scriptural reason for divorce differences of a religion.?
The Jehovah`s Witnesses blame the one who rejects the WT beliefs as the one who has split up the marriage however in my opinion they would bend over backwards to keep the marriage alive
I would appreciate your opinions ,experiences to throw more light on this subject.
Do Jehovah`s Witnesses break up marriages or do those non believing spouses break up marriages of Jehovah`s Witnesses.?
How say you .?
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Sister may have had a slight heart attack, do I text her?
by Xanthippe inso my cousin phoned and told me my jw sister was taken to hospital with chest pains and it may have been a slight heart attack or possibly she's starting with angina.
now as some of you know my sisters and brother have had little to do with me for 29 years.
we've met at funerals, or arranged them, but i just thought today what if she did die?
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smiddy3
Use theocratic warfare to your advantage Rom.12:20-21 this scripture with the comments below should move your sisters heart if she still has one.
Letting your sister know that--in spite of how she has mistreated you--you still care. That's all. It's just letting her know you care. Nothing more, nothing less.
my thoughts are this: do the right thing, the thing that makes YOU feel good: your normal.
I think these posters have summed it up nicely
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Why were the Israelites so deplorable?
by eyeuse2badub inwhat made the israelites so deplorable?.
i started thinking about how the bible describes ‘god’s people’, the israelites.
most of the time god was very pissed off at them.
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smiddy3
Maybe God YHWH should have chosen the Amalekites or maybe the Jebusites or even the Philistines they couldn`t have been any worse could they ?
Hang on doesn`t God see into the future ? Didn`t he foresee what was going to happen anyway ?
Doesn`t the fact that God knows past present and future all at once make the whole history of the Bible OT/NT and it`s message irrelevant ?
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Just thinking.....i
by Bigdummy ini made a couple of comments the other day on this forum and i hadn’t realized it had.
been so long.
my history shows i joined 3 years ago.
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smiddy3
Bd if your post is typical of what is happening in KH`s all over the Country/World while on the one hand it is sad on the other hand it is good news ,why ? because it shows dissatisfaction with the religion low attendance unhappy people that do attend poor FS participation and just a general feeling of poor morale .
Certainly shows in my mind that a reasonable percentage will leave the religion
The CO`s visit browbeating the cong. for low attendance was telling ,don`t give them a carrot beat them with a stick.
In other words don`t offer the cong. healthful words of encouragement in a loving manner but whip them into submission with a big stick.