Posts by smiddy3

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What I wish I had known at 18

by NewYork44M in

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the financial times had an article with the above question.

the author asked various people to answer the question.. https://www.ft.com/content/169705e4-b4dd-11e8-b3ef-799c8613f4a1.

while i was not interviewed, if i was asked this question i would say that i wish i had known in 1975, when i was 18, that i was raised in a cult and that the continued focus on armageddon over my lifetime was a cruel joke.

smiddy3

What do you wish you had known at 18?

That the J.W.religion was a religious cult / real estate / publishing / fraud that has caused thousands of deaths due to wrong information on medical information and caused untold damage to minors who have been sexually abused within the religion and Elders have never reported such sexual abuse to the appropriate authorities and even silenced victims with charges of slander if ever they speak out about such abuse without 2 witnesses to back their claim.

Also the sham they have of getting voluntary free labour to build KH`s dedicate those halls to Jehovah and then sell them off for a profit and keep the money at American H.Q.with nothing going back to the Congregation that supplied the labour ,time effort,and personal expense in building the hall.

Had I known all of this and more I would never have joined this cult as a 19 year old in 1960

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From no tight pants to Amish dress....how long?

by Diogenesister in

xanthippe what's this thing with really long dresses?

sometimes i see them on fs and i can't believe how long their dresses are now, almost down to the ground.. so i was reading some of xanthippe and phizzy's posts on the strangeness of jw dress and how much they stand out and i got to thinking.

so... at one point the amish dress code was current, right?

smiddy3

Their was a bit of a joke going around with my JW friends when I was in that you could pick the time period roughly when some male became a JW because of the clothe style he wore. 30-40`s era ,50-60`s and 70-80`s .

each had a distinctive trend.

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Watson. Here is one of my experiences

by moley in

a little backstory.

please comment, is the just childish imagination or something unexplainable.. when i was nine we lived in modbury, it’s a small town, in devon the southwest of britain.

we lived in a very hold house, several hundred years old and down the way was 2 battle sites of the english civil war (one a minor battle won by the royalist and a larger battle won by the parliamentarians which ultimately lifted the siege of plymouth).

smiddy3

"We may have lived a life that`s full but we ain`t seen nothing yet" I think I just made a profound statement

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Blueblades Pacemaker Update.

by Charles Gillette in

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well,to all who had wished me good health before i went for my procedure,thank you.

9/14 pacemaker was inserted below my collarbone successfully.check up will be 9/18.. so, since 2012 when i was 67,i had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve with a bovine tissue valve.

now at 73, i have an implanted pacemaker with two leads,one for the upper chamber, right atrium and one for the lower right chamber,ventricle of the heart.. so, my heart beats should now be steady and not in and out of afib.. both of my brothers died of heart attacks.

smiddy3

I`m glad to hear everything is working out fine for you Charles Gillette { Blueblades Pacemaker }

Take care

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J.W.`s and Paradise and the Reality of it.

by smiddy3 in

when god created adam and eve and put them in the garden of eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,god had no further hand in it .the responsibility rested with adam/eve and their offspring.. the same would be true in the paradise to come ,god gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to j.w.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.?

without god`s intervention.. think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.. 8 million + j.w.`s scattered throughout the earth with.

no communication systems operating .

smiddy3

Drearyweather

Smiddy, are you sure that JW's teach that all the physical infrastructure of this world will also be destroyed at Armageddon?

If its not, then who is going to maintain it ? and keep it going 24/7 ? Bros,and sisters will need to work round the clock to keep up with the living standards we take for granted today

What did Jehovah provide for the Israelites under Theocratic rule in Bible times eh ?

Nothing like what we in the Western world take for granted today with all the mod cons.at our fingertips.

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J.W.`s and Paradise and the Reality of it.

by smiddy3 in

when god created adam and eve and put them in the garden of eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,god had no further hand in it .the responsibility rested with adam/eve and their offspring.. the same would be true in the paradise to come ,god gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to j.w.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.?

without god`s intervention.. think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.. 8 million + j.w.`s scattered throughout the earth with.

no communication systems operating .

smiddy3

When God created Adam and Eve and put them in the Garden of Eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,God had no further hand in it .The responsibility rested with Adam/Eve and their offspring.

The same would be true in the Paradise to come ,God gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to J.W.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.? Without god`s intervention.

Think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.

8 Million + J.W.`s scattered throughout the earth with

No communication systems operating

No internet ,WiFi, Skype ,Telephones ,Tv, Radio.

No Sewerage

no Electricity

No Gas

No industry at all , nilch zero

Cars,refrigeration,planes,Air conditioning,all gone

No food markets such as Coles Woolworths Aldis etc ,etc.

And if you want all of these things you need people to be able to work on these projects which is going to take their time and energy to do so and they will need to continue to work on these projects to keep these utilities going.

Do you really want to go back into a third or even a fourth world environment ? Sub standard to what we are living now ?

So then I ask you if you want these mod cons now as we appreciate them in the New System /paradise how is paradise going to be any different than what it is now ?

Or do you view Jehovah as a magician who is going to wave his hand and miraculously provide all of your needs.

God has never acted that way and their is no evidence he ever will.

c.

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wt on education..

by zeb in

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i have just watched the glass smashing on the wt video on education.. please consider these experiences from the opposite side of that "coin".. i have heard young ones say out-loud on the mike in the kh that "jehovah is my special friend.."these ones who were at the top of the wt 'tree' pioneering, putting in the hours etc but, it followed that soon saying that pivotal statement they dropped their pioneering, faded, picked up the girl/boyfriend and suffered being dfd.. so where did their wt "education" leave them?

it left them as young adults naive to the world, unskilled, with no qualification to offer any employer and having to replace their former family/associates/friends with new ones.. ( dont get me going on shunning) in some cases with little success as we have read here where they moon about for months or longer unable to emotionally heal after the leaving or df'ing and also others with such a turn around they would never have believed it possible... there was a wt that related how a brother (!

) followed an interest in history and left the truth.

smiddy3

Where would this world be without education ,education,education.!

We would be still back in the stone age.

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Do Jehovah`s Witnesses lie to receive Government benefits ?

by smiddy3 in

jehovah`s witnesses do not respect the ,governments of any nation from my experience with "witnesses" over 33 years as a card carrying member.

the governments are to be exploited taking advantage of all the provisions govt`s, hand out to their citizens.after all the govts, are under the control of satan the devil ,he is the ruler of this world and is at enmity with god.. so they feel justified in practicing deception as they the gov`ts.

being opposer`s of truth have no right to know the real truth.. i personally knew of pioneers who had no intention of finding work but were happy to take unemployment benefits from the govt.

smiddy3

Jehovah`s Witnesses do not respect the ,Governments of any nation from my experience with "witnesses" over 33 years as a card carrying member. the governments are to be exploited taking advantage of all the provisions Govt`s, hand out to their citizens.After all the Govts, are under the control of Satan the Devil ,he is the ruler of this world and is at enmity with GOD.

So they feel justified in practicing deception as they the Gov`ts. being opposer`s of truth have no right to know the real truth.

I personally knew of pioneers who had no intention of finding work but were happy to take unemployment benefits from the Govt. to fund their pioneer activity .

To do so they would have had to actively mislead the Govt. to keep receiving unemployment benefits.

And in contrast with all of the above is Rom.13:1-7 that the Governments of this world are the arrangement of God /Jehovah and whoever takes a stand against this arrangement must answer to God /Jehovah

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JWs and 9-11. What was your reaction when it happened?

by kairos in

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it was shocking.. all these years later, i found myself crying for the dead for the first time..

smiddy3

That plane that went down in the field ,I think it was the last plane to crash ? ,I can`t help but think it was collateral damage control.

Military / Government Intel by this time knew that their were " targets" and the military were not going to let these highjacker`s reach that target so they brought it down .

They were going to die anyway best by our hand than theirs with much more loss of life.

That may not be easy to digest but it could explain why they never reached their intended target as the others did.

Am I the only one that thinks this way ?

I do not mean to offend anyone and I am truly sorry if this post does offend anyone.

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Who Do You Think Will Be The Nominees For President In The Next US Election?

by minimus in

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i think trump will be the nominee for the republicans and the democrats... i have no clue.

i hope bernie sanders runs again and wonder if hillary would dare go for a rematch..

smiddy3

If I was an American I would have voted for Francis Underwood but seeing he is no longer eligible ,

I would if i was eligible cast my vote for Claire Underwood .

She has balls and can kick ass.