Posts by smiddy3

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Armageddon started...

by mikeflood in

just joking i really don't think so...but the situation in syria is pretty worrisome...just hearing the news that france and great britain are attacking with cruise missiles in 72 hours.

i mean assad is not gonna gasify his adversaries when he almost won the civil war.

trump too suspended a very important trip to the latinoamerican presidents summit in peru, just to 'oversee the american response to syria.

smiddy3

Wishing that current world events are fulfilling Bible prophecy doesn`t make it so, either.

Just saying

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My wife and I just had a wonderful experience today.

by smiddy3 in

my wife was looking through some old diary`s that we have lying around and found a ph.# of an old friend (jw) that we knew over 15 years ago .we were always curious as to what has happened to her as she was a dear friend for many years when we were in the "truth".

so she rings the number (,do you still have the same # that you had 15 yrs ago ?

) and this friend was a bit of a "gypsy" type so she wasn`t expecting much when she rang.. to cut a long story short we all had a good conversation we had been trying to find out about her all these years with no success and she was also trying to find out about us all these years with no success ,we had moved interstate.. nothing was said about religion though i suspect she is still associated with the borg.

smiddy3

An update : We have had a couple of calls since I last posted and surprising to me was that she never mentioned the memorial coming up ,nor has she mentioned anything about it afterwards.

With today`s call I thought hello here we go .She asked what I thought about what was going on in Syria.?

My answer was : Nothing new to see here rival nations have been at loggerheads since Adam was a boy ,same ole same ole ,it doesn`t mean anything .She just laughed

And that was that ,I then handed the phone over to my wife who had a long conversation afterward but nothing was said regarding religion.

I have to hold my tongue because my wife says let her be ,she`s happy don`t cause waves ,she is a friend from our past and she doesn`t shun us.

So I bite my tongue and keep my mouth shut.

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Armageddon started...

by mikeflood in

just joking i really don't think so...but the situation in syria is pretty worrisome...just hearing the news that france and great britain are attacking with cruise missiles in 72 hours.

i mean assad is not gonna gasify his adversaries when he almost won the civil war.

trump too suspended a very important trip to the latinoamerican presidents summit in peru, just to 'oversee the american response to syria.

smiddy3

Russia threatens to shutdown missiles sent to Syria and destroy their launchpads

Except that the missiles launched are not from launch pads they are from warplanes ?

So the next question is what will Russia do now shoot down the planes ? of either France, England or America ?

Interesting times ahead but not validating any J.W prophecy`s in any shape or form.

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JWs and daily Bible reading schedule

by AuntBee in

jws often point to this, to show outsiders they are allowed to read the bible on their own without the publications.

although, as we know, the org still teaches that you will never progress along the road to life without the pubs.

and, i would imagine that what they learn/conclude from their own bible reading, must remain within the confines of current wt teaching, even on the most minute points of doctrine.

smiddy3

If Jehovah`s Witnesses really read the Bible without their Watchtower rosy red glasses on they would clearly see that their is not one scripture in the Christian Greek Scriptures (NT) that instructs Christians to witness to,for,or about Jehovah , not one.

However their are over 30 scriptures instructing Christians to witness about Jesus

JW`s obviously don`t read their Bibles with a hearing ear or a seeing eye.

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JWs on campus

by Sarabethy in

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friends

it's my first time on this site though i am no stranger in the ex-jw community.

i come to you now asking for your assistance in what to present to the dean of students at my university.. why am i meeting with dean of students, you may ask?

because today, while innocently finishing an assignment in the school library, i happened to look out the window and see the jws with their stupid little cart.

smiddy3

Well done Sarabethy you have given a good "witness" about TTATT with the Dean and other students

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PORTUGAL: Petition to terminate the legal entity of the Jehovah's Witness gets national news coverage

by EdenOne in

the petition is now going on 537 signatures.. today the newspaper "diário de notícias", the leading non-tabloid newspaper in the country, gave the story front page coverage and a full page to the article inside.. here are the links to the pictures of the pages:.

front page:.

page 6 and article: .

smiddy3

Are you OK Ruby456 ? Could you send me a pm ? and talk privately ?

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JWs and the Holocaust

by Stealth in

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the jws always like to highlight their persecution during the holocaust.

while true, the chart below showing numbers of victims for jw was the lowest of all persecuted groups.

even lower than spanish republicans.. im guessing there have been more victims due to the wt blood policy.

smiddy3

Im guessing there have been more victims due to the WT blood policy.

Sad to say I think you would be right on that score .

While I was still in many years ago I read a book called "Commandant Of Auschwitz" by Rudolph H. not to be confused with the other infamous Rudolph H.

I even quoted it in a talk I gave to a congregation , in it he gave a commendation to women JW`s who were assigned to look after SS children as nanny`s and as I remember he was amazed and puzzled that these sisters never tried to convert the children in their care to their faith.

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Jewish God Yahweh Originated in Canaanite Vulcan, Says New Theory

by greek in

the cult of yhwh as god of metallurgy originated among semi-nomadic copper smelters between the bronze and iron age, suggests biblical scholar: and he was not worshipped only by jews.. https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.magazine-jewish-god-yahweh-originated-in-canaanite-vulcan-says-new-theory-1.5992072.

according to amzallag, long before becoming the deity of the israelites, yahweh was a god of metallurgy in the ancient canaanite pantheon, worshipped by smelters and metalworkers throughout the levant, not just by the hebrews.

where did the yhwh cult originate?

smiddy3

Isn`t Adonai the name for the Almighty God of Creation in the Roman Catholic Douay Version of the Bible ?

One other thing to consider the words lord and Adonia both mean Baal.

Could they be both one and the same ?

Just asking

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Palm Coast Facility Shut down

by loneranger in

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friends

i understand the teaching facility in palm coast florida usa has been shut down now for about three months or so already.

this is the facility the wts purchased from embrey riddle univ.

a few years ago.

smiddy3

I wonder what the current status of the facility is and if their are any legal claims against the WT Society on going ?

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PORTUGAL: Petition to terminate the legal entity of the Jehovah's Witness gets national news coverage

by EdenOne in

the petition is now going on 537 signatures.. today the newspaper "diário de notícias", the leading non-tabloid newspaper in the country, gave the story front page coverage and a full page to the article inside.. here are the links to the pictures of the pages:.

front page:.

page 6 and article: .

smiddy3

So my question now is What does all this really mean ?,what does this petition actually accomplish ?

What happens now ? Eden One ?