Posts by S0ShowdidIgethere

we used to sing a slow song in the late 60's and early 70's that went something like : "don't be afraid of them that can kill the body buy cannot kill the soul" .... or something like that.does anyone remember that one?.

S0ShowdidIgethere

Oh yeah it's still sung...theres a comment I remember a sister making about that line recently even...The thinking is "soul" (lifeforce) since it will be resurrected - your life force being in Jehovah's memory it's only him that can OFFICIALLY destroy it...not man. I think. lol

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Any Old-Timers Remember this Kingdom Melody?

by Sea Breeze in

we used to sing a slow song in the late 60's and early 70's that went something like : "don't be afraid of them that can kill the body buy cannot kill the soul" .... or something like that.does anyone remember that one?.

S0ShowdidIgethere

They still sing it

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LOL: just have share a convo I just had with my PIMI wife

by goingthruthemotions in

so my wife and i just went on a walk, remember right now she has been listening to her convention.

so she starts in with the world is getting bad and will end soon.

what started it was we were talking about the economy and such.

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Rocketman - over the past few years I've had that thought a lot- That really there are things wrong with the world today, but it's much better than a few hundred years ago. We have modern medicine, we have air conditioning and heating, we aren't dying of throwing our feces in the streets...

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LOL: just have share a convo I just had with my PIMI wife

by goingthruthemotions in

so my wife and i just went on a walk, remember right now she has been listening to her convention.

so she starts in with the world is getting bad and will end soon.

what started it was we were talking about the economy and such.

S0ShowdidIgethere

My husband says those same things to me almost every day, we see something...anything... on the news..."See, the world is just going to collapse soon...it can't carry on much longer...It can't sustain itself..."

One of the things he really goes on and on about is how corrupt the Catholic church is with all of it's pedofiles, and how he thinks that will be the end of Religion once it's exposed...He doesn't have a hint of the irony...or the pot calling the kettle black...

He was raised JW though...so it's possible he's done some research and then blocked it all out because he can't accept it...hard to know, and there's no way I can ask.

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2021-July-S-147-Announcements And Reminders!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

2021-july-s-147-announcements and reminders.

english and german.

https://www.filemail.com/d/rscphytdmrtfyau.

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Cathleen - It's still watchtowers on Sundays, but the public magazines are the ones cut back. 2 meetings per week - they combined book study into the same meeting as ministry school.

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What would happen if the Watchtower decided no more meeting at Kingdom Halls, only Zoom?

by pistolpete in

i’m seeing my hard core believing relatives slowly losing faith that the watchtower is the organization that “god” is using to represent him on earth.. just about all the churches in their area have opened up.. but not the watchtower.. this is having an affect on the faith of even the old timers.

now the only ones who are still holding the faith are the female jws and only those past 70 years of age.

even my old male jw relative past 70 are starting to say that it can’t be jehovah’s organization because the other churches are all open and god supposed organization who is supposed to preach the warning message is still closed with no open in sight.

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PistolPete - a couple months ago this thought was keeping me awake at night. The inevitable future of being elderly, but with no children or family that cared. That they'd be DF-ed or I'd be DF-ed or that they would drift away and never talk to me again. That I'm not allowed to contribute to a 401k because if I do I'm not relying in Jehovah...

All My husband could tell me is that I have to stay close to the congregation because they will take care of me.

Last week a 80 y/o single sister in our hall was disfellowshipped...she's on oxygen, and most of her care and support comes from the congregation...I can't imagine what on earth could be the reason for it either. Maybe blood for a medical procedure? idk...

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The Evidence of Human Evolution keeps getting stronger and stronger

by Disillusioned JW in

despite the wt's and young earth creationists' teachings against human evolution (namely macroevolution from non-humans) being a reality, the evidence of human evolution keeps getting stronger and stronger.. consider for example two science news articles and one other science article, each pertaining to the fossil that is nicknamed "little foot".

below are links to three science articles, listed in order of the articles from oldest to newest (except i don't see a date for one of the articles).

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2187639-exclusive-controversial-skeleton-may-be-a-new-species-of-early-human/.

S0ShowdidIgethere

Yeah...

Rinse and repeat allegory of "Do what I say, or you will die."

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What would happen if the Watchtower decided no more meeting at Kingdom Halls, only Zoom?

by pistolpete in

i’m seeing my hard core believing relatives slowly losing faith that the watchtower is the organization that “god” is using to represent him on earth.. just about all the churches in their area have opened up.. but not the watchtower.. this is having an affect on the faith of even the old timers.

now the only ones who are still holding the faith are the female jws and only those past 70 years of age.

even my old male jw relative past 70 are starting to say that it can’t be jehovah’s organization because the other churches are all open and god supposed organization who is supposed to preach the warning message is still closed with no open in sight.

S0ShowdidIgethere

Yeah...sadly my husband has been the one sitting and judging if people are being appropriate in their little window boxes. It's probably only 30% of people that are actually on camera...

Funny story though, a few months back...a MS in 70's or so revealed to everyone that he was only dressing for the meetings from the waist up...saw his red plaid boxers...haven't taken him seriously since.