Posts by scratchme1010

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Were You Ever SHOCKED That Someone Got Appointed As An Elder?

by minimus in

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i remember some men getting appointed and wondering what the hell were they thinking???.

likewise when i came to someone being appointed a presiding overeer or whatever they are called now!

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scratchme1010

Not really. By the time I was paying attention I was quite aware of the behind the scenes behavior of may of the elders.

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does the cut back for 6 magazines for the year show how there losing money or just cutting back.i feel going to begging for peoples money than just chargeing money for a magazine was kinda killing money.but they do get a lot of property and they can just sell that making money.. it seems to early for me to make a full opinion on the topic i wanted to know what others think about this..

scratchme1010

It seems to early for me to make a full opinion on the topic i wanted to know what others think about this.

I kind of feel the same way, but other signs seem to be pointing to one of (what I believe are) two tings:

They are crumbling
They are shifting focus, cleaning house and liquidating for a better investment

If you ask me, I think time will tell.

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Aylmer, QC, Assembly hall for sale?

by StephaneLaliberte in

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i heard rumors that the jws are seeking to sell that assembly hall, is this possible?

anyone has wind of it?

i heard this once from someone a few month back and now, again, from mike and kim.

scratchme1010

I don't have any information, but I don't see why that could not be a possibility.

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How/when did you become a jehovas witness?

by Lewis1998 in

so i've been a protestant for most of my life, it's how i was raised, but recently i started questioning my faith more and more and now i feel like my beliefs resemble that of a jehovas witness rather than a protestant.

i don't know any jehovas witnesses, so i was just wondering how a lot of you found the religion and adapted to it?.

scratchme1010

I don't know any jehovas witnesses, so I was just wondering how a lot of you found the religion and adapted to it?

I didn't adopt it. That's my mother's religion when I was born. If you look at our experiences here, you will see that there are very different ways and things that made people interested in becoming a JW.

Since that religion was imposed on me, and since I was never cut to be one, throughout my entire life as a JW there were lots of conflicts between that organization, my family and me.

Personally that organization doesn't do it for me, but if you relate to their teachings, give it a try. It may or may not be for you.

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Who is "the faithfully and discreet slave"?

by Counter-Watchtower in

ive asked my jw friends that 3 times and never got an answer.. and can someone explain the jw class system?

and or point me to info on it..

scratchme1010

Who fucking cares. As I said, if you want JW info go to their website.

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Did anyone here ever meet Stephen Lett?

by The Real Edward Gentry in

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what is he like in person?

he seems deranged.

do people get irritated at being spoken to like a 3 year old when they hear him speak?.

scratchme1010

Fuck No!

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Damon Wayans was apparently at 2017 Annual Meeting

by Richard_I in

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from this post on reddit.com/r/exjw, damon wayans was at the 2017 annual meeting.

the wayans were raised as jw's but i don't think any of them stated.. strange to see him here.

this is the same man who defended bill cosby from all the sex abuse allegations..

scratchme1010

That explains the Wayans' stupid inappropriate offensive jokes.

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Everlasting life on a stick

by truthseeker in

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i think the watchtower is the only organization that can promise a product (everlasting life) and never deliver it.. what fools we've been to believe this nonsense..

scratchme1010

I think the Watchtower is the only organization that can promise a product (everlasting life) and never deliver it.
what fools we've been to believe this nonsense.

You will be surprised to find how many religions and cults offer life forever in one form or another. There are quite a lot of those.

Also, "fool" is not a nice thing to call anyone including yourself. Intelligence has nothing to do with why people join and wind up believing that crap. Plus, there are people like me who didn't join. I was born in that organization, never had the choice.

The way life in paradise is framed is what makes the message attractive. Their promise is solving all people's problems that they have today, or making them irrelevant because of the everlasting life.

You will be surprised to find out how many people can't care less about living forever, but join because they are promised that all their current problems will be solved or are no longer important because they will disappear. That's the catch; that's what people fall for.

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Child Baptism

by konceptual99 in

the latest round of changes to the magazines are yet further confirmation that the wts has lost it's way with the preaching work.

imho this is driven by the incessant prioritisation of fiscal goals but also by the fact the gb don't have a clue what is happening in the world and how it really relates to their traditional eschatology.. what they have turned to is child baptism.

i know the wts says it does not baptise infants but the drive to encourage children to get baptised at earlier and earlier ages knows no bounds.

scratchme1010

As I have said before, they can't care less about children; never have, never will.

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Is it a once a week church now? Or can you skip that and listen on the phone?

by Xanthippe in

i would like to outline what exactly this religion is now because i've lost track of all the changes on here.

this forum's my only source of information as my family still-in shun me.

so what do jws do now?.

scratchme1010

...but they discourage the regular use of this facility by any one they deem not worthy.

They just don't effing get it. It would be funny if they weren't playing with people's lives and well being.