Posts by LouT8503

There is no 'correct' way to process this, it is a tragedy. I just hope support from somewhere, anywhere in some way helps. I am truly sorry, there are no words good enough for this.

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What is the Latest JW Teaching on the Last Days and 1914

by Distracted in

i was just wondering what the witnesses are saying now about the last days and how they know armageddon is real close, etc.

what is the latest teaching about 1914?

LouT8503

steve2 5 hours ago"The last days" now spans three centuries, because Chuck Russell taught they started in his time, the 19th Century. We are now in the 21st Century.
Tell me, are they better described, not as "the last days" but as "the last centuries" - which literally speaking, they are?

Yeah, but a day to Jehovah is 1,000 years to us, so who knows what time span we're really talking about? And to me that is the point, they can keep this garbage going on indefinitely and find ways to warp scripture around their "teachings".

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Looking for a certain image

by magotan in

hey, i'm looking for a certain image.

it's one of the more dopey series of images from about five years ago.

about a "sister" who goes off the rails and she gets counseled and she's dressing all "immodestly" which is really just a streak of color in her hair.

LouT8503

I want to know which brother went to buy that pack of Newports, hope he didn't get reproved.

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Correlation decline JW numbers and JW broadcasting?

by Gorbatchov in

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i read some impressive figures here about the decline of the jw numbers in 2015.. could there be a correlation between this decline and the start of jw broadcasting?.

hence, that there would be an negative impact because the gb is standing so nearby, you can experience the idiot reasoning of their doctrines sitting in your own living room?.

the lett effect?

LouT8503

6. Stephen Lett (more evidence for 1914 than for gravity, electricity, wind!)

@Divergent, do you have a link for this? I missed it, would love to see it.

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Should it be called the disfellowshipping arrangement or the shunning arrangement.

by poopie in

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i here jw saying the df arrangement is loveing is the shunning arrangement also loveing?

LouT8503

Personally I'm a big fan of the 'You're no longer df'd, but we're still going to treat you like a leper' arrangement.

This never happened to me, but I saw it many times.

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Not for Believers - could be hard to swallow

by The Marvster in

well now that i'm a confirmed apostate (a couple of the forum posters confirmed this today), gosh hearing myself say that is a bit frightening.... how the hell did i get to this place, well thanks to anonymity, my 'still in' family don't know this yet... .

after a whole day of watching various people describe their differences with creationist ideas, i'm finally watching this one.... it's tongue in cheek and is hilarious to watch....(this is not meant to mock people's belief in god as such, but more to do with how creationist speculation seems to go against openly available data).

i noticed that some of the arguments made by kent hovind, a creationist evangelist, smells very much like stuff i learned in 'life how did it get here by evolution or creation', and in other publications trying to explain why some phenomena in the solar system etc points to the precision in the universe = there must have been a divine hand... i assume he didn't get the information from jw's, so i wonder who jw's were getting their info from.... well thanks to sites like jwfacts, it's as clear as day anyway please don't watch if you're not ready to take in the copious amounts of data expressed to counter creationist claims... i'm only 20 minutes in and it's pretty devastating to creationist argument, the author of the video encourages each watcher to go do the math themselves where possible, stating even a high school education will give you enough tools to check out the figures and see if they add up.... (oops, that might be a problem for your die hard jw).

LouT8503

The video might be long, but compared to all the days I wasted on conventions, assemblies, etc. four hours is a breeze.

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Antimatter not so different after all ... poor old Freddy wrong again,another light dims in the JW heavens.

by fulltimestudent in

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back in the years after ww2, newly discovered antimatter was perceived as destroying ordinary matter, so in one of old freddy's insane nightmares (forget which book, but it was the early 1950's) he envisioned yhwh-jesus hurling antimatter at the hated humans who refused to submit to him, and destroying their bodies bit by bit.. now, his vision dims:.

antimatter not so different after all.

scientists help make first measurement of antiproton attraction.

LouT8503

fastJehu, that was awesome, thank you.