Posts by TheOldHippie

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Who are these guys?

by Nowhere in

hello, i have a little question here.

(be patient with my english) .

are they really witnesses?

TheOldHippie

I'm for real - and it hurts my feelings that I wasn't mentioned earlier ........

I am NOT a "hit and run" - guy, but since I happen to live on the other side of the Atlantic than most of the guys here, discussions are tough to continue, because when I come back to reply, 10 new threads have been started meanwhile and the original one is "long time forgotten" by the rest of the guys.

I am a "party line" guy when it comes to theological questions, but I keep chronological speculations and legalism at arm's length. Impossible and stupid as some may think my attempt is, it is simply not to throw the baby out of the bath tub together with the washing water, but I stick to the God's name/trinity/soul/hell/etc. points, but will not allow man-made organizations or their representatives to have any power over me. I read what I like, I say what I like, I do what I like, I deny replying to questions I do not want to reply to, I write letters of disagreement when I disagree. And I really like Stafford.

And I would really like it, if meaningful discussions without name-calling could at times be carried out here. Regretfully, I yell back when I am yelled at, but I try to restrict myself.

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A paraphrase - mostly.

by Bang in

jason beduhn has written extensively on these comments by others, showing how worthless the comments are.

so you have a "i'll quote one scholar, you'll quote another" - game.

i thought beduhn, stafford, kedar, furuli and others had managed to stop this silly game by now.

TheOldHippie

Jason BeDuhn has written extensively on these comments by others, showing how worthless the comments are. So you have a "I'll quote one scholar, you'll quote another" - game. I thought BeDuhn, Stafford, Kedar, Furuli and others had managed to stop this silly game by now.

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Questions about WT illustrations

by Beck_Melbourne in

jw
friends

when i was a kid....i used to look at the wt illustrations of paradise conditions and would day dream about life in the new system....i later used this same technique (shame on me) to brain wash bible students.

however...as i grew up lol (apparently!

) the illustrations changed....and became more modern.

TheOldHippie

"Oh, don't take that upper road - you know it leads to nowhere". (from a late 60s then-famous song/tune) So, roads, you see, are one of the most efficient tools Satan ever invented.

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Great Article in Germany

by OhHappyDay in

www.spiegel.de

TheOldHippie

Heaven, please help me! Computer translations, worst thing I ever saw! When you have a language like the German one, where the verbs come at the end of the sentence and the whole structure is different, you could as easily have written mumbo-jumbo-humba-dum.

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You Know: Nineveh the key to this world's destiny!

by Derrick in

let's admit it.

the tireless preaching about the coming of god's peaceful new world order by those like yourself has no doubt changed the way people think about global peace and security in an upbuilding manner.. .

the bible's message has reached into every nation on earth.

TheOldHippie

I remember a talk delivered by a CO some years ago, where he also reasoned that using Niniveh as an example, God could choose to call Armageddon off. If people repented and it was all called off, the other parts of the Bible (Revelation etc.) would merely be warnings, telling what would have happened, had people not repented.

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*The WBTS Inc. new corporations....

by MacHislopp in

jw
friends

just a simple question.

why the " r&f" of the jw's have

not been told, informed through

TheOldHippie

It was written about it in the WT dealing with the Annual meeting, and there was a letter read to the congregations, AND there were some lines on it at the circuit convention. So I really don't think anybody were kept in the dark on this.

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Greg Stafford's Dissertations: Any Fallout Seen?

by Room 215 in

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friends

.

hi all,.

has anyone experienced any fallout/reaction to stafford's latest book?

TheOldHippie

Me too.

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A sincere (believe me) question for current JWs

by bonovox in

ok, noticed a few jw posters on here, jamesg et al.... what has the wtbs said about the tragedies in the us last fall?

i recall after lockerbie in the 80s there was an awake on terrorism (with the guys in ski masks lol), but what about the most recent events?.

trolls please resist the urge to rant that they all had a big celebration afterwards, ok?

TheOldHippie

Someone famous whom I can't remember .......... Hmmmmm....

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A sincere (believe me) question for current JWs

by bonovox in

ok, noticed a few jw posters on here, jamesg et al.... what has the wtbs said about the tragedies in the us last fall?

i recall after lockerbie in the 80s there was an awake on terrorism (with the guys in ski masks lol), but what about the most recent events?.

trolls please resist the urge to rant that they all had a big celebration afterwards, ok?

TheOldHippie

While, Dungbeetle, I do not think we live in a perfect world, and while I think the statistics on crime should not be used to state that "Ah! It's getting better!" just because the rate is down a year or two, then I constantly wonder a bit when I read about "this world, which is going from worse to worse" or "the world situation, which is rapidly moving downwards" or the "moral decline, which is speeding up all the time" or the "ever-increasing war threats" or whatever, because if things are constantly on an increasing level growing worse, then how come we are, many of us, living, in a general sense - rather OK? If the decline is that rapid, then - eh - well, what does it amount to, how come I don't feel it?

I feel it, but on another level. With one child a drug addict, one disfellowshipped, and one having a major surgery next week because of cancer, and myself fighting with health problems resulting from a life exactly as my nack name says, in addition to having lived all my life with death awareness, and in addition to my having disassociated myself not from the Witnesses or from the theology but from the Society and it's representatives' authority over myself - I feel the crime rates or war threats are a bit remote ......... Other things are closer.

My monthly letters to the Society, protesting against what has been said in articles in the magazines at least is a mental outlet ........

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A sincere (believe me) question for current JWs

by bonovox in

ok, noticed a few jw posters on here, jamesg et al.... what has the wtbs said about the tragedies in the us last fall?

i recall after lockerbie in the 80s there was an awake on terrorism (with the guys in ski masks lol), but what about the most recent events?.

trolls please resist the urge to rant that they all had a big celebration afterwards, ok?

TheOldHippie

Awake January 8 as far as I recall, was for a large part dedicated to the tragedy. And it surely is no "beginning of the end", my friend. Of course, a terrible tragedy, and a new turn with respect to terrorism, but the Israeli terrorist authorities committed far larger acts of terrorism against the Palestinians in Lebanon at the refugee camp massacres a few years ago, and the Syrian terrorist authorities murdered some 50,000 dissidents in a Northern Syrian town at about the same time, etc., etc. This time, it hit the US, and suddenly it is supposed to be a sign of the end? Terrible as it was, it tells more about how egocentric many people in the US are. But of course, on the other hand, a terrorist attack on New York is seen by 1,000 as many people worldwide as is a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka or Pakistan.