Posts by baker

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Noah a Preacher of Righteousness?

by Spoletta in

during the watchtower study today, i browsed genesis and looked for evidence of noah ever preaching to anyone.

from what i could glean from the scriptures, it was a foregone conclusion that noah's family would be it on the ark.

(unless they towed some rafts behind) my wife says that building the ark could be considered a witness of his faith to the wicked world, but that seems kind of lame to me.. so, should i just assume that god decided not to give anyone else a chance for redemption?

baker

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

by jhine in

l don't visit very often now , but l wanted to drop in to wish all you folks a merry christmas and happy new year .

as l cannot find a thread already started for this l have started one !

in the immortal words of chuck berry ( l think ) " come on everybody " join in wishing your fellow posters a merry christmas , happy holidays etc .

baker

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"Just have faith in Jehovah..."

by evilApostate in

i recently spoke to an old friend of mine who is still under the clutches of the watchtower.

a while back, i had told him about all the child sex abuse coverups, false prophecies, false doctrines etc.

he was really shocked and surprised.

baker

"I would rather have questions I can't answer, than answers I can't question"

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What's Expected in Field Service?

by Cold Steel in

do all potential converts have to take part in field service before baptism?

and do new members generally try to bring in their friends and family or do they generally keep their religion to themselves?

what do pioneers do if they're going door to door and chance on someone they know or work with in their personal lives?

baker

take brochures with you when you grocery shop, so when you see a likely dub, you can count the whole trip.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

by jhine in

l don't visit very often now , but l wanted to drop in to wish all you folks a merry christmas and happy new year .

as l cannot find a thread already started for this l have started one !

in the immortal words of chuck berry ( l think ) " come on everybody " join in wishing your fellow posters a merry christmas , happy holidays etc .

baker

First time Iv heard of festivus, thanks Btlc. Gonna look into this, I have a few left over fence post, and sounds pretty simple to set up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ETJLZQw-pg

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Armageddon

by finnrot in

jw
friends

with these new disasters going on around the world, i would imagine that the jw's are going ape shit with the thought of death and destruction right around the corner.

i was smart enough to leave this cult after 1975 came and went with a whimper.

i was in my teens at the time and i vividly remember to this day the excitement all the witlesses had with the knowledge that '75 was going to be the year of armageddon!!!

baker

Well, nothing has changed in 6 years, just watching the atrocities in Syria on 60 minutes on CBS, digging children out from rubble, remarked to my still in spouse about the horror these children are going thru and need help, looked up from texting about Jehobra and serve us dates about who would bring the barf cart, says what show is that? Good grief, they will never see the true picture of the world.

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Do you believe that Jehovah is using the Organization today?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

any elder has never asked me that question so far but i want to be prepared to answer that question if any of them ask me that question in the future.

i hope that they will never ask me that question.

any suggestions on how to answer that question would be very much appreciated.

baker

Lately i bring up 1914 and ask them to kindly explain it in a simple way. conversation changes quickly to something like "waste on Jehovah" or did they say wait..

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The Story of My Sister - Lurkers: Is this logical?

by Funchback in

my sister got baptized at 17 or 18 years old in 1983. she was ripe for the jw picking as she was shy, quiet, naive and with low self-esteem even though she was tall and beautiful and she attended one of the best high schools in philadelphia.. she wasn't outgoing and she only went out on a couple of dates prior to her baptism.

she worked at a day care center.

she loved children and animals.

baker

Your sister got Da,d for going to one of the forbidden places...apply the same rules to the org and they need to Da themselves for mingling with the UN. All were told not to touch the unclean thing, but in hiding the org was having relations with the UN. Perfect case for Da on themselves. "Do as I say, not as I do"

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