Posts by Rattigan350

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Boyfriend and dating news - Any advice

by KateWild in

so i started dating on the internet in june and have met some nice guys.

i have put in a few recent posts that i have a boyfriend and wanted to give an update.

things haven't worked out sadly.. i was seeing him for a couple of months we were having fun and then things tailed off after christmas.

Rattigan350

"dating on the internet "

No. You used an internet based introduction service.

"I have found internet dating quite fun."

Translate - getting introductions online but still dating offline, otherwise it is just email.

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after many years i just rewatched the prequel trilogy.. the gb just took power upon themselves by creating their own crisis and blame it on the devil or the world; like palpatine/sidious created the conflict that elevated his power.

then the gb elevated themselves by stating that they were the fds, like palpatine elevated himself to emperor.

if anyone disagrees, they are called treasonous and eliminated.. palaptine's manipulation is just like what the gb does.. they play to people's emotions in their efforts to overcome death and defeat death.

Rattigan350

After many years I just rewatched the prequel trilogy.

The GB just took power upon themselves by creating their own crisis and blame it on the devil or the world; like Palpatine/Sidious created the conflict that elevated his power. Then the GB elevated themselves by stating that they were the FDS, like Palpatine elevated himself to Emperor. If anyone disagrees, they are called treasonous and eliminated.

Palaptine's manipulation is just like what the GB does.

They play to people's emotions in their efforts to overcome death and defeat death. That is kept dangling in front of them as motivation.

Join us or you will lose your chance to defeat death. Then once they join, they've committed and can't go back. Still no fulfillment of the promise.

Just lies, twisted truths and manipulation.

Allies that are no longer useful are just cast off. Everyone is a pawn.

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Jw.org on disfellowshipping

by d in

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here is what the jw's say about disfellowinshipping.

i can not seem to past the text from their website help.. .

Rattigan350

"We do not automatically disfellowship someone who commits a serious sin. If, however, a baptized Witness makes a practice of breaking the Bible’s moral code and does not repent, he or she will be shunned or disfellowshipped. The Bible clearly states: “Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.”—"

While that is strictly true, the fact is that they df people for many other things than the Bible's moral code - as if it even had one. Some day I will write up my story and post it here.

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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!

by wifibandit in

http://imgur.com/a/e6dos.

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Rattigan350

Another point on this magazine. page 9 para 7

"Is there a Scriptural basis for prophetic pictures? Yes. For instance, Jesus
spoke of “the sign of Jonah the prophet.”
(Read Matthew 12:39, 40.) Jesus explained that Jonah’s sojourn in the belly
of the fish—which would have been Jonah’s grave had Jehovah not preserved
him alive—was prophetic of Jesus’ own time in the grave."

For that to be a type/antitype, that would have been planned by God. The fact that Jesus was dead from Nisan 14 to 16 was a fulfillment of the offering of the Barley on Nisan 16. The fact that Jonah was in the belly of the fish for that length of time was a coincidence because I don't think it was part of God's purpose. Jesus knew of Jonah and what happened and the length; he just used that as an example, rather than his being in the fish that long for a purpose. That is not a prophetic fulfillment, just a coincidence that they could understand and relate to.

para 8 says:"The Bible contains other inspired prophetic pictures."

They are inspired because they are prophetic pictures from their past, not because Paul was inspired of God.

the prophetic pictures - Jehu and Jehonadab. Elijah and Elisha class etc.

Stuff that made the anointed back then feel good.

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The overuse of adjectives tells me they don't understand a thing.

by Rattigan350 in

the w 3/15/2015 page 8 para 5 says:.

"one faithful anointed brother with a record of decades of loyal service commented: i just read the book of job in the new edition, and i feel as if i understand it for the first time!

" many have made similar comments.".

Rattigan350

The W 3/15/2015 page 8 para 5 says:

"one faithful anointed brother with a record of decades of loyal service commented: “I just read the book of Job in the new edition, and I feel as if I understand it for the first time!" Many have made similar comments."

Upon first reading, I wondered why all the adjectives. he is faithful, anointed, a brother, record of decades of service and loyal service. Isn't that how it is, always is. Lay on so many adjectives about someone. Pioneer,elder, what kind of elder, CO, DO, Bethelite, what kind of Bethelite, GB, anointed.

As if one or more of those terms were missing, would the meaning change?

Is there a difference between being faithful and having decades of loyal service?

Upon further reflection, it would seem that they are saying that this man, with so many years of service, faithful and loyal and even anointed, didn't understand the book of Job. So how many others who are not anointed, not as faithful not so many years of service understand that book or others? Was that brother one of the GB?

Many made similar comments that they didn't understand the Book and maybe many others, but yet teach it as truth. Wow, that tells alot.

What was done the many decades prior? Those equivalent to the GB didn't understand the Bible.

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Finally got signed in!

by stillin in

i was able to use my username in the email address box, as has been mentioned, but apparently the sign in page is case-sensitive.

i was trying different combinations along with my password in various forms when suddenly, a light in the sky!

i'm in!

Rattigan350

Why the change?

I don't like it. Harder to manage.

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The WTSs 2520 years did not commence at the same time as their 70 years

by Doug Mason in

the wts says that the 70 years began when the last jews entered egypt (7th month, feast of gedaliah), and that this final exodus took place in 607 bce.. they then say that jerusalem was destroyed 2 months earlier (5th month) and that this event marked the end of the davidic kingdom, which commenced the 2520 years.

on that basis, if my reading is correct, their 2520 years ended on the 5th month of 1914, not in october.. further confusion reigns, since according to parker and dubberstein, in 607 bce the babylonians inserted an intercalary second elul before tishri.

from memory, thiele says that jeremiah used the babylonian calendar.. i know that their chronology and eisgeses are totally fanciful; i am simply addressing the logic in the thinking that they appear to present.. i have elsewhere shown that it is more likely that the time fom the destruction of jerusalem to the exodus into egypt is more likely to have been at least 2 years, perhaps as long as 4, so i am not canvassing that issue here either.. doug.

Rattigan350

Yes, it did. Both started in 607 when Daniel was taken captive.

He knew of Jeremiah's prophesy of the 70 years captivity and when it would end because he knew when it started, because he was there.

In the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's kingsship the 2520 years started when they were invaded as it said in Daniel.

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Convicted Sex Offender wins Lottery, immediately sued by victims

by CaptainSchmideo in

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http://kfor.com/2014/12/23/convicted-sex-offender-wins-3-million-hit-with-lawsuit-by-victims/.

mount dora, fla. a convicted sexual predator who won the lottery is now facing a lawsuit.. timothy poole recently won the lottery and was awarded a $3 million check.. now, two boys who say poole molested them in 1996 are suing him.. so, he hits the lottery, wins $3 million, so they figure, hey, we can finally recover and help compensate us for some of the emotional mental abuse, said eric dubois, a legal analyst.. the lawsuit claims the victims, who were just 9-years-old and 5-years-old at the time of the crime, need to be compensated for their pain and suffering that was inflicted upon them by poole.. the damages listed in the lawsuit include suffering from physical pain, post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.. the complaint also says treatment will continue throughout the rest of their lives.. 20 years ago, why would you ever pursue it?

asked debois.

Rattigan350

Why should the victims get anything?

If he had a job, would they get something from that every month? He is not under obligation to support them.

Of course - The complaint also says “treatment will continue throughout the rest of their lives.”, that way they can beg for more money.

I don't agree that they should get some of the money, unless that was part of his sentence.

If he fulfilled his sentence then leave him alone to move to some where away from everyone.

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Why do ultra rich jehovahs witnesses get a free pass when it comes to being materialistic?

by hoser in

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i know a couple of jws in my town that are both very wealthy.

one has upscale retail stores and owns a property development company.

the other has a large service company and owns a lot of real estate.

Rattigan350

Larry Graham and his wife were/are pioneers had money and gave it up and the lifestyle including their servants to pioneer.

He stayed in the industry but hasn't done as much. In the 80s he was honored with assembly parts and interviews.

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For Those Who Married "in the truth"

by Magwitch in

how did you meet your mate (convention, local hall)?

did you date long?

did you really have anything in common other than the same religion?

Rattigan350

We met initially at a Quick Build, but didn't start dating until I met her again two years later in May at a Circuit assembly, then later that month at another quickbuild, then at the district convention. Then I went and visited her congregation and we started dating. It was a 2.5 hour drive so we dated for 2 months until we got engaged, then got married 2 months later.

We had religion and other things in common like Sci Fi, building projects but she was more caught up in the religion than I was and more judgmental. One day after the Sunday meeting we were driving to her roomates and her place and she criticized me for not underlining my Watchtower, though I had commented. She said that others could see that and think that I don't prepare. I should have run at that point as she was more interested in pleasing others than our relationship.

We had constant chaperones which lead to things going faster than it needed to. We were not guilty of premarital brazen conduct as I did not want to taint things and I wanted ot use my head rather than other parts...

There were so many women in the organization that were higher level than I, they were the AAA club, Available After Armageddon. Or if they weren't that way, they were low quality. So many women in the organization were so fickle that they really don't know how to get into or have a relationship.