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  1974 Special Meetings

  by NeonMadman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as we all know, armageddon was just around the corner in 1974. at the district conventions that year, it was announced that there would be two special meetings during the month of september; one would be for interested people (e.g., bible studies, family members, inactive, etc.

  ), and the other would be for baptized publishers.

  these were to be held in place of the service meetings for the two weeks, iirc.

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  I would like to know what they meant by, "we do know that God's judgement is to be executed within the lifetime of the generation that saw the beginning of the last days." "Accordingly, the generation of people that witness the events of 1914 C.E. is the ones that will see the great tribulation." "Those person who were at an age of understanding in 1914 are diminishing in numbers."
  
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  What Are Your "Senior Moments" Like?

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

  dear friends:.

  i imagine by now we old timers have adjusted to the fact that we are getting older and, one day, will make our exit.

  are your "senior moments" ever a cause for worry to you?

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  My parents toward the end of their life came to the reality that they were going to die in this system and not live on forever into a new system. They seemed beaten down and excepting of their ultimate fate. My mom would always say to me, "don't get old, its awful".
  
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  Met the new CO (correction officer) this week

  by truth doubter in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just want to share my take on the new circuit overseers visit.

  first impression, he's a control freak.

  he got up several times to correct the servants on lights, sound and speaker stand positioning.

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  First impression, he's a control freak. He got up several times to correct the servants on lights, sound and speaker stand positioning. Give me a break.

  My first response was, "Give Me A Break". Otherwise seems like nothing has changed. Same old guilt trip I heard 40 years ago.
  
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  The Dubs and marraige

  by William Penwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just have to rant here for a bit.. i was on the phone earlier with my dub sister.

  she was telling me how her daughter, my niece, just met a "nice man" (i take it he is a good dub), that things were going good and that if things go as plan they would probably be married this coming summer.

  now this is after my niece just got out of a dysfunctional marriage of 20 years and their divorce was just finalized this last november.

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  So an update to my story, I just found out about a week ago that my niece is now officially engage. I sent her well wishes, I just hope she is not making the same mistake but what ever its her life. In a way I understand as she is trying to raise two children on her own and if is very hard financially. It was tough on me financially but then as a man I did not have the children living with me.
  
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  Evidence of Human Activity in Northern Siberia 45,000 years ago.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  this information makes the biblical dating of human origins a sad joke.

  quote: " when they dated the remains, the researchers got another surprise: the mammoth died 45,000 years ago.

  that means that humans lived in the arctic more than 10,000 years earlier than scientists believed, according to a new study.

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  Yes I read this earlier today. This throws out all of the JW chronological figures.
  
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  Sick! "Stoning of Two Transgenders in Dortmund, Germany Prevented By Police In The Last Minute."

  by park ave boy in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is what europe is becoming?

  my work colleague in germany sent my this article in an email and it is perhaps one of the most disturbing things i have heard yet.

  i have been hearing about many of these recent homophobic and transphobic hate crimes taking place across europe but this one slipped through the cracks.

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  I have said this before and I know it is not a popular statement but certain religious groups/ideologies will not mix with our western values. They come from countries with no freedom or democracy and don't or won't understand what our fathers and grandfathers fought and died for in two world wars. They will not assimilate into our society and the reality is their ultimate goal is to convert all of us over to their cult thinking.
  
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  These guys hate the Witnesses, cult against a cult.

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  just watched a video of a helicopter landing on the universal church's sao paolo's temple of solomon.

  they loaded up several suitcases full of money, so heavy it was hard for a single guy to pick up.

  they preach a form of prosperity worship.. one interesting point i found in wikipedia about the uckg (universal church of the kingrom of god) while learning about them is that they hate the jw's nwt bible and preach against it, calling the new king james bible "the best we've found", even better than the authorized version (the old king james bible).

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  I think as long as man is on this earth there will always be cults and those few that are attracted to cults. .
  
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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

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  2. beliefs

  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  The figures you give is not good for the dubs. You would think that as more and more publishers that number of baptized should go up every year but the number stays about the same. That indicates that a lot of ones that have being raised as a dub are fading and/or not getting baptized. This is not a good sign for the Borg.
  
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  IDC Deadly Devotion - Shunned No More

  by William Penwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my son was saying he seen this episode the other night.

  i checked my local cable and it is not on for the coming week but i will make sure to pvr it when it comes on.

  this is the second one deadly devotion has done about the jw's.

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  Thanks Scully for your information. I also set up my PVR to record it when it comes back on. I figure that because it was just aired it might be a few months before they re-air that episode. I posted about a year ago about the other JW case on Deadly devotion. This was the case where the husband killed his wife and two children in the late 80's in Vancouver, Canada. He was an abusive controlling husband but she was told to go back to him by the elders. She eventually moved out on her own but was stocked by him and eventually killed. Her ex husband, the children's father, was DF'd by the Borg. Well understandably he has no use for the organization.
  
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  Counsel from Bro Losch (GB Member) to the Elders about the NFL

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  while attending a week long training class for elders in patterson, bro losch gave the concluding talk about loyalty to the borg, which i was in awe of(i went more in detail in a recent post about a s.a.d.

  where losch was the speaker).

  at the end of his talk, here's what he said: .

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  This is nothing new I recall some elders being against any type of professional sporting activity but it was just a few of the old elders that probably never played a sport in their lives.