No, you can't trust that timeline. New Light has revealed that Captain America:Serpent Society is now Captain America: Civil War (in which things are not looking good for Cap)
Captain Schmideo2
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Proof that Armageddon will come in 2020 or 2021.
by berrygerry insomewhat just posted a link to www.jw2016.borg (remove the b ) which is an up-and-running site for 2016 dub conventions.the borg has also registered jw2017, jw2018, jw2019, and jw2020 (all .org)however, they have not reg'd jw2021.therefore, the conclusion in the title.
(a non-wt has reg'd jw2022.org)( jw2021.org is presently available, wink-wink).
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Latest Leaked BOE letter to Elders Oct. 4th
by Watchtower-Free inoctober 4, 2015. to all congregations.
re: new provisions announced atannual meeting.
dear brothers:.
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Captain Schmideo2
https://youtu.be/0vvvPZd6_D8
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What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?
by Funchback inthere were many addressed to me.
for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.
i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.
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Captain Schmideo2
I was told, as a child, not to watch Disney movies, because Disney "promotes evolution!"
Not a personal counsel, but when the movie "Avatar" was playing and raking in ginormous cash at the box office, we had a CO admonish the congregation for watching that movie, because the name of the alien race "Na'vi" was similar to a demon from ancient times that was worshipped. Hoo, boy what a stretch.
I could see why a Bible Thumping Christian might object to the themes of the movie, such as Animism, Nature Worship, Inter-Species Sex, etc, but really, finding some obscure link to a demon god no one ever heard of? Whatever. -
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This sounds suspiciously like the actions of another religion we know of...
by Captain Schmideo2 inhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/church-blacklists-103-year-old-granny-then-calls-the-cops-on-her.htmlchurch blacklists 103-year-old granny, then calls the cops on her.
genora hamm biggs had been a member of the union grove baptist church for 92 yearsuntil a new pastor banished her and tried to have her arrested over a clash about the style of a sermon.. a 103-year-old georgia woman was banished from her church for a sin the pastor cant forgiveshe disagreed with how he preached.. genora hamm biggs has attended union grove baptist church in elberton since she was 11 years old.
but last month, rev.
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Captain Schmideo2
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/15/church-blacklists-103-year-old-granny-then-calls-the-cops-on-her.htmlChurch Blacklists 103-Year-Old Granny, Then Calls the Cops on Her
Genora Hamm Biggs had been a member of the Union Grove Baptist Church for 92 years—until a new pastor banished her and tried to have her arrested over a clash about the style of a sermon.A 103-year-old Georgia woman was banished from her church for a sin the pastor can’t forgive—she disagreed with how he preached.
Genora Hamm Biggs has attended Union Grove Baptist Church in Elberton since she was 11 years old. But last month, Rev. Tim Mattox sent a letter informing her she could no longer visit her lifelong parish “for any reason whatsoever.” The ouster has spurred a feud between the revered centenarian and other congregants in the tiny church.
“The church means everything to me,” Biggs told The Daily Beast via phone. “I’ve been there for 92 years. Everybody I talk with says they’ve never heard of anything like this, and neither have I.”
“I don’t plan to leave,” she added. “I’m here to stay.”
Biggs returned to church the following Sunday despite Mattox’s warning, only to have the police called on her.
Biggs and her grandson, Elliiott Dye, sat in the pews, refusing to move. “[Mattox] said, ‘If you don’t go, you’ll be escorted out.’ I still didn’t go,” Biggs said. “They turned out the lights while we were sitting there, so we got up and went out. After we left, they went back in.”
Officers didn’t take any action. “We’re not going over there and throwing a 103-year-old lady out of her church,” Elberton’s police chief later told the Athens Banner-Herald.
Mattox did not return messages left by The Daily Beast.
In his Aug. 2 letter to Biggs, Mattox claimed his flock took a vote on her ouster. “This letter is to inform you… any membership or associations that you have had with this church are now officially revoked,” he wrote, according to Fox 5 in Atlanta.
HandoutThe dispute arises over Mattox’s “Sanctified Church”-style sermons. Dye told The Daily Beast that Mattox was hired a few years ago as a Baptist minister, but in recent months his services draw from the style and content of other denominations.
“It culminated here about three months ago when he invited members of a Sanctified church to our church,” Dye said. “We really saw then what he was about.”
Dye said Mattox fancies himself a “healer” and holds special services where he puts a hand on people with various afflictions to fix their problems through God.
“He dances, waves his hands, he uses a tambourine,” Dye said, adding that veteran members of the holy house—about 40 miles east of Athens—would rather see him resign and open his own Sanctified church.
Biggs said she disagreed with Mattox’s “style of preaching, moving around, moving his legs, falling on the floor. That’s not our style of service.”
Indeed, Biggs has been vocal in her demands that Mattox leave Union Grove. “He has been asked to resign, but he did not resign,” she conceded.
Despite local media attention surrounding the schism, the preacher’s standoff with the elderly churchgoer continues with no end in sight. Biggs claims Mattox refuses to return her calls and walks away when she approaches him with her walker.
Dye said the un-Christian behavior doesn’t stop there. He claims that when he took Biggs to a monthly church business meeting she’s attended for years, fellow members ran off.
“Now if she comes in the room, they go to another room,” Dye said. “She can walk very slowly but she can’t see very well, so I guide her. It made it impossible for her to participate. After they [moved] twice, I said, ‘Mama, that’s it. Let’s just go. We can’t keep chasing them.’”
Mattox’s sermons have also focused on “devils” and “nonbelievers” lately, and Team Biggs believes the pastor is referring to them. “They hate us there,” Dye told The Daily Beast. “They call us names. They make rude references to us.”
“They don’t point us out, but everyone in the church knows who the pastor is referring to,” he added. “The last three Sundays have been about the devil and what the devil is trying to do to the church.”
Glen Jackson, a deacon at Union Grove, would not comment on Biggs’s exile and told the Banner-Herald the dispute is “all a bunch of foolishness.”
When asked about Biggs’s 92-year membership, Jackson reportedly sniffed, “It don’t mean nothing.”
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WT LAWYER REPRESENTED MUHAMMAD ALI
by badboy inhayden c. covington represented muhammad ali when he refused to sign up for the draft.. covington's argument was that muhammad ali was a religious minister.. this argument failed.
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Captain Schmideo2
Terry, you have posted this twice, but in both cases, the far right is cut off, making the entire thing pretty much incomprehensible.
Any way to re-format it?
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Trying to get John Olver's attention, re: Australian Royal Commission
by Captain Schmideo2 inknowing that last week, tonight, is becoming the hottest topical show in the us, i thought i would try to point his show's attention toward the royal commision.the only way i could figure out how was to post to the hbo discussion board that is specific to the show.
here is the link to my comments:http://talk.hbo.com/t5/last-week-tonight-with-john/australian-royal-commission-on-child-abuse/td-p/499504.
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Captain Schmideo2
Knowing that Last Week, Tonight, is becoming the hottest topical show in the US, I thought I would try to point his show's attention toward the Royal Commision.
The only way I could figure out how was to post to the HBO discussion board that is specific to the show. Here is the link to my comments:
http://talk.hbo.com/t5/Last-Week-Tonight-with-John/Australian-Royal-Commission-on-Child-Abuse/td-p/499504 -
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Hero Movies
by jws ini know this is a bit off the topic of religion, but i just got back from seeing ant man with my son.
i'm getting tired of the fact that hollywood (and in this case the action/hero genre) rarely seems to have an original thought.
has anybody noticed the same theme?.
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Captain Schmideo2
So....
You went to see a movie based on comic book characters, and were surprised that it had a comic book plot?
Mmm hmm...
Caveat emptor. Don't go in to see "Iron Man Three" expecting to see "Finnegan's Wake" -
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Watchtower can cite their sources after all
by wannaexit inas far as i can remember watchtower has been notorious for not citing their sources in their literature.
the most they will do is to cite their in house, long living expert by the name of scholar.
after 40 + years all i've ever read is the mantra "one scholar says" ad nauseum.
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Captain Schmideo2
It's not "One Scholar", it's "Juan Scholar", the famous Spanish researcher. The MEPS system just has a problem translating it for the US and UK editions.
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Hebrew Was The First Language
by Bloody Hotdogs! inaccording to the newest watchtower:.
jehovah communicated with adam in the garden of eden, using human language.
god likely did so in an ancient form of hebrew.
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Captain Schmideo2
Saintbertholdt, that was ameyzing und wunderlicht. You show yourself to be a klug mensch (or faktish froy, depending on the gender).
Mazel tov, and zal Got zeyn mit ir. -
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A True Story: PORTRAIT OF A GIRL and her dog
by Terry inportrait of a girl and her dog.
(a true story by terry edwin walstrom).
her name was cheryl ann draper and she was about 11 years old the day she begged her daddy, who worked at a gas station, to let her go with him to work.
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Captain Schmideo2
Damn, Terry...just..damn...
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