Gypsy Sam

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  Don`t know much about the bible!

  by Beans in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  has anyone read this book?

  my good friend quotes read it and gave me a brief description about it and said that if the research done on this book was correct it gives great sceptacism on bible facts and credability!

  now i believe one example was the dude who wrote the first five books in the bible (moses i think but i can`t remember) but in the fifth book it says that he lived to be 900 so odd years in the third person revealing that it was not this person who wrote these books?.

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  Gypsy Sam

  I'm reading this book by Kenneth C. Davis now. Anyone else read it and have a comment?
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  My Letter to Brooklyn about the Parousia that got me disfellowshipped

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the letter i wrote back in '96 about the parousia.

  following the '95 watchtower that disconnected the "generation" from 1914 i began to look carefully at end-time prophecy and soon discovered what i knew were basic errors in what i had been taught.. i was a loyal jw at the time and was still serving as an elder.

  i used only watchtower publications in my research.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Marked. What an impressive amount of research you had to do. So glad your wife woke up, too.
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  True Stories from the Tower - Part 1 "From Anointed to Pedophile to Bethelite"

  by BluePill2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.

  during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.

  as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.

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  Gypsy Sam

  What an intense read. Thanks for sharing. Wishing you more success with having a bigger role in your daughter's life. Keeping a record of how and when you tried to contact her will mean a lot to her, if the situation doesn't improve. When she is a teen she'll see proof that you didn't give up on having a relationship with her And that will mean a lot when she needs support and unconditional love (which she won't receive from the JW mom).
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  1914 countdown card in 2014 Yearbook

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the 2014 yearbook has a scan of the 1914 countdown card.

  it does not say whether this was published by the watchtower or independently, so please let me know if you have any further information about it.

  in typical offensive fashion, the yearbook blames the members rather than themselves for the false expectations held for 1914.. some bible students even carried a countdown card so that they could mark off each passing day.

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  Gypsy Sam

  I'm surprised they are calling attention to it. I often wonder if the GB is completely deluded Or do they even see things before they go to print.

  Either way, thanks for sharing. I used to love getting the new Yearbook and checking stats.
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  New here, just wanted to say "Hello"

  by Goldiver in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello all, it is nice to have a forum for former jw's and see i wasn't the only one out there having serious doubts.

  my parents got into it when i was about 4 years old.

  my family was part of the granville ny congregation.. my dad in time became an elder.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Welcome! Glad you are now happily married :)

  Carpe Diem!
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  Will this Memorial be our last?

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  they just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.

  most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?

  upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .

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  Gypsy Sam

  Last year was our last! Yippee!

  I will have to use this March info with still in family, discreetly, lol.
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  Best "wake-up-call"-arguments?!

  by Mr Fool in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi everyone .

  it was not my intention to write here anymore, but i found things that caught my interest, things that i feel to share in the hope of someone finds it interesting.. the core is that the wt surprisingly admits that what "we" believe in, is after all, only opinions (awake 2000 june 22 page9-11 "do not be a victim of propaganda).. anyone with a scan of thiese pages would make my day ;-) the questions/arguments below are built around this:.

  feel free to find better arguments ;-).

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  Gypsy Sam

  Bttt
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  13,204 memorial partakers for 2013

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hahahahha going up up up.

  the new yearbook is finally on jw.org.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Lol, marked! How will they explain this?
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  Why I don't do yoga

  by Steve_C in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this isn't funny, but i didn't know where else to share this.

  it comes from a facebook page called "fundies say the darndest things.

  can't you just imagine a jw writing this?.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Wow. So glad I researched yoga and started taking classes with another JW two years ago. Lol, the things we used to be so gullible about are such an embarrassment.
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  How Cold is it Where You Are?

  by PYRAMIDSCHEME in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with the polar vortex swirling further and further south and breaking records how cold is it where you are?.

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  here in gettysburg pa last night night we hit a low of -4 degrees but we were blessed with some wind that dropped the wind chill down to -22..

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  Gypsy Sam

  SWFL is much more chilly than normal. In the 50's. Went to a great outdoor football party last night with a huge bonfire and all kinds of moral, intelligent "worldly" peeps.