Posts by Oubliette

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How Many JWs actually Watch JW.TV?

by Oubliette in

i'm curious.

what do you know from your own experience and talking to other active jws?

i know from my own informal, non-scientific survey that most jws do not watch jw.tv.

Oubliette

I'm curious. What do you know from your own experience and talking to other active JWs?

I know from my own informal, non-scientific survey that most JWs do NOT watch JW.TV.

What have you seen and heard?

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Just an introduction

by Israel Ricky Gonzales in

just wanted to say hello since i am new to this forum.

allow myself to introduce myself.

lol.

Oubliette

Ricky: Anyways, my story is not unique. I lost just about everything, family, friends, home, possessions.

Sadly this is very true.

However, the part about you and your wife potential reconciling is very unusual. Good for you and your kids!

Welcome,

Oubliette

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Faced with plummeting ratings JWbroadcasting tries a spin off combo show with 'Shark Week'

by Watchtower-Free in

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Oubliette

Now that's a show I'd watch!

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FOOTPRINTS

by Nathan Natas in

one night i dreamed i was walking along the beach with the lord.

many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

so i said to the lord, "you promised me lord, that if i followed you, you would walk with me always.

Oubliette

The Lord replied, because I am IMAGINARY, you peckerhead!

But if he's imaginary, then how could he "reply"?

I knew it had to be a send-up when I saw that it was you posting this old chestnut!!!

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Hi all, the prodigal daughter returns to JWD.

by cattails in

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it's been four years (has it really been that long) that i haven't been on jwd.. i was back out west for a long while and i came back to new england.

just got an appartment with another sister and things are looking up.

i'm keeping under the radar and avoiding elder visits--not fully out of the kingdom hall yet.

Oubliette

Welcome back!

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Bethelite"s wife storms out of headquarters and leaves him...she was forced into Bethel. My story begins....

by Witness 007 in

we were all in our 20's the 1990's pioneers who still hoped the 1914 generation was for real.

jenny {names changed} loved peter who was younger then me and very handsome.

he wanted to go to bethel since he was a kid.

Oubliette

Who irons bed clothes? That's just weird!

(Not that I don't believe you, because I do. I just can't believe that the Henschel's would require that).

The more I learn about the WT leaders the more I see that they make the Pharisees look like amateurs.

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MORE PROPAGANDA FROM THE CO!!

by DATA-DOG in

well, once again my "friend" has shared their notes with me from the latest co visit.

besides the usual 1914 assertions/ world getting worse all the time/ our day is the worst of all time nonsense, the co mentioned some interesting things.

number one won't surprise you.

Oubliette

DD: The CO even mentioned that "false religion" has the audacity to claim to represent God, but betrays that claim by their actions and doctrine.

I would actually agree with that statement, and then I would turn right around and apply to him and the entire religion. Results: False Religion!

Or to paraphrase Stephen F. Roberts

“I contend we are both anti-religion, I just believe in one fewer religion than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible religions, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

Richard Dawkins is well known for echoing this sound bite in A Devil’s Chaplain. Let's paraphrase Dawkins as above:

"Jehovah's Witnesses assert that, when it comes to Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, those are actually false religions. We are all unbelievers about most of the religions that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one religion further."

(Note: To be clear, the above are paraphrases of well-known statements by Dawkins and Roberts. To read their actual statements, click on the hyperlink on their respective names.)

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