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  Who would you date?

  by MsD in

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  i was just wondering i have a friend who is getting divorced.

  she is 32yrs old and has 4 children ranging from 10 yrs old to 18 mths old and i wonder if she can ever really date again?

  she's a really pretty woman but still i wonder.

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  rocketman

  A woman I know, who is several years older than your friend at age 32 (I'm guessing early 40s) is divorcing and she has four kids. It's tough. There's a lot of appealing things about this woman, but four kids is a tall order. I'd date her casually, but I'm not sure I'd want an instant big family, so I don't think I'd want to get serious - which means, by my standards, no I wouldn't date her. If there's no prospect of an LTR, I'm not going to date a woman just to break up with her eventually.
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  July 15th Study Edition Is Up..

  by confusedteenager in

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  2. friends

  not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but yeah.

  they just posted up the new watchtower...with the confusing new information.. time for me to go dive into this "new light" and try to see what sense it makes.

  of course cedars already nicely did a run down for us.. .

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  Actually, this might set the table for eventually moving the "generation" of Matthew 24:34 to a time yet future.

  If the events of Matthew 24:29-51 are yet future, then why not the generation, which is included in those verses? Indeed, this would harken back to the "Sputnik" understanding that was documented by Raymond Franz, which was an interpretation espoused by three members (not including Franz) of the Governing Body while Franz was on the body.

  I'm not saying they'll back-date it to Sputnik (1957), but that the basic premise is similar - the Sputnik idea came from the notion that Matthew 24:29-51. The concept of the "generation" verse being among those in a 'third part' of Matthew 24 (as well as Mark 13 and Luke 21) was what precipitated the Sputnik idea.

  So I'm wondering if their understanding of the "generation" of Matthew 24:34 will be changed the generation, whether of the anointed or just of mankind in general, that will be alive and witness the future events postulated in this article.

  Of course, with their new 'overlapping' generation understanding, they have already created an "out" to some extent. Hence they may not really need to update their "generation" understanding.
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  July 15th Study Edition Is Up..

  by confusedteenager in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but yeah.

  they just posted up the new watchtower...with the confusing new information.. time for me to go dive into this "new light" and try to see what sense it makes.

  of course cedars already nicely did a run down for us.. .

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  After reading the four study articles, plus the blurb on the new GB member (who, by the way, was baptised after many of the 'Other Sheep' were and is younger than many of them). it's my thinking that this series will end up having an effect similar to the November 1995 series of study articles about the "generation" of Matthew 24:34.

  This could be a 'last straw' article, much like that one was for a lot of JWs. The implications of these articles are staggering - that, once again, this religion can simply change long-held teachings whenever they deem necessary.
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  Will AAWA Become another cult?

  by His Excellency in

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  2. scandals

  please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

  everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

  becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

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  Hi Excellency, what's with 'pardon my English' stuff? Your English seems adequate.

  I tend to be wary of people who use the 'excuse my English' line, because sooner or later it becomes an excuse.

  As for AAWA, I personally am treading very lightly, but I don't get too excited about much of anything these days. I do think it's a noble endeavor. Could it become cultish? Well, that seems like a stretch, but I guess it could.

  On Cedars' initial thread I did point out the irony of starting a group that has, as one of its main objectives, is the freeing of people from bondage to false religion. Yes, that does sound familiar, doesn't it?

  But for now, I meant it only as a bit of comic relief. Only time will tell, and I say let the AAWA have at it.
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  Edward Dunlap Talks About The 1980 Witch Hunt At Bethel and The Faithful And Discrete Slave

  by frankiespeakin in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etghbmuurwg.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgmfqab2m8.

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  rocketman

  Interesting. So Brother Dunlap essentially, as Terry already pointed out, had this thing pegged 33 years ago. And now it's becoming official doctrine.

  I will reiterate a post I made 12 days ago to a thread started by Cedars on this topic, and that is that this "new light" actually makes more sense. When I was a teenager, we had an old sister who partook and so was supposedly, back then, a member of the FDS Class. And yet I wondered how that could be the case when she (and thousands like her) never contributed anything in the way of direction or distribution of spirtual food.

  So it's very interesting to find out that Ed Dunlap had that same view. And again, this new understanding makes more sense, even though it is being taken generally in ex-jw circles as a further consolidation of power by the GB. And perhaps indeed it is. Whatever the case, it's actually, in my view (and apparently in Mr. Dunlap's view as well) that this a better interpretation.

  Of course, my main question now is: What took them so long?
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

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  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  rocketman

  OOps, I thought that was you Cedars. Well then, Ethan Hatcher has a cool hat.

  As for the cute blond, yes, I figured that was her husband next to her. Well, he married a nice-looking gal.
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  rocketman

  After watching the video (which I couldn't do earlier today while at work) I have just one question:

  Who's the pretty blond with the British accent?

  Oh, and Cedars...cool hat!
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  rocketman

  Interesting endeavor to watch unfold.

  A wee bit of irony: A small, upstart group comes together with one its main objectives being to free people from bondage to [a] false religion. Sounds familar.
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  Do other churches use the name Jehovah?

  by barry in

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  2. beliefs

  i have seen on this site recordings of jw elders at tribunal meetings claim other churches hate the name jehovah.

  one former baptist now jw elder said other churches hate the name and never use it.

  please look at the following and there are many more hymns not included than these.

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  rocketman

  I attended a Baptist service some months back and they displayed their hymn lyrics on a screen, and I was surprised to see the name Jehovah. I was not aware that they used it in songs.

  It was a strange feeling, being a Witness and attending this service in a clandestine manner, and seeing the name on the screen.

  Incidentally, while I liked the service somewhat, with its casual dress and informal setting (not to mention people actually playing the songs on keyboards and guitar instead of the pre-recorded songs used at JW meetings) I didn't care for the sermon much, which was overly long and placed emphasis on going to hell if we don't get saved.
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  C.O. Reports: JWs/WTS "Reach Critical Mass...

  by BitterTruth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses/wts have reached "critical mass" - says ex-circuit overseer.

  ------posting copied from h2o-----.

  posted by xelder [seeker4] on july 13, 2000 at 12:00:52 {rn3hpwrs1eubi2tgjvegd9bhhxgwag}:.

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  rocketman

  At first I started reading the OP without checking the date. I thought, hmmmm, this is pretty interesting.

  Then I saw that it was written 12 years ago.

  So much for "critical mass".