Posts by BobFlanagan007

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My 8 year old daughter tells me she is an atheist...???

by sosoconfused in

so since we have not been to a meeting in 6 months or so, i decided to ask my daughter (on the way home from cheerleading practice - yeah i can't believe i am letting her engage in such a worldly activity lol) if she misses going to the kingdom hall.

she says sometimes because she can't see her friend - but she has made new friends so it doesn't bother her too much.

so i ask her, "well, what about learning about jehovah?

BobFlanagan007

@ ABibleStudent - Although I believe in God now, when I was younger I considered myself an agnostic. As long as your child critically thinks for herself, is moral, and respects/loves other people, then you have done a good job as a parent.

But unfortunately she'll still probably burn forever in hell LOL

Seriously though, if you carry on encouraging her critical thinking she'll turn out just fine. So what if she grows up to be an atheist?

I work with kids aged 0 to 5 and I really struggle with having to talk to the kids about Jesus, Allah, God whatever as it makes me sad that their parents are filling there heads with such irrational illogical nonesense at an age where they are not able to properly cope with it yet I'm not allowed to say anything that might offend their (by which I mean their parents) beliefs.

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Bible printing, a loss of money for the WTS

by oppostate in

so i brought this up in another thread... but i think it needs its own discussion.. having had one of the new grey leatherette and silver edged bibles with the new appendixes in my hand.

i immediately thought of all the custom covered nwt bibles you see some publishers sporting at meetings.

also the fact that the co's and wives who'd been given one had to turn it back in seemed very off-putting.. .

BobFlanagan007

I got a new bible just a few months ago, Its a Holman Christian Standard Bible, study edition. Ten times any bible the ORG has published.

Still doesn't change the fact that the Bible's no more than an arbitrarily compiled collection of unattributed ancient mystical writings that was put together decades, in some cases hundreds and thousands of years, after the events described therein supposedly happened that's inspired by a long silent sky god.

I don't understand how anyone who's been in "the Truth" can still have any time for such nonesense.

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Dropping itty bitty bits of Truth About The Truth to other Witnesses!

by OneDayillBeFree in

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this'll probably get me disfellowshipped eventually but it's been hella fun!.

so lately every time an opportunity arrises while speaking to other jdubs at the meetings or assemblies or even just overhearing their conversations about new light or new publications, service, anything really i drop little things that pass unoticed by most but make some stop and think for a minute.. for example, after one sunday meeting, a brother came up to me with about 5 other jdubbies to poke fun at me saying, "i thought you said you never sat at the front?!

huh?

BobFlanagan007

"No, no, no I was. I was just there Invisibly. Just like Jesus has been since 1914!"

Brilliant, best laugh I've had all day. Keep 'em comin'.

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Official: All Watchtower Brooklyn Properties Are Sold!!

by iclone in

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BobFlanagan007

Apperntly they've writen to all congregations to inform them of this "great" news. However said letter fails to actually mention the ammount of money they've made.

Can't imagine why? After all are you going to donate any of your hard earned window cleaning money to the society knowing they've just made $375million selling properties bought with your donations and maintained by volunteers, not to mention the $300million+ they've made sinse 2004 selling other properties they own.

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Talking to a JW extremist

by Kool Jo in

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so i had a conversation with a jw whom i communicate with via skype...the conversation went like this:.

kool jo: hey there, how have you been keeping?.

they're imperfect, but we need to obey them regardless.. kool jo: ok, i see.

BobFlanagan007

@designs & prime - I'm presuming it is real as I used to have conversations like this all the time with a certain JW friend.

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"People often wonder if deaf people can drive, get married, or raise a family."

by cedars in

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i've personally never wondered that, but apparently some people do.... (see 00:40 in the video below).

http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/americas/united-states/video-clip-asl-bible-helps-deaf-family/.

cedars.

BobFlanagan007

I can think of one thing deaf people can't do (according to the Governing Body anyway)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5F_yghhiss

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Crisis of Conscience Book on "Amazon" for sale $12.64

by Gayle in

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just looked there as someone i know needed one.

hope i don't break 'rules" of the site here on this.

i don't make any money out of this for sure but thought some here would like to know..

BobFlanagan007

Must have been reprinted recently as until a week or so ago secondhand copies were going for £100 ($145usa) here in Britiain.

It's only £9.38 postpaid on Amazon UK if anyone'e interested.

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Why no females on the governing body but ok to be one of annointed

by not bitter in

so why not female governing body?

why not female anything?

i mean, i kind of know the answer.

BobFlanagan007

"The Christ doesnt care about such matters"

He dosen't care because he doesn't exist. If he did I'm sure he'd do something about it.

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Found a good video on Youtube about WTBT$

by Newly Enlightened in

it's only about 8 minutes long.

but he brings up the child abuse policies and cover ups and was disfellowshipped for being an 'apostate & liar'.

it's pretty good:.

BobFlanagan007

I'm glad I watched that first video as it's short and straight to the point and actually taught me something I didn't know.

However you could have warned us that he quotes scripture right at the start as I initially thought "**** this, just another ex-JW who's swapped one set of lies for another", but I'm glad I stayed with it.

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Banned TV Shows - Tales of the Unexpected

by usualusername in

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as a kid a remember tales of the unexpected being frowned on as it had ouija boards in the opening credits.. .

do you recall any other shows being banned?.

uun .

BobFlanagan007

I loved that program, I seem to remember a couple of other things about it:

1) It very rarely actually had any supernatural content.

2) Never mind the ouija board (which thanks to horror films and the like people don't realise are actually 19th century toys and have nothing to do with true occult practices), what about the polarized image of the dancing naked lady during said opening credits? That surly would have made many a JW father aroused uneasy.

This thread actually reminds me of being out on FS with a sister and her addmiting that she stayed up late the previous night to watch the TV premier of of movie Zombie Flesh Eaters (the one with that underwater shark vrs zombie fight sequence). I think she knew I wouldn't snitch on her as my friends in the congregation knew I had a taste for non-mainstream books, music and stuff, and I admitted to her I'd concidered watching it myself but didn't as it was on too late.

Though even at my most hardcore JW ways I still believed entertainment was a matter of concious it still felt a bit naughty to admit that we both were interested in a movie that would at the very least get us a bollocking from the elders if they found out.