Posts by eyeuse2badub

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Update on U.S. Local Design/Construction Arrangement—November 2016

by wifibandit in

update on u.s. local design/construction arrangement—november 2016 video will be considered the week of november 7, 2016. english and spanish.

eyeuse2badub

The only reason they have the option of consolidating congregations into fewer kingdom halls is because the halls are half empty. They must have given up on their hope of filling halls to capacity through the preaching work. Amen brother!

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"Faithful slave" can you READ the Bible - let alone EXPLAIN it?

by The Searcher in

an org myth debunked - by the book they claim to have a better understanding of, than other religions.wt14 11/15 p. 30 - who are the two witnesses mentioned in revelation chapter 11?.

"......the account refers to god’s anointed ones who took the lead during a difficult time of testing.. so in the fulfillment of revelation chapter 11, the anointed brothers who took the lead at the time of the establishment of god’s kingdom in heaven in 1914 preached "in sackcloth" for three and a half years.

at the end of their preaching in sackcloth, these anointed ones were symbolically killed when they were thrown into prison for a comparatively shorter period of time, a symbolic three and a half days.

eyeuse2badub

They have been trying to explain this Hebrew mythology (the Bible) forever. Ain't going to ever make sense!

just saying!

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Chinese Communist Party to commence nationwide crackdown on Christianity including Jehovah's Witnesses

by jwleaks in

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8 october 2016. china's governing communist party is set to launch a nationwide crackdown on the christian church.. by matthew carney - abc.

the communist party has just enacted much tougher laws that criminalise christians if they do not pledge loyalty to the state.. chinese president xi jinping has warned that all religions now have to become "chinese" and the new laws will attempt to bring churchgoers and their leaders under party control.. the new laws will put the state firmly in charge, giving the communist party the ability to hire and fire church leaders and change religious doctrine to make it more chinese.... that means churchgoers will have to pledge loyalty to the communist party first.. there is good reason to be afraid.

chinese authorities have already started the crackdown in the christian heartland in the southern province of zhejiang.. it's been extensive and brutal.

eyeuse2badub

When this 'news' starts circulating in the jw conversation circles, it will be about "only" jw's being persecuted in China!

The end must be near!

just saying!

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What steps did you take to free yourself from the cult? mentally or physically?

by HereIgo in

first i ignored all of the elders phone calls to send my recommendation letter to my new congregation, truth is i had already started my fade and moved across town and didn't have a new congregation.

i deleted all jw friends on facebook.

i also threw away all of my public talks recorded on cd, all literature, even my book bag and my bible.

eyeuse2badub

Very little of 58 years as a JW remains as part of me, thankfully.

I'm with you Phizzy on how I freed myself from the clutches of the borg. I also spent about 58 years as a captive. It's pretty damn hard to free yourself from the only thing you ever allowed yourself to know and believe! The pain of facing the reality that the WTBTS is all a hoax was damn near unbearable after devoting nearly 6 decades of your life.

However, when things within the borg started failing the 'sniff test', that's when I did the unthinkable and started looking into the roots of jw's. The rest is history. I discovered the WTBTS to be very much a man made religion (as they all are) born at a time when people were less educated and/or less informed making them vulnerable.

Once freed from the borg mentally, it was easy to see that all religion and "holy books" are simply bull sh*t! To me the Bible is simply Hebrew mythology and nothing more.

Getting free mentally was the most important thing I found.

just saying!

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Question About David

by berrygerry in

1 samuel 15:22 famous wt verse emphasizing obedience.. if saul was severely disciplined for offering a burnt sacrifice, then what's going on with david in 2 samuel 6?.

17they brought the ark of the lord and set it in its place inside the tent that david had pitched for it, and david sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the lord.

18 after he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of thelord almighty.

eyeuse2badub

In mythology, the hero always gets away with shit that mere mortals are punished for. The Hebrew mythology, the Bible, has David as a hero and Saul the villian!

just saying!

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Jehovah`s Witnesses Religion based on First Century Christianity ?

by smiddy in

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who was the president of the first century christian congregation after jesus death , , the secretary ,the treasurer ,the field overseer ,the district overseer ,who were the lawyers protecting the congregations from secular authorities ,the mogul`s of real estate , buying up land and getting christians to build places of worship with free labor and then selling them off for a profit a few years down the track , with nothing going back to those who laboured on those projects .. where are the records on papyrus , that the 1st century witnesses counted their hours ,made return visits ,bible studies ,oops the bible wasnt even formulated then ,that didn`t occur until apostate christendom in the 3rd century came up with a number of books to be inspired ..

eyeuse2badub

And shouldn't all the men have beards?

just saying!

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Favorite & LEAST favorite CO's? DO's?

by HereIgo in

some were humble, but their were a few pompous asses who thought they were gods gift to the org and acted like they were ceo's of a fortune 500 company...

eyeuse2badub

John Mason was a bona-fide as*hole. He served around the San Jose area in CA. No one looked forward to his 'visit' and the servant body felt like they'd been "rode hard and put away wet" after his visit. Self righteous prick is the best way to describe him! But he was a company man.

The best was an old guy name Jim Waddington. He loved little kids, which I had 4 of, and everyone loved him. When he came to your home for a meal, he never talked jw stuff. Talked current events, family events, and sports. Loved that old guy!

just saying!

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Ridiculous ways you kept your "time going" in service?

by HereIgo in

i used to go out early mornings with 2 pioneer elders, we would drive 20 miles out of the territory (a big no-no) to look for hikers to preach to lol of course there were never any hikers.

then off to starbucks for another hour lol easy way to count 2-4 hours.

i am chuckling as i write this, what a joke!.

eyeuse2badub

I would say even much LESS than 1 billion hours!

There's a saying that; "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while." So if 8 million jw's are spending even 1 billion hours per year in fs, the number of converts per year should be much larger! Field service has become a formalistic regiment and nothing more.

My wife is part of a group of 4 sisters that always work together twice a week. They drive around to laundromats, bus stops, and coffee shops. They have bible studies with old women and troubled single moms. It's nothing more than a social circle that meets twice a week.

just saying!

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