Posts by eyeuse2badub

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Memorial

by Gorbatchov in

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what i noticed during the memorial is the over organised ritual aspect.

for a non jw is must be hard to follow.. for me, i noticed that during the memorial there is no attention for the historical jesus and the historical events.

it's all about the kingdom arrangement with it's central point, the governing body of jw.. do you noticed this also?.

I agree with all the comments so far. It really is such a sad demise of something that probably all of us, at one time, thought of as a very special event. It's become such a mundane ritual that most jw's hardly even talk about it except for the "special" invitation (busy work) campaign that precedes it.

I truly believe that even the gb can see that the enthusiasm that once surrounded the Memorial is waning. Hence, I noticed that a few years back the the term "Memorial season" was born within the wt organization. Am effort to boast morale? Yes, jw's now finally, have a holiday season also--and it's such a joyous season! lol

just saying!

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Disfellowshipped people are dead people?

by snugglebunny in

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skimming though my iphone earlier today i came across a fb post - which i now can't find!.

basically it was a claim that a gb member had stated that associating with a disfellowshipped person was akin to sleeping next to a corpse.. so obviously i'm curious as to whether anyone else has come across this..

eyeuse2badub

Basically it was a claim that a GB member had stated that associating with a disfellowshipped person was akin to sleeping next to a corpse.

Basically listening to anything that a GB member has to say these days is akin to being "brain dead". IMHO

If you follow their stupid ~~advise~~ commands on medical treatment, you will likely become a sleeping corpse.

just saying!

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A State of Emergency has been declared

by Bungi Bill in

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everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

(the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

eyeuse2badub

Whatever the hell you decide to do, remember that 23 loyal, obedient, jw's were swept away to their death in super typhoon Haiyan when it hit the Philippines a few years ago. Where were they? They were inside a Kingdom Hall worshiping jehober! So much for how jehober protects his loyal ones!

just saying!

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Money and Happiness

by berrygerry in

wt has made a number of references to this alleged quote by j. paul getty:.

“money doesn’t necessarily have any connection with happiness.

nothing in my wt life brought more stress and anxiety than not having enough money.. this quote makes far more sense:.

eyeuse2badub

Money can't buy happiness--true. But it sure as hell can buy a lavish new headquarters in upstate New York!

just saying!

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Were the apostles of the 'Anointed class' when they partook?

by why144000 in

according to john 20:22 the apostles did not receive the holy spirit until after jesus was resurrected.

wouldn't this make them part of 'the other sheep' when they partook of the bread and wine?.

eyeuse2badub

Also, I don't recall Jesus inviting any 'respectful observers' to watch as he and the apostles passed and partook of the bread and wine! What scriptures contain that account?

just saying!

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A baffling physics question

by FatFreek 2005 in

for several weeks i've been treating myself to a hot chocolate milk (well, soymilk) before bedtime.

some 16 oz soymilk which i heat on high in our microwave oven.

this is just enough time where the liquid begins to bubble along the top edge.. i then take it out of the microwave and place it on my kitchen gram scale, stir it good enough to redistribute the heat, then reset the scale to zero grams.. next, i squeeze in the hershey's sytup, "special dark mildly sweet chocolate" (fat free) into the warmed soymilk till the scale reads some 30 grams.

eyeuse2badub

I think that your scale may have "overlapping" numbers that sometimes get confused. If all else fails 'wait on jehober'. Final answer!

just saying!

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JW Letter Writing Conspiracy

by freemindfade in

just had a wild conspiracy theory.

get your tin hats everyone.

what if this mass letter writing is all a bethel conspiracy to increase declining service hours?

eyeuse2badub

I remember several 'letter writing' campaigns in the past to various government officials on behalf of jw's. If you were a business owner (which I was), you were especially asked to write a letter, on your business letterhead stationary.

Of course the idea was to impress the letter's recipient that even business 'leaders' were concerned. What joke! But I did it like a good little dubber!

just saying!

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Did the serpent have legs before the curse?

by Acluetofindtheuser in

genesis 3:14 – “then jehovah god said to the serpent: “because you have done this, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild animals of the field.

on your belly you will go, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.”.

the old gb and gb 2.0 differ on this matter.

eyeuse2badub

Not only did the serpent loose it's legs, it also lost it ability to talk to humans!

Probably big J's divine punishment for looking at a naked woman!

just saying!

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Dad Turns 70 Today

by neverendingjourney in

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and i can't wish him a happy birthday.

they converted when i was an infant, so birthdays were never a thing for us.

still, i'd love to be able to throw him a party, surround him with friends and family, and show him how much he's appreciated.

eyeuse2badub

What a coincidence that this post appears today. I'll turn 70 in a few days myself. I faded, quite successfully, several years ago after spending nearly my entire life as a dub. Something that really struck me was a saying I once read, "Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured!"

So happy birthday to both of us! In 70 years you've seen a lot and experienced a lot life. Unfortunately, for jw lifers, they just continue to endure life and miss out on the simple little things that makes life enjoyable. So sad!

I was a 'golden boy' of the 60's and 70's in jw-dom! You know all that 'theocratic' stuff that I did for the borg. Pioneered at 18, first public talk at 19, prison at 20 for draft evasion, elder at 24, circuit assembly speaker at 25, etc., etc.

Started my really serious doubting in 1995 with the 'generation' changes, took a serious look at our real jw history and faced the facts till I just couldn't take it anymore about 10 years ago. Lots of wasted time. But then, "Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured!" and i ain't dead yet!

just saying!

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More evidence beards are being eased in . . .

by neat blue dog in

the june 2017 watchtower tells the experience of a bible student who was homeless and unkempt, but improved his appearance after being preached to.. peter began to change.

he bathed, neatlytrimmed his beard, and put on the betterclothes that don offered him.

peter continued to maintain a clean appearance.. so here we see that with a neatly trimmed beard the watchtower's writers view him as having "a clean appearance".

eyeuse2badub

I started mine about mid November when the wt said it's okay if beards are common or cultural in your area. I figured, "what the hell". If the wt is going to be so f**king vague about stuff, it's time to start pushing the envelope. So far, a few slightly off hand comments but nothing to rough. Of course, I'm not being "used" in any way in the cong and barely attend anymore. Been inactive for a few years now since I "resighed" as an elder. I go on Sunday with my wife.

One of my former elder friend's did ask, "why now"? So I explained, " the the bible never speaks bad about beards so why is the org so concerned? Every outstanding male character in the bible had a beard including jesus and his pop."

Just saying!