Posts by 4thgen

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In depth research reveals....

by Deltawave in

something i have noticed over the years is how much harder it is to research the history of the watchtower society from its own literature.

people have thrown away old publications in place of the watchtower library.

i beleive soon the watchtower library disk will be discontinued in place of the online library.

What is "The Truth"?

by EndofMysteries in

to jw's if you think about it, this is what "the truth" is..... .

"the truth" is that you must be in 'the truth' and spend every waking moment you have getting others in 'the truth'.

anything the governing body says to do is 'the truth'.

My 10 year old son almost Outed me as when someone showed him a Watchtower! "The Generation that won't die"

by PokerPlayerPhil in

i had a photo copy of the magazine "the generation that will never die!

" sitting in my office, he saw it and being the voracious reader he is, he asked me "why did the magazine say all those people would never die?

" i told him "humans make mistakes, they were wrong by claiming that.

Watchtower Society now PROMOTES using Social Media / Networks?

by FusionTheism in

jw
friends

have you seen this?.

http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/whiteboard-animations/social-network-smart/#?insight.

4thgen

This is one of the things that caused me to begin doubting that the GB was being influenced by God. How can something be so very evil one year and then a few years after have God's blessing?

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How to Wear a Pinkie Ring, by Stephen Lett, Governing Body Member

by Oubliette in

always the fashionista amongst the governing body members, mr. stephen lett recently showed us how even an older man can display a certain swagger, a certain je nesais quoi that says, "i'm one of the anointed, and you're not!".

he does this in so many ways, but the one i want to draw our attention to is the way he rocked the theocratic fashion world with his wearing of a very manly pinkie ring in a recent wtbts video.. - -.

stephen lett of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses demonstrating how to wear a pinkie ring.

4thgen

It's interesting that in this months broadcast, when he was asking for money, that the gold pinky ring suddenly disappeared.

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Br. Lett's Slight of Hand

by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

jw
friends

nice try brother lett.

you moved the cups around the table and thought we would not see the slight of hand you were handing us.

you begged for money but you have failed to show yourself capable of handling the monies already provided .

4thgen

What a stinkin liar! As said his body language says the opposite!

When he said they do not solicit that is another lie.

Solicit Definition: noun

1.

the act of soliciting.

2.

entreaty, urging, or importunity; a petition or request.

3.

enticement or allurement.

That entire talk was one big solicitation. Spin. Spin. Spin.

Why do they need so many Kingdom Halls when they sold off so many? What happened to all that money? Oh yeah, I forgot, they want more real estate.

“If you knew the circumstances accurately” God, that a farce!

I see he took off his gold pinky ring for the money grabbing talk.

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If the Watchtower truly collapsed, how would you deal with your JW relatives?

by nicolaou in

jw
friends

imagine the best case scenario.

the watchtower society implodes from within even making final printed admissions that it is voluntarily dismantling it's mission and legally dissolving the corporations.

oh happy day!

4thgen

Gently. Learning TTATT can be quite a shock. In private I'd be doing wild yahoos.

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Trying to live the rest of my life without being bitter.

by Bigdummy in

i'm new to this forum.. i was raised in " the truth" from age six and now i am in my mid 60's.

my wife was born in " the truth" and is very strong in the religion.

i have had many experiences during my lifetime with the other members of several congregations.

4thgen

Welcome to the forum. Bitterness is normal. We were duped. We believed that the "truth' was the "truth" but is was a lie. You devoted your live to what you honestly believed. You and all of us were deceived. With time, hopefully you can move beyond the bitterness. Be gentle with yourself. You have been through a traumatic awakening. You are welcome here, we all understand, even though we are all at different stages of recovery.

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I saw and heard something in a Kingdom hall I thought I would never witness!

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

when i was a kid i would hear religious songs on tv and start sining them... not knowing they were church songs... one day i started singing the hallelujah song (not sure the exact name of the song) my father quickly gave me a hard slap on the mouth and said if i ever sang that song again he would take his belt off and beat my butt until it was red!.

well fast forward 30 years..... the public speaker was missing today and so tv.jw>org to the rescue.... instead they decided to play the new video about the last hundred years since 1914.. instantly the hall was filled with the exact same song i was punished for!

yes a church song filled the hall for almost 5 minutes as we watch br.

4thgen

it seems like the way to sum up all the goings on is: What's good is bad and what's bad is good. What we were taught to believe is now no longer true. Just need to keep up with the new ... lies

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Those of you that born in the Borg in the late 60;s and early 70's

by James Mixon in

was life that bad for you?

we are really sorry...

4thgen

1975 not a big deal? It was a very big deal to those of us that lived through it! Where do you think the saying "Stay alive 'til 75." came from?