Posts by zebagain

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Comfort for the Brokenhearted facebook page

by Pete Zahut in

i think the jw comfort for the brokenhearted facebook page needs a few more well placed comments from the other side.

i see that a lot of jw's i know have friended this site.. the poem below is one of their offerings.. .

https://www.facebook.com/pages/comfort-for-the-brokenhearted/344767848880643.

zebagain

Yes HERE. helping etc... But where does that end? week after week of the same and burnout follows swiftly with depression , suicide, financial despair for those left behind.

The times I have entered a kh and immediately had the gaze away greeting followed by 'where is (wife)'.. ( was aside talking). Ever obsessed that couples must be seen in micron proximity. helping? encouraged. Not when the big news is the state of relationships. Once when having a pre meeting convo I dropped the word ..'separated' into my convo. Amid all the babble three different sisters looked across the hall to make eye contact one from the diagonal opp corner. The other two were not even aware they had done it.

Is it any wonder about then i stopped talking to any of them just 'hello', 'hows the baby', nod 'thats nice' and sit down face into bible.

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Drinking and JWN

by BU2B in

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friends

i am drinking a japanese beer called kirin ichiban right now exploring the wonderful threads of the past here on jwn.

i love this forum so much.. how many here enjoy an adult beverage while browsing jwn?

i love all of you guys :).

zebagain

at the end of the day occasionally a modest glass of "Chateau cardboard"-Port is nice.

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Anglican school phobia

by Frazzled UBM in

after a long and frustrating houe search in london we finally found a place that fitted all our requirements and my wife seemed happy with and i was successful in the bidding process and had our offer accepted even though it wasn't the highest beacuse we can exchange contracts quickly and now we have lawyers working on exchanging contracts soon.

so everything is going swimmingly and then my wife demands that we go and look at a house being offered by the same agent we used to make the offer on the house we are buying.

i am like wtf, if we ask the agent to see another property they will tell the vendors for the place we are buying and they will revoke acceptance of our offer and we will be back to square one.

zebagain

Your the Dad do it! if the contracts are signed its done. Suggest strongly to "I dont know" that you "Do know". and if you bomb out of the just signed contract then you both may well be up for a hefty fee to the vendors of that property. Then its no house and a big fee into the bargain.

If she can not or will not say what it is that causes her this vexation then it cant be too damned important! After school clubs? Children go to school for the primary learning not the after school clubs. or is this child planning to clean windows?

rant over crap day.

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Books that tell...

by zebagain in

of the many books that tell another story of the wts written by ex bethelites or people with a bent for research; well i have noticed the price of these on the world market.

take the one by franz "crisis of conscience" and it is hundred s of dollars secondhand and not avalable new.

hmmm i wonder if the society or its stooges are buying up every copy and as an aside forcing the price up.

zebagain

Of the many books that tell another story of the wts written by ex bethelites or people with a bent for research; well i have noticed the price of these on the world market. Take the one by franz "Crisis of Conscience" and it is hundred s of dollars secondhand and not avalable new. Hmmm I wonder if the society or its stooges are buying up every copy and as an aside forcing the price up. Comments please.

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There will never be another Raymond Franz

by rory-ks in

i would not be in the least surprised if a prospective new member of the governing body has to sign a legal contract promising that should they ever leave the gb, they must maintain complete silence about what goes on in the inner sanctum..

zebagain

abit like so many folk who have sued and won get hit with silence clauses.

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The issue of land and a new KH.

by quellycatface in

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friends

in my ex kh, the elders were always saying we needed a new kh but there was a shortage of land.eh?

there's bloody loads around here and in other areas which would be suitable.

what's the deal with this?.

zebagain

They want the land donated.

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New JW Elder Instructional Video, How Many Times Was Jesus Christ Mentioned? His name?

by RottenRiley in

i counted zero, can anyone else verify the watchtower's new aid to instruct judicial matters never mentioned our lord and saviour jesus christ, the messiah?.

or for my deist and atheist friends, did they mention the name of jesus of nazareth?

thank you friends!.

zebagain

I was ever annoyed at conventions where the dramas with pre recorded American accented sound track used 'Jae-Hooo-vahr'.

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China Fashion then - and now (See the Chinese girls at Sochi)

by fulltimestudent in

not so long ago everyone (sort of) in china wore the ubiquitous 'mao suit.

' it was really a misnomer as that style was adopted by the guomindang (kmt) in the decade after the collapse of the qing dynasty.

communist party members also started wearing it, after dr. sun yatsen invited the communists to join the guomindang.

zebagain

beautiful, elegant,personal disciplined, with good manners and gentle pride the CPR has every right to be proud of them.

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German "JW's" just after WW2

by Phizzy in

when i was growing up in the religion i heard a number of times that immediately after ww2 many jw's in germany left the religion.. i was told that this was, despite their courageously opposing the nazi regime, and enduring concentration camps etc, after the war , they fell prey to "materialism".. there was much shaking of heads as to how this could happen.. whilst reading an old thread the other day, i read there that these ones who left did so because they did not agree with doctrinal changes that had gone on whilst they had been cut off by the nazis and the war, "materialism" was nothing to do with it.. is this another case of watchtower revisionist "history" ?.

does anyone know the truth about what happened at this time ?.

zebagain

The bethel boys were safe in NY. Had they gone to the US State Dept before the US engaged hostilities with Germany and asked, could have been sponsor of persecuted ones in Nazi dominated lands. No? did they? when so many could have been got out via 'non aligned ' or neutral countries. Nope the wts wanted martyrs.

The german jw when released they wanted to get a house or apartment and live in dignity and try and put their lives back together after months or years of terror, living around their own faeces, dead people, daily murder and starvation. Who can blame them for wanting what the world called normal. What right the bethel boys to call down judgement on them for being ....'materialistic.'

I ask. Have any of the GB at any time ever visited Aushwitcz?

Locate and read a book "While Six Million Died" for this work gives a broader picture of things happening outside of the holocaust. In one part of this work it reports the Australian government (under PM Menzies, Liberal) refused refugee entry, immediate repatriation to Australia of 100,000 Austrians when Hitler took over Austria.

The reply to the panic stricken Australian Embassy was "We dont have a Jewish problem, we dont want one". None survived.

Sir82: " a boulder of salt".. love it.

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Sing Dirges to Jehovah?

by donny in

back in 1985 my then-wife and i were having a lunchtime "gathering" at our place to show some support to the ones in our congregation who were full-time pioneers.

i had just recently received the vinyl collection of the songs featured in the song book "sing praises to jehovah" which had been released the previous year.. .

many of these melodies sounded depressing to me although i would have never admitted it at the time.

zebagain

None match the average untrained voice. There is no base parts for males no high parts for females voices. No praise and that crap recorded piano music. Ugh!