Posts by Poztate

Hah.....You might have made it... BUT Englishman (who is a mod) must have wanted to welcome her first. He must have bumped your post down one just so he could do the honors of welcoming Bethgelert....I hope to be number three to welcome Bethgelert to the board but who knows what will happen to my post now...

Pozdrunk again?...

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Will the Society come up with new prophecy to cover the lack of growth now?

by AK - Jeff in

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was following mary's thread on the wt study of the annual report - what a hoot!.

in follow-up; for years we have heard that the org's growth was 'proof' of the 'truth'.

do you think the org will come up with some obsure scriptural/prophetic understanding to explain the reduced zeal for the 'kingdom' now?

Poztate

As already quoted, the scripture is at Matt24:13, "...and because of the increasing lawlessness the love of the greater number will cool off."

I seem to remember them applying this scripture to all the churches and the fact(1970's) that people were leaving their churches in droves. This showed they said that we were living in the last days. Would this be new light if they changed it to apply to themselves??

It never made sense to me because it was a quote for the "last days" and according to the WT only THEY had this "Love" in the time of the end? Was It just me...Am I old and senile (don't answer that) but does anyone else remember that point.

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1 John 4:1

by mjl in

went to the meeting this morning and stayed for the talk.

the speaker used a text that i thought was very ironic, 1 john 4:1 which reads " beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they origanate with god, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

" i found this ironic becuase we were trained not to test anything in the publications and never question what we hear from the platform.

Poztate

Gary, you have got to be kidding me, that was actually said from a platform? These people are even more far gone than I remember

They do live in their own little world.

Here is a link to the whole talk from Quotes site.

http://quotes.watchtower.ca/bewarethevoiceofstrangers.htm

I have been a JW for 40 + years, and I can say outright that we have always been taught to examine what we are told. I am preparing an essay to post here to show just that.

Good Luck...I won't be holding my breath waiting for it

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Gumbys Sunday School Sermon - Handicapped People

by gumby in

good morning fellow servants of the lord, and welcome!

lets all stand and sing song number #666 "our merciful god" .

*passes really big collection plate* .

Poztate

Brother Poztate has a nice nose when his finger isn't in during services.

I did that for so long one of my fingers fell off...had to quit..

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The Watchtower Saw It Coming!

by Englishman in

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this article made me smile:.

march 15, 1986.. allow no place for the devil!.

"ephesians 4:26, 27.. a vicious wild beast is on the prowl.

Poztate

Instead, they impugn the motives of anyone that raises them, or even anyone who remotely comes close to them:

They will never admit that the problem is them...not us. Almost 20 years after this article was written and nothing has changed.

They never want to take responsibility for their actions. I don't know if I should thank you for posting this or not. It just started to make me grumpy all over again.

Its latin for, literally "against [a] human being."

O.K. For you and SNG this is a warning. The only language allowed in this forum is english and it is preferred if you keep your english words to four letters or less. (for me)

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