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Did Jehovah's Witnesses Plagiarize HWA's False Prophecy Of 1975?

by Bangalore in

did jehovah's witnesses plagiarize hwa's false prophecy of 1975?.

http://livingarmstrongism.blogspot.com/2013/10/did-jehovahs-witnesses-plagiarize-hwas.html.

bangalore.

littlemike

David7

You are talking total rubbish. I was born in 1959. Told not to get further education. I remember loads of meeting assemblies. Where District Overseers went on about 1975. Stood on platform "How many months till 1975" We were told not to get a career in a 1968 Awake. Why get a career when this world is going down in the nesxt few years. like going on the Titanic. People sold their houses. Did not get pensions. Took part time work and pioneered as world ending in 75. We had to get the Good News of the Kingdom preached tp save lives.

They very cleverly stopped printing all relavent articles. Most were in the Kingdom Ministry which is not available.

I did not think I would leave school, get married, have kids. I am now 54. And I was TOLD the end of the world was 1975. FACT

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Pink Floyd - Your Favorite Songs by the group?

by Rapunzel in

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any takers?

littlemike

Life long Floyd fan

Favourite tracks include

Dogs from the Animals album

Comfortably Numb The Wall album

Whats the Deal from Obscured By Clouds

Wish You Were Here

Echoes from Meddle

The Final Cut and the Gunners Dream

Anyway the Floyd are one of my biggest passions in life saw them do the Wall twice in 1980 and 1981 seen Roger Waters solo 3 times and Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall

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My wife left me two weeks ag

by littlemike in

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i dont post on here that often but look everyday.. i used to be an elder and left the witnesses 5 years ago.

my wife left 6 years ago.. in my opinion my wife and i have had the best 5 years of our lives because we have been married 28 years.. after 28 years of marriage she sent me a text you need to go home there is a letter on our bed.

in the letter she clearly states she has left me because she does not love me in the real way.

littlemike

Hi Everyone

Thank you for all the kind messages you have sent me. They are very encouraging at such a dark time as this.

I hope most of you are right about in the long term being happier because that certainly does not seem possible at the moment.

Thank you

Mike

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My wife left me two weeks ag

by littlemike in

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i dont post on here that often but look everyday.. i used to be an elder and left the witnesses 5 years ago.

my wife left 6 years ago.. in my opinion my wife and i have had the best 5 years of our lives because we have been married 28 years.. after 28 years of marriage she sent me a text you need to go home there is a letter on our bed.

in the letter she clearly states she has left me because she does not love me in the real way.

littlemike

Thanks lovely comments but at the moment so painful I feel my life has ended. I know it hasnt but I have built up all my future plans around my wife since I left the Witnesses and now she has gone.

I have even had thought of going back to the Witnesses because all my old friends are there. However I cannot do that because I have read everything that proves it not the truth

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My wife left me two weeks ag

by littlemike in

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i dont post on here that often but look everyday.. i used to be an elder and left the witnesses 5 years ago.

my wife left 6 years ago.. in my opinion my wife and i have had the best 5 years of our lives because we have been married 28 years.. after 28 years of marriage she sent me a text you need to go home there is a letter on our bed.

in the letter she clearly states she has left me because she does not love me in the real way.

littlemike

I dont post on here that often but look everyday.

I used to be an elder and left the Witnesses 5 years ago. My wife left 6 years ago.

In my opinion my wife and I have had the best 5 years of our lives because we have been married 28 years.

After 28 years of marriage she sent me a text you need to go home there is a letter on our bed. In the letter she clearly states she has left me because she does not love me in the real way. I am like a brother to her! Then she admits to lies and betrayal and says whe is madly in love with someone and he makes her feel like a real woman!!

We have three lovely kids. We never used to argue. Lovely holidays, lovely house and all you get after 28 years is a letter.

How crap is that..

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My Dad died on Friday

by littlemike in

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i dont often post on here but lurk everday.

i was an elder for 11 years, raised as a witness from birth and eventually left in 2002 aged 42.. my dad died on friday aged 87. he was a witness baptized in 1940. he was congregation servant and then elder in hull, england.. we were arranging his funeral tonight with my 2 brothers who are still witness elders.

all they were interested in was what he had done in the "truth".

littlemike

The other point I wanted to clarify is that I wrote this story over two years ago, not as a result of my dad passing away.

New friends and work colleagues have read it and been very moved.Its just a shame no Jehovahs Witness has read it.

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My Dad died on Friday

by littlemike in

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i dont often post on here but lurk everday.

i was an elder for 11 years, raised as a witness from birth and eventually left in 2002 aged 42.. my dad died on friday aged 87. he was a witness baptized in 1940. he was congregation servant and then elder in hull, england.. we were arranging his funeral tonight with my 2 brothers who are still witness elders.

all they were interested in was what he had done in the "truth".

littlemike

Thank You

Many thanks for all your kind messages and thoughts.

Just to clarify the situation. All my children also left shortly after I left. Therefore all my immediate family are out. We obviously have no close Witness aquaintances whatsoever. Some say hello if we see them, and one or two talk to me in connection with my business if I want to spend money with them!

The only difficulty with this decision is both my brothers and all their children are still Witnesses.

The only real contact I have with them is my brothers. One who is ill himself still plays golf with me and we just dont talk about anything JW, and the other livers out of time and we keep in touch about once a month and see him two or thre times a year.

That is the only scary thing about whether to send my story to my ex-colleagues. It is possible it would then get to them even though they are in different congregations or if they decided to disfellowship me after 5 years then obviously the golf would go by the board.

On the other hand I feel very strongly that it is not fair that all my close ex-witness colleagues can make wrong assumptions as to why I left. They made up rumours about my wife and obviously blamed her for me leaving.

I feel I should be allowed to explain, but then the dilemna is it better that they beleive a lie or go through the hurt of discovering it is not the truth.

However in the real world I think they are so brainwashed they would just ignore the evidence and argumentation.

Hope that clarifies the situation

Mike

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My Dad died on Friday

by littlemike in

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friends

i dont often post on here but lurk everday.

i was an elder for 11 years, raised as a witness from birth and eventually left in 2002 aged 42.. my dad died on friday aged 87. he was a witness baptized in 1940. he was congregation servant and then elder in hull, england.. we were arranging his funeral tonight with my 2 brothers who are still witness elders.

all they were interested in was what he had done in the "truth".

littlemike

I dont often post on here but lurk everday. I was an elder for 11 years, raised as a Witness from birth and eventually left in 2002 aged 42.

My dad died on Friday aged 87. He was a Witness baptized in 1940. He was congregation servant and then elder in Hull, England.

We were arranging his funeral tonight with my 2 brothers who are still Witness elders. All they were interested in was what he had done in the "truth". No mention of his work, family life etc. He was honestly a leader in 1/2 congregations in our area and now there are 7.

The funeral is on Friday. I left 5 years ago after doing all the usual research and confirming what I had alway secretly thought.

When I left in 2002 as an ex elder and person who was often on the Circuit Assemblies, nobody actually asked why I had left

I in the next 2 years wrote my life story of of about 70 pages which was very helpful to me to get the reason off my chest.

I have often said when my father passes away I would send all my ex-close Witness friends my life story which goes into absolutely everything! Ray Franz, Carl Olof Johnsonn etc, everything!

This has now happened, and I am keen to do it, but my kids dont agree.

My explanation is "Nobody Asked Why" if it was the truth it would stand up to any critisism.

They all came up withj there own theores as to why I left, which were wrong such as Materialism, to save his marriage etc, but they

were wrong

I always said when my dad passed away I would send them my story as to why I left. The story is exceedingly detailed about 1914/607 etc and all the other false teachings.

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK SHOULD I SEND MY 6 OR 7 CLOSES WITNESS FRIENDS MY STORY

CONSEQUENCES!

1.My 2 brothers wont talk to me

2. Be disfellowshipped

But everyone will know the TRUTH.

Opinoin please

Mike

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Did being an elder jepordize your own family?

by avidbiblereader in

do you think being an elder jepordized your own family or do you know of elders who burnt themselves out at the expense of the congregation and let their own families go to the way side?

do you have experiences that this laboring for the congregation has ruined families?.

i tried to be balanced but to do it all, i remember getting up at 2:30 am before work to work on parts so to have time with my daughter but i feel that i took time that was and should have been devoted to my family that had to be put into the congregation for any reason.

littlemike

I think this is one of the most under stated facts of being an elder as a Jehovahs Witness. I was an elder for 10 years. My wife was pregnant with our third child at the time I was appointed. I at the time obviously beleived I was doing the right thing.

Wont go into a long story now, but my wife and I have been out for nearly 5 years. Just prior to leaving we nearly split up as we argued for over a year.

I have eventually realised that in the 10 yrs I was an elder I lost my family. I had three children and was not at home as often as I should have been. My elders job came first and family a very poor second. My wife did everything to support me being an elder. How sad is that. In reality I was not there for my children. I had a full time job and if I wasnt preparing a meeting item on night I would be taking the lead in evening witnessing, shepherding, doing the secretarys job etc, etc. It was like a second full time job which in my case caused a nervous breakdown in 1995. Unfortunately it took me to 2002 to leave after doing all the research.

I am now totally amazed at:

1. Most Witness marriages surviving at all.

2. ANY elder marriages surviving. The wife just gives up her husban to the organisation.

So the answer is YES and the number of elder who left or got disfellowshipped or split up from their wife is 100% proof of that fact.

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Generaration doctrine still current on Watchtower Site

by littlemike in

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it is now over 11 years since the wtbts abandoned the generation doctrine linking those being born before 1914 and still being alive when armageddon arrives.. however it is still available as current doctrine on the watchtower web site.

this is not just a simple mistake.

the society did not have this web site running in 1995 when the doctrine was changed.

littlemike

It is now over 11 years since the WTBTS abandoned the generation doctrine linking those being born before 1914 and still being alive when armageddon arrives.

However it is still available as current doctrine on the Watchtower web site. This is not just a simple mistake. The society did not have this web site running in 1995 when the doctrine was changed. So somebody has deliberately put this 1993 article on the site.

TRY IT YOURSELF :- In the search bar on the main home page type" generation" and it comes up with 39 references. You only have to go to the second heading "Gods purpose soon to be realised". Read that article and it is still teaching a doctrine dropped 11 years ago!!!!

Maybe somebody should tell them about receiving new light or do we have them before a comittee for apostate teachings. If a brother said that in his talk he would have to correct it yet Gods true organisation is still publishing this UNTRUTH on its site.