They started the same hype over the announcement that would "shock" old timers in the lead up to the AGM. it was just a damp fizzle. I'm never going to get pulled into this hype factory again. it will be another non-event, like the annual "Special Talk" - it is never special.
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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"
by breakfast of champions inthis is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.
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Does The State Have The Right To Quarantine Someone Because They Might Have Ebola?
by minimus inno doubt you have heard about the nurse that thumbed her nose to the state and went out of the house in spite of being ordered to stay at home.
what is your opinion on this?.
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hamsterbait
Does anybody remember the oldTwighlight Zone episode where a world weary man gets his wish to go back to the good old days?
yellow flags at one house red ones at others , warning of various deadly illnesses in the house? Or the ads in Nat Geo from the 30s "Katy can't play today she has a sniffle"
Antibiotics and modern meds have made us far too apathetic about infection. In a few years antibiotics will not work and millions, or even billions will die of simple infections. We are all free citizens like that nurse - but with freedom also comes duty and responsibility.
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Why does the Society no longer use strong language?
by LogCon inwhy does the society no longer use strong language, such as found in the march 1, 1949 wt, to expose false religion?.
"...for years now the united states government has had a succession of roman catholic men as postmaster general and in control of the post-office department, and about such there can be no doubt that they are agents and representatives of the vatican.
but to date has anyone ever heard of this religionist in office issuing an order forbidding the use of the united states mails for carrying on a racket of collecting money from roman catholics upon the representation that it is for the benefit of their dead.
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hamsterbait
The quote of Rutherfraud contains LOOOONG sentences. Most people now cannot retain the meaning of a sentence longer than ten words. If a word of three or more syllables appears near the beginning of a sentence, everything after is generally read by a brain on overload, and dumped.
The Babble Comics have to use shorter sentences and simpler vocabulary to appeal to the ignorant gofors the Borg is trying to suck in.
And the Comics are now written by ignoramuses, with no depth of reading, education, or life experience themselves. Most went to Beth Hell as kids, and never grew up. The GB are a bunch of dust farting reptiles who butt- kissed their way to the top, not by their knowledge or education. THEY prolly have a hard time understanding it. That's why the new "God's Kingdumb" book offers no cogent reasoning on anything.
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Reading the Watchtower and Awake! is like getting a college education!
by kairos inanybody remember hearing this?.
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is that comment in print anywhere?.
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hamsterbait
"It has been said that" how often we see this in the Babble Comics. Said BY WHOM, exactly??
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When elders became the disfellowshippers instead of the entire congregation.
by tim hooper ini'm trying to find the wt instructions for this procedure.
extensive googling brings up watchtower 1944 may 15 p.151 as the reference.
anyone able to look up the reference?
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hamsterbait
Paul said to reprove the sinner "before all onlookers"
now the Borg claims he meant only those who know about the sin. They have to give a local needs talk after a DF on the sin committed, no names mentioned, so everybody knows anyway- but mustn't talk about it, such things don't go on among Jehoobie's happified people.
Yet they condemned the Catholics for the unscriptural practice of excommunication.
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WT Study 26th Oct. '14
by BluesBrother ini could find another thread so i thought i might add a few comments here - not a full critique though.
"hear jehovah's voice wherever you are".
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140815/hear-jehovahs-voice/.
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hamsterbait
Look at the crotch of the "sister" beating her bongos - is this a shemale?
As for the guy watching TV - how do you know he isn't watching rubberface in the baggy pants, wishing he had hands just as big for bongo beating.
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Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?
by 3rdgen ina poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.
break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.
the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.
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hamsterbait
I remember the one or two going outside for a smoke in the early 70s before the 73 Witchtower that banned it as spiritism.
One morning a passerby asked the sister smoking why she was doing it? She replied: "Would YOU smoke inside your church?". That brings back a whole load of sad memories... and teary eyed thoughts. People you cared about who are dead, without getting the promises, ruined lives.
As Scarlett O'Hara said " Don't look back. " Sorry - off topic.
TINKER: Ah, intercourse - My Dad had a restaurant, and the waiters always loved asking the clients if they wanted an "intercourse" whilst waiting for the main dish. That was in the days when you got your dinner freshly cooked, and had to wait: No microwaves then.
Are there many members in the Intercourse congregation? Yes the town EXISTS!!
SIMON- omg! Cola cubes!!!! it must be 40 years since I had one. Can you still even get them, the soft centered ones? This thread is a great memory lane trip.
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My anointed mother sleep over!! She hears demon creaking at night and my wife cheats on me!
by Witness 007 invisiting her "lost son" and this morning she says there was demonic "knocking" on the windows and ceiling and she did not sleep.
my wife has her own buisness and works late so her holiness asked me to drive down to see if she was fornicating with anyone....she thinks two worldly people taking an elevator to the 10 floor would have had sex by the 5th floor....thats the quality of anionted alive today...she is not nuts a well respected pioneer nazi..... .
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One ignorant fool of a sister said that if you are being harrassed by deemunz - as she told her daughters (all of them nymphos who seduced each others husbands and father in laws) - switch on the electric light (demons are afraid of it) and shout Jehovah repeatedly.
Sheeesh!!
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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty inthis excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .
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hamsterbait
The video is a highly distilled taster. After that you need to do some homework.
Sadly many Christians - especially jdubs want somebody else to do their thinking for them, and that means letting ignorant old men, who went to Beth hell and cannot even think clearly themselves, decide that what they dont understand or know about is a lot of shite. But then so is most of what the religious press excretes faithfully.
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New Article on BEARDS and Attire of Jehovah's Witnesses
by jwfacts ini have had requests to add an article about beards and jehovah's witnesses.
it is interesting that there is virtually no statement that says a witness cannot have a beard, yet universally they do not have beards.
i have scoured quotes from all the threads on jwn, all references to beard on the cd watchtower library, and copies of elders letters that i have.
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hamsterbait
it is hilarious that in an earlier article scriptures were used to explain why we know Jesus didnt have a beard. Later the same scriptures were used to show why jesus had a beard.
This whole issue is as ridiculous as that of the Alpha and Omega - in 1976(??) it jumped from Jehovah to Jesus and back and forth for several months.