Posts by jookbeard

looking from the outside thats how we all probably was like, 2 hours sat in an uncomfortable stuffy hall hearing the same old boring stuff week after week, year after year, the they call it a spiritual paradise!

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When you were really "in", did you have a pet idea that would steer wt into divine favor?

by prologos in

wt writers ( klein) admitted at one time, that his majesty's doctrinal ship was zigzagging to find the right course, and many of us believed, that if we accepted the bible as true, cleaning up the teachings would establish the right bearing.

so: did you have a hobby-horse idea you were riding?

writing to brooklyn perhaps?

jookbeard

the old fables and urban legends that there are hidden manuscripts in the Vatican that prove the WTS is being used by God, and that the Devil is so convinced that jw's are truly gods chosen people that he would do anything to get us to leave the faith etc, I believed it for a little whole, sad was'nt I!

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BEWARE - More force adding on FB

by JRK in

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they are doing it again.. a new group trying to boost membership is adding people without permission.. "ex-jehovah's witnesses aka behind the veil of jw.org" added me this afternoon.

they were bragging about how quickly they grew to over 2000 members.

i quickly exited the group.

jookbeard

he's recently re-added me again to his group without any prompting or requests, It makes little difference to me as I live alone and have been out decades but he has to be careful just adding people without any notification, people with families who are jw's in households where there is a doubter and where the jw's would be looking out for what kind of stuff they are looking at online etc.

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WT's expert on blood!

by Joyzabel in

the january 8, 2000 awake magazine published an article "the growing demand for bloodless medicine and surgery".

this article has been quoted extensively by jws as support for their "scientific" justification for refusing blood products.. a quote from that article that is familiar to most jws and exjws is this one:.

“all those dealing with blood and caring for surgical patients have to consider bloodless surgery.”—dr.

jookbeard

well spotted

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Victoria Wood dies

by Xanthippe in

i'm shocked to hear that victoria wood has died of cancer.

she was only 62, so sad.

she was one of the first female comedians, and paved the way for the those women that followed.

jookbeard

very talented lady a sad loss Pat and Margaret was brilliant

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Prince dead at 57

by Sanchy in

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it appears he has indeed died.

sad story.. news link: here.

jookbeard

hearing it on various platforms

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Marking Talk of Couple

by Hadriel in

at no time did the elders ever mention apostasy.

days later after a shepherding call which only covered child abuse handling they are being marked as if they are trying to get their own followers etc.

so so sad.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktm7fsqwrw.

jookbeard

it sickens me to the core hearing this PoS banding around the word "mentally diseased" I wonder if he has experience of dealing or caring for someone who has genuine mental health issues.

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Door to Door

by Drifting Away in

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i hear my wife say to me " we are the only religion that does the will of god , and that is to preach door to door, and speak about gods kingdom" and in one sense she is correct, i know there are others that preach door to door, but then someone told me door to door, does not literally mean door to door in modern times.

i was confused, has anyone ever heard of this before?

jookbeard

it makes no difference even if very single scripture in the bible commanded Christians go D2D, they are false prophets promoting a entirely different version of what is meant to be the preaching of gods kingdom, they canvass for the WTS, the same the Mormons doing it for the CoLDS, a simple question I always ask jw's is to explain to me in their own words in a few sentences what is the kingdom of god that the WTS is preaching around the earth? than I tell them if you read the bible completely from cover to cover you get an entirely different message, unrecognisable, and show my from the bible where is states their version of it? they cant simple, a false message preached by false prophets, epic fail. They have got everything wrong from JC invisible presence, the selection of a mouthpiece on earth in 1919, the end of the Gentile Times, the different heavenly classes of Christians, the role of the holy spirit, their lunacy of their interpretation of the Book of Revelation, the Types and Anti-types, The King of the North, the end time dates and speculations the list is endless.