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  It just keeps getting better and better.

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  two comments at last weeks meeting:.

  1. the education that we receive at the kingdom.

  hall is the best in the universe.. 2. the movie "the advengers" should not be seen because.

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  You just can't this stuff up.

  At a previous meeting it was said from the stage that

  the Hunger Games movie was "off limits" to JW's.
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  It just keeps getting better and better.

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  two comments at last weeks meeting:.

  1. the education that we receive at the kingdom.

  hall is the best in the universe.. 2. the movie "the advengers" should not be seen because.

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  Two comments at last weeks meeting:

  1. The education that we receive at the Kingdom

  Hall is the best in the universe.

  2. The movie "The Advengers" should not be seen because

  it is a part of Babylon the Great since the super hero's

  represent the Nephlem.

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  If you knew that a murder was going to take place......

  by Sour Grapes in

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  if you knew that a murder would take place and did.

  nothing to stop it would you share some responsibility?.

  if you knew that your neighbor was going to be robbed.

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  I guess that at times it is a little confusing to me. I want

  to believe that God cares and that He has some sort of

  a master plan, but at times I just don't know.

  I still say grace before meals to thank God for the food that

  He provides but then I realize that if God gave me this food

  then why doesn't He give food to millions of other people

  who are starving to death? It sorta makes me feel guilty

  for even thanking Him for the food.

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  If you knew that a murder was going to take place......

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
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  if you knew that a murder would take place and did.

  nothing to stop it would you share some responsibility?.

  if you knew that your neighbor was going to be robbed.

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  If you knew that a murder would take place and did

  nothing to stop it would you share some responsibility?

  If you knew that your neighbor was going to be robbed

  and did nothing about it would you have any responsibility?

  God has the ablity to stop all murders and all crime.

  If He does nothing to stop it does He have any responsibity?

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  An email sent to me- we are reallly close to the end

  by Sour Grapes in

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  subject: short illustration regarding the "cowbird"hello, we recently dedicated our remodeled kingdom hall here in los angeles , and our guest speaker was bro.

  javier hernandez from brooklyn bethel.

  bro.

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  Subject: Short illustration regarding the "Cowbird"Hello, We recently dedicated our remodeled Kingdom Hall here in Los Angeles , and our guest speaker was Bro. Javier Hernandez from Brooklyn Bethel. Bro. Hernandez did a program in English and Spanish, which was outstanding. Then on Sunday he gave our Public Talk and then a service talk entitled "Imitate Their Faith." It highlighted the hard work of the governing body, and why we should imitate their example. Bro. Hernandez is very knowledgeable of the Governing Body, because he serves as Bro. Herd's personal secretary.

  I have to relate the wonderful illustration he gave of the lazy cowbird. It is so good. Bro. Hernandez grew up in West Texas , and often saw cowbirds. These birds spend most of their time on the backs of cows eating parasites. When they spot a bird building a nest they will wait for the bird to leave and then go and lay their eggs in someone else's nest. The cowbird is lazy, so it goes back to the cow. The unsuspecting bird doesn't notice the extra eggs, and when they hatch, she begins flying off to feed them. This tires her out so that when her own eggs hatch she is too weak to feed them, and her babies end up dying.

  Today Satan is like the cowbird. He watches us and then tries to drop eggs into our nest. They may be work, school, entertainment, recreation, or whatever, and we begin to take more care of Satan's eggs than our own spiritual needs. If we are not careful, our spirituality will die because we are too busy feeding Satan's eggs. So watch out for those deadly eggs and get them out of your nest!

  What a simple practical real life illustration! Maybe you have heard it before but it was so good I had to share. Bro.Hernandez also repeatedly said we are living in the last seconds of the last days. No doubt working closely with the Governing Body, that phrase is common. It's a good reminder of our need to get and be ready.
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  "some were led to believe that the end would come in 1975"

  by Sour Grapes in

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  last week a young elder giving the public talk made.

  the statement that "some were led to believe that the.

  end would come in 1975, but aren't we so thankfull.

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  Who remembers the WT anthem "stay alive till 75"?

  At our circuit assemblies we had signs on the stage

  that would say 28 months to go. Then then next circuit

  assembly it would be 22 months to go. I wish that I

  had pictures of that. As we were in 1975 I noticed that

  the signs came down. I thought that was strange.

  Well I guess in hind sight that I did stay alive till 75 and

  I stayed alive until 2012.

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  "some were led to believe that the end would come in 1975"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
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  last week a young elder giving the public talk made.

  the statement that "some were led to believe that the.

  end would come in 1975, but aren't we so thankfull.

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  One thing I will say about the early 1970's and being a JW

  was there was alot excitment and enthusiam. Our KH was packed with

  no empty seats. There were 6 elders in my Hall and I was

  one that at first did not believe that the end was going to

  happen in 1975 because "no one knows the day or the hour."

  Then I got called on the carpet for not following the lead of the

  Witchtower Society and I started to think maybe it will happen

  and I got caught up in the frenzy. I recall in January of 1976

  that this can't be until I heard the talk from Brother Franz gave

  that we do not know when Eve was created. So if God waited

  6 months to create her after Adam's creation than the 6,000 years

  of man's existence would take us into 1976 and if God waited a year to

  create Eve then it could be the end of 1976. I then began to realize that

  I had beed dupped.

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  "some were led to believe that the end would come in 1975"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last week a young elder giving the public talk made.

  the statement that "some were led to believe that the.

  end would come in 1975, but aren't we so thankfull.

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  As I looked around the Hall this morning and saw so

  many people in their 70's and 80's, I did not see much

  joy in their eyes. They realize that as the "light gets brighter

  and brighter" that they are getting older and older and chances

  are they will not be amoung the 'millions now living will never die."

  I am in my 60's and have accepted that I will die which I did

  not believe once upon a time when the end was near back

  in the 70's.

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  "some were led to believe that the end would come in 1975"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last week a young elder giving the public talk made.

  the statement that "some were led to believe that the.

  end would come in 1975, but aren't we so thankfull.

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  Last week a young elder giving the public talk made

  the statement that "some were led to believe that the

  end would come in 1975, but aren't we so thankfull

  that did not happen?"

  The insinuation is made that back in 1975 that some

  Witnesses drew incorrect conclussions about the nearness

  of Armageddon, while the faithfull ones knew better and did not

  hold that believe. The elder giving the talk was not even born until

  after 1975 and does not know the truth about 1975. The exact opposite

  is what is the truth. I was an elder in 1972 who gave up going to a 2 year

  school to be a medical technician and was counseled by other

  elders that I was showing lack of faith in the Society if I go to

  school to get training for something that would not be needed in

  a few years. If you did not endorse the time table pushed

  by the Watchtower then you were considered weak and lacking

  faith. How things get twisted around and how quick we forget

  what actually happened during the early 1970's.

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  Proof that shows just how intelligent JW's are!!!

  by Sour Grapes in

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  yesterday during the public talk, the elder was talking.

  about the reality god's kingdom said "that 7.5 million.

  people would not spend billions of hours going from door.

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  Yesterday during the public talk, the elder was talking

  about the reality God's Kingdom said "that 7.5 million

  people would not spend billions of hours going from door

  to door if God's Kingdom were not real." Yep, that

  cinched it for me. Now I am a believer.

  After the meeting one of the sisters invited my wife

  to go on a Bible study with someone who is in the hospital

  that evening. My wife said that she could meet her

  at the hospital after she buys groceries. The sister

  asked my wife if she will be wearing slacks and my wife

  said yes. The sister then proceeds "well, you can come

  to the study but you can't count your time if you are not

  wearing a skirt."

  Somone take a gun and just shoot me.

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