Posts by cheerios

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Does anybody in London know anything about this???

by brizzzy in

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i'm a californian, but a good friend in london just texted me saying there's a blitz of about 50 jehovah's witnesses in croydon right outside of where she's eating loaded up with watchtowers and setting up a stall and a speaker with a megaphone.

she also says that some of them are women in wheelchairs and that they're rolling in front of passers by and blocking them when they try to ignore them.

she says all of the pedestrians are telling them to fuck off and leave them alone because they're not interested in a cult, haha.. is this something new that the society is encouraging over there (or even more scary, everywhere?

cheerios

the "not allowed to play chess" was a bit of an exaggeration.

i remember the magazines way back said that true christians would not learn war games, and the magazine specifically mentioned that chess was a game of war. while not coming out and saying: you are not allowed to play chess ... they did heavily imply that true christians would not do so. many dubbies started saying 'the society says you cannot play chess' even though those words didn't specifically appear in that article.

with the word games that the WT$ plays, i think they know the impact that their words will have .. it's all about control.

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One reason JW's go to their Meetings

by Sour Grapes in

last week i drove by the kh thursday at 6:25 pm which is.

35 minutes before the meeting starts and there were already.

15 cars in the parking lot.

cheerios

i always used to hear: get there early so you can be encouraging to the weaker ones ... so logically, if you are there early, you are not a weak one ... looking back, i am left with the general conclusion: WTF WAS I THINKING???

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Are You For Or Against The Death Penalty?

by minimus in

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i clearly am for it if it's proven without a doubt that a person murdered another in cold blood.

recently, in connecticut, a man was convicted of killing 2 young girls and their mother.

the animal raped them and almost killed the defenseless husband/father who could do nothing while these atrocities were being carried out in his own home!.

cheerios

i am on the fence ... for some cases, yes absolutely. in other case, not sure. while we do have some evidence that proves that mistakes have been made, do we know what the percentage of failure is?

what bothers me about life in prison is that the rest of us have to foot the bill of the prisons. maybe we should just wall up new york city and put them all in there :)

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bethel brother murdered by fellow JW

by InquiryMan in

this took place in the "branch-town" of selters in germany in front of more than 30 other witnesses.. it was a knife-stabbing that took place without a word or anything in advance that could explain why it happened.. quite a tragedy... .

http://www.fnp.de/tz/region/lokales/tod-eines-taeters_rmn01.c.8415611.de.html.

(if one puts the url in google-translate, one might understand what it is all about for those who do not speak german)..

cheerios

frankly, i am surprised that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often. as wound up as the dubs are, it would seem that life's pressure cooker would cause more to snap when they are not given any kind of justice (not saying that is the case here, just making a generalisation).

i know when i was having severe problems with a violent spouse, the elders did nothing except blame me for 'not studying more with her' ... so she attacks me and i get counseled ... perhaps something happened between these two and the elduh's did their usual nothing except make the victim feel bad .. and then the victim snapped ... (a theory, at any rate)

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Can we understand the Bible without the Watchtower?

by brotherdan in

not according to c.t russell.

in the september 15, 1910 wt he made these shocking claims regarding the 6 scripture studies that he wrote:.

"that is to say, they are not merely comments on the bible, but they are practically the bible itself...".

cheerios

@ aguest: i appreciate your faith and your wanting to believe (in something, as most of us want to do); however, selling people is the trademark of ignorant, lowly cultures that have no value on human life. the hebrews were supposed to be god's people and set above the rest of the nations. in this, your logic falls short. if the hebrews really were above the rest of the nations, then women wouldn't need protection - they would be considered equals and treated thusly. because god would have ensured that they did that, with the 52 bazillion laws given to them, you'd think that somewhere in there would be maybe a single law that forbade slavery or denigration of women ... that is if those laws really did come from a supreme being.

at least it seems that way to me.

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Can we understand the Bible without the Watchtower?

by brotherdan in

not according to c.t russell.

in the september 15, 1910 wt he made these shocking claims regarding the 6 scripture studies that he wrote:.

"that is to say, they are not merely comments on the bible, but they are practically the bible itself...".

cheerios

well, one thing is clear ... we need pyramidologists ...

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God created all things. Does that mean he is worthy of respect?

by sabastious in

revelation 4:11 - 11 you are worthy, our lord and god, .

to receive glory and honor and power, .

for you created all things, .

cheerios

if this god person wants my respect, he needs to do something to earn it. this whole "well i made you and gave you this mysterious book that is not really clear and is controversial and can say whatever people want it to say and is often abused ... but if you dont do what i say i'm going to kill you forever and ever" crap is not deserving of anything but scorn in my opinion.

i sure as hell dont treat my kids that way.

that's one reason why i dont believe that the god of the bible is true

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Does the Watchtower contain photo's of the Devil

by jwfacts in

i have not been able to find any photo's of satan the devil in the watchtower.

there are photo's of the serpent with eve, satan's hand offering kingdoms to jesus and a shadowy cloaked figure speaking to jesus on the mountain.

apart from that i cannot locate any of a proper looking devil.

cheerios

whenever they post the photo of the gibbering buddies ... they post a picture of the collective Satan Class

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Oompa update

by Robert7 in

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i don't post much, so most of you don't know me.

i live in nc near oompa, and he has become a good friend with my wife and i over the last few years.. so as an update, my wife visited oompa today!

he's recovering, but has a long recovery to go.

cheerios

get well soon oompa!

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"Before the Generation ... of 1914 Passes Away"

by doinmypart in

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that quote must be embarrassing for the wts, so i figured i'd post it.

it appeared on the inside cover of every awake magazine until a few years ago.. a few weeks ago i attended the funeral of someone born in 1916, she was 94 years old.

i don't know anyone born before or on 1914.. governing body are you ashamed?

cheerios

it is just amazing to me how they flipflop doctrine, or worse, in this case they are just making stuff up to try to save credibility. what is more amazing to me is how the r&f dubs just swallow it. "the generation that saw 1914 would not pass away ... " how many times did we hear that ad nauseum? and how much gall do they have to change the view of a generation twice in the last 15 years? and then to change it to a completely whacky, ludicrous explanation?

i mean, really? really?

the whole "well we dont understand it right now but we have to wait on Jehoober" nonsense is just inexcusable at this point.