I have actually seen small signs on some houses that said, "No Jehovah's Witnesses". We treated them as a Do Not Call; we'd simply leave ASAP.
snakeface
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Door Signs to Prevent Certain Knocks
by Patty Cake ini have not put either of these on my apartment door, yet (amazingly, no jw's knocks here), but thought i'd share these signs i made.
sorry they're fussy, didn't want to upload huge images.. .
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Remarrying, then paradise =problem?
by Inisc inthis is a question i always wondered about and never got an answer to.. its also another reason why i'm finding it harder to believe in an 'afterlife'.. th idea that humans can live forever, now seems so scientificly impossible.. so i wanted to ask all the great minds on here,.
if someone's spouse dies, and then they remarry,then armageddon comes and goes then the deceased is resurrected,.
how,is that ever gonna work?
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snakeface
Blondie is right. Of course the Bible doesn't give those details; the Wastetower made it all up to encourage single ones to stay single (so they could find someone perfect in the New System), and to encourage widows/widowers to remarry "only in the Lord" so as not to disappoint the other spouse.
Can you imagine, in the New System, a few thousand years down the road a single Armageddon-survivor man is attracted to some woman. So he asks her to marry him. Her reply: "Sorry, I can't. I was resurrected."
Is this some kind of curse put on the resurrected ones, that they cannot marry? Can they at least be members of wedding parties for Armageddon-surviving couples? Imagine some faithful pioneer sister who really wanted to get married but didn't "for the sake of the kingdom" and served "whole-souled" as a missionary or in Bethel, all the while "waiting on Jehovah" to provide someone perfect for her at his appointed time when he makes all things new. She dies, wakes up in paradise only to spend eternity single. I wonder how many suicides we'll see in the paradise.
It is obvious that this discussion Jesus was having had to do with the heavenly resurrection, not earthly.
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Remarrying, then paradise =problem?
by Inisc inthis is a question i always wondered about and never got an answer to.. its also another reason why i'm finding it harder to believe in an 'afterlife'.. th idea that humans can live forever, now seems so scientificly impossible.. so i wanted to ask all the great minds on here,.
if someone's spouse dies, and then they remarry,then armageddon comes and goes then the deceased is resurrected,.
how,is that ever gonna work?
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snakeface
I think we have to examine this from each person's viewpoint: the viewpoint of the dead-then-resurrected person, the viewpoint of the surviving spouse, and the viewpoint of the new spouse. And based on the assumption that the original couple loved each other and wanted to be together forever, as opposed to one or both wanting out of the marriage anyway. Also, assuming that this whole teaching is true as taught by the JWs.
Would I want my wife to wait for me after my death, and be alone for the rest of this system? Or would I want her to move on and find someone new, someone who could give her the love she still deserves and that I'd not be able to give her anymore? Someone who could take her to all the places she likes to go. I would not want her to stay home crying and being alone. I would not want her to become an old spinster. I'd want her to heal after grieving and to continue to have a happy life. When I'd wake up in the resurrection I'd be interested in finding out how she coped and adjusted, if she made it OK. I'd even be thankful that the new man did take care of her and bring her comfort and happiness. After all, I couldn't have done so once I had died.
If I were the surviving spouse....I would grieve of course. But would I want to be alone for the rest of this sytem? Or would I want a companion, to help fill the now empty place in my heart. Perhaps the new woman would also be grieving over her late husband. She and I could help each other to go on. I wouldn't be replacing him and she wouldn't be looking for a replacement. We would be simply picking up the pieces and continuing with our lives, together. I would be thinking, "What I'm doing for her is what I'd want another man to do for my 1st wife if I had died and left her behind."
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Remarrying, then paradise =problem?
by Inisc inthis is a question i always wondered about and never got an answer to.. its also another reason why i'm finding it harder to believe in an 'afterlife'.. th idea that humans can live forever, now seems so scientificly impossible.. so i wanted to ask all the great minds on here,.
if someone's spouse dies, and then they remarry,then armageddon comes and goes then the deceased is resurrected,.
how,is that ever gonna work?
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snakeface
No. This is how it works. Your spouse dies. You remarry. The new system comes and the first spouse is resurrected. He/she will not want you because he/she was resurrected as perfect whereas you need 1,000 years to work out your imperfections...the same imperfections the first spouse was trying to get you to work on in the old system.
Seriously, though, you can see that the Wastetower's teaching on this subject is a crock of crap like all the other carrots they dangle before the flock.
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Weird Pic in Awake - Jesus Looks Very Pleased About Something.
by cofty ina new member of the jws forum has posted this scan of a picture in the french edition the april 2011 awake.. i have never believed the subversive wt artist stories but this one is funny.. .
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snakeface
Stand firm in the faith!
And for those of you who prefer the King James Bible: "With thy rod and thy staff thou art near me."
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Weird Pic in Awake - Jesus Looks Very Pleased About Something.
by cofty ina new member of the jws forum has posted this scan of a picture in the french edition the april 2011 awake.. i have never believed the subversive wt artist stories but this one is funny.. .
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snakeface
He's saying to the crowd, "When you see things things occur, raise yourselves erect because your deliverance is getting near..."
Or is this when Pilate said, "Look! The man!" ?
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Are you a pecker?
by keyser soze inor do your fingers move fluidly across the keyboard when you type?.
i admit, i'm far more proficient with letters than i am with numbers and symbols..
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snakeface
How often do you find that you're the last pecker on a thread?
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For those of you who inactive, but not officially DFd/DAd, how do you manage?
by undercover ini read with interest the thread about how people who are mentally out yet still attend (some) meetings manage to do continue to do it and it got me wondering, how do those of us who are completely inactive, no longer practicing members of the faith, manage to pull off our new ex-jw life, yet never invite scrutiny or investigation from former friends, elders, etc.. take me, for example.
i've been out several years now, but have never officially renounced my faith.
i've never out and out called it a crock of shit to anyone who could make real trouble for me.
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snakeface
I was very high profile, always on the platform, conducting meeting parts, taking the lead in field service meetings. I was deleted from being a MS but still had other "privileges" such as carrying the mikes, sound system, offering prayer, being on the school, being in platform demonstrations...then one day several years ago I just never went back. Never even turned in the territory I was holding. After a few weeks an elder left a phone msg to call back but I did not return his call. That was it. No one ever came by or called afterward. Recently an elder and his wife drove by as I was walking down the street. They honked the horn, smiled and waved. I waved back. They could clearly see my goatee. If they were to come to my door I'd simply tell them I no longer consider myself one of them and do not wish to receive any further visits.
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Elders want to pay a visit
by varian ini had a phone call recently.
two elders want to come round.. now i ve been out for approx.
8 years.
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snakeface
It appears that your reason for agreeing to the visit is mostly because you want to find out WHY, after all this time, they want to visit you.
Does it really matter?
Don't concern yourself with WHY they want to visit. Concern yourself with whether or not you want to be in a room with them while they present their one-sided arguments to you.
They are not coming for a social visit. They are not coming to apologize to you and they are not open to hearing your "side" of the story - a story that ended 8 years ago when THEY slammed the book shut. They are not there to rewrite history. They are on a mission, most likely because the CO went thru the files and demanded from the elders an update on your status. They want to either invite you to come back (on their terms) or they want to figuratively spit in your face once again and reiterate their view that you are unworthy of life in God's New Order. Not because they care about your spirituality, but because they want to update their files. If they did care about you they would have contacted you much sooner.
If you had been disgracefully fired from a job 8 years ago and that former boss now wanted to visit you, would you agree to the visit?
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Awake openly mocked on website...
by Tuesday inhttp://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/02/5_hilarious_social_media_image.php.
this is actually not a former witness or anything, this is a cracked style article.
i think it's pretty funny, i think it's evidence that the wt is not going to be around forever.
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snakeface
That is hiralious! I mean hilarious! See, I'm laughing so much I can't type.