Posts by Londo111

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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

by breakfast of champions in

this 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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Londo111

AlwaysBusy: I'm sorry to hear that. So tragic!

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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

by breakfast of champions in

this 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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Londo111

I'm glad to see the occasional JW apologist...they are getting fewer and fewer. Gone are the days of debating 607 and robust doctrinal arguements.

Where have all the apologists gone?

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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

by breakfast of champions in

this 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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Londo111

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress..."--James 1:27

What does the Watchtower or even the local Kingdom Hall do to look after orphans and widows?

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Announcement that will "test your faith"

by tezrichmond in

i saw this exact headline on jw-archive.org and couldn't find no other info about it.

anyone know anything?.

possible hoax ha ha.. .

I am starting to wonder if this announcement (if there is any) will involve implementing in the US what is being announced in the UK. Selling of Kingdom Halls. 4 congregations per Kingdom Hall. A mass reorging of congregations.

Maybe coupled with “basic” pioneering and simplified ways of counting time.

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Favorite Episode of Star Trek

by Coded Logic in

calling all tos, tng, ds9, voyager, or enterprise fans, what's your favorite serries and why?

and what's your favorite episode and why?.

(too many choices on netflix for me to decide which to watch right now).

Londo111

TNG, TOS.

I didn't like Enterprise when it originally came on, but later on Netflix I gave it more of a chance and loved it! I think Enterprise began to fix many of the problems in earlier series. Not everything had a technological solution, the story didn't always get resolved at the end of the episode.

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The Day Armageddon Came

by Londo111 in

my grandfather only had a third grade education and knew little about the bible when jws called on him.

he was a different breed of jw than those of modern times.

he truly cared about people and would give them the shirt off his back.

Londo111

Thank you all.

Magnum: I guess you could say I am a liberal/progressive Christian...and sometimes I wonder if I'm bordering suspiciously close to being akin to a Unitarian Universalist. Nonetheless, I defiantly don’t claim to have all or many of the answers.

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The Day Armageddon Came

by Londo111 in

my grandfather only had a third grade education and knew little about the bible when jws called on him.

he was a different breed of jw than those of modern times.

he truly cared about people and would give them the shirt off his back.

Londo111

Thank you. It's been a year to the day of his passing.

I believe many of those who came out of the Great Depression era really cared for their fellowman.

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The Day Armageddon Came

by Londo111 in

my grandfather only had a third grade education and knew little about the bible when jws called on him.

he was a different breed of jw than those of modern times.

he truly cared about people and would give them the shirt off his back.

Londo111

My grandfather only had a third grade education and knew little about the Bible when JWs called on him. But he was a different breed of JW than those of modern times. He truly cared about people and would give them the shirt off his back. He helped people out practically, sometimes giving people money, sometimes giving them vegetables he grew in his extensive garden, doing repairs to people’s homes, or anything he could do to help. And it wasn’t that he only helped JWs...he helped non-JWs too, and not just to try to convert them. My grandfather never shunned me--even when I made plain to him that I didn’t believe the Watchtower religion.

I do have hope that I will see my grandfather again one day and that he will be waiting for me.

However, the final days of his life were not peaceful. So long had he been under the spell of Watchtower theology, that as he was on his deathbed, Armageddon was going on all around him. He was genuinely terrified.

“It’s finally here,” he said. “I can’t believe I’m seeing it. It’s so terrible.”

In his mind, there were flames and destruction. Satan had taken him out the hospital bed to the airport and there he fought the Devil tooth and nail.

The end indeed did come for him, a personal Armageddon. I only wish it had been a less frightening parting.

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Those who vote, do you stay loyal to your party?

by EndofMysteries in

i was ready to vote today but i found out i had to be registered 30 days in advance, i missed the mark by 4 days.

anyway, even though i selected a party, i was on quite a few votes going to vote for other parties.

here is why, i was looking up the websites of each candidate.

Londo111

No party really represents me. In the US, there is only Republican and Republican-Lite. To be sure, the current president is the best Republican in that office for quite some time.

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Zone Visit: An Announcement That Will "Test Your Faith"

by breakfast of champions in

this 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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Londo111

Or the Zone Visit may be simply be so dull, it will test people's faith to just sit through it.