Posts by Pubsinger

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Having a huge disagreement over a very petty matter. HELP!!

by Magwitch in

jw
friends

my best friend and i have come to blows over such a petty thing.

i would love to get the input of other people on this matter.

please give me your honest answer so i know if i am out of touch.. i live in a community with mostly single profession people in their 40's and 50's.

Pubsinger

That said I can't understand why you and your best friend have come to blows over this??

You didn't borrow your best friend's rum . . .
And I wouldn't have thought your best friend would have minded!

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Having a huge disagreement over a very petty matter. HELP!!

by Magwitch in

jw
friends

my best friend and i have come to blows over such a petty thing.

i would love to get the input of other people on this matter.

please give me your honest answer so i know if i am out of touch.. i live in a community with mostly single profession people in their 40's and 50's.

Pubsinger

If you were looking after the cats for 3 weeks why didn't you just replace the rum before she got back? Then there would have been no problem and no reason to leave a note . . .

But I agree with those who think that plenty of people would be upset with you doing that.

Although I personally wouldn't be as long as I knew you well. And if I didn't I wouldn't ask you to look after my pets!!

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my wife and myself are active witnesses.. before i go into great depth about our past and what brings me here, i would like to make sure i am posting this in the right section.. i'm a little technologically retarded so please bear with me.. .

twisty.

Pubsinger

Hi Twisty.

Like several others here I have great reservations about your chosen statement. In fact I would go as far as to say that i think you have chosen one of the worst lines possible

Your line hits at the very core of their control. You can't just "take a break from the organisation". And "researching the Bible for yourselves" is a big NO NO as far as their radar is concerned.

Yep you might as well just buy that red flag and wave it high . . .

I wouldn't be saying anything at all. Just drift and fade . . .

You can't reason with them at all. You can't provide them with a big contradictory truth. Even if you prove you're right, you'll be wrong.

Drift and Fade.

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What really ended the book study in private homes?

by Alfred in

it's been over 3 years since the book study in private homes was discontinued and some jws are still scratching their heads over it.

although a letter was read to all congregations explaining that "book study night" would now be "family worship night", there was still much speculation among jws as to the real reason behind this decision (the great tribulation was about to start, jehovah was simplifying the lives of jws, to lessen the burden of poor jws who had no money for gas, etc.)...

but as we all know, decisions like these from the gb invariably have some ulterior motive behind it... and discussion boards such as this one usually finds a way to dig up the truth for all to see... but after reading several threads on this subject, i'm really not sure we've uncovered all the facts yet.... so i have to ask... what do you believe really ended the book study in private homes?

Pubsinger

I'm not sure that I buy the 'liability' line.

As usual JWs think that they are unique in everything they do but in reality they are not. Lots of churches have housegroups. And surprise, surprise, they think that they are very important because they are where friendships and relationships are made. Of course they aren't regulated like the JW version was and they are exactly the places where things are discussed properly and objections raised etc.

But I have never heard of a church having any concerns about liability. Never. And these are churches who do carry out proper checks on their people and do adhere to health and safety regulations. But I've not heard of any worries about liability.

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Looking for One Night Stand

by Seven in

oops.

correction.

looking for 1 nightstand,cherry with porcelin drawer pulls, dovetail joints, to match 1920's dresser with mirror.

Pubsinger

Hi Katie Kitten LOL!!!!

You going back to meetings or something

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The Faithful and Discreet Slave - A JW Myth

by 00DAD in

jw
friends

probably this topic has been dealt with before, but i'm relatively new here, so perhaps y'all will be willing to indulge me in my pursuit for clarity.

regarding the anointed, the gb recently said this: .

"we thus have no way of knowing the exact number of anointed ones on earth; nor do we need to know.

Pubsinger

Just bookmarking

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Here's a good one the Jehovah's witnesses are worse than Nazi's

by Star tiger in

i'm not sure if this is a controversial subject or not, i suspect it is, the 1936-1945 nazi regime were the most evil b*****d's in the world and thankfully were destroyed, however the jehovah's witnesses having sufffered under their rule, then became even more evil not by destroying the person's physical life, but destroying their way to god, if a person leaves then they become dead to god, and this from a second rate publishing company!

please don't think i'm being flippant about all the suffering and death the nazi's caused, but as we are most of us spiritual people, surely the witnesses caused a catastrophy in the post 1945 era.. best regards,.

star tiger .

Pubsinger

Oh grow up.

The title of this thread is borderline hate crime stuff and close to the WT's "mentally diseased" stuff.

Somebody report it.

If the WT said something like this there would be uproar.

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New Literature Arrangement

by Quarterback in

just recently the org has changed the literature distribution to the congregation members.. the changes are:.

1) publishers are to pick-up their mag's weekly in preparation for what they think they will use that week.

2) group conductors shall now distribute the study article of the wt, and the km.. wonder why they have changed this?.

Pubsinger

Soon the study edition will arrive in sealed packs. They will be guarded by 4 attendants. Opened during the song after the Public Talk. Distributed to people they recognise. Collected afterwards and counted in. No-one will be allowed to leave if the can't account for them all. They will then be destroyed.

They will love this because it will fuel conspiracy theories about apostates, reinforce their seige mentality, make the local elders and attendants feel important and convince them that the Great Tribulation is near.

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