i have been sending one "apostate" email after another to an elder in my congo (who frequently does circuit and district convention parts) and i'm still not df'd.... i've even sent him a free pdf copy of "crisis of conscience" twice in the last 3 months (sorry cynthia franz), as well as emails about the whole spectrum of bullshit (607, 144k, 1935, blood, proof of lies, false predictions, etc...).
he vary rarely responds but i know he's reading them because he said so in a recent google chat.... he even acknowledged that the wt got 607 wrong but then says that i should look at the positives and stop finding fault.... but still... i sent some really strong gb-bashing emails and i'n not df'd.... i mean seriously, i've pushed the envelope as far as i possibly can.. what the hell is going on???
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Maybe youve convinced his but his circumstances mean he has to endure.
Iam in a similar position in that the Min serv who took my book study group, was a fairly close friend, last time I bumped into him and his wife I told him all my apostate stuff, he refused to belive about the UN NGO business by the way, said he wouldnt even Google it, didnt want to know, anyway, hes obviouslt not taken it further, or maybe they DFed me behind my back?, can they do that?
what are your favorite urban legends that you heard as a jw?.
here's mine:.
a brother, through his work, was asked to give a speech to the united nations.
The John Denver urban legend we used to get was that he asked Witnesses to leave because his trick of his guitar playing itself wouldnt work with Witnesses in the audience, demons would play it see!
so, give me credit... .
last night i had a discussion on spirituality with my jw friend.
our last few conversations, i didn't have the hang of the "line of questioning that gets them to think" technique down.
Its what they belive allright, they belive Michael is Jesus, and the first thing he did was cleanse the Heavens back in 1914.
Revelation 12
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
They also have some theory that what happens in Heaven, ie the war in heaven, is mirrored by events on Earth, in this case the first world war, not sure which scriptures they use to get this mirroring notion from.
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Seems to be a lot of this sort of stuff recently, getting people in the mindset that Jesus had a wife and kids, or maybe its just the fella I work with that reads a lot of Dan Brown books, once its in the public perseption however, it will be far easier for someone from the ruling elite to gain world rulership under the guise of a decendant of the Christ.
well, i finally got a chance to discuss religion with a jw at the door.
i have been looking forward to it for a long time, now i know what questions to ask that will cause them to eat their reasoning book in panic.
but no, there was no long in depth bible discussion.
Calling someone a Moron, isnt that like calling someone a dispicable fool? its Gehenna for him then.
I saw those cardboard Bibles being sold by 4 stores, s/h for £49 on Amazon.
Iam keeping mine, when the society goes bust those books are going to be worth a fortune.
ok, so even if laws are to be written on people's hearts vs spelled out into lawbooks, there's going to have to be some laws in the new system of things, right?
i say we get the ball rolling and brainstorm what they should be: after all, none of us got invited to the party anyway but since there just ain't going to be any party, why let that spoil our fun?
so, the theme is laws to be in effect in the new system.
No speaking to members of the opposite sex. (Unless of course you were allready married in the Old System for there will be no marriage in the New System).
No Marriage, (except for Elders who will now be known as Princes), the scripture about being like Angels will be cited.
No sleeping with your hands under the covers. (This will be easily checked as we will be living in domitories with constant patrols, better hope your hands dont move in your sleep as they will be cut off, better to enter the Kingdom of God with one hand).
i have no idea what is going to happen but they had been shunning me and i called to tell her what i see in the scriptures about the faithful slave.
all of it up to the very end she said okay what's the point, the scripture at the very end is what triggered it.
but read it all in order.
Brilliant EndofMysteries, maybe your Mother will count being able to have a relationship with you as a positive to counter-act the negatives she must be feeling.
So, I cannot remember what the current Watchtower teaching is on this, do they claim that dead annointed JWs have allready begun ruling with Christ as Kings?
Is Revelation 6v11 related to this were the dead annointed are told to wait a little while longer until the number is complate?, what does the Revelation Climax book say about this verse?
so, i know of a real talent show that took place at a kingdumb hall about 10 years ago.
there was never another talent show.
but, the jws all loved it and still talk about it.. is there a "rule" or something in the elder's manual about this?
"Talent show" at the KH reminds me of the following.
One Thursday night school a stunning young Sister walks along the aisle from the back of the hall to the platform, swaying in that certain way, with every Brothers eyes glued on her.
Any what did the Brother announce her assignment to be?
"Introduction aroused interest"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq-6mhgye5a.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqnext7mxik.
http://release.blackmesasource.com/.
That was the idea originally, but Valve gave the go ahead for Steam to
release it so it only "Requires only a FREE installation of the Source Sdk Base
2007!":
What does that mean Glenster?
On my Steam account it shows Half Life 2 that I had installed on a differant computer, do I have to reinstall it or can I just download the Mod from Steam?
