Posts by LoisLane looking for Superman

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WT history repeating?

by WasOnceBlind in

i war reading an interesting research article about charles taze russell and all of his financial dealings.

this caught my eye:.

charles taze russell and the watchtower society were in deep business distress after the "busted" october 1914 prophecy failure, and particularly after the "busted" october 1915 prophecy failure.

LoisLane looking for Superman

@WasOnceBlind and everyone else, Wow. Such timely information.

One hundred years ago. The First World War and all that went with it, helped garner more desperate people, looking for someone to tell them everything is alright, you will be alright and stick with WT and we will lead you to the Promised Land! It, of course was never true, but the poor injured 'sheep' were yearning for someone, anyone, to make sense of what they had gone through. Spin the wheel, where it stops, nobody knows. Catholic, Jew, Mormon, Baptist? Or, what about this new group that says the earth will SOON be a paradise and all wickedness will be done away with. They say so, and it is in print, so it must be true, right? Let's join them! And Russell and Rutherford and Knorr/Franz had it made. They preyed (notice preyed, not prayed) indifferently on these poor souls.

This new group? hahahaha

With this most wonderous time in history, the information highway is up and running so I cannot see the WT getting bigger. Their hope is in immigrants to first world countries, that are affected by the love bombing and the fantasy hope of, geez, I even hate to recall, the dream of everlasting life on a paradise earth, with your resurrected loved ones.

What a false and shameful image to put out there for lonely, gullible, uneducated, innocent human beings.

LoisLane

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Kenneth Flodin: ‘This Generation Will ... Not Pass Away’ (Matt. 24:34)

by wifibandit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbpbb5k_mc

LoisLane looking for Superman

I listened to a poor speaker for 2 minutes. Two minutes that I will never get back. He is a 'helper to the GB"? What a joke.

The subject? hahahaha

In WT/JW land, anyone can aspire to be with the 'greats'. But what type of man (man as a guy with real balls) wants to be a brown noser?

113

I just found out that my youngest brother committed suicide

by SnakesInTheTower in

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my middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.

our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.

he hung himself.

LoisLane looking for Superman

Oh Rich, I am so sorry to hear your bad news. I feel so bad that someone, anyone is in so much turmoil and pain they think they should do themselves in.

He was so young. I am so sorry for your loss.

Hugs.

LoisLane

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Is this a BEAUTIFUL STORY--or what?

by Terry in

is this a beautiful story, or what?.

act one________.

now in an ordinary romance of the golden hollywood era, the boy goes off to war while the young lady waits nervously for his safe return.in a cary grant, debra kerr movie, the two vow to meet after a certain period of time and tragic circumstances intervene.. in my story, the young man is a conscientious objector who goes to prison instead of off to the vietnam war.

LoisLane looking for Superman

Terry, It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

All the best, you two!

LoisLane

31

heart troubles

by zeb in

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dear all,.

my health took a beating over the years with stress from various sources, not a little from the wt; and dangerous areas of work involving fumes and so on.

the arc also took its toll and i have had recently a heart attack.

LoisLane looking for Superman

If you want to look superior when you are walking the halls at the hospital after your operation, pack a snazzy bathrobe/house coat/happy coat. All the other men will be wearing the usual cotton hospital issue that makes everybody look like they are in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Also slippers. (The jammies are up to you. If you wear theirs, you won't have to wash yours when you get home).

Sending you virtual home made organic chicken soup, right to your door.

Get well soon! Hugs.

LoisLane

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Is it true that they decided not to build Walkill Recreation center and then buried the foundation?

by Indian Larry in

i saw this on ex jw reddit:"this may not be news to you but it was to me.

forgive me if this has already been posted before.

it came from a reliable source working on the warwick project.. wallkill bethel had broken ground and laid the foundation for a new recreation building.

LoisLane looking for Superman

Help me out here if I am wrong but isn't the property they are building on a chemical dump? The same with the property they bought in England. Both properties they bought on the cheap because no one wanted to live on a toxic waste site. Did their JW Law degree graduates tell them buy the land, start building and then oops, file a substantial claim, sue everyone, and say that this property should never have been sold to anyone, thus getting all their money back plus interest? That's what I am waiting to hear. Cha ching.

That is what has been going through my mind, evil though the thought.

@As to the OP and 'burying" a foundation for a rec hall, I cannot figure what these 'enlightened' ones have done in the past, let alone what's the next idiotioc thing they are going to do. Whatever it is, WT/GB is all about making sure no one wises up and takes money AWAY from THEM. lol

LoisLane

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Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?

by Wonderment in

i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.

could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?

perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.

LoisLane looking for Superman

As in the sit-com, TV show 'Cheers', this is the place 'where everybody knows your name'. lol After waking up and leaving WT behind, it is relaxing and fun to be part of a forum such as this, where you are sorta 'known'.

Someone talks about the New York asembly in 1958, I was a little kid but I was there. Beth Sarem (I almost wrote harem lol) most of us know what that is.

At Simon's 'house' I always feel welcomed, understood and cared about. Coming here is in a way, coming 'home' a place that only exists now in my memories.

Lonely? Sure. Sometimes. But I enjoy the camaraderie here. We all have been through trauma not really understood by others.

LoisLane

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One reason behind the slow steady decline of JWs

by AllTimeJeff in

hello first of all to those that remember me.

i'm doing well, 10 years since my missionary trip to cameroon.

i've met a couple of goals.

LoisLane looking for Superman

@AllTimeJeff Hi Hello! It is so nice to hear from you again! Just passing through town or can you stay a while?

LoisLane jumping up and down and waving. So happy to see ATJ again. or

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Northern California Elder Charged with Lewd Acts with a Child

by cappytan in

this guy, dale standridge, was the coordinator of the body of elders in the eureka east congregation in humboltd county california.

http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/11/100000-bail-for-dale-standbridge.html?m=1.

it's not getting a lot of play in the press for some reason.

LoisLane looking for Superman

He allegedly did it to someone less than 14 years old for 6 years.

24

So How'd you like your Last Resting Place?

by snugglebunny in

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friends

like this perhaps?

it is pretty cool after all... .

(i took both of these pics and the difference was, well, obvious!).

LoisLane looking for Superman

I saw a head stone recently where on one side of the tall, upright stone it said the usual credentials, on the other side it said, "Over My Dead Body..." and listed the ingredients for her favourite, Christmas cookie recipe which she wouldn't give out to anyone. Thus the heading...

LoisLane