Posts by smiddy3

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"The Winesses" Oxygen TV { Free Trial } Australia

by smiddy3 in

hi friends this is just to let people in victoria australia know that they can watch "the witnesses" on oxygen channel on tv as a free trial at present .. and as i don`t like paying for anything i don`t have to its paid off .. so the wife and i watched the 1st episode this arvo and its riveting stuff and will watch the second episode tomorrow .. i don`t know if the same deal applies to the other states or not ,just thought here`s an opportunity for aussies who don`t subscribe to oxygen channel to see it for free..

smiddy3

Hi friends this is just to let people in Victoria Australia know that they can watch "The Witnesses" on Oxygen Channel on TV as a free trial at present .

And as I don`t like paying for anything I don`t have to its paid off .

So the wife and I watched the 1st episode this arvo and its riveting stuff and will watch the second episode tomorrow .

I don`t know if the same deal applies to the other states or not ,just thought here`s an opportunity for Aussies who don`t subscribe to Oxygen channel to see it for free.

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Do You Think We Will Ever Get Back To “Normal”?

by minimus in

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friends

i hope that within the next several months we will get back to some type of normalcy.

will restaurants ever get filled again?

will you ever be able to sit at a bar or go to a concert or broadway show?.

smiddy3

Of course everything will get back to normal eventually it always has and always will.

Hasn`t it always in the past ? The world has gone through pandemics before and we are still here and we will go through them again in the future .

Actually getting through this pandemic will go a long way in helping us to fight whatever new pandemic threatens us in the future .

Science and technology in the field of medicine is always advancing .We have come a long way in fighting diseases that have been a major cause of death through the centuries and have virtually eradicated many of those diseases .

I`m confident and positive for the future .

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J. W's Are Afraid of Old Literature

by IWant2Leave in

i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.

i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.

my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.

smiddy3

I think the green book "Your Will Be Done On Earth" would be a good book to show how the religion is full of shit when it comes to interpretrating prophecy and everything else.

The U.S.S.R. the king of the North & the U.K./ U.S.A. as the king of the South. during the "Cold War" period.

Those of the younger generation if you haven`t ever read this book I reccommend it ,its a fascinating read that did seem to fit the times we were then living in back then ,but of course its " old truths" now.

That phrase always fascinated me ,how can a new truth when it has been first delivered become an old truth?

OH, when that new truth fails to come to fruition ,then it becomes an old truth.

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J. W's Are Afraid of Old Literature

by IWant2Leave in

i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.

i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.

my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.

smiddy3

OH Sea Breeze that`s funny,HA HA ,I hope they never take him off JW.Org.I think he will do a marvellous job of preventing new ones from joining and help older ones in getting out.

But thats just my opinion.

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Has anyone ever turn down being appointed an Elder or MS?

by Davros in

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has anyone turned it down or know of someone who did turn down being an elder or ms?.

yes, it should be one of the biggest privileges a brother can get !!

(how do i put the barfy icon in?

smiddy3

I was considered Elder material a few times while I was a MS ,but I was not interested in becoming one.

My wife and I were in a clique with Elders and MS in a liberal progressive congregation and things that I picked up in conversations however obscure ,I did not want to be involved in it

Plus the fact I believed it carried a heavier burden which I didn`t want.

I believed I knew my limitations .

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Resurrection, Reconstruction? What is it? It never made sense to me. Your opinion.

by Wasanelder Once in

i never had much faith in whatever resurrection was.

what appealed to me about jw doctrines was the rejection of the "it's a mystery" defense of the indefensible.

when i would ask how going into non existence could be reversed when all the atomic parts of who we are had been scattered for thousands of years, the answer was "jehovah can do anything".

smiddy3

When I was a witness i never gave it much thought about it and just accepted it in faith.Later however I had different views about it .The wages of sin is death and I understand that to be the Adamic death brought about by Adam and Eve`s disobeying god.There are a few times in the Bible where a resurrection has occurred ,and if that is the case they should be still walking around now. What other scriptural basis is their for humans to die ?

Sin and imperfection is the result of Adam and Eve disobeying God ,and the wages of sin is death.

Another thought is that modern science and technology in the medical field has enabled many people to be brought back to life after they have clinically died ,so they too should be still walking around among us but sadly many of them have also since died a second time.

A second death ?

And doesn`t that open up another can of worms ? for the WTB&TS ? to explain that ? With relatives of faithful Brothers and sisters who have gone through this ordeal ?

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