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  Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

  by SuperMarioDiMaggio in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok folks, it's been almost two weeks and despite logging a fault, i cannot update my profile on here.

  yet i need to run off now as i have exciting godless, hedonistic stuff to do 😉; so i'm leaving my details in this message in case any jws from the past (whose brain eventually started working, like mine) wish to get in touch:.

  my email: [email protected].

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  smiddy3

  I thought he was a baseball fan
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  Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

  by SuperMarioDiMaggio in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok folks, it's been almost two weeks and despite logging a fault, i cannot update my profile on here.

  yet i need to run off now as i have exciting godless, hedonistic stuff to do 😉; so i'm leaving my details in this message in case any jws from the past (whose brain eventually started working, like mine) wish to get in touch:.

  my email: [email protected].

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  smiddy3

  Thanks mario for those links ,very informative ,.I hope you stay on here as your contributions would be much appreciated by many of us .

  Take care.
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  Things are too quiet at Warwick (Bethel)

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i guess it's the covid-19 thing.

  but very little news from a couple of people i know well there.

  they can't leave the "compound" or much of anything else.

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  While I sympathise with you LHG for your experience as a working Gal ,in my neck of the woods ,Australia I have never had a problem working my whole life as a JW ,having a few jobs in my 32 years in the borg.

  28 years in the last job I had and for some of that time i served as a MS .

  And most of the people I have met in the 6 or so congregations I have been in have either had a job or were self employed ,and of course i`m talking about males generally .

  However my wife also worked for a Sister who ran a beauty salon whose husband served as a missionary in PNG some years before .......No problems there.

  And at that time he was also an Elder in the Congregation we attended.

  When I first became a witness 20 years of age in 1960 the presiding Overseer was employed as a Life insurance salesman and his fleshly brother was an Assistant Congregation Overseer ,who was also a life Insurance salesman with the same firm.

  An interesting story about him and his wife that i wont go into here.

  Of course I / we have retired and own our our home and live comfortably never having had the pressure to give up our jobs as you seem to have experienced .

  Maybe it was just a really shitty conservative congregation you were stuck with and i`m sorry for your experience.

  Take care .
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  Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

  they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

  he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

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  Yes ,I too would like to see a link ?
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  Video on How the WT Society is Now Concerned About Social Distancing

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have the instructions to not engage in any meetings or outside witnessing.

  she's a very pretty sister.

  she is dressed in appropriate jw attire.

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  Maybe there should have been a few more props in their video such as some WT books ,a NWT Bible and a couple of Awake & Watchtowers just to add some flavour and authenticity to the mix .
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  Overlapping Generation

  by pandorasbox1914 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the september 2015 broadcast had david splane explain matthew 24:34 “truly, i say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place”.

  his explanation of this scripture was by means of a chart to indicate an overlapping generation.. .

  no scripture was used to show the overlapping generation concept, and as a result it makes no sense.. to illustrate how crazy this concept is, look at the lyrics of the song my generation.. my generation.

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  I have just sent Terry`s 7 Bible quotations as to how long a generation can be to an old JW friend who has no problem still talking to me

  It will be interesting to see if she comments on it or not ..
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  why did jehovah create corona virus?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  why did jehovah create the strains of corona virus ?.

  is it part of the great tribulation that is closer than ever now ?.

  what if lots of his people die from it ?.

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  Jehovah never cured leprosy among his chosen people when he was GOD over them in the so called good years he was "blessing" them ?
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  Treating JW's with Convalescent Blood Products

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this is potentially life saving information.

  please spread the word.. http://ajwrb.org/treating-jehovahs-witness-covid-19-patients-with-convalescent-blood-products.

  treating jehovah’s witness covid-19 patients with convalescent blood products.

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  If there are 872 deaths recorded among Jehovah`s Witnesses then that means their are thousands of JW`s who have contracted the virus around the world and that many have recovered .

  So it is good news if the JW who gets Covid 19 agrees to the treatment it could save many lives.
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  Quebec to abolish time limits on civil action in sexual abuse cases

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  good news for victims: quebec (canada) to abolish time limits on civil action in sexual abuse cases..

  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sexual-abuse-time-limits-quebec-1.5598419.

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  That is good news and I hope it means justice for more victims of Child sexual abuse in Canada .
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  PURITANS - why we need them right now

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  puritans!.

  we need them to help us become more righteous.we need to feel the sting of their whiplash and suffer the tongues of flame, branding irons, and denouncement.why?gosh - we aren't as pure as they are, that's why!.

  8th century christian orthodox iconoclasts smashed statues used by catholic christian worshipers - to save them from idolatry.let us us cheer that intervention!

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  smiddy3

  And not to mention the fact that there is virtually one Bible and about 40,000+ different sects of Christendom who all claim to believe in that "One Bible" and there is little to no agreement among them ?

  Sorry Terry I couldn`t help myself.