Posts by smiddy3

So if anybody should have a better understanding about how Jews thought about those writings it should be the Jewish people and not Gentiles who bastardize the texts with their Christianity / Christology .

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Did You Have Good Relationships With The Elders?

by minimus in

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my experience was that most jws wanted to have an elder “friend” just in case they got into any “trouble “.kinda like knowing that certain cop who might get you out of a jam.

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of course there was another group who did everything they could to either kiss the elders’ ass or stonewall them anytime they came snooping around.. how did you and the “older men” get along?.

smiddy3

The first 10 years I was in as a convert I was involved in 5 congregations and didn`t have much to do with elders / PO`s as thy were then called .Though a couple of them were sincere nice guys as I remember.

The next 22 years I was involved with 3 congregations all in the same area and socialised with a number of elders and MS who were an easy going lot.Very laid back where we used to go to restaurants after meetings , go camping on long weekends or longer.,

and a few of us hob-nobbed at each others house for meals either playing scrabble or watching football where there was always plenty of alcohol to go around. But always in moderation .

.Many were self employed in the building game as either plasterers,tilers,painters,builders,etc, and a couple of us were employed full time ,one elder a salesman and me a lab technician with an oil company.

It was really a nice social club my wife and I were in.

Of course their were also other elders who were older and not in the same clique as us,one being a real nut case.

So I would consider myself one of the lucky ones considering what many of you had to put up with in your congregations.

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Babylon has fallen...

by mikeflood in

could you guys believe this über borg 'friend' ?.

he says that babylon has fallen because all of the coronavirus restrictions (and the resultant less revenue) are gonna destroy them symbolically.

so he thinks this are the last, of the last, of the last days.

smiddy3

" destroy them symbolically" WTF does that even mean ?They are not literally destroyed just destroyed symbolically

These people are getting nuttier and nuttier as the years roll by .

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Unbelievable Freddie Franz Admissions

by Vanderhoven7 in

unbelievable admissions.. freddie confesses he fell for his own propaganda.. https://youtu.be/fkjw-r9oitk.

smiddy3

With all of those admissions of failed "expectations" of prophecy at a convention its mind boggling why any of them stayed in the religion.

And not once was there ever an apology given for misleading so many over so many decades.

Yet it was still highlighted as spiritual encouragement ?

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My letter of disassociation, what do you think?

by James Jack in

dear brothers, july 27, 2020. in 1919, the president of the watchtower society made a bold prediction, “millions now living will never die”.

that quotation was constantly repeated by the organization till the year 2000 when they realized that everyone in attendance at that assembly, who listened to j.r. rutherford repeat those words, are dead.. that teaching has guided my life.

statements were repeatedly made at assemblies, conventions and in print that there was no career in “this system of things” so you don’t need a job with benefits or retirement, your fulltime job is to “preach the good news”!

smiddy3

Well said JJ ,I myself DA`d some years ago in fact many years after I had just left along with my wife many,many, years previously. To me it was a statement that I had DF`d the religious organization .I dont buy into the thought that your playing into there hands at all and that they have power over you ,I think its the other way round.

Everyone who DA themselves is a statement that they are not getting anymore support from you financially or otherwise .And that must hurt ,their pockets at least.

My wife never DA herself and nobody and I mean nobody has ever tried to contact her to come back to Jehovah or the congregation meetings and its been 27 years now.

And I have no doubt they know about us because we had a niece who was active while living here but since moved away .

Oh, and in the mid 70`s we actually lived here ourselves for a year and were a part of the then congregation .

Good luck to you and your wife buddy

take care.

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Comments on a range of topics

by Doug Mason in

hi,.

recent brief comments i made over a range of subjects.. https://jwstudies.com/doug_s_answers_at_quora__1_.pdf .

doug.

smiddy3

Marked for later . Looks interesting reading Doug.Thought provoking.

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An End of an EraJehovah’s Witnesses cancel in-person conventions worldwide, will stream online in 100 languagesAn End of an EraJehovah’s Witnesses cancel in-person conventions worldwide, will stream online in 100 languages

by smiddy3 in

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jehovah’s witnesses cancel in-person conventions worldwide, will stream online in 100 languages.

by: rocky nash.

posted: jul 9, 2020 / 10:23 pm pdt / updated: jul 19, 2020 / 11:22 am pdt.

smiddy3

I think they will find a way to bring in tithing with some nu-lite BS .

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I was wondering how this would play out in JW land.

by wolverines in

i have a niece who is trying to get pregnant.

she was telling me her husband had to go to a room with porn in it and masturbate into a cup to get tested.

i never thought of this before but but how would a jw handle this.

smiddy3

how would a JW handle this. ? If he takes his cue from Bethel he might just use a pillow ?

Then again it might be whether he`s left or right handed ?