Posts by smiddy3

"it is to the spirit anointed christians who will rule in that kingdom that most of the christian-greek scriptures is directed, including the promise of everlasting life.

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I have been out for about 27 years now and I thought JW`s taught the anointed gained immortality whereas the other sheep gained everlasting life providing none of them rebelled against Jehovah God.

He always had the option of ending your life if he chose to do so ? I could never understand how imperfect humans could gain immortality ,thinking you could never die ,however I was corrected by that as being untrue.

GOD always held the upper hand.

Then I couldn`t see what the difference was with everlasting life and immortality?

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Worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.

by smiddy3 in

does anybody know what this message will contain ?

is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?

or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.

smiddy3

Thanks Petra the english one would be fine.

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Worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.

by smiddy3 in

does anybody know what this message will contain ?

is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?

or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.

smiddy3

Does anybody know what this message will contain ? Is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ? Or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.

Or is it going to suggest to the Government Officials that this mob could very well be the next Jonestown /Wacol incident and we need to act now.?

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Upcoming Neutrality Talk Oct 26, 2020

by Listener in

thanks petra and atlantis for providing the latest announcements from the watchtower.. they are telling congregations to replace the 15 minute local needs talk in the midweek meeting of october 26th with a talk on neutrality.

i am not sure if this is due to there being a usa election on tues 3rd, november or because of their worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.

it does sound like it is due to the usa election due to comments about propaganda and political promises.

smiddy3

Doesn`t Romans chapter 13 indicate that Christians / Jehovah`s Witnesses are to be involved and support the ruling governing authorities as this is the arrangement of GOD and those that take a stand against this arrangement are taking a stand against GOD ?

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UGHHHHH Wife wants to pioneer. Our future together doesn’t look promising

by goingthruthemotions in

ughhhhh wife wants to pioneer.

our future together doesn't look promising .

i told her she doesn’t know what she is getting into.

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Cheeessuuusss some of you people must have been in congregations from hell .I was in about 7 different congregations in two seperate states in Australia. In all of those congs most .brothers and sisters were either an employee ,or they were self employed or owned their own business and employed some brothers.

In my first congregation the PO and his assistant were both fleshly brothers and both were employed as " Life salesman". Other self employed brothers were house painters, Tilers ,Builders ,plasterers,electricians and plumbers An ex missionary and his wife ran a beauty salon that my wife was employed as a beautician.at one stage. Both my sons were employed by brothers at one time or another..I myself had a full time job It was never a problem in Australia in my experience ?

And it was a great social life that we experienced for many years .Maybe that was why it took 33 years to wake up we were having too much fun and could overlook problems that were beginning to mount up until we could no longer overlook them anymore.

I truly feel for you people who were living in these shit congregations that sucked the soul out of you .

As for GTTM`s I`m sorry you are going through this ,obviously she is not going to be challenged by doctrines that not being a big deal for her it seems she is just emotionally attached to the religion and it`s social life and a feel good feeling about it.

That`s the bubble that needs to be burst .How you do that is up to you ,you know her best .Many people are in the religion purely because of emotions ,feeling good about a new system where they pet pandas and lions all day eating oversize grapes in a house that`s been leftover from some rich dude in this system .

Totally unrealistic.

They will be told what to do and what they can`t do by a GB in the new System and it won`t be up to individuals to choose what they can and can`t do .

Big Brother will dictate with rules and regulations how paradise will be run.

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Verses deleted and Mangled by the Watchtower

by AWAKEJWS in

*col 1:16: nwt: because by mean of him all [other] things were created.

but the watchtower changed the word ?god?

*re 1:11 nwt: these words deleted completely.. .

smiddy3

I was thinking about what texts of the Bible JW`s changed in the NWT to suit their beliefs when I came across this post ,so I thought I would put it out again as it does give food for thought in my opinion .

What do you think ?

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Confession of a German Widow

by Terry in

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confession of a german widow.

rosa hoffberger would be late for mass.

it couldn’t be helped; cold weather set in and her movement was twice as difficult with arthritis.she hadn’t attended mass since the bombing had ended months ago.

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You learn something everyday on this forum LOL

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Never Forget 9/11

by minimus in

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tomorrow is the anniversary of 9/11/2001.

i hope we never forget what happened that fateful day and learn from what happened.❤️.

smiddy3

Here in Australia its 9/11 today .i had a toast drink to all those that lost there lives on that fateful day in remembrance.

I hope that those Muslim SOB `s that were looking forward to their 70 Virgins all have the pox .