Posts by smiddy3

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What is your status (as of today) as a Jehovah's Witness?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

active believer...still attend meetings, go out in field service, believe it's ''the truth''.

active non-believer... go to meetings and field service to please family... living a double life .

inactive believer...don't attend meetings but believe it's the truth, one day might go back to kingdom hall.

smiddy3

I guess I`m #4 last attended a JW funeral 28 years ago and have never set foot in a KH again ,some years ago I was influenced to DA myself by some comments on this forum beleiving I have DF the JW religion.

I have never regretted it.

I do not beleive in the Bible, God, or any other form of religion .

I do marvel at the size of the universe , all forms of life on earth ,and beleive the odds of some form of life being present elsewhere in the universe just has to be.

Does that class me as being a spiritual person of some sort ? I dont know.

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1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

by Ding in

awake!

"if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

smiddy3

The GB / WT leaders, of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society /Jehovah`s Witnesses speak out of both sides of their mouth.

"New Light" from them always follows failed prophecys ,expectations ,evident realities , and failed predictions they have previously made .

And they have always blamed the rank and file for their mistakes , errors , and lies.

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The WT will now produce a Jesus Movie (Series)

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i'm actually looking forward to their warped view of matthew, mark, luke and john for this.

the drama from 2015 wasn't that bad.

however.... yeah steven lett mentions othe films about jesu are plagued with false religion.

smiddy3

Stephen Lett as a Demon possesed man?

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The Bible and its use of excesses beggars belief ?

by smiddy3 in

how many accounts of the bibles use of excesses can you recall ?

i will start off with a favourit of mine.. the inauguration of solomons temple and the sacrifices offered .2chron.7 :4-5 , 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep ?

c,mon.

smiddy3

How many accounts of the Bibles use of excesses can you recall ? I will start off with a favourit of mine.

The inauguration of Solomons temple and the sacrifices offered .2Chron.7 :4-5 , 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep ? c,mon

really ? Maybe they were just adept at using hyperbole for effect .

What others can you come up with ?

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The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

by FFGhost in

so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

smiddy3

Maybe eating Manna doesn`t turn into shit , just saying.

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Double Speak from last night's CLAM

by eyeslice in

now that there are no meetings to physically attend, i am in a position where i listen in to my wife's zoom calls.

i thought some of the ideas in last week's clam were a bit strange, for instance they harped on about being 'friendly' to non-jws but not to become 'friends' with them.

the poignant question being put to the audience; 'what is the difference between being friendly to an unbeliever and being his friend?'.

smiddy3

They dont seem to know the difference to being a friend or an associate ?

Having and being a friend is unconditional

Havind an associate "friend" is, or can be, conditional.

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What Do You Want To Talk About Regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

we do talk a lot about how this site doesn’t center on all things jw.

so what would you like to discuss?.

the floor is yours..

smiddy3

Anyway, does anybody have any insight as to what the mindset of the longtime older JWs is?More than likely he/she is here or on a site like this one.
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The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

by FFGhost in

so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

smiddy3

This thread/post should be a must read before anybody gets baptised as a JW or anybody else who takes the words in the Bible literally as GODS word.

Couldn`t GOD in all his power have provided latrines conveniently placed throughout the camp ?

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May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"

by FFGhost in

don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.

let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.

france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.

smiddy3

I think back and wonder who was that person in my body when I beleived the green book ,"Your Will Be Done " or whatever it was called ,about the KOTN and the KOTS

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Art work in the 1933 book riches

by mickbobcat in

i picked this book up at a flea market for three bucks.

the art work is great.

i love the satan and .

smiddy3

Why in that 1933 book Riches with the illustration ,does Adam have nipples ? I notice that he doesn`t have a belly button but why nipples ?