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It’s as if Jesus himself is speaking. What about carpenters? Is your opinion the same for them? 

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is. Is there a recommendation to do something? Believe something?    This phrase "Why don't former members of Jehovah's Witnesses recognize the impact

I don't know whether you just had a seizure, but you're not making sense. You're one step away from talking in word salads.

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6 hours ago, xero said:

"A "whinny" typically refers to the characteristic vocalization of a horse, particularly the sound made by a horse when it is excited, happy, or trying to communicate with other horses or humans.

Yep! That's why you people are nobs, and always will be. 

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4 hours ago, Miracle Pete said:

I must say I’m amazed you have time to come on here what with all the invites and your ‘ busy schedule’

It is always possible—I’d rate it at least a 50/50 chance—that George is himself disfellowshipped—he knows Witness history very well—and is taking his revenge with a made-up, nasty almost beyond belief, persona that he would have everyone believe is that of a typical, faithful Witness.

I mean, I know hundreds of JWs, and I have never met one anything like him. It is inconceivable that such a personality could be in huge social demand, unless he is living one fantastic double life, and even then it would be hard to keep it hidden.

It’s inconceivable that someone who presents himself as so loyal can so utterly disregard repeated counsel not to argue with ‘apostates.’ Somewhere there is a sham. Something does not compute. That he himself is a disfellowshipped person taking revenge is a possible explanation.

 

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The facts fit the theory, TTH, but    something else is going on …. perhaps a macabre dark agenda driven comedy like C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape, and his nephew Wormwood.

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27 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

It is always possible—I’d rate it at least a 50/50 chance—that George is himself disfellowshipped—he knows Witness history very well—and is taking his revenge with a made-up, nasty almost beyond belief, persona, that he would have everyone believe is that of a typical, faithful Witness.

I mean, I know hundreds of JWs, and I have never met one anything like him. It is inconceivable that such a personality could be in huge social demand, unless he is living one fantastic double life, and even then it would be hard to keep it hidden.

It’s inconceivable that someone who presents himself as so loyal can so utterly disregard repeated counsel not to argue with ‘apostates.’ Somewhere there is a sham. Something does not compute. That he himself is a disfellowshipped person taking revenge is a possible explanation.

 

I’ll take a brief sarcasm pause to say that this is the most astute post I’ve seen on here. He also just calls anyone who questions his attitude an apostate. 

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16 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

The facts fit the theory, TTH, but    something else is going on …. a macabre dark agenda driven comedy like C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape, and his nephew Wormwood.

I’m not familiar with this one. Should I throw it on the reading stack?

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Of course, he might be my old 1/21 nemesis …

…. or just like Pinocchio who became a real boy, it’s Phineas T. Bluster the marionette incarnate.

* coff * coff*

C.S. Lewis is famous for his Christian defenses, “The Chronicles of Narnia”, and the “Screwtape Letters”. 

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14 minutes ago, Miracle Pete said:

I’ll take a brief sarcasm pause to say that this is the most astute post I’ve seen on here. He also just calls anyone who questions his attitude an apostate. 

I’m bracing myself to be called either a little girl who sounds like a horse or referred to as ‘ she’ as if that is in some way pejorative. Maybe he was disfellowshipped for extreme misogyny. 

 

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I want to clarify that I am not a confessed pervert, nor am I disfellowshipped. The individuals who accuse me of such behavior should be the ones facing disfellowshipment. At least the public can now see through the facade of these false witnesses. But, then again, this has been happening here since 2013 from the old platform, and 2016 from this subpar site. :D

Once again, let me know when you decide to grow up to be real men. You people just keep proving my point.

 

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The point being proved, time and again, Georgie, is that you only read what fits your agenda, and therefore misunderstand, and misapply, and misconstrue EVERYTHING.

Therefore your arguments are always based on false premises, are wrong in their conception and wrong in their conclusion.

You present as facts your malicious slanders and hateful rhetoric.

It’s like watching raving rabid Democrats accuse Trump of everything bad since the beginning of time, waging “lawfare”, to try and cancel him out.

 

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Georgie, You assume that everybody but you is stupid, and are ignorant fools, so naturally you would not see it.

That’s why the clueless remain clueless.

 

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