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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?   
    Bingo!
    You nailed it!
    But I realize things that have a practical application take precedence.
    I prefer to think about the convection currents between the windwalls of the latitude bands of the atmosphere of Jupiter.….. silly me!
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?   
    Answers to all of the above:
    I DO NOT KNOW.
    My gut feeling is that all this was fulfilled thousands of years ago.
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    Pudgy reacted to ComfortMyPeople in Biblical King-of-the-North (KON) and King-of-the-South (KOS), and GOG and MAGOG, too!   
    You're right. Nothing in our Christian life should change if the prophecies (such as those of the KoN) were fulfilled, are being fulfilled or will be fulfilled. If we serve Jehovah out of devotion we will continue to worship him no matter what the end comes tomorrow or in a million years.
    In fact, not giving prophecies too much emphasis protects us from disappointment. But what happens to me is that since a good part of the Bible consists of prophecies, I can't help but "take a look".
    (2 Peter 1:19). . .So we have the prophetic word made more sure, and you are doing well in paying attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place (until day dawns and a daystar rises) in your hearts. .
     
    By the way, I love your cartoons
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    Pudgy got a reaction from xero in Biblical King-of-the-North (KON) and King-of-the-South (KOS), and GOG and MAGOG, too!   
    ….. I saw the look of panic and desperation in GB Member Samuel Herd’s eyes as he described the poverty wages he made as a gardener.
     
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    Pudgy got a reaction from xero in Biblical King-of-the-North (KON) and King-of-the-South (KOS), and GOG and MAGOG, too!   
    BECAUSE , If you can convince a significant number of people that you have “special insight”, you can bathe in a river of never ending money.
    ….. beats having to do lawn work for a living, in July and August!
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Arauna in Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?   
    Answers to all of the above:
    I DO NOT KNOW.
    My gut feeling is that all this was fulfilled thousands of years ago.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Biblical King-of-the-North (KON) and King-of-the-South (KOS), and GOG and MAGOG, too!   
    I also try to never impune motives, but some things are so painfully, and embarrassingly obvious.    

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    Pudgy reacted to JW Insider in Biblical King-of-the-North (KON) and King-of-the-South (KOS), and GOG and MAGOG, too!   
    I was hoping to avoid the typical sarcasm (I'm guilty of it too) against the organizations of Christendom and our own WTS, too, who have had a lot of untenable explanations and interpretations over the years for these things. I don't want to impute bad motives when I don't know the motives. I understand the circumstances that the WTS and GB have sort of boxed themselves into by believing that there must be a specific "last days" interpretation. I know some of the reasons for this interpretation, especially the identification of the KON with Russia now, and Germany in the 1940's, for example.
    But I see some issues with the explanation, and hoped to deal specifically with the issues about the explanations, not the motives.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Biblical King-of-the-North (KON) and King-of-the-South (KOS), and GOG and MAGOG, too!   
    ….. I saw the look of panic and desperation in GB Member Samuel Herd’s eyes as he described the poverty wages he made as a gardener.
     
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?   
    I immediately see two things wrong with your above analysis.
    Number one: if all these people in the “great awakening“ were part of a great awakening and they were all wrong it seems to me like a  “great going to sleep“.
    Number two: Clark Kent was not pretending to be Superman……… Superman was pretending to be Clark Kent.
    there is a difference.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?   
    How Long ago was that prophecy about the king of the north invading the king of the south with many ships and horses and chariots? 3500 years?
    For purposes of discussion let’s say 3500 years.
    1.) Since we are still discussing it today as if the event never happened, I would have to assume that the event never happened in the past, and that’s probably why people are looking forward to it occurring today.
    But, it appears that everyone that has been making prophecies for the past 3500 years have  been wrong …….. so if anybody today makes such a prediction that it’s this year or soon or whatever, I suppose the Probabilities that being true are approximately 1/3500.
    Even so, I will begin to worry about it when I see horses swimming across oceans or perhaps being carried on ships with or without chariots.
    Of course this resoluteness is tempered somewhat by the fact that no matter what the case is, or who is the king of the north or south actually are, or any other thing about this, I and you can do absolutely nothing about it.
    As Alfred E. Newman once said “What, me worry?“
     

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    Pudgy got a reaction from xero in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    When you return to the Archive, Dmitar, with a new screen name, may I suggest Phineas T. Bluster, from the 1950’s TV  “The Howdy Doody Show”.
    YouTube has a clip.
    A PERFECT FIT!
     
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    Pudgy reacted to JW Insider in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    The 520 are all the notifications I have in the last 30 days from the dozen or so people I follow, or people who respond to posts I made, or react to them, or mention me. But I am saying that out of every 500+ notifications, it's not unusual to have over a hundred of those notifications where Dmitar has referred to me or down-voted me, or tried to draw my attention to him in some negative way. 
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    Dimitar: Of course! ‘Nothing else about my conduct suggests I am a Witness. Let me deliberately give some false information to see if anyone will pounce on that to attack me!’
    Notice how I replied to this remark of Dmitar’s through JWI? Wanna know why? The screenshot at bottom tells it all.
    Ah….now life is so peaceful. I mean really. 520 notifications within a month?! Plainly the guy is mentally ill. That’s not so bad in itself. I have suspected that of others here. But combined with his attack-dog malignant paranoid remarks that so often make no sense whatsoever,  it is simply too much. But now I am freeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

  15. Haha
    Pudgy reacted to Dmitar in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    You mean, When you make mistakes and errors and try to hide them by nonsense and word play just like now? 
    Like I said, @JW Insider, @TrueTomHarley are predictable. lol!! 😁
    I just don't care about your schemes and games, anymore!! The same playbook from @Space Merchant. Take a bow, tell your foolish friends you won, and let it go. 😄
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    Pudgy reacted to JW Insider in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    When I click on the Notifications icon (looks like a bell) there is a link at the bottom that says "Seel All Notifications." When I click on that link, I get the 520 notifications that I received for the last 30 days (since February 13). There are 25 on a page, and I have 21 pages of them. On every page there are usually a few out of the 25 that say "Dmitar mentioned you in a topic: . . ." In fact, some pages have you mentioning me 4 or 5 times on the same page.
    Here's a representative example, below, of 6 notifications in a row where half of them show Dmitar mentioning me in a topic -- and it's often a topic that I had not even participated in. I just figure it's usually Dmitar trying to cause divisions again. (See Titus 3:10 NIV.)  It's a little bit like a notification that "Dmitar has reacted to a post in a topic . . . "  Whenever I see that latter notification, I can always predict that it's a down-vote of some kind, and I can usually be assured by the down-vote that what I said was most likely correct. I have received hundreds of these from you (under your various names). After a while, it's so predictable that I think of it as a kind of proofreader's mark: If Dmitar down-voted it, then it's probably correct and there's usually no need to go and re-read what I wrote there.

    I noticed your implication that I will respond to only your mistakes and not others when you said:
    This is rather absurd, because, as I showed above, you have tried to draw me into hundreds of your posts and I have often never even looked at them, or at least never responded to most of them. Also, I don't keep a count, but I suspect that I have seen well over 10,000 mistakes you have made, under your various names here, and most of these mistakes are obvious to everyone. Yet, I have responded only to a tiny fraction of them, even ignoring the grossest of those errors. And, of course, I have made many mistakes here and welcome correction by others, and I hope most others have welcomed the times when I have corrected their mistakes, too.
    In fact, the only reason I responded to your mistake about Paul vs. Matthew Levi (son of Alphaeus) is that it reminded me of the fact that I have only seen you twice admit a mistake and then only when it didn't really matter. It was someone else who pointed it out once and I had pointed out the other one you admitted to. But I have seen people (including myself) point out mistakes you have made and I have seen you go to extremely ridiculous lengths to avoid admitting having made an error. I just happened to get curious about what you would use as your excuse this time. Predictably you came up with a "good" one: that you had made the mistake on purpose, just to see if you could draw me into the conversation. Quite a stretch, but I see you have tried to make it work by purposely throwing in another mistake about Levi being the name of Matthew's father, instead of Alphaeus. This one, of course, you DID put in there on purpose, evidently to claim that my current response somehow can convince stupid people that it was what you intended with the first mistake, too. I don't think most people here are stupid enough to fall for it.
  17. Haha
    Pudgy reacted to JW Insider in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    Clever.
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    It’s as if I using you. Sorry. 
    But really, I would not know of his diatribes otherwise. I recommend the course to anyone concerned for their blood pressure. I mean, I’ve got stuff I want to do. Who needs the continual low-level aggravation? I don’t want this wasp stinging me all the time just for the sake of being—well, I have no idea what he is doing! Nobody can figure out his malignancy. Nor can I, but I’m done trying.
  19. Haha
    Pudgy reacted to Dmitar in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    LOL!! You're sheltered and protected, here. No one here hates you. That's a hilarious comparison. You should be a circus clown. 
    Now try to turn against your apostate friends here, see how it changes. But, since it's lovable you and in order for them to make a point, they will stay silent like they do with @Pudgy
    So, your comparison is a meaningless rant.
  20. Haha
    Pudgy reacted to Dmitar in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    By the way, I already know your scheme to make an excuse to ban me. Same ploy as usual. @JW Insider and @TrueTomHarley get together to insult and criticize in order to give the audience the appearance you're the affected ones, while you are the evil ones. Search and destroy ploy joining forces.
    Then they rant away, by suggesting they have never banned or have caused anyone to be banned. Should I demonstrate it by just down voting?
    BAN away. I already, proved what I needed to prove from 7 years ago. 2022/2023
    I was signing off April 2 anyway. A few weeks before doesn't really matter.
    To God, there are far more important people out in the world, than people here. People think too much of themselves here in this open forum. Yet, an event needed to be proven for the visitors, not the foolish people here.
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in It's called, "You have a right to know"   
    It also takes about 2 minutes to figure out any new persona of his. What has he had—20 since I’ve been here? I’ll block them too. I’ve done my time with this fellow. No more. 
    Better to sporadically respond to remarks of guys like Srecko. His opposition is unveiled, his dislike for Witnesses loyal to the earthly organization undisguised, and he makes a disagreeable sense, but at least it is sense. You can realistically hope to know where he is coming from.
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    Pudgy reacted to Matthew9969 in Brothers helping Brothers Jehovah be with them.   
    Still waiting for your 3rd party truth. It would be horrifying if each individual denomination would only help their own specific denomination, and much more chaotic. Most of the individual soldiers I believe mostly are Catholic, I am not catholic, they are not adopted into the family of God, neither are jw's. 
    When I started a bible study again several years back, my conductor at the time and I discussed 9-11. He made a very strong statement that if there was a natural disaster and if he saw his neighbors house damaged and heard his neighbor screaming for help, he had to ignore the neighbor and do what ever he could to reach an elder and head straight to the kingdom hall. I had a problem with this reasoning and so he told me I would have to agree to this too if I was interested in progressing any further.
    Well you guys aren't doing much in stopping war or stopping people from killing others, heck even some of your own brothers have killed innocent people, even pregnant women and children.
    Lastly, the jw's are an off shoot of the bible students, which were an off shoot of 7th day Adventist. Even jw's have had different denominations stream from them, so jw's aren't an exclusive group.
    Gonna stop with you now, your deflecting the conversation into other subjects.
    So again, please provide proof jw's are helping non-jw's and/or working with other religious organizations to provide aide to all.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Are JWs in America back on the 'door to door' work now ?   
    OK
    I GOT IT!
    The King of the North will invade with chariots, AnD horses and many ships.
    I GOT IT!
    I have several questions about that if it is to be in modern times ……
    1. )  will the horses come on the ships, or will they have to swim the Atlantic Ocean?
    2.)  will they be talking horses like Mr. Ed?
    3.)  would it be a prudent thing to stock up on apples, and carrots?
     
     
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in THINGS THAT ARE TRULY INSPIRATIONAL!   
    Not to worry. You’re good here—I mean, relatively.
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    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in THINGS THAT ARE TRULY INSPIRATIONAL!   
    Besides, unless I am very mistaken (which is possible—there’s only so much you can discern online) you have broken that pattern by softening somewhat. Otherwise, I agree with you that no one has budged one iota.
    That makes you the least calcified of all here!
    you ‘ol pork chop
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