Topics Started by Pacopoolio

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Jehovah's Witnesses Street recruiting thwarted by "Apostates"
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fylyfc_0we.
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the star of bethleham comong from satan
by nonjwspouse in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for some reason my husband has picked this topic after months of non communication of anything related biblical at all.

( he believes he came up with the idea onhis own ( he was raised jw and left as a 18 year old...ugh...right).

so since this was his topic my own thoughts have been expressed as well.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Say They Are The Most Educated In The World. How Would You Prove Otherwise?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.

how would you counter that belief?.
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TV Ideas For JWNers. "Luther", "Dexter" "The Killings" "Braquo"-
by RottenRiley in
1. jw
2. friends
i am looking for more ideas of interesting movies and gritty crime shows to watch.. .

the killings, wallander, luther, dexter, braquo (french (english subbed) german (berlin berlin), sherlock, george gently, inspector frost, inspector lewis, did i say "dexter (though the ending was a bummer :( ) "orange is the new black", "house of cards", "mad men".. .

can you add to my profile of movies and series i need to see?
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RIP Farkel, the account of Genesis and me
by suavojr in
1. jw
2. friends
after learning about farkels passing, i started reading some of his threads.

i must admit, the man had a great dry sense of humor and knew how to speak his mind.. .

this thread in particular got me thinking last night.... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/6243/1/the-tree-of-what.
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Don't let your job interfere with your meeting attendance
by Quarterback in
1. jw
2. friends
recently, a public speaker brought up this point that i remembered being preached in the 70's.

when they bring this matter up, they always manage to give you an experience of how one person stood his ground, and got a great job offer, as a result.. what about the many experiences of ones that were not blessed?

i can memtion horror stories of ones that should have kept working their meetings..
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It is because of amazing breakthroughs like these... Awesome to live in 2014!!
by ILoveTTATT in
1. jw
2. friends
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/draco_(antiviral).

amazing... one drug that could potentially cure any viral disease, including hiv!!.

being developed since 2011..
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Moustaches vs. beards - one of the contributing factors to losing my cognitive dissonace
by Pacopoolio in
1. jw
2. friends
as a little background - i was born-in to being a witness, back in '79, in detroit, in mostly black and poor congregations.

baptized when 10-ish, stayed around, was on the fast track to ms, but faded when i moved out at 24ish.. there was a combination of a few things that got me on the road to "freedom" from the cognitive dissonance that kept me "in the truth" for so long.

the main thing was, being an artist and studying marketing, my thinking was patterned to constantly question if i was doing something "correctly," as constant improvement and questioning is what facilitates artistic and mental growth.
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No Satan
by jgnat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
that was one of the first of the prepackaged beliefs from my church that i let fall.. why?.

because i'd stared evil in the face and lived to tell about it.

i know it's textures, it's dark places, the feel, smell, perversion, degradation, corruption of it.
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can Satan read your mind?
by doodle-v in
1. jw
2. friends
i talked to my brother today who is still a practicing jw (i've managed to fade) .

we were talking and suddenly he asked me if i thought satan could read my mind.

and he said "yeah i though the answer was yes and then i found out that satan cant read my mind".