No don't let them walk all over you, I wish more people would stand up to JWs rude insulting behavior by just saying No deal! JWs are not "nice" they are narcissistic religious bullies.
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JW Grandparent Drama
by What Now? inmy mom and sisters have not had any contact with my family for the past year and a half.. we even recently announced a new pregnancy and none of them acknowledged it or called to say congratulations or anything.. this past week my non-witness grandfather passed away and i had thought that for the sake of his death and funeral, it being "necessary family business" that they would at least be civil in front of our other family.
all of them still ignored me, my sisters didn't even speak to my children at all - to be honest i don't think my kids even knew who they were.
for the sake of my grandmother i made a small attempt at the end of the day to say goodbye to my mother and she kind of just brushed past me and said goodbye without really looking at me.. anyways my grandmother told me later that my mom spoke to her and said "i love my daughter and i love my grandchildren and i'm so upset that she won't allow me to see them".
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IDEA "new business
by James Mixon inafter seeing tiger woods mug shot the idea hit me, a makeup artist for the famous and rich...i have never seen a mug shot of someone who didn't look like, well you know..weekends you camp out around the police station and charge 20-30 bucks to clean up arrestee(you the makeup artist) before taking their mug shot..i'am sure tiger would have paid big bucks.
i have never taken a mug shot but why don't they offer the folks a mirror......of course you will need to make arrangement with the law but i think it's a good idea to make folks presentable.
i'am sure some folks are declared guilty by just looking at their mug shot..
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I'm sure the fact that it's known as a "mug shot" doesn't help either. So maybe a whole new re-framing of the occasion is required also. The hair and makeup should involve a small twirly black moustache and black suit for men and a jessica rabbit look for the women.
Yeah great idea. If you're gonna look guilty it may as well be hot guilty.
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How Far Up The Ladder Did You Go In JW Land?
by minimus ini pretty much did it all.
vacation pioneered as a youngster and became a regular pioneer out of school.
i became a ms then an elder.....the organization pushes you to be somebody within the confines of their realm.
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You are spot on Bungi Bill all smoke and mirrors.
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Using violence to end violence?
by stuckinarut2 init really is mind blowing when we think about it : witnesses have no problem with a deity who will use violence in order to end violence?!?!.
armageddon will be gods war to kill billions of people...because it shows his love?.
thoughts?.
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They are fine with genocide as long as it's "Jehovah" that's doing the dirty deed like a contract killing, genocide by proxy, one degree of seperation between them and the mass murder.
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Is there truth in religion
by bola ini am asking this questions due to the teachings, beliefs and practices of different religions..
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Probably some common truisms amonst them, general principles that are universally applicable. The stories and accounts themselves are more useful if viewed as allegories as there's usually some kind of moral or lesson to be gleaned, but the lesson the original writer intended is hard to know sometimes because of differences in cultural context . Trouble with religion it treats stories and illistrations as literal and mixes in its own erroneous interpretations or outright lies.
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Prof Bunsen / G Jackson?? See the similarities? It's the Muppet Show!
by stuckinarut2 inperhaps someone can assist here?.
while watching the may 2017 broadcast, it struck us how similar g jackson looks (while sitting and wearing his waist coat) to the muppets character prof bunsen!!!!.
perhaps someone with better computer skills can upload the pics side by side?.
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Haha! Good call stuck, love it!
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How Far Up The Ladder Did You Go In JW Land?
by minimus ini pretty much did it all.
vacation pioneered as a youngster and became a regular pioneer out of school.
i became a ms then an elder.....the organization pushes you to be somebody within the confines of their realm.
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One of the biggest illusions of JWland is that their is a ladder when there is no ladder only the illusion of one, everyone is disposable and dispensable in witnessworld.
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Internal wars in Congs ?
by Chook incan you relay some of the battles , who won and how did the loser cope ?.
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Ah yes the congregational turf wars and power struggles between the top couples/families jostling for for top positions that usually ended with blood on the dancefloor and shameless victory laps by the winning couple/family - so loving, so christian and so common in congregations of JWs. I've witnessed enough of them to know they end in tears.
There was a situation where this nice brother moved in and the locals couldn't get enough of him used him as a sounding board for their complaints about the local elders the local elders got wind of what was happening and they busted his ass down to deleted elder status I felt real sorry for the guy he walked into a trap by "Boss Hog" and his crew.
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have you noticed how the main Jw preaching message has changed?
by nowwhat? inyears ago it was all about armageddon and getting out of babylon the great.
then with the draw close to jehovah and is there a creator that care about you.
it was all about building a relationship with jehovah.
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The message is irrelevant in the sense that they will push whatever message suits their current agenda. What others have already stated - cultspeak 101.