Posts by sparrowdown

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Does Your Family or Friends Call To Check to See How You Are Doing?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i ask this because i have noticed that many people in your life just don’t communicate like they could.. i realize i come from a different generation but does anybody ever use the phone and give someone a call?

i know of people who never answer their phone unless they listen to a message that would be left.

you are lucky if you get a text..

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Sebastian Maniscalco does a brilliant stand up routine about when the doorbell rings now vs when the doorbell rang 20yrs ago. Should catch it it's a hilarious observation of the difference in how we react when we get a "we were in the neighbourhood thought we'd stop by" visit now compared to what it was like when he was kid.

I find even just txting someone out of the blue you haven't spoken to for a while to say hi seems to throw them for loop. It's like "whatta you want from me!" "Ah ...nothin... just sayin hi..." LOL.

What is happening to us as a species.

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August 2018 Study Watchtower - Some wise words for JW's to consider!

by The Fall Guy in

do you have the facts?.

page 3 - as true christians, we need to develop the ability to evaluate information and reach accurate conclusions.. page 4 - it is especially important to avoid (view) websites promoted by apostates.

(awakened jw's) their whole purpose is to tear down (inform) god’s people and to distort (reveal) the truth.

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Page 6 - Ooohh yes, why would you want to be governed by your own personal emotions and thoughts? Obviously it's far better to be governed by someone elses emotions and thoughts - someone or rather 8 someones you have never met! Wow you can't get more brainwashy than that.

The people who write this crap should be ashamed of themselves.

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Apostate Dog Influenced By Satan

by Not_Culty in

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Who let the dogs out?

Obviously the cart people are in his territory they are now his bitches.

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Mexican drug lord El Chapo personally killed 4 Witnesses in the 80's

by Richard_I in

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friends

us prosecutors are reportedly considering charging 'el chapo' guzman with the killings of 6 us citizens and a dea agent.

"the first killings came on december 2, 1984, when four jehovah's witness missionaries, two men and two women, knocked on the door of a drug lord.

godoy, who was then also working as a body guard for ernesto fonseca, another guadalajara kingpin, said the missionaries were tortured and the women raped.

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Missionary work is incredibly dangerous. Can't believe some of the hairy situations I put myself in going d2d in rural territory and in the rough parts of town where drugs and crime was rife. I had a creepy guy calmy tell me and another sister once that he could kill us and put out bodies in the basement and no one would know all the while smiling as he said it. I remember part of video from a few years ago had a dramatized version of an experience of these bave sisters not aftraid to boldy witness to a biker gang! Insanely irresponsible.

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New book: Dear Mr. Putin - JWs Write Russia

by betterdaze in

dear mr. putin - jehovah's witnesses write russia.

by tom harley.

in early 2017, jehovah’s witnesses were invited just once to write vladimir putin.

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49 million in two months?

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"Thanks for the thought" - how the religion robs people of normal humanity

by stuckinarut2 in

so as you all know, my wife and i are not officially df or da.. a small event happened this week that i have to share!.

a family that we were really close to (dinners and catch ups several times a month , go out socially often, play sport together, helped them through tough times, like uncle and aunty to their kids, etc).

the wife's father died.

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Cult love is fake love.

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My JW Elder Brother Passed Away

by minimus in

jw
friends

he was basically a good man, just a believer in the religion.

when we were both elders we were best of friends and then things deteriorated when i was not an elder for a while.

then after becoming an elder again, i slowly drifted away from the religion and he drifted further away from me.

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Sorry you lost him before you lost him.

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Zappa

by JRK in

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friends

i am stoked about going to see dweezil zappa in concert on thursday.

it is going to be a date night, and the person i am taking never had the chance to see his father frank in concert.

i know that she will appreciate the complexity and beauty of his music, as well as some of his off-color humor.. yes "humor does belong in music!".

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Have a great date night Zappa.

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Brilliant Medical Advice from the Slave

by Vanderhoven7 in

not sure where i picked this up:.

self explanatory science and medical advice from the faithful and brilliant servant class in brooklyn________________________________________thomas edison, the inventor and electrician, of phonograph and telephone fame, has been experimenting with the new light "x-rays.

" and has succeeded in taking a photograph through oak eight inches thick.

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"Faithful and Brilliant Servant Class in Brooklyn" ???

Lol always with the bragging.

Interesting claim "Theosophists and others" are taking credit for the "new light X-Rays" as being part of their "deception outfit."

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Broadcasting rebranded?

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

i had to look at jw broadcasting today (aaaargh) and noticed it has had a bit of a makeover.

it is also now called jehovah's witnesses broadcasting.. sf.

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That's a mouthful. Although, "JW" is ambiguous for the uninitiated.

Borgcasting sounds cooler though.