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  Report from Japan

  by wifibandit in

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  2. friends

  anon in japan says:.

  i served in the third circuit of shikoku japan.

  a few years ago, a well-known theocratic family disassociated.

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  sparrowdown

  I think the internet provides something that the congregation doesn't and can't and that is a sense of connectedness. Connectedness to the wider world and the local community.

  WT can't compete, their website is not interactive, they don't give a fuck what you think or feel where as you can always find someplace or someone on the internet to relate to. Even casual interactions on the internet are more satifying than real world interactions with the shallow brothers and sisters at the fake-ass KH or with cold would-kick-you-to-the-curb-in-a-heartbeat fake-ass, conditional JW family.
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  FFA - 4H - Conscious matter or not allowed?

  by Jennifer Lehrer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was baptized 4 years ago, i have 2 little girls who love their bunnies, so this year we reached out to 4h and started our own 4h group - this was after asking the elders for counsel.

  none provided.

  now after doing this for 3 months i am being brought before a judicial committee for neutrality.

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  My advice would be to take care of your family first and not WT with it's ridiculous myriad of hypocritical irrelevant rules.

  They expect you to be loyal to an organization which has nothing to do with being loyal to your own family or to God.

  Learn how to distiguish the difference because the org will only look after itself not you or your children.
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  Gog of Magog - Watchtower says it has two identities

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the searcher started a topic addressing the gt, a comment from sparrowdown asked an interesting question -.

  "...the political powers of satan's world will form a coalition..."that's the statement that interests me.

  what are they alluding to?.

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  Coaliton of Nations sounds a bit globalist to me, but I spose they need to keep the cult lingo current-ish.

  Meanwhile in other news armageddon will be the first Purge and after the thousand years will come the second Purge.
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  Wow i do not reconize this religion anymore...

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  had the misfortune of stopping by the "regional" convention yesterday.

  i promised my daughter i would come to sunday afternoon so she wouldnt have to ride home with her mother.... holy crap it was weird!

  im sure all of this has been covered on the forum but to actually see it.... just wow.

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  The only thing left to complete the transformation are hooded robes and the chant "for the greater good."

  Anyone see the movie Hot Fuzz?
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  The great tribulation is now coming VERY soon!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower october 2017, par 11, page 28 - "very soon the political powers of satan’s world will form a coalition that is bent on the destruction of god’s people.

  's] have anything to fear?

  not at all!........at that critical moment during the great tribulation, the angelic soldiers of jehovah of armies will come together to protect god’s people..."[j.w.

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  sparrowdown

  "...the political powers of satan's world will form a coalition..."

  That's the statement that interests me. What are they alluding to?
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  I Give Up!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  im giving up guys.

  i've reached the end of my patience and now i finally refuse to waste any more time on part-time witnesses.

  i've text all of my active jw family members and told them to delete my number from their phone and never contact me again.

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  If they know where you stand on the JW thing and where you live or how to contact you let them come to terms with that in their own way and time.

  IOW

  If you love something set it free, if it comes back it's yours, if it doesn't hunt it down and....oops I mean it never was.
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  What did NOT get you out?

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i realize this is odd, but a "how you woke up" thread and the personal stories that are told which i know we all enjoy, made me think of this.

  in helping my wife and a couple others get the ball rolling, i realized the thing that resonated with me, didn't even move the needle with them.

  i wanted to rail on and on about blood, because that was my conduit to waking up, but for my wife it was about shunning.

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  What did NOT get me out?

  The people who had doubts or were even awake and said nothing and did nothing.
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  Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had Your Way?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.

  what about you?.

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  If it were up to me I would make all religions accountable to the same laws as any business like standards of quality control and false claims of the benefits of a product, paying employees, etc etc and let the chips fall where they fall re survival of all in the business of selling the product of religion.
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  Women finds frog in salad..

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok the first thing that come to mind, how in the hell a frog make in through all the food handlers into a salad..but when you think about it i became a jw thinking a nice spiritual meal and i ended up with crap and no one warned me, there is something ugly in your organization.......the restaurant bj's w. covina ca.

  one of my favorite restaurant....ktla.com/woman-finds-frog-in-salad-at-bjs-restaurant-in west-covina.

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  Poor froggie.
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  A woman wearing a head covering in subjugation of men - absolutely mental

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  how did they ever get away with that and how does it go down now, in today's society?.

  its fucking mental.

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  @ stuck " ... because she doesn't have a penis" ... to put on her head? Lol!