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  How Are Ex Elders Treated In The Congregation?

  by minimus in

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  are they pretty much left alone?

  are they respected for their having been elders at one time?

  are they treated like crap?.

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  Ex elders, yeah, poor bastards.

  As far as I can tell...

  No gold watch.

  No redundancy package or pension.

  No "thanks for all your hard work" party.

  No consulting with on past cases or assignments.

  Just "give back your elder book and any keys."
  
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  Why the NFL Protest Is a Massive and Insulting Failure

  by freemindfade in

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  i think everyone has the freedom to protest, they also have freedom of speech, these are two fundamental things that make america amazing.

  but thinking rationally about what is going on with the nfl, therefore, i have an unfavorable opinion of the league, and the players, not their right to free speech, but their motive and execution of it.

  constitutional freedom to protest ends at the workplace door too.

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  Whether it started this way seems unclear to me but it certainly has become an effective way to push Trump's buttons. IMO This is a protest against Trump's Presidency.

  I question the timing, is pushing Trump's nationalistic pride buttons and winding him up further such a good idea with all this NK thing going on.
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  Propaganda???

  by Disassociated Lady 2 in

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  i read this in the july 2017 study version of the watchtower.. ".

  propaganda​—how dangerous is it?.

  what is propaganda?

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  Alternative title:

  Get a Proper Gander at Our Propaganda 😉
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  Question for SBF

  by Fisherman in

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  slimboyfat, it appears that wts is going, gone digital.

  can you show your view what is wts next move after they are completely gone from kings county and settled in warwick?

  - this thread is your if you want it..

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  Is WT still here! Aww damn. Up with this I will not put!

  Here I was thinking it was coitans for WT, coitans I tell you.

  They gotta go, see, they gonna go swimmin with the fishies any day now, see.
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  1st it was happy at bethel now it also appears in the KH

  by joe134cd in

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  https://youtu.be/lfddxzipzga.

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  The sequel video will be Happy at my Judicial Committee lol.
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  US violent crimes and murders rose in 2016, the FBI says

  by Simon in

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  i can't remember the exact topic but i think a few people predicted the same thing - that the blm movement would cause an increase in violent deaths of young black men, ultimately doing more harm than good.. and so it has: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41391333.

  an 8.6% rise in the homicide rate is pretty appalling by any standard unless it started at very low levels, which we know it didn't.. this is why i object to movements based on false premises and invented media lies / selective coverage.

  the people who suffer the most are not the ones marching in the streets.

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  The article mentions a quote from a speech in which in which things like "undermined confidence in the police" (in effect) and the city's "policies on undocumented immigrants" are cited as reasons. It doesn't spell out BLM specifically but it's an easy conclusion to draw.
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  1st it was happy at bethel now it also appears in the KH

  by joe134cd in

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  https://youtu.be/lfddxzipzga.

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  "Step...clap...swim...jerk..." WTF! I thought jerking wasn't allowed, now the sisters are giving instuctions from the platorm???
  
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  An honest question for those who were "born-in"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  just wanted to ask a question of those who were born in as i was.. how did you feel to have been "privileged to have been born into the only true faith - the truth"?.

  did this make you feel confident, or proud - or perhaps arrogant?.

  how did you reconcile the fact that 99% of the earth's population was not born "into the truth"?.

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  Sad but true. Since JW children are not loved just for being born and being themselves the only thing born-ins have is their specialness at being second third fourth generation JW.

  Coz inherited specialness is sooo special. The bible says so.
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  I had been waiting for this video since 2013... DEFINITIVE PROOF that the Flag is placed in Kingdom Halls in Chile!

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  now with english subtitles!.

  this is the definitive proof that kingdom halls in chile display the flag.

  a brave person went inside the kingdom hall while the meeting was happening and took video of the flag being displayed inside the kingdom hall property.

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  I wonder what would happen if brothers elsewhere started displaying flags as a gesture of good will towards the government.
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  Jehovahs witnesses that believe its "The Truth" vs JW's who know it isn't

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  hey guys!

  what do you think is the percentage of jw's believe that it is the truth and the percentage of those who think it might be some false or all false??

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  Once I figured out it was lies and harmful to my mental health my conscience would not allow me to continue to attend just to pretend. I figured continuing to attend would be helping support the numbers and I didn't want to give one more thing to this cult.

  But, even when I was PIMI I reckoned at least half of the congregation didn't know or care if it was actually true they just liked the social aspects. Not exactly proof just a hunch I had.