Topics Started by wanderlust

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New Zealand.
by karter in
1. jw
2. friends
who lives here?.

whos been here?.

who wants to come here?.
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JW Kids Who Lack Sincerity: Are You In The Flipping Truth Or Not?
by Apognophos in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
did any of you know a jw youth who didn't seem to really even try to be sincere about the "truth"?

not someone who led a double life while pretending to be a goody-goody jw.

i mean the kind of kid who went to the meetings and did field service while making minimal effort at maintaining a pretense of being a true believer?.
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Duck Shot Through Neck with Arrow/Dart Still On the Loose 3 Months Later
by Wild_Thing in
1. jw
2. friends
this poor little guy was spotted in kansas city about 3 months ago.

he was first spotted in someone's backyard pool, and has mostly been hanging out in a pond in a kansas city park.

they keep trying to catch him, but evidently he's clever.. they said on the news tonight that the missouri conservation department is at the park tonight making a more concentrated effort to capture the duck.
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Replacement For Hubble Telescope
by cofty in
1. social
2. current
hubble has been awesome especially considering it started with a manufacturing error and had to be repaired in space.

it has brought pictures of deep space that we could not have dreamed possible a few decades ago.. plans for its replacement are in progress.

the james webb space telescope will launch in 2018 and will be put in an orbit 1 million miles above earth.
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Can you choose what you believe?
by noonehome in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hear it all the time.. people who decide it isn't the truth and leave are said to deep down know they're leaving the truth, choosing instead whatever ideology suits their imperfect desires.

in the new dvd the little kid asks why people believe in evolution and the dad basically says people believe whatever they want.

the actual issue is never actually addresed though: "did life evolve?
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2029 - the year NOBODY from 1914 will still be alive.
by EndofMysteries in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
going by the oldest verified by birth cert living person is 115 years old, in 15 years not only will not "millions now living will never die(1914)" be untrue, but even 1 single person now living will never die will be out.

i wonder what the spin will be then w/ the wt.

it's just around the corner, don't go to school, give us all your money and assets, it's happening real soon now.
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What is the JW Mindset?
by losingit in
1. jw
2. experiences
is it based on gullibility, naivete, the ability to suspend all logic and reason in order to hold onto fantasized "realities" of a paradise earth where all humanity will be perfect, where all wars and violence will cease?

is it a personal preponderance to the extreme-- whether it be in judgmentalism, cruelty, rigidity, negativity, and/ or righteousness that lends itself to extreme closemindedness and shortsightedness?.

how do you define it for yourself?
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How Would Your Being Disfellowshipped Affect You?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
would you care?.

would there be any repercussions?.
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When I decided to no longer turn in time...
by SG098 in
1. jw
2. experiences
being my 1st post i figured i should relate a personal experience.

a few months ago i decided to stop reporting time.

i'm mentally out of this cult now but still trapped because of family.
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What would be your favorite job if you could do anything.?
by new hope and happiness in
1. social
2. relationships
on the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.

or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.

in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.