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  For active JW's - Are you obeying the law of the Christ.................

  by The Fall Guy in

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  ........or the law of the watchtower?.

  the may 2019 watchtower actually tells you which one to obey: .

  page 3, par.

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  Their explanation is that in this instance Jesus was talking about sins related to financial and business matters. This idea is made out of whole cloth and has absolutely no basis.
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  I wish all Witness men were like this ...

  by vienne in

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  my intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.

  my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.

  why aren't more witness men like this?

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  By putting your name out there you could be disfellowshipped at any time. Are you okay with that?
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  May 2019 child abuse WT

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the new study edition watchtower is up, and most of it is devoted to child abuse damage control.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2019/.

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  But as usual they're making it look like it's their idea and/or it's always been that way.
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  Is this the most awkward and forced kiss in cinema?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  right after rose smashes into finn's speeder, she practically sexually assaults him (#finntoo) .

  besides, i thought finn had the hots for rey.

  as soon as he woke up from his coma at the beginning of the film, he was like: "where da white woman at?

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  Yes Rogue One is definitely my favorite of the Disney era, stands apart from the others. I'd say I like it just as much as the original films.

  Edit: And by original films I mean 1-6. 😁
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  May 2019 child abuse WT

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the new study edition watchtower is up, and most of it is devoted to child abuse damage control.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2019/.

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  This requirement does not apply to whether elders or others report allegations of a crime.

  But isn't this new in a way? I thought elders could tell others that it's their choice to go to authorities, but if they ever did such a thing themselves before calling HQ they'd be in trouble. Isn't this giving them permission to do that now?
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  May 2019 child abuse WT

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the new study edition watchtower is up, and most of it is devoted to child abuse damage control.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2019/.

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  neat blue dog

  The new Study Edition Watchtower is up, and most of it is devoted to child abuse damage control.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2019/
  
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  Are the younger generation taking on roles in the Cong?

  by purrpurr in

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  2. friends

  i notice that several of the congs i've been to seem to have a majority of the male roles performed by older men.

  very few young men are wanting to be ms or elders etc.

  it also seems like very few young people are being pioneers either.. would you agree with this?

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  Not where I'm at. Here you need to be at least 40's to be appointed a MS or be an attendant, and even mic handlers are a strict position.
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  Is this the most awkward and forced kiss in cinema?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  right after rose smashes into finn's speeder, she practically sexually assaults him (#finntoo) .

  besides, i thought finn had the hots for rey.

  as soon as he woke up from his coma at the beginning of the film, he was like: "where da white woman at?

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  neat blue dog

  I'd say it's right up there among the worst. While I thought The Last Jedi was a good movie, way better than the nostalgia fest that was The Force Awakens and closer to what Lucas would've done, that scene was pretty bad in multiple ways, including the inconsistent moral of STOPPING someone from sacrificing themselves to save many others, something that Luke ended up doing moments later.
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  My Letter to President Trump Requesting That IRS Revoke Watchtower's Tax-exempt status

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  2. experiences

  january 23, 2019. the honorable donald j. trump,.

  president of the united states;.

  the white house.

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  neat blue dog

  even if Obama was right about something, Trump would likely take the opposite position just because it was Obama

  Nonsense. Obama built border walls and deployed tear gas against hostile illegal immigrants during his tenure, but as soon as it's Trump doing it it's an "immorality". It's quite obvious that it is the left who goes that immature route, to go the opposite of whatever their opponent is saying.
  
  
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  Snopes and the Covington students

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. current

  while i still regularly check snopes' headlines and think it's a valuable resource, its' left leaning is showing a bit with the current covington headlines.

  while snopes is usually among the first to fully dissect a hot topic, even publishing numerous articles over a short period about the same thing, they seemed to have backed off this one, even though this story begs for fact checking ten times more than some others!

  the daily wire on the other hand did plenty of good, detailed, referenced fact checking on it, putting snopes to shame.

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  neat blue dog

  While I still regularly check Snopes' headlines and think it's a valuable resource, its' left leaning is showing a bit with the current Covington headlines. While Snopes is usually among the first to fully dissect a hot topic, even publishing numerous articles over a short period about the same thing, they seemed to have backed off this one, even though this story begs for fact checking ten times more than some others! The Daily Wire on the other hand did plenty of good, detailed, referenced fact checking on it, putting Snopes to shame. One article that Snopes did publish related to the students was this one about the bogus claim that they were caught wearing blackface:

  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covington-catholic-black-paint/

  You'll notice that even though the article debunks it, the result is listed as

  "True"!

  Why? Because of the wording of the question:

  "Is This Picture from a Covington Catholic High School Basketball Game?"

  Well . . . Yeah, but that wasn't the issue. And in an age of outrage mobs that read headlines but never the article, what do you think the result will be? Even in the article, right after debunking it by showing how the color black was worn in support of the team, they found it laughably necessary to quote some random person on an obscure forum that said it reminded him of blackface . . . seriously. While they initially published four news style articles under the assumption the narrative was fact, once the truth came out they never made one of their signature fact checking articles with a "True" or "False" conclusion. They published two articles from the student's point of view, one of them brief, almost a blurb, and yet another one that said there are 'many interpretations' of what actually happened. Nope, the truth is already out there and it's too late. My rating of your reporting on this: "Mostly False"