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  You ever notice how personalities change when CO comes around?

  by dugout in

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  isn't it sickning when normaly people in the cong don't even speak to you.

  but when the co visits comes they want to shake your hand and even (cringe) hug you?

  then as soon as he leaves back to normal.

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  isn't it sickning when normaly people in the cong don't even speak to you. But when the CO visits comes they want to shake your hand and even (cringe) hug you? Then as soon as he leaves back to normal. I find now this kind of behavoir very strange and cultish. Is it just Me? Whats it all about
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  What would be a good movie

  by Crazyguy in

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  that is similar as to show the same kind of deceit as the watchtower has done to its followers?

  a movie i could show as a warm up to sharing some ttatt with someone..

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  The wizard of Oz or the Wiz take your pick
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  I Don't Think The Witnesses Really Care If You Can Explain Doctrine As Long As You Accept Them!

  by minimus in

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  gone are the days of getting into discussions about their beliefs.

  doing major research to prove a position or watchtower doctrine is a thing of the past.

  all they want from you is to surrender and accept everything they say as undeniable truth.. do you agree?.

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  exacly, theirs really no talk about the big A anymore. only about the new system. their imagery is all about paradise. All about the ressurection. What happened to the Fire bombs from the sky, the ground opening up, the fighting, do they really believe that anymore?
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  Is there any good (im serious) in this religion JW

  by dugout in

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  i know this has been talked about in the past but im new here..

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  I know this has been talked about in the past but Im new here.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses - the Fourth Branch of Judaism

  by truthseeker in

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  everything about the jws points exclusively to jehovah, the god of the old testament.. jesus hardly gets a mention.

  they can't ignore him completely but isn't it interesting that the only publication they produced about jesus, doesn't even have his name on it.

  it's simply called "the greatest man who ever lived".

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  This Iknow may have been discused in the past. Just Wonderingggggggggggg
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  Im curious how long does it have to take for a BAC/JWs to say enough is enough?

  by booker-t in

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  i was wondering just how many years have to pass before a bac(born again christian) or a jws before they say enough is enough with no rapture/armaggeddon.

  i just feel sorry for them to just be waiting and waiting and waiting without any results.

  bacs have been waiting for the rapture for 2000 years and sometimes i wonder is it a mental defect or is it they just are so "blinded" and cannot see they have been duped.

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  You know book, to me its all psychological. Although I did it for my mother at first, At one short time I felt better than worldly people,like I knew something they didn't know. That didn't last. This religion appeals very much to people who are not just poor or middle class or uneducated, but those who are struggleling with life mentally, finacially. At first its makes them feel better. They look forward to this socalled paradise that in acuality is prosperity without money for all,eternal life. The Org got them all (R&f) afraid to die. Which we all eventually will. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to die, but i'm not afraid to die. Now with this kind of thinking i don't need this religion anymore

  Just my 13cents Book, peace to jw.netland
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  Commenting At The Meetings---Did You Enjoy It?

  by minimus in

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  was that important for you?

  most people, i believe, forced themselves to give an answer.

  i knew many elders and servants over the years being counseled because they rarely answered.. funny thing....my mom who is 88 cries if she doesn't give a comment.

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  hated it always will but when I did comment I just love it when they would come up to me and say oh I just loved your comment. I would just look up at them and wonder ...... that was not my comment it was the societys comment Idiot. we are just repeating them dont they know this?
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  is it just me?? the district convention at nassau coliseum was crazy

  by dugout in

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  number one- fact-it was dangerously overcrowed.

  ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one.

  or they just didnt care.

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  yes shirley in Queens mother started studying when i was 6yrs. I will call that born in i guess. made my own choice at 15 (yea right) something funny, i really never felt I was indoctrinated. even as a child and adolesant I've never really fully believed this stuff. I've never studied hard (only as an elder). Always had worldly friends. Always DRANKED AND $$%%%ED ( IN PRIVATE ON THE DL) OFCOURSE ) THINK IM TALKING TO MUCH? FEELS GOOD
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  is it just me?? the district convention at nassau coliseum was crazy

  by dugout in

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  number one- fact-it was dangerously overcrowed.

  ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one.

  or they just didnt care.

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  Number one- Fact-it was dangerously overcrowed. Ok its one thing dropping the ball on this one. because somebody did. Or they just didnt care. But to turn around and blame the friends for it is just crazy. FRiday afternnoon The brother made this annoucement that if this was not your assigned convention you can go to bkln or queens assembly hall. Which they had just opened up. I mean i dont think thats why it was overcrowed. they had to many circuits going at one time (my observation) I've been here for a long time. I never saw nothing like this before. It took 45min just to get in the parking lot ,got there by 8:15 didnt get seat until 9:30. The lines for the womens bathrooms were 30 forty strong felt sorry for them.

  Number two- I heard from eyewitnessess that their were actual fist fights at the gates for seats. Nooo not just pushing and shoving but fist fights????? Look, I ask him three times was he lying (he had a pregnant wife)he said even she was getting pushed around. He looked so discourged. He said he was embarrassed

  Number three-Sunday we went to the queens assembly hall it had a comfortble attendance of only 800 out of about 1500seats why didnt they do that in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They Blamed the friends for the overcrowed conditions????????? IS IT JUST ME?????
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  Finally some good news for us nonbeleivers! :)

  by suavojr in

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  pope francis assures atheists: you dont have to believe in god to go to heaven.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-assures-atheists-you-dont-have-to-believe-in-god-to-go-to-heaven-8810062.html.

  in comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, pope francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of la repubblica newspaper, eugenio scalfari, stating that non-believers would be forgiven by god if they followed their consciences.. responding to a list of questions published in the paper by mr scalfari, who is not a roman catholic, francis wrote: you ask me if the god of the christians forgives those who dont believe and who dont seek the faith.

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  give heaven a pass-never met an interesting annoited brosthey were some boring people. not my kind of peeps