I feel bad for anyone losing their home to a fire or for any other reason. But this section of California is a very affluent section of the state. They may have lost their home but they did not lose "everything". Virtually everyone affected still has money in the bank. And for most of them it is a lot of money. Many of these people own multiple homes. They will manage to get through this horrible situation. I truly feel very sad for their loss but I'm not donating to their relief efforts.
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News of fires out of control in California
by ballistic inhope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.
these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.
malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..
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Is Serena's Williams a JW baptized that is
by blondie in(can't insert edit in title husband a jw?).
i just read that serena said both of them were jws.
but this wouldn't be the first time means 1) supports her beliefs and does them 2) supports her beliefs and doesn't interfered with but no where does it say he is a baptized witness.
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All I know is that I saw a picture of Venus and Serena about a year ago and Lordy, Lordy, Lordy! If all the JW sisters dressed like this, attendance at the KH would be WAY up!!! Cult be damned!!!
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Real reasons behind this change?
by Gorb injust a good conversation at home about the hour report change.. we think the change was not impmemented because the gb are such a lovely bunch of old grandpa's having the best in mind for us individuals.. there will be only, and we say only, an organizational reason for it.
a legal reason, to protect jw.org and it's officials and wealth.. next step?
maybe selling more kh and when jw hollywood studio's in rampoo are ready a change to tv subscription.. what do you think?
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Just because they don't have to report their hours doesn't mean that they won't have to endure the same old "guilt-trip" sermons at each meeting. Product placement will probably remain consistent.
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Let's all bask in the reflected glory of actor Sean Penn ...
by LoveUniHateExams in"i'll smelt my oscars if the academy awards doesn't let zelensky speak!".
wow, his virtue is so good i can't look at it directly, because it would blind me, lol.. yep, it's this year's oscar's ceremony.. prepare for next-level celebrity virtue signalling .... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/27/sean-penn-oscars-zelenskiy-ukraine .
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Did anyone besides me notice Venus and Serena Williams at the Oscars Ceremony? What's the deal??? Is The Watchtower now allowing JW sisters to go topless? Well, maybe that will keep people from chasing them off their porch so quickly.
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Joseph Rutherford = Donald Trump
by Wild_Thing ini have been rereading a lot about rutherford lately; about his personality and the kind of person he was.
i have come to the conclusion that he was a lot like donald trump.. he was an accused womanizer.. he was a narcissist with a self inflated ego.
he claimed to be persecuted by the media all the time.
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Actually, I am not a big fan of Donald Trump as a person. But I guess it would take an A-hole like Trump to go in and cut through the crap that has stagnated politics the way it has. Donald Trump has managed to get the economy going in the right direction in a surprisingly short amount of time because he approaches the tasks he takes on as a businessman, not as a politician. Not surprising that politicians hate him, he is making them look bad, much the same way that Jesus made the religious leaders of his day look bad.
Not that I'm trying to compare Trump to Jesus, I'm not. But Trump is doing good things for the country despite how the media puts a negative spin on everything he does.
On the other hand, Rutherford did nothing good for his people. Nothing. If anyone knows of anything good that Rutherford did for anybody, please let me know.
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No the WT Borg is not closing! That's Wild Dreaming!
by DwainBowman inno the wt borg is not closing!
that's wild dreaming!
they have been changing directions for a while now, and for whatever reasons, what is happening now is a part of that change!
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The OP and posters such as apostrate assert that other posters expect the closure and/or collapse of JW organization. With possibly one or two exceptions, the bulk of posters have NOT said that at all.
Thanks Steve,
Let me clarify my post. My statement was not directed to the other posters here that I am in complete agreement with. It was directed to any ex-JW's reading here who might think that the WT is near its end.
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No the WT Borg is not closing! That's Wild Dreaming!
by DwainBowman inno the wt borg is not closing!
that's wild dreaming!
they have been changing directions for a while now, and for whatever reasons, what is happening now is a part of that change!
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X-JW's be very careful!!! Many are looking forward to the collapse of the WT Society with the same eagerness and anticipation that they once had for the collapse of "this system of things".
Don't be fooled again!!
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Please stop deriding the Governing Body.
by Esse quam videri inplease stop it !!!.
we love them.
we all love them.
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esse,
I get it! This is kinda your take on the old "Leave Brittany Spears Alone" video! Hilarious!!
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Offended by JW letter targeting obituaries
by betterdaze inlocal father offended by jehovah's witness letter, claims its writer is targeting obituariesjacksonville, fla. a local father who wishes to remain anonymous sent action news jax a copy of a letter sent to his family's church.. the letter read in part: "sorry about your loss.
i read about it from the obituary.
jehovahs witness literature was attached to the letter.. in a time when a family is grieving they need to be surrounded by family and friends.
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LisaRose,
I'm reminded of an article I read sometime back in the 80's. There was a Playboy Playmate, I think her name was Dorothy Stratten. She was murdered by her jealous boyfriend. I don't remember who wrote the article but they were recounting some of the events that went down prior to and after her murder.
Anyway, the woman's grieving mother was at home after the murder and she got a knock at the door (guess who?). A couple of JW's. Somehow in the conversation, the JW's realized that this was the dead woman's mother (it was big news at the time).
Now, this is not a verbatim quote, mind you, but the Witnesses told her in an attempt to comfort her, See! according to the Bible, your daughter is not in Heaven! She's lying dead in a grave! (Oooh, isn't that comforting?)
The woman took the Bible from their hands and turned to a scripture and read, "And Judas went forth and hanged himself".
Then she turned to another scripture and read, "Go therefore and do likewise!"
Then she shut the door on the JW's.
Now, I can't say whether this event actually happened or not. But from what I saw in my 33 years as a JW, I have no problem in believing its probability.
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What's the craziest thing someone INFORMED on you about?
by Londo111 inthe culture of jws as encouraged by the watchtower is one of informing on one another, reporting to either the elders or ones designated head.
whats the wackiest thing that someone reported on you?
im not talking about a black-and-white watchtower rule that would land you in a judicial committee, but some judgmental nonsense that someone thought they should turn you in about?.
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Regarding hunting,
Down here in Texas we gotta lotta JDubs who like to hunt. And if you wanna pull their string and get 'em all riled up, you just say somethin' to 'em to the effect that, "In the New System there ain't gonna be no huntin' and we're all gonna become vegetarians!"
You'll see their faces turn red and then they'll go off on you tellin' you all about how in the Bible GOD gave us the right to kill animals and, by GOD, we're gonna still be eatin' meat in the New System!!!
One "sister" shook her finger in my face when this subject was brought up and she told me, "When you've got five starvin' kids and you need to feed 'em, you'll change your mind about huntin'!"
When I have five starvin' kids, I will go down to the local grocery store and buy them somethin' to eat! And it will cost me a lot less than the price of buying a shotgun, a hunting permit, and the cost of transportation to a deer lease way out in the sticks, where I will have to stay for hours on end waiting for a poor deer to stop by!