I’m so sorry to hear about your “adult niece” who has cancer. It has always absolutely sickened me whenever I would hear about anybody who has developed cancer. However, please be assured that the treatments for cancer have quite dramatically developed in their effectiveness within the last ten, or even five years. Everyone is most definitely on the winning side of the game right now – thanks to the ever-developing science.
Posts by SAHS
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2GOD /Jehovah didnt just punish humans with death , He lied , He has also tortured us with Pestilence .
by smiddy inmy wife was talking to her sister today and apparently our adult niece who has cancer is not doing to well lately and it doesnt look good for the future.. i cant say we ever had a very close relationship with her but when we did see her she was very affecionate and just a very loving girl with a great personality .. she was never a jw and we lived in different states but from time to time we crossed paths with each other at family reunions etc and sometimes funerals and weddings.. when it hits close to home thats when you feel it.. no doubt many of you have gone through similar experiences yourselves , this same sister my wife talked to lost her 14 year old son to cancer many years ago and i being a new convert tried to comfort her with scriptures .. dickhead that i was then ..
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Is it wrong to celebrate New Year?
by cobweb inlol, just kidding.. have a happy new year everyone!!!!.
https://youtu.be/b3kd1uplpxw.
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Here is a very accurate guide to tell whether or not a celebration or custom is considered wrong and banned by Jehovah’s Witnesses:
EVERYTHING!*
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* That is, except for their annual observance of formally renouncing Christ by passing by the bread and wine symbolizing the redemptive power of his flesh and blood.
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1 bilion property revenue since august 2016 and still they have not enough
by Gorbatchov inread in the new york business review that jw.org made 1 bilion property revenue since august 2016.. unbelievable, isn't it?
they are one of the richest religion organizations in cash flow, for sure.. the co asked us this morning to "overthink wat we can share, to support the work and make jehovah happy".. g..
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Yes, and don’t forget: the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses has had at their disposal a private jet for some time now. For more on that:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/127566/does-wts-have-private-jet
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If the WT is a "money making machine"...who gets the money?
by NikL ini've seen claims over the years that wt is in the real estate, book publishing business and is a for profit enterprise at it's core.. can those of you that believe this to be the case tell me who benefits from all this wealth?.
the governing body lives in relatively humble conditions no?.
i've been curious about this for a while.
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And don’t forget, the governing body of Jehovah’s Witnesses has had at their disposal a private jet for some time now. For more on that:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/127566/does-wts-have-private-jet
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If the WT is a "money making machine"...who gets the money?
by NikL ini've seen claims over the years that wt is in the real estate, book publishing business and is a for profit enterprise at it's core.. can those of you that believe this to be the case tell me who benefits from all this wealth?.
the governing body lives in relatively humble conditions no?.
i've been curious about this for a while.
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“scratchme1010”: “
- Power over other people
- Power over a community (being political or any other type of influential position)
- Feeding their egos
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You hit the nail right on the head! Although money and wealth are often a large integral part of the modus operandi of religious cults, regardless of any monetary advantages there is always an ever present psychological and anthropological need for such folks to procure power over others, which in turn is a most ego-feeding proposition, for sure.
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My New Apostate Word Invention. Your thoughts?
by Iamallcool in"jehovah's witnesses are too cultish for my liking" what do you think about my new word invention?.
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“OUTLAW”: “The Three Expressions of Bro. Let[t]”
I believe there are more than that. More like 30, I would imagine.
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Sisters running microphones?
by NikL inso our sunday meeting was on the 25th (christmas) and my active jw wife and i were out of town enjoying some family time with relatives.. apparently there were many others in our congregation that missed as well.
so few were there in fact that sisters ran the mics.
(actually it was a sister running one of the two mics) a friend of my wife commented to her about how the brothers just aren't stepping up and it "makes her want to cry.
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“sparrowdown”: “Vid and Rub ( lol,that sounds like a private porn session )”
LOL!
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Class Action Lawsuit Against The Watchtower Corporation By The Multitude Left Penniless After A Vow Of Poverty And Obediance Lasting Decades
by Brokeback Watchtower inwell i think as the exposure becomes greater of the wt hypocrisy and cover up that the likelihood of this happening great.
no retirement funds for all those laid off when they were no longer profitable due to old age has got to bite these guys in the ass some day.. and maybe in the process of man's enlighten world view and a better understanding the cruelty of disfellowshipping member and enforcing a communication ban ones family members may open them up from another class action lawsuit over such egregious action caused by a religious printing organization domination over peoples action through deceit and clever lies about supernatural claims of authority.. either way i think they are going to need a lot of outside legal help in the future as lawsuits will pile up around the world which that alone could dry up all their funds in defense costs..
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“LostGeneration”: “Forcing someone to speak to someone they choose not to speak to for religious reasons would be a VIOLATION of the 1st Amendment. And why in the hell would you want to talk to someone who is being FORCED to talk to you in the first place?”
In that particular sense, I believe you are right. . . . . Although, looking at the other side of the coin, it is really the many families and friends of those disfellowshipped who are being forced – i.e., coerced through intense and dishonest “undue influence” – to completely shun, or to NOT speak with, one of their own who should unfortunately find him/herself disfellowshipped by the Watchtower corporation, and it is likewise the disfellowshipped individual who is in the same way forced (coerced!) by the Watchtower corporation to NOT speak to or be spoken to by their close friends and family. So, if anybody is being forced to do – or in this case NOT do – something (communicate in any way), it is the many unfortunate victims being forced as such by the Watchtower!
This vigorously enforced policy by the Watchtower corporation is an obvious and glaring perversion and hijacking of the natural bonds within friendships and especially within the family unit, which is a profoundly intimate and sacred institution.
The real and profound damages caused by the Watchtower’s stubborn and belligerent insistence on enforcing this harsh and harmful policy just in the name of Pharisaically demanding their own interpretation of the strict “letter of the [Biblical] law” – and far beyond – makes them most culpable in their glaring travesty against the simple “law of love” to which they hypocritically claim to espouse.
The Watchtower may not get all the legal kamuffins they really deserve, but, well, all I can say is, Shame on them!
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Class Action Lawsuit Against The Watchtower Corporation By The Multitude Left Penniless After A Vow Of Poverty And Obediance Lasting Decades
by Brokeback Watchtower inwell i think as the exposure becomes greater of the wt hypocrisy and cover up that the likelihood of this happening great.
no retirement funds for all those laid off when they were no longer profitable due to old age has got to bite these guys in the ass some day.. and maybe in the process of man's enlighten world view and a better understanding the cruelty of disfellowshipping member and enforcing a communication ban ones family members may open them up from another class action lawsuit over such egregious action caused by a religious printing organization domination over peoples action through deceit and clever lies about supernatural claims of authority.. either way i think they are going to need a lot of outside legal help in the future as lawsuits will pile up around the world which that alone could dry up all their funds in defense costs..
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“Brokeback Watchtower”: “Perhaps the pay out could be in the order a fair wage for those years of slavery and a grant of money set aside /available for psychological counseling.”
That sounds like a good idea on the surface. But I don’t think that even the Watchtower corporation would have the funds to accommodate all the victims on an individual basis. Also, I can’t imagine that any adjudicated settlement payouts of that nature would apply in a grandfathered fashion; i.e., retroactive.
However, at least for now, perhaps there could be some focus toward lobbying the federal government to at least reconsider the Watchtower’s tax-exempt status in consideration of their fundamental and glaring travesties of the Charter of the United Nations, not to mention the general fairness of natural law.
I agree that something should be done in a widespread concerted and crowd-funded endeavour. But, at least for now, maybe practical and progressive “baby steps” is all we can rightly hope for.
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Are You a Devoutly Religious Person?
by TerryWalstrom inare you a devoutly religious person?.
if, yes--this is for you.______intellectual honesty is a willingness to be wrong when facts and evidence clash with beliefs.lacking neutral objectivity, people can’t really listen!
they defensively filter anything which clashes with belief.
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The various twists and turns among the different sides playing out in the big political arena is like a kind of higher-level process of “evolution” in itself.
The incessant stirrings of the left-wing, right-wing, liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, socialist, environmental, independent, etc., etc. – they’re are all like the components and constituents of the colossal aggregate of human ideologies coexisting and subtly morphing within a humongous “test tube” of human sociopolitical evolution – slowly being whirled around in that giant test tube in a manner reminiscent of whatever gradual set of processes of auto replicating and self-improving genetic cypher (DNA information) which ever so gradually and imperceptibly unfolded to conjure up the present state of biological evolution.
But what is to come out of this higher–level outworking of evolution in the sociopolitical landscape? Well, I believe that whatever gains ascendency within that anthropological realm must, out of logical necessity, be not so much the “strongest” but the “best” in terms of what “works out” in the most practical efficacy of human society as a whole.
Kind of similar to what has had to come out of the more classic biological evolution of life itself on this planet: It’s not so much what we may think of as the “strongest” – or “fittest” – but, rather, whatever happens to be the “best” toward the general efficacy of the continuing and improving propagation of the relentless juggernaut of life throughout the all-encompassing “tree” of the origins of all species.
But in the case of the human sociopolitical landscape, things tend to eventually “work out” within the balancing of societal forces toward whatever necessitates the continued – and hopefully refining of – propagation of the human species, and the society in which they cohabitate.
Simply put: It will (and must) “all come out in the wash.” So, no worries. The “good” will prevail. It must. After all, considering what we have seen in physical biological evolution, it’s a logical imperative!