Posts by snugglebunny

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Has Politics Affected Your Friendships?

by minimus in

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friends

i’ve read that some families are not looking forward to spending time with their families and friends during the holidays because of their opposing political views.. isn’t that just ridiculous?

?.

snugglebunny

My family are not divided at all on religious matters. We're just not of a religious bent in any way whatsoever. We do have differing opinions on the EU and brexit, plus some have reservations regarding same-sex marriage. It would seem to be a typical microcosm of many UK families.

We don't fall out about any of this. We've learned not to become obsessive in our desires to swing other family members over to our point of view. If we do discuss any controversial points, we keep our voices low and calm and back off immediately if anyone shows discomfort.

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Beard criticism - NOT from JWs

by neat blue dog in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5074637/amp/prince-harry-breaks-military-rules-wearing-beard.html.

snugglebunny

You have to ask for permission to grow a beard if you're in the UK Navy. Only a full set is permissable.

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Is All The Bad Publicity About The Watchtower Pedophile Lawsuits Causing Contributions To Nose Dive Worldwide?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

i think with all the child molestation lawsuits the watchtower corporation is and has been hit with is the main reason for all the prime property sell off recently.

the silent lambs protest back in 2001, and the dateline prime time expose probably was the death knell for the watchtower's hey day in brooklyn.. their membership is drying up, young people are leaving in droves, the situation is no doubt far worse than the annually published yearbook figures show and so they ceased it's publication permanently.

and those left remaining are experiencing a huge grab of money from their congregations accounts and now are required to make pledges about how much they can contribute which i think is a last ditch effort by the governing body to squeeze more money out of the rank and file watchtower indoctrinated drones.. i think all this is happening because even those still loyally attending are hearing reports of these tremendous pay out that the watchtower is making to the victims of their self serving policies that put young ones at great risks so that even the rank and file don't want to contribute to pay court costs and so are withholding giving contributions to a very great extent.

snugglebunny

Seeing the antics of the WT society as they desperately try to extort more money from the faithful, mis-count their published figures and deny, deny, deny there's a problem to be faced somehow puts me in mind of Germany in the last few weeks of WW2.

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Is "fornication" still used by Witnesses?

by careful in

in 2013 the revised nwt came out and changed the old edition's "fornication" and its related words "fornicating," "fornicator" etc.

in all their roughly 70 occurrences.

has the word completely dropped from usage in the witness world?

snugglebunny

Oh ... and shagging the family dog or sheep ...

So that's put the mockers on the wearing of loose fitting welly boots....

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In what decade was it clearly apparent that Watchtower was a high control religion?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i'm just curious to get people's views on this.. the bible students seem to start of as quite a liberal group under charles taze russell, albeit he had some whacky teachings going on.

obviously things began to change under rutherford.

but what decade did it become abundantly clear that the society was indeed high control religion or even labeled a cult?.

snugglebunny

IMHO, the cult mentality became most prominent around the time of the Ray Franz saga. Definite moves were put into place to limit the time that witnesses spent together unsupervised. This was the time that any new ideas or thoughts could be exchanged between brothers and sisters. The DC's, at one time quite social affairs, were limited timewise as was the inbetween session periods, normally a time for meeting up with old friends. The meal queues were eliminated completely, always a favourite time to get together. Even the 15 minute break between the public talk and the Watchtower study was done away with. Inter-congregation organised socialising was frowned on too. In later years we saw the abolition of the group book study, ostensibly a caring consideration to reduce travelling, it did in effect put an end to any expression of individual thoughts and ideas being expressed among a small unsupervised group.

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writings of Conan Doyle.

by zeb in

jw
friends

i have just began to read the above.

yes he is the man who created the fictional detective sherlock holmes.

in his first story called the "scarlett letter" he deals with (i stress this is fiction) with a couple escaping from the new paradise just founded in utah of the mormons.

snugglebunny

..and Conan Doyle believed in fairies.

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What does the society fill about psychiatrist?.

by new boy in

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friends

please help .

more research for my book .

snugglebunny

There was a 50's mag headline "Should a christian visit a psychiatrist?". The article basically warned against it claiming that the psychiatrist might try to convince the patient that the problem was his religion. I remember it well as I was a young teenager in the throes of depression at the time and wondering how the hell I could carry on as I was such a worm in Jehovah's eyes.

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My thoughts on Church shootings..

by DATA-DOG in

disclaimer: i do not approve or condone any acts of violence that result in the deaths of innocent persons.. alright.. let me just say that i have no idea what motivated the latest mass shooting, nor do i condone those actions.

i am, however, beginning to understand why some individuals may feel that violence is their only choice, although i do not approve of that choice.. when i read topics on this forum that concern religion and legalism, topics that drone on and on, getting nowhere, i feel extremely frustrated.

yes, religions are given certain freedoms, but many are obviously going beyond the spirit that motivated the separation of church and state.

snugglebunny

So which is more important: The right to bear arms or the right not to be shot?

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In theory, can one be disfellowshipped for attempted suicide?

by Saename in

so i was recently reading the reasons for disfellowshipping as listed in shepherd the flock of god.

the handbook is available online here: https://thetruthofjehowaswittness.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/jehovas-vitner.pdf.. on page 59, point #4, it lists attempted suicide as a reason for disfellowshipping.

has it ever been removed?

snugglebunny

There was a case in my old congregation where a sister had committed adultery and then, filled with remorse, had taken an overdose. She then later confessed to the elders and the adultery was regarded as extenuating circumstances that led to the overdose. As she was married to an already df'd person, the adultery was treated as the minor offence.

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Independent Catalonia

by mikeflood in

it's a deja vu from matthew..."for nation shall rise against nation.....".

it seem that periods of instability occur around the world periodically.

since the arab spring to brexit and trumpism people want change.

snugglebunny

BTW what right did india have to secede from the United Kingdom?

It didn't.

The UK granted India it's independence.