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  ...Which Way is the Cat Going?!...

  by OUTLAW in

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  i found this on yahoo news... while it doesn`t raise an important question... it raises an interesting question... .

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  Oubillette beat me to it. Its down.
  
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  Hi Everyone. Answer to prayer countdown...

  by Stumpy in

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  i've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.

  you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!

  what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.

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  Stumpy,

  Welcome to you and (hopefully), your wife. I have said this many times but if my wife can leave....anyones can.

  I have some friends that used to pioneer up along the coast north of Sydney. Good people. In their early 30's now I think.

  I hope it continues to go well. Don't be surprised if she vacillates back and forth a little. Its almost like stages of grief.
  
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  This Year's Memorial

  by TD in

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  perhaps i'm just getting older and crankier, but it really seems to me that the jw faith is deteriorating at an accelerated rate.. case in point: this year's memorial talk.

  it was one of the most incoherent messes i've ever heard.

  (and i've heard a lot of memorial talks over the last 50 years....).

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  Hey! I watch the moon too!

  Well.....only sometimes. Not that often really. I like the eclipses but sometimes they happen early in the morning. In fact come to think of it, I don't really look at the moon much.

  I guess I'm just not governing body material.
  
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  Faithful and Discreet slave class. Challenge the definition

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  ok, so we all know that the basis the org uses for its power, authority, and supposed ability to speak on behalf of god is matt 24:45.

  "who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics to give them their food at the proper time?".

  but how can it possibly define the wt org?.

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  This is the great barrier of thought. It is the greatest issue facing JW's and they can't see it. When I look back to my awakening, it all boiled down to this.

  Who has the authority to tell you what to believe (scripturally speaking).

  with a careful examination of scripture, Jesus is the ONLY one granted authority. He then assigns RESPONSIBILITY to others. You can apply whatever meaning to this scripture you like, but there is still no transference of authority from Jesus to....well......anyone.
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  2015 March 17, BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  2015 march 17, boe.

  (this boe goes along with the march 15 boe concerning circuit overseer visits)... click the link below and then click the green download button.. .. http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/29sj8bh.

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  I don't use these links usually. Can anyone post these tidbits?
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  Favorite Music Video

  by WildTurkey in

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  what is your favorite music video?

  after shes my cherry pie, i like foo fighters learn to fly

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  Right now? This one.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4pzKvuEQM
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  HBO Scientology Documentary

  by tresdecu in

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  has anyone else seen the hbo scientology documentary 'going clear' - wow...cults are just mind-blowing you wonder how people can fall for that garbage, then you (those of us former/fading jws) look in the mirror.. i would love for someone to make a major jw documentary like this.

  'going clear' is getting a lot of press.

  poor tom cruise...he looks like quite the whack job in it too.

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  Dang and the new mission impossible looks so good. The doc mad a good case for Cruise being complicit though because they put him in a bubble. Its good to be the king over there. Bad to be a subject.

  I highly recommend the book "Going Clear". It reads like fiction and is very entertaining. It speaks to someone who is or was a JW, and JW's get an honorable mention towards the back of it.
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  Worst Memorial Talk Ever!

  by The Searcher in

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  i honestly have never heard such claptrap being delivered in a memorial talk.. the speaker repeatedly put down the way other religions administered the bread & wine, and claimed that witnesses do it exactly as the bible describes.

  oh yeah????.

  he forgot to mention - when reading aloud 1 corinthians 11:25 - that after passing the bread, a full meal was to be shared, before the wine was passed around!

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  If someone selfies while partaking I will send them money. Seriously.
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  In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

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  Well 2 categories of wacky I think. there is old school turn of the century wacky.

  Old School : Black people will get to be white in the new word (you know......perfect). The president of the society building a home in San Diego to winter in for his health without anyone seeming to have a problem with that. And the fact that many Jehovah's witnesses don't care about these things because you know......its not like we believe that NOW.

  New School : The wackiness is much more nuanced....and dangerous. Convincing a mother that it is actually in her child's best interest for her to withdrawn her parental affection and nurturing, so as to make them feel "loss" and they can return to their religion. That s a great one.

  Convincing everyone that a God seemingly obsessed with blood in a variety of forms, wants them to not use blood medically, except sometimes when its almost blood anymore kinda, but still you shouldn't take blood because its like eating it, even though the context of scripture none of hat even applies, sure people have died but they are alive to Jehovah blah blah blah.

  Just wacky. Yes a short time ago for me....it was gospel.
  
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  Worst Memorial Talk Ever!

  by The Searcher in

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  i honestly have never heard such claptrap being delivered in a memorial talk.. the speaker repeatedly put down the way other religions administered the bread & wine, and claimed that witnesses do it exactly as the bible describes.

  oh yeah????.

  he forgot to mention - when reading aloud 1 corinthians 11:25 - that after passing the bread, a full meal was to be shared, before the wine was passed around!

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  You guys are live blogging this eh? Cool.

  I am happy to say this is the first year i am NOT attending.

  Yep.....there are ex JW's that go, and those that don't. I made a big leap today.