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  78 to go and hopefully something good comes of it. Please do your part and sign up. Thanks

  by Tenacious in

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  2. child-abuse

  only 78 signatures are needed in order to send the request to the irs that they revoke or at the very least investigate the borg.

  come'on guys, support it.. click here to support and sign up!.

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  @ HB - I do believe it still counts. Either way, thank you very much for your support!
  
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  I'm still on my JWN holidays but had to pop back to share this experience.

  by nicolaou in

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  2. experiences

  i'm a postman with the royal mail and was assigned to train a new starter yesterday.

  my line manager introduces me to 'dave', within seconds my jw radar was on maximum!

  in his mid to late 30's, politely spoken and with that haircut - i just knew it.. the post he'd applied for was saturdays only, he said he did a lot of volunteer work.

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  I always think it's best to not antagonize and to speak to them with compassion and understanding.

  In all fairness, the majority have blinders on that are, for all intents and purposes, are glued on with cement and we have to chip away at them until they fall off or are removed by the individual themselves.

  It reminds me of when Mary went to look for Jesus at his tomb after he had been killed. Jesus appeared to her but Mary was unable to recognize him until he called out to her then her eyes were opened and she recognized him.

  That's how it is with members. They are unable to see something that has been obvious and right in front of them all this time. How many times have you heard "I can't believe I fell for that or used to believed that!"
  
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  Do JWs ever doubt that the end is really coming?

  by dogon in

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  2. beliefs

  as a former dubber i had many occasions to doubt that the end was coming.

  i was told it was ok to doubt but not to think about it too much and wait on jehovah.

  that bull shit lasted until they changed the meaning of generation in 95 and that was the end of that bull shit for me.

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  Personally, I never had time to think about the "imminent end".

  It's very smart to keep the friends busy enough to not even have time to think about "the end" that was supposed to have already arrived!

  It wasn't until I heard about the elders having a secret book that sparked my curiosity however, it would be another 10 years before I actually acted on it.
  
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  78 to go and hopefully something good comes of it. Please do your part and sign up. Thanks

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  only 78 signatures are needed in order to send the request to the irs that they revoke or at the very least investigate the borg.

  come'on guys, support it.. click here to support and sign up!.

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  Thanks guys!

  Let's keep it going!
  
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  78 to go and hopefully something good comes of it. Please do your part and sign up. Thanks

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  only 78 signatures are needed in order to send the request to the irs that they revoke or at the very least investigate the borg.

  come'on guys, support it.. click here to support and sign up!.

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  Only 78 signatures are needed in order to send the request to the IRS that they revoke or at the very least investigate the Borg. Come'on guys, support it.

  
  Click Here to Support and Sign Up!
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  Where did Jehovah go ?

  by Deleteandrestart in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for the many years i was mentally " in " the congregation, i equated the organisation as interchangeable with the persona of jehovah, in effect whatever the organisation said or thought, that was what jehovah thought and that was what jehovah said.... it was that simple.

  so when i found out the ttatt and the cynical moves of the organisation over the years,including 1975 , the donation arrangements, the united nations, etc i was devastated and thought " where's jehovah in all of this?".

  the god who i'd poured my heart out to on many occasions and who i thought was silently listening and hearing my pleas ..... was not there , .

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  Reminder about how posting limits work

  by Simon in

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  because some people still seem to struggle with the concept.. posting limits suck for normal posters and in an ideal world we could do without them but they do serve some useful purpose:.

  they limit the impact of any spammers inundating the site.. the prevent people with too much time and no self-filter from completely taking over and / or trying to use the forum as a live-chat system.. they are a useful throttle for anyone behaving badly (i.e.

  where an outright banning would be inappropriate).. normal posting limits are very rigid in that when you hit them, the post that you possibly spent a long time working on is gone (unless you saved it first).

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  Thanks for the info.

  I've never experienced it so I'd like to know what are the established limits. 50 a day? 100? What are they? Thanks.
  
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  My letter to Bethel about the flood

  by Cornbread in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've decided to go full public with a new username on this forum.

  it's been almost a decade since i've been out and i don't care at this point who knows.

  that being said, here's a letter that i'm mailing to bethel.

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  Why is Mother's Day wrong?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so why is celebrating mother's day wrong according to witnesses?.

  is it not an opportunity to show respect to the giver of life (mother) and therefore god, the originator of families?.

  does it not give an opportunity for members of the family to give a hard working mother a day off?

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  My spouse was saying how stupid it was that people are made to celebrate mother's day and that there shouldn't just be one special day for showing love yada yada yada. So I stopped her and said, "isn't it better than nothing?"

  That quickly put a stop to her JW tirade at least momentarily and seconds later she just scoffed and said the same thing.

  Sometimes common sense is no match for the deep JW indoctrination.
  
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  "well beyond the intent of the scriptures" 7:44

  by biblexaminer in

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  2. scandals

  if you have the jw app running on your tablet, watch the latest (may) governing broadcast and hear tony the jackass, and when you get to 7 minutes and 44 seconds ...hit the pause button.. read the words at the bottom of the screen as per the jw app close captioning.. "well beyond the intent of the scriptures" .

  he is describing the governing body past, like the ghost of christmas past.

  yes, the governing body past were a bunch of freaking yahoo's violating 1 cor.

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  They're still assh**es.

  They're just assh**es who've now admitted to "sometimes" having gone beyond what was written.

  I still smell bulls**t though.