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  Brother Being Duped by Warlock

  by Sparkplug in

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  for the sake of being legally correct... today i was told a person i work with is a jw.

  there is a man at work who is not...he is apostate too.

  really off the deep end though...conciders himelf a warlock and trys to cast spell, shapeshift and be a jedi.

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  trys to cast spell, shapeshift and be a Jedi.

  Maybe he cast Magic Missle on the poor JW...

  LMAO, this sounds like a script to a sketch on Saturday Night Live..."The Jehovah's Witness & Stan The Emo Goth Geek".
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  Are/Were California witnesses REALLY different?

  by TMS in

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  rumors and urban legends abound with respect to california .

  witnesses.

  my suspicion is that envy and the hollywood personna.

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  I was told that the further away from NY Bethel you got the more relaxed the congregations. But then you find that brothers wear cowboy boots and string ties on the platform out west and that JWs in urban areas are more "stylish" than in the country congregations.

  So true...I grew up by Watchtower Farms (Middletown North & Bloomingburg congregations) and the difference was startling when I moved to Atlanta in 1998. For one thing, there seemed to be more of a relaxed atmosphere at the congregation but people also seemed to not study scriptures & doctrines as much once you are away from the Bethel sites. It didn't strike me till I was away from that strict Bethel atmosphere how much this religion is more about a slave mentality then actual substance.
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  JW DF'd for Eating Candy Cane

  by blondie in

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  news

  jehovah's witness accidentally eats candy cane .

  above: kimberly flemmel mourns her excommunication from the jehovah's witness congregation after eating a candy cane .

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  Damn, that was hilarious...when the writer started using the word "Jehovian", I was literally laughing out loud. Sad part is that at first I could imagine something this silly actually happening ...
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  Why is it that a JW can't say Happy New Year?

  by kls in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new-years eve my husband and i went to my sister's house to bring in the new-year.

  my sister knowing much about jws cornered my husband and said " happy new-year don" and he replied" yep it's a 2005".

  i have been away from the bs of jwism for a long time and for the life of me i can not remember why it is wrong to celebrate a new year.

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  Growing up, one of the few times I saw my family on my dad's side (the non-JW side) was when we had a big family reunion on New Year's Day. I wasn't crazy about my cousins but it was special to be around family and just having fun...then my Mom had that stopped because she felt it was another way of celebrating a holiday. :-|

  Thank god I am out of that BS.
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  WATCHTOWER IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK!

  by badboy in

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  i see in the 1 january 2005 watchtower that it has a r surrounded by a circle indicating that watchtower is a registered trademark.. when did this happen?

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  I would think that it has been trademarked for an extremely long time...
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  Reggie White died :(

  by xenawarrior in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  dead at the age of 43. a sad day indeed.

  i had the pleasure of working with reggie and his wife sara on several community projects when they lived in green bay and he was an awesome human being.

  huntersville, n.c. dec 26, 2004 ?

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  I find America's obsession with professional sports distressing, when tens of thousands of lives are ended, and one man's death gets equal attention in the media because he can do tricks with a ball.

  That is a generalization that I think is unfair & untrue...I have seen much more coverage on this earthquake & tsunami then on Reggie White's passing. Unless you are constantly watching ESPN or live in maybe a city where White played, that statement you made isn't close to being true; also, if you aren't a football fan then you wouldn't know that White was known for his outspoken views on Christianity (well, outspoken for a football player)...I would expect to find at least a couple of people posting about his death here given the religious nature of the site. No one in this thread even tried to establish that this was more important or less important then other news of the day...it was just important enough that it warranted a thread to discuss it.

  As for Mr. White, I find it funny that a reporter on ESPN who was working on a piece about Reggie stated that he hadn't attended a church in 4 years and was learning Hebrew because he felt that he didn't know the truth of Christianity. He also did state that the biggest regret he had in life was that speech he made in front of the Wisconsin legislature...
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  Fortress Kingdom Halls

  by Gill in

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  a new kingdom hall has just been built very close to where we live.

  it is taking on the appearance of fort knox now, much like some other khs near us.

  the high fences with nasty sharp bits are just going up and there are floodlights on at night.

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  at your list, fjtoth. I remember a friend asking why JWs have such fortress-like places of worship and all I could respond was that JWs don't build elaborately expensive edifices (I was still a JW). I never noticed until I left how incredibly stark the Kingdom Halls actually look...even the Puritans had churches that looked inviting to visit.
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  JW reaction to the UN coverup

  by redskymedic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so, if you handed a jw a copy of the un report on the wtbs involvement, how do they react?

  are they able to explain this away?

  just curious.. red

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  One elder I showed it to basically said that either I am lying or even if all the documentation was true that it was just a mistake.

  It is like trying to convince a brick wall...
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  The JW's came to the door today and asked my son to go to meetings

  by redhotchilipepper in

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  2. friends

  my son answered the door this morning.

  the couple that my mr.horton and i had been studying with when we were considering going back to the truth finally got ahold of him.

  the did the usual routine.

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  It seems extremely unethical for anyone to try and tell a minor to go against the wishes of their parent/guardian. Of course, JWs have this doctrine nailed into their head that equates witnessing with life-saving measures so they are happy to use tactless measures like encouraging disobedience to parents...

  I can imagine how it would feel if I were a parent and someone who was Catholic or Muslim came to my door and told my children to ignore me and go to some house of worship.
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  The Worst Watchtower I've Ever Read

  by MungoBaobab in

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  it wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back.

  that back had already broken.

  it was more of the last nail in the coffin for my allegiance to the wts.

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  I remember when I crying to my mom that I had all these questions about the whole JW religion that the WTS publications weren't answering, she replied that "you think too much". She didn't mean it in a mean way but it was like in a cartoon when someone gets the lightbulb over their head; I couldn't believe that the religion had convinced her that if a question or situation wasn't answered by the WTS properly then it meant that I was thinking too much.