Posts by Nevuela

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…Is Jehovah Actively Exposing The Wicked Watchtower Society In The Child Abuse Cases? (Ezekiel 36:12)

by MADMARY in

ezekiel 36:3-15 tells us about a “bad report” that would go out among the nations about apostate israel.

verse 12 of this chapter shows us that jehovah takes a direct hand in this affair in fighting against his own people.

so we can ask, are we today seeing god’s active hand against the watchtower society in exposing the child abuse cases among jehovah’s witnesses around the world?

Nevuela

I don't see how those verses have anything to do with God attacking the WTS.

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Americans, be happy with Trump, Europe lost it.

by fulano in

look at what is happening in europe now, the filth that is trying to enter here.. https://youtu.be/putezss32m8.

uk.... https://youtu.be/jbvxndnd4t4.

humbled Don't you DARE drag foster children into this! I lived in a series of foster homes from 13 to 18. I know EXACTLY what the system is like! I was taken away from my mother based on lies that CPS did not bother to investigate. At one point, I didn't get to see my mom once for NINE WHOLE MONTHS. To this day, over 20 years later, I still have literal nightmares about those five god-awful years I spent in cold, unloving, abusive foster homes.

If you don't have personal experience with something, I suggest you keep your opinions on the matter to yourself. You can't possibly know what it's like unless you've been there, and despite what I went through, MY sympathy goes to the immigrant children being torn from their families. I can only imagine how much worse it is for them than it was for me.

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Americans, be happy with Trump, Europe lost it.

by fulano in

look at what is happening in europe now, the filth that is trying to enter here.. https://youtu.be/putezss32m8.

uk.... https://youtu.be/jbvxndnd4t4.

Nevuela

LV101 If you think tRump is so great, then there couldn't have ever been a president who didn't meet your lofty standards. He is literally the worst of the worst in every way possible. That's just a fact, man. Not my personal opinion. I have never cared one way or another about any president until now. He hasn't done one single thing right.

Not. One. Single. Thing.

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Since Democrats Are All About the “Children” why does ABORTION Not Bother Them?

by minimus in

jw
friends

if everything is supposed to be about the lives of children, how can they hypocritically fight to take babies and kill them?

what about the children and their quality of life?.

Nevuela

The abortion crowd never says they are "pro abortion" it is always "pro choice."

And why doesn't the pro-life crowd ever refer to themselves as "anti-choice"? Because that's what they really are. I have never met a single one who gave a rat's rear end about babies once they are born. If they REALLY cared, they'd be donating to every children's fund possible and adopting unwanted children instead of creating new ones from scratch (because apparently it's SO much more important for YOU to have a kid who is biologically related to you than it is for a child with NO family whatsoever to be given a loving home).

And yes, I am fully aware of how "expensive" adoption is, but there's a little thing called fostering. You actually get PAID to do it, and you get paid a LOT. I know this for a fact because I lived in a series of foster homes throughout my teen years, and every single foster parent of mine was living high off the hog. And no, they didn't have a second job. They were all stay-at-home foster parents, as is required by law. FYI, you can adopt one of your foster kids for practically free. One of my foster parents adopted two little boys, and all she had to pay was a small paperwork fee.

If a person truly cares about children, they will prove it with their actions, not by how loudly they decry abortion.

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So I guess my old hall got dissolved. The great decrease continues....

by Darkknight757 in

my mil came by to drop some pressure on my wife to go to the three day this weekend.

she told her that she wants our baby to live forever and that she wants us to come back.

apparently people would be “so happy” to see us return to the fold.

Nevuela

JW GoneBad I'm fully aware of that. Sorry you didn't detect my sarcasm.

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So I guess my old hall got dissolved. The great decrease continues....

by Darkknight757 in

my mil came by to drop some pressure on my wife to go to the three day this weekend.

she told her that she wants our baby to live forever and that she wants us to come back.

apparently people would be “so happy” to see us return to the fold.

Nevuela

I heard my roommate on the phone just the other day telling a Bible study that "They say we're selling off halls and dispersing congregations because of lawsuits. That couldn't be further from the truth! We're actually doing it to merge the stronger congregations with the weaker ones. It really helps the weaker ones."

Not entirely sure what she meant by "stronger" and "weaker," but there you have it. That's what's REALLY going on.

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JW Parents in bad shape with no retirement.

by blownaway in

my wife's parents are in very bad shape.

they are both 2nd gen jws.

my father in law worked for a large american manufacturing company in the 60s and early 70s.

Nevuela

"He has absolutely no money to his name. Maybe a few grand."

I'm confused. Either he has no money to his name, or he has a few thousand dollars, which is like the polar opposite of no money. Sure, a few grand won't last long, but that still puts him leagues ahead of people like me who live on less than $1,000 per month. Do you mean that he has no income to his name, and that the "few grand" is just what he happens to have sitting in his savings account?

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I may have found a clue to Watchtower's sudden reversal on organ transplants

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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friends

i have read countless times in this site and others that there is speculation that someone high up in the watchtower world required an organ transplant, and then because of that, their position that they had held since 1967 changed in 1980.i believe i have found a clue to who that person might have been.

i leave it to the exjw community to investigate further, but it's tantalizing!it is waay too much of a coincidence that:lee cordaway got a phone call in january 1980 that his kidneys were failing.

lee was 18 years old at the time.watchtower printed its "organ transplants are allowed now" article in march 1980.. january 1981: lee goes into the organ donor list for new kidneys.august 1981: lee receives his new kidney.september 1981: lee's new kidney is rejected, he has to have it removed.

Nevuela

How could he be "high up" in the organization if he was only 18 at the time?

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Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies

by Simon in

so the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.

sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.

we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?

Nevuela

There was also a made-for-TV movie from the early nineties called Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme, and while it is rather low-budget in terms of set design (which is still very creative nonetheless), it features an all-star cast, including Jean Stapleton as Mother Goose, Shelley Duvall as Little Bo Peep, Cyndi Lauper as Mary (Had a Little Lamb), Woody Harrelson as her lamb, Little Richard as Old King Cole, Paul Simon as Simple Simon, Art Garfunkel as Georgie Porgie, Howie Mandel as Humpty Dumpty, Ben Vereen as the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and ZZ Top as the Three Men in a Tub.

The costume designs and the songs are very out there, like something out of a late eighties/early nineties music video. This was another favorite from my childhood. If you ever get a chance, check it out.

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Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies

by Simon in

so the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.

sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.

we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?

Nevuela

The Point was a low-budget animated movie from 1971 featuring songs by Harry Nilsson. A little-known fact about this particular film is that the song "Me and My Arrow" originated from it and the Arrow in question is actually the protagonist's dog, not a car, despite the song being far better known from a car commercial. This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and I still love it today. In fact, my dog (a Belgian Malinois) is named Arrow.

The only problem with the film is that, for some reason, they couldn't decide on a single narrator, so there are different versions out there with different narrators. The one I grew up with was Alan Thicke, but others have included Alan Barzman, Dustin Hoffman, and Ringo Starr. The only version available on DVD (and indeed anywhere in existence nowadays) is the Ringo version. Not to insult the man, but his bored and drunk sounding delivery pales in comparison to Thicke's. But maybe I'm biased.