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  Government turning on religion - or - I how I learned to stop worrying and love Drumpf

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where, exactly, does the bible say that government(s) will turn on religion?

  i mean, other than interpreting some crazy visions/dreams from revelation as such?.

  with one megalomaniac leading the gop race for nomination to vie for president of the usa, i've noticed that paranoia has ratcheted up a notch or three.

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  2+2=5: "Say anything negative about Trump and you will have your comment disliked."

  If it will make you happy I liked your comment.
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  Richer Though Poorer

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have become stagnant in heart, mind, body.

  nothing fits nor operates as it should.

  i recollect, without emotion, the heights that had, at one time, been my surrogate guardian.

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  Thank you compound. You just released similar memories in me.

  It is of the private school I used to go to. The whole school was housed in a refurbished apartment building with an apartment for each class. My eighth grade was in a second story apartment that had the walls between two bedrooms knocked out in order to make room for the class. The whole school was a jerry rigged conglomeration of classes with similar 'design'. Some people would have considered it tacky but it had personality. More organic than regimented architecture.

  I would enjoy quiet moments, all alone, day dreaming when the class was away for Physical Education (I never went and nobody missed me). I would listen to the girls of my class during lunch period play the guitar and sing. One song that they sang was Those Were the Days which was about a person reminiscing on her youth. When they sang that I told myself that I would someday be looking back on that moment. Of course, I am now.

  In this classroom there was a cat that used to belong to the school principle's mother (She used to live in that very apartment before it was converted to a classroom). That cat got pregnant and had kittens squirreled away in a box inside a small room where no one went. One fine day momma cat decided to bring her kittens in to our classroom. She was carrying them using her mouth to gently bite the kittens neck and walk. One by one they came and were placed in a small out of the wall closet immediately by my desk. I enjoyed the beauty of that moment more than any class lessons I ever received.

  Now I'm 3,000 miles and almost 45 years away from that memory. Blessed be the things we later appreciate.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y3KEhWTnWvE
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  Would/Do you wear a Cross around your neck ??

  by Prisca in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after all that we had drummed into us about not the cross, and particularly about not venerating the symbol itself, i have been wondering about this issue.. so, what are your views about wearing a cross around your neck ?

  is it just a fashion accessory, or does it mean something to you ?.

  inquiring minds would like to know

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  I once thought of getting an Ankh, not for the religious symbolism - I'm a hard core rationalist not mystic - but simply because I liked the geometrical shape of it. Decided not to wear it because people might get the wrong idea about my beliefs.
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  Government turning on religion - or - I how I learned to stop worrying and love Drumpf

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where, exactly, does the bible say that government(s) will turn on religion?

  i mean, other than interpreting some crazy visions/dreams from revelation as such?.

  with one megalomaniac leading the gop race for nomination to vie for president of the usa, i've noticed that paranoia has ratcheted up a notch or three.

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  As one can see by perusing rightwingwatch.org, Fundamentalist Christians believe that Obama is a sign of the end times maybe even the antichrist. There are more of those kooks then there are JWs and they've got political clout which the JWs don't.
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  10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for saying he was an Atheist

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  the tide of disbelief is rising and only fools think they can stop it.

  but some are too stupid to understand that fact, as this news story from saudi arabia demonstrates:.

  american ally saudi arabia is the perpetrator of this crime against humanity.

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  In Saudi Arabia the minister of religion got fired because he criticized the small but powerful Salafi (Wahhabist) establishment. It is they who are the spiritual ancestors to ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram etc.. Fvck 'em.
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  Do the GB want the JW religion to fail?

  by Grey Goose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  basically what the thread title says.. do you guys think the gb want the jw religion to fail?

  of course failing in the ultimate sense is just not going to happen.

  no matter how bankrupt they went, there is always going to be a percentage that holds on.. but downsizing the membership?

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  Maybe Trump could help them out.
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  Safe sex for seniors, Pasadena senior center discussion.

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the fun informative talk will cover romance, myths (myths at this age) about sex and aging, tips.

  for enjoyable sex and safe sex precautions (may throw your back out) to help prevent stds.. a boxed lunch will be served to the first 50 people with confirmed reservation.. pasadena ca senior center.. i love this place california, but the wife and i missed out.

  lol.

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  Peace and Security!

  by biblexaminer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower teaches that soon there will be a huge development that will be a sign for jehovah's witnesses!

  5:3 the watchtower magazine, principle journal of jehovah's witnesses, writes.... however, just before that day of jehovah begins, world leaders will be saying “peace and security!” this may refer to one event or to a series of events.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20120915/world-end/#?insight[search_id]=2038590d-e4a0-4101-89db-27102bef34ba&insight[search_result_index]=19.

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  Good point biblexaminer.
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  Are we using too many acronyms?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. humour

  ever wondered how your post might read to someone who's new to this site?.

  (may take you a sec to get the real acronyms that are being used).

  well i've noticed a pattern where a lot of ostentatious peoples that talk about their tough ass tax troubles only relate it to it as a problem that's being perpetrated by the federal & democratic states.

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  Village Idiot

  I sometimes have to Google certain acronyms. Irritating.
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  For those of us creationists who don't know anything about evolution

  by truth doubter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  cofty- perhaps you would like to teach us the "first thing about evolution".. truth doubter .

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  Village Idiot

  Truth doubter, I highly recommend the book Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy. It's a bit pricey but it has over 500 oversize pages of small print covering every subject that has been brought up on both sides.

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