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Village Idiot
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Let's Be Honest - You or One of Your Ancestors Was an Idiot
by Simon inwhy were we ever a jw?
were we mad?
we must have been .... well, my excuse is that i knew nothing else.
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Let's Be Honest - You or One of Your Ancestors Was an Idiot
by Simon inwhy were we ever a jw?
were we mad?
we must have been .... well, my excuse is that i knew nothing else.
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Village Idiot
How about you? Are you an idiot or the offspring of past idiots?
I'd be honored to be your ancestor.
Seriously, I have the innocence of youth to hide behind. I had an overwhelming curiosity about the Bible at age 13. It only took a small leaflet placed in my door to get the ball rolling.
As for there being only print media back in yesteryear, there were plenty of books and tracts written about the subject but you needed to have balls to go to a Christian bookstore to even glance at "apostate" literature.
After getting into the witnesses I developed a desire to collect the old books and literature. Unfortunately, I could not afford them. If I did I probably would have bailed out sooner and not lasted 8 years in that infernal swamp. I had an odd experience once with a 3rd generation witness and her husband when they showed me the book The Finished Mystery that had been passed on through the years within the family. Holding it in my hands I decided to open it and read some of it. To my bewilderment they both started yelling and gesticulating at me saying "No, no! It's different!". I remember just catching a glimpse of it. Something about Behemoth and railroad trains. How odd that they would hand me a book to admire and yet go ballistic when I did what any normal human being would do and open it.
Overall, it was my curiosity that got me into the JWs and my curiosity that got me kicked out. I'm not hard on myself for that but I do remain bitter over that crucial moment in time when the best years of my life were taken away from me.
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RUSSIA: Many meetings raided and evidence planted
by ZAPPA-ESQUE inraids on jehovah's witness premises now take place more than three times per month.
these raids on doctrinally pacifist* religious communities often involve many heavily armed and camouflaged officials, with the "discovery" of apparently planted banned "extremist" literature.
legal dissolution of communities can follow.. http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2228.
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Village Idiot
Instead of taking dictatorial positions, any nation which sees the JWs or anyone as a pathetic anti-social organization that violates societies norms should use television to out them. And no, I'm not referring to sound-bites from the worthless media. I'm more suggesting a regularly broadcasting television channel - the equivalent of the National Public Radio - which would dedicate a good commercial free half hour to the subject. It would not only be about the Witnesses but should include every authoritarian religion.
But then we don't have the imagination in this country to have such a thing much less do those hard-power barbarians.
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97 Columbia Heights For Sale
by wifibandit inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdyjb_v4gye.
http://imgur.com/a/yhraf.
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Village Idiot
You'll be sorely missed.
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Were Conventions, Asemblies and the Memorials boring to you?
by HereIgo inconventions always just seemed like more of a vacation to me than anything else, especially if you had to travel out of town for it, but definitely were exhausting especially toward the end of each day.
for some reason i didn't mind the special and circuit assemblies too much, probably because they seemed like more of a social event than anything else and only 1-2 days.
the memorial always was kind of boring to me.
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Village Idiot
slimboyfat:
...don't walk too slow between doors...
Just follow old Shelly:
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RBC Used Tools Liquidation - 80% Off Cost!
by thedepressedsoul inhas anyone else received this email?
"items priced to move, up to 80% off cost".
i'd post the email but i worry they put secret identifying marks on it somehow.
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Village Idiot
Are these the tools?
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Janet Jackson before and after pics
by moomanchu inguess she is a muslim now, golly.. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/janet-jackson-spotted-first-time-9106989.
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Village Idiot
She married a Muslim billionaire. Hint, hint?
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So getting disfellowshipped sounds kind of great.
by schnell ini grew up in this religion, i was baptized at 14, married at 27, and now i'm 31. i'm also evolutionist and atheist.
i wanted this to be the truth.
i spent years as an apologist trying to reconcile everything.
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Village Idiot
Welcome, schnell! 30 years a Watchtower Slave was the first ex-witness book I read. Don't even bother to talk to them, just ignore them and they will not care after a while.
What about your relationship with your wife? Would that be impacted?
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Potential Muslim convert
by StopTheTears inabout a month ago, i purchased arabic/english gospels of john that contain a commentary for muslims.. .
i went to one of my neighbors and spoke to him and gave him one.
fast forward to today, my brakes need done so i took my car to the shop, walking back into my street i saw my friend abdullah outside.. .
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Village Idiot
looter,
His defining characteristic is power and domination but his main one is love.
Defining is the same as main.
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Christadelphians the closest to JW?
by ab.ortega ini am curious as to what current religion is similar in beliefs and organization to jw's.
i've only come as far as christadelphians.
are there any others you know of?.
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ab, knowledgeable JWs are going to claim that other religions that have some of their doctrines did not have "the whole truth". They will also say that all the sects of Bible Students that started popping up during the Rutherford takeover are to be considered rebels to "God's organization" simply for separating themselves from it no matter if they believe in the exact same doctrines.
