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  Confused trying to understand JW GF or soon to be EX

  by James87 in

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  i dont know where to start so why not at the beginning.

  i was seeing this girl and we hit it off great chemistry.

  it went from a physical to a deeper relationship.

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  Village Idiot

  You are fighting a lost cause. Your girlfriend is one of those many unfaithful believers that want to still think of themselves as JWs but are driven into a hidden life for the sake of pleasure. You do know that she can be excommunicated for simply being with you in the same apartment overnight? That is enforced by elders who, when they suspect something is wrong (Read fornication), keep the residence under surveillance, from their own vehicles, overnight.

  Once she is excommunicated she will be shunned by everyone she knows in the religion including family members.

  She will keep her relationship with you so long as she's out of the Witnesses but she will eventually dump you once she has been accepted by them. In many cases the penitent JW will not even give the time of day to their former lover. This situation has been played out countless thousands of times in JWdom.

  Prepare in your heart to live without her. Her actions show that she will not respect you as a non-JW.
  
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  When You See a JW Do You Get Flustered?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i used to dread seeing a witness coming toward me.

  now i am quite comfortable and hope that they may say something to me..... does your blood pressure rise when you see a jw coming toward you?

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  Village Idiot

  Tom Harley,
  

  The visibility of the Kingdom message expands, what with cart and website supplementing traditional methods.
  

  Your cart duty is pathetic. Even the JWs manning them can tell.

  World conditions worsen.
  

  As for world conditions worsening tell that to the bygone victims of Tamerlane who killed 20 million people in the late 14th century as he swooped from Mongolia to Eurasia.

  Now listen closely. No matter what happens in the future - and a lot of bad things are going to happen - nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing will go as your organization has predicted. They have been, are, and forever will remain a false prophet.
  
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  Do You Love the Sea and Mountains?

  by compound complex in

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  Village Idiot

  I once urged my mother to move to California because of the forests that they had (We also had some family there). She did that. While I'm stuck in the big city I dreamt of forested places like Oregon where I would live off the land and be surrounded by beauty. Now that I'm fed up with the US I pine for Canada. While poverty keeps me where I am in shackles my dreams have not faded.
  
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  You will be with me in Paradise

  by AmyWatson916 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm reading a book called, "what to do when they knock".

  it points out that on page 36 of the 2014 "what does the bible really teach?

  " book jesus promises the criminal, "you will be with me in paradise.

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  The perceptions of the afterlife in Jesus' time where very different and variable than they are now.
  

  Paradise, in that scripture, does not refer to earthly paradise but to a region in the underworld (Hades/Sheol) were the spirits of the righteous dwelled in opposition to Gehenna (Lake of Fire) where the evil dwelled. It was believed to be a foretaste of heaven and hell throughout eternity. Both groups awaited the resurrection when they will receive a body and then go to either heaven or hell.

  There was a confusing tangle of ideas and words to describe it since every culture and person had variations of Sheol - Hades/Heaven in their mindset. Below is an example. Note that Christ is in Paradise during his death (See the lines between the crosses and where they lead to.).

  https://youtu.be/tCNSbRZJnBw
  
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  Were the apostles of the 'Anointed class' when they partook?

  by why144000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to john 20:22 the apostles did not receive the holy spirit until after jesus was resurrected.

  wouldn't this make them part of 'the other sheep' when they partook of the bread and wine?.

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  Man in Sweden accidently receives Putin's mail

  by jwleaks in

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  2. friends

  a resident of a backwater swedish town called trelleborg was shocked to open his mailbox and find a letter addressed to none other than russia’s president, vladimir putin.

  the only thing that per's home address has in common with the russian president’s is the number 23, while also noting that the town of trelleborg is roughly 1,532 kilometers (951 miles) from moscow.. .

  when asked if he was curious about what's in the letter per replied "yes, of course i am.

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  Village Idiot

  Maybe it was a broken-heart letter from Donald Trump.
  
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  A baffling physics question

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. current

  for several weeks i've been treating myself to a hot chocolate milk (well, soymilk) before bedtime.

  some 16 oz soymilk which i heat on high in our microwave oven.

  this is just enough time where the liquid begins to bubble along the top edge.. i then take it out of the microwave and place it on my kitchen gram scale, stir it good enough to redistribute the heat, then reset the scale to zero grams.. next, i squeeze in the hershey's sytup, "special dark mildly sweet chocolate" (fat free) into the warmed soymilk till the scale reads some 30 grams.

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  Village Idiot

  I don't know if soymilk has water but it seems that something is evaporating with each microwaving.

  Maybe this guy knows.

  
  
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  Why are the evolutionist's so upset?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so many evolutionist's on this forum are upset at the terror attacks in europe such as recently in sweden.

  it is just a logical step in the evolution of the human race.

  should you not rather be celebrating the great changes taking place right before your eyes and constructing detailed explanations of the cell structure and dna development in the human brain.. you can't eat your cake and still have it.

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  Star stuff > Earth stuff > life stuff > brain stuff > Consciousness (Mind is what brain does.).
  

  As Carl Sagan once said "We are star stuff contemplating star stuff."

  As for Social Darwinism, society can evolve into anything it wants to. It can evolve into peaceful cultures versus warrior cultures; Altruistic versus Ayn Randian hell. And yes, there is a genetic component to it.
  
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  Would you give up one year at the end of your life if you could relive any one day in the past?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  like the question asks: if you could relive any one day of your life, any age, any place and remember everything about it afterwards, would you be willing to live one year shorter at the end of your life?

  one day for one year?.

  i realize that someone well on in years would think twice about it, but, what about you younger ones?

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  Village Idiot

  OUTLAW, I envy you.
  
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  President Trump launches missile strike against Syria

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pesident trump authorized the missile strike because “it is in the vital, national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons.” .

  59 tomahawk missiles were launched from two us navy ships.. russia has condemned the action.. https://youtu.be/4svp3yfneyq.

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  Don't know if this has been covered in this thread but news is that Ivanka, who was very moved by the gas attack, may have moved her father to engage in the strike.