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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

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  anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

  bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

  i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

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  freemindfade:

  "Not true Simon. Do you have any idea how many illegal black market manufacturered guns cross the southern border? Not registered. Not legal."

  As a pro-gun person I must ask you what proof do you have that there is a large number of firearms being fabricated across the Mexican (?) border making it's way to the US.

  "These probably account for many more deaths that are not happening in these theatrical mass shooting and on the inner citt streets."

  How can you come to that conclusion without hard figures on the numbers of firearms smuggled into the US compared to firearms that are made there?
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  A small update on the ongoing investigation by the Royal Commission

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i think you people would like to know that since the public hearing has finished.

  there has been ongoing contact made to me by the staff at the rc.

  they have been inundated with calls and the same experiences or similar ones are being related.. the staff are not backwards in coming forwards with insights that they have shared.

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  Are the 'shepherding' calls being made to victims of abuse only or are they 'shepherding' calls to anyone who's inactive? I'm sure the elders and Bethel have extensive files on the victims and can probably single them out from amongst the "great crowd" of inactives.
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  Evolutionists Who Are Against Darwinism

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a nice list of evolutionary scientists and their quotes regarding the impossibility of naturalism or materialism being able to account for life as it is observed :.

  evolutionists against darwinism.

  most, while sympathetic and respectful of their more committed colleagues, are disparaged as morons for not carrying the materialism banner as a religion, as a matter of faith.

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  Be careful SecretSlaveClass

  
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  Evolutionists Who Are Against Darwinism

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
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  this is a nice list of evolutionary scientists and their quotes regarding the impossibility of naturalism or materialism being able to account for life as it is observed :.

  evolutionists against darwinism.

  most, while sympathetic and respectful of their more committed colleagues, are disparaged as morons for not carrying the materialism banner as a religion, as a matter of faith.

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  SecretSlaveClass:

  On a side note I have been reading a lot about fundamentalist Islam and Wahhabism.

  Wahhabism is an excellent subject to study. I would also recommend researching it's Christian alter ego "Theonomy" informally known as "Reconstructionism". Theonomists want a Christian Theocracy based on ALL Old Testament civil laws as well as their form of capital punishment (stoning and burning at the stake). Even though there are probably no more than a few hundreds of thousands in the U.S. they are deeply connected to the right wing movement and Republican party.

  They are also the main influence on the homeschooling movement amongst conservative parents and they have the express purpose of indoctrinating their children into a full Theonomic view of life, not the more 'liberal' Christian Nationalism that tens of millions of Americans currently espouse.
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  JW Threatened me with Violence Today :)

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i popped into the supermarket for a few things after work today and found myself walking up an aisle alongside a couple who used to be in my tuesday group.

  i see them reasonably often and always say hello much to their obvious annoyance.

  i noticed that ian was sporting a shaggy beard.

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  In all fairness steve2 was just stating how the court system would work not what his particular opinion would be. No reason to give him 2 negative votes for that.
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  help me understand: My wife seems to be utterly detested by skelletons and skulls. Why?

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, here i am again....asking more questions to help me understand my wife.

  she was brought up in the cult in the 70's and 80's.

  so i can only imagine what kind of indoctrination she deals with.

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  goingthruthemotions:

  Why is she so freaked out by skeletons and skulls.

  Some people are freaked out by that kind of thing. When I was a child I got a gift from my godfather that was a small medical model of a skeleton (He was a doctor). I didn't want to throw it away but I was so spooked that I turned it around so that it wouldn't be facing me. That was before I had anything to do with the Witnesses.
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  Evolutionists Who Are Against Darwinism

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a nice list of evolutionary scientists and their quotes regarding the impossibility of naturalism or materialism being able to account for life as it is observed :.

  evolutionists against darwinism.

  most, while sympathetic and respectful of their more committed colleagues, are disparaged as morons for not carrying the materialism banner as a religion, as a matter of faith.

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  Perry, are you getting friendly with Theistic Evolutionists? I thought they were going to hell for believing that Adam and Eve swung on trees.

  In either case this is my favorite book on the subject of evolution versus creationism. 500 pages of detailed rebuttal after rebuttal on every talking point that Creationists have come up with.

  
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  Fun with Caleb and Sophia.

  by ToesUp in

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  this photo was on a pro jw website!

  unbelievable!!!.

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  Why are those two on his shirt upside down?
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  JW Threatened me with Violence Today :)

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i popped into the supermarket for a few things after work today and found myself walking up an aisle alongside a couple who used to be in my tuesday group.

  i see them reasonably often and always say hello much to their obvious annoyance.

  i noticed that ian was sporting a shaggy beard.

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  SecretSlaveClass:

  "I wish I could find one that would take a swing." Hopefully a rich one.
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  Getting the Urge!

  by Theburstbubble in

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  evening folks, so as some of you may know we have recently decided to leave the witnesses and can see it for the man made organisation it is.

  so, why do i get the urge to go back and feel guilty for not being there!

  it's like my mind is telling me to be logical about it all but then something keeps pulling me back.. don't get me wrong i really want to break free from it all and i'm resisting the urge to go back as i have been miserable in the truth for a long time as i've known it's not right and want to do the best by my daughter.

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  My advise is to read the "apostate" literature such as Raymond Franz Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom (available free in PDF). After doing that you'll likely have less and less desire to go back.