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  Protest at district convention in Budapest, Hungary

  by cedars in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihncqunkq94.

  whatever your thoughts on the shouting, displaying a simple web address is an extremely effective and non-confrontational way of getting the message across - and in this case it looks like hundreds if not thousands of witnesses saw it.. .

  cedars.

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  A JW is walking along and hears a humanitarian message. He stops up his ears and walks into the convention center.
  Another JW is walking along and sees a humanitarian message. He stops up his eyes and walks into a bar.
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  JWs made the news next to dinosaurs

  by rmt1 in

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  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/seattle-officials-call-for-ban-on-potentially-offensive-language/.

  seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially offensive' language"dinosaurs, for example, conjures the topic of evolution, which could rile fundamentalists and birthdays are not celebrated by jehovahs witnesses.

  halloween, meanwhile, suggests an affiliation to paganism.

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  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/seattle-officials-call-for-ban-on-potentially-offensive-language/

  Seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially offensive' language

  "Dinosaurs, for example, conjures the topic of evolution, which could rile fundamentalists and birthdays are not celebrated by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Halloween, meanwhile, suggests an affiliation to Paganism."
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  More troubling than any Watchtower scandal...

  by chapstick in

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  while we all spend time attacking the wto, something even worse is hanging over our heads.

  this is scary as hell folks.... http://gulagbound.com/40177/republican-leaders-approve-america-as-a-one-party-state/.

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  Satire
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  Really enjoyed the CONvention....why?

  by punkofnice in

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  i remember when i was a mind cleansed(tm) jw i would listen to the talks when i wasn't napping.. on the long tiring drive home i'd say how i ''enjoyed(tm)'' the sessions and felt ''encouraged(tm)''.. .....and yet i couldn't recall a single ''point(tm)'' made.

  i couldn't remember what it was that actually made me feel good.. on one occasion i asked the family what they found ''encouraging(tm)'' or interesting.. tumble weed.

  no examples.

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  My parents took me to the July 1973 DC in Veteran's Stadium, Philly. I was two weeks old. I don't remember much from that one.
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  Baffling comment by my JW parents about non-witness funeral

  by joyfulfader in

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  my parents attended the funeral of an elderly family member today.

  being out of state i was unable to attend.

  i asked how it went and was told that "worldly" people don't care enough about anyone to mention anything personal.

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  "I always thought, even when mentally in that it is a more comforting thought to believe that your dead loved one is happy, and pain free in heaven, and you can join them later, and they are with you, still loving you. To me this is more comforting than the JW teaching that the dead are not concious, rotting in the ground, to maybe be ressurected (really re-created) at some unknown future date, and maybe you can see them if you listen ond obey the GB well enough!"

  Pre-apologies for the capitalizationitis, but it is a very subtle distinction I will attempt to make: This was absolutely one of my disconnects when I was 14 years old. The party line was that the person's person-hood, potential of conscious self, potential for continuity of memory, resided in some absolutely unspecified way with a deity, yet there was no immortal soul. Had there BEEN an immortal soul analogous to a data record, or a file, it would be no trouble to imagine that this soul was dormant, unconscious, in god's memory. But the JW line was that nothing continued of the person, by itself and in and of itself. ONLY god's memory retained the imprint, the impression, the reception, the notion, of their existence. But it was not THEM. But SOMEHOW, you were still supposed to get back the very same identical individual that died, yet who did not persist in some Independently Contiguous form of organized information like a soul. The JW version of resurrection defies common sense from an Information Technology perspective. A MEMORY of a thing is NOT that thing. If you clone yourself and you die, it is not YOU, the continuous conscious session of your own life experience. It's someone else who looks like you and talks like you. There are so many texts about this cloning or copying principle. I'd suggest Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow, The Prestige ( Hugh Jackman ), Moon (Sam Rockwell), Oblivion (Tom Cruise), Caprica/BSG (tv shows), to name the first things to mind.
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  Is Grandma evil

  by moley in

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  bumped into an old acquaintance the other day, one of those who used to cross the road when they see me.

  this time he was all smiles and even shook my hand.

  to cut a long story short went for a pint and a chat and he apologised for his previous behaviour and he told me he is in the process of fading and this suprised me because he used to be a super pious dub.. he said the thing that made him start to think was when his 4yr old daughter asked him if her grandma was evil and he said of course not, her reply was why is jehovah going to kill her.

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  "But as for me and grampa - we Believe..."

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zmnuNd5rX8
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  Baffling comment by my JW parents about non-witness funeral

  by joyfulfader in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my parents attended the funeral of an elderly family member today.

  being out of state i was unable to attend.

  i asked how it went and was told that "worldly" people don't care enough about anyone to mention anything personal.

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  Well that's quantitative. You could spend 70 or 80 years in the machine, with 50 to 60 years paying monthly contributions, and have max 10 minutes' acknowledgement to show for it. Brooklyn could at least print a 4-color t-shirt.
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  Baffling comment by my JW parents about non-witness funeral

  by joyfulfader in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my parents attended the funeral of an elderly family member today.

  being out of state i was unable to attend.

  i asked how it went and was told that "worldly" people don't care enough about anyone to mention anything personal.

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  I am ruminating and attempting to quantify on an epiphany someone else had here on JWN:
  Since there's a raging inflammation of the PC in the body politic, this use of "worldy" by JWs is standing out starkly. If a bureaucrat in the highest diocese of the PC clergy compared the word's tone or tenor to the panoply of other words that are used with structural violence to ostracize, alienate, intimidate and denigrate other races, religions, orientations, socioeconomics, they would find some similarity with other words that are now categorized as hate speech. I never needed to read up on what exact tone or tenor, from a structural violence standpoint, goes into the Jewish (Hasidic?) term Gentiles / goyim / etc. Is there more or less """"hate"""" (Caprica gods almighty I cannot stand that usage) in the JW word "worldly" as opposed to the "goyim"? (rhetorical)
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  The Bible as explained to my 5 year old son....

  by stuckinamovement in

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  this is a long story son, are you sure you want to hear it?

  ok here goes......... it all began when a talking snake tricked a naked lady into eating a piece of fruit.

  her husband decided that he liked the fruit so he ate some too.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80entLldZOg
  Kid History
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdtD19tXX30
  Conversations With My Two Year Old
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  Former Unbaptized Publisher, New Here

  by GloomySunday in

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  former unbaptized publisher, here.. i'm new to the forums and have hesitated for months to join this forum.

  i was raised in a jw family, and was never baptized, because one of my parents didn't think i should be baptized early.. my mother became inactive, but i eventually went back for social contact, eventually starting a study.

  i raised a few questions, only to find that the conductor would get irritated and defensive when my questions would get deeper into the topic.

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  rmt1

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8_4s3Y4jk

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