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  Another one bites the dust

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.

  i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.

  he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.

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  blondie

  https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article235306577.html
  
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  Of Mozart and the Borg.

  by zeb in

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  i like listening to mozart.. i have noticed the site says it has been visited 181,232,000 plus times.. it has received 51,500 plus comments.. their much bragged about jw.org site has received hm visits?

  and comments of course?

  comments are denied... says a great deal about the call and power of blessed music..

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  blondie

  zeb, was that a youtube site playing one of Mozart pieces? I am not surprised by the number of visits to a site like that. Instantly, I have found many of my favorite pieces on youtube, and filed them in a folder by composer. Then whenever I need an emotional pickup, I pick about 10 and listen to them as I go about my daily chores, to find restful sleep, to count my blessings, and to realize there is beauty in the world.
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  Another one bites the dust

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.

  i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.

  he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.

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  blondie

  I know that some people speak from what they have read, not necessarily having been a victim of child sexual abuse (by a parent no less) or closely known someone who has been. Besides my own experience, I worked in law enforcement for 8 years and processed all the arrests of pedophiles in my jurisdiction. I have heard all the stories of their past and how that led to them abusing child(ren). I can also tell you that 3/4 of those who were abused, do not go on to being abusers themselves. Everyone has a sob story, but in my opinion, this kind of abuse is even worse than literal murder. In the case of that kind of murder, you are dead, not living on in the pain of death day after day. Those that sexually abuse children, even their own children, have murdered the soul, the psyche, the sense of self, that can be pieced together somewhat, but can never be made whole again.
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  Unique JW Phrases 101

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
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  what unique to jws phrases do you remember?

  something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.

  there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.

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  blondie

  Yes, stillin, taking the lead but the elders are not "leaders." Yet the WTS has said that the elders are shepherds of the flock.

  elders = shepherds

  Therefore, the shepherd’s joy is in the lead position, paying attention to all the congregation of God, beckoning them to ‘become imitators of him, even as he is of Christ.’—1 Cor. 11:1.

  A good shepherd will lead sheep to tender grass and clear water.

  
  
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  Unique JW Phrases 101

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what unique to jws phrases do you remember?

  something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.

  there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.

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  blondie

  I wonder if people like Michael Jackson and Prince used their "unrighteous riches" to get preferential treatment from the WTS/GB?
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  7 New Files Just Arrived!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
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  2019--prison witnessing training seminar.

  2019--10-14--follow up tp prison witnessing training seminar.

  2019--example notice to cease and desist for congregation2019--example notice to cease and desist for watchtower2019--guide to configuring kingdom hall audio and video system computer-s-132-e2019--example midweek meeting schedule-s-140-e2020--example year text-yt20-eall are in this zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-dheuiguqtf atlantis!

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  blondie

  tiki, you are right, the prisons I have visited had metal detectors, and for some family members and friends, maybe even more than that, if on a watch list for contraband. Maybe some jws violated that requirement even by accident, putting them on the list.
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  Another one bites the dust

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.

  i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.

  he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.

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  blondie

  Perhaps that statement was too strong. Based on growing up with a pedophile father, I am not so likely to have much empathy for pedophiles. I tend to have empathy only for the victims.
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  JWB 5th Anniversary GB host lineup

  by neat blue dog in

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  the recent article on the 5th anniversary of jw broadcasting includes a helpful graphic showing our hosts:.

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  And

  Raelism (France)

  Amish and Mennonites (Switzerland)

  Order of the Solar Temple (France)
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  Unique JW Phrases 101

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what unique to jws phrases do you remember?

  something fun for those of us taught to speak an entirely unique and pure language.

  there have been posts in the past in this forum but perhaps some have new ones after having kept up with jehovah's chariot as the light gets brighter.

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  blondie

  I always wondered what the WTS phrase "present truth" meant? The WTS seems to imply that somehow "truth" changes, there must be a different past truth and a different future truth.

  WT Song 91

  And keep in step with present truth,

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/directed-by-holy-spirit.php
  

  In 1922, Watchtower released an article titled "Divinely-Given Chronological Parallelisms." Is the reader to believe the interpretation in the Watchtower was divinely-given, or just the Bible verses it was based on? Watchtower can say they never claimed their interpretation was divinely-given, yet that is very much the conclusion a reader would likely draw, after reading the article.

  "It has been shown in a preceding article that the parallel dates of present-truth chronology are proof of divine foreknowledge, and that they demonstrate that the system is of divine origin. ... So present-truth chronology is not an invention, but a discovery." Watch Tower 1922 Nov 15 p.355
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  JWB 5th Anniversary GB host lineup

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the recent article on the 5th anniversary of jw broadcasting includes a helpful graphic showing our hosts:.

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  blondie

  I can think of 3 that did not originate in the US

  Unification Church (Moonies) Korea

  Hare Krishna (India)

  Aum Shinreikyo (Japan)