Like ToesUp I thought of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Not patch on them though are they? And they had classic traditional songs.... and they have been going for a hundred years...
BluesBrother
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The jw builders choir omg
by Gorbatchov inseems like the genesis song jesus he knows me.. g.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/?applanguage=e#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201910_12_video.
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by Jehovah’s Witnesses
by annihilator inu.s. supreme court rejects appeal by jehovah’s witnesses of 2015 california trial court ordersan diego, ca, october 24, 2019 --(pr.com)-- on october 7, 2019, the u.s. supreme court rejected the petition for writ of certiorari filed by the watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc. (“watchtower”), requesting that the supreme court review a case filed by the zalkin law firm in 2013. in the case of jw v. watchtower bible and tract society of new york, inc. et.
al., the riverside superior court of california awarded the plaintiff, “j.w.,” a judgment of $4,016,152.39 plus interest at 10% per year after terminating watchtower’s defense, because it refused to obey the court’s order to produce files of known child molesters within the jw organization.
in 2018, the fourth district court of appeal in california upheld that decision.
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BluesBrother
They used to enjoy boasting about their ' God given' Supreme Court victories that gave them freedom to preach......
I don't suppose they will want to talk about this one .....
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elders wont pray for someone?
by AuntBee ina former member said that elders told a relative of his after she was dfed that they would not be praying for her.
is that some kind of policy, or were they just doing their own thing in that instance?
taot.
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BluesBrother
Back in the day when I was an elder we were friends with a "sister" who had a grown daughter who was d/f'd. She confided one day that the worst thing was she could not even pray for her.
I told her that no man could tell her what to say in her prayers....they were between her and the Almighty. I knew what the WT had said but it never seemed right to me.
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New Massachusetts Bill ProposesTo Fine or Jail Someone For Calling Someone a Bitch!
by minimus inand if you call someone a bitch , you would be fined 150 dollars the first offense and second is 200 plus possible jail time..
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BluesBrother
Well well, ain't that a B#### !
They can't say b#### anymore.
NB . Is it considered offensive to female dogs? 🐕
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WTS No longer "welcoming" people to Brooklyn
by blondie inhttps://www.6sqft.com/welcome-sign-will-soon-replace-the-iconic-watchtower-sign-in-brooklyn-heights/.
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BluesBrother
Giordano said.....
"Apparently the GB didn't think Jehovah was going to protect them.The GB cowards wanted a more secure place to live in."
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No, it was all about money and property value. It made sense. They made a killing from the sale of the Brooklyn properties, now they have a top class custom built HQ designed for 21st Century and change in the pocket.
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The "figurative" heart
by Sour Grapes inabout 25 years ago i gave a talk about how when the bible talks about the heart that it is the literal heart and how the heart and the brain are connected by nerve tissue.
the watchtower even stated that some people who received a heart transplant would take on some of the personality of the donor.then all of a sudden the borg changed and said that when the bible refers to the heart that it is figurative.
then when ever the watchtower referred to the heart it always put the word figurative in front of it.. does anyone know why there was a change in the use of the word heart?
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BluesBrother
I well remember this teaching. Was there not District Convention in the 70's that featured a large illuminated heart on the platform?
To be fair, the Society only picked up what a lot of medical reports were saying in those early days of experimental heart transplants.
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Listen to be saved--Not a peep about wt doctrine
by waton inthe 10-20 wt study "how to save relatives".
according to wt writers, it is the unique beliefs, doctrines are what saves people at armageddon.
but not a peep about them, instead it is love bombing.
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BluesBrother
Your relatives may be saved IF they listen to you. But what if they don't?
Dubs must accept that the god they love will deliberately target these people, who they also love, with death and destruction. How can they live with that idea?
How did we once live with that idea? I don't know....?.
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JW.Org Content on My Amazon Echo (Alexa)
by BluesBrother inbut you can now enable a jw.org.
skill on alexa and you too can hear the daily text, w/tower material, kingdom songs , selections from broadcasts , audio bible dramas ...and more from your echo device.
what fun!
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BluesBrother
I don’t know how well known this is , perhaps everybody knows? But you can now enable a JW.org. Skill on Alexa and you too can hear the daily text, W/Tower material, Kingdom songs , selections from broadcasts , audio Bible dramas ...and more from your Echo device
What fun!
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unrighteous riches? to wt inc. please
by waton incould not believe this week's "study" : .
here is a stewart in the stew, that mis - manages, perhaps defrauds his master, and knows he is going to be fired for that.
he defrauds his master some more, in order to avoid working and instead leaching off the former creditors.
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BluesBrother
WT book ' jesus The Way The Truth and Life chapt 87 ( discusses Luke 16 )
"Only Jehovah God and his Son can receive someone into the heavenly Kingdom or the Paradise on earth under that Kingdom. We should diligently cultivate friendship with them by using what material riches we have in supporting Kingdom interests. Our everlasting future will thus be assured when gold, silver, and other material riches fail or perish."
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They have long applied this difficult parable to putting money in the KH Contributions. .. it never read that way to me though.
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The Watchtower stole from me and you too
by rickroll inthink of how much time and money the tower stole from any who were in the cult.
think of the vacations as a child you could have taken with your families the memories you could have made instead of sitting in a hot bs week of echo talks and propaganda.
they stole so much from us.
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BluesBrother
"JWs were waiting for a worldwide genocide of billions of people to occur in order to have their ‘paradise’..So, this person has no pity and feels these older JWs deserve a wasted life."
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From an outsiders viewpoint you see their point. But when you have been brought up in it , it was not like that at all. Truth is we were all victims, yes victims of other victims. We certainly did not wish death on others although were content to "leave it to Jehovah " We really did believe the message as a fact ..... it was more real than the things in everyday life.
If one is blest with talents then I can understand them looking back with regrets and those who have lost family have my deepest sympathy. For me I am just an average guy who could have had a lot more fun in my youth, could have earned more if I had saught a career, could have travelled more. But overall life has not been bad.
I am not going to waste the time I have left by unbalance recriminations. .. NB I'll still take a few swipes at the WTS where I can though