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

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Felons can't get guns. Period.

  They can't legally possess guns.

  They absolutely can get guns though--easily. In my state, people can sell each other guns on Craigslist, in their garages, or anywhere else. They are not required to do any background check whatsoever. It's up to the felon to not buy the gun, not the other way around.

  FFLs require a background check, but they are not the only way guns are legally sold.

  Here, no license is required to purchase a gun, and business owners cannot even stop you from packing heat unless they go through extra hoops to accommodate you by providing a gun locker and posting special signs.
  
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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Well if we're going to go into gun control, then I'll say this. And I say this as a former behavioral health clinician.

  All gun sales should be subject to FFL plus a mental health/substance abuse screen.

  It would not stop everything, but it would pick up some glaring mental health cases, and reduce the opportunity for felons to get guns.
  
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  JWs nearly killed my mother

  by cookiemaster in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the past week has been hell for me.

  my mother started feeling ill and we went to seek medical assistance.

  we live in the mountains and the nearest large hospital is about 150 kms away.

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  Good job! (( ))

  Been there, done that. It completely sucks that irrational brainwashing causes easily avoidable problems.

  I hope the underlying cause of the anemia has been resolved too.

  Please keep us informed about what the elders do.
  
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  The Vedas - Scientific Knowledge - Prophecy - The Truth?

  by LAWHFol in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the vedas are the core sacred texts for the people of the east.

  generally the vedas are to the east as the hebrew scriptures are to the west.

  supporters of the bible, boast of it's scientific accuracy,prophetic accuracy & general infallibility.

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  Sanskrit is considered to be the Highest Quality Language, and Most Logical Language in Existence by Nasa

  Truth: A paper published several decades ago by an employee of NASA, writing it on his own time with no involvement of NASA, said Sanskrit's strict grammar rules make it easy for computers to interpret. End of story. So...not an indicator of divinity.
  

  The Vedas include Highly Accurate Prophecies of the End Days.

  How would we know it's accurate, since it hasn't happened yet?
  

  Their Prophecies include the Coming of Christ & The Great Flood.

  So do many religions, but there is no evidence Jesus Christ existed and The Great Flood has been thoroughly disproven.
  
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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  why is it ok to kill someone who is mentally stable but not someone who is mentally ill?

  Who is saying it is?
  
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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  He had so many issues with coworkers over the years at many jobs, making false accusations that they were out to get him and calling him names. @ one point, his employer directed him to seek medical attention or he would be terminated. Once, he was fired and had to be removed from the premises by the police.

  He claimed Jehovah told him to do it.
  

  Yes, it could be just anger issues. But...there is a legitimate suspicion that this was a mental health issue. Consider this: paranoia (everyone is making racist comments about him), command hallucinations (Jehovah speaking to him), delusions of grandeur (saying those other mass murderers are "his boys"), bizarre behavior at work (former employers state this) and aggression characteristic of several common mental illnesses. It's well within the realm of possibility.

  Now we will probably never know for sure, since we can't have him diagnosed now.
  
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  Another annointed disfelowshipped for showing love

  by poopie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok this is story1.annointed bro moves into a house and rents room from a lady.

  2.he is currently serving as elder.3.there happens to be a disfellowsipped brother also living in house.4.

  the annointed elder decides to help him to return to jehovah.5 the other elders find out and decide to remove him as elder because he is living and helping a df person and the annointed bro cannot move out because he does not have enough money.

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  If an anointed person gets disfellowshipped, does he lose his Get Off of Earth Free card?

  
  
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  How did you feel when "your book" was discontinued?

  by OverlappingGeneralizations in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i didn't know where to posts this, i hope "friends" is ok-.

  how did you feel when the book you studied in was deemed "discontinued"?

  for instance, when i was studying, i studied the knowledge book.

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  When I was in school, I had textbooks that said "Negroes". Then it was changed to "colored", then "black". We had a session in the beginning of the school year when we had to sit there and cross out the old words and write in the new ones. There was some speech about how the old word is not nice and won't be allowed.
  

  It seemed odd to have a word that was A-ok 3 months prior to suddenly be a bad word, but at least there was transparency.

  In some respects, the avg dub is childlike in his unquestioning acceptance of what Mother Borg tells him. Yet he gets little closure or acknowledgement. He is usually left to figure out what changed so as not to make a misstep.
  
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  Go on welfare!

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am going to make this short.

  i ran into a older jw women who i have known my whole life.

  she is pushing 80 and will never change.

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  She was one credit away for getting her degree when there was an assembly and she realized that Jehovah did not want her to go for higher education and that she should pioneer instead. The strange thing is Jehovah revealed this right when the system cut her off.

  Jehovah needs to get a Day Planner to keep better track of these things. LOL
  
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  Three day convention

  by BashfulAshG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  tips to survive this?

  or should a feign an illness?

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  And they finished at nine at night.

  omg can you imagine 7 days and evenings? wth did they fill all those hours with?