Mad Irishman

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  The WT Trucking Outfit Has Violations

  by cattails in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  2. total number of vehicle inspections for the measurement period.

  n. fatigued truck driving (hours-of-service) basic serious violation indicator (y = serious violation within previous 12 months).

  n. kingdom support services inc truck driver fitness data.

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  Mad Irishman

  I don't know about you, but I got a few speeding tickets in my day when I was a JW. Who didn't?

  I often find it a strange paradox that people post crimes and misdemeanors of JW's, whether they really have the truth or not, like they are supposed to be perfect citizens. Their rate of crime, divorce, murder, etc. is minuscule compared to society's in general, but even if they had the truth there would still be outliers out there who did terrible things. So I'm not sure what that is supposed to prove when you take the emotion out of it. King David committed murder and adultery. Satan was an Angel. Judas was an apostle. So if some JW got speeding tickets or did something against the law what does that prove?

  Everyone is human and cable of doing something wrong no matter what side you're viewing it on--from their side or from the outside. I think sometimes we go overboard trying to find every infraction committed by a JW like somehow there is something to glean from it.
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  sold Kingdom Hall where Ray Franz watched

  by TJ Brother in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  searching on google maps found that the kingdom hall where ray franz was disfellowshipped and participated in gadsden was sold recently for 7th day christian fellowship .does anyone know about it?

  is it a file burning ?

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  Mad Irishman

  Is it a file burning? When a Kingdom Hall is sold off whatever files are there go wherever the congregation is moving, so if it's to a new hall they go there, if they move to another hall where they share the building the congregation's files go there.

  It's a bit strange to think they'd sell an old Kingdom Hall off to get rid of the individual publisher files. If they didn't want any file to be there they would simply destroy it.
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  Why isn't demon possession a DF offense?

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  let's review: it's a cult!.

  allrighty--got thinking about it in this thread.

  isn't it odd that, of all things, that isn't on the list of df offenses?

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  Mad Irishman

  Maybe because it's mental illness and not demon possession.
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  After Death Communications in the JW community

  by jack2312 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my name is jack and i'm looking for after death communications from the jehovah witness community.

  an after death communication (or adc) is when a loved one sends a kind of message to this side of life after their death.

  it can be a dream or smell (like perfume or roses that would be attached to them in memory) or a feeling of their presence.

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  Mad Irishman

  Sorry, but this is insulting to people with a brain or people who have lost someone.

  co·in·ci·dence

  Look it up!
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  A note on the Watchtowers property investments

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  about a year ago there was a thread regarding the 2008 watchtower bible and tract society of new yorks tax return.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/287098/2008-watchtower-income-tax-return?page=1.

  a reference was made to the provictor property fund iv which was listed as their primary alternate business activity.. turns out that at that time 75% of the chrysler building was owned by the provictor property fund iv until it was sold during that year.. http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/09/news/international/chrysler_building/?postversion=2008070913.

  just thought you should know :).

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  Mad Irishman

  Do you know how funds work? There are thousands of investors and if that fund makes a 2% or 3% or a gaudy 10% each investor gets a small percentage of a profit. It's like a high-end CD.

  I fail to see the story here on this one?
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  Im always afraid

  by BlackWolf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  people tell me all sorts of different opinions.

  i seem to feel a constant feeling of dread and anxiety.

  the possibility of god existing scares me but so does the possibility of him not.

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  Mad Irishman

  It sounds like you are suffering from depression, which is nothing to be embarrassed about. If you don't have depression in this messed up world that wouldn't be normal.

  You're depression might not even have anything to do with your upbringing or religion. It may be something you've inherited, so you need to have it treated no matter what you do. Being mentally ill can make you feel things that are not real and feelings and emotions that are not normal. It is simply a chemical imbalance. Certain chemicals in your brain don't get released enough and it makes you feel down, depressed, and even suicidal.

  You need to try and see a therapist. They can give you medications that can balance these feelings out.

  Don't try and fix this yourself. You need to ask for help!
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  Does Jehovah control the weather? (Pharaoh's dream - 7 years of famine)

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  according to the scriptures, jehovah makes his sun rise upon wicked people and good and makes it rain upon righteous people and unrighteous.

  - matthew 5:45. in that case, if we look at the account in genesis, god is shown to give pharaoh a dream that he will cause seven years of famine.. genesis 41: pharaohs dreams.

  25 then joseph said to pharaoh, the dreams of pharaoh are one and the same.

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  Mad Irishman

  They believe that Jehovah is not interfering in mankind's affairs after the death of Jesus and the Apostles so whether you believe in God or not he is not controlling the weather.
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  Need advice: Intimacy with my wife almost non existint because she considers me an apostate

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just on of the perks of being an apostate who is married to a branwashed, blinded jw woman.

  you know, we have been married for ~27 years....most of which we had nothing to do with the piece of shite cult.

  up till the begining of 2014 was when i woke up.

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  Mad Irishman

  Hey, this has to do with trust and intimacy. If you're wife has lost her trust in you she is not going to want to be intimate. That is how most women work. If she came home and told you she was joining ISIS you might have the same reaction. To her that is what she is feeling (not that the two are the same; just using that as an example). You've got to be able to understand that and have some empathy for her. Her world has just been turned upside down. How would you feel if you were her?

  It sucks, but it certainly is understandable, especially if you've been married a while.
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  When you read this Richard Glossip will probably be dead.

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how do i feel about this?.

  too much doubt.. shame on you people who are responsible for putting richard to death.. richard is scheduled to be put to death in oklahoma at 3pm on september 16th by lethal injection.

  i have followed this case and feel like so many people very bad about this.

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  Mad Irishman

  They halted his execution. Hopefully, they can give him a new trial to get to the bottom of this. If any case speaks for someone having a new trial it is this one.
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  Meandering thoughts of a recent JW funeral experience

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to the kh a couple of weeks ago.

  for a funeral.

  i haven't been in a kh, except for funerals, for several years.

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  Mad Irishman

  It seems to me it depends solely on the family how much a person is talked about in a funeral talk. I've seen some families ask that a person's whole life history be detailed. And I've seen other families basically tell the brother: have at it; say anything you want.

  The latter is where you basically get a talk instead of a funeral talk.