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  Jehovah's Witnessees and the Truth vs the Lie

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  there are several places on the internet where the hypocrisy of jehovah's witnesses is on full display.

  what i am about to write is not new, but it is on my mind, so i thought i would write about it.

  (disclaimer, i am an agnostic writing this, using the bible against jw lies.

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  Does anyone have the KM that said, in essence, that there is no reason to read anything other than the society's publications because they do all the research and provide all the information we need? It wasn't talking about "apostate" literature, it was talking about ANY other literature. It was a fairly recent KM, within the last year, I think. I was still going to meetings, and when we discussed this, I wanted to scream. Instead I sat quiety in amazement listening to the comments in support of this crazy statement.

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  Cancelled bookstudy- but do you remember 4 day Assemblies!!!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  assemblies used to go for 5 days which caused problems for brothers with work so....it was changed to thursday to sunday......then half of thursday to sunday.....then 3 days only.

  does anyone remember this....i remember 3 and a half days.

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  Does anyone else remember the "soy" convention? It was one of the big ones in California--either San Francisco or Oakland. We ate standing at tables made of plywood. Every day it was a new soy horror. It seems like one day they shaped it like a chicken leg, but maybe I just thought it would be funny if they did!

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  Meetings canceled and double standard

  by Iwonder17 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i live ina cold area where meetings are canceled from time to time.

  i find it very funny that even the most "faithful" dubs sit in anticipation by the phone waiting for the call that the mtg has been canceled.

  you would think that they would be disappointed since one of their meals is being cut off ( or one of their fingers as the old illustration goes )

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  I mentioned this on another thread, but I think the great joy that greets an unexpected night or day off gives a lie to the idea that all these meetings aren't a burden. Jesus' yoke is kindly and his load is light, but most JWs (I believe) are exhausted. As I also mentioned elsewhere, when we would say that we feel so much better when we go, despite the headache, fatigue, or whatever, I think what we were feeling was the relief of not having to carry the guilt of not going.

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  Dansk

  by faundy in

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  just to let everyone on here who knows my dad, that he is seriously ill, and unfortunately on life support.

  he has renal and respiratory failure as a result of the quickest onset of pneumonia i have ever seen... it came on in the early hours of this morning.

  he is waiting for an intensive care bed but the nearest one is 200 miles away.

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  I am so sorry. I found his writing fascinating and inspiring. My deepest sympathies.

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  My wife just passed away in her sleep

  by rekless in

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  keep me in your thoughts.. .

  thanks.

  dan.

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  I am so very, very sorry.

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  Groucho Marx quotes...this guy was hilarious!

  by LovesDubs in

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  2. friends

  we were discussing joining groups and some of us have a revulsion for joining anything now, as i do and it reminded me of a quote from groucho...but in finding that quote i found these and they are hysterical!

  a black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.. groucho marx.

  send someone to fetch a child of five.. groucho marx.

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  "You have beautiful eyes...well one anyway."

  Re the contract debate, "You can't fool me; there's no sanity clause."

  Love the Marx Brothers!

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  Let me run this by you all.

  by is there help out there in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine caused some distress to jws by talking to them about their reasons for going round knocking on doors.

  the conversion went something like this: so you want me to convert.

  if i do not convert, i will be damned when i die?

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  Blondie:

  This is from the Public WT of April 1, 2008, "God's battle is directed solely against those humans whom God judges to be incorrigibly wicked."

  A much softer message for the general public. Annoying.

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  Did you ever do "rooming" work before a convention?

  by crazycate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  truthseeker's topic on the recommended lodging list, and some of the experiences people have had, made me remember the rooming work we did before a convention that was held in our city many years ago.

  we actually went door to door asking people if they had rooms they would be willing to let visiting witnesses stay in.

  i don't remember anyone telling me, "yes," but i know there were people who signed up rooms.

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  Sorry Oompa!

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  Does anyone here fancy me?

  by mtsgrad in

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  In what sense please?

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  let me get this straight...we ARE gonna grow OLD and Die???

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what a total mindfluck!.....this was not supposed to happen.....and i only (completely) woke up two years ago....so accepting my own mortality has not been easy.......i currently make good enough money....but damm....now i have to think about retirement?!?!?

  ?....and ya....just cause i have a touch of asthma ocassionally...i wont be able to get health insurance in a few years cause i am self-employed??

  ?....this just fluckkin sucks.................oompa.

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  A few years ago, a "sister" I knew lost her father. I said to her, out of sympathy, that it must be really hard to lose someone you love when we were were taught that we and ours would probably never die (unless we died early, and this was past the "expiration date"). Anyway, she said, "We were never told that!" I just goggled at her. By the way, this was another chink in my armor of acceptance of what I had always been told.

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