JWdaughter

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  Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?

  by cappytan in

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  a year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.

  world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.

  so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?

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  JWdaughter

  Syrians and Lebanese people are basically the same people. The culture is very similar. Most are pretty secular and the religious are mostly not radicals. Qatar, Saudi and other countries are NOT "just the same" as Syria. They don't speak the same dialect and have an entirely different culture. Most in Syria OR Lebanon would be more comfortable in Europe than Arabia. Most would not really want to go further into the areas that are besieged by ISIS. I wouldn't! We keep hearing about them making insurgencies to Egypt, Arabia etc. Little tiny Bahrain and Qatar are NOT equipped for that kind of influx infrastructurally. The climate rather precludes just sticking them all in tent cities in the desert. They aren't Bedu, and the desert is not mildly desert-like. It is serious. Qatar has the money, but struggles to provide, even with all the money, water and sewage services to the current population.They are growing and trying to make more infrastructure, but they are likely overcome by the immigrant workers already there right now building the new infrastructure.

  I wouldn't stop in Lebanon, I'd keep heading west. Not because I am greedy or a bad guy. Because ISIS has already rooted them from hearth and home. They want to feel safe again. They want their children to get an education. Look what happened to Palestinians. They want away from all the crazy political crap and I don't blame them.
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  Yearbook - will they drop figures that show a decline?

  by freddo in

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  do you think the yearbooks will stop showing negative information as the numbers stagnate or even drop?

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  I think judiciously rearranging branches and territories has masked some of their churn and where the biggest decreases are.
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  Did Ray Franz manage to live out a comfortable retirement from the proceeds of his books.

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm just curious if anybody knows.

  firstly i don't take issue with the man making money from his books and if he was able to live comfortably from it then i say power to him.

  but what i'm wanting to know was just how successful was it and did it allow him to live out the remainder of his years in comfort e.g buy a house, eat good food etc.

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  I don't see any way that he could have made much, if anything.

  They were always hard to come by, reasonably priced and huge. It was a pricy book to print and ship because of size/ weight.

  Not a big market and not interesting to those without a dog in the fight.
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  Thinking about converting to Judaism after I leave the JW cult. Any Jews here?

  by tragical in

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  2. experiences

  just a question, any savvy jewish lawyer shark types here who would like to go after the throat of this jw cult and send them to hell?

  maybe take them to court over any number of topics and expose them for the evil cult they are?

  pick your choice of child abuse, personal slander, mental cruelty and torture, and thousand of other topics.

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  Judaism and religion in general can be fascinating. I suggest that you take a more anthropological look at religion n general and since you are currently interested in Judaism, study it more intensely. It will give you a different perspective. I am still a believer in God, but specific, detailed ritual is not the way I approach the creator.
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  Talking with a young elder

  by biblexaminer in

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  i had a discussion with an elder recently.

  it was interesting in a macabre sense.

  we were outside the kingdom hall on a nice sunny day recently.

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  I remember when I first starting learning about the bible in context. Very different document than I read as a JW. Even the latitudes had been reduced to a "proof text". It's disrespectful to treat anyone's holy book with so much disdain for its message. Even on an academic level they miss it. I'm not a Christian and I see that.
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  How bad do the JWs need to be doing financially

  by cognac in

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  before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?

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  You can only sell off assets to cover operational costs so long before there is not anything left to operate.
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  How bad do the JWs need to be doing financially

  by cognac in

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  before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?

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  Non profits usually close rather than file bankruptcy. The ones that do usually fulfill a vital role in the community. The WT does not run schools, shelters, medical facilities or orphanages. It would likely close. This would be when their assets were depleted to the point that incoming contributions could no longer maintain the remaining work and workers. After it gets down to some pathetic point where the lack of contributions and involvement could no longer be disguised.

  At this point the severe cutbacks could be a ploy or they could be desperately scrambling for reasons which will later be exposed. Let's wait and see.
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  Scale of 1 to 10. How did/do you rate the meetings!

  by Truthexplorer in

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  1. boring as s***e 2. extremely boring 3. boring as hell 4. boring.

  5. slightly boring 6. not bad.

  7. fair.

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  4. I read the bible a lot during TMS. Unless one of the train wrecks were speaking. I wrote poems during a lot of Sunday talks. Couldn't get away with that during WT. Mom elbowing me all the time to answer. I kind of liked the service meeting where any news, scandals etc were revealed. Problem with that is I missed happy days when we stayed for second half.
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  Where has all the money gone?

  by gingerbread in

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  a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.

  during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.

  being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!

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  They don't even allow child abusers to be reported as it would make them look bad. They are never going to expose fraudsters or embeqzzled publicly if it exposes their poor management or gullibility.
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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  JWdaughter

  The fact is that in an earlier time, those bombs would all have been used already. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tragic indeed, but it stopped. All this technology given to a less advanced society would have been the end for real. Iran having atomic weapons doesn't scare me, but ISIS getting control in Israel, Pakistan, former ussr countries, that terrifies me. As does that N. Korean guy. He's just a whack job.