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  Great Trib is Starting!

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  2. friends

  just received a text yesterday...lovebombing to return with so called proof of the gt starting...scaremongering at its peak!.

  "hey.

  missing you at the meetings.

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  Wasanelder Once

  My "inactive" relatives are getting it both barrels. "Putin this" and "Putin that". When one started in on me about Putin and his one world government diatribe, I asked; "You mean Jehovah's witness bullshit?" That ended the conversation that moment. They don't want to lose contact with me by pegging me as an apostate so they plug their ears and go "na na na na" as it were. I drop it too, I could care less.
  
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  How Come we never saw this before????

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  oh my goodness!

  how come we never thought of this before?

  if the israelites had animals to sacrifice to jehovah in the wilderness, then how come their god jehovah had to give them manna so they wouldn't starved to death?.

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  Wasanelder Once

  Maybe the manna was yummy?
  
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  What are your favorite film clips?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. entertainment

  hey, guys - how ya doin?.

  so, what are your favorite movie clips?.

  gimme your best movie clips, please, ladies and gentlemen.. here's one of mine ….

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  Wasanelder Once

  I've always loved this movie. Charlie's dad is a hoot. Kinda sounds like some people I read in forums.

  Dad
  
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  How far is this lunacy going to go?

  by The Fall Guy in

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  2. current

  people in the uk who apply for a blue badge (parking permit for disabled people) on the government web site, are asked to select one of three options regarding their gender:.

  1. male .

  2. female.

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  Wasanelder Once

  I identify as a bank, send money.
  
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  Can we really talk about BEAUTY?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can we really talk about beauty?

  (first, a necessary preamble.

  bear with me, please.

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  Wasanelder Once

  As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said about obscene materials: "I know it when I see it." Its kinda the same with art to me. I don't think its a matter of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" though. Its more that "pretentiousness is in the eye of the beholder". From there its a matter of subtraction.
  
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  Recommended Reading for ExJWs: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  first off, this is a book you want to read.

  avoid the movie franchise at all costs.

  horrible movies.. here's why i recommend this book: its prime focus is using rational reasoning to form your life philosophy - whether that be relationships, career or faith.. it also gives insight into the mind of someone who survived the geopolitical equivalent of the jws - the communist regime of stalin.. the antagonists of the book are referred to as "collectivists".

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  Wasanelder Once

  After listening to an lengthy interview with her:

  Ayan Rand
  

  I found this comical presentation very prescient:

  Last week
  
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  Prog rock

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  going to see this year .

  nick mason's saucerful of secrets.. steve hackett seconds out.

  jethro tull the prog years (last time saw them live broadsword tour ).

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  Wasanelder Once

  Genesis, Moodys, Peter Gabriel & ELO (lol)
  
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  For those of you who've watched the Witnesses documentary, let's suppose for a moment that...

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  for those of you who've watched the witnesses documentary, let's suppose for a moment that the org was forced to make their database of abusers available to the courts.

  if this database is as detailed and meticulous as it is claimed, how in the world could the org (in its present form) survive that?

  assuming they don't go bankrupt after all of the new abuse claims, would they go underground, shut down the kingdom halls, stop the preaching?

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  Wasanelder Once

  It's interesting that records of judicial actions in the congregation are to be destroyed after 5 years. (I destroyed my own envelope when I became an elder). It was a pleasure to do so. I thought it was a sick practice. Many envelopes had the reason for expulsion written on the outside of the envelope, what the hell?!!!

  Why wouldn't they do the same with the P database? Seems they would since they evidently don't do anything with the information.
  
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  If you're "anointed" don't seek out other "anointed" so says the Watchtower January 2020

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was affiliated with the witnesses, there were barely 6,000 who profess to be of the anointed remnant.

  i recently read somewhere that today there are over 20,000 who profess to be anointed.

  that figure may be more when you consider those who meet and partake privately for fear of the stigma of claiming to be anointed.

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  Wasanelder Once

  I'm sure I've mentioned it before; there was a group in the SF Bay Area of "anointed" who were meeting for study in the 1980-90's. They would meet and discuss a subject. Then take time to pray and study it. If they began rocking in their chair it was a sign from Jehoobedo that their interpretation was correct. Heaven, or (Brooklyn), forbid, they were spreading these teachings among the halls they were associated with. The WT clamped down HARD on these heaven bound types. There were mass DF'ings. I knew one of these "Rockers". She said she Heard a voice calling her to the heavenly hope. What a loon.
  
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  How Many Here Remember Hearing Details from the Platform on Why a Person was Reproved or DF'd ???

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just had this flashback when commenting on another thread about how they used to announce reproof or dfing from the platform.

  at least in our congregation, it was a dramatic event (this is what i can remember from back in the mid-late 60's or early 70's when i was a kid).. at the end of the service meeting, just before singing the final song, the brother would announce, "we have a letter that must be read.

  the "congregation servant" (my grandfather or later my father) would then slowly walk from the back of the kh to the platform.

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  Wasanelder Once

  As a lad in the 1960's I remember the reading of the sin as a grievous event making me fear any contact with the censured one. How could they do that to Jehovah? I never took it as a warning, it seemed to me to be a death sentence. No one would dare speak the person's name for fear of reprisals by the Stalinist rank and file. It impressed me as a boy just how powerful the congregation was, it must come from God to destroy a sinners life. Bastards. Intimidation at its best.