WasOnceBlind

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  Thinking about taking my fiance to a meeting.. going as a "worldly person"

  by OneStepOut93 in

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  2. experiences

  i may take my fiance to a meeting.

  give them fake names and just see how my fiance reacts.

  he's been curious about seeing what i hated so much about the whole thing (not that he'll really understand everything, i mean of course he never will to my extent but)... i'd like to see what an outsiders view on the whole thing would be as well.

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  WasOnceBlind

  OverlappingGeneralizations

  2 hours ago

  On a side note, there was one "brother" who showed up out of nowhere. He said he moved up from the south somewhere. He wanted to go out in service, was commenting like a fiend, the whole works. Very charismatic, and a big hit with everybody. He made it about two weeks and disappeared. I ran the literature counter back in those days, and an elder was standing there, and I asked him "hey, brother Charismatic hasn't picked up his magazines. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in a while". The elder responded with a furrowed brow "That guy was disfellowshipped! Can you believe he came in here and did what he did? Commenting! I even took him in my service group!". So it happens, lol.

  Ha, this happened in my congregation too. It was a "brother" who arrived from I think Mexico, it was a while before it was found out he had been DF'ed in Mexico.
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  Huntington Park Calif. council appoints 2 undocumented immigrants as commissioner.

  by James Mixon in

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  hp became the first city in calif. to appoint two undocumented immigrants.

  as commissioners on city advisory.

  city picked two immigrants to join the.

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  WasOnceBlind

  Agreed. I have a few more issues, too:
  How well do they know Cali State law?
  How good is their English?
  Will they be culturally sensitive to minorities (including gay people)?
  Are they willing to integrate into American society?
  Which country did they come from? Is it a country hostile to the US?
  Where are their documentation papers?

  You questions, although valid, speak to the common misconception that all undocumented immigrants are poor cherry picking, non english speaking ignorant people. The truth is that you would be surprised by the number of college educated undocumented immigrants that there are. A lot of them are more American then people who were lucky enough to have been born here and know and care more about America then a lot of their citizens. In fact, many would welcome the chance to be able to fight for America and join the armed forces.
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  World court of human rights

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  while australia is dealing with this pedaphile protection policy that the wt seems to have, how awesome would it be if the world court of human rights was to look into it as well, seeing how the wt is a global organization.

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  WasOnceBlind

  I live in the US, and I'm sure that if we started writing letters to congress to have a hearing on this maybe eventually it would happen......one can only dream!
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  World court of human rights

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  while australia is dealing with this pedaphile protection policy that the wt seems to have, how awesome would it be if the world court of human rights was to look into it as well, seeing how the wt is a global organization.

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  WasOnceBlind

  While Australia is dealing with this pedaphile protection policy that the WT seems to have, how awesome would it be if the world court of human rights was to look into it as well, seeing how the WT is a global organization.
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  Dino Ali Taking the Stand NOW

  by AudeSapere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dino ali, elder, taking the stand now in the australian hearings.. he's talking about interaction with disfellowshipped persons.. watch it live: .

  http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

  -aude..

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  WasOnceBlind

  What they actually have are convenient memories. One thing they never forget is to use the Theocratic War Strategy, which is Watchtower's teaching that says they can lie to anybody who is not entitled to know the truth in their judgement. All is fair in Theocratic Warfare, including lying to investigators, judges, and other officials.

  Is this found anywhere in print? If I could find this printed in a WT or book? If it is, it might just be the thing to crack the door of doubt on a parent.
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  27 Famous Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a list of 27 famous jw's from the ranker site.. http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-jehovahs-witnesses/celebrity-lists?page=1.

  bangalore.

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  WasOnceBlind

  A lot of those say that they are still practicing, I wonder what they mean by that? Are these people baptized? I seriously doubt it.
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  Witness phone auto message

  by FayeDunaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a friend just texted that she just now received a generic phone message from the witnesses to check out the 'best christian resource online at jw.(b)org!'.

  so this is what they're doing now?

  spam voicemail is going to make people like them better??

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  WasOnceBlind

  Any chance you are subscribed to the Do Not Call list? If you are, maybe you can sue!
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  JW's and Violence

  by TD in

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  my wife and i have recently gotten hooked on the history channel's series, vikings.

  (my wife is full blooded norwegian....).

  to be honest, the show is quite graphic in spots, but certainly no more so than a history book i own of the same time period.. anyhow, we made the mistake of mentioning the show if front of jw's last night and they were all thoroughly shocked that we watch it.. i tried pointing out that big chunks of the ot are not materially different and that even the confrontation between david and goliath would get an 'r' rating if it were visually portrayed in any detail at all.

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  WasOnceBlind

  If they were to make a movie about the OT it would most like be Adult Only! Incest, rape, genocide, etc.
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  Headed to the RC

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  2. experiences

  jw mode - on.

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  WasOnceBlind

  Maybe they are upgrading to IMAX! lol
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  How do you manage to keep JW friendships after you left the organization?

  by Bonsai in

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  2. friends

  it seems incredibly difficult.

  those who leave the org.

  (or fade) no longer have anything in common with jehovah's witnesses, nor do they want to stick around to get radiated by the fear and guilt that saturates every aspect of a witnesses' life.. i've lost all but one of my jw friends quite simply because i can no longer condone the evil things that they condone.

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  WasOnceBlind

  oe134cd38 minutes agoI had an interesting one the other day, with a FBook jw friend. Although I mentioned to him that I wasn't going to meetings, I sincerely wanted to know about the flags been flown out side the KH in Chile (he lives there). I then showed him the letter from the chilean branch. 24 hour later I was blocked. Although telling of jw friendship I can't say it's surprising.

  
  

  Funny that you mention something like that. I had this JW "friend" (actually wanted to date me back in the days) that I hadn't spoken to in years, she found me on Facebook and requested me as a friend. Before accepting I asked her if she was sure she wanted to be my "friend" since I was inactive and not seen as good association. She said yea, gave me all this crap about how she knew I was a good person and that she didn't judge people. So last Friday she sends me an invite for me to go with her to the 3 day convention she is having mid July. I replied telling her I would be passing on the invitation because I had just finished reading "Crisis of conscience" and had some thinking to do, I also thanked her for keeping me in mind. Well I swear it almost seemed that she hit that "unfriend" button before I even hit send. I say good riddance!