I would be okay if he stole the spotlight from Prince, like he did Taylor Swift. Let them switch places!
Wild_Thing
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More sad news for Music - first Prince, now Kayne West
by Simon in.
http://imgur.com/gallery/wos91xl.
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Prince will Be Resurrected
by Wild_Thing ini'm sure prince has already been talked about to death on this site, but a jw family member just liked a video posted by a jw group on facebook that is an interview of prince about his conversion to jw.
it's the comments made by jws that this post is about.. prince was a great artist!
and the world has lost a musical genius in my opinion, but he lost me after he converted.
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Wild_Thing
I'm sure Prince has already been talked about to death on this site, but a JW family member just liked a video posted by a JW group on Facebook that is an interview of Prince about his conversion to JW. I'm sure everyone has seen it. It's the comments made by JWs that this post is about.
Prince was a great artist! And the world has lost a musical genius in my opinion, but he lost me after he converted. He has always been weird, but after converting, he just became a different shade of weird and I didn't like his new music ... post JW. I still have his old albums on my iPod though and love them! This is not anything against him as a musician.
But reading the JW comments are making me feel a little nauseated. They are talking about how they can't wait for him to be resurrected and how they will see him in "just a little while" in paradise. And they are all so excited to finally meet him when he is resurrected! I am pretty sure they are hoping for a post paradise concert or something.
And then there's this gem:
Food for thought my spiritual family. We have to be careful with what words we use when someone dies. Unbelievers get confused when the word passed away is used thinking we believe in after life.
Yes, yes ... that has always confused me, the whole "passed away" phrase ... not! I couldn't read anymore. If you need a good purging of your dinner: https://www.facebook.com/Jehovahs-Witnesses-Examiner-241479099370852/?fref=nf
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Review of Dr. Chryssides' new book on Jehovah's Witnesses
by Old Goat inhttp://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-review.html.
the book costs 140.00, but i bought it.
i agree with dr. de vienne's review.
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Thanks, Old Goat! Wow! I never knew the Watchtower claimed he was born before the time keeping of A.D. began.
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Review of Dr. Chryssides' new book on Jehovah's Witnesses
by Old Goat inhttp://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-review.html.
the book costs 140.00, but i bought it.
i agree with dr. de vienne's review.
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Wild_Thing
So I was looking on what is available on Google docs and in her list of dates, she claims that JWs date Jesus's birth at 2 B.C.E.
How is that? I was always taught his birth marked the beginning of the Common Era and that he was 33 when he died. By her calculations, he would have been 35.
Anybody know of any Watchtower publications to back up this claim? I am going strictly off of memory regarding what I was taught.
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Question About the New Headquarters at Warwick
by Wild_Thing inthe jws are known for building kingdom halls and assembly halls with slave ...er i mean ... volunteer labor, but this new self sufficient headquarters seems a bit more complex.. so who's building it?
did they hire a firm with educated engineers and architects who know what they are doing?
or are they still using billy*, who learned how to lay tile from his uncle bob*?.
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Wild_Thing
Sometimes inspections mean very little. There is a Kingdom Hall in my area that was deemed unsafe 10 years after it was built. The roof was starting to collapse. Come to find out ... they used the wrong tresses. It seems like having a trained structural engineer involved in the whole process would have prevented that. -
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Under WT rules, can JW women file for a divorce? Or can only men file?
by JimmyPage inthe reason i ask is because while watching the "dateline" episode about ralph candelario, the claim was made that only jw men could file for divorce, not women.
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i had never thought about this before.. also, how does this apply in cases where a husband is "apostate" while the wife is faithful to wt?
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Today the two elders did not appear to declare at prosecutor's citation
by opusdei1972 intoday the two elders who stalked my sister were absent at the prosecutor's citation.
they were waited for 1 hour, but they did not come.
this attitude favors their culpability.
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Wild_Thing
Persons who make themselves "not of our sort" by deliberately rejecting the faith and beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses should appropriately be viewed and treated as are those who have been disfellowshiped for wrongdoing.
I was wondering about this statement. Is this statement in the latest elder's book?
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Today the two elders did not appear to declare at prosecutor's citation
by opusdei1972 intoday the two elders who stalked my sister were absent at the prosecutor's citation.
they were waited for 1 hour, but they did not come.
this attitude favors their culpability.
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Wild_Thing
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Under WT rules, can JW women file for a divorce? Or can only men file?
by JimmyPage inthe reason i ask is because while watching the "dateline" episode about ralph candelario, the claim was made that only jw men could file for divorce, not women.
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i had never thought about this before.. also, how does this apply in cases where a husband is "apostate" while the wife is faithful to wt?
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Wild_Thing
My mother had to meet with the elders when she decided to divorce her second JW husband about 5 years ago. She gave grounds of physical, mental, and spiritual abuse and she *says* that they gave her the okay to file. But she is a woman and a nobody, like all females in the org, and it's not like they could threaten her with losing a position of importance, and I don't think she would have let them pressure her to stay like they did in her first marriage.
I was already long gone from the JW club when this happened with the second hubs, so I just have to take her word on how "reasonable" she claims they were. Often times she stretches the truth (haha ...truth) to try to convince me how much the JWs have come around on issues and "changed".
With her first husband (my father and an elder), it was a different story. She had to wait 30 years until all her kids and herself were completely traumatized and screwed up before she was forced to finally escape his abuse by terrible circumstances and things getting so horrible, we couldn't hide it anymore from the congregation ... or even the evening news. The elders knew about *some* of what he was doing to us for years ... they just kept commending my mom for being such a good spiritual example and not bringing reproach on Jehovah's name by outing him.
The whole goddamn story is a Lifetime mini-series if you want to know the truth. I still get upset when I attempt to talk about it.
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Question About the New Headquarters at Warwick
by Wild_Thing inthe jws are known for building kingdom halls and assembly halls with slave ...er i mean ... volunteer labor, but this new self sufficient headquarters seems a bit more complex.. so who's building it?
did they hire a firm with educated engineers and architects who know what they are doing?
or are they still using billy*, who learned how to lay tile from his uncle bob*?.
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Wild_Thing
The JWs are known for building Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls with slave ...er I mean ... volunteer labor, but this new self sufficient headquarters seems a bit more complex.
So who's building it? Did they hire a firm with EDUCATED engineers and architects who know what they are doing? Or are they still using Billy*, who learned how to lay tile from his Uncle Bob*?
*Names have been changed to protect the guilty.