riverofdeceit

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  Truthfully..do you think you are being shunned or.......

  by Snoozy in

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  many on here say they are being shunned by their family members.in some case this is probably true.

  but seriously..could it be that they have a life and they may not have time for you anyway?

  or finds you not too much fun to be around?.

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  This is such an ignorant question. Of course people are being shunned. It is the policy. Sure there are those who do not always shun relatives, but they are breaking one of the JW 10 billion commandments. If you do not shun df'd or da'd people then you yourself may be next on the list.

  My guess would be that if people didn't want to hang out because they "didn't think you were fun" it was going on before you were df'd.

  What was the purpose of this question? Oh yeah, blame the victim. Maybe you deserved it because of how you were dressed, dear rape victim!

  added* Oh yeah, and IT IS THE RELIGION THAT IS THE REASON! not just some stupid excuse. There is really not any debate about it. riverofdeceit of the got reinstated class so I could visit my mother (who didn't shun me) before she died of cancer without freaking out my other relatives (JW aunts uncles cousins) because I was df'd.
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  OMG Man cut in half by train calls for help

  by Lady Lee in

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  just heard it on the news.

  he is now at the hospital and still alive.. they played the audio tape of him calling for help.. unbelievable.

  in not certain if it was in the us or cnada - accents sounded like southern us but it might have been east canada

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  How the hell do you get hit by a train? He didn't hear it? Yeah they are sooooo quiet. He didn't see it? Yeah they are sooooo small.

  I dont think we are talking about a lone rail where a train just passes through. I work in a rail yard and it isn't as unlikely for an accident to take place as it may seem. Railcars are constantly moved, changed, and unloaded and all it takes is for someone to have not raised a flag(which prevents the cars from being moved into a certain area). I myself am ultraparanoid about when I am tagging cars or taking samples from them, but when people get accustomed to working around it they may let their guard down.
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  "Hell-fire/lake of fire" teachers, Is Jehovah going to "burn"unsaved babies

  by booker-t in

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  i was recently discussing this topic with my "pentacostal" fire and brimstone preaching granduncle.

  he said that alot of christians try to be "politically correct" and wiggle out of this question for fear of "turning" people away.

  he said that most born-again christians that believe in hell fire do believe that jehovah is going to torment babies in hell if their parents have not accepted jesus as their lord and savior.

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  If you go by what the bible (old testament) tells of God then, yes. That dude has no problem killing babies. This is based on the presumption that the bible is reality, which it of course is not.
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  The number 40 - Is there a connection? Flood, Sinai, Wilderness, Jesus

  by truthseeker in

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  i was just thinking today, that the number 40 also seems to hold significance in the bible.

  i did some research and found this site.. .

  maybe leolaia, narkissos or others can help here and explain if there was any symbolic value that the number 40 held.

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  Forty!!!
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  When You Think About It----Jehovah's Witneses Are Just Weird!

  by minimus in

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  the more i dwell on it, the more embarassed i am that i was ever a witness.

  jws make big deals about nuthin'.

  you can't say "bless you" if someone sneezes.

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  Weird is an understatement. I'm weird, dem jehovers are freaks. They live in the land of OZ, and worship a group of guys behind a curtain. They are afraid of smurfs, and unicorns. They play an f'd up version of jeopardy: Instead of "here is the answer, give us the question, it goes - Here is the answer, here is the question, give us the answer. I grew up with freaks, and it helped enhance my weirdness.
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  Not swearing is proof of the "truth"

  by pennycandy in

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  this was a said by my jw relative to my never-been-jw husband this weekend, during a conversation about the prevalence of swearing.. "my friend maria's husband [was unbelieving mate, now a witness] always swore like a sailor.

  he said he could see jehovah's witnesses had the truth because they didn't use bad language.".

  for all the reasons for believing jw's have the truth, this was a new one to me..

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  f*ck that
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  I got on a jury!

  by kristyann in

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  yay!

  i got on a jury.

  i know that it seems a lot (most?

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  they have "judicial" committees so they clearly don't push the judge not rule on anyone.
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  I got on a jury!

  by kristyann in

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  yay!

  i got on a jury.

  i know that it seems a lot (most?

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  I'm pretty sure JW's can serve on a jury. I knew an elder's wife who was on one for quite some time. They were decent enough as well(the elder and his wife). I know that in some instances their religious "principles" might rule them out as far as being selected as a juror. Might be one of those conscience things too though I do not see how it could be ruled out biblically.
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  Favorite Rock Band?

  by 5thGeneration in

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  there is a rock in rio thing happening and i thought i would ask what every ones favorite bands are.. mine are:.

  above the crowd: rush (in the rock world they would be the anointed!

  ) lol.

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  nine inch nails, guns n roses, alice in chains
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  The DaVinci Code -- overreaction or a chance to rumble?

  by cruzanheart in

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  here's an excerpt from a bbc.co.uk article i just read:.

  "the holy koran recognises jesus as a prophet.

  what the book says is an insult to both christians and muslims," maulana mansoor ali khan, general secretary of the all-india sunni jamiyat-ul-ulema, told the reuters news agency.

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  overreaction or a chance to rumble?

  both...It seems "some" people look for any reason for acts of violence.