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  A Beautiful Day in The neighbourhood ,Mr Rogers.

  by smiddy3 in

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  i saw this movie today and i am amazed that their were 31?

  seasons of it ?

  that it enthralled children and adults ?.

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  Anyone know if it's playing on Netflix, etc?

  The trailer on Youtube says February 3, 2020.
  
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  The JW media Mecca

  by lastmanstanding in

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  2. current

  i was thinking about how the org is dying, and how the guboobs are trying to give it cpr by transitioning to tvpreach.

  now they will construct a media mecca and it looks like they will go full on e digital.

  so, i was trying to come up with a name for their new hollywood that would stick.

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  HORRORWOOD.

  Because the entire religion is a horror show culminating in Armageddon.
  

  https://www.thewordfinder.com/hollywood-sign-generator/preview.php?i=4&t=horrorWOOD

  And "Pedowood" is already taken.
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  Ever notice a lot of JWs don't have pets?

  by JimmyYoung in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was told by several elders to not get a dog when i was looking for one in the 80s.

  the end was close and we needed to focus on the preaching work.

  i know some have pets but a lot don't.

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  betterdaze

  When the Warwick fortress was first inhabited, one of the whiney-winey Brooklyn migrants leaked that a dog was kept on site.

  Named Sterling, after the lake.
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  Another High School Shooting ... Pleasantville, New Jersey

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last evening (15 nov 2019) at a high school football game in new jersey, another shooting.

  "fortunately," the injuries are apparently not life threatening.. that's at least the second shooting this week.

  if all the students were armed, they could have just shot the guy.. we need more guns, not less.

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  betterdaze

  It always helps to provide an actual link to the perpetrators.

  In this particular case, ADULT black male gang-bangers from that waterfront, crime-infested shithole, Atlantic City.
  

  Wyatt [27] is charged with three counts of attempted murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

  Michael Mack, 27; Tyrell Dorn, 28, and Shahid Dixon, all of Atlantic City, along with Vance Golden, 26, of Pleasantville, are charged with weapons offenses, including possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

  Dixon is also charged with eluding.

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  “Unlike some of the shootings that have occurred on school premises throughout the country, this incident had nothing to do with the students of Pleasantville High School or Camden High School. The venue simply presented an opportunity for criminals to pursue their own form of petty vengeance against one another. As a result, an innocent child was caught and injured in their crossfire. Our community will not be held hostage by a few idiots intent on jeopardizing our safety and the safety of our children.”

  When GROWN-ASS ADULTS destroy everything good and wholesome about innocent children's sporting events, can we really characterize it as another "school shooting"?
  

  It's true-blue Democrat NJ's catch-and-release approach to repeat offenders who CHOOSE VIOLENCE by default.
  
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  Do the Witnesses still allow women to preach in men's prisons?

  by JimmyYoung in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i knew of several women who would preach at the local correctional facility.

  some would do the fall in love and get married to a new convert who had a long prison sentence.

  if the witnesses had half a brain they would stop this before it ever got started.

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  Anyone remember the harrowing Jaycee Lee Dugard case?

  Sex offender Garrido used Jehovah’s Witness to get early parole

  (Story from San Francisco Chronicle, updated with James A. Beckford reference.)

  There was another one, also in California, were a convicted pedophile was released from prison after studying with Witnesses, and got baptized.
  

  He violated parole conditions by going door-to-door in car groups including children, and who knows how many doors he knocked on with children present.

  The "brothers" were fine with this "arrangement" because he served his time and got dunked. No concern whatsoever for potential, future victims either inside or outside the Kingdom Hall.

  So, does it even matter if women can still preach in prisons?

  NO.

  The "brothers" shelter known criminals all the time.
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  Creepy display

  by neat blue dog in

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  i dunno about you, but if i walked up to this display at an expo i'd be a little creeped out..

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  On the WT website:

  JW.ORG Exhibit at the Rio Book Biennial Features Material for Brazil’s Deaf and Blind Communities
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  elders wont pray for someone?

  by AuntBee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a former member said that elders told a relative of his after she was dfed that they would not be praying for her.

  is that some kind of policy, or were they just doing their own thing in that instance?

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  What about "studies" who never progressed to baptism?

  Shouldn't they be prayed for too?

  Lurking el-duhs, when will you pray for these lost directly from the platform?
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  #Persecution selfies: what do you think?

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so apparently the new watchtower russia exhibition features a pretend cell for jws to take pretend "persecution selfies' and wallow in the glorious suffering that is essential for watchtower theology to work - yet is strikingly missing from the lives of 99% of witnesses.. in fact most governments go to great lengths to protect the rights of witnesses, spending millions in public funds either directly to watchtower - in the form of grants ( norway, germany etc) - in various types of tax relief, or in the money spent in court cases establishing watchtowers rights and freedoms (& protecting their kids, whether they know it or not).. i'm interested to know how everyone feels about this...particularly terry walstrom and other guys who have spent time in jail in the name of watchtower's freedom of conscience.

  personally i think it reeks of desperation by watchtower and is another example of the type of fantasizing that witnesses regularly indulge in.. also....funny how the end is soooo close that they've had time to build a museum of watchtower history!!

  anyone else see the irony in that?!

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  Where are these selfies?

  Good question.

  Can someone please post a link?
  
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  1975 and 1981?

  by Steel in

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  is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?

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  The OP later asks,

  "I don’t doubt 1975. I am more interested in how they closed the door to people trying to escape. Was there actually a policy change in 1981?"

  This is an important question. Especially for those currently studying, or non-JW family members who don't understand why former JWs are horrifically shunned.
  

  I'm also interested in marking. What year did they add "marking", which goes right along with DA and DF status, and do they still practice it today?
  

  Is/was marking for behaviors that threatened the spiritual cleanliness of the congregation, or rather a way to weed-out those who studied their bibles too closely and developed valid doctrinal questions like those Randy Watters reported from the '80s Bethel purge?

  Both? When?
  
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  1975 and 1981?

  by Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?

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  betterdaze

  The Watchtower does not believe in "the end of the world."

  Only they do. This is what they were teaching in the lead-up to 1975 and continue to teach today:

  End of the World

  “The world is passing away and so is its desire,” says 1 John 2:17. What is that “world”? How and when will it pass away?
  

  What is the “world” that will end?
  

  WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
  

  Because the world in question has ‘desires’ that merit God’s disapproval, it is obviously not the literal earth. Rather, it is the world of mankind who disregard God, making themselves his enemy. (James 4:4) The people who make up that world “will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction.” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9) On the other hand, people who remain “no part of the world,” in obedience to Jesus Christ, have the prospect of everlasting life.​—John 15:19.
  

  Indeed, 1 John 2:17 concludes: “The one who does the will of God remains forever.” Yes, that one has the prospect of everlasting life right here on earth, as stated at Psalm 37:29: “The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it.”
  

  Search also, site:jw.org world ends