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  NBA Player Retires to Serve as Jehovah's Witness

  by 720Reddog in

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  https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27078092/collison-retires-nba-31-focus-faith .

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  Dave Meyers died in 2015. He never got to see the Great Tribulation, Armageddon, or the New System of things. But he is of the 'Overlapping Basketball Players Generation' with Darren Collison...so maybe Darren will see these things in his lifetime. As an interesting side note, I was regifted a gold watch from a friend of mine that received it from Dave. It was stolen from me in 1977.
  
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  J.W.'s - Your "faithful" slave reveals it is an EVIL & HYPOCRITICAL "slave!"

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  study watchtower october 2019, page 12, par.

  17 - "a true christian must make sure that his secular employment has nothing to do with babylon the great.

  for example, he would not be an employee of a church.

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  I know of an Elder that just recently passed away and left six figures ($250,000.00) to the organization. Part of his fortune was made from selling land to a ...CHURCH.
  
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  Many ex Jw`s have suggested they were ostracised for having full time Jobs ,that`s not my experience .

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i converted in 1961 ,the po and his assistant who by the way was his fleshly brother were both life insurance salesmen , { i know ,why didn`t red flags show up then }.

  and the 4 different congregations we attended over the next 10 years in vic,aust,the majority of the brothers had jobs to go to.. we then went to s.e.

  qld,for the next 37 years and the majority of the brothers their were self employed one way or another in the building game ,either as plasterers ,actual builders ,tilers , and painters ,electricians , as well as everyday jobs.. my son worked for an elder who owned his own cabinet making business.

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  I know OF an Elder that just passed away within the last year or so. He held one full time and one part time job up until retirement. He never, ever believed in the 1975 doctrine and lived his life mostly the way he wanted to. He left six figures ($250,000.00) to the religion and his wife is financially set for the rest of her life. Some of his fortune was made by selling some property to a...CHURCH.
  
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  Asking For A Favor Please

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for any of you here that have read my book new boy, i would be very grateful if you could post a review at amazon books.

  it's simple just go to amazon books and type in the words jehovah witness.

  the book will be the first book that pops up.

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  You have 16 reviews so far!
  
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  Famous Movie Quotes You Like

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the last lines from the movie platoon.

  "i think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us.

  the war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.

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  "Blessed me? God's been a real sport to me!" - Johnny Smith quoted from The Dead Zone
  
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  Boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates

  by pale.emperor in

  1. social
  2. current

  now i think i may have seen everything.. "boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates".

  i'm all for people being entitled to wear what they want and live as they please as long as they're not harming anyone but - a male prom queen?

  maybe there wasn't much competition in his school?.

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  At 64 years old, I get a new surprise every day. Apparently, there is such a 'thing' as people believing that they are elves and fairies and have plastic surgery in order to become who they really were supposed to be at birth. I am waiting for the next wave of human insanity. Could bisexual, transgendered, gender fluid, asexual elves and fairies be the next new thing?
  
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  Who Wore it Better?

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  in a bizarre world where spaghetti straps are a machination of the devil and a clean browsing history can bestow powers to resurrect your dead child, examining religious claims brings to you a side-by-side cringe fest of watchtower propaganda and latter day saints "education".. this video is part of a series revealing the "one size fits all" nature of high-control organizations.

  warning: be prepared to get hot under the collar and squeamish in your tight pants.. https://youtu.be/hio0e2ioz-8.

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  "in my avatar I am wearing spaghetti straps."

  And I might add that no one can carry off a spaghetti strap better than you!
  
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  JW Mother Dying.... Not a Big Deal.... But it Should Be

  by Zoos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i’ve been shunned for many years so her passing doesn’t really constitute a loss for me.

  her and her husband made it clear many years ago they didn’t want a homo in their family.

  request granted.

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  My mother died over 19 years ago. She was a very, very difficult person and never once in my life did she say to me: "I love you." She never expressed this to any of my sisters or brother either. On her deathbed, I lay across her body crying and sobbing for what seemed like an eternity. I cried not for her death but for the lost family life and all the opportunities for love, affection and family unity that she threw away. I cried for all the pain she caused us. I cried not for my mother but because my siblings and I really never had a 'mother'. Go ahead and cry Zoos. Cry not for the mother that you did have but for the mother you should have had.
  

  Sorry for your loss.
  
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  "Keith It is with Great Sadness that I write this Note!"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i grew up with steve pare who is now an elder in southern california.

  he sent me this note after i talked to him on the phone and sent him my book.. "the super-abundant blessings i have received in the advancing the earthly organization of jehovah have been fantastic !!!".

  "jehovah is not behind in creating the paradise & his mighty of 9,000,000 will work with 20-50 billion to be resurrected & in 1,000 years the paradise will be done on time!!

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  This is probably the letter you should have gotten:

  Dear Keith,

  Thank you for thinking of me and sending me your book. Although I don't necessarily agree with what you have written, I respect your position and your right to hold your own views. As old friends I think that our policy with each other is that we 'can agree to disagree.' I treasure our friendship highly and will not let a disagreement in ideologies come between us or negate our long standing friendship. If it is alright with you, I would appreciate that moving forward you not bring up these issues any more in our conversations and I will try not to 'reconvert' you to the Jehovah's Witness way of life. So please call me on the phone, my friend and we can make arrangements to get together and 'rehash' the old days. I would love to see you and catch up on your life!

  Your friend,

  Steve

  Essentially,this is the letter you got:

  Dear Keith,

  FU@K YOU! Don't contact me ever again!

  Steve
  
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  Post Pictures of Beautiful Things

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  i'll start it off:.

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