Topics Started by Fleshybirdfodder

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Iran eyes badges for Jews - Law would require non-Muslim insignia
by Elsewhere in
1. jw
2. friends
here we go again... another hitler on the rise.

http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f&k=32073.

iran eyes badges for jews.
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What did your worldly friends think?
by Fleshybirdfodder in
1. jw
2. friends
at around 19 years of age i started dating a "worlding" girl and brought her to meetings to get the elders off my back (to no avail of course... i was "marked").

needless to say word got out and some of my other friends decided to check out some of the meetings.

one of my closest friends who had been to many church services (he is a gifted musician and played organ at his church and several others) came to a theocratic ministry school/service meeting.
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Reading WT & Awake for X years = College Education
by under_believer in
1. jw
2. friends
has anybody ever heard any witnesses utter that old saying "reading the magazines for 10 years [or whatever] is equivalent to getting a college education?

" a couple of things are amusing about this.

one is its utter and complete falsehood--what a crock!
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Did you ever write an excuse on the back of your service report?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
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when i joined the jw's, i remember an elder stating that when you do less than the average number of hours in your month, mark the reason why in the back of the service report sheet that you give at the end of each month.. did anybody else receive these instructions way back in the late 80's?
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Double Standards with Liberal Witness Friends
by Fleshybirdfodder in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm sure this may have been covered, but many ex witnesses i know that have not been formally df'd or dissasociated thenselves still retain some friends among witnesses.

any friends i have for the most part that are still in the org are really congenial people, until it comes down to any discussion that might teeter on the edge of being remotely deep.

i've had one friend i hadn't seen in a while who came to visit me tell me right off the bat that we were not to "discuss religion", because i'm "too smart" and he "he won't be able to argue" with me.
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607, 70 years, 1914
by crazies in
1. watchtower
2. bible
sorry for the long post!.

what the watchtower society says:.

24 the book of truthful historical dates ***.
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What do you think the Watchtower is most afraid of?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
lawsuits?

internet?

higher education?.
129
What are your most hated JW words and phrases?
by Low-Key Lysmith in
1. jw
2. friends
mine are, in no particular order:.

"the friends".

"glean".
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Growing Old and Dying on the Paradise Earth
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the standard watchtower teaching about the coming "paradise earth" has, as its most prominent feature, the promise of everlasting life and eternal youth.

this expectation is especially based on such texts as revelation 21:1-4 which declares: "i saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea.

i saw the holy city, and the new jerusalem, coming down from god out of heaven.... here god lives among men.
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Going out with a bang
by LittleToe in
1. jw
2. friends
after much deliberation, i decided to go "out" at the end of a public talk.

it didn't go down too well, but at least i was able to give some of my reasons for leaving.. i've put some of the details on my homepage.

i'll update it more when i get the time and the strength.