ShirleyW

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  The Hypocrisy Of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by minimus in

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  celebrating holidays is wrong if you are a witness.

  but almost every jw that i know of has turkey on thanksgiving day.

  they say , every day is a day of thanksgiving.

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  I'm just glad my dad at the time I was growing up was an UBM, so I grew up with the memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas with family and close friends of my parents and receiving presents. Remember the Borg told the wives if their husband was not a believer to still prepare the holiday meal for him, so most of the time we went to close friends or relatives and sometimes my Uber Dub mom even prepared the holiday meal
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  What are your favorite musical scores in film?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  hi guys!.

  this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.

  here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .

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  West Side Story

  and Lady Sings the Blues, which isn't original music, Diana Ross put her own spin on a few of the songs of Billie Holliday

  and Funny Girl
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  Reminder:Leah Remini Expose on J.W.'s airs Tuesday Nov.13 on A&E channel.

  by StoneWall in

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  thought i'd post this since the date is almost upon us for those who want to see it as it premieres.hope it turns out really good and that she can help many to see the watchtower for what it really is like she did about the scientologists.here's a link to a small preview of it:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/leah-remini-scientology-aftermath-jehovah-s-witnesses-special-event-trailer-1153594

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  As i opened this site about a minute ago I remembered that tonight is the night! Set my cable box to switch over at 9pm.
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  Why can JW's attend funerals or weddings in a church?

  by QuestioningEverything in

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  what is the reasoning/policy behind the practice that a jw can't attend an event such as funeral or wedding in another church?

  i know of someone that didn't attend her older sisters funeral because it was held in a baptist church.

  she waited outside until the service was over and then went to the family dinner afterwards.

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  Even my uber dub mom had to laugh at this but, when my aunt went to a wake in a church, a women she knew who was a JW walked up, looked at the body, then ran out the church, like she didn't want Jehovah to catch her paying respects to a colleague of hers, just amazing, how so many people buy in to their made up rules. I don't really remember that being a strict rule anyway until the late 60's, another flip-flop of theirs.
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  Did you enjoy your visit to Bethel?

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently had to take a trip with my family to bethel.

  it was a bit torturous for a secret apostate as you can imagine.

  but mostly just so boring.

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  I have to include my visit to Bethel when I was a kid back in the mid 60's, to show you how things have changed.

  After the tour and lunch we went back to this brothers room for a while, when it was time to leave, my father, who was an unbelieving mate back then was the last to walk out, so he asked before he shut the door, do you want to lock it, or use your key, whatever he said, but the brother said "we don't have to lock our doors around here"! My mother could hardly wait to get back to the KH and tell that story to everyone, like it was a good witness for my father to finally come into da troof. - smh, makes me sick just thinking about it.

  Btw, this visit was in either 1967 or 1968 and my father didn't get baptized until 1977, so I don't think that one little experience had anything to do with it. And as you know, now I"m sure Bethelites lock their doors now!!
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  Getting Remarried after a spouses death & then they are resurrected after Armageddon ?

  by LOLS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys .

  i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?

  and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.

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  I don't know which flip flop rule they have now about dead spouses still being married, but a friend of my mom's lost her husband ten or more years before my dad died. I thought I remember them saying that if your spouse is resurrected they will no longer be married. So my mom and this sister were talking about this and this sister said, "but a brother in our KH said that now they will still be married", So I guess all the wives that miss their husbands find comfort in the one brother in Philadelphia, who says the resurrected will still be married.
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  Bohemian Rhapsody

  by cofty in

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  been to see the new film (movie) tonight.

  outstanding!

  brought back lots of memories.

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  then there was this Watchtower stating that "Another One Bites the Dust" is backwards "It is fun to smoke marijuana"

  Seriously? Glad I was already out by then, how they come up with such nonsense and their followers blindly follow I"ll never understand.
  
  
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  Why Do People Hate Jews???

  by minimus in

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  i have never understood anti-semitism .why sooo much hatred?.

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  Minimus = Plus I believe people who are not all that intelligent have a mindset that makes them ignorant

  Good Point Min ! Just like the uneducated Drumpf supporters, which you and a good many here are a member of, as Drumpf said while he was campaigning, he loves the uneducated. You certainly have the right to support your own candidate, but you cannot refute the point that Drumpf said he loves the uneducated while he was campaigning and a good many of the uneducated Drumpf supporters are right here on this board (can hardly wait to see how many dislike votes I get votes I get for speaking the truth)! I guess if you thought it through Minimus you wouldn't have made that point, but then again, as Drumpf said . . . . .
  
  
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  What Are The Differences Between JWs Born In and Converted?

  by minimus in

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  i tend to think that many jws who joined the religion in their later years feel foolish or are embarrassed by their decision to become one of jehovah’s witnesses.

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  i’m not embarrassed by my years “in the truth “ because i was raised from infancy to believe everything was god’s word and who are we to question jehovah and his organization?

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  I believe Steve Hassan brought out it was usually the well educated who converted to a Cult than a uneducated person. But then again there are always exceptions to the rule

  What about the uneducated Drumpf supporters and I'm sure you'll remember during his campaign he said he loves the uneducated, still to this day they support him in full force.
  
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  It baffles me why they would even say this

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back in 2001, i left the jws rather abruptly.

  i had discovered things about the watchtower that really made me quite angry, angry because i had been lied to, and it took me just to darn long to figure it out.

  before i had left, my husband and i wrote 3 letters, one to the elders at our congregation, and two to our parents.

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  They say that because they're fully indoctrinated, they drank the "mental koolaid" no matter how much new light and flip flops the borg puts out, they just eat it up without thought. Just like the folks who turn out for Trump's rallies, whatever he says, they just eat it up.

  Like I said a few weeks ago here, if Trump and the Borg said that from now on 2+2=5, they would totally believe it.