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  So... Where Are They?

  by COMF in

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  i moved to my current location, a house in a quiet, friendly, family-oriented neighborhood, in july of this year.

  i've been here five months.

  i'm usually home on saturday mornings and sunday afternoons.

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  I haven’t had a dub knock on my door for years and after that one time, they never made that mistake again.

  What do you think the reasons were for Jehovah's Witnesses no longer stopping by? If you acted harshly, overbearing, etc. towards them when they visited, do you think your attitude was helpful?

  Personally, I like the tactic when I meet a couple who've separated from the car group in the distance and are walking down the drive, I begin with, "...why, you folks don't look familiar. Are you lost? Can I help you find your way?"

  Depending on who's visiting, with an opening line like that...let the games begin.

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  Anything you regret not doing before you left?

  by sleepy in

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  what do you regret not doing before you left the "truth" for good.. some of us who have families still in have our hands tied as to what we could have done.. is there anything you would have done differently looking back.. also those who are dissasociated do you now wish you werent so you could have more accsess to friends and family?

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  Knowing what I know now, I would rather have created some controversy within the congregation in the secondary effort to Awaken! others some day, than to have quitely walked away.

  It probably wouldn't have had much effect on any one other than my immediate family. However, by doing so may have allowed me to empower myself to shed the Watchtower brainwashing sooner.

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  A Socialist defends Americans

  by Rex B13 in

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  for all of the anti-american cynics in range, here is a commentary from one of your own that plays a different tune, albeit a socialist one.

  do any of our regulars sound much like this woman named 'raven', cited in the article?

  (btw, i read the whole article).

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  the vast majority of Americans would also benefit from ending their government's policy of protecting and promoting corrupt repressive dictatorships.

  If only ones perspective were that simple, perhaps current 'western' policy towards the 'third world' is a necessary evil until benevolent dictatorships show up, i.e. Titoism.

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  Windsor Ontario JWs Under Siege

  by hawkaw in

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  someone who i do not know sent the following to me for posting.

  it was in my email this morning ..... hmmm...... anyway, seems people in windsor are getting to the co because of the actions of a few people - have a read.. hawk.

  jehovah's witnesses are under a type of ban in windsor on canada .

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  The Watchtower speakers, at the summer convention in Kitchener ON, called it "misrepresentation of our message".

  If this event actually did happen, a more accurate statement should have been, "misrepresentation of our marketing".

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  What's so special about Thanksgiving?

  by Thirdson in

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  so whats so special about thanksgiving?

  to me this is a relatively new holiday custom mainly for not being american more than being a jw.

  the problem i gather with witnesses and celebrating thanksgiving is that it is a national holiday and as a result is a patriotic holiday with a tradition steeped in american history.

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  What’s so special about Thanksgiving?

  Stuffing.
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  A mans best friend is a DOG ... anyone?!!

  by Celtic in

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  care to give me definitions?

  of course your never completely there with the answer, until .... sorry, definitions, my mind runs away with me sometimes, a mans best friend is a dog?!!.

  whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy?.

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  Speeking(sic) about shit, look at Ray Franz and James Penton books.

  I heartily agree Fred. The level of WTBTS indiscretions made available to the public by just these two authors is astounding.

  However, the Society continues to produce the Watchtower, Awake! and other obscure publications...loudly and abundantly.

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  Do you still believe in god???

  by Nicolas in

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  how many of you still believe in god after your experience of the watchtower?

  do you believe in a different god than the one of the org.

  one who won't destroy somebody just because he wasn't in the good religion.

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  ...One who won't destroy somebody just because he wasn't in the good religion.

  The invention of 'God' was probably the Neanderthal's way of understanding and coming to terms with genetic deficiencies and/or social deviates within their environment.

  Mankind has simply perpetuated the myth because for most, thanks to the 'identification' of 'deviate' behavior, guilt and insecurity has been culturally ingrained into the Psyche. For others, 'God' can be lucrative when a 'True' interpretation is used as a controlling mechanism.

  My...we've come a long way.

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  Pope goes berserk!

  by RR in

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  seems like the pope is going berserk and blessing everything in sight!.

  here's the full story:.

  http://www.theonion.com/onion3505/pope_blesses.html.

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  Seems like the Pope is going berserk and blessing everything in sight!

  Apparently at the same time, the Pope was also over heard singing,

  "I didn't know if it was day or night
  I started kissin' everything in sight
  But when I kissed the cop down at 34th and Vine
  He broke my little bottle of
  Love Potion Number Nine"

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  Very Famous People That Are / Were JW's?

  by Celtic in

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  geri hallowell from the spice girls?

  michael jackson & family?

  one of the presidents wives?

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  Very Famous People That Are / Were JW's?

  I... may not be famous, but I'm so close it's scary.

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  The Flight Attendant and Me

  by Thirdson in

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  in politically correct america the wait staff on airliners are not termed stewards and stewardesses but rather flight attendants.

  after joel bear (no offense joel, and i love you like a brother, but no more .

  six years ago i was living in an apartment in the minneapolis suburbs.

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  Egypt is not amused.

  It never ceases to amaze, how much like the WTBTS, many in control must be so willing to sacrifice others for their own self interest because those having influence can't be that stupid.

  http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSLaw0111/14_gays-ap.html