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  Disassociation - shunning - can we all lobby Government that it is against freedom of religion?

  by stockholm_Syndrome in

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  if jws want to inflict shunning on members who want to remain -- knock yourselves out.

  but if someone wants to leave - dont believe in an evil almighty god, bible ...or just dont agree with the rules- they should be free to leave- even after being 'disfellowshipped'.

  i think it was pre 1980 that you could disassociate yourself without shunning repercussions.

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  What if you want to shun someone because they're an asshole?

  I agree that the WT's shunning policy is inhumane, but there's a lot of grey area when you're talking about the government getting involved.
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  Despite their false predictions aren't the JWs right? Won't the world eventually end & Paradise come?

  by deegee in

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  aren't there christian denominations who do not make false end of the world predictions but who nevertheless believe that the world will eventually end and paradise (whether in heaven or on earth) will come?.

  it seems the watchtower was just jumping the gun when they made false end of the world predictions but they are nevertheless the right: the world will eventually end and paradise will come..

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  Humanity ceasing to exist is a far more likely scenario than a paradise earth.
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  Racism raise it's ugly head.. Chili's remove manager

  by James Mixon in

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  chili's remove cedar hill manager who took away man's free veterans day meal.

  because he was black.

  elderly white gentleman told the black veteran, "black did not serve in germany' and he told the manager the guy(black veteran) is not a veteran.

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  First of all, blacks did serve in WWII. Have neither of these men heard of the Tuskegee airmen? Secondly, is being a veteran confined solely to having fought the Germans in WWII?

  This was ignorant on so many levels.
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  JW Facebook puriven garbage

  by Lostandfound in

  1. watchtower
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  below is an example of the pure cliche driven and meaningless posts by witnesses to witnesses on facebook .

  it was truly a blessing from jehovah that your original plans .....didn't work out, because instead our family was able to enjoy a spiritually filled morning with ,spiritual food and spiritual entertainment and singing praises to our glorious god, grand creator and loving heavenly father jehovah was a memorable gift.

  he has truly provided a perfect example of christian brotherly love through his son, our savior jesus christ.

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  Even when I was a Jobo, gushing nonsense like this didn't sit well with me. It all seemed a bit brown nosing and forced.

  Kind of like all the comments after each assembly and convention about how 'wonderful' and 'upbuilding' it was.
  
  
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  Election Post-Mortem

  by Simon in

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  i'm sure many people, republicans included, are shocked at the results of the 2016 presidential election.

  really, wtf!.

  the polls were wrong and although it's tempting to blame voter suppression and fbi interference, that would just avoid looking at the real issues for the loss.

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  Running a biased primary system and choosing someone so obviously flawed as a candidate was a huge mistake

  I agree wholeheartedly. All they did was play right into Trump's hands. Screwing Bernie over the way they did only gave credence to the notion that the system was corrupt, and required an outsider such as Trump to fix it. To say nothing of the fact that it alienated a lot of Bernie's supporters, and caused them to vote for someone other than her.
  
  
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  Let's Be Honest - You or One of Your Ancestors Was an Idiot

  by Simon in

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  why were we ever a jw?

  were we mad?

  we must have been .... well, my excuse is that i knew nothing else.

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  I was a born-in myself. Of course, that doesn't excuse the many years I stayed in even when I no longer believed it was "the truth".
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  If Jehovah is our 'father', he would want humankind to independently govern itself

  by fukitol in

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  all parents want their children to grow up, mature, and become happily independent.

  no normal father or parent would ever want to govern and rule over their children forever.. so if jehovah exists and he is a heavenly 'father' to his human progeny, and if we truly are in his image as his children, then humankind was always destined to govern itself.

  if you believe in the biblical narrative, jehovah always intended to let go of his human children and let us rule ourselves when we were ready.

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  Nothing in the "biblical narrative" about god suggests a tolerant, live and let live attitude toward his subjects. The god of the Bible is a megalomaniacal control freak who uses fear to rule over them.
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  Judgment day is coming soon!

  by keyser soze in

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  six more days until the walking dead season premiere.

  we finally find out who negan killed.

  please let it be eugene..

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  Six more days until the Walking Dead season premiere. We finally find out who Negan killed. Please let it be Eugene.
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  What if all JWs had put off having children?

  by keyser soze in

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  could the religion have survived?.

  i know it was never forbidden, but i remember growing up, how we were encouraged to put it off until the new system, and instead focus on a career in the full time service.. can you imagine if every young jw had chosen to follow that counsel?

  it's difficult to imagine the religion being sustainable without the next generation of born-ins..

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  Could the religion have survived?

  I know it was never forbidden, but I remember growing up, how we were encouraged to put it off until the new system, and instead focus on a career in the full time service.

  Can you imagine if every young JW had chosen to follow that counsel? It's difficult to imagine the religion being sustainable without the next generation of born-ins.
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  Trump supporters want to repeal 19th amendment

  by keyser soze in

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  seriously, you can't make this shit up.

  and these same people will accuse hillary of rigging the election after she wins:.

  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-supporters-repeal-19th-amendment-article-1.2828571.

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  Would it be fair to label those considering voting for HIllary as corrupt, cheating liars?

  A far question.

  There's a difference between supporting someone in spite of their shortcomings, as opposed to because of them. I won't deny that Hillary has her faults. I cringe every time she talks about taking on Wall Street, or the evils of NAFTA. She's lined her pockets with both of them.

  She also has decades of experience in the political arena, and actual ideas. This is why people are supporting her.

  As for Trump- his willingness to speak without a filter, and convey an overstated sense of bravado is precisely what draws people to him. He has no actual qualifications, other than a willingness to offend anyone at a whim. They're fanatically getting behind a sociopath, whose sole agenda is to kick the hornet's nest.

  Perhaps it isn't fair to categorize every Trump supporter as misogynistic, racist and intellectually bankrupt. Some are just horribly misguided.