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  Daily Mail: Married JW woman, 36, had sex with 15-year-old boy breaks down in tears as she is told she faces jail. Elders there for support

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2976095/married-woman-36-sex-15-year-old-schoolboy-breaks-tears-told-faces-jail.html.

  married woman, 36, who had sex with 15-year-old schoolboy breaks down in tears as she is told she faces jail .

  married mother of two broke down in tears at merthyr tydfil crown court.

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  It increases his chances of being a gigolo in the future. I know because it happened to a friend of mine.
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  my 10 year old son is paying attention at the meetings

  by user100 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the public talk on sunday was about evolution.. my son pointed out flaws in the speakers arguments during and after the meeting... mostly about how animals aren't able to communicate etc.

  he even brought up coco the ape that is able to communicate via sign.. i told him that i heard a ton of inconsistencies but i am afraid to say anything because your mom will get angry :).

  im glad he is paying attention.. and the school system must be doing something right..

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  I am so proud that my eldest stepson has the dignity to selectively shut down when my wife begs the question and engages in logical fallacies during family bible interrogation. His precocity is subtle yet poignant.
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  March JW Broadcast: Once again disparaging Higher Education - this time in the Music Video.

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i will have the music video separated shortly.

  will post the link once it's done..

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  For a Religion that condemns homosexuality, their music videos are somewhere between A Matt Stone Trey Parker Musical and the Eurovision song contest. There must be a lot of pretty boys in the Bethel trying to pray the gay away if all they can come up with is that foo foo fluff. First the Singing Witness Cart Song and now this. If only the Bethel were near Nashville or Bakersfield and further from Broadway. If you are going to talk about how we don't need no smartass college boy critter cull thankin' you can at least express it in the Murcan vernacular. I have been auricularly sodomized for a second time by the Watchtower Organization! The self-congratulatory groupthink over at the Bethel just gets more and more ridiculously over the top. With this kind of lame propaganda, who needs North Korea?
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  China's New export drive - trains and rail systems

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  four or five times a week i travel on sydney's extensive suburban rail network.

  these days, most services use a train like this,.

  which are modern, double-decked, comfortable carriages.. it's not generally known that most of these train-sets (i.e.

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  I was referring to His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the Great, the world's last true philosopher king, the staunch anti-communist whose African pride still trained Nelson Mandela to be a guerrilla and personally gave him a Makarov to smash Apartheid.

  None of the Kims, Deng Xiao Ping, or Meles Zenawi could hold a match to H.I.M. in terms of charisma and wisdom. Seriously, either Prince Ermias or Crown Prince Zara Yakob would be better heads of state than the puppets of the Neo-Apartheidist Tigrean kleptocracy who are leading Ethiopia now. The Ethiopian Presidency is the most useless lame duck office ever created, while the winner takes all Prime Minister upsets the entire separation of powers. Kim Jung Un is a monarch in all but name, with all the power of an Oriental Tyrant but none of the manners or refinement of one. Seriously, what did they teach him in Switzerland other than to be an elite overweight twit?

  BTW I am an Post-Rastafarian teacher of Amharic whose Rastafarian Order's chapter folded and wandered over to Ethiopian Orthodoxy. While Ethiopians lagged behind in technology, they had enough exposure to the Greek and Arabic cultures that what they lacked in technology they overcompensated in rhetoric, logic, and debate. This heritage is reflected in a penchant for debate among the expatriate community since the opposition parties have been crushed. I have been exposed to them enough that despite being a Ferenj, I have been drawn into their culture of debate.

  I cringe at the prospect of the opposition in Ethiopia being permanently ossified and toothless like the minor political parties in the PRC or the opposition parties of PRI dominated 20th century Mexico, but that does seem to be where things are going.

  I think there are a lot more Unions of Chinese men and African women than of African men and Chinese women. The fact that his wife is from the Northwest speaks volumes. It is an impoverished and neglected region, and if his wife is from one of the minorities in China, it would make total sense. But love conquers all.
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  China's New export drive - trains and rail systems

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  four or five times a week i travel on sydney's extensive suburban rail network.

  these days, most services use a train like this,.

  which are modern, double-decked, comfortable carriages.. it's not generally known that most of these train-sets (i.e.

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  fulltimestudent, it isn't just the Anglosphere, but the voting with your feet effect. The dissidents leave and tend to poison the well in their new country. But after 8 years of George Bush and Barack Obama, I am a little burnt out with strong leaders with their cults of personality. Democracy and freedom are supposed to be a little messy. If you want a cult of personality and a strong leader, why not just have a monarchy? (BTW I think Ethiopia would project a more stable image if the monarchy were to be restored.)

  We don't need someone who can lead, we need someone who can listen to the people and compromise.

  Concerning the Chinese and cultural exchanges, even if neither government will encourage them to settle permanently, with the woman shortage in China, the charms of Ethiopian women, especially in the impoverished towns along the length of the railway, will probably prove irresistable to many.
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  "DON'T BE AFRAID TO DIE FOR THE TRUTH"

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my jw sister was over tonight for supper and after a couple of glasses of vino she told me that "today's watchtower study was bullshit" and that one of the 'elite elders' made a comment that bothered her a great deal.. he was apparently at bethel not too long ago and "one of the big-wigs" who was giving a talk said "don't be afraid of dying for the truth brothers" and this jackass was stupid enough to repeat this at the meeting.

  it bothered my sister a great deal and i said to her: "soooo are they going to start passing out the kood-aid or what?

  " she knew exactly what i was talking about and she said "ya, i wondered the same thing.

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  They won't even show up in court for the Truth
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  China's New export drive - trains and rail systems

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  four or five times a week i travel on sydney's extensive suburban rail network.

  these days, most services use a train like this,.

  which are modern, double-decked, comfortable carriages.. it's not generally known that most of these train-sets (i.e.

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  you forgot Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Speaking of Ethiopia, they have a lot of similarities with China politically, Socialist in name while Fascist in practice. One difference is that The Ethiopia government loves the Jehovah's Witness religion because JWs stay out of politics. I wonder if the PRC will ever cynically change its tune in that regard.
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  JW Disfellowshipping vs. Amish Meidung vs. Bahá'í Covenant-Breaking

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  saw an interesting short documentary about a woman who was a born covenant-breaker (which is baha'i for disfellowshipped) because she is the great-granddaughter of baha'ullah whose grandfather disagreed with the leadership, as well as the command that no baha'is should live in israel unless they are working for the universal house of justice (their bethel).

  i also read somewhere that shunning in many amish communities has been watered down to having to eat outside at weddings and other communal events.

  the more comparisons are drawn between jehovah's witnesses and so called false religions, the less they can claim to be the only true religion.

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  It was called Bahais In My Backyard. The Bahais made a covenant with Israel to not live there and have their World Headquartered there instead, Their prophet Bahaullah is buried there. The funny thing is that his Great-Granddaughter is an Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel her whole life but is shunned by the Bahais because her grandfather disagreed with the leadership before they made that covenant. Imagine if Brooklyn were a small country and all of Rutherfords descendants lived right next door to the Bethel and they were all disfellowshipped for eternity you might understand the absurdity. She is a born apostate because an Israeli Bahai is an oxymoron. The reasoning of the Bahais is that if they were allowed to live in Israel they would all want to live in Haifa.
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  JW Disfellowshipping vs. Amish Meidung vs. Bahá'í Covenant-Breaking

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  saw an interesting short documentary about a woman who was a born covenant-breaker (which is baha'i for disfellowshipped) because she is the great-granddaughter of baha'ullah whose grandfather disagreed with the leadership, as well as the command that no baha'is should live in israel unless they are working for the universal house of justice (their bethel).

  i also read somewhere that shunning in many amish communities has been watered down to having to eat outside at weddings and other communal events.

  the more comparisons are drawn between jehovah's witnesses and so called false religions, the less they can claim to be the only true religion.

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  Saw an interesting short documentary about a woman who was a born Covenant-Breaker (which is Bahá'í for disfellowshipped) because she is the Great-Granddaughter of Bahá'ulláh whose Grandfather disagreed with the leadership, as well as the command that no Bahá'ís should live in Israel unless they are working for the Universal House of Justice (their Bethel). I also read somewhere that shunning in many Amish communities has been watered down to having to eat outside at Weddings and other communal events. The more comparisons are drawn between Jehovah's Witnesses and so called False Religions, the less they can claim to be the only True Religion.
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  Have you met people in the "world" who are more commited to their christian believes than JWs?

  by nevaagain in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i met a coworker at my work who was even more commited to his religion then almost anybody i had seen in the jw mids yet.

  whenever we went for lunch, he would do a little prayer first, he didnt care if anybody would take notice of him.

  he does not curse, never!

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  SonoftheTrinity

  i would say your average monk is more commtted than your average JW, but how does your average monk compare to your average bethelite?