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  Calling all Americans!!!

  by LucyA in

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  why are americans so paranoid about the government?.

  please understand im in no way trying to be disrespectful to your country im just trying to understand why their seams to be an outcry every time someone mentions the government legislating over something eg healthcare.

  although i dont trust our pollies i would never withdraw my support without at least reading the legislation first.

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  If the U.S. goverment was run as a private business, it's stocks would be worthless. The goverment is growing too big, too fast.This is the recipe for business failure. Disregarding the policies and programs that are being implemented, the changes cannot be managed proprerly.

  In general, govermant employees are not the cream of the crop, if so, they would be working for far more compensation in the private sector.

  This is not meant as an Obama or democrat bash, but if he was running a private firm he would be ousted already due to his lavish spending and minimal results.

  Your Concientous Objector,

  Tread
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  It's not due to bitterness, I have not left "the truth.

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  Depends on who asking.

  If it is a "worldly" person, "I am NOT a JW. JW's are a cult and unfortunately my parents are involved in it".

  If it is JW- "I am just inactive". Wear the title of "inactive" with pride and they get very confused, but they can't shun you.
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  Working for a JW, what a horrible experience...

  by HappyGuy in

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  one of the things that made me start doubting the wtbts and jws was the way jws treat their jw employees.. i worked for jws several times.

  the experience was always the same.. 1. pay was less than the going market rate for the same work at "worldly" companies.. 2. there were no benefits of any kind, no paid holidays, no sick time, no overtime, no insurance.. 3. whenever possible the jw forced the jw employees to pay their own company related expenses like gas, pager, company uniform, etc.. 4. any attempt to discuss the poor working conditions was always responded to with "but you get to make all the meetings and you get to go to the assemblies and you get to work for brothers.

  " and, if you said "i would go to meetings regardless of who i worked for" and pushed back on that answer then they started in on your "loyalty" and you were unspritual if you questioned a "brother" and were not "loyal" to your employer.. 5. any attempt to find another job was met with harassment, being told you could not give the jw employer as a reference, being threatened with lawsuits, etc.. 6. the jw employers themselves were lazy and would not do the things they expected of their jw employees.. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------.

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  On the flip side- I was a JW employer. My witness employees made more, worked less and felt entitiled.

  Also, many in the congo knew my personal business that really was none of their business.

  It does go both ways. ( it also shows how this religion screws people up)

  I will never knowingly hire a JW again!
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  I don't want to die.

  by paul from cleveland in

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  i've been conditioned since childhood that i'm going to live forever.

  i'm having a hard time contemplating the fact that i'm going to die.

  i'm so afraid of death that i can't enjoy the life i have now.

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  If you have accepted the fact you will die, embrace the saying "Eat, drink, be merry, for tommorow....."

  It's all perspective, not artificial rules!
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  smokin weed...new stuff here like that...you guys are so amazing

  by oompa in

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  so life comes at you pretty fast...lol............the entire scope of what we have here is pretty amazing............and you newbies?........just hang out here a bit!....geeze i never did that here with any wonder or questions in my heart...i just knew....i am wired a bit differently maybe....cause i was like ok...here it is.....i am supposed to just pour my heart out.........and did so as coaster for a hundred posts and thank you guys for not kicking me off due to my new love of cuss words....dammm i cuss soooooo much now?!?!...............

  .....oh....and btw for those who do not did not know me....then or now........i just wear it all on my sleave.....i like open and honest...that is me....and i am a very sexual person.....i am a born giver too and there is nothing like the massage therapist in me to show that......lmao...i am so glad this is not on facebook..............oompa.

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  Dude! Is that your nose?

  It feels so...........soft!

  Wecome.......to........ the......board!.........Pass........ the........Doritos........!
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  Newbie greets all

  by LeeT in

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  hi all, i thought i'd introduce myself to all you folks.. .

  my background with the witnesses goes like this.

  when i was 10 my father dies, the following year my mother meets a new man.

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  Oh yeah! They are a controlled (not happy) people!

  Welcome to the board!
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  "I Don't Know What I Would Be Capable Of..."

  by Cthulhu in

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  when one brother, who was a very close friend of mine for the whole duration of my time as a witness, realized that i not only wasn't going to meetings any longer, but had very serious doubts and questions, he made an interesting, and, i'll admit, rather unsettling comment.

  he was aware that, though i was missing from the hall, i was still close to a half dozen or so members, associating with some of them on a more than a once or twice weekly basis, and that the majority of these were having doubts of their own.

  he had me to his home for "a talk.

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  Alltimejeff is right,

  If you quote a scripture it drives them nuts. I was in a disagreement witha btother one time. His wife began to get mouthy with me and I said to the brother in front of his wife, "Remind her that she is in subjection to you and tell her to shut up!"

  Silence!
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  WTS claims to shine as brightly as the Sun

  by cattails in

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  just saw this pop up at the fuentes' forum extjforum.com.

  http://www.extjforo.com/foro/showthread.php?t=15473 .

  it's a scan (you can thank iloowy for the scan) of the march 15, 2010 watchtower where there's a picture of a radiant sun of a wt logo along with a tm mark right next to a paragraph that says 'they "will shine as brightly as the sun"' (matthew 13:43).. .

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  I am speachless!

  This actually came from the only orginization on earth that is being directed by God?
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  The "Image" of the Wild Beast...

  by AGuest in

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  to the household of god, israel, and all who go with... may you have peace!

  may you have ears to hear.... "then i saw another beast, coming out of the earth.

  he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.

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  Cheers Brother!

  You must be Drinking!
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  My Short Letter to the Bethel Family

  by Farkel in

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  dear brothers,.

  anyone who works for a group who has been continuously wrong for 130 years is just wasting his time at the brooklyn bethel.. love, .

  farkel.

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  Dear Brother Farkel,

  I have seen the Light! I am leaving this place. Do you have a room to spare? If not, I would be glad to cuddle.

  Regards.

  A very confused young man