Will the CIA and/or Homeland Security visit me if I watch it?
Posts by VIII
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3James David Manning---What's Your Opinion Of Him?
by minimus inhe's the harlem preacher who hates obama and calls him 'a long legged mack daddy"!!!!.
check him out on you tube!.
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Were You Happy That Jack Barr Of The GB Died?
by minimus ini read that some are quite happy that another gb bites the dust.. i think of my "faithful" elderly jw mother who helped many many families come into the "truth".
she's an intelligent woman.
however, she's blinded by her beliefs (being in a cult).
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VIII
Death and Taxes. Both are certain.
While I am never happy someone dies, I am always puzzeled that people are so surprised when someone, especially elderly, dies.
I'm even more surprised that people could care that someone they don't know personally dies. Who cares? The average JW wouldn't know this guys name. I asked my mom and she said "Who", is that a friend of yours?" I burst out laughing.
I'll really be unhappy when it happens to me.
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How come witnesses can seem to be very friendly to the uninformed worldlies?
by dgp ini know that jehovah's witnesses are told not to be part of the world and not to have worldly friends.
i know that some witnesses do have friends.
but, what i'm curious about is how a witness could sustain polite and seemingly friendly interaction with worldlies and at the same time feel that these are not people s/he should befriend.
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VIII
Fresh meat....
Cults and Ponzi schemes needs new members to survive.
How do car salesmen do their job? How do Avon ladies try to sell their product?
That is why I never could make it as a dub. I didn't buy into the product they were selling and couldn't convince even one homeowner to purchase my magazines.
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How come witnesses can seem to be very friendly to the uninformed worldlies?
by dgp ini know that jehovah's witnesses are told not to be part of the world and not to have worldly friends.
i know that some witnesses do have friends.
but, what i'm curious about is how a witness could sustain polite and seemingly friendly interaction with worldlies and at the same time feel that these are not people s/he should befriend.
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VIII
Fresh meat....
Cults and Ponzi schemes needs new members to survive.
How do car salesmen do their job? How do Avon ladies try to sell their product?
That is why I never could make it as a dub. I didn't buy into the product they were selling and couldn't convince even one homeowner to purchase my magazines.
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Did You Consider Yourself An "Ordained Minister?
by minimus ini took pride as a 9 year old "boy" that i was a "minister".
i had a card that i carried in my wallet (with no money in it) that said i was a "minister"..
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VIII
When I read the question, I laughed out loud, snorted and giggled. My DH asked why? I couldn't explain.
I never, ever thought of myself as an "ordained minister". Knowing, now, what that term literally means, *I* should have been able to legally marry people, etc. *I* couldn't. Nor could I recite one bible passage on cue.
"It's a cult, not a religion."
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Name Something Good About Being A Jehovah's Witness
by minimus ini've got one!.
you don't have to wait in long xmas lines at the store to buy xmas presents.
as a matter of fact, you don't have to buy a damn thing!.
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VIII
Being picked as a child on builds character.
Being uneducated means you'll never know what you don't know.
Being a window washer or any other blue collar employee means you'll always find work. You just won't have much of a retirement.
You do save lots of money between no gifts, no college expenses, no private schools, no dance lessons, no after school activities, no parties, etc. on the kids. Given that, retirement really should be golden for the blue collar crowd in the dubs.
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Flying to Orlando tomorrow, my daughter is in the hospital
by coffee_black inmy daughter is in the hospital with pneumonia, and possibly a blood clot in her lung.
they'll be testing through the night...apparently, her heart is enlarged as well.
she is scared... and if her jw father catches wind of it, he will be there trying to intefere with her treatment... he lives close by to her, so i'll be flying down in the morning....to head him off at the pass.
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VIII
Hugs to both of you. I know she'll pull through with you by her side. Best wishes all my positive thoughts her way and yours.
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Do JW's read other books?
by InterestedOne inwhen i ask my jw friend if she has read various classic books, she says, "i don't like to read.
" however, she of course reads all the wt stuff.
i don't know too many jw's, but the ones i have seen in the meetings seem mostly uneducated and, even when speaking from the platform, seem almost illiterate - that is, unable to pronounce certain words even in the wt literature.
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VIII
Not that I know of. Which, as pointed out, keeps them from learning about other stuff.
I have tried to get my mom to read other books; she won't. Says she doesn't have time.
I loved to read as a kid and would go to the library on my bike and get Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and every other series of books I could. I would check them out and hide them under my bed. I cleaned my room and mom never looked so I was safe. I would read at night by flashlight.
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Are mentally ill people possessed by demons? Watchtower view.
by ThomasCovenant inwatchtower 15th march 1953 page 191.. ''there is no reason to think that they [demons] cannot possess persons today.. this is not to say that all those mentally sick are so possessed, for they are not.. mentally sick persons, however, in their weakened state, may present more vulnerable targets for their assaults and invasions.. some show evidence of demon possession, whereas others show evidences of merely mental sickness or nervous breakdown.
'' (emphasis mine).
i for one would not want to work with people with mental illness or depression just in case they were possessed by some of those pesky spirits.. .
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VIII
Unbelieveable.
The first WT quote Blondie put up is from 2003!!!
How can someone read this and not burst into laughter during the Sunday meeting? (then get mad, especially if you or a family member are affected?)
VIII going to put my Turkey in the oven hoping the demons get baked
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Bristol Palin and her typical black & white right-wing / religious mindset
by Simon inso, bristol palin is through to the final on dancing with the stars even though it's obvious to everyone with half a brain that she doesn't deserve to be based on her dancing.
she's there simply because the obsessive palin fundies are voting for her.. i thought it was interesting listening to her describe people who think she shouldn't be there as "the haters".. what black and white thinking and typical of the religious / right-wing mentality.
people can't have an opinion that is based on reality and see that better dancers were voted off while she stayed way past her skill level warranted.
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VIII
So, who out of all you haters is going to shoot their TV first tonight?
I'm trying to figure out how "typical black & white right-wing / religious mindset" gets applied to Bristol, Teen Activist, who is on a dancing show.
BTW, I was hoping for a Jennifer / Brandy dance off. I think Maks sank it for Brandy. He is an arrogant dickhead. As for weight-gain, he's put on a few pounds since season one. Hitting the caviar a little too hard.