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  Tell your jw jokes here.

  by jean-luc picard in

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  joelingeorgia

  What's big and purple and rotten?

  Babylon the grape.
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  What was your most embarassing WTF experience with a fanatical witness??

  by Reality79 in

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  we've all known those fanatical witnesses who are guilty of pdf (public display of faith) and always have to make a big song and dance to the whole world and let everyone and their dog know they're a faithful witness of jay hoover!.

  1) when my mother first came in 'da troooof' this wacky, over zealous 'sister' was studying with her - you know the type.

  this woman was one of those not so subtle individuals who would always talk loud in conversation and say the name jehovah a million times even when the conversation could have been about basketball.

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  joelingeorgia

  i used to go in service with this wild sister who would literally put her foot in the door of people's houses.

  i was in service once with an old "annointed" brother and when the guy at the door said he wasn't interested

  and shut the door, as we were walking away the "annointed brother' said "He will make good fertilizer for

  the ground in the new world." I was in this case embarrassed for the brother because I thought that was

  an amazingly cruel and stupid thing to say.
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  How The WT's 144,000 Theology Hijacks Their Annual Memorial Meeting

  by Room 215 in

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  at last year's local memorial service, purported to honor jesus' sacrificial death and its signficance to the eternal prospects of humanity, the visiting speaker from bethel quite remarkably managed to talk for almost an hour without one recourse to the word "resurrection".. a remarkable achievement, given its centrality in the belief system of nominal christianity.

  nor were the stirring moments of high drama in the bible's depicting of jesus last hours on earth-- his last supper and his prayer for the well-being of his disciples, the betrayal of judas, the agony of the garden; his disciples' succumbing to sleep; his betrayal and arrest in the garden of gethesemane; the scattering of his fear-gripped disciples; peter's denial, and the climactic soul-stirring awareness of the signficance of the empty tomb and its guardian's chilling pronouncement to mary magdalene and the women "why are you searching for the living among the dead?"...

  and so on, to his post-resurrection appearance at emmaus, etc.. all of this was swept aside in favor of convincing those in attendance that they had no business in partaking of the emblematic bread and wine.

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  think of the hundreds of thousands of christians killed for their faith during the early years of the church.

  makes no sense that thousands would still be alive.
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  June 15, 2011 WT... Are they really getting that desperate?

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was just browsing the june 15, 2011 (study edition) watchtower and came across this seemingly desperate article in the last two pages (29 & 30):.

  a christian has a scriptural obligation to care for his family, and that includes providing for their material needs.

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  joelingeorgia

  the 2nd most heinous thing the watchtower does (after disfellowshipping) is ruining people's lives by denying them a higher education
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  My JW mom refuses to attend my wedding!?!?!?

  by d_yell in

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  2. friends

  ok...i just don't understand this.

  i am getting married in a few months and i thought this would be the happiest part of my life.

  right now it is the most agonizing!

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  joelingeorgia

  attending church weddings and funerals is a conscience matter. hopefully that's what her elders will tell her.

  I have lived apart from my JW relatives for almost 25 years. my life has gone on. yours will too.

  don't let it affect your feelings toward your mom. just love her.
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  Quran burning!

  by Iamallcool in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110401/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan.

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  joelingeorgia

  religion is goofy
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  What are the people at Bethel like? What's the GB like?

  by doubtful in

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  2. beliefs

  i can't even count the number of times i've heard people say how incredibly humble and down-to-earth and caring the exectuives at bethel are.

  i've had one first person encounter with a gb member..i forget his name although i would be able to identify him in a picture.

  he did seem genuinely nice.

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  I was at Watchtower Farm in 1978, quite a while back. My impression of Bethel was that it was a business. People didn't act like they were there in service of God, well some did, but the overseers and supervisors definitely were interested in productivity.

  I was dismissed when I admitted I was gay and even that was handled in a very businesslike manner. They had ordered the very contract I had signed when I made my application to Bethel, held it out to me and asked me if that was my signature on the ap declaring that I was "morally clean".

  Its a business as are all religions. Its just that the products are much more dangerous than those of most businesses.
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  So an 8 year old is killed by a machine-gun and it's no ones fault?

  by Simon in

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  i think us gun laws are s-t-u-p-i-d ... and the legal system more so.

  saw a very good suggestion yesterday though - force people who want to own a gun to require insurance (hey, you have to have it for a vehicle for gods sake).

  single-shot hunting rifle?

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  joelingeorgia

  as in any event, a thousand, a million pieces fit together to make this happen.

  he was teased in the 8th grade by a girl for being ugly

  he was spanked, in his mind unjustly by his father at age 9

  he had a mental imbalance caused by bad nutrition, or genetics or from doing drugs

  he listened to Glen Beck

  he was mad because a black president was elected.

  he watched a movie that gave him the idea that he needed to kill somebody.

  you simply can't dissect everything that goes on in a person's mind that leads them to their destiny.
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  GB Member Barr dies

  by Red Piller in

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  heard this today from a reliable source.

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  joelingeorgia

  my parents became witnesses in 1945, so most of the governing body was born after they were among the first witnesses in south Georgia. I'm been around annointed since I was 5 years old. now I am 52 and the annointed keep getting younger and younger.
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  Is Another 1975 Possible?

  by God_Delusion in

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  2. scandals

  howdy,.

  do you think the society has a planned campaign where they will state that armageddon will be upon us within the next 10 years and actually state that armageddon will definitely hit by 2020?

  we all know that they have been drumming into us that "the end is just around the corner", but can you see them pulling another 1975 stunt in order to bring in additional members?.

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  joelingeorgia

  no, they have repostioned themselves quite nice from being an end of the world cult.

  witnesses pride themselves more on being separate from the wicked world, although

  most activities that were frowned on in my teenage years are pretty much accepted now.

  most witnesses have many non-witness friends and a large percentage go on to college

  to pursue a career. college is basically a necessity today. No, the end of the world

  will continue to be part of their litany, but not the focal point.