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  Vatican told to pay taxes as Italy tackles budget crisis

  by cantleave in

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  http://richarddawkins.net/articles/645101-vatican-told-to-pay-taxes-as-italy-tackles-budget-crisis.

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  ssn587

  I agree with finallyawake churches should pay taxes, nothing in the constitution about them having a special classification and free from all responsibility of paying taxes, they should also be paying taxes on all monies invested etc. I for one am tired of their free ride. The WTBTS is nothing more than a business hidden by a cloak of religisosity and they prey on people and familes. They have absolutely no programs to help the poor, sick, and needy although they do have an agenda to protect peds and not the victims.
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  BEARDS: Why JW men don't have them

  by 00DAD in

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  2. beliefs

  i know this has been dished over before, but when i was doing some research i discovered a couple of interesting points.

  as far as i can find, there is only one wt article that implies that jw men should not have beards.

  *** w75 8/15 pp.

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  ssn587

  I had a goatee for some time never did shave, now don't even attend the brainwashing sessions. but no one ever said anything anyway, guess I didn't give a s**t one way or the other what they thought, i was happy with it and wore it and still do.
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  Latest Study Article: Was Jephthah surprised at his daughter coming out?

  by garbonzo in

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  2. bible

  paragraph 15: "he vowed that if god gave ammon into jephthah's hand, the first one to come out of the door when he returned home would be jehovah's.

  as jephthah returned home from subduing ammon, his daughter came running to meet him.

  (judg.

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  it was to be a burnt sacrifice not duty at a temple somewhere else. a burnt sacrifice. the WTBTS always tries to change it to something else. probablyto try and get young ones to donate their lives working at the publishing company.
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  Theo Min School and Public Speaker Training Outdated...

  by Confucious in

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  2. experiences

  i used to think that the theocratic ministry school was extremely valuable.. and i think it does have it's value.. but i think public speaking has changed so dramatically the last few years.. last time i went to the kh... the public speakers were speaking at a very "low" level.. i think part of the thing the current crop of religious speakers (like joel osteen, etc... they are so dynamic.. and even speakers like tony robbins.... i think the style of speaking for witness speakers has become old school.. granted - yes... they have an audience that is "obligated" to listen to them.

  but they have not evolved at all as public speakers - and probably is getting worse.. most public speakers aren't glued to an outline.... just a thought.... .

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  Maybe if they had telepromters they would be classified as good speakers too. I learned absolutely nothing by being in the school and dropped out after awhile. I got tired of hearing really lousy talks and then the student being told they did a good job (say wha???). In smaller congs. you see the same people over and over again, some of them never seem to learn anything, and the others are just as bored with the talks as we are/were listening to them.
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  Some apostates are sociopaths

  by myusername in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  that is a controversial title to this post.

  i think most apostates are kind-hearted people who want to warn others about this organization and help others get out of it.

  however, some jws are sociopaths.

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  ssn587

  OODAD my sentiments exactly the GB seem to fit that profile to a "T".
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  "9/11 was in fact....an Attack on Jehovah's Organization!!"

  by RagingBull in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good day,.

  this week is the super special week of activity with one of our favorite jw celebrities...the circuit overseer!!!.

  in last night's talk, he gave sooooo much encouragement...just hearing him made me want to fall to my knees and worship him!

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  ssn587

  To bad the planes missed them is all I got to say, Well hey they believe in the myth of a governing body, so another myth to solidify that myth, guess they should have been called the governing myth makers body eh?
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  Do you want/expect your kids to take care of you when you're old?

  by GoingGoingGone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i had a conversation with my daughter tonight that got me pretty upset, and i'm wondering if i'm expecting too much from my kids.. both my kids went to outstanding colleges, have landed very well-paying jobs, and have very bright financial futures ahead of them.

  this makes me especially happy because my husband and i have always had to struggle financially (we both grew up jws and never got to go to college.

  ) it was a sacrifice for us to send them to college, but i would do it all again in a heartbeat.

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  For myself, I have no intention of living with my children, I fully intend to take care of myself. I am moving to a foreign country, where my money will ensure that if needed i will have daily nursing care if it ever comes to that. Hopefully I have the genes of my father and his mom and grandmother. Father lived to 98, his mom to 102, his grandmother to 106. He died in an accident, vehicle, and not from old age problems. He was in fact still working on his farm/ranch so good for him. don't know what gm, or ggm died from but if my father is an example they lived a very frality free life as both were still living on their own when they passed.

  I have no wish to burden my children, (really can't put up with noise from younger ones) or myself with having to live with someone, although at times I have teased them about this. they seem more than willing to be able to and wanting to take care of me if it ever gets to that point. but as I will be living in a foreign land they won't have too.
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  Dealing with elders during my mom's surgery

  by noni1974 in

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  my mother has been working forwell over a year to have a gastric bypass and she finally got the ok from her doctor and insurance.

  the date is set for this coming friday.

  although, i'm not 100% sure this will happen because she was diagnosed with pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung this past week.

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  Don't be shy had an elder show up at hospital when wife was during had him removed, a word to security should be all that's needed
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  Do You Ever Feel Invisible?

  by Broken Promises in

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  2. friends

  i'm walking around the street or shopping mall.

  people almost walk into me.

  umm, can't you see that a person is only inches away from your body?.

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  We may seek invisibi

  Ity when inactive and not wanting the drones to bother us. I found that my daughter and I became invisible when my wife died. Now do to there actions I am free of them and. They are dead to me and my daughter. The love supposedly in the cong is a myth at best just likew the myth of a GB, they all can just kiss my ass.
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  Introductions

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i read today the introductions of new jwd members, i got the feeling that worldwide many of the members of the congregations have their doubts and are fading away from the watchtower community.

  personaly it makes sense for me.

  1) to see i'm not allone 2) to see that there is realy something going on!

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  ssn587

  it has always amazed me how they think they are loving caring people unless something happens in the family and then you see them for what they really are.