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  Those who vote, do you stay loyal to your party?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. current

  i was ready to vote today but i found out i had to be registered 30 days in advance, i missed the mark by 4 days.

  anyway, even though i selected a party, i was on quite a few votes going to vote for other parties.

  here is why, i was looking up the websites of each candidate.

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  Interview with a UBM

  by jgnat in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've been meaning to build this survey for some time.

  built on simon's great survey template for "apostates", this survey is especially for "unbelieving mates" or simply those who may be dating or falling in love with their jehovah's witness (jw).. if you are interested in my story, the link below will have to do for now:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/36842/1/jgnat-says-hi.

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  He Got Reinstated . . .

  by Hamahead in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  feeling low today.

  i haven't posted for a long time (forgotten log in details = new username) i'm in a good place with my family now and have built a life outside the religion.. today i found out a good friend has gone back and got himself reinstated to be able to have contact with his elderly mother.

  that is the only reason apparently.

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  The WT as a bureacracy

  by jgnat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here's a quote from a health care change agent, which i think suits the wts very well.. no matter how innovative or entrepreneurial a firm might have been at its start, once it is has been in existence for some time and has an established place in the social economy, its goal in life is to persist.

  it leaves the world of innovation, often loses its purpose, and exists solely to exist, i.e., to cover its costs.

  often this is a reflection of the corporate hierarchy, where, sadly, leaders lose their sense of providing true value to their customers, intent instead on aggrandizing their own position and preserving their status.

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  Does The State Have The Right To Quarantine Someone Because They Might Have Ebola?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no doubt you have heard about the nurse that thumbed her nose to the state and went out of the house in spite of being ordered to stay at home.

  what is your opinion on this?.

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  Have you investigated Gnostic Christianity?

  by Gnostic Bishop in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you investigated gnostic christianity?.

  the gnostic wing of christianity, if it can even be called that today, has quite a few differences to christianity and catholicism.

  if the old gnostic christians were here, they would hardly recognize what has happened to the original orthodox catholic church or its various offshoots in protestantism and islam.

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  A question that bugging me

  by wheelwithinwheel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why it has been deemed appropriate to assign brothers and sisters in each international convention city to spend hours and hours making souvenir grab bags full of knick-knacks.

  and to assign other brothers and sisters to spend hours and hours preparing choreography, music, lighting, costumes and props, and practicing and practicing cowboy songs, pop music, dance and jw.org skits.. .

  and to assign other brothers and sisters to spend hours and hours constructing giant bibles popping out of jw.org boxes and giant bibles turning into baptismal pools.. .

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  No Heaven For God

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine, for a moment, that you are the christian god.

  and you have been around since before time began.

  what would it be like to never be able to learn anything .

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  How to make the most of wife not going to service meeting?

  by FadeToBlack in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  out of the blue, my wife told me that after this week's service meeting on friday (co visit) she is not going to anymore meetings during the week at night.

  only sunday (am) meetings.

  she explained that it is difficult and not safe for her to drive after dark (vision issues: i have the same problem so i couldn't help her if i wanted to).

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  How did the term "The Truth" come about?

  by FeelingFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just wondering how this vile term came to be used in constant referral to the org, i really, really hate it!

  it's only since coming out that i have realised how much the jdubs use it.

  everything is the truth this and the truth that.

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