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  A Rhyme to all the Great Posters on JWN

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  poetry isn't really my thing but i hope you can all relate!.

  oppressive, repressive, a burden, a guilt,.

  a childhood of dreams a new world to be built,.

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  Nice post!

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  My Personal Experience

  by God_Delusion in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi guy's & gal's,.

  as many of you now know, i have decided to create my own blog.

  i have just finished the about me bit within the site.. it would be very much appreciated if you could read what i've written and let me know what you think.. here is the link to it;.

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  I enjoyed your blog. I have shared many of the same

  mental abuses you did as a child. I am still "in" for the

  sake of my family but as all of the "new truths" are

  revealed in the Witchtower and the light keeps getting

  brigher and brigher, they are beginning to smell a rat.

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  More Misc Ramblings About Gilead

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  honestly, i can't remember if i told some of this already, so if i repeat myself, please allow me this.

  i am practicing for old age..... it is now 6 years since i got the "long form" application for gilead, with over 120 questions to answer.

  5 years since i got my notice that we were selected to attend the 119th class of gilead from april-september 2005.. prior to this, i really wanted to be a co. i won't belabor the point about my ex jw wife wanting to go overseas, but suffice to say, her goal won out over my goal.

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  Thanks for sharing Jeff. I am thankful that you are a

  part of our community and I hope that any borderline,

  sitting on the fence Witnesses, read your posts and

  learn before it is to late. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

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  The Watchtower Society: aka "The Dream Killers"

  by JimmyPage in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you have talent as a musician?

  how much better would it be if you focused on pioneering!.

  are you artistic?

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  I was accepted to go to a medical school but then the elders

  told me that I was waisting my time. Why would I want to

  enter a profession that will not be needed in a few more years.

  That was 45 years ago.

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  "And Jehovah has blessed us with diesel fuel"

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i read these eye witness accounts from haiti.

  like jehovah is blessing his people with diesel fuel.

  and food my brain begins to bleed.

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  When I read these eye witness accounts from Haiti

  like Jehovah is blessing His people with diesel fuel

  and food my brain begins to bleed. The JW's make

  it sound like God came down from heaven on his fiery

  charriot with a 50 gallon drum of diesel sitting in the

  back of the charriot. How about the hundreds of thousands

  of other Haitians who have received fuel, food, and

  medical attention from countries all over the world

  and from the good efforts of so many churches. I guess

  that is not from Jehovah, it is just a stroke of good luck.

  I had a dear Witness friend who recently died. He was

  having surgery and died on the table. He was an elder,

  pioneer, family man, role model in the congregation.

  I am sure that everyone was praying for a successful

  surgery but he died. Maybe Jehovah did not hear their

  prayers or maybe he just doesn't care.

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  What Are Some Ridiculous Things JWs Have Said?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  ....either in publications, during talks or by individual witnesses?.

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  That I would not finish high school or get old.

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  How long will the WT Org. help the Haitians?

  by moshe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they have 16,000 jw's in haiti who are now mostly desititute and will be for a long time.

  how long will the wt hand out free food, clothes, shoes and pay for their medical care?

  or will they just tell them to go to caesar for medical care?

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  When they repaired homes after Katrina, they required that the

  Witnesses forward the issurance claim and check to the WTBS

  when it was paid.

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  images & news frm Haiti & jw's

  by carla in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is probably not going to come out right but when jw's look at the news and images from haiti and i do believe their hearts are touched by it (for the most part) why don't they connect their 'unified' vision of the big a with this much smaller scale catastrophe?

  shouldn't it be kind of like a preview for them of just what they are in fact looking forward to?.

  my apologies if you find the question heartless but considering they believe 99% of the population will be destroyed and they will 'help' clean up after the big a it's a valid question in my opinion..

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  They are brain dead. The brother giving the talk Sunday said

  how terrible and sad the situation is in Haiti with all of the

  suffering and death. What does he think it is going to be

  like when not 50,000 people die but 6,000,000,000 die?

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  WT study article Jan 17 2010

  by Mickey mouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "treasure your place in the congregation.".

  dozy did this exercise previously but i thought paragraph 5 was worth looking at agan.. let's change the perspective to the first person:.

  "the spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience" is so widespread that it is like the air we breathe.

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  The only people who say that they are not in a

  cult are those who are in a cult.

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  What will the Witnesses do at Armageddon?

  by Sour Grapes in

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  The Witnesses make the great tribulation sound so painless. They use terms like:

  When God cleanses the earth, when God brings an end to this old system,

  when a 1,000 years of peace begins, when paradise finally gets here, when

  God wipes away the wicked, etc. It sounds so clean and neat and sterile.

  The only problem is, look at Haiti, there will be no running water, no electricity,

  no cell phones, food in freezes will be no good in about a week, no air conditioning,

  no heat, no washers and dryers, no cars (unless God makes the gas flow out

  of the underground storage tanks) And one more thing 6 billion dead men,

  women, children, babies and a lot of dead animals. The stench is going to

  be horrific. They will be busy a long time burying bodies, then building those

  pretty houses that you see in the Watchtower without power tools. Unless

  they generate electricity by burning coal, but then you have to dig up coal,

  but then you need heavy machininery, but then you need big polluting companies

  to make the equipment, and hot and dirty steel mills, foundries, forge shops,

  and you need the bosses and workers. It sounds like what we have now.

  Maybe we are are already in Paradise. Maybe the Witnesses were right

  and the end came in 1975. Ah, free at last!

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