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  Good way to get rid of unwanted visits from JWs

  by teel in

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  paintball sentry.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxba5bqftgc.

  you not only drive them away from your house, you put an early stop to the jws fs day .

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  So I went to vote yesterday...

  by teel in

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  guess i'm bird food now, huh?

  it was quite an impulse vote, didn't really know any of the candidates, but i have a small interrest in not having a government change, so i went with that one.

  mostly it was just to show myself that i can .

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  Non-JW partaking of the emblems

  by teel in

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  have you experienced such?

  in my 10 years as a jw i never saw anyone partake, jw or otherwise.

  the last annointed in my town died about 15 years ago or so.

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  In your experience how many DFd return to the WTS?

  by teel in

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  from the 11/15/09 wt study article: "it is heartwarming to know that a large number of such ones [disfellowshipped ones] later return to jehovah and his congregation...".

  this is a typical cult phrase, where they use a generic unverifiable statement to prove a point.

  so, since we're not likely to get an official answer from the wt, how many of the dfd ones in your vicinity has actually been reinstated?.

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  Why does every prophecy has to have two (or more) completions?

  by teel in

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  you know the standard jw doctrine, babylon the great, fall of jerusalem, kingship of david, jonah's life you name it, it has to have a "bigger completion" later.

  some of these are actually mentioned in the bible - jesus being the bigger jonah, revelations mentioning the fall of babylon the great many years after the actuall babylon fell, jerusalem falling to babylon was just a precursor to jerusalem falling to the romans, which was just a precursor to... (what now?

  meh... is old age creeping upon me?

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  Jehovah will "bring to ruin those ruining the earth"

  by teel in

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  revelations 11:18. this was a stumbling block for me (shame on me eh).

  when we were studying the revelations book, the elder took his time to elaborate on how wicked this world is, and went on and on about the ecological disasters our world is facing, and how those wicked people only care about the money while they destroy the earth.. now, although i live in a middle-road developing country (romania), the people here by no means are ecological friendly.

  those wicked people who are destroying the earth, are not some special class of people isolated in their ivory tower with elaborate plans to harm any living, but it is us.

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  Uncyclopedia about Jehovah's Witnesses

  by teel in

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  http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/jehovah%27s_witnesses.

  i found this so funny, especially if you are/were/know a lot about jws.

  what is funny is that it's mostly the truth, presented in a humorous form.

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  Resurrection or re-creation?

  by teel in

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  2. beliefs

  this thing (along with jehovah's capability to know everything before, wich leads to predetermination) bothered me the most while i was a practicant jw, and the topic of jws mourning brought it back to me.

  maybe someone could shed a light on how jws cope with this problem.

  i've seen this mentioned at other places too, so it's not just me who thought of this problem.. as we all know, jw doctrine tells that absolutely nothing survives the death.

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  Deleting private records

  by teel in

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  i just had a weird thought.

  in my country there's a law (i think some similar exists in most countries) that any organization, society, entity can only keep record of private nature about a person / entity if he/she/it gives its explicit consent to do so, and that consent can be revoked at any time by the person.

  so whenever i participate in a product related raffle for example, there is always a legalese text asking whether i give my consent that the data given by me to be stored by the company and used for further promotional offers - agreeing is not necessary for the participation in the raffle.

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  My life changing dilemma

  by teel in

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  2. experiences

  hello all, although this is not my first post here, this topic was the main reason i joined here, so i can get different views on this.

  my native language is not english, so i might make a blunder or two.

  please bear with me, my story will be long.. as you can guess, i am a jw, and currently still am one, this is my 10th year.

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