LOL, that is too funny OTWO.
garyneal
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How miserable are Witless Kids REALLY?
by hamsterbait in25 years ago i lived in an apartment overlooking the grounds of the local high school.. at the time i still totally believed the lie.
a lot of the dub students went to my hell.. i noticed looking out my window, that the witless kids always looked miserable and isolated.
yet in the kingdumb hell they would behave almost euphorically.. what was going on?.
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How miserable are Witless Kids REALLY?
by hamsterbait in25 years ago i lived in an apartment overlooking the grounds of the local high school.. at the time i still totally believed the lie.
a lot of the dub students went to my hell.. i noticed looking out my window, that the witless kids always looked miserable and isolated.
yet in the kingdumb hell they would behave almost euphorically.. what was going on?.
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garyneal
still no go
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How miserable are Witless Kids REALLY?
by hamsterbait in25 years ago i lived in an apartment overlooking the grounds of the local high school.. at the time i still totally believed the lie.
a lot of the dub students went to my hell.. i noticed looking out my window, that the witless kids always looked miserable and isolated.
yet in the kingdumb hell they would behave almost euphorically.. what was going on?.
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garyneal
bump up to page two
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How miserable are Witless Kids REALLY?
by hamsterbait in25 years ago i lived in an apartment overlooking the grounds of the local high school.. at the time i still totally believed the lie.
a lot of the dub students went to my hell.. i noticed looking out my window, that the witless kids always looked miserable and isolated.
yet in the kingdumb hell they would behave almost euphorically.. what was going on?.
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garyneal
testing. can anyone see?
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Jehovah's Witnesses - The 2nd Poorest Religion
by Elsewhere inhttp://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html.
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garyneal
Most of those are probably Southern Baptists and Pentacostals, which consist of many Southerners who are just poorer in general.
That's a good observation. I just find it somewhat amusing that the poorest and least educated are also the most 'religious' in the most negative way.
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Jehovah's Witnesses - The 2nd Poorest Religion
by Elsewhere inhttp://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html.
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garyneal
Looks like it pays to be Hindu or Jewish.
Archie Bunker would certainly agree with the Jewish part.
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Jehovah's Witnesses - The 2nd Poorest Religion
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garyneal
This is probably correlated very strongly with educational attainment, and seeing as how the Pew study showed the Wtinesses had the LOWEST educational attainment of any major American religion, it's not suprising they are also one of the poorest.
It also appears that evangelical Christians are also pretty poor. If evangelical = fundamentalist, then I know from direct observation that people who tend gather in these types of churches also tend to be very poorly educated.
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Jehovah's Witnesses - The 2nd Poorest Religion
by Elsewhere inhttp://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html.
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garyneal
It appears that they are second to historically black churches.
I recall a long time back someone told me that a great number of people who wind up becoming Jehovah's Witnesses tend to be former Baptists of predominately black churches. Of course, he provided no data to validate it but I do recall a recent thread on this forum where the witnesses are referred to as the scientology for black people.
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When you were a JW....
by lavendar in.
for those of you who started studying with the watchtower society as an adult (not born in)......did a friend or family member ever try to dissuade you from joining?
if so, what did you think of that person at the time?.
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garyneal
I was considering becoming a JW when it occurred to me that I may not indeed have the truth and that I may indeed not have any hope of a ressurrection. This, of course, frightened me.
To be clear, in spite of the fact that the witnesses claim that they DON'T frighten people to join the cult, they indeed do.
Join us, or die at Armegheddon.
Join us, or have no hope of a resurrection. Why? Because you heard THE TRUTH and rejected it.
So how can they rail against Christendom's teachings of a literal hell and claim that they use it to FRIGHTEN people to give their lives to Jesus?
But at least the Baptists believe in 'once saved, always saved' and even Christians who disagree with that believe that it is very difficult to lose salvation and certainly cannot be determined by any man. A far cry from the witnesses teachings of disobey the governing body Jehovah and get kicked out the organization and lose your everlasting life. Who judges your worthiness for everlasting life as a witness? ELDERS.
At any rate, when I was considering becoming a witness I asked my mom what she thought of it. She assured me that no matter what, she would love me anyway.
Unconditional love like that is impossible amongst the witnesses.
When I later told her that I discovered the truth about 'the truth' she was relieved that I decided against being a witness.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Do you prefer to sit on the pew in a church or on the regular Kingdom Hall seat?
by asilentone ini hate to sit on the pew.
i prefer to sit on the regular kingdom hall seat.
do you think it might be a good subtle reason for some people to convert their religion to jw?
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garyneal
I like pews because I can sit in the far corners of them, prop up my knees and get comfortable.
The church I am attending right now has chairs like in the KH.