But trick or treating is once a year.
Jws knock on doors EVERY SINGLE DAY
Yes and if neighbours are elderly or no-contact etc they tend to leave treats in a bowl outside for the kids, these days anyway.
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Do you think the Door to Door KNOCKING - field service will EVER resume AGAIN?
by pistolpete inif i was a jw, and covid put and end to the door to door work for two years, and kingdom halls closed, it would get me to re-visit and think about the stupidity of the overlapping generation, and how they extended the deadline for armageddon to 2072.
(1992 franz death +80 more years).
if i was 20 years of age, plus another 80 = 100 years of age for the system to end.
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OMG Gretta von funberg is trying to sing
by mickbobcat inthis stupid little autistic twit is a no talent hack.
she can not dance, sing or even talk well.
the liberal idiots follow this little idiot like she is the oracle of delphi.
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In 2019 she completed the 9th grade (the completion of lower secondary education in Sweden) with excellent grades, 14 As, and Bs in three subjects:[36] Swedish, home economics and physical education.
I know this is silly quibbling, but...
How can a year 9 student attain 17As and Bs? The very most these are are teacher/in school assessments. These are not exams. Year 9 students don't take formal exams. They haven't even chosen their GCSE subjects yet (or equivalent exams taken at 16).
I don't think this is accurate.
And unless Swedish students spend way more time in school than anyone else I'm not sure how they manage 17 subjects, either, in that year.
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Watchtower More Important than the Scriptures
by Vanderhoven7 inmack moore ex-jw recovery writes:.
yes, that is how they want people to esteem the magazine.
they believe it is the unique mouthpiece of god.
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This is excellent Van
I learnt a lot reading this. A couple years back I got a call from a sweet elderly Jamaican witness who just bought his Bible with him and we had a nice conversation. Next time he came around he bought a woman with him about my age, who'd obviously had been raised in the cult.
He talked briefly about his son and mentioned his son saying how much he loved his mum and dad. The woman asked smilingly "was it so-and-so" when he said "no it was John" her face suddenly had a look of revulsion and I knew this son had left the cult! She'd displayed her programming perfectly.
When we ended by discussing their 'closed off' attitude to non JWs she became increasingly unpleasant and finally hit back at me with "bad associations spoil useful habits"(obviously testing me since that's a dog whistle to exJWs). She said "you should only associate with good people" (iron sharpens iron etc)and I was a bit stumped.
I wish I'd had read what you've written about what "encouragement" really means in a cult. I'd have been able to craft a far better response.
Cheers.
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Superman and Captain America
by punkofnice ini see that marvel are introducing a gay captain america as dc announce the son of superman is bi-sexual.. whereas i don't give a hoot about a person's use of their genitalia as long as it is consensual and not with kids, i'm finding all this 'inclusivity' becoming a bit boring.. are dc and marvel just virtue signalling in the hopes of selling comics and not being set on fire by the antifa frauds?
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Jeff T that was brilliant. I'd never heard of him but I'm going to investigate. A pregnant superman, huh?!😊🤔world's first to-term male ectopic pregnancy.
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Superman and Captain America
by punkofnice ini see that marvel are introducing a gay captain america as dc announce the son of superman is bi-sexual.. whereas i don't give a hoot about a person's use of their genitalia as long as it is consensual and not with kids, i'm finding all this 'inclusivity' becoming a bit boring.. are dc and marvel just virtue signalling in the hopes of selling comics and not being set on fire by the antifa frauds?
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.....is he AC DC?😜
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I revisit an old Jehovah's Witness friend from long ago...
by Terry ingoodbye old friend; someday we'll meet again ….
the ghost with the fine china cups.
my last memory of her… a friend from long ago.. julie was a startling beauty, a blue-eyed, natural blonde; a model, guitar player, a singer with glowing purity of tone, a talented writer, and possessed of a wicked sense of humor.. she was too young to be dating and yet she was a natural flirt.
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was recently contacted by a group of about 40 of the Brothers who were
in the same (Seagoville) prison in the late '60s with me and they were having
a reunion (on Zoom).
These guys, one and all, looked awful!Not a healthy man in the entire bunch.
Very insular group (still active.)
It struck me as incredibly sad I was the only one who seems to have escaped
I'm kinda surprised they included you Terry! If you don't mind my asking, how old are they on average, would you say?
I suppose it's really hard to accept you were wrong when you've sacrificed so much. What do they call it .... investment bias, or something? Very sad only you woke up :( I had a friend in France who went to jail for refusing national service in the 70s...Pascal. He passed away.
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The 2020 Census of American Religion 07.08.2021
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/.
more than one-third of muslims (39%), white mainline protestants (37%), buddhists (37%), and the religiously unaffiliated (36%) have at least a four-year college degree.
another 19% are catholic, 2% are latter-day saint, and less than 1% each are jehovah’s witnesses or orthodox christians.
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Funny the median age of witnesses....I thought it would be higher.
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A group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations
by Disillusioned JW ina group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations.
that is a major goal accomplished by the biden administration.
seehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-to-global-deal-to-curb-tax-avoidance-11633709979 .. if corresponding legislation gets passed into law in the usa it will be much harder for corporations doing business in the usa to move their operations out of the usa to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
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The thing that you're all missing is that you are America.Noone but no company wants to be locked out of America. That's where your power lay. I'm glad.
Even if the data dumps show there's myriad ways of avoiding the law, you've got to start somewhere.
As to pensions, I don't see your point Dubstep . No one's talking about cutting their massive profits. Just paying a little tax (which won't touch pensions). And it will be a little. But it's better than nothing....Which is precisely what they pay now.
social security and property taxes -
don't know about the states but employers get tax breaks in UK and property taxes a drop in the ocean for businesses like Facebook & Google etc
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What up??
by Quirky1 inbeen awhile… thought i would stick my head in here and see what’s going on... how is everyone?
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Hi I've only been on here 4 or 5 years but I do love your bio...
Apostate married to JW Living in hell. Like to drink, smoke and cuss. Looking for other apostates to drink, smoke and cuss with.
🤣🤣🤣👍👍
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Bit of bad publicity for Watchtower on Triggernometry
by Diogenesister inwatch 1:13:19 bit of publicity never hurt.
they were talking about the catholic church and csa so i put my oar in...... https://youtu.be/yw_1o_5voou.
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Watch 1:13:19 Bit of publicity never hurt. They were talking about the Catholic church and CSA so I put my oar in.....