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  WT Resurrection Hope Absolutely Ridiculous As Illustrated In Their Publications

  by JW_Rogue in

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  saw this while browsing through the good news brochure:.

  is it any wonder people aren't listening to jws anymore?

  what an absolutely delusional scene!

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  Russell crowe isn't half the man our sailor is with those puny sideboards!!!!
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  WT Resurrection Hope Absolutely Ridiculous As Illustrated In Their Publications

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  saw this while browsing through the good news brochure:.

  is it any wonder people aren't listening to jws anymore?

  what an absolutely delusional scene!

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  and lots of sailboats. but where are the sailplanes? doing aerobatics?

  Do you remember, pro logos, that other barmy illustration?they are going to arrive gracefully in white sailing boats! Presumably he's telling that crowd of n'er do wells about his resurrection experience!

  forget clawing their way out of the cold, hard earth butt naked and smelly as in my over active childhood imagination!
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  A blog post on my 65th birthday

  by JeffT in

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  putting this out there for everybody.

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  http://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/.

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  Jeff you have a deceptively simple but utterly engaging style ...as one of your most eminent literary countryman, Hemingway, had....there's a nice ego stroke for your 65th birthday😀!
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  Freedom from Religion

  by bobld in

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  it should be mandatory for s.c.justices,judges and attorneys to take a four year course.

  on the history of religion,bible and the koran.iam sure they would conclude that religion.

  has little value in society.there would be no such thing as religious accommodation(lawsuits).

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  Patience and love is key, not Tyranny.

  Agreed. Which is precisely why anyone who has considered the situation at all deeply wouldn't advocate laws imposing freedom from religion.

  We will get there...to the first two I would add education also!
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  Freedom from Religion

  by bobld in

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  it should be mandatory for s.c.justices,judges and attorneys to take a four year course.

  on the history of religion,bible and the koran.iam sure they would conclude that religion.

  has little value in society.there would be no such thing as religious accommodation(lawsuits).

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  t should be mandatory for S.C.Justices,judges and attorneys to take a four year course on the history of religion,bible and the koran.Iam sure they would conclude that religionhas little value in society.

  
  I think you may be surprised how much they do know. Most judges have studied philosophy at an advanced level.... and having done so would find it practically impossible to take the basic premises of, certainly the judaeo-Christianity of the bible, seriously.
  

  Islam is a little trickier as Muslim theologians tend to dissolve arguments from the problem of evil straight away, which together with free will is the first hurdle for a thiest to jump to achieve internal consistency in their belief system.
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  Memorial Audience Filled with Unbelieving Mates and Other Miserable Relatives

  by xjwsrock in

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  2. beliefs

  i looked around my hall and saw so many miserable unbelieving mates and relatives it was actually funny.

  they were in a glazed-over stupor.

  they looked liked children forced to go to an opera.

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  Memorial Audience Filled with Unbelieving Mates and Other Miserable Relatives

  by xjwsrock in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i looked around my hall and saw so many miserable unbelieving mates and relatives it was actually funny.

  they were in a glazed-over stupor.

  they looked liked children forced to go to an opera.

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  The Listener 👍👍👍👍👍👍💓
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  The luck of the draw.

  by atomant in

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  lf you were unlucky enough to be born into the jw sect the chances are high that you became a witness.the same applies to most things in life.lf you were lucky enough to be born into a very rich family the chance is that you to will be rich.lf you were born into a third world impoverished family chances are you will suffer your entire life.my point is there is always someone worse off than you.the mere fact that your reading this means you are probably better off than roughly a third of the worlds population.a person dies every 4 seconds of hunger or hunger related causes and yet there is plenty of food available for everyone.so really its just a matter of keeping a proper prospective on things.theres a lot to be said about a pma (positive mental attitude).

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  And of course that it's not worth fighting to change these inequalities.....which it always is.

  i believe humanity will get there in the end...,I guess that's a bit of PMA?!
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  I can't take it anymore!

  by BlackWolf in

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  my dad was recently made an elder about maybe 6 months ago, and now he is never around he's always at work or doing some kind of jw crap.

  now he conducts the watchtower study and is even doing the special talk tommorow.

  he's become an even more strict controlling jerk than he was before, and i'm never allowed to go out and do anything non jw related because he doesn't have the time.

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  No worries...keep ranting of it keeps you sane! Remember education is your key to offski out of there..so start planning now! Maybe tell your parents you'd like to do a part time job so that you can start saving to be a pioneer ( yes its a lie..but anything to make non JW contacts and gain experience/ get references for your future.

  Maybe tell your mum how your feeling, that its stumbling you because Jesus was the fine( mild mannered) Shepherd and your dad is not emulating his good example!

  Sounds like your dad is gonna burn himself out for nothing. It sucks that you are going to have to see him go through that and not be able to do/say a thing.

  Love your avatar BTW...and your " handle"!!
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  The JW FUNERAL experience

  by Terry in

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  my best buddy is gone.

  i attended his funeral this morning.. on thursday evening, i went to the body "viewing" and it was "family only.

  " i am part of the family (through marriage) so, i was there.. i was welcomed with joy and enthusiasm like a long lost (prodigal) sheep.

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  Then, a few short anecdotes were given and they were WRONG in the little details I ALONE knew. Yeah, if I sound jealous--I am. I could have delivered one hell of a going away talk and poor Johnny was stuck with these clowns who think they knew him!

  Yes yes a thousand times yes. One more point on the list of JWorg crimes...a grieving family missed out on the fleeting joy of remembrance and a grieving friend deprived of the last service he could have rendered....