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  Has anyone seen this?

  by wokeup in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  google: vintage freemason compilation collinsworth family.. several pages into the program has a familiar face..

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  JeffT

  And, Yes that is a real question. I would like to see the answer.
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  Has anyone seen this?

  by wokeup in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  google: vintage freemason compilation collinsworth family.. several pages into the program has a familiar face..

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  JeffT

  So what?
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  U.S. political turmoil ...

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  that russian thing, all those suits, the bitter political divide... it's getting out of control.

  i think trump could resign and pardon all, he even could get ill because to much pressure (even for his lawyer), or he's gonna get so cornered that he could take very drastic decisions.

  they should concentrate in govern the country instead, it's getting tiresome.

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  I mostly ignore the news these days, because its not news, its opinions and speculation. Fox News is the Republican party outlet, all others speak for the Democrats. Actual journalism doesn't exist anymore. The media is the biggest single problem in the country these days, because all they're doing is getting their base all worked up.
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  Proposed Georgia(USA) Assembly Hall Collected Funds, 3.5 Million Dollars, donated to the World Wide Work

  by James Jack in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from 2012 thru 2016, congregations in georgia and alabama collected funds to build a new assembly hall in south atlanta.

  to date, 3.5 million dollars was collected and 75 acres was purchased.

  the branch decided that this assembly hall was not needed.

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  I just took a look at Google Earth. The Puyallup Assembly sits on about 15 acres. I haven't been there in a long time, when I was going there I think it held 2500-3000 people.

  A properly designed parking lot holds about 100 cars. A fifty acre parking lot would hold 5000 cars. That is a lot of people, easily 10,000. Are they holding conventions that large in these buildings?
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  Good Guys VS Bad Guys: Facts Nobody Wants to KNow

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  facts we don't want to know.

  the purpose of war is to kill humans.. .

  which humans?.

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  During Japan's war with China (1937-1945) At least 20,000,000 Chinese died. This works out to roughly the equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, every month for eight years.

  I guess we could have taken the moral high ground and just let them keep killing.
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  Proposed Georgia(USA) Assembly Hall Collected Funds, 3.5 Million Dollars, donated to the World Wide Work

  by James Jack in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from 2012 thru 2016, congregations in georgia and alabama collected funds to build a new assembly hall in south atlanta.

  to date, 3.5 million dollars was collected and 75 acres was purchased.

  the branch decided that this assembly hall was not needed.

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  What were they planning to build there? 75 acres is a LOT of land. Smells like a speculative deal to me. I'd be interested in hearing what they sold it for.
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  How long since your last memorial?

  by NewYork44M in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is my 15th year without going to the memorial.

  based on comments, it seems i did not miss anything.

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  I know I did not go in 1989, I almost certainly did in 1987. I can't remember 1988 either way. That was right about the time my wife and I got serious about leaving. I just can't remember if we went.
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  Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.

  in one sentence tell why you left the org.

  not 2 sentences.

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  False prophecy and the ban on higher education based on those false prophecies.
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  Does the Watchtower have an official position on Alcoholics Anonymous?

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i ask because i'm working in a 28 day residential addiction treatment center and one of my co-workers is studying with the jw's.

  he does not know i'm an xjw.

  i suspect that at some point they're going to tell him he can't go to aa meetings anymore.

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  Seems like kinda a dick move to watch someone getting indoctrinated into a cult all the while just standing by and watching.

  This guy has always had an ego as big as a barn door and didn't listen to anybody else even before he started studying. He's also violating both company policy and AA principals by talking about it the way he does. If we ever see each other when we're not at an AA meeting or on the clock at work I'll take it up with him. There were at least four other people in the room who were pissed off at him for preaching at work, they didn't need me to start a fight over it.
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  Does the Watchtower have an official position on Alcoholics Anonymous?

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i ask because i'm working in a 28 day residential addiction treatment center and one of my co-workers is studying with the jw's.

  he does not know i'm an xjw.

  i suspect that at some point they're going to tell him he can't go to aa meetings anymore.

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  I ask because I'm working in a 28 day residential addiction treatment center and one of my co-workers is studying with the JW's. He does not know I'm an XJW. I suspect that at some point they're going to tell him he can't go to AA meetings anymore. Could get interesting.