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  First Day of Winter

  by frozen2018 in

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  2. friends

  here's a drone video shot not far from my house (not taken by me) to brighten the day:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbn_be38fhy.

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  We live in a semi-rural area, we've had bobcats in the yard a couple of times. The second time it tried to grab one of my granddaughter's ducks for lunch. Fortunately we saw it and scared it off.
  
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  Has anyone contested a Will and WON????

  by cha ching in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my jw mom just died last week, about 6 1/2 months after my non jw dad died (dehydration, starvation, imo) i was the executor of that will.

  before a month had passed of his death, my dad & mom's will was changed.

  i didn't know until she died.

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  A question you need to ask yourself: is this worth fighting about? If it isn't enough money to pay a lawyer the correct thing to do is walk away. Remember that all of your mother's debts need to be paid, before any money can be disbursed.
  
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  Has anyone contested a Will and WON????

  by cha ching in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my jw mom just died last week, about 6 1/2 months after my non jw dad died (dehydration, starvation, imo) i was the executor of that will.

  before a month had passed of his death, my dad & mom's will was changed.

  i didn't know until she died.

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  Is this will witnessed and notarized? If not, or if you can prove your mother wasn't competent, it may be invalid. I repeat the advice given above: see an attorney. If you are in Washington State (or even if you aren't, but you are in the US) I may be able to help you find one. PM me if you want, I'm not a lawyer, but I am a retired accountant. I have some experience in these things.
  
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  April 30, 1993

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this year was actually “the beginning of the last days for the watchtower.

  before this year, there were very few that questioned the watchtower.

  they were truly god’s only channel.

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  My wife and I stopped going to meetings in 1988 and sent our DA letter in 1989. The information was there for anybody to find, if they looked. Like BluesBrother I spent hours in the public library (which had a wealth of information) looking over my shoulder terrified some elder would catch me there. In retrospect, if one had seen me, the obvious question would have been "What are you doing in this part of the library?" After we left, we were part of an XJW support group, perhaps a dozen members from around the Seattle area.
  
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  Why Is The Press Suddenly Exposing The Biden Family?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the new york post published how hunter biden was involved with many criminal activities.

  they showed how big daddy biden was well aware of what was going on.

  the post got called out for this “ non story “.

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  Good news/behavior doesn't sell airtime.
  
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  Nurses are unwilling to take the COVID-19 Vaccine

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  2. friends

  i work at two separate hospitals and most of the rns i work with have stated they won't take the vaccine.

  i've read a report that 1/3 of rns will refuse the vaccine.

  for those in other countries do you see this being an issue or is it more an american phenomenon?.

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  Keep in mind, these vaccines didn't sprout all on their own like mushrooms. The basic science has been at work since the 1990's. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine#History

  COVID-19 just jumped working on this to a higher priority, and it was all out in public as opposed to hidden away in a lab somewhere. Turning it into a political football didn't help.
  
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  Publisher's Record Cards

  by Faded4good in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay, i haven't been to a meeting in over 17 years and i don't live anywhere near the place i grew up.

  i have had minimal contact with my jw family, essentially just occasional phone conversations.

  i think they could easily guess that i'm inactive but they pretend not to know and they've never shunned me.

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  The last time I was in a KH was in 1988. If they contact me now and threaten to DF me I'm going to make about a hundred copies of the letter and send it to everybody I know, and all the local news outlets, post it here and Facebook, and anywhere else I can think of. Hey look, I left this cult over thirty years ago and they're still hounding me. Wouldn't that be a fine witness for Jehovah?
  
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  Fear > Facts (WT Study Article 12/6/2020

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a doozy in today's study article brought me to post here for the first time in a while.

  once again, watchtower leadership is doing its level best to make their adherents as fearful of inconvenient facts as they, themselves, are.. "like timothy, we must also discern the danger of false information spread by apostates.

  (1 tim.

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  For example, they might try to spread false stories about our brothers or raise doubts about Jehovah’s organization. Such misinformation could undermine our faith.

  Faith in what? God or a bunch of men?
  
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  The problem with Capitalism!---Billionaires

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as imperfect and flawed capitalism is, it has worked better than other forms of economic and political systems-so far.

  it’s very simple in “theory.” capitalism is an economic and-or, political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

  in other words, keep government out of it as much as possible.

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  you have a bunch of people with just under $190k in the bank, barely enough to buy a nice house

  I live a few miles from Amazon's headquarters. $190,000 won't buy you a shack around here. I'm pretty sure it won't even buy an undeveloped lot (undeveloped = no water, no sewer, no electricity). The same thing is happening around San Francisco. A while back the Seattle city council raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Many people (myself included) thought it would hurt small businesses, especially restaurants. I recently saw an interview with a restaurant owner, he said it hasn't effected him at all - he has to pay about $18 an hour just to get somebody to show up.
  
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  2020-December, Announcements And Reminders/Audio-Video Guidelines!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  2020-december--announcements and reminders.2020-december--audio/video guidelines for those giving public talks via videoconference.zipped folder.https://www.filemail.com/d/rjoukferwsimwqoatlantis!

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  If I'm reading that first letter right, they're loosening field service requirements again. There's no need to determine if a published qualifies to report in 15 minute increments, nor ask how many minutes they put in. This means you could put in a minute and tell the elders you "participated." Congratulations, your a publisher.

  I've thought for awhile that when the pandemic is under control they're going to have a hard time getting the toothpaste back in the tube. If they continue this model post Covid we're going to see a big increase in publishers, and the R&F may heave a sigh of relief. That could solve some problems for them.