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  Research question

  by JeffT in

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  i'm doing a little background research for a novel.

  what is the craziest thing you heard a witness say was demonized, and what did they do about it?.

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  JeffT

  I'm doing a little background research for a novel. What is the craziest thing you heard a witness say was demonized, and what did they do about it?
  
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  What’s Your View On Self Defense?

  by minimus in

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  if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

  if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

  if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

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  There's no such thing as shooting to wound someone or something. Guns and bullets do strange things, not intended by the shooter. You should assume that if you pull the trigger, what's in front of the gun might die. If it doesn't die, it's lucky.
  
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  DPA Blood ASAP

  by manicmama in

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  i am in need of the current copy of the newest dpa blood card as some of the jw's in my mothers congregation are asking about if she signed the latest copy after she passed today.

  i am curious as to why they are asking about this specifically and not offering condolences on the loss of my mother.

  there has been some shady interactions leading to my mother requesting me to talk to certain elders to request that certain people not interact with her further.

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  Thanks Atlantis, that worked. I just looked at a few of them and didn't see any substantial differences. I don't know why anybody would want to see a DPA after the person's passed. But then, the WTBS does lots of thins that don't make sense.
  
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  DPA Blood ASAP

  by manicmama in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am in need of the current copy of the newest dpa blood card as some of the jw's in my mothers congregation are asking about if she signed the latest copy after she passed today.

  i am curious as to why they are asking about this specifically and not offering condolences on the loss of my mother.

  there has been some shady interactions leading to my mother requesting me to talk to certain elders to request that certain people not interact with her further.

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  My condolences to you and your family. It isn't easy, I know.
  

  My computer doesn't want to open Atlantis' documents. Are they different from the ones posted earlier? Knowing the Watchtower, I suspect its about money but I can't imagine what a DPA has to do with that, unless they are trying to determine who might be appointed to settle the estate.
  
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  Who/ What In Your Opinion Was The Best?

  by minimus in

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  the best president.

  the best boxer?

  the best over all athlete?

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  I didn't like Reagan much at the time, Nixon even less.

  In retrospect I think they were good Presidents. Nixon's problems stemmed from his internal demons.

  Min: I knew I was going to reel in somebody with that one.
  
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  Who/ What In Your Opinion Was The Best?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  the best president.

  the best boxer?

  the best over all athlete?

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  Best Movie: (tie) "Casablanca" and "The Shawshank Redemption"

  Best Song" "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd

  Best Playboy Playmate: Cynthia Myers (Miss December 1968) Hey, I was seventeen and that image was burned into my brain.
  
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  I Care a Lot (2020) One of the worst movies I think I've ever seen

  by TD in

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  2. entertainment

  my wife and i were intrigued by the trailer, which looked like a humorous, over the top, dark comedy.. the story centers around the unscrupulousness of a female attorney named marla grayson (rosamund pike) who makes her living by preying on old people.

  grayson has her victims declared mentally incompetent, locks them away in a care facility she has bought off and then liquidates and pockets their assets as their court appointed guardian.. (spoilers ahead).

  ms. grayson humorously makes the mistake of singling out a seemingly helpless retiree name jennifer peterson (dianne wiest) as her next target.. grayson however, quickly discovers that peterson has millions of dollars in diamonds in a safe deposit box and far from being helpless is the mother of roman lunyov, (peter dinklage) a russian mafia figure who is not terribly happy with this turn of events.. up to this point, the movie was great.

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  Hollywood is overrun with this nonsense. They'll probably nominate it for an Oscar. It will come back to bite them. People don't go to the movies to be lectured.
  
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  What Do Today’s Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Think?

  by minimus in

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  when i was a witness i knew what my beliefs were and could defend my views, even if it really was wrong.

  i understood jw doctrines .

  i could define what the faithful and discreet slave was.

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  But do most Witnesses know what they believe in??

  No. A few years ago two men (had that look that made me think elders) came to my door. I've moved several times so they had no idea I'm an XJW. They introduced themselves and said they were JW's. I stopped them right there and told them as a Christian I can't follow a group that doesn't accept Jesus as mediator for all people. He said I was mislead, they believe he is.

  Me: when did that change?

  Them: We've always believed that.

  Me: There are two QFR articles in the 1989 Watchtower that say differently. Why don't you check on that and come back, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

  Never saw them again. I suspect there are other issues where they don't know what their own religion teaches.
  
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  The Difference Between Doctors & Nurses and Police?

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  what is the difference between doctors & nurses, and police?.

  studies have estimated that medical errors cause 250,000 deaths per year in the us.. police only kill around a thousand people each year in total, with only a small number being unjustified or accidental.. so the difference?.

  police are expected to be perfect and for all the hype, you're are far greater risk of being killed by someone in the health industry than by a cop.

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  If you don't like or trust your doctor, you can get a different one.
  
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  JW Online University

  by Tim207 in

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  2. beliefs

  i have a family member who is a remote bethelite and they are working on creating content for online "university" for bethelites to teach them skills that are needed at bethel.

  from what i've seen it is a lot of recorded content saved on their sharepoint sites.

  i haven't seen any information on this from this site or reddit which i'm more active on.

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  I'm a retired accountant. Accountancy would (in my opinion) be relatively easy to teach online. However, it would require instructors who learned their trade in the real world, something the GB frowns on. I think they'd run a risk of finding themselves running on a school on how to leave the JW's.