Posts by nugget

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Videos of a few key moments from the Annual Meeting

by cedars in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imfuiaeg820.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkjbvfpjpje.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iezhj13pun4.

nugget

So unbelieving relatives undermine JW morals. Seems to me that their believers that practice adultery, bully the flock, shun people who do not share their beliefs, live off benefits and practice child abuse are more likely to undermine the morals of their congregations rather than the normal balanced people on the outside.

Isolation and pressure on children is a worrying development. This has been implied and baptism of pre teens has been lauded but has not been described as the norm before. The poison is that because this has been said by a member of the GB it carries more weight with the congregation. So from infancy they have to have the identity as a JW so that as juniors they can get baptised so that as teenagers they can be shunned.

I feel for witness children unable to talk about sports, or food and driven into a harsh faith before they can truly know the consequences of their choice.

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Hubby gave me my cross and chain

by KariOtt in

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we got home earlier today from celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary.

we had a blast.

walked aroung gatlinberg.

nugget

Good for him that he made the effort and very unjw to purchase a religious icon. Your behaviour is a little extreme and perhaps you should think about that. Why block out the upc what is the point? Why would it even matter if you took the item back snd if you purchased it in the first place?

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The handbook issued to American soldiers when they came to Britain in WWII

by konceptual99 in

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plain, common horse sense; understanding of evident truths.. .

they speak the same language.

try to do the same for the british and respect the things they treasure.. .

nugget

That is really interesting - thank you for sharing.

Angus

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is 100 years a long time?

by nugget in

jws concept of time is definitley bizarre.

on a website recently some brothers argued that if the end didn't come for another 100 years then that was not really a long time.

jws always look at time in relation to god's supposed standard of a 1000 years being just one day but perhaps they should revise their estimates to human timescales.. human life expectancy is on average 70 to 80 years.

nugget

JWs concept of time is definitley bizarre. On a website recently some brothers argued that if the end didn't come for another 100 years then that was not really a long time.

JWs always look at time in relation to God's supposed standard of a 1000 years being just one day but perhaps they should revise their estimates to human timescales.

Human life expectancy is on average 70 to 80 years. Some may be lucky to last the full 100 years but not many. Since the advice is to remain single then this is a problem since if you die before the end then you are resurrected but do not marry.

Human fertility in women lasts 20 to 25 years for safe conception. As the organisation does not want you to have children in this system then you have to hope that it comes sooner then later since if time runs out you may never have children.

Worklife lasts around 40 to 50 years in which you need to provide for your families needs. If we are looking at 100 years then it is an old age of poverty that they have to look forward to.

If the society is pushing back it's deadline then it appears callous and inhumane to demand people sacrifice their whole lives to a cause that they cannot expect to see come to fruition in their lifetime. But then this religion does not care for the people they merely wish to continue peddling the myth for money.

Just remember for us 24hrs is one day not a thousand years and 100 years is longer than most of us have left. No generation last 200 years.

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ehh AGM Bible

by Gorbatchov in

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ehh, so the best bible translation by the only true religion is replaced by the best bible translation of the only true religion?.

o my god!!!!

gorby.

nugget

yes I think that is apt. Beige is just too colourful.

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Video feed crashed during agm. Everybody sent home

by solomon in

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the feed kept crashing this morning so after 3 hours they told everybody to go home.

nugget

3hrs to wait for the technical hitch to be fixed, what a waste of a Saturday. When I think of what can be accomplished in 3 hours you have to wonder why people put themselves through this garbage.

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am i the only one on here who couldnt give a TOSS about the AGM--?

by bigmac in

the title says it all.

nugget

Only the witnesses could make a song and dance over making a bad bible worse and choosing the colour grey. Imagine sitting through that .

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ehh AGM Bible

by Gorbatchov in

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ehh, so the best bible translation by the only true religion is replaced by the best bible translation of the only true religion?.

o my god!!!!

gorby.

nugget

It seems to me that JWs are racing to the bottom with simplified this and dumbed down that. Is it that so many JWs are so poorly educated that they find reading the existing Bible too difficult so they have to produce an easy reader version. Or is it that they need an excuse to add paradise earth, Governing Body and heavenly hope into the text to make the flock believe that they were there all along?

I never found the old Bible that hard. Educate the flock rather than cater to the lowest common denominator. Religion should after all should be an elevating process.

And Grey as the best colour choice, I ask you. with the whole rainbow to pick from they choose the one colour that sums up their religion perfectly.

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What Did You Do With All Your Watchtower Publications?

by minimus in

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i needed room when i moved so i sadly threw my entire library away.

i mentioned this to an exjw.

he and his wife took all the hundreds of books, including bound volumes from the 1800s and are now using them for research and proof of watchtower lies.. what did you do with your books?.

nugget

When I no longer needed bound volumes to prop up the bed they were all skipped. They had no value as reference works and I didn't want my children coming across them It was like keeping rat poison on the shelf they had to go.

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Eve made our periods painful

by rebel8 in

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i was just remembering this teaching--that a mythical woman ate a piece of fruit 1000s of years ago after a snake told her to, and that's the reason we have menstrual pain.. you see, the bible says eve was cursed for her sin with painful childbirth.

hence we can make up extrapolate that this includes menstruation, which is just part of childbearing.

then we can make up extrapolate that this applies to all females in the entire human race today, because according to a loving god we should all share in her sin as we all have vaginas too.. i remember crying in total agony while i was insulted comforted by having this scripture and explanation read aloud to me, and thinking how much this knowledge drew me closer to jehovah made me realize what a misogynistic wackadoodle cult this was.. thor causing thunder is more plausible than this.. if dubs take midol, does that mean they are scoring jehovah's lesson?.

nugget

seeing as the Bible blames Adam primarily since through one MAN sin entered into the world it seems a little unfair that women get period pain. I do not know if men suffer in silence but it seems unfair that they have no specific consequences. After all death through sin applies to both sexes.