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  "Get Over It!"

  by The Bethelite in

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  2. friends

  this is what my children tell me... get over the whole jehovah's witness thing!

  yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and i need to also.

  my exgirl friend who was raised as a jw also has said the same thing.. my children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities.

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  I started to try and respond to this last night, you deserve encouragement so here goes.

  There is a route through it. Of course, living in the past, obsessing over it and having no other interest or motivation in life is not healthy. The life lived, the sum of our experiences however is who we are. We can't pretend it didn't happen or didn't affect us.

  Somewhere, there is healthy and a positive outlook on life. I think that your kids recognise that and are trying to help you look forward a little. I read your book, I think it will help all who read it but try to look forward and build something for yourself now.

  So, you don't have to get over it, but you can get on with it. We all know the selfish bastards suck the life out of people, now is the time to be a little selfish and look after yourself.

  The first thing people who go and serve in refugee camps learn is that they don’t give their sustenance to others even though they may be starving, what good are you to others if you succumb yourself. You have written painful accounts of your own experiences, they helped me, and I am sure, others. So, it is not selfish to look after your own mental strength. Try to understand how you have helped others by looking back but now you need to look forward.
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  Great Crowd and a pair of elephants, invisible.

  by waton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for lurkers: current study article 1st december wt.

  in sept. study edition.

  details hidden in the discussion: a pair of 'elephants in the room', and their calves.

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  Of course, that thinking was influenced by two incorrect assumptions: (1) that the great crowd would reside in heaven and (2) that the great crowd would be made up of less zealous Christians."

  And (3) They know WTF they are talking about
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  Leprosy, WT and Witchcraft

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the book study this week dealt with jesus and the 10 lepers.

  we have long been told that the isolation of lepers was an application of scientific wisdom long before it was understood in any other context.

  well, yes it could be said that this quarantining did help protect those uninfected.

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  The book study this week dealt with Jesus and the 10 lepers. We have long been told that the isolation of lepers was an application of scientific wisdom long before it was understood in any other context.

  Well, yes it could be said that this quarantining did help protect those uninfected. However, it is now known that extensive contact is necessary io transmit the disease to others.

  How the following precautions help I'm not sure. '"his garments should be torn and his head should be left ungroomed and he should cover over his mustache and call out, ‘Unclean, unclean!" Lev 13:45.

  The idea of loving provision for the sick doesn’t seem to have be very well understood back then. These unfortunate people shunned for no fault of their own were further condemned by Jesus it seems for forgetting to say thankyou when this was reversed.

  Anyway, back to Leviticus. Right, it’s OK. When you are better, there is a procedure to ensure your cleanness. Just see the priest, get a couple of birds, use one living one to spray the blood of the other unlucky one (with some scarlet and hyssop) over you, sleep outside your tent for a week and you should be fine. Phew, that’s all right then.

  So when the WT in all its wisdom said the following last year the nonsense and witchdoctor cures contained in Leviticus are worth examining. You can't claim that the text is written by the god of the universe when it contains a germ of wisdom on one hand without questioning the superstitious claptrap on the other.

  MEDICINE
  THE BIBLE, THOUGH NOT A MEDICAL TEXTBOOK, CONTAINS SOME PRINCIPLES THAT REFLECT ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH.
  Isolating sick people.
  The Mosaic Law prescribed keeping people with leprosy separate from others. Not until the plagues of the Middle Ages did medical doctors learn to apply this principle, which is still deemed effective.​ Leviticus Chapters 13 and 4

  wp18 No. 1 p. 6
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  How to make donations via the internet on JW.org

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  holy shit!

  i went to the meeting on thursday night to hear my grandson and my daughter give their "talk" on the misery school!.

  the very first part on the next meeting that follows the misery school was a 15-20 minute part, with a video of course, on the many ways to donate money to the wt!

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  Couldn't agree more. if you need an emetic from the pharmacy, save your money and watch that video.

  Give us your money, your estate when you die, your property and any stocks or bonds you may have around. All preceded by how the WT support those made homeless by natural disasters.

  Heart-warming, yuk.
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  Anthony Morris looking for members with construction skills..Now and after Armageddon

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a screenshot from a youtube video (521 and the circus continues) where anthony morris blasts post-secondary college & university education.

  ''we will not need doctors or lawyers after armageddon.

  so, anthony...what occupations do the society need '' today'' and after armageddon?

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  Certainly need lawyers now.
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  Well said about giving thanks

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  2. beliefs

  lifestyle.

  ' i'm an atheist and i don't need god to give thanks or show gratitude.

  jennifer furner,huffpost 3 hours ago .

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  Good stuff. One of the only good things I can thank the WT for is the remaining belief that death is simply the absence of life, something akin to sleep. It is nothing to fear anymore than sleep is to be feared. The key is recognising our life to be valuable, to make the best of the here and now and not to waste it pining after some future Valhalla.

  Well expressed Jennifer.
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  New Free Jehovah's Witness Documentary Is Out!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey guys, sorry i haven't posed in a while.

  this project took a long time to work on with the limited resources we had.

  hope you like it.

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  Good for you. Strut your stuff. It's great to see people tell their honest story and start learning to live a life,

  Just one slight concern, what were the images buried in the piece? I caught them but not quickly enough to register. It looked a bit like subliminal advertising, I would like to know.
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  New Free Jehovah's Witness Documentary Is Out!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey guys, sorry i haven't posed in a while.

  this project took a long time to work on with the limited resources we had.

  hope you like it.

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  Got this queued, looking forward to it. An ounce of personal experience is worth a pound of rant.
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  Listen to old Rutherford talks

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3a%22j.f.+rutherford%22&and%5b%5d=mediatype%3a%22audio%22.

  and much more.. if, for instance, you wan to find out more about what is in the book “studies in the scriptures” and you would like to search it, here is a sample search using the word “babylon”, https://archive.org/details/studies_in_the_scriptures_volume4/page/n193.

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  Great for research, not so good for mental health. Thanks bud.
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  New Boy The Book is Free For The Next 30 Days

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of you that have not got my book new boy yet, it will be free for down load on amazon books.

  you can down load it on your kindle for the next 30 days at no cost.

  enjoy keith.

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  Slidin Fast

  Just read this on my Kindle. A lot of it was familiar numerous chapters having been up-loaded on to this site over the years. To sit down and read it as one account is Both heart-breaking and uplifting.

  The simple reduction of long familiar concepts into common sense, no-nonsense logic its magnificent. One example being that of blood guilt. I will not give you Keith's analysis of particular piece of WT bullshit but if you read it you will love it.

  So, get a copy, it will be therapeutic.