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  The Edgar Chronicles (My encounters with a crow)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  origins and prelude (edgar chronicles).

  for the last several days, there has been some kind of black bird strutting about on the starbucks patio searching for crumbs.. .

  i don't particularly get along with these birds.

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  Of course, the storyteller had stopped. This is what tellers of tall tales are expert at doing. At just the right moment--they stop and allow the listeners to clamor and beg for details. It’s some sort of satisfying ego move--a finesse, I guess you’d say. The lady knew her audience. She paused and immediately 6 blue-hairs cackled and begged like hounds with a sniff of dinner at a kitchen screen door. When the last, “Tell us what happened” had rung silent, she nodded and smiled satisfied with herself.

  
  Great story and I laughed at the way you managed to put that pause in before telling us what had happened, being the true storyteller that you are.
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  Ponderings of a Worldly Person

  by Nevuela in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  35-year-old female in california here.

  never a jw, but have had bible studies and attended several meetings and even a convention once.

  i've always been agnostic with leanings toward the belief in some deity or other, although the more i learned from the jw's, the more i've learned to doubt, not just their teachings, but the fundamental teachings of all religions.

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  she clarified that "they" would be coming to round up all JWs and put them in concentration camps just like in WWII. I think she meant the UN

  
  Did she happen to explain how she knows this?
  
  With their atrocious record of setting dates in the past you can be sure that they have no idea. There is nothing in the bible to back up this claim of putting JWs into concentration camps so get her to be specific about where this information is coming from.
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  I've heard some crazy apostate shit in my time. But OMG this is something else

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'll let you decide.

  https://youtu.be/cam-nzcaa_q.

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  She never does say what she supposedly wrote.
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  Convicted Child Rapist Proselytizing. Is the Community Aware? Is the Community Safe?

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  wow, this is awesome.

  this really shows the jw passiveness towards child sex abusers.

  there needs to be more of this exposing this!.

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  It's probably more about protecting the pedo's who are in positions, like Elders and MS'. If they have a rule that prohibits abusers from going out in field service it would look very strange if these men are serving in positions. We know there are a number because of the report on the Australian Royal Commission website. There are a number that have been identified by them, due to their own two witness rule, or confession and have not been legally convicted.
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  Convicted Child Rapist Proselytizing. Is the Community Aware? Is the Community Safe?

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  wow, this is awesome.

  this really shows the jw passiveness towards child sex abusers.

  there needs to be more of this exposing this!.

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  Listener

  Nakanozzi that video is very well put together.
  
  LOL Outlaw
  
  

  Outlaw - I'm not me
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  Three graphs in connection with the Watch Tower's current financial situation

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a number of public statements by the governing body indicate that they are experiencing financial difficulty and they have appealed to jws to donate more money.

  public information on the financial situation of the watchtower society is limited.

  but what does the information they do publish indicate about their situation?

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  The graphs aren't showing.
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  Tips on how to raise money

  by Holden Caufield in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i need some ideas to raise money for my study research trip for west africa in cape coast ghana..

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  Working and saving has allowed me to do a lot of travel.

  Cutting down on expenses helps too.
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  Judicial Committees should have an option to be public

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thinking back to how they went from votes by the congregation under russels time to private closed doors in rutherfords time so as to not waste time, etc, of other members.

  if it really wasn't to hide things from the org, it would have an option for the person it's against to have it open to the public.

  a time announced for any members or the person to bring any they want to attend.

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  Listener

  They would also get to see how many are repentant but get df'd anyway.
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  Convicted Child Rapist Proselytizing. Is the Community Aware? Is the Community Safe?

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  wow, this is awesome.

  this really shows the jw passiveness towards child sex abusers.

  there needs to be more of this exposing this!.

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  What's the bet that he called the Legal Dept. 'cause he couldn't figure out how to handle the situation? A situation he shouldn't have been in in the first place, no wonder he's cowardly hiding himself.
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  Convicted Child Rapist Proselytizing. Is the Community Aware? Is the Community Safe?

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  wow, this is awesome.

  this really shows the jw passiveness towards child sex abusers.

  there needs to be more of this exposing this!.

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  If the guy trying to hide his face is an Elder, it's an interesting way of protecting his flock.