Jussie Smollett on trial

by LoveUniHateExams in

there is a trial currently starting - even funnier than the baldwin nonsense.. yes, everyone's favorite actor, singer and hate crime victim is going on trial.. i am, of course, talking about jussie smollett.

he's going on trial for lying to chicago police and wasting their time.. he's obviously as guilty as hell, but i just can't wait for this to unfold.. it's gonna be hilarious ....

punkofnice

My guess is he'll get o0ff because he's a box ticker and part of the 'diversity and inclusion' boo hooers.

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Watchtower Study on 5th December.

by Lost in the fog in

the wt study for this week is all about disfellowshipping.

in an early paragraph it said "think how heartbroken jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!".

however when you think about it, when this happened according to the wt teaching, jehovah still engaged with satan in the heavens (book of job) and had conversations with him about what was going on in the earth.. so why do the wt org practice shunning when jehovah god obviously didn't?.

punkofnice

"Think how heartbroken Jehovah must have been when members of his own angelic family turned their back on him!"

"Think how heartbroken an abused child must have been when members of his own congregation and religion turned their back on them!"

GB still protecting sexual predators. How can anything they say have any merit? SCUM!

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Disfellowship-arrangement of JWs is not from God, but from uninspired writers.

by Abraham1 in

1) jesus set the absolute standard on how to deal with the disagreeable or even with those becoming inimical in matthew/5/43-48.

there he said: ‘don’t behave like pagans who love/greet only those loving/greeting them.

but be like our heavenly father who loves everyone without differentiating whether one is friendly or inimical towards him.’ this is his eternal standard.

punkofnice

Awake! January 8th 1947, disfellowshipping has pagan origins:

Where, then, did this practice originate? The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that papal excommunication is not without pagan influence, "and its variations cannot be adequately explained unless account be taken of several non-Christian analogues of excommunication." The superstitious Greeks believed that when an excommunicated person died the Devil entered the body, and therefore, "in order to prevent it, the relatives of the deceased cut his body in pieces and boil them in wine." Even the Druids had a method of expelling those who lost faith in their religious superstitions. It was therefore after Catholicism adopted its pagan practices, A.D. 325, that this new chapter in religious excommunication was written.

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Now question all these people disfellowshipped for adulteres marriage

by Yomama in

jw
friends

do they get apology for getting the boot?.

punkofnice

I'm not sure I actually understand the question.

However, the WBT$ will never apologise for anything.

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The Watchtower—Study Edition | December 2021

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

study article 50. listen to the voice of the fine shepherd.

9 consider an experience that illustrates how jehovah can care for our material needs.

a couple in full-time service drove over an hour in their old car to pick up some sisters living at a refugee center and take them to a christian meeting.

punkofnice

Where was Jehovah(tm) here? Tea break? Smoko? The khazi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillelid_murders

The Watchtower won't mention this.

the Lillelid family, who were returning from a religious convention.

What Wiki has now edited out (hmmmm, wonder why?), is that they were coming back from a JW convention.

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Did you at one time Believe-that you were not going to die. Does your still in JW spouse still believe?

by pistolpete in

this magazine says it all!.

and many of the older jws believed at one point in their life that they would make it through the great tribulation and into the 1000 year reign of christ without dying.

which is why so many jws stayed in so long.. is the main reason why jws ignore all the child abuse, the end of door to door service, and the closing of kingdom hall for almost two years----because they still believe they will not die?.

punkofnice

Did you at one time Believe-that you were not going to die.

Yup!

Does your still in JW spouse still believe?

Yes. She's my Ex-spouse and got married to another Jobo.

Wasn't I a twit!?!!

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Is Bible prophecy now starting to come true regarding the prelude to the great tribulation?

by Disillusioned JW in

is bible prophecy now starting to come true regarding a prelude to the great tribulation?.

full disclosure: i still don't believe in the bible's claims about the existence of the supernatural, even of jehovah god (i'm an atheist and a scientific/philosophical naturalist), but i am asking this question because recent events are starting to seem (to me) to fit well the description of some prophecies in the bible.

consider the following.. several hours ago (on 11-26-2021) as i was about to enter a local fred meyer store of my city (in suburb or small city in the metro area of a large city) a person i know told me that a moment earlier a person left the store in a hurry with a cart load up with unpaid merchandise (i think i was told it was groceries but i don't remember that for sure).

punkofnice

doing what the WT/JW religion have been doing for the past 145 years or so looking for signs ?

It seems 'believers' look for signs in their own lifetime and have done for 100s of years.

that was me once.

Nothing has happened...and I don't believe for one moment it ever will.

It's smacks of desperation that some bigger force will make your life better.

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WHO finally admits that the shit don't work.

by pistolpete in

the main reason most got the vaccine was to protect others.

now they’re being told they can spread it just as easily as the unvaccinated.

quotes;.

punkofnice

The BBC. Say no more, squire.

I refuse to watch the BBC now, they're a biased bunch of pillocks. Their news reporting is all lefty opinion based and not worth wasting time on. They're not worth the licence fee.

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Is anyone following the Josh Duggar trial?

by Biahi in

he is accused of downloading kiddie porn on his work computer, and was caught by the feds.

now he is facing 20 or 25 years in prison on each count.

what i find interesting, is the common.

punkofnice

Being in the UK, it's not a name I know.

It seems the UK Police are seeing a few predators from their own ranks put in the dock recently. Bloody filth that they are. These are the ones that should be spotless when it comes to crime. Often here, the Police are the most corrupt filth. I don't think they're particularly intelligent, just goons and a mob that are afraid of real conflict. They'd sooner go after someone who hurt a snowflakes feelings on twatter rather than tackle real crime...most of which they're committing themselves.

You can't trust anyone in 2021...not a single person at all.

Let me know your thoughts

Those with an agenda will sway it their way somehow. Whether they pillory him or hold him up as a hero, beware the lies of the MSM.

I hear that in America the MSM actually influence juries. Please let it not be true.

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Did your congregation have cliques?

by Lost in the fog in

did your congregation have cliques?.

usually centred around two competing elders (or the elder's wife).

it could made obvious by whether you got to answer in the wt study.

punkofnice

I've seen the 'in crowd' in congregations so many times.

There was one family where the wife knew all the gossip about everyone. Even though her husband was a violent brute and had affairs with other women. Even when he was DF'd they still had the 'groupstudy(tm)' at his house. Not long after he became an Elder(tm).

You couldn't make it up. But, that's the power of money and 'in crowd' status.

punkofnice

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Yup!