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  Manners and Respectfulness

  by IWant2Know in

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  i would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?

  but i hope this question isn't offensive to this forum.

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  punkofnice

  We're all individuals and have different values. Ex-JWs aren't a hive mind.

  Perhaps the fake religion of Watchtower corporation(tm) would imply or say that Ex-JWs are all bad and go off the rails. What balderdash. Life is not that black and white.
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  Covid Vx likened to Jesus ransom

  by KerryKing in

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  this morning i decided to log into the local cong meeting on zoom, during the public talk the speaker likened the covid vx to jesus ransom sacrifice, saying that those who didn't avail of the vx, the 'anti vaxxers', are just like people who refuse to put faith in jesus.. i felt sick, knowing my unvxed but active jw parents were sitting there, i logged off immediately.

  surely such talk is pure blasphemy or am i just over reacting?!.

  i appreciate your thoughts, it will hopefully help me to approach my jw family with facts and logic, i'm praying they wake up fully and 'get out of her', i know they have reservations that's why they refused the vx..

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  punkofnice

  I decided to log into the local cong meeting on zoom,

  There's your problem.

  There's always some 'dunning-kruger' head talking cobblers at the meetings(tm),
  
  
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  PIMI wife told to go against her husband and take the vaccines?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
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  if a pimi sister has been told by her unbelieving husband not to take these experimental vaccines then what is official jw policy in this situation?.

  should she go against her husband and tell him i will do what the men at my church tell me?.

  what on earth will the husband think then?

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  Were this a real scenario, I'd question their relationship. But even then, it'd be none of my business
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  Confirmation that religion is dying.

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is from a site called "atheist republic" :.

  " the phenomenon of "nones" — individuals who claim no religious affiliation — is rapidly reshaping america's religious landscape.

  recent surveys by the associated press-norc center for public affairs research indicate that 30% of u.s. adults identify as nonreligious.

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  On the other hand, I've known a couple of people yearning for 'Christian values' in a reaction against the so called 'woke' agenda. Now, whether this means they'll be getting 'religion' or not, only they know. It did interest me though.

  Christian values.....might mean different things to different peeps.
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  Convention Blast

  by Zilgee in

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  jw convention blast in kerala india.

  one died.

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  punkofnice

  I am sorry to hear this.

  Where is the source for this info?
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

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  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  Psalm 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

  I don't know about encouraging but this one made me laugh out loud when I read it
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  Noah + new understanding

  by dothemath in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so they mentioned noah couldn’t have preached to all the population back before the flood.

  do you think they might start using common sense regarding not being able to get every animal type on the ark from the whole world?.

  maybe the poor sloth from south america didn’t have to crawl all the way?

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  Have they considered that the flood story might just be a metaphor or parable rather than literal?

  Or more likely the Ark was actually a TARDIS,
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  144 year-old mystery finally solved

  by Tahoe in

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  punkofnice

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Sdh239AII
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses no longer count time. How is this news affecting moral and meeting attendance at local congregations?

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  no more watchtower and awake mags every 2 weeks to place.

  no private home book studies.

  no more "essential" spiritual food meals 5x a week.

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  punkofnice

  At it's most extreme, the Jobots will see it as a 'test'. If not the other extreme could be 'a loving arrangement(tm)'

  I imagine most Jobots will carry on 'business as usual'.

  I can't imagine it 'stumbling(tm)' many because they're all too 'idiocracy' for it.
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  If you were to design a new religion?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  what the jw sect has become and is slowly becoming is far more near what i thought could be a good religion based on the bible.. no more counting hours and no more blindly following direction now they admit they are not inspired.. i would like to design a new sect inside the jws.

  it has to be kept secret because the elders would not like it.. this new sect involves giving a tick every month or so saying you are still kindof active talking about the bible.. going to meetings occasionally and attending on zoom sometimes.

  very rarely go to ministry groups but don’t ever do first call, just say you are doing street work and have a nice walk somewhere maybe the shops or the park.

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  If you were to design a new religion?

  I wouldn't.

  Religion has caused enough problems in the world. If you want to take a Biblical view, it was 'religion' that gave Jesus such a bad time and then killed him.

  I wouldn't stay in a cult like the Jobots, undercover, overcover or Wombling free.