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DesirousOfChange
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DesirousOfChange
I really believe the internet is the reason so many are able to become awakened and move on so much earlier. When many of us who did not awaken until 40 or 50 or 60 years of age, it was because finding information about TTATT was very very difficult. It meant finding books in a brick and mortar library. It meant meeting face to face with "apostates" (known away back as the "evil slave class"). We were AFRAID of those dissenters. They were demonized by the WTS (just as apostates still are today).
And if you left, you were really alone. No just how someone is alone today -- losing (conditional) friends and likely even some family, but also being able to "connect" with anyone else. No JWN. No Reddit. No Facebook groups. No Tahoe Apostafest. (Thanks! Flipper)
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Should You Be Required To Wear A Coronavirus Mask?
by minimus insome towns require everyone going outside to wear one.
one massachusetts city requires anyone from 5 up to wear a mask.
some cities require masks and have shut down parks and sports playing while others in a nearby town have no such restrictions.
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MUCH CLOSER LOOK -yes let’s take one
by Brainfloss inmcl responded in part, in an earlier post about the hypocrisy in religion even the true religion.
making dumb guesses about god's cryptic prophecies makes them foolish and indiscreet- not false prophets who claim god gave them the message.. two questions—.
1) what is the “true religion‘s” definition of a prophet?.
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DesirousOfChange
Deut 18:20-22
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Bill Gates Foundation
by jhine inhi everyone , how are ya'll ?
l have a question particularly for any americans on here .
l have an american friend from la who has recently been trying very hard to investigate bill gates and his foundation , she has shared quotes from a lot people making very serious accusations against bill .
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DesirousOfChange
Some of her "reaonings" sound just like JW defenses. IE, Satan controls everything in the press (unless it happends to be positive about JW's).
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New York Times: ‘People Would Be So Receptive Right Now, and We Can’t Knock on Doors.’
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/politics/coronavirus-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
the pandemic has put a stop to the activities of one of the nation’s most visible religious groups, jehovah’s witnesses.. read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/us/politics/coronavirus-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
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The longer this goes on, the harder it will be to get them back to pounding the pavement.
Most JW's no longer do that. They stand idle at "literature carts" or drive around endlessly from NH to NH, just as they did last week or the day before and spend 50% of their "Field Circus" hours at Starbucks or McDonald's.
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Doctors treating Corona virus with blood Plasma from survivors
by Witness 007 injust read article today blood plasma from recovered corona patients to be transfused into the seriously ill to see if antibodies in the blood can help.. i guess if your a witness you can just pray and write your will..
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DesirousOfChange
Judging by many of the other things JW's have "pulled outta their ass", they can rationalize anything.
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Cofty -- I have the greatest respect for you! You are a champion among men in your patience and sincerity (and knowledge on this subject). Every longtime member here is well aware that you are able to "chew up and spit out" any ignorant new member like [what's his name] here. [Can't bother to look back.] Yet you are always respectful.
This is like challenging a JW on one of their "Bible based" doctrines. Once it's obvious that you have the upper hand and they cannot defend their belief, they resort to "you're ugly and fat" rebuttals.
JW's that come here to preach fail to realize that it's the intelligent people who left the JW's that settled here and any JW will be over-matched.
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I am thrilled to read that so many left much earlier in life than I did.
Once again, I see that I am a "slow learner".
It was a VERY SLOW process for me. I guess I just really wanted to believe it all. I didn't want to admit I had been so gullible and totally deceived. I stepped down over issues that disturbed me 10 years ago, but I still believed most of it even just 10 years ago. But I joined here 9 years ago so I guess that's when I decided I could "risk" actually signing on to this bunch of (lovely) mentally diseased apostates. Still, I associated as a PIMO for another 4 or 5 years. At this point, I don't think anyone thinks we are JW's. At the best, they might think we are "stumbled". So I'd say that I "left at 59" because I don't want to admit that I waited until I was 60.
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My ExElder Best Friend Has Coronavirus
by minimus inthis has been a horrible month.
my best friend’s wife just called to tell me that my friend had to be hospitalized due to severe coronavirus complications.
he has severe pneumonia, is put on a ventilator and is in a coma .
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My friend is still in a coma.
Min, it's likely an induced coma as that is standard procedure when a person is intubated. So that isn't an indication that his condition is worse.