DesirousOfChange

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  2019-11-25-BOE--Watchtower Wants More Money!

  by Atlantis in

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  2019-11-25-boe.

  donations in support of kingdom interests worldwidehttps://docdro.id/mqpxklf petra!

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  Is a jw condemned for lack of belief.

  by Crazyguy2 in

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  if someone lacks belief is that somehow mean he’s done in their eyes and no way back?

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  Hardliners would claim that Paul states that “Lack of faith” is the worst if “sins”.
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  How old is old?

  by joey jojo in

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  having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

  i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

  so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

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  I think it has a lot to do with how you feel and how you act. My mother is close to 90 and says she doesn’t feel old and she certainly does act/live as tho she’s an old lady. Still lives alone. Still drives.

  On the other hand I feel so old I refuse to even buy green bananas.
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  Just for fun...

  by Vidiot in

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  …(and for the very first time), i thought i'd post a new topic completely non-wt-related... about a subject matter i have a particular affinity for.... ..i'm a major movie geek (most people here already know that), but one of the many things i especially like are what i call "middle-finger victory lines".. they are memorable (and extremely quotable) moments of dialogue, wherein the protagonist says an extremely cool or badass comment to a very deserving defeated opponent.... ...usually (but not always) said when victory has just been literally snatched from the clutches of certain defeat, and serving as a tall, proud, and victorious flipoff to the often (but not always) shocked-at-the-sudden-turn-of-events enemy.. my ten favorites:.

  "smile, you sonofabitch.

  "sheriff brody to the shark......just before firing his last bullet into a scuba tank lodged in the charging shark's open jaws.jaws (1975).

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  Good reminder for someone who lost years in a Cult:

  
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  Is it me or does Stephen Lett come across......

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i get the feelings that stephen lett tries to come across as mr. rogers but there are times it oozes through that he is a lot more dominant and controlling then he lets on.

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  Here ya go LoveUni:

  
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  How Many Here Are Estranged From Your Family Because Of The Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  do your jw relatives still talk to you?

  are you now not very close?

  are you avoided?

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  Mostly yes. We are viewed as just "stumbled". The ones that do not speak have made the decision due to other issues. We wouldn't speak to them either.
  
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  Everybody's getting old

  by neat blue dog in

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  at an assembly in texas is it me or are there not too many young folk about 😉.

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  Standard JW auditorium seats.

  Wonder what high placed brother owns the biz that sells them to the Borg? Bet he makes lots of big donations.
  
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  Anyway coming back from my blunder?

  by Crazyguy2 in

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  my oldest boy got pissed that i started going back to meetings so i had one last conversation with him as he moved out.

  (only went back to try and not loose whole family) during the conversation things got a bit heated and i mentioned a couple of false prophecies in the bible the rest of family heard so now they think i don’t believe at all.

  guess their right think my going back was just a ruse, yes that’s true to.

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  Only you can decide if it's worth going through this.
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  Is it me or does Stephen Lett come across......

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i get the feelings that stephen lett tries to come across as mr. rogers but there are times it oozes through that he is a lot more dominant and controlling then he lets on.

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  Mr Rogers? NO!
  

  Bozo the Clown? Definitely!
  

  
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  Besides Everlasting Life What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Offer To Anyone?

  by minimus in

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  i have been thinking... why would anyone want to join the religion or actually stay in the organization.

  i understand that people don’t want to lose their loving family and dear friends so some stay in.

  but what does anyone really ever get because they are jehovah’s witnesses??.

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  They also offer "instant friends" via their "love bombing".
  

  Yes, we have learned they are "conditional" friends (vs true friends), but it feels good when you're "IN".
  

  Yes, we have learned they will "unfriend you" in a flash (and I don't mean just Facebook) if told to do so by the JW Pharisees -- even parents, children, brothers, sisters.

  Yes, we have learned it's really all about "control".