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  Long time lurker, but new here.

  by ICUstaryn in

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  after watching serenity's video i had to comment.

  i kept pausing the video looking for family members or others that i might know but haven't seen in years.

  hated the drive to holt, but loved the soft serve ice cream.

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  A warm welcome to you ICU.
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  No more JW window cleaners!

  by shepherd in

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  a window-cleaning robot that won a gold medal at the 2010 iena nuremberg international trade fair was launched in taiwan today.. the robot, named winbot, was invented by local inventor chao chih-mo and uses magnets that allow the device to be attached to both sides of windows up to 10 millimeters thick to clean both surfaces at the same time.

  the invention is able to detect the cleaning area on its own using automatic navigation technology and infrared sensors, said the company.. .

  the robot, which is priced at under nt$10,000 (us$330), can operate at least five times more quickly that human window cleaners.. that could put hundreds of thousands of jw's out of a job :d. .

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  MMXIV:

  The robot wouldn't falsly report how many hours they'd spent preaching.

  but that would be lying...............
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  Now what do I do?

  by outsmartthesystem in

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  for those of you that know my plight....i need to know your opinion.

  summary - i developed a piss poor, combative, rebellious attitude toward the society many years ago.

  my wife saw it and hated it.

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  Reading all the posts, I see there is some conflicting opinions. Its very hard for someone to tell you what to do, as we cannot know all the elements of your situation.

  Personally, I tend to reason: if you are not sure what to do, then do nothing yet.

  May I suggest, however, that you start looking up topics about how to persuade and negociate.

  for example

  http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/persuading.htm

  There must be loits of other interesting links. The above gives one or two techniques that you might be able to use. If you are gonig to be dfd, then take the time to give it your very best shot. You'll never convince the elders, its your wife that you wish to convince.

  Trying to "softly softly " sow some seeds of doubt could be interesting, but also long. You need time to do that.

  Is there anything that your wife has at least a little problem with in the borg? Could be a starting poin

  Good luck with your cause outsmart....
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  No Christian Congregation in Australia according to the Witchtower. HAHAHA

  by hamsterbait in

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  2. child-abuse

  in the continuing court battle in australia, the legal counsel for the witchtower babble and trash religion shocked witless onlookers by saying the there is.

  "no christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses in the state of victoria," or indeed the whole of australia.. hahahhahahahaha!.

  at least they are not perjuring themselves as any fool can see that their congregations are not "christian".. check this on barb andersons thread!.

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  It seems that they are trying to get off the hook on a technicality: proof enough that their guilty from the laymans point of view.
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  UK facebook site

  by bigmac in

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  ive recently found this fb site.

  ex jehovah's witnesses uk.

  its worth a look--several members are on it--but i cant find out how i can add my exjw friends to it.

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  Hi Bigmac.

  Googled Ex Jehovah's Witnesses UK but got nothing. Same on facebook search engine.

  Can you paste the link please?
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  I am officially 'mentally diseased' by WBT$ standards!

  by punkofnice in

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  last night whilst i was relaxing 2 elders came to my door to tell me i am officially da'd because of my 'actions'.

  they weren't specific but i have been to church and telling others about the wbt$ scandals.. i was told they thought i was rude for ignoring their letters and not attending my jc.. my reply: 'you were the rude ones for sending me hounding letters when i specifically asked you never to contact me!'.

  i got a 'hurumph' from the lead eldub.. i don't remember the whole conversation but they were annoyed i kept referring to the wbt$ as 'just a big business' but i told them they were on my property uninvited so they'd have to listen to my opinion and i don't have to listen to theirs.

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  Good on ya Punk.

  I often think of an expression of an Aus friend of mine:

  He used to say, "your confusing me with someone who could give a damn",

  very fitting for these kind of occasions.
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  A couple of statistics I'm looking for...

  by IsaacJ22 in

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  2. bible

  hi guys.

  i've been plucking away at a podiobook about going from jw to atheist and why jws should think about how they treat xjws.

  (this will be bigger than my 15 page essay from a while back.

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  I thought they said that 15% of XJWs become atheists,

  Thats interesting. I was recently musing that maybe the GB is the real

  Antichrist, as most exjws are so turned off by religion that they become athiests.
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  Keep an eye on this JW prophesy

  by irondork in

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  well, the prophesy is in the bible.

  the twist is from brooklyn.

  what will happen after the destruction of the world empire of false religion?

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  Years ago, I cant remember which publication now, they even said that after the destruction of false religion, the UN would recognize the fine standing of Jehovahs Witnesses and propose an allageance with them: that the "True" worshippers of Jehovah would refuse such an allegeance, and that then the UN would turn on them................. and then the big A.
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  This remarkable guy has no arms or legs. Yet he's happy

  by jean-luc picard in

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  he says his strength comes from god.

  he believes!.

  but has he really succeeded in his life because god has helped him.. .

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  This remarkable guy has no arms or legs. Yet he's happy

  by jean-luc picard in

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  he says his strength comes from god.

  he believes!.

  but has he really succeeded in his life because god has helped him.. .

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  He says his strength comes from God. He believes!
  
  But has he really succeeded in his life because God has helped him.
  
  or just because he believes? Just how powerful do you think faith is?
  
  
  (and if it is God who has helped him, then the jdubs have got it all wrong)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZYT50Bow4&feature=related