Posts by Searril

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Encouraging the nasty angels of our nature

by Lee Elder in

i see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.

reverting to tribalism and racism.

i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.

Searril

I don't live in the US and you may be right as you live closer than me but can I have the proof please?

Eric Holder, Obama's attorney general, refused to prosecute black panthers in PA standing at polling places scaring away white voters. Google it. I'm sure the articles can still be found.

Just imagine if that had been a white supremacist group and black voters.

Obama spent two decades of his life attending Jeremiah Wright's church where he railed on and on about how evil white people are. LOL. Imagine if the races had been reversed.

There is absolutely zero doubt that Obama and Holder were racists.

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Encouraging the nasty angels of our nature

by Lee Elder in

i see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.

reverting to tribalism and racism.

i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.

Searril

Say what you may about Obama's progressive policies, he was a man that was articulate, diplomatic, professional. Something Trump will never be, but for some strange reason the supporters don't care about civility and diplomacy.

I remember when Obama shot off at the mouth saying cops acted stupidly, spurring on more irrational hatred of police, only to find out later that he should've taken the time to read the facts before opening his mouth. I don't recall him ever apologizing, unless you call the "beer summit" an apology.

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Accounts report at Circuit Assemblies to go away

by LevelThePlayingField in

i was at the regional convention and asked an elder why is that at the assemblies their is an accounts report but not at the conventions?

he said, well actually they got a letter and in it said that in a little while they will do away with the accounts report stating how much the assembly costs for the weekend and just go to donation basis like at the conventions.. my first thought was, "they will donate even less now.".

anybody else hear about such a thing?.

Searril

The Watchtower doesn't do anything that it doesn't think serves its own interests.

They will simply send each congregation in the circuit a bill for the "shortfall" of whatever they claim the expense was. This way they can jack up the costs and very few dubs will ever see the actual number in its entirety, so they won't stop and think "I wonder why the assembly cost 3 times as much this year as it did last year."

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Blood transfusions and blood fractions

by Whynot in

i have been reading some medical journals on blood transfusions, blood fractions and its components, antibodies, etc.

it's like another language so i find myself researching the medical terms just so i can understand somewhat.

ajwrb.org has been absolutely helpful.

Searril

For example, and please don't laugh I'm super ignorant lol, white blood cells are found in breastmilk but they're banned by JWs, why?

Nothing to laugh at. In fact, you have stumbled upon the unanswerable argument that I've used against many dubs that has caused them to give up on the blood argument as they suddenly realized their position was unsustainable. Some will just drop out of the subject, and others will just start throwing out random "facts" and attempt to change the arguments or set up strawmen.

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Tommie Robinson

by zeb in

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unconfirmed reports this am (australian time) that tr has been transferred to a maximum security prison..

Searril

As I'm not British my knowledge of the goings-on over there is limited, but I have heard from older Brits over the years that the allowed influx of Islamic immigrants is causing serious repercussions of violence and lack of individual safety. What little I've just read in this thread would seem to corroborate those claims.

I find it absolutely appalling that your courts can ban the press from reporting on a governmental affair like this (and a trial is a governmental affair). As an American I find that completely unacceptable.

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Joseph Rutherford = Donald Trump

by Wild_Thing in

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i have been rereading a lot about rutherford lately; about his personality and the kind of person he was.

i have come to the conclusion that he was a lot like donald trump.. he was an accused womanizer.. he was a narcissist with a self inflated ego.

he claimed to be persecuted by the media all the time.

Searril

Other than the womanizer part, the list also applies to Hillary Clinton. And almost every politician in America, if not the world.

And really, almost every celebrity in the entire world.

Rich and powerful people tend to be a-holes. Not really a newsflash.

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elder from my former cong

by jookbeard in

i left the wts in the early 1990's and i was baptised at the same assembly as this elder and his wife in the late 1980's they were probably in their early 50's back then, you know the kind; get called on, become a study and take to life as a jw like a duck takes to water, a dream call for all jw's and we went onto to be good friends with them over the years, the book study was held in their house also, he quietly progressed up the jw ladder became an ms then elder, a few months after i started my fade i saw him one day while i waited for a bus and he acknowledged me i said hi etc and he started a verbal tirade towards me about me knowing its the truth, how close we are living to the end, how stupid i was turning my back on it etc blah blah blah, i couldn't really get a word in edge ways, i bid him good day and that was that, he really was quite angry, i never saw him again until recently over 25 years later when him and his wife and their son were having a meal in my local pub, he was standing at the bar ordering, i saw him acknowledged him said hi and he looked straight through me, he said "do i know you ?

" i replied " hey eddie its jookbeard from the ********** congregation, surely you remember me?

" he said sorry i've never seen you before in my life, his wife came over to help him with his drinks and i said "hey pat, how are you?

Searril

Whether these two were faking it or not, I obviously cannot say.

What I can say, however, is that there are A LOT of things that happened and a lot of ridiculous stories told that my own mother and father have conveniently "forgotten" about.

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BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!

by Atlantis in

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2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.

Searril

I can't tell you the number of times I have seen wearing a beard cause a "disturbance or distraction in {the} community" or my church.

Thank God for this timely, scriptural advice.

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Birthday

by charonsdog in

by the time i finish this post, i will have turned 50 years old.

i spent over 40 years of my life not celebrating my birthday, and it never seemed like a big deal to me.

three years ago, i received a cake and some friends sang "happy birthday" to me at a dinner party that was for a different event.

Searril

I had my first ever birthday party at 36 years old. It was a surprise occasion concocted by my wife and some friends.

I cried when it happened.

The Watchtower can kiss my ass. There's nothing wrong with friends and family showing love and appreciation for others.

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Affected by assembly

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

hi - first some context - i have been pimo for about 20 years now and so have been to a lot of assemblies in that time.

last weekend i went to a circuit assembly and for the first time afterwards i was able to talk directly to someone who knows i'm out.

i realised then that although i didn't agree with any teachings (i sat picking holes in the arguements as usual) the experience of being there had affected me - the way of life started feeling normal as did the overall way of viewing the world.

Searril

The mind is an extremely influenceable device. It was figured out a long, long time ago that if you just keep repeating stuff, even stuff that is clearly ridiculous, eventually a good chunk of people will start to believe it.

Goebbels knew it, too.

The Watchtower is just using these techniques that were developed long before them. It's why they are so adamant that you come to every meeting. Because a person who isn't constantly exposed to the conditioning will start to notice all the fallacies and the illogic in the teachings.