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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  I don't think shes accomplishing anything lasting but there's the potential for damage to her young psyche.

  Shame on her parents for selling her out.
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  Is There Anything You Can Be Thankful For Since leaving The JW`s.

  by smiddy3 in

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  i can ,the people i had influence over in joining the religion.,but have now left the religion.granted it`s family,except for one.. those that were active jw`s and have now left :.

  my wife .

  my two sons ,and a wife of one .

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  millie210

  I am happy to have my Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays back again.
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  Question About JW Library

  by millie210 in

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  i am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?.

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  millie210

  Thank you all for the comments.

  I have a very good friend who is PIMO who told me they had added in the old pubs now.

  I too am wondering about the modifications that might have been done.
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  Question About JW Library

  by millie210 in

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  i am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?.

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  millie210

  I am wondering how many of the older publications they include these days?
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  Can someone compare the midweek meeting now to what it was say in the 60`s - 80`s ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  i can`t believe the tidbits i`m finding out about the changes ,dumbing down of the meetings i used to attend and participate in up until the late 1980`s ...

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  millie210

  In the very early 60's the Written Review was a fearsome thing,

  Several pages of questions and pencils were handed out. Then dead silence (I mean dead) while you looked at the small print and hard questions. When you were done you handed in your test to be graded. You had to give back the pencil too.
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  Scowled At By A JW

  by pale.emperor in

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  yesterday i got home from work and decided to buy a case of beer because, why not?

  it’s monday.

  the shop is conveniently round the corner from my place.

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  millie210

  Its gotta be so fun to have an IQ just limited enough that you believe a tiny religious group is actually right when it tells you that you are one of the "chosen" and therefore have the right to judge all the losers around you. So fun! "The 'real' (TM) life!"

  Me? I'm just rattling around on planet earth living in the real world accepting people as they come, happy in the knowledge that wonderful things happen in life and the next one could be just around the corner.

  Oh how I suffer!
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  Lack of zeal

  by road to nowhere in

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  i hear rumbling about the rank and file not having the same zeal they had when new.. lets see: door to door at the time least likely to find someone.

  waste of a whole morning.

  isolated.

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  I would add the change in music. Some of the old songs had the ability to stir the spirit in people so to speak.

  The new songs seem to have disoriented the flock for the most part.
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  Totally-NOT-Holiday parties

  by neat blue dog in

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  anybody else in congregations that have parties in october for kids to dress in costumes and pick pumpkins, parties in november with turkey, fixings and candles, and parties in december with red and green colors and baking similar looking snow-themed desserts?

  (not to mention the spiffy new wardrobes for easter.

  i mean memorial season.

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  Holidays exist for a reason. They mark time, force people to slow down and think about the concepts that tie humans together.

  Thats a pretty powerful thing to eliminate without replacing.

  Big mistake on the part of the Org

  When I was "in" I always bought my kids Halloween costumes the day after (reduced prices at least) along with tons of candy.

  We always did a Turkey on T-day (because its cheap dontcha know) and I always took the kids to a lodge with snow for skiing at Xmas.

  All in an attempt to give them the best of all worlds.

  Now they are all "out" of the Org with me and life is so easy just letting things flow as they will.
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  2034 - A Future History of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by slimboyfat in

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  i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.

  back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.

  those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.

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  millie210

  Well I had to go back and read the original post (great job).

  The point that struck me is they need another oracle.

  Every great (and not so great) religion has to have one to rally and inspire people.

  Right now the GB is all drones and no charisma.
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  I’m Really Digging The Queen!

  by minimus in

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  at 95 , queen elizabeth is one sharp lady.

  she lauded those people that helped break up a terrorist attack.

  she didn’t take any crap from prince andrew and told him to take a hike.

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  She has done her job amazingly well and with much dedication.