PaintedToeNail

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  Will the jw's get all excited about Russia in the Ukraine?

  by hoser in

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  usually when world events like this take place the dubs start into how the end must be so close they can almost taste it.

  maybe there will be some speculation about the king of the north and south again.

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  I know my parents and husband will be in a lather about this. Yet, I am calm, even after being raised a JW and having 40 years of brainwashing and occassional bouts of fear. After reading a little about history, you can see how things are repeated over and over again. Russian aggresson and war in Crimea are not new things. Yet the WTBTS will probably use this to attempt to get people out recruiting more.
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  A simple mental exercise can calm many of their fears...

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  so one of my "closet apostate" friends is a young girl.

  she's only in her mid teens, and knows ttatt... but sometimes she holds back because of the fear... the crazy amount of fear... she reads a lot of conspiracy theory/illuminati stuff... so that doesn't help.

  so she said "so many prophecies are being fulfilled!".

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  religious freedom my foot, cringe- worthy moments in FS

  by sparrowdown in

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  i remember talking to a highly educated man out witnessing once and the subject.

  of freedom of religion came up.

  the guy simply asked if the freedom of religion we.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Sparrow-very good observation. So much is bull when you look at it from another direction. Welcome, by the way.
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  Oh my God. Was my prayer answered???

  by quellycatface in

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  anyway, he applied for a lecturer's job at a college last week.

  he had a phone call today inviting him for an interview.. i'm kind of in shock.

  when we left 10 years ago, i was so upset after.

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  Serendipitous happenings...so wonderful for you. May you and your family be happy in your new home.
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  Qualifications for Gods Sole Channel--interesting article from the meletivivlon site

  by Jon Preston in

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  qualifications to become gods channel of communication[this article was contributed by apollos].

  the new teaching of the appointment of the faithful and discreet slave has arguably made 1919 an even more important date to jehovahs witnesses than 1914. appendix b1 of the revised nwt bible shows a time line of the message of the bible in relation to gods rulership.

  it is of note that the official doctrine of the establishment of gods kingdom in 1914 is not even mentioned only that satan was cast down around that time.. ever since the 1919 doctrine was announced at the 2012 agm, and subsequently published in the july 15th watchtower 2013, the appointment of the slave seems to have become a much more prominent topic in our teaching, and indeed in general discussion among witnesses.. of course we should remind ourselves that this new level of interest really has nothing to do with the date, and everything to do with the nature of the appointment.

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  Sledgehammer subtlety: The insidious reworking of Micah 6:8

  by rory-ks in

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  micah 6:8 might be - or have been - a favourite verse of many.

  the verse used to read:.

  "he has told you, o earthling man, what is good.

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  Is there anyone in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg-Pocono, or Allentown-Bethlehem area on here?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  if so, does anyone want to do a meet up?

  pm me if you do.

  would like to meet some people who are living through this experience too.. .

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  Shamelessly bumps this thread up...
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  Prayers

  by WhoYourDaddy in

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  i'm asking for prayers for my daughters.

  4 and 7 years old.

  i'm at the end of a painful divorce.. it's all really too large to wrap my head around it.. if you ask for a prayer for yourself or others.

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  PaintedToeNail

  So sorry for your pain, although I don't pray, I will be sending positive thoughts your way.
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  Is there anyone in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg-Pocono, or Allentown-Bethlehem area on here?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  if so, does anyone want to do a meet up?

  pm me if you do.

  would like to meet some people who are living through this experience too.. .

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  PaintedToeNail

  If so, does anyone want to do a meet up? PM me if you do. Would like to meet some people who are living through this experience too.
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  Bizarre comment about jw.org at SAD

  by sir82 in

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  recently attended a sad.. bethel speaker was gushing about the wt's embrace of new technology, in the part of his talk warning about "apostate" web sites.. a loose summary of his comments:.

  "and the brothers at headquarters have made it very safe for you to go to our website.

  in fact, the brothers talked to the folks at google, and they made a special arrangement so that when you type in 'j w period' into the google search engine, it automatically shows you the jw.org website.

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  Sounds like some kind of search engine optimization. Someone else had a recent post about everyone typing in JWfacts daily to change the optimization, might be a good idea. I only did it one time...