Wow, st! Thanks for that information. How can we know what we really think if we are never challenged? My views are mostly liberal, but I have many Facebook friends with ultra-conservative views. I need them more than ever now.
Posts by Mum
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25Information Gatekeepers
by still thinking ineverything you look at and search for on the internet has been recorded and tailored specifically for you.
theyve figured out how to filter everything which they call a filter bubble.
we dont get to decide what we do and dont get to see anymore.
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JWStruggle post: Bethel Layoffs Reveal a Kingdom without Clothes
by Londo111 inhttp://www.jwstruggle.com/2013/07/bethel-layoffs-reveal-a-kingdom-without-clothes/.
despite everything, i still have a lingering admiration toward those who serve or have served in bethel.
it is not that i believe it is gods organization in any way, shape, or form.
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Mum
When I was a dub, a young couple who had both been Bethelites and got married in New York came to my congregation in the South to serve "where the 'need' was great." The young man had learned a skilled trade (sheet metal work, I believe) at Bethel and was very employable. Unfortunately, this case is the exception rather than the rule.
Before dumping people onto the mean streets of the real world, Bethel could at least teach them a marketable skill so they can earn a living.
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I get so tired of people complaining about everything President Obama says or does
by booker-t infor the past 4 1/2 years i have heard everything said about president obama and now the lastest "obama being the anti-christ" just have me laughing my head off.
where do people get nonsense like this?
do they just sit around the kitchen table and say "what are we going to say next about obama and michelle?
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Mum
When discussing people and their problems, it is much more useful to describe behavior than to call names. Name calling gives no information about what the person did that is perceived as wrong or hurtful.
Obama is one of the most intellectually gifted presidents of my lifetime, IMHO.
Mitch McConnell and some of his cronies set out from the beginning to discredit everything Obama has tried to do. Recently, I heard Obama express frustration about how everything in Washington is ruled by politics (therefore, not what is best for the American people).
My biggest complaint about Obama is that he is too willing to compromise and allows his opponents to get the better of him.
All of that having been said, freedom to criticize the president and other public officials is one of the radical freedoms that make America a great country.
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New JW.org video on "helping" prisoners
by cedars inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-vjlssg3xi.
you can't help but feel sympathy for these guys.
some of the things they did will have been horrendous, but they are paying their dues to society through their incarceration.. what they don't deserve is to become mentally imprisoned to a damaging cult.. .
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Mum
"Jehovah's witnesses are all about education and improving oneself."
Huh? Something has changed or somebody's lying!
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I had a dream.
by TotallyADD inas many know reopened mind and i have had a very angry letter sent to us by our oldest son.
cult.
cult.
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Mum
There is power in dreams sometimes. Don't dismiss it entirely. My heart goes out to you.
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Who Is Watching The Watchtower?
by Bangalore inwho is watching the watchtower?.
http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2013/05/who-is-watching-the-watchtower/.
bangalore.
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Mum
This is great publicity for victims of domestic violence. Thanks for posting it.
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our own apostate governing body
by bigmac inok folks--for the fun of it--lets have nominations for our own apostate governing body.. .
please nominate who you would like on this aposta gb--and--importantly--why.
sorry--simon --you are excluded from this--wouldnt be fair otherwise.
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Mum
I have no wish for a governing body except myself. I have entered into the joy of having no master.
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Wish me luck!
by Mum inon wednesday the 10th, i went to bally's casino for tryouts/auditions for who wants to be a millionaire.
i passed the written test!
then i had to fill out a questionnaire in which i had to try to sound like an interesting person.
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Mum
Thanks, Sophie and Billy! I don't know for sure yet whether I'm going to be chosen to be on the show, but I did well with the preliminaries.
When (if I get chosen as a contestant and if I remember) I do a thumbs up, it's for you guys.
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Website with known apostates listed
by besty inhilarious - made my day.
who could forget senior pu?.
https://sites.google.com/site/silence1492/facebook-youtube.
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Mum
There are slanderous comments about some of these "apostates." I wonder if they know.
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Does the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" have a free pass to be able to judge others
by I_love_Jeff init seems we have a contradicition here:.
"determining whether someone has gone far enough to be guilty of gross uncleanness or loose conduct is a serious responsibility, for lives are involved.
those judging such cases should do so prayerfully, asking god for his holy spirit, discernment, and understanding.
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Mum
The answer to your question is a matter of opinion, of course. I think those who claim to be the F&DS believe they have a free pass to judge or do anything else to ruin other people's lives.
I do not agree. And the "purity" nonsense needs to go! JW's are no more "pure" than anyone else.
No one but God has any right to judge anyone else. It is incumbent upon each of us to accept our fellow human beings, treat them all the same and respect them all the same, and leave the sifting and judging up to God or Jesus or whoever has that assignment (who is no human being or other earthly being).