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Present day torture of a witness in Canada

by pseudoxristos in

the following is a partial quote from a jw forum.. .

re: present day torture of a witness in canada.

...she has leukemia.

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The father got some sleizebag lawyer. This whole incident has touched us personally.... The father in the mean time, has become even more insane. It has become known that he has guns in his home and so the kingdom hall will have to be locked during meetings. ...

!!!!!!! What crap!!! Where do they even make this shit up? As soon as someone disagrees with the all high and mighty god WTBTS they are immediately insane wackos with guns. I'd like to bitch-slap this idiot.

From this one postings all other JWs will immediately accept as fact that the father is an insane gun-toting madman.

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Elder Rips Off Elderly

by messenger in

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this gives a whole new meaning to a "hiding place from the wind.".

suspect in texas to return to miami.

staff reports.

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Hyghlandyr: The problem here is not that we X-JWs expect better from the JWs (we know better than that). It's that the JWs that the 'Elders' are supposed to be protecting are often taking advantage of their position to 'fleece the flock'. This is far from the first time I've heard of scams like this being made upon poor (often very under-educated) JWs. Sad to say there are a lot of JWs who prey upon the weak-minded people the religion attracts. Not just elders - but elders would seem to have an even higher standard of conduct being they're to be protecting the 'flock'.

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count down to extinction

by heathen in

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with all the escalating violence in the world today and senseless barbarism, how many people on this site are still living in any sense of security.do any of you have a bright outlook for the future of the world we now live in ?is the un the answer to world peace ?personally my out look is dim .i have seen plenty of posts about the god that will annihilate the earth by killing 99% of all people that do not follow his instructions but the way i see it is that mankind has spent the past 100 years trying to find more powerful means to destroy the population and the planet due to paranoia .can such an untrusting and suspicious species exist with such deadly arsenals at their disposal?

i believe it is just a matter of time before something gives and we are living in the mad max movie.

this is my first thread ,so be gentle and thanks for any participation.

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I am beginning to think you are a spoiled kid or something .I don't have a 1000$ computer and yes I have to work alot of hours to pay my bills.The majority of people in the world today do live in poverty.The point of this thread is to discuss the possibility of the world being destroyed by mankind.

Ha ha ! That's funny. I grew up on food stamps and moving from place to place each time the bills piled up too high. You say you don't have a $1000 computer - how are you participating on this forum then? Yes, we all work hard to pay the bills. Beats toiling in the fields all day just to grow food to survive the winter. Yes, many in the world live in poverty. That's true. But a much higher percentage of people live in comfort today then they did 100 years ago. Not to mention a 1000 years ago. In the USA in particular the great majority - even if 'poor' are not going hungry. I bet you are not hungry as you type - and I bet you have flushing plumbing, and water piped into your home. All things that were 'luxury' 200 years ago.

Man destroy the world? It's possible - but what are YOU goling to do to stop that? Huh? Oh that's what I though, you have no control over it. So why worry about things you cannot control? If SoDamn Insane decides to blow a nuke up in my back yard tomorrow guess what? I'll be dead, and that's that. In the meantime I will not have died from an ulcer or faced major depression from a constant worry over 'the end of the world'.

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count down to extinction

by heathen in

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friends

with all the escalating violence in the world today and senseless barbarism, how many people on this site are still living in any sense of security.do any of you have a bright outlook for the future of the world we now live in ?is the un the answer to world peace ?personally my out look is dim .i have seen plenty of posts about the god that will annihilate the earth by killing 99% of all people that do not follow his instructions but the way i see it is that mankind has spent the past 100 years trying to find more powerful means to destroy the population and the planet due to paranoia .can such an untrusting and suspicious species exist with such deadly arsenals at their disposal?

i believe it is just a matter of time before something gives and we are living in the mad max movie.

this is my first thread ,so be gentle and thanks for any participation.

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Oh gloom and doom, we're all going to die ...

We say as we type the message on our $1000+ computer. Communicatiing with hundreds/thousands of others who also have $1000+ computers. And the time to use them because we are not out in the fields 12 hours a day trying just to grow the food we need to survive yet another winter with no heat. We drink our coffee as we tpye the message of gloom and doom, and when we need to releave ourselves of that coffee we go to our bathrooms, do our business, and flush the commode. When we run out of that coffee, we jump in our vehicle of choice (often picking one of 2 or 3 in the garage/drive) and drive to the closest store (often a few minutes away). In that store is more food than you could eat in a year. Just waiting for you.

Then later after typeing our message of gloom and doom, we decide it would be nice to visit a foriegn country. So we jump in a plane, and a few hours later, we are living the high life in Europe, Asia, etc.

Oh what horrible times we live in!! I wish so bad I were alive 700 years ago, then I wouldn't face these horrible problems of war and famine and disease ... er, as I dump my shit and piss in the street below after toiling in the fields for 12 hours, picking yet another rotting tooth out of my head and wishing we could afford meat just once a year. Oh and don't forget the yearly bath I would take, wether I needed it or not. And then some local lord would decide to raid my village and rape my wife and daughter - just because he could. Sounds like a wonderful life!!!!

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Never Ending Treadmill Poster Depicting WT Life

by invisible in

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never ending treadmill poster depicting wt life.

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which way is up?

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Whatever MavTroll - 90% of the JWs I know showed zero compasion for the 'goats' but instead loved to imagine driving that 'goats' car and living in that 'goats' house after the birds got done pecking out the 'goats' eyeballs. And we've all seen many of those 'upbuilding' after armagedon stories the sizko JWs like to make up - and how they concentrate on all the killing of the 'bad people'. No remorse there! In fact didn't mommy (WTBTS) tell you not to show remorse for those your sky-daddy Yahweh, er sorry 'Jehovah' (yea - that's the same name!) kills? Compasion is a quality that is in very short supply in the JWs.

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The truth of the Resurrection

by RWC in

at this time of easter christians celebrate the foundation of their faith, the resurrection of jesus christ.

without the resurrection, the rest of the christian faith is in vain, with it, the whole plan of god is fulfilled and validated.

in other words, if the resurrection occurred it proves the existence of god and his plan for salvation.. with that in mind, i offer the proof that the resurrection is a historical fact that be relied upon:.

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1. Although we debate it here, there is no real debate among historians that Jesus was a real life person.

Ha! Prove it. Best I've seen that's entirely untrue. There are lots of texts that call to task the existance of Jesus the person.

You beleive whatever you want. But accept you must beleive it on faith, because whatever 'proof' you think you has is not 'proof' of anything. Just because someone wrote it down doesn't make it true.

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count down to extinction

by heathen in

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with all the escalating violence in the world today and senseless barbarism, how many people on this site are still living in any sense of security.do any of you have a bright outlook for the future of the world we now live in ?is the un the answer to world peace ?personally my out look is dim .i have seen plenty of posts about the god that will annihilate the earth by killing 99% of all people that do not follow his instructions but the way i see it is that mankind has spent the past 100 years trying to find more powerful means to destroy the population and the planet due to paranoia .can such an untrusting and suspicious species exist with such deadly arsenals at their disposal?

i believe it is just a matter of time before something gives and we are living in the mad max movie.

this is my first thread ,so be gentle and thanks for any participation.

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With all the escalating violence in the world today and senseless barbarism

Prove it's 'escalating'. Actually in many places it's decreasing - if you go by crime statistics.

Fact is things are going the same as they always have. You are still living under the hand of the WTBTS's gloom and doom message whereby you focus on overy bad thing that occurs in the world - ignoring the many wonderful things that happen on a daily basis. I personally find that for he most part people treat each other about the same as they always have. There are hateful people in the world, but they are far from being the majority.

As for myself, I would rather live in no other time in history - the world we live in is amazing - and opportunity abounds for most people. 200 years ago you were high society or you were basically a slave. No in-between. You lived a very hard life and died young. Often with no teeth .

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count down to extinction

by heathen in

jw
friends

with all the escalating violence in the world today and senseless barbarism, how many people on this site are still living in any sense of security.do any of you have a bright outlook for the future of the world we now live in ?is the un the answer to world peace ?personally my out look is dim .i have seen plenty of posts about the god that will annihilate the earth by killing 99% of all people that do not follow his instructions but the way i see it is that mankind has spent the past 100 years trying to find more powerful means to destroy the population and the planet due to paranoia .can such an untrusting and suspicious species exist with such deadly arsenals at their disposal?

i believe it is just a matter of time before something gives and we are living in the mad max movie.

this is my first thread ,so be gentle and thanks for any participation.

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Was this written in the 1300's? Because to me that was the most barbaric, gloom and doom time that the world has ever seen so far! Please no black plauge for me!!!!!

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What did/do you most look fwd to?

by SPAZnik in

after 29 years of bondage.... i'm loving living it up.. and wondering.... when you first left,.

what things did you most look forward to doing.

or, for that matter, what things do u still look forward to?.

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JBean: I know what you mean. I mean, for example, being able to contribute to the 9-11 fund and not feel guilty was tremendous. Or dontate blood. Etc, etc.

I guess that is another big one - being free to appretiate the life that I'm living right now and stop taking on burdens for the sake of a vague promise of something better ... and with that goes being able to take a bigger appretiation of humans around me instead of thinking everyone is evil cannon fodder for god's big 'a' day - and with that goes a bigger responsibility to them.

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What did/do you most look fwd to?

by SPAZnik in

after 29 years of bondage.... i'm loving living it up.. and wondering.... when you first left,.

what things did you most look forward to doing.

or, for that matter, what things do u still look forward to?.

NameWithheld

Hear hear on all those listed above!

Actually having the weekends to ourselves is simply one of the most enjoyable things ever! No guilt if we want to jump out of town, lay in bed late, etc. JWs never have even ONE day they can 'take off'.

No more 'being careful not to stumble others' crap. JWs are the most offendable people in the world! Everything you do offends someone.

Freedom to choose friends based on the fact that we actually like them, not because they are the only ones half-way decent at the hall and there is no one else to socialize with.

Freedom to explore all kinds of interesting ideas about life, god, creation/evolution, the universe, other religions, conspiracy theories, etc without having to watch out who we might offend by speaking of these.

There's lots more but those are the biggies!