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  After 15-17 years JW daughter coming by for a visit today.

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is something going on in jw land i don't know about.

  she and her new husband and my two.

  grand daughters, one i have never seen.

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  Maybe she heard the recent official announcement that Armageddon will be here before 2040 and she wants to save your life?

  Her motivation may be loving and concerned, but her worldview is wacko.

  Ask if her belief in this date is so strong that she will sell all she has - yes, even all her shoes - and throw herself and her family headlong into the full-time misery? OK, they may call it "ministry" but WE know it for what it is, don't we?

  Or will she follow the example of the Watchtower Governing Body and simply pay lipservice to this "new light" while carrying on like nothing was going to happen?

  The GB is right - nothing is going to happen! They just like to keep people "tuned-up" and in line by spouting bilge every so often.

  Fair warning - after her visit she will be angry at you for rejecting her message of doom.
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  Scary Dream

  by freemamaof3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a little background- i faded in august 2015. ive got to small kids and one on the way.

  i dont believe the jw cult nonsense anymore.. .

  ok so last night i had the scariest dream.

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  Greybeard said, "100% Ya think? Right on Nathan, we got to talk someday..."

  I am incontrovertibly certain of it, because this was revealed to me IN A DREAM.

  
  

  No, sometimes I just like to say things to make people jump. Dreams are the garbage-disposal units of the brain. The reason they seem plausible and believable is because they are snippets of our individual memories. If they were snippets of SOMEONE ELSE's memories, we wouldn't recognize them, and we'd be arrested for peeping-Tom-ism and we would owe royalties to the person whose memories we just viewed.

  It's simple. Fortunately I am simple too...

  I've read your story, Greybeard. Rough. You didn't deserve much of what happened to you.
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  Muhammad Ali has died few minutes ago.

  by Iamallcool in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muhammad-ali/index.html?adkey=bn .

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  LoveUniHatesExams said, "PS "not so old" - he was 74. He had his three score years and ten, plus a bonus of four years. Not bad going for an ex-pugilist."

  It was in 1984 that Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and the last 3 decades of his life were spent suffering from that disease, so consider him tragically "gone" at 44.

  For WitnessMyFury, a quote: "That is not dead which can forever lie, and in Strange Eons even Death may die."

  
  
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  Scary Dream

  by freemamaof3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a little background- i faded in august 2015. ive got to small kids and one on the way.

  i dont believe the jw cult nonsense anymore.. .

  ok so last night i had the scariest dream.

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  Dreams are 100% accurate predictors of events that happen in a parallel universe.
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  Muhammad Ali has died few minutes ago.

  by Iamallcool in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muhammad-ali/index.html?adkey=bn .

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  DID you know...?

  When Cassius Clay became Muhammed Ali and refused to comply with the US Draft, his case was presented to the Supreme Court by the famous alcoholic Hayden Covington, who established the rights of JW book-sellers to be considered "ministers."

  I personally benefitted from Covington's work (indirectly), yet I would rather he (and I) had never been born.
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  JW Video Armageddon to occur before 2040

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sorry i thought it was a new morning worship video but it is 6 months old and has already been discussed on here..  it is presented by gb helper k flodin and about this generation.

  the delusion and hypocrisy runs deep.. he reminds the cult members not to speculate because they aren't supposed to know the day or the hour.

  then he proceeds to speculate that armageddon will occur before 2040.. https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201511_3_video.

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  2040, eh?

  Is this a "clever" way of obfuscating 2034, the "bible-based" date arrived at by adding the 120 years of Noah's "ministry" to the date 1914, the year when suddenly, nothing happened?

  Apologies to Blondie, I replied before I read her comment.
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  Feeling Sad After Uncovering TTATT

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my initial pangs of unease and doubt led me to research some things.

  well, a lot of things really.

  i've never felt comfortable using the bible to try to calculate dates (1914).

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  It is fitting that this has been compared to experiencing the death of a friend.

  Familiarize yourself with the stages of grief; you should give yourself permission to spend some time with each stage. Your anger may be great; direct it in an appropriate way.
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  New Member

  by DangerMcDanger in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my name is jimbo, i'm almost 20 years old, and i live in southern california.

  here we go, here's my story (i feel like i'm in an aa meeting haha):.

  i was invited by a friend who, looking back, i could tell was buttering me up for months so she can lunge on the perfect opportunity to invite me to a meeting.

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  Hi, I'm an atheist.

  I'd like to suggest you visit one of our churches sometime.

  To keep a low profile, we call it "the Zoo."

  There is probably one near you.

  Drop in, visit for a while, and let us know what you think of the sermon-of-the-day. K?
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  Try Being Kind...It Actually Feels Good!

  by EyesOpenHeartBroken in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  let me start by saying that this forum has been helpful to me in many ways.

  i haven't gotten involved in much commenting and i am not very assertive by nature so i've steered away from participating in debates.

  but i have read threads often and had a sense of community.

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  EyesOpenHeartBroken, you're a chick, right?  

  
  

  Or are you living in some kind of neo-hippie "piece & luv" fantasy land?

  
  

  Hope I didn't add too much to your broken hearts club band.

  
  

  
  
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  There will be a Funeral service for Prince in the Kingdom Hall this sunday

  by Farai in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  about 30-50 high profile guests are expected among 300 other guests.

  the kingdom hall has requested for support from the police for crowd/traffic control .

  http://kstp.com/news/email-details-prince-funeral-minnetonka-jehovahs-witness-kindom-hall-police-traffic-crowd-control/4136002/http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/05/13/prince-memorial-scheduled/.

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  Prince: Judge Demands DNA Tests As 700 people Lay Claim To His $300 Million
  

  please see: http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/05/07/prince-dna-tests-estate-fortune-siblings/

  I think some JWs take the terms "brother" and "sister" a bit too literally when the whiff of cash is in the air.