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  Everyone should be phlegmatic about the FIFA World Cup

  by BoogerMan in

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  because it's taking place in catarrh.

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  Me too. Good joke about phlegm!
  
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  Struggling to find a purpose

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

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  i spent most of my life in the org.

  we were taught that our purpose in life was to serve jehovah.

  that never really made sense to me, but it was still a purpose to keep going.

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  Think about a candle. It has a relatively short "life," yet we cannot say the candle has no purpose just because it is ultimately burned up and gone.

  Our life is similar to the candle. We don't last too long, then we're gone. But like the candle, while we're here we can serve a purpose; we can bring light (wisdom) and heat (passion) into the world.

  Many JWs I knew in my long-ago youth would have said the purpose in life was to "be happy." I still think that is right, and even more so when you take a dictatorial band of hypocritical theocrats out of the picture.

  "God" does NOT need your money, you do. If your comfortable, find a cause you support and do what you can. If you are physically able, give some of your energy to a cause you believe in. Here are some you can consider: Doctors Without Borders, aid for wounded veterans, children's hospitals, animal rescue/welfare, legal justice, and religious charities. Even though I am not a Believer, I donate to religious charities because they are usually more effective at getting money to where it is needed, unlike many quasi-scam popular "charities." You can get information online about which charities are most efficient.

  Let us know what you discover within yourself.
  
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  Who will Survive Armageddon?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  breaking news....there is hope for good hearted non-jws!!!.

  according to sergio:.

  are jehovah's witnesses the only ones to be saved during the end time?.

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  Who will Survive Armageddon?

  EVERYONE!!!!
  
  
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  Christmas, yes or no ?

  by jhine in

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  2. beliefs

  i have just started to steep the mincemeat for my mince pies in dark rum .

  christmas is a big deal in my family and circle of friends.

  however among ex jws it's a bit different or so l understand.

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  Yes, Jan, Christmas may be everywhere, but to the JW kid it is all WRONG and EVIL... in capital letters, too!
  
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  Christmas, yes or no ?

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just started to steep the mincemeat for my mince pies in dark rum .

  christmas is a big deal in my family and circle of friends.

  however among ex jws it's a bit different or so l understand.

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  Anyone raised as a JW has a cultural deficit; they have no emotional attachment to Xmas, indeed, they may have emotional attachments to anti-Xmas memes.

  Let me give you an example. Most of us on here do not have Asian heritage, correct?

  What does the holiday Obon mean to you? Anything... anything at all?
  

  Most who were raised as JWs don't have Obon, and they don't have Xmas.
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  Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  thesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

  happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

  truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.

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  Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?

  Are you high?
  
  
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  How do Jehovah's Witnesses differ from first century Christians?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  let me start with a couple of distinctions.. first century christians:.

  1. baptized military personnel.. 2. baptized men with political authority.

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  Q.: How do Jehovah's Witnesses differ from first century Christians?

  A.: Today's Jehovah's Witnesses have not been dead for nearly 2,000 years.
  
  
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  Is There Life On Mars?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  no, i'm not talking about the david bowie song, i'm asking does life exist on mars?.

  opportunity rover (the one before the present one) took photos of strange, puffball-like sphericals seemingly sprouting on the martian surface.. these photos aren't conclusive evidence but it is an exciting area to investigate.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9546225/scientists-claim-evidence-fungi-red-planet.html .

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  LoveUniHateExams, spherical objects can have inorganic origins. A metor crash can easily raise temperatures to the melting point of silica, and the molten blobs can harden into spheres if they spend enough time in the atmosphere. Until we collect some of those spheres and examine them, we cannot know how they formed.

  Personally, I believe that as we extend our exploration of the solar system we will find that any planet or moon with liquid water we will find life. Even on Pluto, with its suspected water and obvious reddish-brown "tholins".
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  Becoming a JW

  by Mum in

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  i rarely post here, but i often check in.

  i used to post on h2o as well.

  i think i once posted some of this on h2o, but there are many new ones who have joined since then.. i first encountered jw's at the age of 9. it wasn't in the door-to-door work, however.

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  Mum: Nathan Natas is my pseudonym on this board, just as (I'm assuming) your real name is not Mum. My actual name is Jim Hill. I was in Lexington in the mid 1960s, so I doubt we met. I was born before 1950.
  
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  Becoming a JW

  by Mum in

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  i rarely post here, but i often check in.

  i used to post on h2o as well.

  i think i once posted some of this on h2o, but there are many new ones who have joined since then.. i first encountered jw's at the age of 9. it wasn't in the door-to-door work, however.

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  Franz & Co. made a prediction that the end would come in 1972, but it was carefully concealed under a page of arithmetic, so almost NO JWs latched on to it. This was in a WTB&TS book whose title I can't recall right now.