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  Anyone ever get blow back for owning and riding a motorcycle?

  by JimmyYoung in

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  my wife's family rode motorcycles all their life.

  her grandfather was an elder.

  i was told by some dubbers that it was not christian to use a motorcycle.

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  When I was in my early teens I was an avid bicyclist and once took a 70-mile bike expedition by myself along Long Island's north shore just to see a state park that was being developed out there.

  A couple of years later, in the late 1960s, when I was in my mid-late teens, I was really interested in having a motorcycle because it was a less-costly ticket to freedom. My mom didn't like the idea (she laid claim to any money I made from any kind of employment) and was advised by the elders that it would be "inappropriate" for a baptized JW like me to have a motorcycle.

  After all, Jesus didn't have one!

  Mom won, of course. I had my first car AFTER I married and moved out of her house.
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  Old friends - remember "Yerusalyim"?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone here know what became of "yerusalyim"?

  he was a good guy.

  just wondering....

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  Does anyone here know what became of "Yerusalyim"? He was a good guy. Just wondering...
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  First Proper Chat With the JWs in Almost 11 Years

  by passwordprotected in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since disassociating in october 2008, i've had little to no direct contact with the jws, apart from immediate family members (ie my parents).

  i've lived in my rented flat since may 2014 and haven't had a knock on the door in that whole time.

  until saturday morning.

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  Passwordprotected, were you once here under the name "Yerusalyim"?
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  Special meeting next month (February 2020)

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was announced today that we will have a special weekend meeting next month.

  it will be 3 hours long and will include some streamed content.. no explanation was given as to what the meeting will be about, only that it will be exciting and we will not want to miss it..

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  I'm thinking that it WILL NOT be about Armageddon starting.

  Probably some bean-counter has decided it would be good to use BOTH sides of the toilet paper so they can save Jehovah money.
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  The end is so close now....

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aren't they tiring out from saying this now?.

  a jobo pimi-lite i know has a terminal illness (no names, no pack drill), was told, 'hold on, the end is so close.

  the pimi-lite said they will need to hold on to their 'go bags(tm), then!.

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  LOL @ Sour Grapes!

  "It is so close that you better not buy any ripe bananas. Buy green ones to give you a couple of more days for the end to come and still enjoy your bananas."

  Brothers, let us enjoy our bananas as there is yet time!
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  Wow! I'm tripping

  by OriginalFlower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this old place is still around?

  holy moly what a trip stumbling into this place from the good ole days before the 'new' social media😃.

  i used to have tons of long late night conversations with some good friends here...like 15-20 years ago!

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  I've been here with the same name and avatar for more than 19 years!
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  The meek will inherit the Earth- not

  by waton in

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  2. bible

  today's daily text 1-17 2020. .

  the other sheep will be tenants, not owners in paradise, they will be only " allowed to live there.

  " w 2018 sept page 19, par #8&9.

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  Expect a dramatic increase in the number of anointed!
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  I can just imagine the hype that is going on in Australia about how close armageddon is now with all of these bushfires occurring.

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. beliefs

  it brings to mind my niece when she see`s how dry the countryside is ,how armageddon must be so close..

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  Yeah, because nothing says "ARMAGEDDON!" like bush fires -- unless it is thunderstorms and floods.
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  Self Driving Vehicles

  by TD in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was so stoked about the whole idea a few years ago, but am having serious misgivings at this point.. what are your experiences / impressions / opinions?.

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  Among the benefits of being an "ancient worthless" as I am (other than the incontrovertible facts of wisdom and mature manly good looks) is my perfect recall of prehistoric events.

  One such event occurred on July 21, 1956, when the US TV series "Science Fiction Theatre" broadcast the episode titled "The Phantom Car (Season 2, Episode 14)" which explored just this subject. It was MAGNIFICENT!
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  Russell's followers in British Columbia?

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i was interviewing a guy for a podcast episode today and he went and saw his grandmother over christmas to gather some history.

  he wasn't raised a jw but it turns out his family was actually opposed to the jws because they went all the way back to russell.

  according to him (from her stories), they refused to follow rutherford and that's where the split took place.

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  I don't have any information about the history of Bible Students/JWs in Canada, but I know there was a book published in Germany in 1928 the title of which is, in English, "The Desolations of the Sanctuary" written by Otto and Emile Sadlack, who were outspoken against Rutherford. English-language versions of this book are available on Lulu.com and Amazon.com.