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  Happy Winter Solstice!

  by jp1692 in

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  happy winter solstice to all!

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  the solstice this year will be extra special because it will be followed the next day by a full moon known as the cold moon, and depending on your location, you might be able to see the ursid meteor shower to boot.. enjoy!

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  Merry Christmas!

  
  
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  A recent antiwitnessing experience

  by john.prestor in

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  2. experiences

  i shared one of these before in which my approach left something to be desired, and i got some flack for that, and rightly so.

  so if this story doesn't go over well i won't share another... but given how it ended, i just had to share.... a few days ago i took a trip to a nearby city by bus.

  in the about 20-30 minute window between my connecting buses i walked over to a mcdonald's and got a cup of coffee, and when i came back to the little bus station i saw a literature cart sitting unmanned near the doors.

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  I appreciate the experience. However, what a waste of time.

  You should have wished them a Merry Christmas and moved on with your life.
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  Are the G.B.members really good business people ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if i was an author of a book i think i would be over the moon if i was guaranteed a sale of around 5 million or more books for my work.. the jehovah`s witnesses have over 8 million members plus relatives that are fringe dwellers who come to the memorial once a year ,.

  so what a gold mine they have been sitting on as a publishing house .. why didn`t they keep publishing books for the faithful ,they could have even upped the price , and the faithful would have paid especially in prosperous country`s in the west.. they could have milked this venture for years to come as the faithful would have bought anything they would have published .. and their prophets (profits) would have soared ,literally and figuratively for many more years to come ..

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  The GB has a winfall of $2 billion from the sale of the Brooklyn Heights property - which has nothing to do with their business expertise. How they manage this, time will tell.

  Which reminds me of an old joke. How do you make a million dollars? Start with a billion.
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  Penny Marshall, dead at 75

  by Nathan Natas in

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  2. entertainment

  from complications of diabetes.. "laverne & shirley" themesong.

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  let's not forget her work on my favorite show, the Odd Couple.

  RIP
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  Jehovah do you witness

  by NewYork44M in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was roaming youtube and found this song:.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvbdagacps.

  the profile: this song is 100% true as i have been a disfellowshipped jehovah witness for almost 25 years now.

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  I was roaming Youtube and found this song:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvbDAgACPs

  The profile: This song is 100% true as I have been a disfellowshipped Jehovah Witness for almost 25 years now. My Mom has never met my wife or her grandkid as the entire religion is still shunning me for having a sexual experience with an unmarried woman more than two decades ago in my late teenage / early adult years!
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  Facebook evangelising

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2226652490738312&set=a.106546726082243&type=3&theater this was posted on fb by a witness who l am " friends " with .

  she has since posted another jw propaganda piece .

  these look like they are from the wt and are official evangelising tools .

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  Posting on Facebook is a great way to count time and return visits.
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  This Is It?

  by Nevuela in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i can't say much out of fear of getting caught, but i overheard a jw i know on the phone with a friend talking about "how close we are to the end.

  " yeah, yeah, i know.

  we've been on the brink of armageddon for well over a century, but what struck me about this particular instance was what she said next.

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  Does anyone here recall attending talks of a similar nature in years or decades past, where the belief was that the Great Tribulation was finally imminent?

  Growing up in the Wt cult from the 1960s, I recall every event supporting the belief that the end was imminent. It was quite exhausting.
  
  
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  WT is lying about the actual publisher numbers

  by JustHuman14 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i left wt, 18 years ago.

  never thought that i would have witness such a massive doctrinal and structure changes as well.

  i find it hard to recognize that religion.. what i can tell, like all of ex jw's is that wt going down.. their corporate directors know it.

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  It is all about definitions.

  We may have a definition of a bible study and bible studies are down, simply change the definition:

  So if a rank & file JW makes a 5 minute long front door step return visit...it now is worthy of being called a Bible Study

  Losing pioneers, simply change the hour qualifications. What is it now?

  Publishers are down, call anyone who puts in 15 minutes a publisher.

  You may call it fraud, the Wt is simply redefining what they measure.
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  Kingdom Hall burned down

  by mann377 in

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  i hear that a hall was burned down in washington state.

  was shot at numerous times.

  is the wbts that desperate to merge congo's and collect insurance money and now the land has no building on it the land can be sold with no demo expense.

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  The Washington Post had an article today about this

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/12/09/another-jehovahs-witness-center-has-been-destroyed-month-rash-arson-attacks/?utm_term=.5a41d039bebc
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  Commuter Bethelite video

  by no-zombie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those who missed last weeks clam meeting, there was a video played that was amazing ... however not in good way.. we are all aware how thousands of full time bethelites world wide got the boot and put out onto the street.

  some having giving most of their lives to the organization, but often with no real way to support themselves other than to depend on the generosity of others.

  so when this video talked about how special it would be for those who could step up and become a commuter bethelite, it made me think how calculating the governing body must be.

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  So, this is CLAM format. UGG! I listened to about 20 minutes and found the meeting dreadful.