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  The JWs don't like Chess

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i can remember when i joined the chess class in middle school.

  my mother brought out an older watchtower article about how chess is a game of war.

  since i left the cult in 95 i have slowly lost any connection to the cult.

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  I am an avid chess player, as hopefully my avatar shows.
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  Will JWs get DFed if they are caught with old JW publications?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was told that if a jw now gets caught reading or with old jw literature they can get dfed.

  i doubt this is true but wanted to know for sure.

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  I call B.S.
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  Suing The Music Industry

  by Lost in the fog in

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  jehovah’s witnesses file copyright lawsuit in response to blundering christmas album - listen, obey, and be blessed.

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  https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-file-copyright-lawsuit-in-response-to-blundering-christmas-album-torrentfreak/.

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  I predict that they will reach some sort of agreement out of court and then we'll hear no more about it.

  As an aside, I think it is kind of sad that the WT would waste their time and resources to prevent one of their songs from being recorded and distributed, especially when the artist was doing it in a positive way. I know it is part of their doctrine and belief system to be 'separate' and all that, but this issue just underscores how stupid that belief system is.
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  Suing The Music Industry

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. social
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  jehovah’s witnesses file copyright lawsuit in response to blundering christmas album - listen, obey, and be blessed.

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  https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-file-copyright-lawsuit-in-response-to-blundering-christmas-album-torrentfreak/.

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  I also liked Aled Jones version better than the original. The arrangement modulates into a different key, for the last verse I think, which has a nice effect. It takes a good singer and orchestra to do that well, and he does a good job with it.
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  Look which religion made the "super" status top spot on Doomsday Cult List

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  why was i surprised?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klix_bigtxc&t=1396s&ab_channel=geneticallymodifiedskeptic.

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  The premises security at WT headquarters (and at local Kingdom Halls too) are something I understand. 9/11 and then all the shootings over the years since then have made it necessary. Workplaces, churches, movie theaters, schools, nothing is safe from the looney with a gun. It's awful, but necessary nowadays.
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  Look which religion made the "super" status top spot on Doomsday Cult List

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why was i surprised?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klix_bigtxc&t=1396s&ab_channel=geneticallymodifiedskeptic.

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  Interesting. He has had significant contact with the Witnesses to be able to make his presentation so factual. At least he has JW family members or close friends who were JWs.
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  Suing The Music Industry

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. social
  2. current

  jehovah’s witnesses file copyright lawsuit in response to blundering christmas album - listen, obey, and be blessed.

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  https://www.toptutorials.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-file-copyright-lawsuit-in-response-to-blundering-christmas-album-torrentfreak/.

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  I remember sometime back in the '90s there were some really nice recordings of the then-current Kingdom songs circulating, some in English, others in German if I remember right. They cracked down on that pretty quick, which I thought was a shame.

  On another note, I seem to remember a couple of the Kingdom songs being recorded by some of the music professionals who were witnesses. I think George Benson recorded one. Maybe someone can recall which song it was.
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  -0:6 negative growth 2020 service year

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  phttps://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=e&pub=syr20&srcid=share .

  plus another increase in memorial partakes number etc .

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  slimboyfat5 hours ago

  Thanks, I don’t know that I’ve been translated before!

  Wow, I'm kind of jealous
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  Remind re: The "Cult" Label

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  if you accuse people of being stuck in jw mindset or "cult-like" mentality simply because someone has a different view of politics than you, you'll be deleted.. it's insulting and a lazy substitute for having any real argument for a proper debate.. what next ... "you smell" ?.

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  I think that cult behavior is seen more on a spectrum rather than all-in or all-out. A book which changed my thinking on it was one by Arthur Deikman, 'The Wrong Way Home; Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society'. (1990) He doesn't mention JW's at all, and most of his case studies are non-religious, but it is a an eye opening book.
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  Time, times and half a time - nerd time

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, the famous 607 calculation to 1914 involves the above prophecy.

  the common explanation is that time is one unit, times is an unsubstantiated number of units.. to prove you can make it say any date, we must write it as a formula:.

  date = t + nt + 0.5t where n >= 2. so simplified:.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  lol