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  Earliest Life on Earth Pushed Back Another 300 Million Years

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  researchers have found evidence of ancient microorganisms that lived in what is now western australia at least 4.1 billion years ago.

  if confirmed, the discovery suggests that life originated on earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

  .... the ancient microorganisms in question were found trapped inside zircons formed from magma in western australia.

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  This means that other goldilocks planets likely have some form of life.
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  Canada may get a new government today

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  the us elections suck up all the attention (and it's not even at the candidate selection stage!

  ) but canada actually has a national election today.. first results are starting to come in and so far it's all liberal party.. i think it's time harper and the conservatives got the boot.

  last premiere from the bush era.

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  Did y'all see John Oliver last night? It was on this very subject. He was a riot.
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  No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

  by wizzstick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

  )- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

  wow.

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  NPGs is a Bethel acronym. We used to use that expression when I was there to refer to obviously gay dudes who were at Bethel.
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  Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an idea i tested.

  works at both assemblies and conventions.

  i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

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  I need to do this.

  What I want to do is rip off the Borg web layout and rewrite the entire site including info from JW Facts and links to CoC and other apostate literature.
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  Young JW's with crazy abusive parents: You are not alone. Here's a crazy story from my past.

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first off, if you are in an abusive household and don't have the means to leave, you need to get help immediately.

  contact the police.

  they have resources to help you, especially if you have proof.

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  Not good. And he was an elder no? Did the two of you ever speak of it since?

  We never spoke of it again. We have a fair relationship now, if it wasn't for my mother. But that's a whole other story.
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  Young JW's with crazy abusive parents: You are not alone. Here's a crazy story from my past.

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first off, if you are in an abusive household and don't have the means to leave, you need to get help immediately.

  contact the police.

  they have resources to help you, especially if you have proof.

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  First off, if you are in an abusive household and don't have the means to leave, you need to get help immediately. Contact the police. They have resources to help you, especially if you have proof. If you do have the means to leave, GET OUT ASAP.

  
  Ask for help too and accept it if it's offered.
  
  

  Here's a story I'll tell that's not nearly as bad as some of your stories y'all have shared, but it was a turning point, of sorts, in my life.
  

  I spent a year in Bethel and when I got home I was 22 years old. My parents wanted to force a curfew on me. I resented it. I broke the curfew a few times. Sometimes by half an hour, sometimes by hours. It was a constant source of conflict. But I was pissed that I was 22 F-ing years old and I had a GD curfew. WTF, right? I lived on my own for the past year with no curfew. Why was I all of a sudden supposed to have a curfew again?
  

  One night, I went out with some friends they didn't know, and got home like at 2 or 3 am. My dad was livid and was waiting up for me. I calmly told him I wasn't out doing anything wrong and I was 22 years old and I don't need his curfew.
  

  He was screaming at me like I've never heard before, telling me that so long as I was living under his roof, I had to follow his rules, then he backhanded me in the face.
  

  I was shocked. But, choking back tears, I told him if that's how it is, then I will be moving out the next day. He probably thought I wouldn't do it because he thought I had no place to go. But I had to get out of there.
  

  The next day, I packed my sh!t and got out of there. I was fortunate that a friend with resources heard what happened and had a place for me to stay.
  

  I gratefully accepted.
  

  I didn't know TTATT back then, but I sure as hell knew I needed to get out of that situation.
  

  That was a toxic environment. I had to get out. If your situation is even more toxic, please get out and accept help when it is offered!
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  Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an idea i tested.

  works at both assemblies and conventions.

  i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

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  STA: I liked the idea. :-P

  Last convention, I set my wifi hotspot to "jehovah-is-a-sh!t-weasel"
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  Beast of no nation

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.

  i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.

  it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.

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  evolution seems to far fetched

  Are you sure it's evolution that you feel is too far fetched? Or the current hypotheses on abiogenesis?

  Evolution is an established scientific theory (scientific theories are hypotheses that have been proven) with a mountain of evidence to back it up.
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  No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

  by wizzstick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

  )- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

  wow.

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  But that is the problem, IT ISN"T !!

  Actually it is. Look at point number 4 under Behavior Control in Hassan's BITE model.

  
  
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  New Edition of the NWT Bible in the works!

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just noticed in the jw.org site that the watchtower society recently published online the first book of the study bible (matthew), a new edition of the nwt bible.

  so far, i'm seeing an overview of the book considered, and explanations of various verses of each chapter throughout.

  it is not a full commentary.

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  Oh wow! Are they really doing a revised version of the New World Translation? Did you also know that JWs don't celebrate Christmas anymore?!