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  Apostate carts

  by Normalfulla in

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  so i've recently been travelling about usa and mexico and of course seen the carts parked at tourist spots all over and i had a funny thought ...if somehow we could get a bunch of identical carts together and print up a placard with a few key facts about the real truth with jwfacts logo and just park them right in the same areas ,dress up in our old meeting clothes and stand about with a coffee and look on our phones i wonder what response we would get from anyone ?

  or park them outside assembly's and just stand.off at a distance ...basically the same thing they do to all society !.

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  You don't need a cart. Just make a sandwich board and set it next to their cart. Then just walk away and collect your boards after they leave each day.
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  How long has it been since you have seen your family?

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  howdy guys!

  so how long has it been since you have seen your jw family or friends?

  or do you even care to have them in your life anymore?

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  Going on 9 years for my parents. I probably spoke to my dad over the phone about 3 years ago. I thought we were heading in the right direction. I think he only hangs on to being a Witness because he's spent the last 45 years of his life doing it and now he has a few precious years left.

  I have a brother. I haven't seen him in 11 years, but he is no longer a practicing Witness. We talked about a year ago.

  I have sister I haven't seen in 11 years. She's definitely all in on the Witness thing. She's raising her kids in the cult.
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  Missed 1914 by that Much

  by truth_b_known in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you remember the mars climate orbiter?

  it was a probe launched by nasa designed to gather data on mars.

  the problem is that the probe never reached mars.

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  Do you remember the Mars Climate Orbiter? It was a probe launched by NASA designed to gather data on Mars. The problem is that the probe never reached Mars. The reason: NASA forgot to convert their measurements from English standard to Metric prior to the launching of the probe.

  1914 has been a key date for Jehovah's Witnesses. It is supposed to mark when Jesus was enthroned over God's kingdom, all invisibly of course, and begin the "Last Days" of the generation that would not pass away. How did this date come to be?

  According to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, it all stems from Daniel's alleged prophecy of tree being cut down and then eventually growing again. 7 times of 360 days of a Jewish calendar from 607BCE to 1914CE. However, much like the Mars Climate Orbiter, we have a data conversion problem.

  The Jewish lunar calendar consisted of 360 days, as gathered from Daniel's prophecy. After all, Daniel was an Israelite, so it would only make sense he would prophecy in using his own calendar. However, in October 1582 much of the world adopted and still uses the Gregorian calendar. A calendar that not only uses 365 days a year, but every fourth year adds an extra day, bringing the total to 366 days.

  I will freely admit that I am horrible at math, so please feel free to correct my calculations. With that being said I'll let the reader run the numbers.
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  This years memorial defeated me and I didn't even go

  by Ghiagirl in

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  2. experiences

  i have not posted in a very long time here.

  i would say about a year.

  i was part of an ex jw chat that was very helpful, but a few months ago stopped being apart of it.

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  One of my favorite supervisors at work likes to use this phrase:

  "We need to either fish or cut bait, but we need to stop trying to do both."

  What helped my family and I was to just get completely out. There are 7 million Witnesses. There are 7 billion people on Earth. Your chances are statistically higher finding true friendship outside the organization than within.

  I haven't spoken to my biological family who are Witnesses in years. I am actually happier being completely free of the Witnesses than being active or inactive.
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  Was it just me or was something different about the memorial last night?

  by kpop in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was the first memorial that i declined to do any work for the memorial.

  i was assigned as a parking attendant after getting downgraded from doing the sound and had no intention of doing either task but i had to attend for my family and continuation of my fade.

  i sat there last night listening to the talk and couldn't help but shake my head as my brain attempted to process the bs.

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  There's nothing like showing up to a party in which the guest of honor doesn't show.

  "We attend to show our respect for the arrangement."

  Seriously - If you know ahead of time that not one partaker is going to be present, why hold the event? It's like preparing a massive dinner party and then everyone shows up, stands up against a wall, and watches a table where no one is seating with food no one is going to eat.

  Why not just have the speaker ask: "Is anyone here tonight going to partake of these emblems?" If no one responds, call it a night.
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  What on earth is happening to Arsenal?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  it turns out arsenal were soundly beaten 3-0 yesterday by crystal palace.

  apparently, the score-line flattered arsenal, not palace.. arsenal have conceded 3 goals in each of their last 3 away games and lost those games.

  a few weeks ago, they lost 10-2 over two legs to bayern munich.

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  They're still the greatest team the world has ever seen...
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  To those taking a stand and not attending the Memorial tonight

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  i salute you.

  many of you, like me, are probably under enormous emotional pressure, whether from a lingering false sense of guilt from your indoctrination, whether from "invitations," and assumptions that you'll naturally be coming, or whether from outright emotional blackmail, even begging and pleading.

  i am thinking of you whoever you are, all of you, even though i don't know you in person.

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  Redpilltwice -

  You just dropped a bomb on me! I never thought about the fact that the 1914 prophecy is based on our modern calendar and not the Jewish lunar calendar used at the time the prophecy was written. Good catch!
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  Animals, Blood, Food, and JW Beliefs

  by dubstepped in

  1. watchtower
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  i'm just thinking aloud here.

  i watched a show yesterday and they were talking about how the largest mammals of the sea (whales) fed on such small creatures (plankton) rather than eating some other large creatures.

  anyway, it got me thinking about how as jws we thought that in paradise animals would all be herbivores, that they would no longer eat other animals.

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  I had an elder's wife once tell me that the t-rex used its teeth to rip bark off of trees it ate.
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  1986- U.S. bombs libya!

  by nowwhat? in

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  reagan orders bombing of libyia target's kadaffi.

  i vividly remember calling my pioneer buddy "ok this is it get ready for ww3!

  " guess what nothing happened.

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  I remember being in high school when the first Gulf War started. I was sitting at the dinner table with my family and my dad told us that Armageddon was about to begin. A year later I graduated from high school.

  Now, my oldest graduated high school 5 years ago. My next son is in high school.

  Where's Armageddon?
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  Proof they are not a cult??

  by lriddle80 in

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  the following is from a facebook post and..maybe i am missing something, but none of these items disprove them being in a cult.

  jehovah's witnesses are often mistaken to be something else.

  some say it a secret cult while others believe something else.......i'm very proud to tell you my readers that i'm one of jehovah's witnesses.. below are 17 facts that shows jehovah's witness is not a cult..... 1. there are currently about 8 million jehovah's witnesses around the world.. 2. an average of over 800 people become jehovah's witnesses daily.. 3. we keep coming to your doors even though we have regular jobs and family like you because we are admonished to do so by jesus christ.. 4. we do not participate in wars and for this reason more than 1600 jehovah's witnesses were killed by hitler.. 5. there are currently over 300 jehovah's witnesses in prison in south korea and egypt because they refused to stop preaching or enlist in the military.. 6. we don't salute the flag or say national anthems because we pledge our allegiance only to god.. 7. yes we have fun and party too so don't get that twisted.. 8. not many of us know the name of the president of our headquarters because we do not pay any reference to him he is a fellow servant of god just like the rest of us are.. 9. you earn the privilege of becoming a jehovah's witness.

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  That's not "proof". It's just a list of statistics.