They all sound like they have a sprinkle or two (or dash or whole damn shaker) of David Splane... the songs I mean. The new songs. This song. They all sound the same..
To think, I was once like one of those “earnest ones”....
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The jw builders choir omg
by Gorbatchov inseems like the genesis song jesus he knows me.. g.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/?applanguage=e#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201910_12_video.
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KURD is the word - and the word is KURD
by Terry inkurd is the word - the word is kurd________who the heck are they?.
once upon a time, world war one ended and three people created a new place out of thin air called: iraq.
(gertrude bell, lawrence of arabia, winston churchill).this new country was divided up into 3 chunks:kurdsunnishia_____solemn promises made by colonel t.e.
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Muddy Waters
Marking to read later, looks so interesting
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2019-October 8, BOE!
by Atlantis in2019-10-08 boe.
supporting the congregation as a pioneer.
https://docdro.id/sf2rkwx.
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Muddy Waters
Ha, I remember the Pioneer Assist program... I was one of the ones they tried to pair with a pioneer sister. (Aside: despite name, I am female)
Well, I was quite excited about it, because I really looked up to this sister... she was so “spiritual”, gave awesome comments, blah de blah, so amazing wonderfulness. ✨✨✨
But, heh, she wasn’t so keen, it turned out, to be paired with me. (shock, dismay, sadness, sorrow, woe is me, sinful me....) We never even went out once. Not once. Ever.
When I would ask the elders about it, the brothers (TM) would tell me that it was “still being set up” and that I should wait on Jehovah (this made no sense, wouldn’t I just wait on this sister to call me, or I call her?)
Well, as usual, “waiting on Jehovah” means... nothing. As in, Nothing happens.
I’d see her at the hall and smile hopefully at her, lol, but she’d always look away quickly or be on the other side of the hall no matter where I seemed to be, haha. Such a spiritually weak pathetic thing I must have been.
I remember the hurt feelings and confusion, but now it all means nothing. All Moot. A memory quickly dimming and fading away....
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2019-October 8, BOE!
by Atlantis in2019-10-08 boe.
supporting the congregation as a pioneer.
https://docdro.id/sf2rkwx.
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Muddy Waters
Wow, thank you! Amazing. Feels like reading “1984”...
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From ABC News - Australia
by no-zombie inthis morning, this article appeared on our national online news channel; the abc.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-10/jehovahs-witness-abuse-exposed/11561776.
no-zombie.
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Muddy Waters
Thank you, no-zombie, for posting this, and thank you, doug mason, for making a pdf file!!
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JW.Org data
by snare&racket into think they have hung the blue and white sign on every building they own in the world and that this was a publicity campaign with the presumed backing of the god of the universe....... it's not going well.. despite the 8.5 million followers, who through design have to visit the site......it isn't even in the top ten..... top fifty..... top one hundred ......top two hundred visited sites globally.. users on average click through 7 pages per visit and don't stay long, averaging about a minute a page.. as for the data on its search over time 'jw.org' is now googled globally at a rate less than 25% of its peak and is usually associated for a search for the daily text.. .
between this and the carts, the only message getting through to real people is 'child abuse' and that woman from king of queens taking an interest!.
i sincerely think we are seeing evidence of what has been anecdotal decline...... waited long enough for it!.
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Muddy Waters
Awesome, thank you for breaking this down, excellent.
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Blondie's Food For Thought 10 6 2019 WT Study, Let Your Love Abound (August 2019 issue)
by blondie inblondie’s food for thought, 10/06/2019 wt study article, let your love abound (august 2019).
opening comments:.
i have been trying to condense my previous comments/highlights format.
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Muddy Waters
Hm.
Blondie, I love you and all the hard work you do. How you can do this is beyond me… and so appreciated🌷
May I say that I prefer your previous format? It’s easier to comprehend when it’s all laid out there, and I do not want to visit JW dot Organization...
It was easier to have the paragraphs separately discussed, as well as being able to scan through or skip ahead or skim as need be.... 😄🤗
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The smug arrogance of "having the truth".
by stuckinarut2 inhas anyone noticed that witnesses (from the top down) seem to have a quiet form of smug arrogance toward all non witnesses?.
perhaps it comes from being told how "special and unique" they are but they end up looking down on all normal members of the community because they are not witnesses.. so any form of "love" they show those in the territory is also limited as long as they accept the message...otherwise they are viewed contemptuously as "worldly" and therefore of little value...after all,they will be destroyed right?.
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Muddy Waters
Finklestein, This is what hurts the most about being in that goddamn cult....
The way I treated my non-JW family… and everyone not “in the truth”.... it takes time to forgive yourself, and for some of them even to forgive you.... 😥
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The smug arrogance of "having the truth".
by stuckinarut2 inhas anyone noticed that witnesses (from the top down) seem to have a quiet form of smug arrogance toward all non witnesses?.
perhaps it comes from being told how "special and unique" they are but they end up looking down on all normal members of the community because they are not witnesses.. so any form of "love" they show those in the territory is also limited as long as they accept the message...otherwise they are viewed contemptuously as "worldly" and therefore of little value...after all,they will be destroyed right?.
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Muddy Waters
Omg... yes... the smugness, the arrogance...
Juxtapositioned against being meek, lowly, humble, submissive... a worm... a grasshopper... nothing but dust... a weak, inferior, fleshly organism... unworthy... sinful... imperfect... unrighteous... undeserving of kindness... doomed...
And then, footstep followers, blessed by the sovereign of the universe... clean, righteous, holy, moral, like a pig washed from his mud, like a dog not eating his vomit... a precious pearl... highly valued in god’s eyes... blessed with special knowledge and insight, saved from the wicked world... upstanding... a glory to the nations, a spectacle to the world... (the JWs somehow thought that was a good thing, the spectacle to the world thing, where people would oooh and aaah at our holiness and uprightness...)
Yes, omg, I think I even have some wrinkle lines of total smugness still etched on my face... but they are changing...
I remember once even praying, “Oh Jehovah, thank you that I have the truth, and that I am not like these sinful, worldly people all around me...” and then I stopped cold, because I sounded JUST LIKE the Pharisee who was praying how thankful he was that he was not like those sinners... I remember feeling very confused and not knowing what to think... the cognitive dissonance was strong at times...
And yes, I totally agree with Sparky that JWs do not have the market on arrogance smugness... I see it and recognize it instantly with any person or group or religion who also holds similar, superior types of views ... which I now find very sad, divisive, and un-enlightened ...
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Annual Mtg Points
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inmatt 28: 19 is the year text.
new understanding on joel ch 2 who are the locusts?.
there is a new building addition to warwick in the works.
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Muddy Waters
I wonder what the new understanding is of the locusts..... ?