I wonder if someone could count the number of JW marriages where one person is in and the other is out, what percentage would be wife IN / Husband OUT?
Somehow it seems women tend to be less likely to wake up from the cult delusion.
and this isn't a cult?
just saw my wife put on her name tag for the zoom assembly.... what the what?
i thought these things werent even live.
I wonder if someone could count the number of JW marriages where one person is in and the other is out, what percentage would be wife IN / Husband OUT?
Somehow it seems women tend to be less likely to wake up from the cult delusion.
i'm new to the forum.
i'm an ex-jw who actually faded from jws.
i'm here to drop by every once in a while to ask a question or two.
There was no Adam, and no Eve. And the fact the character Jesus believed they existed shows that Jesus is also made up by the same people who made up the story of creation, or that Jesus was just yet another clueless hippie who didn't know a thing.
i sat in recently with some relatives for the sunday meeting.
the talk was given by a bethel speaker, who at one point quoted john 20:25.
“but he said to them: “unless i see in his hands the print of the nails and stick my finger into the print of the nails and stick my hand into his side, i will never believe it.”.
. Remember this was from a guy who had been significantly beaten, which would of made carrying a pole heavy enough a support his under his arm almost impossible.
Yup, and what sense would it make for a criminal to carry perhaps a 10 foot stake to his execution? Then what? They spend the next hour digging a hole? Then nail a person to the stake, try to balance it while filling the hole around the stake, while making sure it's upright? Then removing the stake so the next criminal does it again. No way this happened.
It's so obvious that the stake was permanently placed, an what the criminals carried was the cross bar, which yes would then be lifted along with the criminal and hung on the stake. The stake remains for the next one. Now THAT makes sense.
one thing we were always taught in the past is how we should sit down and pray (kneel) to jehoober whenever we were at an event where they played the national anthem.
we had to actively disrespect the flag and anthem and be no part of the world, because we were our own country with jesus as king.. given kneeling/sitting for the national anthem is now the favorite pastime of the far-left and if you do so, you get associated with democrats, how do jehovah's witnesses now 'become no part of this world' when they have to disrespect the flag?.
I remember being a JW and going to a few games with fellow cult members, and once the national anthem started playing, our group keeping our hats on and staying seated, while the folks around us looked on with disgust and often with snarky remarks directed at us.
I never liked that. I always wanted to show respect but just had to go with the program.
it seems like the only possibilities are women of color.
no whites need apply.. maybe he will change his mind and ask hillary clinton?
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Well we know it will be a black woman, and this a clear indication of how idiotic American society is, where candidates have zero expectations for the intellect of Americans. After all he thinks a black woman will get votes from women and from blacks just because of what she is. Sadly, he's probably right.
It could well be that the VP pick might be important here, because Joe is almost 80. There is a chance that his pick might actually be President. From my side, I've been leaning on not voting at all. I won't vote for Trump, and I really dont want to vote for Biden + a radical leftist. Hope he chooses a centrist.
elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.
i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.
are we headed towards a dictatorship?
To be fair, the Latin sentence structure of the Second Amendment is confusing to some people, so their position strikes me more as inaccurate / incorrect / untenable / erroneous than unconstitutional.
But that's just me
Who gives a shit. It's really stupid this idea that we need to parse and decipher words written by men hundreds of years ago who knew way less that we do, as if they were Moses walking down the mountain with tablets.
These were MEN. We should be able to decide on our own what exactly is better for our country today without worrying what some guys thought was right that long ago.
look at the new york post online today and watch the videos of mayhem and destruction to the city with fires all over manhattan.
the police vehicles are being destroyed and torched and the rioting just goes on and on.. i regularly went to nyc sometimes once a month for years.
now, who on earth would want to go to this hellhole??.
Comrade DeBlasio wants to allow mayhem -- somehow he thinks that chaos and destruction will cause people to vote against Trump. To me this doesn't make a lot of sense. Why would voters vote against Trump when these cities are all Dem and Trump is the voice speaking out against the chaos.
Being that Trump is so behind in the polls makes me think it will be very hard for him to win, but if anything this sort of nonsense will only help him.
elections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.
i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.
are we headed towards a dictatorship?
Oh come on. Have we not gotten used to Trump saying random shit ? Remember buying Antartica? He just says stuff that is crossing his mind, there is never any impetus behind it.
He is not a statesman. Just take everything he says with a grain of salt.
from washington state to new york city to atlanta and california and so on, you see thousands of demonstrators trying to get rid of police, statues, monuments and anything they consider racially biased.. do you think this type of activity and destruction is working well for the country and it’s law abiding citizens?
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Good people do too little until it's too late or an escalation is necessary to correct things.
This is true. There is a huge silent majority of people just observing at the moment. They haven't done anything because ... well it hasn't gotten to their neighborhoods.
If you observe the antifa types that are rioting, they are soft weak teenagers who are bullies and don't have the grit to actually fight. They just want to take a hammer to a window.
The huge mistake would be to start targeting suburbs where people are armed and anxious. I could well see some rioters decide they will target a neighborhood and private homes and that is where this takes a huge turn.
this is a great movie.
it documents how dangerous the left is.
its on the verge of destroying the country.
IMO I first off don't believe the polls that put Trump so far behind. I don't buy that the people of the US are behind Burn Loot Murder.
The majority of people are not behind the protests and certainly not behind the rioting. These protests are probably the best thing that could have happened to Trump, however even with that taken into account, the fact that he is so much behind in so many national polls, makes me think that the path to victory won't be easy for him.
People hated Clinton, but they don't really hate Biden. If anything they sorta feel sorry for him, because he seem old and frail. We'll see what happens with the debates.
If Trump wins, you really have to wonder how much move divided people can be.