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  The JW FUNERAL experience

  by Terry in

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  2. experiences

  my best buddy is gone.

  i attended his funeral this morning.. on thursday evening, i went to the body "viewing" and it was "family only.

  " i am part of the family (through marriage) so, i was there.. i was welcomed with joy and enthusiasm like a long lost (prodigal) sheep.

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  really feel for you Terry... can't imagine how I would feel if I lost my lifelong best friend
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  This week's resurrection video, will it backfire on the wt?

  by prologos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the resurrection is supposed to be a joyous occasion?, if it ever happened!

  --well, this week's showing at the hall was the opposite, it was about death with violins playing in the background.

  a recently bereaved member, , full of tears, (like many others) could not contain herself.

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  I remember this being played at the DA.. a sister in our cong had found out the day before that a friend of hers had died, she was in bits when she saw this video. She spoke out quite vehemently against it. She's a died-hard jdub.
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  1958 Convention Program. 8 days from 9am till 9pm. Anyone attend?

  by StopTheTears in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how in the world did they justify this torture?

  imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.

  for 8 days.

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  I was a baby so can't remember this one but I remember others that were as long. Particularly the 1969 international. As a child I always remember them as an adventure but it must have been a nightmare for my parents with small children!
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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

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  2. current

  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  I've lived in the uk for nearly 6 decades, I've travelled to many countries in Europe and been to several cities during those years. I've seen guns on only two occasions. Once in Paris on armed gendarmes on the Champs Elysee and once on border guards in the old Yugoslavia.

  Of course it's not to say it'll never happen, you just need to be vigilant in certain places. But if you put your life on hold just in case you might get caught up in something then you've let them win. It's like saying you're not going to go out in your car just in case you meet a drunk driver coming the other way. You have to be realistic and live your life to the full.
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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  Freemindfade... but it isn't... Europe is huge. Paris has had a couple of attacks and Brussles one, last time London had one was several years ago. How many aeroplanes land every day in European airports, how many people every day take public transport?You are far more likely to have an accident in your car than be a victim of terrorism. The effect it's having on you and others is just what these terrorists want.

  I live in the Uk and am going on holiday to France this summer, do I feel scared? No way!!
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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
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  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  The media seems to like to create this image of islamist terrorists spreading throughout Europe and taking over. It's not like that. I speak as a European. Yes, there have been terrible tragedies in both Paris and Brussels. But what about Yemen? Afghanistan? Pakistan? Iraq? Syria? Turkey? They have far more terrorism in their countries than any European country, Back in the 70's and 80's the UK was a target for the IRA... terrorists under a different name.

  Europe is probably a far more peaceful place than the US. Take a look at the statistics.

  Rural areas of Europe are wonderfully peaceful. Don't be afraid to come. It's what the terrorists want. Don't let them win!
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  Confused: What does the overlapping generation really mean?

  by MicaSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can someone help me understand how the wt came up with the overlapping generation theory?

  i just don't understand it even though i read the information several times.

  it's bewildering.

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  tornapart

  MicaSmith, you might find this of some help from jwfacts overlapping generation
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  Confused: What does the overlapping generation really mean?

  by MicaSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can someone help me understand how the wt came up with the overlapping generation theory?

  i just don't understand it even though i read the information several times.

  it's bewildering.

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  It was this teaching that finally did it for me... I could see it was totally bizarre and the only reason for coming up with it was to prop up their teaching of 1914. I realised it couldn't prop anything up and for me the rest came down like a pack of cards.
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  Muslim Shopkeeper Murdered for Wishing Friends a Happy Easter on Twitter

  by cofty in

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  horrible crime in glasgow on thursday evening when a well loved muslim shop keeper asad shah was stabbed to death by at least one other muslim man.

  mohammad faisal, a family friend, said a bearded muslim wearing a long religious robe entered mr shah’s shop and spoke to him in his native language before stabbing him in the head with a kitchen knife.. mr shah had posted the twitter message ‘good friday and a very happy easter, especially to my beloved christian nation’.

  residents of shawlands in glasgow say he was well respected and had been known to hand out christmas cards to neighbours despite being of a different faith.. hundreds have turned out in a vigil near the crime scene....

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  I would just say that one was a decent human being and the other a brainwashed fanatic.
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  GB member in Brussels

  by tornapart in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know if someone else has posted about this but apparently mark sanderson was in brussells for the memorial, someone on fb with a public profile posted some pics and said he'd turned up in brussels, that a guy who had been sent to the bethel there had just got off the metro when the bomb went off.

  don't know how true it is but there was a few ooohs ahhhs .. how wonderfuls .... photo.

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  Don't know if someone else has posted about this but apparently Mark Sanderson was in Brussells for the memorial, Someone on FB with a public profile posted some pics and said he'd turned up in Brussels, that a guy who had been sent to the Bethel there had just got off the metro when the bomb went off. Don't know how true it is but there was a few ooohs ahhhs .. how wonderfuls .... photo