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  Japan Renounces Pacifism

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  shinzo abe has won reelection in the japanese election.

  abe called the poll specifically in reaction to the threat from pyongyang.

  he asked for, and has now won, a mandate to change the pacifist nature of japan's constitution.

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  Good for Japan.

  NK needs dealing with. Cant have missiles flying over your head from some bloated, deluded nutter with a bad hairdo and be willing to just take it.

  Here's hoping NK's downfall is within my lifetime.
  
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  Help with a punchline please

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a joke in my comedy routine about never wrapping a gift in my life.

  it goes like this..... yesterday my girlfriend said "honey, when you go out shopping can you buy me sellotape?".

  sellotape.

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  "I think i've dated her".

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  "That reminds me your mothers coming round soon".

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  "Phoar! Just how i like 'em"
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  Oddest front covers on Watchtower or Awake

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my comedy i want to show the audience a large version of some weird front covers from the watchtower or awake.. do you have any suggestions?.

  cheers.

  paul.

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  Oddest front covers on Watchtower or Awake

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my comedy i want to show the audience a large version of some weird front covers from the watchtower or awake.. do you have any suggestions?.

  cheers.

  paul.

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  YPA change of picture

  by dozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anybody got any idea why the cover picture on the young people ask book was changed?

  they removed the picture of the boy bottom right & superimposed a different head.

  maybe the guy got dfd or maybe it was to change it to an asian guy rather than 2 caucasians?

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  They do love their photoshop dont they?

  It's like Nikolai Yezhov in Stalins Russia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov) Although that guy got what was coming to him in my opinion.

  
  
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  Why pigs???

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why did jesus supposedly cast the demons into a herd of pigs?.

  (matt 8 / luke 8).

  and, how were there so many demons inside one man, that when "released" by jesus, it took a whole pack of pigs to contain them??.

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  Why would Jesus obey the request of two demons anyway? They ask to be sent into the swine and he grants them that request. Why not just destroy them or send them into a rock or something?
  

  For those who actually believe in exorcism, knowing the demons name is a prerequisite to commanding them to leave the person. It's interesting that the account in Mark and Luke we learn of a man with a demon. The demon says "Legion, for we are many". It's only in Matthew do we read that there's actually two possessed men. And Matthew doesnt mention Legion.
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  The Trinity Easily Explained in 29 Words

  by maccauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a man can be a father .

  a man can be a son.

  a man can be a husband.

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  It's weird isn't it. The Catholic Church declares the God is 3 in 1 trinity and then gives the world

  the bible

  the scientific method

  the college/university system

  hospitals, foodbanks, orphanages, homeless shelters

  and is the biggest charity on the world. It's just weird isn;t it?

  No one else gave the world these kinds of fruits before.

  Stupid trinatarians.

  Have you never heard of William Tyndale? Martin Luther? John Wycliffe? How did the Catholic Church treat these men that tried to put the bible into the hands of everyday people?

  Scientific method? Tell that to Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye.

  As for hospitals, foodbanks, orphanages, homeless shelters - it's the least they could do for 800 years of burning people alive, torturing people, invading other countries, forcing natives to convert on pain of death (and then death anyway for most of them).

  Biggest charity in the world? How much money does the Catholic church have? How many Catholics are still starving in Africa?
  

  Cant beleive we're even having this discussion.
  
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  Things I Cant Stand Since Leaving Watchtower

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.

  now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.

  little kids in suits.

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  I just realized that i now only own one suit. I used to have four. FOUR!
  

  And the one suit i own is one lovely expensive suit. I mean, the only time i'll need a suit is for special occasions right?

  (or court).
  
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  Why "fancy dress" and "theme weddings" were BANNED by our Congregation!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our kingdom hall was in a boring town of 30,000 people so to spice things up me and some special pioneers living with us decided to have a fancy dress up party!

  what could go wrong?

  nice clean fun, and no booze (oh crap!).

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  That video... there's NO WAY i'd have believed this if i hadn't have seen it.
  

  At least someones putting the kingdom hall to good use

  I actually LOL'd at that!!

  In the congregation i grew up in fancy dress parties were banned. Before my generation was born our parents all had a fancy dress party and one elder came as Wonder Woman. He got severely counseled for it apparently, and it was a sore point to bring up even 20 years later.

  I would have went as JF Rutherford. Turn up pissed out of my skull with a 16yo female "dietician" on my arm making outrageous claims.
  
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  Just Bumped Into My JW Sister And Brother In Town

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so im walking through town today on my lunchbreak and spot the unmistakable walk of my younger brother.

  this is the one who left watchtower... well it turns out he's returned to the vomit after stupidly turning up to the 2017 convention and a few elders filling his head with seeing our dead dad in paradise and to "wait on jehovah".. a few meters behind him was my sister.

  she spotted me first, then hurried up her step to my brother.

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  So im walking through town today on my lunchbreak and spot the unmistakable walk of my younger brother. This is the one who left Watchtower... well it turns out he's returned to the vomit after stupidly turning up to the 2017 convention and a few elders filling his head with seeing our dead dad in paradise and to "wait on Jehovah".

  A few meters behind him was my sister. She spotted me first, then hurried up her step to my brother. Then he turned round and looked at me. One thing that stuck me was their expression. They look absolutely terrified to see me. They then sped up, my sister took out her phone and rang someone frantically and kept looking back at me as she was walking quickly away.

  Did i do something wrong?

  Yes i did. I waved and smiled. That must have done it. I wasn't gonna approach or anything, i was far to busy for that. But, wow, what a cult can do to people. Terrified to see someone they've known their whole lives who just so happens to disagree about there being a sky fairy who has the temperament of a toddler and loves blood.