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  Repercussions for sexual immorality

  by Veryconflicted in

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  hello, i was hoping to get some clarification about how people are disciplined for immorality as a jw.

  i became involved with a co-worker a few years ago, she was fairly aggressive and she initiated a physical relationship very quickly.

  at the time i did not know she was married and a jw.

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  You should run like hell, However she does sound like an interesting girl. What's her phone number?
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  Waco Mini-Series on Netflix. Powerful and Scary.

  by Simon in

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  so we binge-watched the waco mini-series on netflix.. wow, what a powerful and enlightening programme!

  even if you think you know what happened, it gives you extra context to it all.

  it's very well done even if you just want a great drama series, but it's way more than that.. there are of course some dramatization and slight historical inaccuracies for the purpose of story-telling but it was very informative.

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  What not trust our governmental agencies! This speech is shocking who can hear it.
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  Covid 19 Mortality Rates Calculated from CDC Data by Professional Data Analyst

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  student (age 6-18) deaths from covid-19-involved illnesses are projected at a rate of 0.0001% as a percentage of their peers.

  they died from influenza-involved illnesses at a rate of 0.0005% in 2018.. workforce (age 19-55) deaths from covid-19-involved illnesses are projected at a rate of .01% as a percentage of their peers.

  they died from influenza-involved illnesses at a rate of .007% in 2018.. retired (age 66-77) deaths from covid-19-involved illnesses are projected at a rate of 1% as a percentage of their peers.

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  There is a bigger story going on here.

  This panic-demic was a planed-demic. This "social distancing" does something else too. It prevents people from getting together and talking about how they are being manipulated by the powers that be.

  This is nothing to what is coming in Chapter 2, stay tuned.
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  Do not miss your flight!

  by Lets Think in

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  P.S. It's never too late to grab you parachute!
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  When Was The First Time You Ever Got Drunk?

  by 1234 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was 20 years old and at bethel for just a couple of months.

  i was really depressed, as i was finding out what bethel was really all about.

  i drank a whole bottle of cold duck, after a long hot subway ride back to brooklyn.

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  I was 20 years old and at Bethel for just a couple of months. I was really depressed, as I was finding out what Bethel was really all about. I drank a whole bottle of Cold Duck, after a long hot subway ride back to Brooklyn. They don't even make that discussing stuff anymore. The story is all in my book "New Boy"
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  Midweek Meeting looooooooong prayers.

  by Davros in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing that aggravates me is long concluding prayers, especially at the midweek meeting.

  you work all day, rush home, grab a quick bite, dress up in meeting clothes.

  then, go to the meeting.

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  I use to thing of it this way. If you gave a 5 min. prayer and there was a 120 people in the audience you just wasted ten hours of people's lives.
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  A new army boy missing his parents?

  by sinboi in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just imagine.

  boy who for 16 years have been taught to live for god’s kingdom, be no part of the world and not to kill, been called up for military service and have to put on the army uniform….. i thought i was prepared for it.

  but the moment when i was given my army uniform, the truth fell on me.

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  1234

  Sorry buddy but I believe the Jehovah's Witnesses got this one right. Getting a job in a "kill or be killed" business doesn't sound to bright.

  1. You might get yourself killed

  2. You might have to kill other people not all of whom might be males but women and children too.

  3. Having engaging in that activity (idem 2.) you might come home PTSD.

  Five of my class mates did and ending up taking their own lives.

  This is the ONLY reason I was glad to be raised as a JW.

  Good luck in your new career.
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  Midweek Meeting looooooooong prayers.

  by Davros in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing that aggravates me is long concluding prayers, especially at the midweek meeting.

  you work all day, rush home, grab a quick bite, dress up in meeting clothes.

  then, go to the meeting.

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  By the way the record is Knorr at the end of the 1958 convention in New York City almost 45 mins.

  Yes, I had that problem too up to 19 years ago.Then something strange happened I stop going to these stupid meetings after 50 years of them.

  "Doctor it hurts when I put my finger in my eye!"

  "Don't put your finger in your eye!"

  I see......
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  1 Corinthians 15:26

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you will die.

  i will die.

  those who have gone before us, the great and the small, the powerful and the weak, have shared the common fate of dying.

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  The big mystery all through the book "Catch 22" was "Snowden's secret."

  In the end of the book we all find out what it was.

  Snowden's secret is that we are all made out of flesh and blood...thus mortal.
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  Quarantine, A Time for Self Reflection

  by 1234 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "are they keeping you busy?".

  i'm not quite sure what this means but maybe you have been asked this question in the pass.

  as in busyness is some kind of sign that things are going good.

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  1234

  "Are they keeping you busy?"

  I'm not quite sure what this means but maybe you have been asked this question in the pass. As in busyness is some kind of sign that things are going good.

  Yes, people's lives are full of lots of activities, school, work, shopping, taking kids to soccer ect. and hell, if you are a Jehovah's Witness drop in hundreds of hours of meetings, field service ect.

  Years seem to fly by as busy days turn into full weeks, as the months fly off the calendar.

  Yes, "life" kept us busy. How much of these activities were really important? Of course my 50 years and 1000's of hours as a Jehovah's Witness, accomplished a lot...lol

  But the whole concept of working fifty weeks a year at a job that was not that enjoyable so you could spend two weeks on vacation doing what you really wanted do, didn't seem to make much sense either.

  Of course as a Witness there could never be "real" happiness in this old system. True happiness is always in the distant future. Pie in the sky when you die.

  The journey should be the enjoyable part, not the destination.

  My 40 year old son who has moved back in with me wants to bag the whole thing and move to south America and travel around there for awhile. I told him he should do it.

  Being a good Jehovah's Witness I always did what I was suppose to do. I never had a real childhood. Pioneered and went to Bethel. Got married the week after Bethel and went to work. Fifty years later here we are.

  Now there is plenty of time to look back on all that "busy" work I was doing.

  So what is my advise?

  If something doesn't feel right don't do it. If it's a marriage, a job, a religion....Your "gut feeling" will never be wrong. Your mind will be wrong often but your heart never will be. Going against your "gut feeling" will only create a life full of regrets.

  Namaste my friends

  Keith