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  Part II: it's time

  by Gorbatchov in

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  earlier i posted about the call from close family about that the end is expected in very short time.. today i had the opportunity to speak in person.. this is what is told to me:.

  - the gb speaks to us personality through broadcasting;.

  - the annual meeting was a very clear message from the gb;.

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  amiable atheist

  Blind faith in blind leaders is a great recipe for personal disaster.

  "We are roving about." Gerrit Lösch (GB)
  
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  Aussie Bush Humour - Do not listen if U cling to christian values.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  if your not worried about jw moral standards you may like to hear this verse, about the dangers posed by some makes of plastic chairs to manly men.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/818023414953244/permalink/1667787039976873/.

  dont forget to turn the sound on!.

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  amiable atheist

  The notorious JW-apologist will take this poem as proof that women cannot be entrusted with the task of responsible chair design.

  It's "The Terrifying But Tragically True Tale of Trevor's Trapped Testicle". Just an incident of bad luck. Nothing to invoke Christian values and morals about. In the end all is well, no lasting harm is done. So, rest assured:

  Moderate clapping and expressions of joy permitted.
  

  P.S.: Even a pair of Tight Pants would have served as a sensible precaution.
  
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  Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?

  by minimus in

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  so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.

  shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.

  men should be less masculine.

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  amiable atheist

  It's all about appreciating the difference between having a dick versus being a dick.
  
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  My brother-in-law is mentally out!

  by Kathy1978 in

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  2. experiences

  so....i’m going to rewind for a second.

  one of my brother-in-laws came over one evening late in 2016, november i think, just to hang out.

  we hadn’t seen him in a while and this is before we told anyone in his family we were out.

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  amiable atheist

  Thanks for sharing the good news. Everyone who leaves is a nail in the coffin of the WatchTower delusion factory.
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  Overcoming our Evolutionary purpose in order to save mankind (A most interesting discussion)

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  recently bret weinstein and richard dawkins sat down for a debate.in the following video, weinstein talks about what can be done to address an error in dawkins'selfish gene theory in terms of the new atheism's error and regarding religion as a mind virus.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm8fksjljtm&t=1096s_____and a good follow up:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5yn2g4h54&t=904s.

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  amiable atheist

  Marked for later. - But I noticed the oxymoron in the title of the thread:
  

  Evolutionary purpose -- WTF?
  
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  2018 Service Year Report

  by Rattigan350 in

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  2. beliefs

  is there any word on what the results are for the 2018 service year report?.

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  amiable atheist

  I wouldn't say they are "hidden", they just don't make it easy to find.

  Don't make it easy to find -- That's the definition of "to hide".
  
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  Treatment of families

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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  has anyone experienced that family members of the general flock and those of the elders were treated differently, unfairly, or just put on a pedestal just coz they were elders kids?

  where i grew up ,elders kids used to steal from their dads wallet right in fron t of us , and say to us that " if you say anything no one will believe you, i am the elders son".this went on from bad to worse , he grew up a constant liar, wore earrings to college and questionable association and clothes, involved in all things worldly.

  .i know this coz he had a worldy friend who lived next door to me.this neighbors house was his go to for a double standard life style.

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  amiable atheist

  Growing up as a JW and the son of an elder I often felt like living in a bubble in a bubble. As a JW kid there weren't a lot of other kids in my age group anyway, but if I wanted to hang out with someone not being from the "higher ranks" as it were, that was frowned upon, especially by my mother. I remember her saying, "they are just ordinary brothers", and I should make friends with other elder kids. I felt ashamed of her.
  
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  Does anybody have any idea how many ex JW sites their are around the world ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  in a conversation i had with a jw at the door some time ago he mentioned that their were heaps of apostate websites dishing out false information about jehovah`s witnesses .. i mentioned to him that if they were ex jw`s , so they knew about the religion ,maybe they are trying to tell you something.?.

  it just went over his head and that they all had an axe to grind.. anyway i was just wondering if anybody has done a count as to how many do exist in the whole world ?.

  even approximate guess-timations ?.

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  amiable atheist

  I entered into the Google search line: ex JW sites
  and it answered: About 43.500.000 results (0,44 seconds)
  

  That's pretty impressive.:-)
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  They would Stone us if the law would allow

  by ElderEtta in

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  2. beliefs

  several years ago unless i was dreaming i read a watchtower quotation that effectively said that they would execute us as disfellowshipped individuals if the law would allow.. was i dreaming?.

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  amiable atheist

  1952 or whenever - In JW time reckoning it's been just before the last corner.

  Anyway, this appalling attitude of dehumanising people, even members of the own family, by disowning them and practically declaring them dead, simply for not subscribing anymore to every whim of 8 old farts in Warwick, has never been softened; on the contrary, the cruelty only has ever been notched up wreaking havoc on hundreds of thousands of peoples' lives.
  
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  “Do You Know the Time?” From WT Sept 2018

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there is a one page article in the current wt study mag, sept 2018 pg 22 with the title “do you know the time?”.

  in that article it describes a number of different ways you can say the time is 1:30. it goes on to say “there are even places where that same time could be expressed as “half two,” meaning 30 minutes before two”.

  what i would like to know is this, where in the world does “half 2” mean 1:30?

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  amiable atheist

  In the German language we have not only "half-two" ( halb zwei ), in some regions it is normal to say "quarter-two" ( viertel zwei ), meaning 1:15. Likewise "three-quarter-two" ( dreiviertel zwei ), meaning 1:45.