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  Jehovahs witnesses investing in stocks involving pornography, alcohol distribution and military war weapons??

  by Ghiagirl in

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  why is this the first time i have come across this?

  my husband showed me a video about how the jws invest in stock like cinemax, disney, companies producing war weapons, alcohol and much much more.

  if this is true, there are tax records to show for it right?

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  Landy

  WT does not invest. But people may have long-term investments made for example from before they became JWs and then the WT has inherited these stocks upon their death, and as far as I have understood it, US laws in certain respects are such that one cannot "get out" of the ownership. There are some very technical discussions here that seem alein to us non-US ones, but that at least is how I have been able to understand it.

  
  Who the hell do you think you are, coming on here with your facts and reasonableness. We need more groundless assumptions and half baked theories dammit. And more posts starting with the word 'wow'.
  

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  Many are leaving their enforced, inbred and inherited religions, and surprise it's not just JWs...

  by UNCONDITIONAL LOVE in

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  i want to share this great article from an informative website on religion and how it is an age old play on emotions and why many are fleeing from religion, including you.

  the other insightful articles on this website will help to soothe your complex worries and open your eyes to a great reality.. one love.

  http://wakeup-world.com/2015/11/21/waking-up-from-religion/.

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  What would that name be?

  I can think of one.

  Bye Uncondtional Love - don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.
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  Has anyone been outed by jw health care workers?

  by purrpurr in

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  carrying on from audespare thread.

  i was wondering how common it is for a sinner/apostate to be outed by a babbling jw care worker?

  say you went to your dr because you were pregnant and unmarried or wanting counseling for having to live a double life as a pretend jw... and a jw secretary at the drs office saw this on your file and went tattling to the elders?.

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  But what she got crushed her, as to be a nurse was her hearts desire.

  
  

  It can't have been that much her heart's desire if she was willing to sacrifice her professional integrity over an everyday procedure.

  If she can't accept a patient's right to confidentiality then the nursing profession is much better off without her. Good riddance.

  And it's got nothing at all to do with abortion and everything to do with JW brainwashing.
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  Has anyone been outed by jw health care workers?

  by purrpurr in

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  carrying on from audespare thread.

  i was wondering how common it is for a sinner/apostate to be outed by a babbling jw care worker?

  say you went to your dr because you were pregnant and unmarried or wanting counseling for having to live a double life as a pretend jw... and a jw secretary at the drs office saw this on your file and went tattling to the elders?.

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  The JW nurse was praised for putting KH purity ahead of her medical profession and confidentiality,

  Not sure where you're based but if that happened in the U.K. and the NMC (the professional regulator for nurses and midwives) got to hear about it she would be removed from the register. And rightly so.

  
  
  
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  She displayed a literature cart in front of my house: That does it for me!

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  is this something they've asked them to do?

  cart displays in front of their homes?

  my mom is only in her mid 60s so i'm quite sure this is not an issue of mental illness.. the only illness she's suffering from is boredom since she's refused to work for years now.

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  Shouldn't laugh but ...... :D
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  Jehovah Witness vs Jehovah's Witness

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being brought up as a jehovah's witness means you are so used to the term that you rarely stop to think about it.. one thing i've noticed is that people unfamiliar with the religion will say "jehovah witness" (no 's) instead which i always found a bit grating.. but watching the us election, something struck me.

  people are often referred to as "trump supporters", not "trump's supporters" and so on.

  thinking about other things, people would say they were "united fan's", not "united's fans" and so on.. it seems weird that a group would refer to themselves as though it was someone else talking about them (in the 3rd person, if i have that right).. what do you think?

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  And what island man said - he's got it spot on.
  
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  Jehovah Witness vs Jehovah's Witness

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being brought up as a jehovah's witness means you are so used to the term that you rarely stop to think about it.. one thing i've noticed is that people unfamiliar with the religion will say "jehovah witness" (no 's) instead which i always found a bit grating.. but watching the us election, something struck me.

  people are often referred to as "trump supporters", not "trump's supporters" and so on.

  thinking about other things, people would say they were "united fan's", not "united's fans" and so on.. it seems weird that a group would refer to themselves as though it was someone else talking about them (in the 3rd person, if i have that right).. what do you think?

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  Bad grammar of any kind irritates me......especially in a potential partner and their literacy skills are worse than my kids.

  My irony meter has just exploded ;)
  
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  The question of who man/woman actually is...

  by The Rebel in

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  naturally leads to the question of god.

  why does man need god?

  why does man create god?

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  For me I believe in God as cannot believe everything came about by chance,

  Evolutionists don't believe everything came about by chance either.

  Creation or chance aren't the only two options despite what the WTS would have you believe.
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  New Brochure: Answers to 10 Questions Young People Ask

  by Designer Stubble in

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  2. bible

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/teen-questions/1 who am i?2 why do i worry about my appearance?3 how can i talk to my parents?4 how can i fix my mistakes?5 what if i’m being bullied at school?6 how can i resist peer pressure?7 how can i deal with the pressure to have sex?8 what should i know about sexual assault?9 should i believe in evolution?10 how can the bible help me?basically a compilation of previous wt articles.let's take chapter 9 on evolution:statements as quotes below are really going to help jw teens defend creation: [quote]“if you were walking through the forest and discovered a beautiful house, would you think: ‘how fascinating!the trees must have fallen in just the right way to make this house.’ of course not!

  it’s just not reasonable.

  sowhy should we believe that everything in the universe just happened to come about?”[/quote][quote]“imagine that someone told you that there was an explosion at a printing plant and that the ink spattered onto the walls and ceilings and formed the text of an unabridged dictionary.

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  Statements as quotes below are really going to help JW teens defend Creation:
  “If you were walking through the forest and discovered a beautiful house, would you think: ‘How fascinating!The trees must have fallen in just the right way to make this house.’ Of course not! It’s just not reasonable. So why should we believe that everything in the universe just happened to come about?”
  “Imagine that someone told you that there was an explosion at a printing plant and that the ink spattered onto the walls and ceilings and formed the text of an unabridged dictionary. Would you believe it?”

  
  

  Great isn't it. Ridiculous statements that a 1st year biology student would be shaking his head at.
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  Excuses for God

  by xelder in

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  2. beliefs

  i am amazed at how people will go to extreme stretches of logic to explain or justify the supposed actions of their god (lower case g intentional, no upper case deserved).

  i have seen people with wonderful bullshit detectors in normal life, throw all of that ability away in order to retain their hope of a creator who cares for them.

  i am agnostic, certainly not atheistic, since i think atheism is not provable.

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  Cofty beat me to it.

  Atheism dosn't need to be proved. It can't be proved as it's a negative. The natural state is atheism, It's the existence of a deity that has to be proved