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  Kobe Bryant is dead!

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/kobe-bryant-dead-five-time-nba-champion-was-41-report-1272963 .

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  iwantoutnow

  I thought this was a great example about how Kobe touched people's lives.

  http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=28580630
  
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  Flood over everest

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  meeting part comment on how the flood covered everest.

  that is even more ignorant than mountains being pushed up and eroding in a few thousand years.

  and it wasnt cold either.. i should have commented on the bristlecone in the awake that survived the flood.

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  iwantoutnow

  True Story

  Even as a ALL IN ELDER, UBER ELDER in fact, I had to battle this over and over to no avail.

  I had a part and an elders wife made the comment about there being NO RAIN till the flood.

  So after the meeting I told her nicely that that was very old thinking, and not accurate.

  I showed her in Genesis where there were 3 rivers in Eden and asked her, so where does the water come from for rivers. She reluctantly kinda agreed. (I know she never changed her mind).

  WORSE

  
  

  A friend who at the time was a MS, and someone I thought was reasonably smart made the same comment to me.

  When I told him, well we dont think that any more, and the 3 rivers thing, he seemed to not get it.

  I asked him how do rivers form, where does the water come from, his answer floored me.

  "The Ocean I guess"

  OMG!!!! I wanted to just explode.

  FYI - the WT has said for many decades that the mountains pre flood were much much smaller. They dont say that the flood covered Everest.

  They say tons of silly bullshit - we don't need to embellish.
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  Gwyneth Paltrows candles in the wind

  by smiddy3 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  are you put off with gwyneth paltrow`s marketing of a brand of candles she advertises as "smelling like my vagina " ?.

  she sure has gone down in my estimation as an actress and /or role model for young women if that what she was ever about in the first place .. how gross is that ?

  and the interview i saw after this with her was one big joke ?

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  iwantoutnow

  Sounds great to me!
  
  She is also promoting psychedelics now wich has been shown over and over in clinical trials to be A) not toxic B) so helpful with many issues like depression and addiction.

  So as fruity is some can rightfully think of Gwenny - she is doing good by my book.

  No one has to pay her any mind if they dont want to by the way.
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  Congregations That May Dissolve Soon!!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from a member of the board asking for this to be posted.. hi.

  i'm pimo.

  could you please let people know about this?

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  iwantoutnow

  Columbia Heights ?
  

  Really? I guess since no GB there anymore.

  I went to that one a bunch of times when a close relative was volunteering at the branch there on a number of stints.
  
  
  
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  Kobe Bryant is dead!

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/kobe-bryant-dead-five-time-nba-champion-was-41-report-1272963 .

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  iwantoutnow

  I think the public over idolizes professional sport athletes.

  I think what happens in these cases is that it brings the reality of death being around the corner for anyone smack in your face.
  
  Celebrities are like a common friend we all know, and are of course are seen as privileged and larger than life.

  When something tragic happens to them, I think inside it can hit us harder knowing there is no escape from death, and something silly as a slip and fall, or as horrific as a helicopter crash can happen to anyone at anytime.

  This hit me pretty hard.
  
  After a lifetime of really believing "that I will never die", and now becoming an atheist with no belief in any afterlife, the knowledge that it's all over pretty soon, and that my past was stolen, and my future is not what it should be is sadly a daily struggle for me to cope.

  My kids are everything to me.
  And even that has been adulterated by the WT.
  I would have loved to have 3 or 4 kids, not only 2.
  But we waited to do spiritual things first. (lucky my wifes clocked ticked when it did).

  So instead of a big family, and having kids in my 20s and 30s, and being able to enjoy them and grandkids for a good portion of my life, I get an abridged version of that.

  The cost of a cult is so high.

  Sorry for my rambling, just needed to get it out.
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  Corona-virus facts

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  iwantoutnow

  Ahhh, and did you know aliens killed JFK and the government knows it!

  :)
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  Providing salvation is not that important

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the washtowel has a crazy obsession with diminishing the important of jesus' sacrifice for humankind.

  i find this so antichristian.

  i mean, how can you ignore scriptures like john 3:16?.

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  iwantoutnow

  Especially since there is no Jesus, Satan, or god.
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  Corona-virus facts

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  corona-virus facts.

  in china, people generally do not wash their hands.

  there is no soap in restrooms or even in hospitals.

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  iwantoutnow

  So how many people need to die in the USA before its not a scam?
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  Notes From an Elders Meeting

  by WinstonSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so in this past week i came across a stash of my old elder stuff.

  i've scanned a bunch of notes and agendas, and public talk outlines.. check out an agenda and my notes from the meeting here: https://imgur.com/gallery/qqmyczn.

  i’ve put an explanatory note on each image in imgur.

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  iwantoutnow

  Its never about actually helping people - its always Punitive.
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  Not invited to congregation “get togethers”. They finally said it

  by solomon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we don’t get many invitations to congregational social gatherings.

  we don’t attend midweek meetings and miss about 1/3 of sunday meetings.

  we go in service at least once a month.

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  iwantoutnow

  Do you have kids?
  If you do or plan to have them, you ONLY job is to make sure they are not part of a cult.