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  "You know that the Memorial is April 11 right?"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  ah, yes, so mid-way through a conversation about work, a family member just had to say "oh, you know the memorial is tuesday april 11, so i guess you will have to schedule your work so you can make it right?".

  i simply said "oh is it?

  " and then went back to what we were talking about.. has anyone else had the pressure to attend put on them?.

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  CoCo,

  I'm curious also as to why you were asked to leave. Unless one was being disruptive, what reason could anyone have to ask such a thing?
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  Restless Days and Nights

  by compound complex in

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  it is a bad time to be awake;.

  i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.

  of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.

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  CC,

  Was the formatting of your post intentional? On my tablet the trailing edge of each line has a very neat and even step down effect. Not bad for middle of the night prose.
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  Does this sound familiar??

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  https://www.lds.org/topics/apostasy?lang=eng&old=true.

  change a few words and expressions, and it could have come from the governing body themselves!.

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  Hey Stuck!

  Your right, right out of the GB's playbook. The names and dates and a few other particulars are different, but the gist is identical. I wonder if other Adventist style groups have a similar explanation for their existence?
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  Ask a Brother, Tell a Sister

  by Tapioca in

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  2. humour

  i have been faded for years and years.

  no one cares about my standing in the christian congregation any more.

  so one day, my husband came up with this won-der-ful idea for a jdub button.

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  I thought about a button that says something quite simple: Jesus Saves - 1 Tim 1:15.

  I wonder how long it would be before the elders asked me not to wear it anymore due to being too controversial?
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  Watchtower No.3 2017 - The Four Horesmen

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the first time i've read through a watchtower magazine in about a year.

  although i've been our only 8 months it really git me how crazy i must have sounded when i was a jw talking to non jws.. while other bible based religions talk about the 4 horsemen and back up their theories with other scriptures or historical evidence, the watchtower have taken so such steps.

  1914 is thrown in there as if it's universally agreed that jesus started ruling since then.. even when i was a jw i never really understood why, if the pale horse represents jesus, why is he first?

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  Just watch the first 45 seconds of this video and it will blow the WT's 1914 ride of the 4 horseman out of the water. The 1st 45 seconds would be a good video clip to show a JW at the door with this magazine.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvfiQkC49s
  

  They completely ignore centuries of history to have their own myopic fulfillment. They also completely ignore what the NT says about Jesus having ruling authority and a kingdom shortly after he was raised (Mt 28:18; Col 1:13; Heb 2:8-9)
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  Hebrews in the NWT

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi everyone , how ya'll doin' ?

  please could someone with a copy of the nwt help me out ?

  and by extension help someone else out .

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  Notice also the first phrase in verse 2:

  Now at the end of these days . . .

  And compare it with numerous other translations here. The NWT doesn't want the "last days" to start back then. They want it to start in 1914.
  
  
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  The great R.B.C rip off!!!

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was on a job last week and the p.o from my old congro was there and told me they had just re modled the k.h.the r.b.c quoted them $240.000 they did it for $120.000 so why the big diffrence in price??

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  Besides the RBC/LDC misstep, I wonder about this. I believe anything over $5000 and the LDC takes over and makes all the decisions. I can't imagine a BOE getting away with doing a $120,000 project without the LDC - and that BOE still remaining as the BOE.

  Besides that, all my experience with RBC/LDC was that they were always fantastically over priced.
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  Witnesses really hate it when you appear to leave.

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a certain customer, whom we will call sally.

  i know sally only by face and only through work.

  i am a truck driver on a local dedicated route, and i often deliver to her work.

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  Their treatment of those who try to walk away becomes all the clearer after watching a few episodes of Leah Remini's Scientology program. The Scientologists are a few degrees more radical (IMO) than the JWs, but they all follow the same script.

  I used to think calling JWs a cult was a bit over the top. But after watching this program I can see that the word fits.
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  I really hate the word "ones".

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  necessary as it is at times, i hate this word.

  for one thing, "ones" is a plural form of the number 1. that is dumb, and it's reason enough to avoid it where it isn't entirely necessary.. one could argue that it never is necessary, but it can still come up in colloquial dialogue when discussing objects.

  jw leaders use it to discuss people.. interestingly, jws even did this to jesus christ in their own translation of the bible, referring to him in ephesians 1:7 with "through the blood of that one" where another translation would say something like "through his blood".

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  Where I grew up (NE US) we would say "yins" which (I think) is a contraction of "you ones," which has its counterpart in the south, "ya'll." It was a colloquial thing along with "gum band."
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  Major congregational quake in Southern California

  by Hecce in

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  2. beliefs

  this notice is not official yet and it should be confidential until released thru the proper channels.

  a friend of mine told me about a huge elders meeting in southern california.

  the subject was the relocation and dissolution of some congregations; it seems that this is the result of some project that has been going on for some time and is going to be implemented right now.. please let me know if this is happening all over the country?.

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  Hi dropoff!

  It looks like Cleveland is just a small rural town like Darien. I wonder if there is a pattern to that?

  It is also amazing to me that the friends are, for the most part, oblivious to the whole scheme. Only what happens to them or if they hear about it in their own circuit or through friends. It kind of reminds me of a made-for-TV movie from a few years ago called "V" (for 'Visitors'). The visitors were taking all the water and depopulating the planet (for food) without most people being aware of what was going on.

  I'm so completely disgusted with the WT! I wish I we're more mentally separated from it. But that's hard to do after so many decades.