Posts by thecrushed

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ZO Talk in Japan - Part Deux

by WinstonSmith in

you might remember last weekend i posted up some info from my friend that had the opportunity to attend the zone overseer talk in japan.

that thread is here: http://jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/251038/1/hot-off-the-press-zo-talk-in-japan.

well today my friend forwarded me this little gem.

thecrushed

way to guilt trip the elderly andcripped out in field service to peddle your rags you turdhead.

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Why do JWs get married at a young age?

by XPeterX in

jw
friends

ages like 20-25 or younger.i mean damn,a 21 year old guy in my congo got baptised a couple weeks back and now his in a relationship with a jw gal and their getting married soon.any thoughts?.

I hope this is a joke.

by dazed but not confused in

i sure hope this is a joke.... .

Anyone here believe in white magick?

by diana netherton in

if so, does it work?

i've been reading up on it and i am curious as to how it works.. .

If you define magic as the sort of elemental magic in D&D, LOTR, and the Hobbit then its totally fiction. If you define it as misdirection, slight of hand, illusion, delusion and mind control then I'd say the Witchtower is sending out black magic by the truck load almost as if they are mount doom from mordor.

Mount Doom

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are we crazier than we used to be?

by Xanthippe in

jw
friends

there seem to be so many tv programmes about horders whose houses are filled with rubbish that they can't throw out, peope with claustrophobia or other phobias, people with depression or anxiety illness.

i am not being accusatory because i've had depression but i'm just wondering what on earth is society doing to us?.

has there always been this level of mental health problems and they are just being given a label now and help is finally being offered?

thecrushed

James Brown you have pointed out a painful reality in USA. We throw our crazy people in jail instead of giving them the very help that they desperately need. I think it is shameful to leave the mentally impaired on their own with no options. It is a shame on our culture when many of these disorders are treatable but only if you are well enough to have the sense to take them and have the money to avail yourself of it. It's a Catch 22 because these people usually can't keep a job in order to get insurance in the first place. I think many homeless ones today are in this situation and if only they got some needed help they could pull themselves out of that situation. :(

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are we crazier than we used to be?

by Xanthippe in

jw
friends

there seem to be so many tv programmes about horders whose houses are filled with rubbish that they can't throw out, peope with claustrophobia or other phobias, people with depression or anxiety illness.

i am not being accusatory because i've had depression but i'm just wondering what on earth is society doing to us?.

has there always been this level of mental health problems and they are just being given a label now and help is finally being offered?

thecrushed

i can attest to the mental stabilizing affects of hard work. im too tired to worry about personal demons.

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Anyone here believe in white magick?

by diana netherton in

if so, does it work?

i've been reading up on it and i am curious as to how it works.. .

thecrushed

Not as well as gandalfs staff. it certainly wont help you defeat a balrog or dragons. that is to say leave magic to fantasy books where it belongs.

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Need help with possible Bone Marrow transplant

by besunny in

good morning everyone,,i have a question i need help with.

my parents are very active and faithful jw's,,my dad is an elder..my mother has become very ill over this winter and has declined greatly,,i'm trying to prepare myself for the worst,,anyway it's starting to look like she has luekemia and we will know shortly if that's what it is.my question is about bone marrow transplants,,i do not remember if this is an accectable treatment for jw's.

i hope it is!!

thecrushed

This very ironic because it is the bone marrow that is responsible for making blood. Idiotic doctrines indeed.

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Some friday morning reflections

by Gorbatchov in

just reading all the aawa related topics this morning and it makes me really sad.

i'm not related to aawa, just a fader in western europe and a longtime member of h2o and later on jwd.. it makes me sad to see what's the legacy of the watchtower society religion: kgb style betrayal of family members, making screenshots of facebook group members, just to betray their christian brother and sister to the elders, to interrogate them, try to confess their faults and correct them aggressively.

this behaviour places our religion definitly at the dark pages of history.. it makes me sad to see that some group of good peope, forming an association, then some things going wrong with the important and sacred topic named privacy.

thecrushed

Couldnt have said it better!!

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Do you follow your " spirit directed " conscience and bible principles?

by DATA-DOG in

vincent toole, solicitor for the jehovah's witnesses, said the fact that the church got working with children checks had nothing to do with steven unthank, whom he suggested was behind the court case.

''we find it disappointing that he continues to misrepresent our organisation.''........

....''jehovah's witnesses abhor child abuse, and place the protection of children at the highest level,'' he said.. .

thecrushed

very good points. you have hanged them on their own words.