Saying "thoughts and prayers" where I came from is mostly a back handed compliment. And a quick , get me the f@#% away from this person, even if the person saying it thinks they mean it when saying it.
@Blondie- Totally. The shear hypocrisy.
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29I’m Sending You My Thoughts and Prayers
by minimus inhow many people here can sincerely say those words to someone?
i take it most here do not say prayers, right?
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JW compassion?
by William Penwell ini have a nephew that has just recently being diagnosed with a life threatening disease through bad choices he has made in his life over the last 20 years.
now he has asked myself and my sons to be there for him and without being judgemental we have being up at the hospital every other day for the last couple of weeks.
now this is the part where i am just pissed right off.. one of my nephews other cousins goes to the hospital and starts giving him a guilt trip, saying that this was all his own fault that she couldn't talk to him for the last 20 years and his sickness now is all because he left jehooba organization blah blah blah.
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My uncle groomed, molested, then later raped not 1 but 2 of his daughters. Both daughters came forward he was arrested and is now in prison. Guess who goes to the prison to hold a bible study with him. Yep, jehovahs witnesses. His sister is married to an Elder. Pulled some strings? Also he is 'So repentant" , of course he is. Just nasty!
On the note of bad choices and life threatening diseases and harshly criticizing ..... Most witnesses have this attitude about people they considered to have had "access" to the 'truth' but chose something different.
If it were someone they met at the door or cart work that had never known jws with self induced diseases, then they would treat them with kindness. (to their face) And try to bring that one 'in'.
As far as bad choices go- How many raging alcoholic elders, MS and others in the borg are there that I have known? I lost count. But if there liver fails, its just 'time and unforeseen circumstance'.(eye roll)
William, if your nephew had a few hundred thousand to be gifted to jws or relatives after death(openly known), funny how money will change a jws behavior in cases like this. I hope your nephew pulls thru.
Im sorry that you had the mind bending, blatant lack love experiance of dealing with that. A lot of us have seen that first hand.
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JW-RUSSIA.org cross image
by neat blue dog ini was just browsing the russian jw site and saw this image that appears to represent christian persecution by showing handcuffs in front of prison bars that appear to form a cross.
which would be weird because they don't even believe in the cross, or maybe it was clip art from another source and they didn't notice.
or last and most likely i'm seeing things that aren't there 😜.
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Looks like the ultimate JW fetish. Handcuffed to bars. ew la la. lol
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JW-RUSSIA.org cross image
by neat blue dog ini was just browsing the russian jw site and saw this image that appears to represent christian persecution by showing handcuffs in front of prison bars that appear to form a cross.
which would be weird because they don't even believe in the cross, or maybe it was clip art from another source and they didn't notice.
or last and most likely i'm seeing things that aren't there 😜.
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Those are some nicely manicured hands.
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Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy enters UK Top 15 box office films
by steve2 infantastic news just in: daniel kokotajlo’s film apostasy about a jw family facing the blood issue and - ahem - a daughter who apostatises - was released late last week in the united kingdom.
even though it received limited release in its first weekend and is going to be in more cinemas this weekend, it has entered the top 15 films at no.
12 - a magnificent result for a highly acclaimed film made on a shoe string.
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@steve2-Caves, not sure what provoked your unusually negative comments. Who ever claimed the film would “wake people up”? That is not its point nor mine.
No one claimed it would wake people up and I didn't think that. My comment was a bit on the crass side. And what provoked it was I was interested in a few topics here and got on threads. Then I saw others arguing on those threads I was reading, and it sorta made me bitter and upset for a bit.I carried that over, It was a bit out of character for me (just got out of the ER to, so, sorry about that.)
Its cool that you saw it. I will say cheers to that and cheers to the size of the audience. I have seen the trailer but not the movie. I look forward to it. I guess I look forward to the audience reaction to it.
@sparrowdown- I totally agree.
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Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy enters UK Top 15 box office films
by steve2 infantastic news just in: daniel kokotajlo’s film apostasy about a jw family facing the blood issue and - ahem - a daughter who apostatises - was released late last week in the united kingdom.
even though it received limited release in its first weekend and is going to be in more cinemas this weekend, it has entered the top 15 films at no.
12 - a magnificent result for a highly acclaimed film made on a shoe string.
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Sorry to bust bubbles but this movie will never wake up people. LOL. keep dreaming. It will never be a hit. Thumbs down all you like but it will take hollywood with very well known actors and even then nadda.
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Finances
by former2free ini thank all of you for the warm welcome and having read my bio.
i look forward to many discussions and hopefully in the future to be able to be open about it with my wife and kids.
but for now i have a question.
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Glad you guys were able to clear up what I posted.
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How the Borg could increase meeting attendance numbers
by Sour Grapes ini think that the 8 popes should allow the jdubs to count time driving to the meetings or even count their time being at the meetings.
those who just listen over the phone can't count their time.. it would be a much better religious cult if the 8 self-licking ice cream popes would let their followers count their time for helping the elderly in the kingdumb haul with stopping by to have coffee, shopping, cleaning, cutting grass, etc.
let them count time by visiting the friends in nursing homes, maybe even allow double the hours for the nursing home visits.. this probably ain't going to happen because the cart work is easier..
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Online meetings. Then they could count how many logged on to the site jw or not.
@vidiot- topless ushers. LOL How about monthly gift cards for a massage to pioneers and auxiliarys for their aching bodys. LOL.
@eyeuse2badub- or even during love making since any subsequent offspring resulting from love making will likely result in another jw! The whole 9 months of pregnancy.
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Smart Phones and Tablets Turning JW's Into Dummies
by scotoma inlook up the article in the wall st journal "how smartphones hijack our minds".
a flood of evidence has come in that people are outsourcing their thinking to their electronic devices.
when you feel you will always be able to look up important information on your cell phone you simply don't remember it.
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Vidiot- Did the Org really need smartphones and tablets?
In my opinion, if they were to survive, yes. If everyone is spending more and more time on the internet because its readily accessible, they can steer one to use devices to be able to go to jworg so the GB, Elders can say that their is no excuse not not spend time on the site while wasting ones time looking on the internet. Plenty of jws had social media profiles before jworg got going. Try as they may, they couldn't stop it.
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WT productions - suggestions for a name???
by sparrowdown inhow bout ..... jehollywood or just jollywood.
mad sacred cow productions.
big brother productions.
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Brighter Light Productions
The Light Just Gets Brighter Productions
Even Newer Light Productions
Blinded by the Light Productions
Brighter until that day is firmly established Productions
Flickering Lights Production
50 shades of the light getting brighter Productions
One Witness Rule Productions
Resurrection Productions
Growing Younger Productions
Teaching Newly Resurrected Ones from the Middle Ages Productions
No More Sorrow Productions
144,000 Spouses of Christ Productions
Loving the Pedophile Forever Productions
We Love You Long Time Productions
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego studios presents Warlocks of Warwick
That was addictive fun. I had to make myself stop LOL.