Posts by Room 215

you know, disagreeing and with and hating all the cultish beliefs and practices that mark out jwdom doesn;t make it ok to treat them like russia is doing.

this is one time i find myself defending these largely goodhearted but misled people.

if only the gb members and their squad had stayed around to face what they are expecting their followers to face.. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2018/04/fsb-starts-detaining-jehovahs-whiteness-kola-dozens-flee-finland.

Room 215

Yeah, and besides the trauma of abandoning their homeland, these refugees are likely guilt-riddden for having deserted their "stronger" brethren who stayed behind to face the FSB's music.

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What's Up with These Two-Week JW Preaching Junkets to Israel?

by Room 215 in

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my wife just related experiences at the local kingdom hall of several locals having made two-week "need is greater" trips to israel, ostensibly to preach there... what's up with this nuttiness?.

Room 215

My wife just related experiences at the local Kingdom Hall of several locals having made two-week "need is greater" trips to Israel, ostensibly to preach there... what's up with this nuttiness?

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Flashback: Samuel Herd/Ashland Avenue Chicago

by Phaedra in

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must have been mid to late 1970s.. it was when they still published the speakers' names on the light-blue circuit assembly programs.. i was a child sitting in the audience at ashland avenue's circuit assembly venue.

i loved that place with it's own basement cafeteria and baptism pool with a big jesus getting baptized mural behind it.. samuel herd was giving the talk.

my child self could only remember my father pointing him out on the program.

Room 215

What an eyesore!

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Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 4, movie set

by neat blue dog in

it also looks like guests got to walk around the sets of what i'm guessing is what was used for the new jonah movie, coming soon to a convention near you, summer 2018.. .

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Room 215

Hmm... looks capital-intensive; lavishing resources on a bid to impress and retain the loyalty of the PIMI crowd rather than evangelise the non-JW world.

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It’s Stupid That JWs Wont Recognize Birthdays Yet If A Baby Is Born They Will Give Gifts!

by minimus in

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a witness can’t celebrate and give gifts on a birthday except on the day they are born.

giving a baby shower is ok as well as gift giving—- but only once!

soooo dumb!.

Room 215

What then of Romans 14:5? " One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind."

New International Version (NIV)

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Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

by freemindfade in

i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

Room 215

Why in the world does a private citizen need a military assault weapon?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-saw-treating-the-victims-from-parkland-should-change-the-debate-on-guns/553937/

No one expects a ban on assault weapon will deter suicides; there are far easier methods available to a person determined to destroy him/herself.

The relevance of the Second Amendment was mooted by the the completion of the Westward Movement and the end of the Frontier.