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  The upcoming protest at Warwick on November 5th

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  hey all.. just saw this video about the upcoming protest at warwick on november 5th.

  it looks like some momentum is building up to it.

  but what i really want to know is will it have much impact?

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  Xanthippe

  Diogenesister, great YouTube thank you. Yes she is very articulate and also very caring. It's a good ided to warn people in the Warwick area about this cult and it looks like they're already aware of its presence. The pastor's wife said they are a very heavy presence going from door to door around Warwick, all dressed up!

  For me the ex-JW's compassionate approach was a reminder that many who are trapped are still good people who need help. I like that, sometimes I get so angry with my own family I forget there are others in it that just got sucked in at a vulnerable time in their lives. Good vid, thanks.
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  How to delete my account here?

  by video in

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  how to delete my account here?.

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  Xanthippe

  Video nobody knows who you are you haven't left any clues on here. You've only posted four times, we know nothing about you so just leave the forum and don't worry. Wishing you all the best for the future.
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  Watches: mens mechanical facination

  by elderelite in

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  lots of guys have a mechanical facination, be it cars or building things or one of a hundred other ways.

  one area in particular is watches.

  i have a few that i love.. a personal fav is my tissot sea star 1000. cant post a pic atm but its an awesome watch.... .

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  Xanthippe

  I'm gutted you can't buy mechanical watches anymore. Had a lovely one for years. Why oh why do we have to keep putting batteries into these Quartz monstrocites. My old watch kept perfect time without rock and electricity.
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  Explain the annual meeting please

  by carla in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can someone please explain the annual meeting to me?

  it takes place tomorrow from what i gather.

  does this mean they still do fs in the morning?

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  Xanthippe

  When I went as a young pioneer for the 'privilege' of serving food there was a shareholders meeting in a private room. I only found out because they forget to turn the loud speaker off outside the room and you could hear what was going on.
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  Elders meet with Pioneers & Missionaries Dec 2017- Jan 2018

  by wifibandit in

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  elders meet with regular pioneers, special pioneers, and field missionaries program for december 2017 through january 2018 s-211-18-e 9/17.

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  Xanthippe

  What a dreadful situation. You are penalized for being successful. I thought the who point was to bring in converts so they do not die at Armageddon.

  
  

  This exactly describes my life nearly thirty years ago. What I've realised is growing up in a poor family with parents who had little education I had no idea what life in the real world had to offer.

  Now I know what I want to do, see the world, all of it. I don't have enough money for that but if I'd known the richness that real life has to offer, university, interesting jobs, travel and fun on this beautiful planet I wouldn't have wasted my time in that silly cult.
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  Is there anything good JWs taught you still benefit from?

  by venus in

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  some years ago, i attended a jw wedding.

  marriage speaker said something which changed my life for the better, and it helps me even now.

  he told the couple: “the very make up of man and woman is such that conflicts can often arise between you.

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  Xanthippe

  Venus if a JW's only offering in a marriage talk about solving arguments for married couples is buy another TV, I'm sorry but that's the most pathetic piece of advice I've ever heard.
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  Grocery Store conversation with an elder

  by problemaddict 2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm inactive here to the local jw's as i have faded.

  i've been slandered and all that, shunned by some but not all, but the elders basically leave me alone.

  i still run into to people all over though.

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  Xanthippe

  If you check through my subsequent comment in this thread, once problemaddict2 clarified that his son was not present when he had the exchange with the elder, I thanked him for the clarification - only I misidentified him as Xanthippe (my error - I had intended to thank problemaddict2 for the clarification).

  You're a strange one Steve2. You didn't misidentify problemaddict as me, it was me who defended him and explained his son wasn't present. I understood that from his op. Whatever do you mean?
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  Just woke up turn TV on to hear yet another nut case with a gun.

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.

  now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.

  whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.

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  Xanthippe

  problems are the medications prescribed that make people violent towards others when on the meds or if they miss a few doses/withdrawal. Look up violence and effexor for an example.

  Blaming people with mental health problems for the violence in the world is too easy and insulting.
  
  
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  Does Morality Exist?

  by Fisherman in

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  some people believe that stealing, lying and killing, is not moral.

  some people don't.. does morality exist?

  if so, prove it..

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  Xanthippe

  I think you're talking about an ultimate standard of morality, like absolute goodness as opposed to total evil. As if such a standard was founded in the universe somewhere before we even existed. That's from your religious beliefs I think.

  Morality is about not causing harm to conscious beings but over time we've had to continually change what that means as we've grown in our understanding. There isn't an absolute standard of morality, only what works. What works for us probably wouldn't work for life on another planet with totally different needs.
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  Help with acceptance for JW family still in

  by MaryKN in

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  2. experiences

  well, it's been a long time!

  i first lurked here around 20 years ago and read huge amounts of threads which certainly helped when i was making my decision to leave the religion.

  i was never baptised (resisted it!

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  Xanthippe

  That things will be always be like this with their family, that they will always be JW, that they will never change, that they will never have doubts or at least doubts that they will act on until the day they die? If so, how? Does it still make you very sad? Do you think you'll always be sad about it? Are you still angry? How do you deal with it?

  Slightly different to you in that my family don't have anything to do with me so I don't have the frustration of getting preached at. Yes it makes me sad that they will probably die in that religion.

  Occasionally I remember something from when we were kids and I feel sad but then I think they're not those people anymore, your life choices change you. My sister saving a bird that had been hurt and being so sad when it died. Where is that little girl? Subsumed by the cult monster religion.

  I deal with it by just enjoying my life. I'm here if they want to leave. You can't stay sad or angry the whole time, it's a waste if life.