FedUpJW

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  The story of my congregation in the last five years.

  by Crazyguy in

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  let’s start with the good news for the congregation that is.

  two new sisters were added to the group a mother and her daughter.

  then the bad news.

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  Tell us what’s going on in your congregation.

  Over about fifteen years time congregation size has "grown" from 95-100 average members to a whopping 30-33 members. I just cannot believe the wonderful growth!
  
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  School Shooting in Indiana Middle School 5/25/18

  by humbled in

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  they are still burying the children in santa fe, texas.

  and it happened again today in indiana.

  no one killed but some injured.

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  Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

  is there something seriously wrong with society?

  does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

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  In the United States the biggest reason for firearm violence in schools is, IMO, The Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA)...an act of the U.S. Congress prohibiting any unauthorized individual from knowingly possessing a loaded or unsecured firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(25).

  If YOU were hell-bent on committing a firearm crime wouldn't YOU want to go where there was the LEAST chance of someone taking YOU out?
  
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  What’s your favorite "News" website?

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
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  news in general are supposed to be unbiased.

  but given how commercial and political interests get their tentacles around them, finding a fully unbiased news website is not so easy.. here in america some would rather trust bbc or reuters than they do cnn or fox news.

  any favorites?.

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  What's Your Favorite "News" Website?

  For me that is about like asking if I would prefer a white hot poker shoved up my ass, or to be stabbed in the eye with a sharp stick. None of them, left or right are worth anymore than different sides of a counterfeit bill.

  It turns out the gun was turned back on them and shot them in the face...

  I wonder how many snowflake lefties will be "triggered" by that phrase and have to find a "safe space"?
  
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  Struggling to Live a Lie

  by Addison0998 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s been very difficult, much more than i first anticipated to live a lie, (be pimo and a regular active member) i still live with my parents but i plan on moving out at the end of the year, so i really need to keep it together.

  but i think people are starting to get suspicious that something is up.

  i’ve stopped commenting, going on service all the time, talking at the door, and occasionally voicing something, such as a question that no one has a good answer for, that makes people think, but ahah, thinking is dangerous and wrong so that is suspicious of course.

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  I respectfully disagree with the suggestions to ask "awkward" questions.

  Agreed. It is difficult, but silence can be your friend in these kinds of situations. Many years ago my father gave me some very good advice, "Don't write it if you can say it. Don't say it if you can mumble it. Don't mumble it if you can keep quiet." If one ponders what he meant we will see how smart those words really were. No one, absolutely no one, can hang you with words that you never wrote or said. Even Sad Sack JDub eldurrs.
  
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  Sometimes it's the little things....

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

  the elder called it hyper-bowl.

  soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

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  But, really, how is anybody benefited by several people repeating the same stupid mistake as the first person?

  Reminds me of the stupid dented cake pan illustration.
  
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  Sometimes it's the little things....

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

  the elder called it hyper-bowl.

  soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

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  So, got any other little examples like that?

  Darius: Dare'-ee-us' Similar: sim-YOU'-lur Capernaum: Cap-ur-NUMB' Nebuchadnezzar: Knee'boo-CHAD'knee-zurr
  
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

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  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  It seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

  I respectfully disagree. They know EXACTLY what they are doing. The more depressed, the more anxious, the more stressed one can keep others the more easily they can be manipulated. (IMO) Depression causes a loss of hope among other symptoms, and then WT fills that void with their "hope". Anxiety has a negative effect on a person, and along trots WT with their version of the "cure". And of course they have the WT mantra of, all your stress will be gone "soon" when you are petting cobras and lions in the nu-wurld.

  All a person has to do is listen to them talk. Everything these days is gloom and doom, and poor pitiful persecuted us. They can see no light, no good, and nothing positive anywhere in their daily lives. If you do you will be treated like a leper because you just HAVE to have lost your "faith" and fallen prey to the wicked world if you do not buy into their daily ration of misery.
  
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  murders at school

  by zeb in

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  at a school in santa fe in the us.

  many people killed and wounded.

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  Quite possibly until this country has a majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives & Congress - responsible gun legislation will not be passed.

  So why didn't they, when they DID have the majority plus the White House? And don't trot out the "conservatives obstructed them" garbage. They managed to shove Øbama-care down the country's throat. If they could do that, they could have set up "responsible" gun laws, as if the NEXT law is the one that will be the magic button to make criminals obey the law.
  
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  Qualifications of elders question

  by charity7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi guys!

  i thought you guys would be able to clarify something for me.

  according to jw’s what qualifies you to become an elder and who does the appointing?

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  Husband of one wife". So "technically" a man that has been married more than once does not qualify.

  Back in the day that I was still running on the hamster wheel, THIS was the "reason" given for my never making it up the ladder. It was also the first step in waking up to the idiocy of it all. Like I was somehow supposed to force an adulterous female not to run off? Good riddance to BOTH of them!!