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  What Does Prayer Actually Do?

  by punkofnice in

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  if you think it works, what is your evidence outside of possible coincidence?.

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  Apart form not actually doing anything, those doing the praying allow themselves to do NOTHING FURTHER !

  Exactly! I said pretty much the same thing some time ago when I still attended meetings. I told an elder that instead of the prayers asking God to, "Help those who are not here due to personal difficulties to know we looovve them," that perhaps they should ask, "Give us the insight to notice the struggles of one another and take note of those not here with us, and then move us to take action and do something for them or with them so they know we care about them," because God does not magically perform miracles. He told me that I was showing a lack of faith by not trusting God to help them.
  
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  Talk about indoctrination

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
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  saw this while browsing the jw site.

  cartoons of rutherford.

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  Hospitality for speaker

  by road to nowhere in

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  there seem to be hospitality starting again.

  fully vaccinated and assume masked.

  neither a set in stone rule.

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  Hospitality?

  Not from me! I told them a few years ago to take me off their assigned list, and thankfully I now no longer need to worry about any of that. It is NOT hospitality when it is forced upon one with the, "you are assigned to provide a meal for the speaker t his Sunday."

  Even though I no longer attend except for the occasional Zoom pop-in I still make it a point to stop by any who are shut-in or for some other valid reason not able to have personal contact with other people. The only negative comment I have heard was second hand from a ministerial servant who complained that I was not an active JW and should not be associating with the active JW shut-ins or elderly.
  
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  Meeting announcement for emergency contact info of non-JW friends & relatives (?)

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just saw this post on reddit and can hardly believe it.. if i remember correctly years back they told you not to have anything to do with non-jw friends or relatives.

  they discouraged you from bothering with non-jw family and to avoid them on holidays!!

  i needlessly missed out on some delicious holiday meals with people who genuinely cared about me.

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  I think this is a wrong expectation that people in a congregation are going to care for anybody’s aged parents.

  No offense taken. I agree with your comment, and perhaps the way I phrased "care" was misleading. Shortly before my mother died she was sitting at her front window watching passers-by and as it was just before 9:00 A.M. she would remark as a vehicle went by, "There goes bro. so-and-so to the meeting for service," or, "There goes sister so-and-so to the meeting for service." Then with a catch in her voice she said, "They go THAT way to the kingdom hall, and then they go the OTHER way home. But they NEVER stop here anymore! They JUST DON'T CARE!" My parents home was separated from the kingdom hall by only two residential homes.
  

  So yes, while one should not expect that other people in a congregation are going to care FOR aged parents, those who profess to be the only true Christians who are identified by being the only ones on the whole earth who show Christ like love for fellow believers are IMO shown to be lying hypocrites when they willfully refuse to care ABOUT anyone who is aged, shut-in, or otherwise no longer one of the chosen few.
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  Meeting announcement for emergency contact info of non-JW friends & relatives (?)

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just saw this post on reddit and can hardly believe it.. if i remember correctly years back they told you not to have anything to do with non-jw friends or relatives.

  they discouraged you from bothering with non-jw family and to avoid them on holidays!!

  i needlessly missed out on some delicious holiday meals with people who genuinely cared about me.

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  FedUpJW

  Is it because nobody can count on their so-called spiritual brothers and sisters to be there for them when things get bad?

  IMHO that is it in a nut-shell. In my own case I saw that my parents were kicked to the curb, ridiculed, and ignored entirely by those who for so many years were always there, usually with their hands out claiming, "We looove you," Had it not been for my retirement savings to allow me extended care-giving trips, and a very kind DF'd family member who lovingly gave me relief breaks every couple weeks caring for my parents in their final few years they would have had no one. Not one single person from their congregation could be bothered to do anything other than tell me that I should put them in a home somewhere! Sorry (expletives deleted).
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  A military style weapon.

  Gotcha. It's all about what looks scary! ANY weapon can be classified as a "military" style weapon. General George S. Patton's handguns most associated with him, and which are now in the Patton Collection of the West Point Museum, are a .45 Long Colt Single Action revolver, 1873 Army Model, and a .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver.

  Personally as a licensed concealed carry permit holder my weapon of choice is a .45 Remington R1 semi-auto which holds 7 rounds in the magazine, and one in the pipe. And in nearly fifty years of being a permitted concealed carry handgun owner I have never shot anyone, only drawn my weapon twice, and both times it stopped a crime in progress merely by being seen by the criminal until police arrived. And none of my firearms have ever managed to load themselves, leave my house, and commit any crime. I guess they are not as "smart" as those scary guns the left screams, whines, and cries about!.
  
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  Serena Williams thinks she is a JW LMAO

  by jojorabbit in

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  i saw a post pop up on some click bait where serena williams saying she was praying for armageddon to come and that the jws have said we are living in critical times hard to deal with.this was her response to the texas school shooting.

  another cult catch phrase.

  i am sorry williams you aint no jw.

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  FedUpJW

  I’m waiting for the “new light” which absolves members of disfellowshipping if they pay a certain dollar amount. I’ll bet it’s coming soon, to a KH near you.

  It is already the case in the K.H. where I used to attend.

  True story, I personally was told by a now elder that even though I had at the time wanted to marry I should not do that. Just hire the "services" of one or maybe even two hookers at the same time while out-of-state then "confess" that it happened during an overwhelming moment of weakness, give a large contribution to the K.H. and to the presiding overseer, and all would be swept under the rug. That was just another nail in the coffin for FedUpJW.
  
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  How is the 'Cost of Living Crisis' affecting you?

  by nicolaou in

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  here in the uk we've recently had the price cap on household energy bills raised by around £800 and there'll be another similar raise this autumn.. food prices are up, petrol is around £1.82 per litre - that's $10.37 per gallon for our american friends - and inflation is currently running at 9%.

  business are being hit as ordinary folk prioritise their spending.

  young folks are effectively priced out of the housing market and wage rises are not keeping pace.. mrs nic' and i are fortunate in that we're both in secure employment and with the kids moved out and mortgage paid off our outgoings are thankfully low.

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  There's a good chance that some people will actually starve to death at some point. Many others will be crippled financially and long-term will have reduced lifespans as a result.

  That is, IMO, the agenda of the left. Create a crises, then claim to have the answer, and you can bet your --- it will mean more government control over you life!
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  FedUpJW

  Why do countries with strict gun control have way less murders?

  IDK, why do democrat controlled strongholds with very strict gun control laws have more than their share of murders?

  Maybe there should be laws against murder. . .OH WAIT!!
  
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  8 Year Old Can Decide If They Are Transgendered

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so says joe biden.. anybody agree with this?

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  FedUpJW

  If the left is correct than why do kids even need parents?

  According to the left they don't need parents. Just look at what left leaning school boards are doing to parents who want a say in their children's education.