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  Not going to say a word

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0p-5x2g4w.

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  Hand Check!
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  Famous Last Words

  by Blueblades in

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  2. friends

  sooner or later it happens to all of us.the time comes for us to draw our last breath and pass from this life into the next.over the years history has recorded some fascinating "famous last words"...here are a few.. "i've never felt better".douglas fairbanks,sr.,actor.. "iam about to----or i am going to-----die;either expression is correct".dominique bouhours,french grammarian.. "don't let it end like this.tell them i said something.

  "pancho villa,mexican revolutionary.. "all my possessions for a moment of time!

  "elizabeth 1,queen of england.. "everybody has got to die,but i have always believed an exception would be made in my case.now what?

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  Brian J

  America: I'm coming!

  England: I'm arriving!
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  Famous Last Words

  by Blueblades in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sooner or later it happens to all of us.the time comes for us to draw our last breath and pass from this life into the next.over the years history has recorded some fascinating "famous last words"...here are a few.. "i've never felt better".douglas fairbanks,sr.,actor.. "iam about to----or i am going to-----die;either expression is correct".dominique bouhours,french grammarian.. "don't let it end like this.tell them i said something.

  "pancho villa,mexican revolutionary.. "all my possessions for a moment of time!

  "elizabeth 1,queen of england.. "everybody has got to die,but i have always believed an exception would be made in my case.now what?

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  Brian J

  "I told you as$holes I didn't feel well"
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  Rhetorical Question From a Non-JW

  by Brian J in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was asked if "jehovah's witnesses feel they are the only ones who will be saved.".

  he said "i thought you would say that" and showed me our own website:.

  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/ .

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  Brian J

  jdash - right?!

  On the way home from the meeting today my 14 year old said...."the murderer hanging on the stake...Jesus said would be in His kingdom. Was he baptized?"

  Also from today's Watchtower there were THREE specific places where baptism age was mentioned:

  1) "A teenager named Abigail, who got baptized at age 12"

  2) "An 18-year-old sister, baptized when she was 13"

  3) "That is a comment made by Olivia, who is 17 and who got baptized as a preteen"

  One of my other children asked...."how old was Jesus when he was Baptized?" I enjoyed reminding them of the answer.

  I LOVE this age of critical thinking and am hopeful it will save the wife and kids from high control group misery. Trust the unchanging life principles of the Bible, not a group of men and their institutionalized and fluctuating interpretations.
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  Rhetorical Question From a Non-JW

  by Brian J in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was asked if "jehovah's witnesses feel they are the only ones who will be saved.".

  he said "i thought you would say that" and showed me our own website:.

  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/ .

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  Brian J

  So I was asked if "Jehovah's Witnesses feel they are the only ones who will be saved."

  I said, no. He said "I thought you would say that" and showed me our own website:

  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/who-saved/

  No. Many millions who....weren’t Jehovah’s Witnesses will have an opportunity for salvation....Additionally, many now living (who have yet to become Jehovah's Witnesses) may yet begin to serve God, and they too will gain salvation.

  "Care to revise your statement?"
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  Why I get out of bed every morning.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because someone needs my help.. as a jw -- you can relate -- i truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality.

  you know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment.

  of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).. at nearly seventy years of age -- no, i didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad.

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  Wow.

  Much appreciated.

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  Child molesters and murderers are protected by the Governing Body....Good Job!!!!

  by krismalone in

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  Brian J

  Some may read that letter and feel that since its from 1992, surely they don't still feel this way...right?

  WRONG

  As of the last nasty JC I was on 11/2017 before stepping down.....NOTHING HAS CHANGED. I spent hours on the phone with the legal and service desks. Only reveal what you are legally obligated to so as to prevent repercussion$ to the ORG is the SOP.
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  EMDR Therapy Anyone?

  by Brian J in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  two+ months into marital counseling for my wife (pimi) and i (pimo).

  wife after decades of marriage decides for the first time to bring up separation due to, drum-roll please...... absolute endangerment of spiritual life.

  a spouse may constantly try to make it impossible for the mate to pursue true worship or may even try to force that mate to break god’s commands in some way.

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  Brian J

  Two+ months into marital counseling for my wife (PIMI) and I (PIMO). Wife after decades of marriage decides for THE FIRST TIME to bring up separation due to, drum-roll please.....

  Absolute endangerment of spiritual life. A spouse may constantly try to make it impossible for the mate to pursue true worship or may even try to force that mate to break God’s commands in some way. In such a case, the threatened mate would have to decide whether the only way to “obey God as ruler rather than men” is to obtain a legal separation.​—Acts 5:29.

  Does this make me angry? Yes. Not physically violent, not abusive emotionally. Internal anger that does not allow me to apparently understand the concept of her being in a cult and me not being in one and the two of us completely being able to co-exist with a normal measure of daily happiness.

  The therapist recommended EMDR therapy. Wife has promptly made me an appointment.

  Has anyone personally experienced this type of therapy?
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  Hatred of Jews

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have never understood the hatred and dislike towards jewish people.

  so many people are bothered by jewish influence.. do you have anti jewish bias?

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  Brian J

  Recently had a public talk that referenced Jews. Went something like this:

  "to this day, world-renowned hatred exists for these people, and rightly so...for its Biblical! Friends please open with me in your Bibles to Exodus chapter 32 and we'll consider verses 9 and 10 together to see for yourself the reason for the hatred."

  barf.
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  Personal opinions spouted from the platform?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?

  perhaps off brand or crazy ones?

  some that i've heard is:.

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  Brian J

  And one more that we later found did indeed refer to women's nipples.....

  ".......sisters! there is no reason you should wear clothing that reveals you are a human thermostat when its cold in the hall...."