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  The Other Side of the Indian Rape Story

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  i'm posting this story, not to defend an indefensible act, but to try to provide some balance.

  the fact is that so many indians exist in a poverty so deep that it's difficult for westerners to even understand.

  the youngest of the rapists in the now world known rape story, according to this uk, independent newspaper story, grew up in that world that seems hopeless.

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  Lots of people grow up in $h!tty circumstances and don't participate in gang rape-murders.

  Just because someone comes from $h!t background is no excuse to allow the $h!t to define their life. There is always a choice.
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  Stop Putting Apostate Stickers On My Literature! They "Cost Lots of Money!"

  by AuntConnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "true story" the circuit overseer came to our kingdom hall and read us the riot act (local needs style) "magazines of this quality are not free, they cost money and we are not generating enough donations to defray the cost of the magazines(or running the top of the line printing presses) i get my ass out of bed to place literature in the laundray cleaning, coin opperated shops and some asshole puts his apostate stickers on our magazines.

  do you know how hard it is to get up at 6:00 am and how expensive those magazines are costing the organization to print?

  please stop defiling our literature, i dont post hateful stickers on your website so please leave my magazines alone.

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  I buy them and place perfectly located for patrons of the laundry shops or the free health clinic.

  I suppose that is the risk you take in Placing™ your Literature™ in public places rather than with private Householders™. If you don't like going Door-to-Door™ and speaking to actual people, you have to assume the risks. Public places often have policies against solicitation, even though your definition does not match theirs. They don't care what happens to your Literature™ after you sneak it in and slide it under a couple of other periodicals. I've often seen colleagues find them in the pile and toss them right in the trash, just like the cashier at the dollar store. I've seen patients at my workplace find them and deface them - far worse than anyone here does with a contrary point of view.

  If you don't like what happens to the Magazines™ after you Place™ them, you have a couple of options as I see it: 1) don't give them away - do as the WTS suggests and ask for the Voluntary Donation™ toward the World Wide Education Work™; 2) stop paying for them yourself; 3) don't leave them somewhere that they risk being "defaced"; 4) just stop - use the Bible only for your Ministry - the Word of God is a two-edged sword, is it not? Save the WTS some money and just use the Scriptures, like Jesus did.

  BTW: When JWs procure Literature™ for use in their Ministry™, they don't call it "buying". It's a Voluntary Donation™. It is not considered an exchange of currency for goods and services.
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  Stop Putting Apostate Stickers On My Literature! They "Cost Lots of Money!"

  by AuntConnie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "true story" the circuit overseer came to our kingdom hall and read us the riot act (local needs style) "magazines of this quality are not free, they cost money and we are not generating enough donations to defray the cost of the magazines(or running the top of the line printing presses) i get my ass out of bed to place literature in the laundray cleaning, coin opperated shops and some asshole puts his apostate stickers on our magazines.

  do you know how hard it is to get up at 6:00 am and how expensive those magazines are costing the organization to print?

  please stop defiling our literature, i dont post hateful stickers on your website so please leave my magazines alone.

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  Well, maybe the Circuit Overseer™ should start going around to people in the Territory™ who take the Magazines™ and toss them straight in the garbage.

  Like the cashier at the local dollar store the other day. I saw the whole sordid affair: the woman in line ahead of me offered the magazines to the cashier, who politely accepted them. The cashier rang the JW lady's order through and waited for her to leave the store. By the time she rang my order through, she'd looked at the front cover and the back cover, and tossed it in the trash. I asked her for it.

  She said, "It's the Jehovahs, you know. They come here all the time and give them to me."

  "Yes, I know who they are, and I don't doubt they deliver them to you all the time."

  She pulled it out of the trash and put it in my shopping bag.

  I bet any day now, that Experience™ will sound forth from the Platforms™ at Circuit Assemblies™ and District Conventions™, to a great deal of thunderous applause. Evidently, I will have been Baptized™ at that very event, having my eyes opened to the Glorious Words of Truth™ within the pages of that discarded treasure trove of Spirit Directed™ Bible Based™ Teachings™. It was the angels and Jehovah's Holy Spirit™ directing that seemingly chance encounter.

  In reality, I'm saving it for a very sacred purpose. I'm puppy sitting in a couple of weeks and I need something to lay on the floor for the dog to $h!t on.

  I feel sorry for the $h!t.
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  Something weird from my mom

  by doublelife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  earlier today, i posted a picture on facebook of me reuniting with a couple of my childhood friends.

  we all grew up together in the kh.

  i, unfortunely, was the only one stupid enough to get baptised.

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  I think it's strange from the point of view that JWs believe that they are the only belief system that practices Christianity™ properly, and yet your mom is using material from what she would consider to be a False Religion™ to support her own faith.

  Since when does Truth™ need a lie to back it up?
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  I Think My Marriage Is Over...

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know exactly what happened... he thinks i'm going to die at the big a and wants to be with someone he can live forever with.... we have two girls, ages 3 and 1... i really thought we'd make it despite the religion, now i really don't think so... not sure what to do... .

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  Wouldn't it be ironic if he dumped you for MsThang and she ended up dying (not that I would wish that for her) on him? While in the meantime, Armageddon™ keeps postponing and you keep right on living your life to the fullest?

  It's pretty sad rationalizing that you should dump someone because they're going to die some day and there are "other fish in the sea". How would he feel if you did that to him?

  I would capitalize on the fact that what he's doing - sneaking around behind your back, becoming emotionally involved with someone else, is something the WTS describes as "dealing treacherously with the wife of your youth" (I forget what scripture that is) and is extremely disrespectful of you, of your daughters and most of all toward the Creator in front of whom he vowed to "love, honour and cherish, till death do us part" (whatever the WTS rendition of that is) and the Congregation™/Organization™.

  I wonder if he has any Privileges™ that he wants to keep?
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  Would You Think Twice About Talking Negatively Toward Islam, The Koran or The Prophet?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you fear that there might be "consequences"??

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  I find that if I parse my "negative point of view" in the form of a question, there's less chance of offending, and more opportunities for the other person to paint themselves into a corner.

  "Can you explain why a Muslim woman is expected to cover herself? I don't understand this."

  "I don't understand why Allah permits a man to have many wives, can you explain that?"

  "I don't understand why someone like me is considered an infidel, just because I believe differently than you. How does that work, exactly?"
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  Can someone tell me what this site is about? (Any French speaker please)

  by FingersCrossed in

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  2. entertainment

  http://www.nouvellevie.com/.

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  New Life Church, based near Montreal.

  Try using Google Chrome's translation option.
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  Jehovah's witnesses get HITCH Slapped!

  by clarity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  christopher hitchens.

  i miss this man .... nobody did it better!.

  the video is mostly about the 10 or so bible commandments,.

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  I wept when he died. I can't believe it's almost been a year.
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  I totally understand why Michael Jackson took propofol

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've had it a couple of times in the hospital.

  it's amazing stuff, one second you're awake, the next second you're asleep.

  they turn it off, and you immediately wake up.

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  I've had it too before each of my surgeries.

  The first time, instead of counting backward like the anaesthesiologist requested, I asked: "Can I have some of this 'to go'? zzzzzzzzzz"
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  Why President Obama Must Now Act to End Organized Child Abuse - by Gerald T. Slevin

  by Sol Reform in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  gerald t. slevin: why president obama must now act to end organized child abuse .

  another extremely important essay by harvard-trained former wall street lawyer jerry slevin.

  jerry argues that "it is the right time for president obama to act" to protect children from childhood sexual abuse, as the catholic hierarchy clearly remains intent on stonewalling, diverting, and covering up.

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  @NoStonecutters: Thanks, got it.