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  New Watchtower Study: Apostates and Red Balloons 🎈

  by raymond frantz in

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  https://youtu.be/gt0cuez3emy?si=wur7afqwryddqgnt.

  the new watchtower study edition is out and i have a bone to pick with the watchtower with paragraph 14 from study article 14. there we read: "we want to help clear jehovah’s name of all reproach.

  consider this scenario: you have a close friend who is kind, generous, and forgiving.

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  How old were you when you realized it was nothing but the unique dogmas and legalisms of the WTS, without a lick of bible in it.
  
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  What Theme Song Should Be Played When You Walk Into a Room?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  this could fun.

  what song should be played when you walk into a room that best describes you?

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  Not ready to make nice - Dixie Chicks ( or just the chicks ) , my ex-jw song.

  Immigrant song -Led Zeppelin or Vodoo child Hendrix the rest of the time.
  
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  News of fires out of control in California

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

  these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

  malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

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  I love when the Alt-Right who preach both low taxes and cutting public services sees what happens and accuses people someone of not spending enough tax payer money.
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  News of fires out of control in California

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

  these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

  malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

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  The real root of the problem was two years of record rainfall that made all the vegetation grow , then followed by two years of drought that dried it all out. Then throw in some weird hurricane style winds and it was all gone.

  This really isn't the time to try and score political points.
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  JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

  another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.

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  Killing or shrinking cancer cells in a lab setting is completely different than having a therapeutic that safe for human consumption or effective. Cancer cells can be can be shrunk or killed with basic cleaners in a Petri dish.

  A form as the Joe Rogan podcast to claim stage four cancers are being reversed, is horribly responsible and will kill people. it’s almost like evolution is real and Darwin was right.
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  How Do JWs Understand Salvation & What Is Needed to Obtain It?

  by LauraLynn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.

  salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.

  to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.

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  God sent Jesus to save the annointed remnant

  The annoited remnant is solely represented by the parable that is actually a prophecy. The magical eight.

  Though my works and obedience to 8 magical wizards , i may or may not do enough good works ( which means handing out magazines , not actually helping people ), I may or may not do enough to be saved at the big A.

  ( Unless I commit suicide , then I just get a do over ).

  That is the way I understand it.
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  News of fires out of control in California

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

  these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

  malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

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  Watching Biden and DeSantis side by side atter the Hurricanes in Florida and watching Trump refusing even visit and blaming Newsome for everything, really show the dark path the nation is headed down. Even his little asshole son had to make it about helping Ukraine.
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  JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

  another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.

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  I just turned 50 and did my colon cancer poop on a stick screen. I recently lost a co-worker who was only 30 to it and a friend a few years ago. Hopefully if they find anything, they can cut it out of cut of me. Just a routine screening, no big deal.

  So I am looking at Facebook this morning and I see Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson and Mel is taking about he had three friends who were in stage 4 cancers and went into remission though the use of ivermectin and my bullshit detector went off. You read the comments in this tread much less these board and realize that tens of millions of people just heard that comment and will believe it and they won't screen or get treatment because they believe there is this miracle cure and they will just die a slow and painful death.

  Anywho, it is time to move past all this covid crap. Science won, idiots lost, life goes on.
  
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  Age Appropriate Friends

  by Riley in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have a 25 year guy in our hall who is also a pioneer (which means he lives off his parents money), who likes to spend a lot of time with a 16 year old girl in the hall.

  it is usually in a group setting but he seems to gravitate toward her.

  he even has her auxilary pioneering , which is something i don't think any student trying to make the grades needs.

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  Slimboyfat

  Who are you ? Jeffrey Epstein

  A 25 year old doesn't need to be hanging out with a 16. There is no more detail needed than that.
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  Age Appropriate Friends

  by Riley in

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  2. friends

  we have a 25 year guy in our hall who is also a pioneer (which means he lives off his parents money), who likes to spend a lot of time with a 16 year old girl in the hall.

  it is usually in a group setting but he seems to gravitate toward her.

  he even has her auxilary pioneering , which is something i don't think any student trying to make the grades needs.

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  A few year ago, I had some Mormons knock on my door. It was the middle of winter and I told them I wasn't really interested but did invite them in to warm up. I do know what is it like. I did offer them some coffee ( I forgot about the caffeine thing ), I then offered them some hot Chocolate and they did accept it. We talked some religion and I explained by situation and they were quit respectful. I got the impression that they weren't really the true believers ( one had a GF who was a catholic ) and they just wanted to get there mission done and move on with their lives.

  They came by the next day and offered to shovel my snow. I told them if they do it, I will by some pizzas later and we will have a meal together. I tried to just offer them money but they can't accept money for there services. After about 45 minutes I just told one of them to go inside and watch my son who was two at the time and I will take a turn on the shovel. They told me with no uncertain terms that they are in no way to be alone with someone's child, just never ever ever. I explained to them I could see them the whole time from the driveway though the living room window and they didn't really strike me as the dangerous type. They were no absolute way.

  My wife came home later and I told them I would hop in the car with them to go get some Pizzas cause I am paying for them. They then told me that I can't travel in the car with them for legal reasons. Finally I gave them by credit card and even that was a battle. Something could happen and we could be blamed ........blah, blah, blah. I told them I only have a 500 dollar credit limit and they wouldn't get that far is they screwed me.

  A look at the way the JWs act now and I don't know if they are completely oblivious or just dangerous creeps. Taking other people kids into strangers houses, grown ass adults hanging out with kids while having some kind of authority over them, people pretending they are Grandparents when they are not any kind of blood relative. The whole thing just makes my skin crawl at times.