All the horrible things you were mentioning are more to do with the erosion of democracy, then gun rights. We really need to lose the fantasy that’s civilians need military style assault rifles to protect them from cartels or invading North Koreans or some shit like that. The more likely outcome is some lunatic walks into a school or Walmart and starts blasting people. I have plenty of shotguns and rifles, but I don’t need a gun that could kill dozens of people in a matter of seconds.
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13If you live in Canada, they are taking away your Guns, to send to Ukraine.
by liam inhistory is full of examples of governments disarming their citizens , only to be brutally betrayed.
what follows is a litany of blood that happened after disarming citizens.
1911: turkey; citizens disarmed – 1.5 million armenians were slaughtered.
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Sacred Days
by Riley inyesterday was remembrance day/veterans days in canada.
we had a couple younger half wits in the cong in field service yesterday.
both are trying to climb the ladder with the entire elder body ready to die in the next 10 years.. i just of thought it was a dick move to go door to door about the merits of fighting for freedom or not fighting on such a sacred day.
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Riley
Did any of you filthy animals ever do door to door Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
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follower of Eric Wilson, abusive to single women covered by paying sums of money to support Beroean Pickets tourism trips.
by buzkid insusanne eigenheer is an ex-jw and suffered religious abuse in eric wilson's group.
her personal statement and experiences within the beroean pickets study groups was one of betrayal where she was taken advantage of financially.
in one text conversation, wendy wiens disfellowshiped susanne and demanded an apology from her.
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Riley
Without knowing much about the situation, if you are not being emotionally black mailed or surrendering all your time and money to a group, you are just an idiot for allowing this to happen. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
I highly doubt every person if you circle is part of this group and it would be emotional Armageddon if you tried to walk away.
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Merian-Webster - New Covenant Defination
by Riley innoun.
: a promise of redemption by god to people as individuals rather than as a nation and on the basis of god's grace rather than a person's adherence to the law.. i guess the dictionary is written by apostates.
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noun. : a promise of redemption by God to people as individuals rather than as a nation and on the basis of God's grace rather than a person's adherence to the law.
I guess the dictionary is written by apostates.
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Any information about a special talk on Marriage in December 2024
by insearchoftruth intwo folks from the local kh visited the house yesterday looking for my wife who is an on again off again baptized jw.
wife was not available so they asked me to tell her about a special talk on marriage next week.
any outlines available for this ‘special talk’ or could this potentially be a local issue?.
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Riley
I have a friend who pretends he is a PIMI but is really only hitting about 50% on the meeting front. He has no problem missing a CO visit or even an assembly. He hangs out with his brother who is a Hell's Angel. He has this whole weird nerd life and circle of friends outside of the KH. He has like role playing games night at this house and goes to comic con and stuff. This is all happening in his 40s.
Well, he ended up getting a girl pregnant out of wedlock. He was booted and went though all the Bullshit to get back in. While, actually he didn't have to do much anything other than say sorry. I think they were just hoping a young family would be attending the hall. FYI, he married the girl.
The elders made no effort to contact the girl or try and study with her.
My story is I stopped attending at 16 and met my wife at 31. Once they found out who I was, there was nothing but endless harassment to both of us. They would literally call me for a study and call her an hour later for a back room meeting. We eventually just eloped and told them to fuck right off. Sadly she went back.
The way my wife was treated and my friend was treated was just day and night. It still pisses me off to think about it.
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JWs major in minors!
by Vanderhoven7 inhow do jws major in minors?.
by the way, jws aren't the only ones.. .
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Riley
We have a group of single ones in our hall ranging the age of 9 to 50. It is kind of creepy how they all hang out together. One of them has some serious mental health issues and is 48 and never worked a day in his life.
Lately this 24 year male who is a real social climber has been hanging with this 15 year old girl who is turning into a real pretty thing. Her parents think he is great because he is going to be an elder by 30 ( by default ).
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Any information about a special talk on Marriage in December 2024
by insearchoftruth intwo folks from the local kh visited the house yesterday looking for my wife who is an on again off again baptized jw.
wife was not available so they asked me to tell her about a special talk on marriage next week.
any outlines available for this ‘special talk’ or could this potentially be a local issue?.
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Riley
About 10 years ago, I knew a JW women who committed suicide. She was about 45, unmarried, no children and came from a large JW family. She was a PIMI till the end.
I often wonder about the toll on the single ones in the cong, especially with there being more women than men. The elders also seem a little more liberal with men finding non-JW mates but if you are a women, they are right in your business.
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Any information about a special talk on Marriage in December 2024
by insearchoftruth intwo folks from the local kh visited the house yesterday looking for my wife who is an on again off again baptized jw.
wife was not available so they asked me to tell her about a special talk on marriage next week.
any outlines available for this ‘special talk’ or could this potentially be a local issue?.
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Riley
I bet it will be something like.
“ so you’re in your early 30s and you don’t have a mate or a family. If you dare try to look outside the reservation, we will make your life a living hell.”.
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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?
by minimus inmost of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.
i’m not confident with dr. fauci.
i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.
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Riley
In 2020 when Covid come apon humanity , the only thing they knew about the virus was it was very similar to MERS ( Middle Eastern Respiratory ) which has about a 40% fatality rate. The health authorities were justified in being cautious. The accusation that the scientific community was lying requires the premise they already knew everything about the virus which isn't true.
The 2021 when covid was novel to humanity , there was a 14 fold reduction of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and covid deaths between being vaxxed and unvaxxed. In 2024 when separated by age and adjusted per 100,000 cases, there is no evidence that being vaccinated leads to an increase in heart attacks, strokes or Cancers.
In 2024 chances you are have some immunity either though vaccination or infection and life goes on but please don't think anyone has been vindicated with there anti-vaccination views. I don't know why more ex-jws don't have more of a problem with poorly educated halfwits telling highly educated people they don't know what they are doing. It is kind of the whole premise of the WTS.
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Defend Your Borders or Listen to the Watchtower?
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/dnoww-4jfao?si=ehzmc5-gxqukgn7q.
with ww3 on the horizon the watchtower is bringing out their best hits on the issue of neutrality and the latest instalment on jw.org with stephen lett has the theme " why ancient israelites were allowed to go to war but as a christian you can't " or to paraphrase for a 2024 audience " why the modern state of israel is allowed all the nuclear weapons to defend their borders but you as a western european or north american you aren't supposed to compliant against open border policies and uncontrolled illegal migration" isn't that the exact same rhetoric or is it my imagination?
so one of stephen lett's go to arguments is that christians do not take up arms because we don't live in ancient times where israelites had a mandate to occupy the holy land where as we gentile christians we don't.
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Riley
The Irony the Watchtower can only exist in secular and free democracies seems to be complete lost on them.