The ones that hit home are not knowing for sure what you believe any more, and your parents died under a different belief system
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You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...
by pale.emperor inyou know you're a jehovah's witness when.... being offered a scholarship to a good university is considered a bad thing.. when you see a house you like you claim it for after your god kills the owner.. you recieve spiritual guidence from a bus driver and a window washer.. you're engaged to a person you only met 3 months ago.. your widowed mother is marrying a man she met at the convention who she's known for 2 weeks.. there's jehovah's witnesses meeting in your house on a saturday morning to talk about going out knocking on doors on a saturday morning.. a lie in on a weekend happens about twice a year.. you dont talk to your own parents/children because they have a different opinion about a magazine.. you're not quite sure what you're supposed to believe anymore.. when someone criticizes your a magazine you feel like you're being attacked.. your 3yo son owns a suit.. if you're not married by the age of 30 you're considered to be gay or something wrong with you.. (for girls) if you havent married the first or second person you've dated you're considered promiscuous or something wrong with you.. you get your scientific knowledge from a magazine written by people who've never been to college and have never actually read the source they claim to be citing.. you get excited if there's a storm or natural disaster.. you get excited when there's a terrorist attack.. you get excited when there's a pandemic.. your version of tinder is the lunch break at a convention.. your girlfriend dresses like her grandmother.. your grandparents, despite being in the same religion as you, died believing totally a different belief system..
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Another example of. Brotherly love you can only find in jehovahs organization
by nowwhat? inso my 88 mil died and was the epitome of a faithful sister.
my wife and her sister are members of the congregation for 40+ years.
to be fair it was short notice but we had the showing and visitation and only about 12 out of 120 of the congregation showed up and only 1 elder!
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Sorry to hear, we all have to face it despite false promises.
The mindset is that this pandemic is equal to the black death do there is no interaction in person. The announcements if made at all are very short--there is important business to handle like donations and mask reminders.
You did miss the hungry people coming to a reception and a recruiting talk. Memorials are one of the few ways to catch up with old acquaintances.
I know one loving elder who did not have any remembrance per his instructions. My suspicion is he realized the hollow hope held out. It does make the clisure harder for family though.
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A new one will csuse as much rioting as a contested election. It will take a heavy hand to restore peace.
We normal people can no more change radical thinking than they can convince us there are 7 genders.
We need to get back to decent behaviour on all sides.
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Ant legal recourse?
by Huxley1979 inhello everyone, if the elders start hounding someone to attend a judicial committee meeting is there any legal recourse that someone can take to make them back off?
i know that sometimes they will just at the threat of it.
thoughts?.
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Simon. The downside is them using coercion to force family and friends to walk away from you. Trying to deny them any leverage
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St. Louis at 50 Year Murder High
by Sea Breeze inmurder rate at 50-year high in democrat mayor lyda krewson’s st. louis.
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Is st Louis a county? Where i live there are 2 cities with a seamy border area, the cops cooperate. The stats are computed separately. Kansas city is listed twice, i bet the murders cross the river easily
I notice chicago needs to step it up.
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Ant legal recourse?
by Huxley1979 inhello everyone, if the elders start hounding someone to attend a judicial committee meeting is there any legal recourse that someone can take to make them back off?
i know that sometimes they will just at the threat of it.
thoughts?.
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Stalking?
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Worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.
by smiddy3 indoes anybody know what this message will contain ?
is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?
or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.
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I get 10 to 1 junk mail so a few thousand extra pieces will not make an impact.
If the witness letters made a difference the postal service would now be in the black
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Kroger sued for Religious Persecution!
by Iamallcool inhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1240252 .
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Similar to wearing a flag?
If a maga hat is forbidden or the battle flag, why not a queer flag?
I get " offended" by mexican flags, but not british, Italian,
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1914 Dropped
by pale.emperor inso i was observing an online conversation between a jw and a former-jw.
the non-jw pointed out that wwi cant have had anything to do with satan supposedly being "cast out of heaven" because wwi was already well under way in oct 1914.. the jw proceeds to explain that satan was actually thrown down to the earth in 1915 and that he started to wreak havock on the earth from heaven knowing he was about to be cast out.. so 1914 is officially old light now?
does anyone have a source for that or was this brother lying through his teeth?.
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The having great anger was supposed to be the cause of ww1. Satan is limited to earth (moon, mars?) so wreaks havoc. Like when you have a bad day at work so come home and break furniture and slap the wife around and kick the dog. The old story was that the anger started ww1,
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Where have the NWT Bible changed verses to fit their theology ?
by smiddy3 ini can think of two to start off with .
john 1:1 and luke 23:43 ,what others can you come up with ?.
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In all fairness e very translator has a bias to belief. That well known john 1:1 has a comment in some bibles that they inserted "the" to fit the trinity teaching.