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  NFL season

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for the first time in my life i get to fully enjoy the nfl season without missing games i really want to see because of meetings and service!😀 go seahawks!.

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  Funchback

  Let me compare my yesterday's Sunday with a typical JW Sunday.
  
  

  • Yesterday's Sunday: Woke up without an alarm (JW Sunday, alarm set for 7 AM).
  • Yesterday's Sunday: Ate a banana and then savored a mug of hot coffee for breakfast. Around 11:30 AM, I ate cold pizza for lunch (JW Sunday, quick bowl of cereal for breakfast, if that. Sometimes nothing).
  • Yesterday's Sunday: Washed a load of laundry (JW Sunday, quickly underlined answers for the WT study).
  • Yesterday's Sunday: Laid out on my sofa, channel surfing (JW Sunday, attending meeting, running mics or sound...thinking about lunch),
  • Yesterday's Sunday: Football begins and I have my snacks in hand and a tall glass of homemade iced tea. (JW Sunday, the meeting would be ending and I have to find lunch and/or go to the supermarket or run some other errand, knowing I will miss a chunk of the 1st half of my game).

  Go Eagles!
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  The "shunned" podcast is now up and ready to go...

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  alright, we're now itunes official, and the new podcast has been approved.

  the first episode is my wife's story, and after that i'll be helping others to tell their stories as well.

  my goal is to shed light on the real lives of the shunned, to tell the stories that these religions don't want you to hear.

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  Funchback

  The friend who pulled her to the ground by the ponytail. Wow!

  The D.O. wife counseling your wife for not wearing pantyhose. WTH?Her dad and his comb. LOL.
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  The "shunned" podcast is now up and ready to go...

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  alright, we're now itunes official, and the new podcast has been approved.

  the first episode is my wife's story, and after that i'll be helping others to tell their stories as well.

  my goal is to shed light on the real lives of the shunned, to tell the stories that these religions don't want you to hear.

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  Funchback

  I listened to the 1st hour of your wife's story (I am at work so I couldn't finish it...not yet, anyway).

  She tells her story in a very calm, rational and, most importantly, non-threatening way. I think most JWs run from anything too abrasive.

  Nice job!
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  Portuguese translation of Crises of conscience?

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does it exist and if so where could i get a copy?

  i am in touch with a young, particularly uninformed portuguese sister who has been talking to my bi-lingual neighbour.

  i have been telling her about some of the organisation's history, of which she is absolutely clueless, and she is open to reading this book....i mean that's how little she knows about her religions own edicts.

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  Funchback

  I am American but speak Portuguese and live in Brazil.
  
  A few years ago there was someone here who I knew in my post-JW days and she was thinking about starting a bible study with a JW and asked for my opinion being I was a former JW. I found some translations of some excerpts from the book at that time. They still might exist. I don't remember if I found the whole book though.
  
  
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  Hurricane Harvey JW Victims - Keep trusting in Jehovah’s loving arm of support.

  by Funchback in

  1. social
  2. current

  not a peep about all victims, not even a prayer for them.

  only pray for jws.

  and who or what is jehovah's loving arm of support?

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  Funchback

  Not a peep about all victims, not even a prayer for them. Only pray for JWs.
  
  And who or what is Jehovah's loving arm of support? If it's God, can't they just say "trust Jehovah"? If it's the Governing Body, are folks to put trust in man?
  
  Ok...Rant over. Here's the article from their site (link is at the bottom).
  

  BREAKING NEWS | Hurricane Harvey Strikes the Gulf Coast of Texas, USA
  

  Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the coastal city of Rockport, Texas, as a Category 4 storm on Friday, August 25. Although now categorized as a tropical storm, Harvey continues to devastate large portions of Texas from Corpus Christi to Houston. Experts forecast little change in strength over the next few days.

  As of Sunday evening, August 27, there were no deaths among the brothers and sisters. However, there were four storm-related injuries reported. Commendably, the brothers living in areas impacted by the storm cooperated with the direction to evacuate. A total of 4,141 publishers are currently displaced from their homes, and it is anticipated that more families will be displaced as the storm continues.

  We keep our brothers and sisters who are affected by this storm in our prayers, while monitoring the situation in order to provide assistance. We also urge them to keep trusting in Jehovah’s loving arm of support.—Psalm 55:8, 22; Isaiah 33:2; 40:11.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/#newsAlerts
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  Sneezing in the presence of non-JWs

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, cold and allergy sufferers:.

  i'm in good health currently, but i do sneeze quite a bit, bringing down the rafters, as one sister exclaimed at the kh.

  apart from that, no jw ever acknowledged my clearing out .

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  Funchback

  In Brazil, they don't usually say anything here but if they do, they have a word: SAÚDE, which literally means "health".
  
  You also say saúde for when you say "Cheers!".
  
  
  
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  Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to get people's opinion on something.

  how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.

  there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.

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  Funchback

  LOL! I know, right?
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  Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to get people's opinion on something.

  how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.

  there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.

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  Funchback

  You have left all sorts of evidence.

  Your virtual DNA is spread all throughout your posts.

  I am wearning rubber-eye gloves as we speak.
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  Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to get people's opinion on something.

  how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.

  there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.

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  Funchback

  You've done plenty to prove that you are.
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  Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism

  by John Davis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to get people's opinion on something.

  how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.

  there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.

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  Funchback

  John Davis once wrote on this forum that he wasn't Richard Oliver and said he had never heard of him.

  John Davis isn't a very good liar and he is also a very good Richard Oliver.