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  Just a Rant .......

  by LOLS in

  1. jw
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  hi beautiful people ..... so today is my wedding anniversary ....... .

  and first of all my dear husband forgot again .... which is normal according to my dear old dad "it's a man thing " .

  but to add insult to injury , i must wait till friday to be taken out for dinner , because low & behold my jdub husband can't miss one bloody jw meeting !

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  john.prestor

  dubstepped, I'm sorry to hear that. My father never made much time for me either (although I was raised in a fundamentalist Baptist church) so I get what it's like...

  He also got so beyond in child support once that my mother wrote him a letter telling him my brother and were about to go to college and she needed the money. He wrote her back and said something like, We had a missionary at our church and I wanted to give them some money but because I'm paying so much in child support, I just forgot about it.
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  Recent random highlights: Disrespect, Hypocrisy & Creature Worship

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  just some clips from recent articles.. in the one about holidays:.

  rosh hashanah.

  this is the first day of the jewish year.

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  john.prestor

  That third quote about people not liking when others rule over them is just so... on the nose. The writer(s) can't be that blind, can they? Or are they projecting hardcore?
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  Just a Rant .......

  by LOLS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi beautiful people ..... so today is my wedding anniversary ....... .

  and first of all my dear husband forgot again .... which is normal according to my dear old dad "it's a man thing " .

  but to add insult to injury , i must wait till friday to be taken out for dinner , because low & behold my jdub husband can't miss one bloody jw meeting !

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  john.prestor

  smiddy3, honestly, I can't argue with that, hahaha.

  LOLS, if you've got more ranting to do, rant away. It's really healthy.
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  Just a Rant .......

  by LOLS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi beautiful people ..... so today is my wedding anniversary ....... .

  and first of all my dear husband forgot again .... which is normal according to my dear old dad "it's a man thing " .

  but to add insult to injury , i must wait till friday to be taken out for dinner , because low & behold my jdub husband can't miss one bloody jw meeting !

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  john.prestor

  LOLS, that doesn't sound petty at all. What a total dick: he forgot your anniversary and he's blowing you off for a meeting? Wow. Just wow.
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  Jesus Christ: Invented by the Romans to subvert the Messianic impulse in Judaism into Pacifism?

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  of course, there are many crackpot theories about all sorts of things.

  we hear about them,look into them and laugh.however, once in a great while, somebody presents a cogent and feasible thesis backed up by scholarship and history.watch this video presentation and present your rebuttal (or agreement) for discussion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uqg8w7ezuq&t=268s.

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  john.prestor

  "His disciples went to their deaths because they held firm to the resurrection of Jesus, having seen them with their own eyes."

  Nope. They didn't. The only apostles who New Testament authors claim died as martyrs were Peter (obliquely referred to at the end of the Gospel of John) and James the son of Zebedee (in the Acts of the Apostles, which originally also claimed his brother John died with him, according to the Catholic theologian Alfred Loisy).

  Any other references to the martyrdom of apostles or disciples comes from late 2nd and early 3rd century "Acts of (John, Thomas, Peter, Matthew, etc.)" literature, which contain little more than pious legend. Have you read any of them, knowsnothing1?
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  Can the governing body be Trump(ed)?

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  forgive me if someone else has already started a post on this subject.

  but the constant bs in the us news everyday influenced me to draw a parallel, at least in my mind!.

  have you also noticed a strongly similar pattern of behavior among the watchtower leaders (gb) and the president of the usa?

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  john.prestor

  Are you talking to me or to the OP? I love to smoke by the way, you should try it sometime.
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  WT is lying about the actual publisher numbers

  by JustHuman14 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i left wt, 18 years ago.

  never thought that i would have witness such a massive doctrinal and structure changes as well.

  i find it hard to recognize that religion.. what i can tell, like all of ex jw's is that wt going down.. their corporate directors know it.

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  john.prestor

  JW Gone Bad, they're definitely declining, no doubt about that... But I would be surprised if they don't keep going for a lot longer, just with less Witnesses, less hard copies, less Branches and Kingdom Halls, etc.
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  Can the governing body be Trump(ed)?

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  forgive me if someone else has already started a post on this subject.

  but the constant bs in the us news everyday influenced me to draw a parallel, at least in my mind!.

  have you also noticed a strongly similar pattern of behavior among the watchtower leaders (gb) and the president of the usa?

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  john.prestor

  Yes, Donald Trump suffers from exhibitionist narcissism, and Jehovah's Witnesses as an organization has a collectively narcissistic culture, so their pretty similar. I can explain what I mean by that.
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  Coffee really is magic

  by john.prestor in

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  2. friends

  i'm sitting here at my computer mapping out a hike for this afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee... the cup was a christmas present last year, i'm sure satan is just giddy.. .

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  john.prestor

  Ah, good morning to you too Morph. Never enjoyed some brisk winter air?
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  Coffee really is magic

  by john.prestor in

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  i'm sitting here at my computer mapping out a hike for this afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee... the cup was a christmas present last year, i'm sure satan is just giddy.. .

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  john.prestor

  I'm sitting here at my computer mapping out a hike for this afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee... The cup was a Christmas present last year, I'm sure Satan is just giddy.