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  Google Street view: Will I get disfellowshipped?

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday, while having a smoke outside my house, i saw the google street view car drive by.

  so here i am, wondering when this picture will make it to the web and when a jw sees it.

  even if they blur the face, i bet it will be really easy to make out who's smokin' outside.

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  john.prestor

  FFGhost, that's great :P

  Would not be surprised with how some Elders are.
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  Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?

  by JWTom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.

  maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.

  is this true?

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  john.prestor

  I thought it was down to 1 issue every 2 months, for 6 issues annually. But I might be wrong.
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  I've been reading selected texts of Plato and...The bible is really going out of it's way

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  after timaeus and crisis i had over 20 parallels to genesis 1-6 and i wasn't even cherry picking.

  after symposium not only did i feel sick at the pedophilia in the text but i say lines that made it into 1 corinthians 13.. yeah,...the famous ones.

  socrates looked at young boys for hours on end.).

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  john.prestor

  I wouldn't be surprised, it's just not something I've looked into myself. Kudos to you.
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  I've been reading selected texts of Plato and...The bible is really going out of it's way

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  after timaeus and crisis i had over 20 parallels to genesis 1-6 and i wasn't even cherry picking.

  after symposium not only did i feel sick at the pedophilia in the text but i say lines that made it into 1 corinthians 13.. yeah,...the famous ones.

  socrates looked at young boys for hours on end.).

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  john.prestor

  Are you working on a book? That's cool. I'd be interested in hearing more about the parallels you're finding.
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  What Do You Want To Talk About Regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we do talk a lot about how this site doesn’t center on all things jw.

  so what would you like to discuss?.

  the floor is yours..

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  john.prestor

  Ah, without speculation what would they have? It's a religion based on empty promises.
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  The Bible and its use of excesses beggars belief ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how many accounts of the bibles use of excesses can you recall ?

  i will start off with a favourit of mine.. the inauguration of solomons temple and the sacrifices offered .2chron.7 :4-5 , 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep ?

  c,mon.

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  john.prestor

  How about ~6,000,000 Israelites traipsing around the desert for 40 years. Yeah, like that would work.
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  I Will Give President Biden Credit

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he’s really implementing the democrats agenda!

  he’s wasting no time !.

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  john.prestor

  A dumbocrap? That's... clever, I guess.
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  May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.

  let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.

  france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.

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  john.prestor

  Sounds confusing and bizarre, yeah.
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  Street-Talk with Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  street-talk with jehovah's witnesses.

  opening up a street-level dialogue with jehovah's witnesses:.

  since this will probably be a one time occurrence, an important objective of any street encounter is to bless jws with doubt about their beloved organization.. after exchanging niceties, you might say something like:.

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  john.prestor

  One time conversation is right :P They'll book it
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  Will You Get Back To Normal After Covid Subsides?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some say we will never get back to pre-pandemic days.

  others say we should expect to live with masks and social distancing as the “new normal “.

  still others are hopeful that we can live life realizing there might never be an end to covid or cancer or influenza but our lives must continue to go on.

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  john.prestor

  That would be called for by that point.