Posts by jp1692

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You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...

by pale.emperor in

you 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..

jp1692

So true! 🤣

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Pic of old woman having no food but donating to Watchtower

by Darkknight757 in

i hope you are all doing ok and healing from the cult.

i’m looking for an image of the old woman donating to watchtower but also in the same pic looking in her fridge and having little to eat.

i need it for a video for youtube.

jp1692

The hypocrites who run this cult make the Pharisees look like amateurs!

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Steal in Iran and Get Your Fingers Chopped Off!

by minimus in

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friends

three teens were convicted of stealing and the punishment is cut off their fingers.

some past punishments were finger and foot removal.

pretty barbaric but i bet they don’t have too many looters there..

jp1692

SB: Can we stop quoting M.L.K. as if his word is somehow law...

The only “law” referenced in the MLK quote I posted is the cruel and barbaric Mosaic Law from the Torah. And the part of the quote I highlighted was actually MLK riffing on a phrase usually attributed to Mohandas Gandhi.

I’m curious to hear why you are bothered by King’s explanation of Gandhi’s pithy commentary on the absurdity of this particular part of the Mosaic Law?

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That escalated quickly... (Quote from today's Zoom public talk)

by Jofi_Wofo in

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friends

the speaker at my wife's meeting: "a discouraging word can lead to inactivity, apostasy and death.".

i mean, what the...??????

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jp1692

More fear-mongering!

Let’s review: It’s a cult!

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has Died

by Simon in

so, a supreme court nominee up for grabs ....

jp1692

In 2016, Mitch McConnell refused to let the Senate consider Barack Obama's SCOTUS nominee, Merrick Garland, saying it is wrong for the president to name a new justice before an election.

Will he say the same thing about Trump naming a new justice now?

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Steal in Iran and Get Your Fingers Chopped Off!

by minimus in

jw
friends

three teens were convicted of stealing and the punishment is cut off their fingers.

some past punishments were finger and foot removal.

pretty barbaric but i bet they don’t have too many looters there..

jp1692

“Violence as a way of achieving . . . justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert.” — Martin Luther King Jr. in his book “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story” (1958)

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Thinking about Flipper

by HappyDad in

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friends

with all the fires raging in california and oregon, i have been thinking about flipper and hoping he is ok. .

flipper..........if you read this, know that we are sending love your way.

we will most likely worry about you until we hear from you..

jp1692

This just in from Flipper, he asked me to post the following on this thread in response to your concern, and so I am posting it verbatim:

"Please kindly tell [the posters on this thread] that Flipper really appreciates their care, kindness, and concern, but I'm unable to post right now."

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Thinking about Flipper

by HappyDad in

jw
friends

with all the fires raging in california and oregon, i have been thinking about flipper and hoping he is ok. .

flipper..........if you read this, know that we are sending love your way.

we will most likely worry about you until we hear from you..

jp1692

Flipper's fine.

I've talked to him on the phone recently—I too was curious about his notable absence.

He made it very clear that he is extremely frustrated and disappointed by the notable change in the general atmosphere of this board from years ago.

I encouraged him to not read or respond to the threads he finds controversial and/or upsetting, but that's just not him.

You may have noticed that he returned for a while and has once again departed, which is a shame I think because he contributed much in a positive way to this forum.

His absence is obviously felt by many here, as this thread demonstrates.

jp

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