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  Punctuation Is Important

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  “anne boleyn walked around and talked to her ladies in waiting half an hour after her head was cut off.”.

  “anne boleyn walked around and talked to her ladies in waiting; half an hour after, her head was cut off.”.

  please feel free to add your own examples and comments.. thanks..

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  The classic:

  ”Let’s eat grandma.”

  Or ...

  “Let’s eat, grandma.”
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  Kingdom Halls sold.

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please list kh that you know of that have been sold..

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  It would be helpful is there were dates (even if only approximate) as to WHEN they were sold.
  
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  Hall Closings

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there a thread that lists the kh's that are being sold in the us?

  i just learned that my old hall is getting sold and the 2 congregations that are meeting there are merging with 2 congregations in another hall..

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  Wakanda, can you create a shared Google document or spreadsheet then post the link here?
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  Hall Closings

  by TweetieBird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is there a thread that lists the kh's that are being sold in the us?

  i just learned that my old hall is getting sold and the 2 congregations that are meeting there are merging with 2 congregations in another hall..

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  Start one. Be specific. List locations, dates and all other relevant details.
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  THEY act like the ones who are hurt??!!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it really amazes me when jws act like we are hurting them!.

  many of us have found that if we stop associating with them for valid reasons, they act all upset and hurt that we would be "so cruel as to limit our association or cut them off".

  i know of friends here on the forum who have been told by parents that they "will shun them if they leave jehovah" , and yet when the shoe is on the other foot and our awake friends shun them first, the parents cry and bemoan the situation and say how "cruel it is to deprive them of their company".

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  Cults actively cultivate a “victim mentality” and learned helplessness among their members. It keeps them docile and easier to control.
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  Are we in a computer simulation?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmk2viuqba.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/simulation_hypothesis.

  consequences of living in a simulation[edit]some scholars speculate that the creators of our hypothetical simulation may have limited computing power; if so, after a certain point, the creators would have to deploy some sort of strategy to prevent simulations from themselves indefinitely creating high-fidelity simulations in unbounded regress.

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  If you'll excuse me, I have to go reboot the Universe. I don't like how this one is turning out.
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  Did You Ever Luke ANY Songs From The “Songbook “?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.

  did you ever like any of those songs?

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  I liked two:

  • Walking in Integrity
  • Make the Truth Your Own

  Coincidentally, "Integrity" was actually the first song I ever learned when I started "studying" with JWs. Years later when I started studying jazz I became convinced that "Integrity" is a complete rip-off of the jazz standard, Stella by Starlight. (PM me for details if your curious for more).

  I ended up becoming friends with the guy who wrote "MTTYO." He was something of a mentor to me when I was in the cult so I was surprised when he left it a few years before I did.

  We reconnected after I left and now we're all good again "Making TTATT our Own!"
  
  
  
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  What’s your opinion—-Wearing a Trump Hat ok to get kicked out of bar?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  maga hat...make america great again .

  guy wears it in nyc bar and gets thrown out.

  manhattan court throws out the case citing that since its not religious discrimination, it’s the bar’s right.. what so you think about this?

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  What if a gay person wearing a MAGA hat wants to order a wedding cake? What then?

  Well in that case, MAGA = Make America Gay Again!

  Let them eat cake, and the hat should be pink ... or rainbow colored!
  
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  Mother is terrified over talks of peace.

  by Searching in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just spoke with my mother about the summit for north and south korea, her face turned a ghastly pale and she refused to talk to me about it afterwards.

  i know exactly what is on her mind, and i'm not sure if i can say or do anything to assuage her fears about this being a fulfillment of prophecy.

  any suggestions on what i could perhaps tell her to try and steer her from her line of thinking?

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  She should be happy. Armageddon is about to happen!

  Does mom have some "secret sins" perhaps?

  Snarky comments aside, this is the problem with doomsday cults: they fuck with people's minds and make them terrified of imaginary events that'll never happen.
  
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  J.W's Brain LOCKDOWN

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know we often talk of the mind control and how jw's believe what they are taught because they are controlled as to the information they receive, but i think the mind control goes frighteningly beyond simply keeping information away from them.. the jw mind is in lockdown.

  it simply cannot accept facts, evidence, reasoning or whatever that goes against what they believe.

  they cannot assimilate and consider an argument, it is not that they are being awkward, or willfully blind, their minds are so shut down they are incapable of taking in what is being presented.. i am aware of how, in common with other cults and high control groups the j.w org achieves this state among its members, but how on earth do we open such a solidly closed mind ?.

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  You're welcome, Phizzy!