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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  We will mark June 28, 2018 on our calendar as the day we have have one of our sons back.

  ^^^ THIS ^^^
  
  
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  Do You Ever Wish That Hillary Was President?

  by minimus in

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  hillary is very supportive of doing whatever it takes to undermine trump.

  would you be happy if she were your president?.

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  No, I do not.

  Why do you assume that if someone doesn’t like Trump they must like Hillary?

  It’s wrong and it’s weird.

  Binary, Black & White, either/or, this or that thinking is not healthy and rarely—if ever—does it reflect actual reality.

  Cults like to create false dichotomies like this to manipulate our thInking.

  Life is filled with ambiguities and shades of gray. There are often any number of choices available to us; seldom is there only one or two.

  It’s important for us as individuals and as members of society to learn this.

  I don’t like Trump. He is a horrible person. I detest Hillary. She is corrupt.

  At the last election I voted for every office, measure, initiative, et cetera EXCEPT President.

  There wasn’t a single candidate that represents my core values. Not one.
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  This Week CLM Meeting

  by zophar in

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  so, this week on the clm there was an interesting comment at our kh.. under the "apply yourself to the field ministry" portion this week, there was the bible study assignment based on the publication: who are doing jehovah’s will today?

  published in 2016. the material was from lesson 28 "what can be found on our website?

  there is a footnote at the bottom that reads: .

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  Wow.

  It won't be long now before that chairman is no longer attending meetings ...

  He may already be lurking and/or posting here!
  
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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

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  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  Jehalepeno: Can you name one thing that didn’t have a “reason” for occurring?

  Yes. I could easily name hundreds, maybe more if I thought about it for a while.

  Here’s just one off the top of my head:

  • Light behaves as both a particle and a wave and yet it is actually neither. Why is that?
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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  OneEyedJoe: Everything happens for a reason. Physics is the study of those reasons.

  No, it is not.
  

  Physics is a branch of science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. It is based on empirical observations and measurable data with reproducible results.
  

  It is most definitely NOT a bullshit, pseudoscience that tries to come up with contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims, mistaken and illogical support for the nonsensical belief that "everything happens for a reason."

  Just don't.
  
  
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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  Wow! That is great news. Thanks for sharing. Those of us with kids still-in can take hope from your good news.

  jp
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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  Causes and reasons are not synonymous, particularly in the context of this type of discussion.
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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  No.

  Paragraph breaks, please!

  By the way, love Pinker. He’s one of my favorite authors.

  You should read his book, The Sense of Style.
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  Watchtower Spies and Secret Agents

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. scandals

  i'm posting this link:http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/spies.htmlonce you start reading it you won't be able to stop.fascinating and well-documented citations which give credibility to the belief that such a sneaky, underhanded, and often illegal practice has been secretly promoted for decades by watchtower society world headquarters..

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  Oh, I’m sure the “upper management” of this cult knows this stuff goes on. I’m just saying it’s not a formal, well-planned or executed thing.

  I was an elder for over two decades and I can tell you on more than one occasion a CO encouraged the elders to engage in this sort of amateur-hour, “private-eye” nonsense. It’s more Keystone cops than anything.

  I personally never did it because — well it’s just wrong. But there were always at least a few elders eager to play at “cloak and dagger,” spy-vs-spy. It’s pretty immature actually.

  For example, the Orwellian and Puritanical WT mandate that “if two people of the opposite sex spend the whole night together they can be presumed to have fornicated” is all many elders needed as an excuse to pretend to be cops on a stakeout. Some of them just loved that shit. I guess it’s the only excitement in their otherwise dull and dreary lives.
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  Watchtower Spies and Secret Agents

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm posting this link:http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/spies.htmlonce you start reading it you won't be able to stop.fascinating and well-documented citations which give credibility to the belief that such a sneaky, underhanded, and often illegal practice has been secretly promoted for decades by watchtower society world headquarters..

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  I doubt this is any kind of formal, organized thing. It’s just a bunch of wannabe-important, uneducated janitors and window washers that feel empowered by the cult’s insane rules that makes them believe that they have both the right and the duty to overstep appropriate boundaries and act in ways that violate the privacy of others.

  The worst part is that many of us allowed the elders to do this to us and to others when we were members.

  All I can say is this, if any elder tried following me or my family now they’d get a quick lesson in the laws of physics followed up with a restraining order.

  Let’s review: It’s a cult!