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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

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  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  Wow, 1 1/2 stars out of 5. That's incredibly bad. Those reviews were brutal.

  Bill Parodi certainly has mastered the art of appearances: seeming to be one thing while actually being something very different.
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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  OC, thanks for sharing that link.

  I was surprised to read the names of several JWs I used to know back in the day:

  • Bill Parodi, David Goldfarb, Andrew Varble & Scott Lockwood

  All four of these men had been high-profile elders in the Los Angeles area and nearby Ventura county.

  When I was still attending meetings, I heard that Parodi had been "removed" as an elder. The word in the JW-rumor mill was that he'd been involved in some "suspicious" or "dubious" business dealings, but I had no idea the extent.

  I did NOT know the others were involved. What a bunch of hypocrites.

  I did a quick Google search and found this document from the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the disposition of the matter with the Parodi brothers:

  • SEC News Digest - October 5th, 1989

  This digest reported that the SEC issued an order concerning Bill Parodi and his brother that both be “permanently barred from association with any broker, dealer, investment company, investment adviser, or municipal securities dealer” as a result of their fraudulent business practices.

  Evidently, over a considerable period of time they defrauded individuals and municipalities out of tens of millions of dollars. Wow!

  Although I did not know the details of this particular situation, it was the vast amount of hypocrisy that I did come to know about being practiced by many others in the JW religion that led me to leave in 2009.

  • I do not associate* with deceitful men, And I avoid those who hide what they are. - Psalm 26:4

  Very interesting!
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  It's My Birthday Today

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
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  today is my 34th birthday.

  or, my 3rd birthday that i've actually acknowledged seeing as i was raised in the cult.. i woke up this morning to my 4yo running into my room and wishing me a "happy birthday daddy!".

  i got a card from my ex-jw brother and i bought myself a birthday gift - a new 50mm lens for my nikon camera (photography is a hobby i took up since leaving the cult).. i dont know about you guys, but birthdays is still something i have to make a conscious effort to acknowledge and enjoy.

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  Happy Birthday! 🎉🎈🎂🎊
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  Explain Your Avatar

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know this thread has been done before.

  however maybe some of the new comers might like to know.. my avatar is the cover of my first novel "your crazy life.

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  My avatar is a photograph of Daniel Day Lewis in the role of John Proctor from the movie The Crucible.
  

  For those that don't know the story, it is based on the events of the Salem Witch Trials when--in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692--19 men and women, and two dogs, were accused of witchcraft and subsequently hanged for it.

  My user name, jp1692, is John Proctor's initials and the year of the Salem Witch Trials.

  The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller based on these actual events, but adapted to reflect the then current hysteria in the United States during the Second Red Scare. This was the period of McCarthyism from the late 1940s through the 1950s when many people were being falsely accused of being communists and having their lives ruined. Two people, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were actually executed as a result.
  

  I thought this avatar and my corresponding username appropriate due to my final experiences with the JW Cult.
  

  • "Falsely accused and convicted of witchcraft, I was hanged because I refused to say I believed in something which I did not." - John Proctor

  In my case, I am shunned because I no longer profess to believe in the doctrines of the JW religion or unquestioningly follow its leadership.
  
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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  “Besides masturbation weakens the hands and arms lessening their power and usefulness such as using a hammer at are construction sites."

  Au contraire!

  
  

  
  
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  The One-Electron Universe | Space Time

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  richard feynman's idea.

  that's the guy who said if someone claims to know quantum physics doesn't know quantum physics and just shut up and calculate.

  maybe everything is just one thing like the mystics claim.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtw9mslfk.

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  “If we could phase shift and match the atomic frequency of other atoms we could walk right through a wall.”

  Um, no.

  As fun as that pseudoscientific, Marvel comic bookish idea sounds, it shows a profound ignorance of the basic physics of atomic structure and the forces involved in the chemical bonding of molecules and compounds.

  If you really want to understand the real science behind this, you might find a rudimentary course in atomic theory to be very informative. Be sure to include a basic chemistry course which discusses the composition of molecules and compounds (chemical bonds) and how they are the building blocks for larger structures, ie.: organic chemistry, biochemistry and biology.

  There’s a whole lot more than just electrons going on in an atom.
  
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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  Is that a calendar year, a fiscal year or a solar year?

  I’m asking for a friend, obviously! 🙄
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  For those who are athest, or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not asking this question to cause an argument or accuse, but i am honestly just wondering?

  for those of you who are now atheist or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  i hadn't given this much thought until about a year ago.

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  I gave it a lot of thought and followed the evidence to where it inevitably led. God—at least along the lines of the one portrayed in the Abrahamic traditions—simply does not exist.

  Frankly, this is a good thing. Why?

  As Richard Dawkins so clearly explains, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

  This does explain, though, why “true believers” of the fundamentalist ilk are as nasty and horrible as they frequently are. They are made in “His” image.

  They are simply imitating their vile god.
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  After watching A&E Leah Remini on Jehovah Witnesses I am going to stop hiding behind my Avatar

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  just got done watching this program and what impress me the most was the bravery of those x-witnesses to sit there on national tv and tell everyone how the wt.

  cult affected them.

  no hidden faces, no avatar names and no disguise.

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  Great to meet you, David and Barbara!